Spit-up On My Shoulder

11/30/95
Today is a good day. Getting a good night’s sleep makes a world of difference, although we did get woken up by our neighbors fighting out on the sidewalk at five a.m.! I couldn’t believe it. We’ve lived here almost a year and never hear a peep out of them, then that [...]

Thank you once again to my buddies, Rick and Jan Hanson, co-authors of Mother Nurture, for letting me share tips from their newsletter.
Have you found that you and your partner fight more since becoming parents? Join the club! Exhaustion, the stress of being on-call 24 hours a day, teething, colds, [...]

Have you seen this video? It’s well worth taking three minutes out of your day to see comedian Anita Renfroe condense all the things moms say in a day into a song set to the Willam Tell Overture. I laughed so hard and keep going back to watch it whenever I need a lift.
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12/4/95:
The kids are hitting a raw nerve today. I just have no patience. I feel so guilty because I’m not into the stay-at-home mom thing. Am I a terrible person? I know there are people who would give anything to do this, but, then I wonder – if they actually did [...]

I hope you enjoy this essay I wrote when my girls were five and two. I still think I’m catching up on sleep from those years!
NIGHTUS INTERRUPTUS
No matter how old your kids are, every so often you will still get slammed with a sleepless night. Invariably these nights are the result [...]

I love these truthful quotes about motherhood from the book Thoughts on Being a Mother. Enjoy!
“One hour with a child is like a ten-mile run.” Joan Benoit Samuelson
“I think there should be a compound where they send people who want to be parents. They should have to spend a week there, being pelted [...]

An interesting article came out earlier this week on the importance of bedtime routines for both infants and toddlers. I strongly encourage you to establish a bedtime routine with your baby as soon as possible. Some options to include in the bedtime routine (pick as few or as many as you like, as [...]

Today we’re continuing the discussion with Amy and Marc Vachon, creators of the Equally Shared Parenting website. Equally Shared Parenting (ESP) is when two parents in an intact home share equally in the childraising, housework, breadwinning, and recreation time.
Could ESP work for you? Check out Part 1 of our interview with [...]

Dear Readers,
What is Equally Shared Parenting(ESP)? Amy and Marc Vachon, creators of the website Equally Shared Parenting, describe it as: the purposeful practice of two parents in an intact home sharing equally in the domains of childraising, housework, breadwinning, and recreation time.
Could an ESP arrangement work for your family? Of [...]

I’ve added a new category under Pages in the left-hand column called Books I Recommend. I hope you find the list helpful. The books are organized by category (Breastfeeding, Life Balance, etc..) and I give them all high marks.
Have you found a book that’s been especially useful to you since becoming [...]