AsthmaMan had an EPIC tantrum at the store today. It was a thing of beauty, one of the those tantrums made for the movies, or at least for YouTube.… Read More Tantrums, Lollipops, and the Worst Mother Ever
When your kid has an off day, it’s like being trapped in a burning building. You can hear the alarms going off, you want to get out of the way and on to safety, but you are stuck, everything you do makes it worse. … Read More Getting through the “Off” days
I asked Mr. Spreadsheets if he thought it would be cool if we picked a random city in the US, packed up our kids and moved there. He looked at me like I’d lost my mind.
When I think back on that summer it seems both like a lifetime ago and like it happened just yesterday. When did I get so old?… Read More Has it been 13 years already?
Over the past 2.5 years I’ve learned a very important lesson, while it is good for me to get down and play with my sweet kids, it is ok if they play together without me. It is ok if they are a little bit bored and have to run their own games, it is ok if they are a little bit frustrated with each other and have to work out their own conflicts, it is ok if some of the games they pick aren’t what I would have chosen.… Read More Sibling Friends: Learning to Let Go of the Mom Guilt
This has been a long week… like a really really long week. I sent Mr. Spreadsheets this text on Thursday. And yes, I realize I was whining, complaining, and displaying a general dissatisfaction with life.
cleanliness was a serious source of contention for them… you know that and the sleep deprivation.… Read More Finding a “Housekeeper”
Kids are funny, heck adults are funny too! Sometimes the things we are the most excited about, are the things we end up enjoying the least because we’ve built them up so big in our minds! I’m counting today as a win, we made it out and back alive with our sanity mostly intact.… Read More How do you know when it’s time to leave?
As I’ve gotten older, my perfectionist tendencies have grown and changed with me. Sometimes these tendencies encourage me to push harder and be better, and sometimes they lead me to avoid situations where I know I will fail.… Read More Letting Go of Perfection
Cultivating Chaos 