From time to time I've heard that being a parent is learning to live with your heart running around outside your body, and that's totally true. I care more about my kid's welfare than my own, and anything that happens to him happens to me to. Sort of. I mean, I know every mom is … Continue reading Am I A Psychopath?
Parenting
Things My 3 Year Old Said Today
Me: I'm sad. 3-year-old: Oh! I've got an idea! Scooter!! "I'm having a sword fight just like Mary Poppins!" **mashing his biggest metal truck against my butt** "It won't fit, Mama! It won't fit!"
So You Want To Raise A Dictator
Let's be real: all children are natural born dictators. We can either waste all our energy, fighting on against the tide, or we can lean into it, and think about how, when our offspring has taken over the world, we'll never have to do laundry again! Hopefully. To that end, I've compiled a modest reading … Continue reading So You Want To Raise A Dictator
Rigging Up Your Baby Alarm
When our Kraken was a newborn grub, we bought one of those alarm systems that you stick on a baby, and if the goblin stops breathing (or the device falls off), a big loud alarm goes off, and... uh... I guess you know? Now that I think of it, I'm not sure what I would … Continue reading Rigging Up Your Baby Alarm
Are Single Children The Worst?
Full disclosure: I have a brother. My husband has a brother. Basically everyone in my friend group has brothers, actually, now that I think about it. That's... pretty weird, actually. Where the sisters at? Anyway, the point is, I don't come with a lot of built-in experience about only children, other than presuming they're automatically … Continue reading Are Single Children The Worst?
How To Halloween
It's the day after Halloween, so naturally now that it's no longer relevant I have all sorts of things to say on the topic! Maybe I should just schedule this to be posted in 11.5 months. Keep all your kid's fingers If the measure of a good parent is sending your spawn off to college … Continue reading How To Halloween
Glint of Light 