Let me regale you with the tale of my Worst Birthday Ever… This has been a rough week. Nova is in a developmental leap and isn’t sleeping, while Orson has regressed back into banshee shrieking.… Read More »31 Years and the “Worst Birthday Ever”
A real daddy’s girl. That’s absolutely what I was. Even though my mother always used the threat of him as “the bad guy” against my sister and me, he still always felt like the lesser… Read More »Happy Papa’s Day to a Real Man
Nathan and I just celebrated our 4th Anniversary June 8th. With as much as we’ve packed into those 4 short years, it feels like it should be much longer…in a good way! In 4 years,… Read More »My Husband Never Buys Me Anniversary Gifts…
There’s Gentle Parenting and then there’s Gentle Parenting with Complex PTSD. Let’s unpack… During my four years as a parent, I’ve had to unlearn a lot of what I thought a parent was and teach… Read More »Do As I Say, Not As I Do
Picking Up Some Lessons at the Lost and Found… I’m going to preface this Lost and Found posting, right here and now. This might as well be a love letter to my son. I go… Read More »The Coen Chronicles: Lost and Found
I’m trying to raise a sweet, sensitive boy, and I just really don’t want to screw this up. It’d be helpful to know how best to raise a sweet, sensitive boy. Here’s what I’m learning…… Read More »How to Raise a Sweet, Sensitive Boy
Happy Mother’s Day… As much as I try to suppress them, Mother’s Day brings up soooo many feelings for me, as I’m sure it does for a lot of people. In different seasons of my… Read More »Happy Mother’s Day?
Parenting Truth: Growing So Our Kids Can The truth about parenting no one tells you is the amount of necessary self-expansion that you have to undergo to raise little humans well. I really used to… Read More »The Truth About Parenting: From Fear to Fun
The story of how Supernatural VR transformed my weight loss journey! Cigarettes and Red Bull I really never, in a million years, thought that I’d be able to use these words to describe myself: I… Read More »How I Lost 75 Pounds Playing Video Games
That’s what my 16-year-old asked me yesterday. “Is it worth it?” during a brief interaction in which we talked about his baby siblings. I was playing with Orson and Nova on the floor, having a… Read More »Is It Worth It To Have Kids?