Ketilave
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 [...]
A friend posted on her Facebook wall a post about Modern Motherhood. I didn’t read the link. I HATE the attempt to define or pigeon hole parenting. Parenting truly is day by day. Each day I wake up hoping to do a better job than the day before. Each day I learn a little more [...]
I love to shop. The other me’s dream job is a buyer. I feel conflicted with my “go back to school, live abroad and work in international health care” self and the “OMG, I love it, gotta have it” self. With Mother’s Day and my birthday looming and the “what do you wan”t questions [...]
As a parent I am often involved in conversations about parenting. I like to participate in these conversations because I do like to share but also I like to learn. With 5 kids, boys and girls, the one thing I know for sure is that the same parenting style does not work on all kids [...]
I moved a lot growing up (12 schools in 12 years a lot) and I was raised by parents who grew up moving a lot and continue to do so. We didn’t have or keep “stuff”. What we kept and moved from place to place was based on our allotted weight limits for shipping…. This [...]
Summer birthdays are always hard. School is out, folks are on vacation and life is busy and laid back all at the same time. Growing up summer birthdays were really hard because the summer is when everyone picked up moved. When you, and those around you, live a pretty nomadic lifestyle keeping in touch was [...]
I LOVE reading. The “stay up all night until the book is finished” love. “If there is the slightest bit of light” love. The “this book can change everything” love of reading. And lately I have been busy reading. And when I read I’m not very good at writing. Because when I am reading I [...]
One of the most common things I hear from people is how they could never do what I do. They have control issues and knew/know they can only handle 1/2/3 kids etc. I always say one kid is hard when you have one, two when you have two, three – three, and so on. Parenting [...]
I am terrified of not doing a good job as a mom. The biggest issues I have are actually with other people. I am completely self conscious. Things I have said or done wrong in the past still haunt me today. I TOTALLY care what people think of me. It eats me up. And yes [...]
Continue reading about true confessions – part 1 – am I inadequate?
I swear a lot. More than most a lot. And I do it in front of my kids. Not intentionally but I also don’t work hard at holding it back. The nuns used to tell me it was because I wasn’t smart enough to use God’s word to effectively express myself. But when I cut [...]
