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You Don’t Have to Choose a Parenting Method to be a Great Parent
I walked the floor with a baby on each shoulder gently bounce, bounce, bouncing them, my back burning, hoping to ease my twins to sleep. They must’ve been just a few weeks old, our fourth and fifth kids, recently out of the neonatal intensive care unit, all of us recovering from their premature birth as…
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Daylight Saving Time Kicks Butt
Daylight Saving Time kicks butt. And whose butt does it kick? OUR butts, parents. Our butts. ………. I originally posted this on Facebook. In case you don’t hang out with us there, here’s other stuff that happened recently on the Five Kids Facebook page: Mockery is, too, a love language. Boogers. We detangle things. Like…
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Sleeping. In Surround Sound.
I made you something the other night while I was busy not sleeping. I not-sleep a lot because my children regularly and expertly outmaneuver my Ambien prescription and my 50 pairs of earplugs. Frankly, I think Ambien and Earplugs should just admit defeat and quit embarrassing themselves, but they went to a Tony Robbins workshop…
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On Silence and Cacophony and Things That Soothe the Soul
I woke up yesterday morning to silence which happens to me exactly never and made me think that there was a strange and awesome aligning of the planets… or that kind, gentle faeries came in the night to cast magical, sleeping mommy spells… or that I suddenly went blessedly deaf… or that the Rapture happened…