We live in an apartment but community gardens are abundant in this city, and so this year we must confront the grim reality of gardening with our small boy. When you Google "toddlers gardening," you get all kinds of cutesy suggestions from people with screen names like "mummykins" - such un-doable … [Read more...]
West coast, baby.
It's almost beach season on the west coast! Please don't tell me how much rent is in your city because I need to believe it's worth what I pay to live here. … [Read more...]
We get wild.
My parents are watching the toddler for the night because we're going out for dinner, and they picked him up this afternoon to take him away which gave us a long stretch of freedom before we had to be where we needed to go. My first order of business was a long, solitary shower. The kind where no … [Read more...]
You can be brave.
Dear Toddler, You are so small. You are so little. And even though one of those online growth calculators assured me you will be six feet and six inches tall when you are grown, you will always be small, because the world is so big. There is a lot that you might learn to be afraid of. When I … [Read more...]
Toddlers have terrible timing. Can I come stay with you?
It was my birthday yesterday (30! I made it!), and Spouse threw me a fabulous karaoke dance party and got a babysitter and so we stayed out too late having the best time as if we were young and unencumbered again for a few brief, magical hours. This morning, the toddler got up … [Read more...]
Exclusive Pumping: Not Your Worst Option
When you have a baby in BC, they send a public health nurse to come and make sure you know what you're doing and that your living room isn't a meth lab, and with our little one, things were no different. And while the nurses at the hospital were amazing and lovely and I wanted to bring each of them … [Read more...]
Head first.
It seems that anything worth doing is worth doing head-first. Is this a boy thing? Is it a personality trait? Is this reckless abandon something I could stand to learn to incorporate into my own life? Am I fated to spend the next eighteen years standing at the foot of the metaphorical slide, … [Read more...]
Mom is sick, so it’s Lord of the Flies until the antibiotics kick in.
For over a week now, my throat has been constricted and achy, my mouth has been sticky, and my body has swung between too hot and too cold. For four nights I didn't sleep. If in general I am "THAT mom" then when I am sick, I am ... a disgrace. On Friday, my toddler only ate Cheerios. Well, he ate, … [Read more...]
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