Acceptance
I would like to blog more but I struggle with what I feel is pressure to either love or hate parenting. I love my kids and I’m pretty sure that anyone that has ever met us would say we love each other. But parenting is HARD! Just like my kids don’t like me everyday I [...]
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Yesterday my son told me that he wanted to get along with the kids at school. B teared up and said, “I want to be liked not just the kid with the most AR points or best at math.” I gave him a hug a reminded him of all the people who love and enjoy [...]
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Recently I have been pretty open and honest on my FB and Twitter posts. The past few weeks have been hard and my kids are feeling the stress. And they are part of the stress. I’ve posted statuses and images about their behaviour. And it does not paint my kids behaviour or my parenting skills [...]
This “quote” is apparently a loose translation of Voltaire’s ”Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien.” from Voltaire’s Dictionnaire Philosophique (1764). The first time I heard it I instantly thought of Mike. For years he has begged me, “isn’t it good enough?” and I would always answer “never”. It defines us so well I’m thinking our tombstones should look [...]
September 11, 2001 – Honouring Courage Like many people I was already at work when the 9/11 attacks occurred. I called home to tell my mom and Mike to turn on the news. I called my boss and told her I was heading home. I had family and friends in NYC and DC that I [...]
My last post mentions feeling overwhelmed. As a mom, wife, sister, daughter and friend I had nothing left to give. I felt I was going a thousand directions and doing none of it well. I’m taking another leap of faith and putting myself out there. Because talking helps. Because I can’t and won’t pretend that [...]
I’ve never been the most prolific poster but recently things have been quiet on this front. Not because of a lack of things to say but mainly because I’ve been busy and honestly I’ve been lacking nice things to say. I feel incredibly overwhelmed. I’m trying to take better care of myself. Eat, I’m shocked [...]
I put up a personal post on Richmondmom.com under Real Richmond Parents instead of here. I don’t like putting myself out thee because I worry if it opens me up for hurt. The post is about understanding what really matters to me.
The other day I was reading tweets from @BurbDoc (be careful you might not want to go there)* and he was talking about acknowledging effort. Not judging the effort. Not always valuing the effort based on the return. Valuing effort. This came up again during #hcsm discussion on Sunday evening (1/16/2011). The conversation was about [...]
I don’t pretend to be perfect. I have faults. Plenty of them. I like to stay behind the scenes in the hopes of you not seeing the mistakes. I don’t want to be perfect I just hate to let you down. I still feel this way. It’s just not life or death. I will not [...]
