It only took one year of trying! Exactly one year ago, I published this post entitled "I do not know how to toilet train my son." I swear that I wrote a follow-up post to the original, but I cannot seem to find it. I did, however, write a more recent post involving my son and the toilet, but ...
On October 24, my son--my precious, strong boy--turned three. I am so proud of the little person he has become. My son knows what he wants in this world and he fights for it (even if that is the entire box of MOREOS! NOW!) He is incredibly kind and he loves his family deeply... but no one compares to his big ...
As I start typing this post at 8:03am two thoughts are running through my head: 1. Please don't let there be some sort of major spill, disaster, mess, destructive episode, injury or otherwise in the five minutes that I step away to write this post (during which time I have my six-year-old "babysitting") and 2. I have already ...
There are a lot of awesome things about having a blog; I am not even going to attempt to list these things, as they are just so varied in size and quality and range from mood-enhancing to truly life-changing. BUT, I can tell you that when it comes to something like a Half Birthday, a having blog ...
This morning, both of my kids woke up before 6am. I can't complain, as they both crashed last night at 6pm. Except, now they are totally a #team, which is awesome, and only slightly terrifying. So, their morning ritual is now this: One child usually wakes up first. If it is my daughter, I can tell because I can see ...
Dear Five-Year-Old-Daughter, I could write and write and write about how incredible it is--how incredulous I am--that you are about to enter Kindergarten; how I don't understand when you grew to be this size. It is mind-blowing. But, instead, I am going to tell you about the snapshot from one morning. This morning, in fact, when you ...
Well, last week was fun, as I spontaneously wrote, recorded and posted a parody song set to Meghan Trainor's "Dear Future Husband". You can see my "Dear Current Husband" video on the link right there. It was taken by my five year old, in her bed, which I think is pretty apparent. Well, today was a day. Not ...
Over the weekend I got into a really interesting discussion, both online and IRL, about the content of my site. It is no secret that I speak very honestly about all aspects of my life, and that means that I reference aspects of my "Hopeful Story" which, as much as I don't like to dwell on ...
I just received the most unbelievable text message from my dad. He has my daughter with him at the local park for it's "Fun Day", something that my husband and I both did every year as children, and it's a photo of my daughter holding a trophy with the caption, "Second Place". Now let me backtrack a ...
Last week I had two momentous achievements in my career as a writer: First, I had a story published on a very popular, national website, exposing my writing to thousands of new readers. Second, I had my first encounter with haters. I have been writing MEA since the birth of my daughter in 2010. Since that time, I believe ...
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