internet friends
My mother would often scold me for referring to the people I chatted with as friends. “You don’t know them,” she would say. “You can’t be friends if you’ve never met someone.”
SPOILER: Mom, you were wrong.
i’m the best mom ever (and you are, too)
Most mothers I know spend an outrageous amount of time questioning their parenting skills. I do it. I lie awake at night wondering how badly I’m screwing my kid up. I worry about the decisions I made yesterday and the ways they’ll affect him tomorrow. I’ve forgotten to register him for school, thrown out the… Continue reading i’m the best mom ever (and you are, too)
The cookbook that made me a “cook”
On the list of things I do often or well, cooking is probably somewhere in the middle. Once I find a recipe that I love, I like to make it my own and then broken record the you-know-what out of it by making it over and over and over and over and over. What I’m… Continue reading The cookbook that made me a “cook”
pretending to sleep & parenting
This past week has been one of the hardest parenting weeks I’ve ever endured. Between the stress I’ve been under at work and the emotional weight I felt after leaving Cape Breton on Sunday, both F and I were run ragged. On Tuesday, F had one of the worst meltdowns he’s ever had – and… Continue reading pretending to sleep & parenting
raising active kids ain’t rocket science #PBAmbassador
If there’s one thing my kid does really well, it’s move. From the time he gets up until the time I kiss him goodnight (and even after the lights are out), F is constantly in motion. Admittedly, sometimes it drives me more than a little crazy – like when he kicks the back of my… Continue reading raising active kids ain’t rocket science #PBAmbassador
