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I can’t remember the last time I was this excited to bathed and ready to fall into my newly made bed, alone. No one else in the room, not even my husband....
Category: Parenting & Family
The Report
It took two weeks for the OT to send me my daughter’s official report. It’s 16 pages long. I’ve read it once. I kind of understand some of it....
Grasping at Straws
Things at home have been…challenging. I don’t really feel comfortable writing about my daughter anymore. I wish I did, because I have SO MUCH to say...
Digging Deeper
I appreciated Polly’s comment on my last post. It got me thinking: Where were these feelings coming from? Why was I jealous of my own husband? In my respo...
Sometimes I wish I weren’t the default…
{I had no idea I had gotten so behind on responding to comments. I think I’m all caught up if you want to go back and check out the last few posts. ItR...
Long Days
The second week of summer is almost done. It’s not been what I had hoped. It is exactly what I expected. I am reminded, yet again, that I would be a terri...
A Simpler Summer
I have one more week of school and then I’m home for the summer. Nine weeks, with both kids. I don’t think there is a way for me to accurately conve...
Disintegration
I’m sorry I went dark for a week. I’ve been struggling. Struggling with what I wrote about in my past post. Struggling with the fact that I wrote it...
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...
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...