tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159195976421648585Wed, 06 Nov 2024 02:54:40 +0000parentingbloggingsiblingsBirthdayMarriageVBACattachment parentingbreastfeedingchildrencosleepingexpectationsfamilyinstinctuallovenatural birthpregnancyrecommended readsASAPAshevilleFPMNemoSimple Momadventurebusyconceptionconflictconsciousdepressiondisciplinedoulasevolutionary parentingextended familyfoodfrustrationgiveawaygratitudehealthhomehomebirthhopeindecisionletting golimitslocal foodmamasmidwivesmy dadname changeorganicoutingsperspectivepostpartumre-organizingrelaxresearchrespectrewardssimple livingstay at home momtailgatetantrumsthe pasttime ticking bytruthwork at home momworking momTABU, TRENDY, TRADITIONAL. <br> EMBRACING THE TITLE, TANTRUMS AND TRIUMPH OF BEING THE <b>MOM I AM</b>!http://kateogdenwrites.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)Blogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159195976421648585.post-5658716448310350100Tue, 21 May 2013 15:12:00 +00002013-05-21T11:12:56.874-04:00loveMarriagemy dadname change This has been a long time coming. I was born with one last name. The relationship with my "biological contributor" as I like to call him was less than a fairy tale to say the least. My mother remarried when I was 8 years old and this man has been who I have always considered to be my Daddy. He raised my brother and I like we were his. He is loving and kind and has all my respect in the world. Ihttp://kateogdenwrites.blogspot.com/2013/05/changing-my-name-officially.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159195976421648585.post-4010206848091733436Tue, 21 May 2013 14:32:00 +00002013-05-21T10:32:40.735-04:00conflictparentingsiblings Scene: Sidekick and BuddyRoo playing so sweetly together. Time passes, a lot of time. I keep reminding myself that soon I should go make an appearance or lead them into a change. 1.5 hrs of play together is pretty good &nbsp;for a 5 and 2.5 yr old and I know I'm pushing my luck, that soon it will all crumble. Instead, I keep on cleaning and "getting ahead". Then screams, shouts, and I walk,&http://kateogdenwrites.blogspot.com/2013/05/pull-yourself-back-parents.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159195976421648585.post-3207994615707202237Tue, 21 May 2013 13:57:00 +00002013-05-21T10:01:20.156-04:00letting goperspectivethe pasttruth Today I sit pondering individual truth and individual perspective. Yesterday, something ugly from my past reared it's head. We're talking 28 years ago folks. Someone entering my sphere convinced they can convince me to have a different perspective on the past, thereby altering my truth. I am capable of allowing others to have their feelings and their own version of what happened. Every http://kateogdenwrites.blogspot.com/2013/05/truth-perspective.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159195976421648585.post-8639904418395989041Thu, 16 May 2013 20:31:00 +00002013-05-21T10:34:18.906-04:00Birthdaybusyrelax This whole week has been one big clamoring for reserves of energy I just don't have. Truly, though it has been the past couple weeks. Finishing up with finals at school, rushing around waiting for the lottery drawings for Sidekick and the forms for any/all magnet schools.&nbsp;The actual enrollment into the school we are in district for, Mother's Day, Sidekick's 5th Birthday, my graduation http://kateogdenwrites.blogspot.com/2013/05/mid-week-break.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159195976421648585.post-9126857898982884745Fri, 03 May 2013 14:05:00 +00002013-05-16T16:33:21.629-04:00adventureAshevilleloveMarriage I'm inspired to write about my husband today. It's a grey and drizzly day that has me with&nbsp;reminiscing&nbsp;over coffee. The kids are playing in the living room and Daddy is at work. Spring days that are chilly always remind me of Washington State. Why? &nbsp; Mark and I have been together since the very end of 1997. We've been&nbsp;inseparable&nbsp;since then. We have never been a couplehttp://kateogdenwrites.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-love-story.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159195976421648585.post-5345990046222798574Thu, 02 May 2013 11:54:00 +00002013-05-02T07:55:27.034-04:00attachment parentingBirthdaybreastfeedingcosleepingexpectationsinstinctualrecommended reads This week I feel I'm flooded in my online community with support. None of the fellow writers, or bloggers, know that their writings have inspired, helped, and supported me throughout the week. Sidekick's 5th birthday is seriously 12 days away! So 5 feels like quite the "milestone" when you sit back and reflect on lots of the choices you made when they were little and what you see has come to http://kateogdenwrites.blogspot.com/2013/05/this-week-i-feel-im-flooded-in-my.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159195976421648585.post-5732663389118804373Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:59:00 +00002013-04-24T08:59:50.429-04:00attachment parentingevolutionary parentinglimitsNemorewards Up at at 5:30. It never fails, when they are sick or in need of the most rest they are the hardest to put to sleep at night and early risers. Go figure. So BuddyRoo asks for cereal first thing in the morning... in such an urgent tone. &nbsp;There is no assuring him you're getting the cereal, that the soy milk carton in your hand is truly going to be poured on the cereal, or that the bowl it is http://kateogdenwrites.blogspot.com/2013/04/according-to-finding-nemo.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159195976421648585.post-953778993665711136Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:18:00 +00002013-04-14T11:18:11.963-04:00expectationsfrustrationhopeparentingtime ticking by I had never had these moments before I had children. I don't rightly know what to call them either. Panic attack doesn't seem right. However, I have heard panic attacks likened to a sense of drowning or not being able to get your breath. For the most-part that is one element that defines these horribly emotional moments I find myself in. I suppose another way to illustrate it is that when my http://kateogdenwrites.blogspot.com/2013/04/when-parenting-feels-like-drowning.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159195976421648585.post-8379138046772215956Sat, 06 Apr 2013 18:11:00 +00002013-04-22T09:52:45.451-04:00ASAPgratitudelocal foodoutingstailgate I've been looking forward to this weekend all week. Much moreso than usual. I knew the forecast was going to be great. Also, I knew it was the first downtown tailgate market here in Asheville. We had only been once or twice last year. My Husband works Saturdays so it proves a bit difficult with two children to watch them, carry produce (or like today, little baby tomato plants), as well as http://kateogdenwrites.blogspot.com/2013/04/are-there-1-million-ways-show-gratitude.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159195976421648585.post-331136256238650625Fri, 05 Apr 2013 19:24:00 +00002013-04-27T09:34:23.250-04:00conceptionindecisionmamaspregnancysiblings I have posted about this topic before, and I am surprised that I not only find myself plagued by this question again, but that I'm at such a loss that I actually went back and read that ancient post to see what advice I might have offered myself.&nbsp; Boy wasn't I just so clear and concise about what to consider? The ages between siblings, the mother's health, work schedules. I notice http://kateogdenwrites.blogspot.com/2013/04/revisiting-idea-of-another-child.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159195976421648585.post-1561491102001583016Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:52:00 +00002013-04-05T15:24:55.391-04:00bloggingFPM Certainly it's all spring's fault. Well, I should say spring blessed me really. Here I am again, back on the computer with "free time" to jot down some thoughts and get back out into the virtual world. The sense of renewal spring brings, I feel upon waking each day now. With my children a bit older I do have a&nbsp;tangible ablity to take on a bit more, have a clear train of though (http://kateogdenwrites.blogspot.com/2013/04/swift-kick-in-pants.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159195976421648585.post-1226253195246019136Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:35:00 +00002013-04-02T15:36:22.741-04:00disciplinerespecttantrums I think it's especially strange to witness in my own lifetime such a contrast in upbringing regarding respect, manners, general behavior that is acceptable. Or the gross lack of all three. I'm quite baffled how we've arrived at the point where it's such an issue actually. Like we are all just waking up, pulling our hair out saying "how did this happen?" Freedom of expression verbally and http://kateogdenwrites.blogspot.com/2013/04/where-did-all-manners-go.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159195976421648585.post-4655946843125738529Tue, 04 Jan 2011 19:52:00 +00002013-04-06T14:13:03.926-04:00breastfeedingcosleepingparenting It's been too long since I've written, fellow Parents. Proudly tackling more than I should be lately. Well, no... actually, I think I've found a pretty good balance. Granted, BuddyO is now almost 5 months old, so I'm still in the middle of sleep-depravation. He's doing great at night. Rouses for 3 or 4 nursings like clockwork. We started bed-sharing with him right off the bat and both Daddy http://kateogdenwrites.blogspot.com/2013/04/its-been-too-long-since-ive-written.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159195976421648585.post-4143009951735508286Sun, 21 Nov 2010 14:34:00 +00002013-05-16T16:32:24.461-04:00blogging Sheesh, talk about intimidating. I'm so hooked on so many other Mommy blogs it's taking up all my time to work on mine. All the while I can't get past how to really brand MOM I AM. So what's a starry-eyed Mom blogger to do? Only time will tell. I need to set aside a concrete block of time every week dedicated to studying how to create a successful blog. How to really focus my energy, my http://kateogdenwrites.blogspot.com/2010/11/everyone-elses-blogs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159195976421648585.post-1127450125010943191Sun, 31 Oct 2010 01:34:00 +00002013-04-24T19:43:35.450-04:00natural birthVBAC VBAC = Vaginal birth after caesarean. More progressive communities, hospitals, doctors are now doing them, reflecting on the studies now released showing the low rates of risk and also the benefits to the baby and mother. This was my goal. Course I should write out the whole experience, and am currently doing so for my Drs and my own "memoirs". However, the most important things to note is http://kateogdenwrites.blogspot.com/2010/10/reflecting-on-my-vbac.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159195976421648585.post-6613862495891041412Sat, 09 Oct 2010 11:39:00 +00002013-05-16T16:37:04.716-04:00blogging There are so many great and glorious ideas I have right now floating around in my head on how to be more successful and productive when it comes to my writing online. Yet very daunting on how to get grounded and started. I know ultimately I need to wait after the second baby arrives near the end of Oct. or any momentum I begin with will be lost. Then I'm sure by the time I get in the groove http://kateogdenwrites.blogspot.com/2010/10/there-are-so-many-great-and-glorious.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159195976421648585.post-6164757296844123773Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:42:00 +00002013-04-25T10:39:32.365-04:00familyhomere-organizingsimple living I recently read a great blog post at PassionateHomeaking.com about "When Homemaking Gets in the Way of Mothering". There is definitely that feeling amongst us "crunchy" moms who are trying to make every meal from scratch, can food come fall, cloth-diaper and hang laundry, compost, garden, home-school, while baby-wearing and nursing, etc. that we have to be doing everything natural, eco, by hand http://kateogdenwrites.blogspot.com/2010/08/i-recently-read-great-blog-post-at.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159195976421648585.post-6438829138320385165Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:48:00 +00002013-04-02T18:54:08.124-04:00doulashomebirthmidwivesnatural birthrecommended readsVBAC Recently I'm left frustrated and furious about yet another brain-washing perpetrated against all women. I'm heading into my second birth, just eight weeks away and am filing my head with positive stories and affirmations regarding the VBAC I'm attempting. After reading Ina May's Guide to Childbirth there was one part in particular that jumped out at me. Granted this part isn't the premise http://kateogdenwrites.blogspot.com/2010/08/how-to-create-more-positive-view-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159195976421648585.post-773155099282504546Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:35:00 +00002013-05-03T11:15:43.990-04:00childrenextended family Okay I think I'm gonna hit this up in a whole new way. Here I though making "articles" would be the only way to interest people but I realize that's not how I think, nor write. It was too difficult and not fun... and I've always enjoyed writing. This should be no different. Where am I in life right now? 60 days away from my due date, potty-trained 2 year old (rock on!), to-do list for the home ahttp://kateogdenwrites.blogspot.com/2010/08/like-i-need-one-more-thing-to-do.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159195976421648585.post-6259619416499314342Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:11:00 +00002013-04-04T16:43:21.152-04:00childrenparentingpregnancysiblings &nbsp;THINKING OF ANOTHER CHILD? So things are finally settling in. You are well on your way and finally getting into the grove of Mommydom and you start thinking of a second child.&nbsp;Perhaps you and your toddler are now weaned, they are sleeping in their own bed, YOU are finally getting some sleep again, they are starting to communicate more, their ability for independent play so Mommy http://kateogdenwrites.blogspot.com/2010/02/second-time-around.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159195976421648585.post-5850314050469169124Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:40:00 +00002010-02-22T19:54:38.979-05:00giveawaySimple Mom Folks if you haven't already stumbled on to Simple Mom (Simple Kids, Organic, Living, etc.) you must not only go there but sign up for either the emails or feed. This is what I look forward to the most every week out of all the other online media/mediums I've connected with. Clear, clean, concise. Enjoyable every time. Currently they are having several great giveaways to kickoff some changes http://kateogdenwrites.blogspot.com/2010/02/fantastic-giveaways-for-kiddos.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159195976421648585.post-3282196513787167168Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:50:00 +00002010-02-22T19:54:10.824-05:00consciousfamilyfoodhealthorganic TEACHING THE ETHICS OF CONSCIOUS FOOD CHOICES There are many values I hope to instill in my child. Kindness, generosity, respect... lots of values that focus on relationships between people. Just as important to me though is a set of values when dealing with the environment, and more specifically their food choices. Thankfully more attention than ever is being turned back to one of http://kateogdenwrites.blogspot.com/2010/02/choosing-healthier-food-for-your-family.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159195976421648585.post-2266195288673652619Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:44:00 +00002010-03-11T17:46:37.017-05:00depressionparentingpostpartum HINDSIGHT AND POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION I can sit here at 20 months out with only a wisp of "the crazies", as I dubbed it afterward. There are some of those same emotions and feelings that made themselves present in the first months that even now, jump up, scare me and remind me of all that I went through in the beginning. I come from a family of talkers, we exercise our demons by talking them into http://kateogdenwrites.blogspot.com/2010/01/admitting-to-postpartum-depression.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159195976421648585.post-8845802727952506936Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:45:00 +00002013-04-02T15:16:38.531-04:00stay at home momwork at home momworking mom Talking with fellow moms, friends and strangers, we seem to be exploring the same topic lately. What are the benefits and drawbacks to being a stay-at-home-mom (SAHM), &nbsp;a work-at-home-mom (WAHM) or a working-mom (WM)? What are the current stigmas attached to each? How have they changed from generation to generation? In talking with my mother-in-law I hear how she felt slighted being ahttp://kateogdenwrites.blogspot.com/2010/01/your-official-title-now.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159195976421648585.post-1008854245075853Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:16:00 +00002013-04-02T15:14:08.785-04:00instinctualparentingresearch There is a lot to say and not enough time to say it all. A lot to do and yet again... tick-tock, the minutes are rushing by. Hello fellow Mommas! You know all too well what I'm talking about, yes? Don't you find that throughout all the rushed days and our hurried lives there are still plenty of moments when time trickles by so slowly? Like standing in a slow moving river. Toes spread in mud http://kateogdenwrites.blogspot.com/2010/01/throwing-this-out-there.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0