Parental Instincts
I read more parenting books than most people do. I always have. I welcome hearing the perspectives of people who have professional experience with many families...
Month: May 2015
When It Doesn’t Work
I have read a LOT of parenting books in my life and while I’ve liked some ideas from all of them there hasn’t been one book or author or overarching...
Check it off
I am not good at a lot of things, but one thing I am good at is getting an obscene amount of stuff done in a short amount of time. Especially when I’m rea...
What We Need
I came into my relationship with my husband (almost ten years ago!) a pretty needy person. I wanted to be with my him all the time and got frustrated when his m...
Handicapped
I spent nearly a decade, from my late teens and almost through my twenties, in a fog of depression. Some of those years it was so severe as to be debilitating. ...
Conflicted
I’ve been dealing with some stuff on the friendship front that I’ve really wanted to work through here but I feel that I can’t. I don’t ...
Thank You
I’m getting caught up on grading and inputting said grades, so I don’t have a lot of time to write, but I wanted to say how thankful I am to have al...
The Third Kid
We’re not having a third kid. I was really grateful to realize when I felt sure I didn’t actually want one (after believing my whole life that I did...
Her Name
I will be honest, for the longest time I didn’t really understand when people gave names to very early losses. I think I thought it would compound their s...
It Lingers
A couple days ago I sat in the car in my school’s parking lot, messing around on my phone, when I saw this. I don’t subscribe to TimeHop or anything...