Picturepocket's Blog

Category: parenting

  • Thanksgiving in January

    Today ends a fairly eventful week. Monday, Eliana was home from school as part of her classroom quarantine and general disruption of every human plan. Tuesday, Tim texted me to asked if we wanted a whole turkey. It was one of the unclaimed frozen birds his work had purchased to give out to the employees…

  • A Thin White Line

    Yesterday started typically, as one would expect a few days into a stint of comprehensive distance learning. My alarm went off at seven. I poured yesterday’s remaining coffee from the pot into a mug and put it into the microwave replacing an older mug—from when, I couldn’t say. I fed and dressed both girls and…

  • 2022

    Time to update your New Year’s resolutions.

  • The Store

    It’s a cage match set to Muzak.

  • The Motherhood Dilemma

    Pregnancy and motherhood is not a sin.

  • The World We Make

    Closeness isn’t automatic, it has to be built over time and engagement.

  • Time Travelers

    We are all time traveling right now at one minute per minute forward through time.

  • 99 Jobs and Then Some

    Eliana went back to school this week, and I am so, so grateful. For the last year I’ve been her mom and her teacher. The curriculum was through Hillsboro Online Academy, so technically there was another human on the other side of town somewhere grading her work, but I was the one facilitating the learning.…

  • Keeping it Basic

    To me, basic is middle class and I don’t hate it.

  • Kids Party Schedule

    7:15 Child wakes you up, “It’s my birthday!” 8:00 Make everyone a “good breakfast.” Everyone only eats two bites. 8:30 Frost and decorate cake layer baked the night before. Abandon ambitious second tier. 9:00 Load car with half contents of refrigerator, craft, picnic and game supplies for “simple” outdoor party. 9:30 Swing by Dollar Tree…