Tag: ego
Old car got swag
I have hadhave a convertible SAAB. It’s not the car that I drive now because it didn’t really hit me until after E’s birth that pushing and pulling a baby and all the accompanying baby crap in and out of a two-door convertible gets old really fast–like the first time an old man in a truck parked more »
Competitive Cheating Accusations
My husband and I have one (of many) ongoing argument(s). This one is the never ending “Which way is faster to get home from the next town over?” I, of course, say one way, he says…white. Such is our relationship. C’est la Vie. However, I do know that I’m right on this one. Each time more »
Glad You’re My Daughter
E has been having a rough couple of weeks, which has subsequently led us to make some decisions (with her teacher) not to move her to the “big kid” class in the Fall. All involved thought we were pushing too hard and she was pushing back…harder. The problem? She’s cognitively/intellectually above her class level, but more »
BlogHer 10: Not Cheerleading Tryouts
I’ve been following all the BlogHer chatter on Twitter–it’s hard not to, especially since I’m feeling more than a little depressed about not being able to go and have been living vicariously through others. Yesterday, @kaisermommy posted something on Twitter that I thought about throughout the evening: “Say it with me people – ‘Business conference not cheerleading tryouts. Business more »
Parenting Fail
It’s hard not to take your children’s struggles and see them as a parenting fail, the kind that hits at the very core of your soul, especially when there is a lot of chaos going in your life anyway. On Friday, E was sent to the Principal’s office at school. She’s two. She was relatively unscathed, more »
If you’re nasally and you know it, clap your hands.
Do you have a mirror of deception at your house? You know, the one that tells you that you look fine, maybe even (dare say) cute, and then you later catch a glimpse of yourself–a reflection in a store window, or in a picture someone snapped, or on video–and are mortified? Yeah. That one. A few days ago more »
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