Dear Husband, While sitting in the empty conference room and eating the pesto linguine you packed for my lunch, I think of your hands, so long calloused and cracked from working in the weekday weather, splintered and split like old leather, now seamlessly chopping garlic and stirring sauces, painting […]
Parenting
When Baby is Sick, The WHOLE Family Pays
When your baby vomits for the first time, it’s scary. He’s obviously upset because this has never happened to him before. He’s in pain from the stomach cramps. Food is clearly going in the wrong direction. And there’s no end in sight. As parents, you are upset because there’s really […]
Props to All the Childfree Ladies Fighting With (Not Against) Moms
By M.K. Raley of Mother, Deconstructed Coming out of the Child Coma has been a long, slow process. How many times have you heard that? Well, you hear it because it is true. Just like the New Relationship Coma or the Wedding Year Coma, it is real and it can […]
I Am Drowning
I am drowning. Not in a pool or in the bathtub. Not in a lake or in a river. I am drowning in my life. Drowning. I have too many responsibilities. Too many things to do. I have too many students. I have too many children. Too many tiny, innocent […]
Why Can’t I Have a Kid Who… (A Short Mommy Complaint)
[nextpage title=”Page 1″ ] By Carrie Tinsley of Carrie On Y’all About an hour ago, I left my screaming two-year-old at his twice per week Mother’s Day Out program. He was inconsolable and not taking his “abandonment” lightly. He forced me, with my arms full of backpack, cups, and lunchbox, […]
He Probably Is a Bad Guy: Putting Your Safety Over “That Guy’s” Feelings
By Eileen Turay of Liv & Leen Ever get the weird feeling someone is staring at you and then you turn to look and you were right? What about when you’re pumping gas and get a feeling someone is approaching you… and then he does. It’s like you can literally […]
Facebook, Parenthood, and the Bursting of the Bubble
[nextpage title=”Page 1″ ] Parenthood is isolating. Kids make you a recluse. Many of us find our way to Facebook. From what I’m told, Facebook has gone the way of the dinosaur insofar as social media is concerned. Which is fine with me. Gets rid of all the youthful riff-raff […]
Looking Into The Eyes of A Mother Who’s An Addict
[nextpage title=”Page 1″ ] If you think you’ve never met a mother who’s an addict, you’re wrong. You’ve met her; you’ve seen her around, completely unaware of her addiction(s). She’s the woman you passed in the grocery store last Tuesday. You can recall her soft apology when her son didn’t […]