parenting

Heavy sigh. Today, is the first day of school. For many parents, the beginning of school is a day to rejoice – freedom has returned! Less entertaining and trying to keep the kids occupied all day, and more time to get stuff done. Less sibling rivalry (at least until after 4pm) and more peace and…

This has been a full fledged mommy-emotional-roller-coaster month so far. In fact, I think I may have hit the mother load of parenthood this week. I attended She Speaks last week and was gone from my family for five days. After a few days of recuperating and taking it easy, I sent my daughter off…

Yesterday I was mom-of-the-year. Yep, unofficially but uneqivocably mom-of-the-year. How did I earn such a prestigious title, you ask? Simple. I made muffins. Not just plain ol’ muffins, mind you. Chocolate chip muffins, and blueberry muffins, in the little-muffin, muffin pan. So cute baby muffins were everywhere, and the two flavors satisfied all the picky…

It made its appearance this morning. Actually, it raged in from no where and seriously interrupted our otherwise peaceful morning. Things were going along just fine, we had made it out the door just in the nick of time to get to school without being tardy… but then it happened. Mommy meltdown. One short sarcastic…