I’ve been obsessed with Pinterest all week (it’s kept me sane while I’ve held the couch down post-surgery), and it’s had me DYING to do some crafts. Today I saw my orthopedic surgeon, who gave me the go-ahead to use my arm a little bit (and he was careful to qualify that statement so thoroughly…
1) 1st Law of Thermodynamics — the energy of the universe is constant. That is to say, if one system or object gains energy, another system or object must have lost energy. As the day progresses, I steadily lose energy, and W steadily becomes more and more energetic. 2) 2nd Law of Thermodynamics — entropy…
Recently, I’ve blogged about my experience beginning sleep training with W. It’s been a week, and we’ve had both ups and downs, so I thought I’d post on our progress thus far. After the totally failed attempt to get W to sleep in her crib (in honesty, it’s a pack ‘n’ play) last Thursday afternoon,…
We have sleep problems, as I’ve mentioned before. I’ve been sitting on the fence about sleep training for quite a while, and have been reading Alice’s posts on the topic (like this one) over at Science of Mom. I’m totally convinced that there are good reasons to sleep train W, which include (but are not…
I wrote this during a quiet moment when W had hand-foot-mouth, after our first visit to the pediatrician but before she was hospitalized. In the craziness that followed, I didn’t get around to publishing it right away. My poor W is sick. It started on Wednesday with vomiting, and then a high fever by afternoon….
The other day, W was a little stir-crazy and I was trying to find something fun to do with her. She’s still little enough and unstable enough that playgrounds are tough for us; she gets intimidated (and totally bowled over) by bigger kids. I decided we’d try Gymboree, since they do a “first class free”…
Many of the more “personal” posts, I’m keeping for W as a sort of journal of her baby/toddlerhood. I thought long and hard about whether to save this one for her, since it’s got some tough stuff in it. In the end, I’ve decided to do so. I know that over time, my memories of…
I didn’t have mom-friends before I had a baby. My female friends are, like me, women who’ve put off having babies to finish college. And then graduate school. And then get a career established. I was the first to decide it was time to leap into motherhood (and by “decide,” I mean my husband and…
I’ve just come from Facebook, where I was reading a conversation on, ironically, a gentle parenting page. Within the first 10 comments, I saw two instances of mom-on-mom sniping, so I stopped reading. Earlier this week, the sniping abounded on the Facebook page of a local mom’s boutique shop; the owner posted a picture of…
Disclaimer: I tried to write this post straight. I really tried. But the snark kept rearing its head, so I stopped fighting it. Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) published a stunning bit of research earlier this month. Through a longitudinal analysis (meaning that the researchers followed one group over time)…
