tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-257577 2012-05-25T05:00:00-04:00 No one ever said it was going to be easy... TypePad MotherhoodUncensoredhttp://feedburner.google.com tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451c83069e2016305cd0bb0970d 2012-05-25T05:00:00-04:00 2012-05-24T22:01:36-04:00

My son's first baseball season has come to an end. At least I thought it had and then there were playoffs. For 5 & 6 year old coach-pitched teams. Seriously? Even though the kids lost miserably, there were a couple of wins. Like only a couple of kids still cried when they were tagged out at first. And they did get a little better at fielding the ball. Though the concept of throwing it once it was in their glove was still a bit foreign. And really, it was more fun just yelling at them to run fast around the...

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Note: Okay, so as I've upped my dosage of the medication Viibryd, I've noticed a few side effects that I'm not keen on that I want to share with you. I'm definitely having stomach issues when I take the medication, and I've also noticed that I'm more tired (especially right after I take it) and having crazy dreams. These are all reported side effects. Others have reported joint issues and weight gain, neither of which I've experienced, however, I will be discussing this with my doctor when I see him this week. Updates to follow! It's been about 10 days...

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Look familiar? 50 Shades of Toy Story (click for more photos)

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"Does she do this stuff with you?" my husband asked me, Bridget sprawled out, snuggling with him on his chest as he laid on the floor. "Nope." I said. He seemed surprised. He always does when the kids prefer him over me. Bridget calls for him at night and looks for him in the morning when he's gone for work. "Datty?! DATTY??" She fell the other day and he automatically brought her to me. She clung tightly to him. I've started putting my hand up to stop him because I know. "She doesn't need me to comfort her," I told...

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So since Tuesday, my Internet has been down, my husband has been on two trips, I peed myself at my son's baseball game, and Time magazine decided to blow up the world. If only Einstein had figured out the boob, toddler, stool combo, he could have saved himself some trouble. I also saw my doctor, thanks mostly to your comments and emails, which I will share more about over here, which just so happens to be where I also wrote about spending Mother's Day alone with your kids. And even though they're not supposed to kick in for another couple...

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Between hormones and lack of sleep, I have about one good week of normal mood patterns. And by normal I mean bearable. Barely. And that's if I'm exercising regularly, eating well, and not alone with my kids for more than three days in a row. So really, I have one or two really good days on a consistent basis. Out of 30. I'm no mathematician but that seems to be a really terrible percentage. In past years, I've been able to handle myself with little breaks, deep breathing, and sleep. Some shopping (shoes, not clothes, so I don't stab myself...

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The "V" at this party wasn't for Versace Happy V-Day to me! {P.S. Thanks to @LOD for coining "Vercrotche." You're going places, Doug. Heh} {P.P.S. Yes, it really is the 7th anniversary of my 29th birthday today}

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For eight years I've tried my best to make sense of being a parent. Deciphering secret codes, following unwritten rules. Searching for instruction manuals that just don't exist no matter how hard we look and Google or how much our friends and neighbors and random ladies at the aisle in Target try to tell us. It's completely nonsensical. The sheer number of times you have cleaned up the same LEGOs that are dumped from the same bin by a child who doesn't even play with them. And then you step on them. Again. The crazy things you find yourself saying,...

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Awhile back I wrote a post about how we all judge other moms. We're human after all. At least, I am, anyway, and while some of us don't have as many parenting dealbreakers than others of us, I'm pretty sure we all have at least one thing that parents do that makes us raise our eyebrows. I have five. Maybe six. I told you I was human. I'll probably never change my mind about kid leashes, although I can understand in some circumstances (kids with special needs, mostly) where some parents might use them. {I still just really don't like...

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Maybe it's because I'm more informed and connected than I ever was as a young 20-something student, attending a mostly-female, mostly-white college. It probably wasn't as mostly-straight as I thought at the time. Or perhaps it's because I have children now, and the thought of my girls growing up and somehow being paid less or treated worse than my son turns my hands into fists. And raises my middle finger up from my palm. But the older I get, the angrier I am about the inequalities in our world. Even then they'll be more privileged than many of their peers,...

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