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Tag: parenting

  • When the Village Revolts

    Recently I heard about a European airlines exploring adult only seating. For an extra 50-100 bucks passengers can be put in a section for humans 16 and older only. The goal is to not have crying babies, getting your seat kicked, or having sticky hands invade your personal space. Tim and I super excited. That’s…

  • PSA

    Yesterday, I was in a massive line at the Dollar Tree with my kids and an older, single woman behind me decided this would be a awesome time to engage me about her memories, thoughts and opinions of child rearing. As a current, active mom, this is not the time. Seeing me in public, with…

  • Boy Mama Drama

    With Ivy in her third year of preschool and me not teaching this semester, I have a little more time to hang out with some of the other moms and kids. We’ve had a couple play dates and some informal meet ups at parks. Ivy has enjoyed hanging out with the boys from her preschool…

  • The Kid Zone

    This year, Tim and I took our children with us on our anniversary trip to Washington state. It’s a similar one that we took by ourselves three years ago. Obviously we modified it to suit their interests, less bookstores and more donut shops. Having kids in general is an adventure all by itself. There are…

  • 3 Bags of Trash

    I am decluttering the house, again. I did the bathroom and our bedroom last week, and I am focusing on the kids’ room this week. Yesterday, I did the major purge of everything on their floor, on and under the bed. So far we’ve discarded three big bags of trash. We had to get rid…

  • Participation is the Goal

    I have been spending a big chunk of my summer holding down the metal bench beside our local pool. I have both the kids signed up for lessons with one in the morning and the other in the evening. My oldest has worked her way to highest level. We have gone all the from Catfish…

  • Lip Service

    This last weekend, we traveled to Eugene to see my mom and my daughters packed their own bags. My husband quizzed them before we got into the car about what they had packed. He said, “Did you bring extra clothes?” They said, “Yes.” He said, “Did you bring pajamas? They said, “Yes.” He said, “Did…

  • Work/Life Tension

    We were talking about the “balance” between two opposing ideas in college, and my instructor said it would be better if we use the word “tension”. There will always be something pulling for more. That concept has helped me through a lot of different situations. There is never really a perfect work/life balance, but you…

  • Happy Haunted Holidays

    This week of winter break we’ve watched a cartoon version of A Christmas Carol, It’s a Wonderful Life and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. All three movies explore themes of family, separation, conflict, togetherness, poverty and wealth. It makes sense that after seeing all those shows together I would get a haunted fever…

  • The Mall Y’all

    Saturday is our family day and yesterday it was rare treat to have sunshine so late in the year. I was hoping to get a family hike in, but the thing about kids is that they don’t always do as you expect. My girls rejected the idea of hiking and instead fixated on going to…