I don’t like scrapbooking. I have no desire to redecorate my home. I could care less whether I know how to create roses out of frosting on cakes. The garden in my backyard has gone untouched since we moved into the house over five years ago.
For a long time these things made [...]
Tags: baking, decorating, gift bags, mom, playgroups, scrapbooking, stamping
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An old acquaintance of mine recently posted a question on her facebook page. It made me laugh. She wanted to know how a working mom could manage to keep the house clean, spend time with the children, spend time with the husband, and cook dinner. But that’s not all – she also insisted on having [...]
Tags: clean, cook, exhausted, housekeeper, mom, multitasking, overwhelmed, parents, working mom
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With terms “momfia”, cliquish, and other less than encouraging terms being used to describe mommy behaviors at school or playgroups, I was a bit apprehensive going to my first one. I was never the social butterfly, and I always wondered what those girls who everyone seemed to naturally gravitate to had that I didn’t. [...]
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I have found that having two kids has required that I have twice as much attention for them. The love expanded with no problems with my daughter’s birth, but the attention has been harder to multiply.
It was easy when my daughter was still breastfeeding and I could read to my son so he didn’t [...]
Tags: attention, dividing attention, mom, multitasking, Parenting, SAHM, splitting attention, stay-at-home mom
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