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My Dad had surgery today. It wasn't an emergency or anything. He has been planning/dreading it for about a month, but it was still scary. Scary because he has always been around, and things like surgery and hospital stays make you start thinking about people who aren't around. I cannot imagine not having either of my parents in my life. I know that day may come, but I am by no means ready for it.
Anyway, he came through the first operation fine, but is in a lot of pain and will have to have...
My 8 year old is turning into quite the bookworm and it makes me so happy. Not only am I her Mom, I am an avid reader and lover of literature...and yet I felt I had failed her on some level because I didn't push her to read very early. I let her go at her own pace, which isn't a bad thing, but I also didn't help her enough in the beginning and so she kind of lost momentum...until 2nd grade when her wonderful teacher brought her up to speed.
Anyway, my goal for the summer was to get...
I didn't forget Dad, I just got preoccupied, as I so often do in the midst of raising kids, and forgot to post this on Sunday when I should have...but better late than never, right?
My Dad is an icon. His family came to California from Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl and they lived near Weed Patch Camp for several years in true Steinbeck-ian style. He picked cotton and other crops to help contribute to his family's income and was the first of his siblings to finish High School and the only one...
There is this idealistic part of me that wants to be an earth mother, living on a big piece of land with 10 kids. Unfortunately the logistics just never lined up. Rocky marriage, lack of patience for the two kids I do have, and of course, the land. Anyway, I try to be content within my current circumstances, but most days I feel like I'm still trying to decide what I want to be when I grow up. Mom is my favorite job to date, and the only one I really want to do full time, but...
Remember when you were a kid and you ran around barefoot and the hot sidewalk would burn your feet? Well, nothing has changed. Today, as the ice cream man was coming down our street, I told the girls to go in and get their shoes on before going out to the truck, but didn't take my own advice. I ran across the black asphalt of the street and nearly lost a layer of skin from the bottom of my feet. Apparently my sense memory had forgotten after 30 years what it's like to do that. I don't...
Let me preface this blog by saying there are all kinds of parenting styles, just like there are all kinds of personalities, and everyone has a style that works best for them. That being said, my style is, apparently, attachment parenting. I didn't know that was what my style was called, until my oldest daughter was about 2 and I was reading about weaning and there was a link in the article on that word, so I clicked on it and read the definition. Basically, it's parents who wear (in a...
My girls and I just returned from our first camping trip of the summer. It was a nice way to kick off our first weekend out of school (or at least their's, I still have a final and a paper to write) Anyway, there are two kinds of people in the world. Those that love camping and those that hate it. I am the former.
Some may think I'm crazy, because not only do I camp, I go solo with two kids. I take my girls camping at least once every summer and this year we already have one trip under our...
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