It’s my child’s week to take home the class pet. . . . Thankfully, this is not a live fish, hamster or turtle that would not recover from being suffocated, trod upon, or dismembered. But he’s plenty of work and worry just the same. This is because instead of doing.. Read More
Art Child
This is my child taking up the entire floor to “work” on coloring. I thought this was so funny that I wanted to take a picture. I was thinking, what an interesting child I have! An anomaly. A kid who is very serious about her art. Maybe.. Read More
Feeling Like Jeff Daniels In Pleasantville: Stuck & Repetitive (as a Mom)
Flashback to when my entire life seemed to revolve around the micro-world of two-year-old! I stumbled on this blog post while creating a site backup tonight. While scanning over the backup code (such an awkward way to read), I realized my “full set” also included the place where too many posts have died in infancy; the “unpublished”.. Read More
Muffinisms
While my day is often punctuated by dropping everything to post what Muffin has said on Facebook, I can never quite decide whether its best to dash these gems off on my default personal page or make a couple of extra clicks to get over to Reflective Mom. So here, as a way of avoiding.. Read More
Potty Training
Potty training is on the agenda today. I didn’t plan for this. I didn’t authorize it. I didn’t want it. It just is. So.. Muffin came home from being out all day yesterday and just decided, right then and there, to start potty training… Read More