Parenting Imperfect
- Parenting Imperfect
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As the kids' needs for Mom change, Mom's life changes
Now that both kids are in school, all of the thankless work from the last eight years is starting to pay off. As a result, I don't see as many other people as I used to.
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Some surprises aren't found in the surprise itself
I turned 40 earlier this month.
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If time could just speed up and slow down at the same time
At the end of February, I had something happen that I hadn't experienced for almost nine-years: I woke up in my own house and there were no kids in it. This was, in a word, astonishing.
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The Boy may just become this generation's Harpo Marx
The Diva has reached a new stage of development, one that is difficult to make public because this is a small town and her identity is known, if in a limited way. And so I'll merely give you the broadest outline: girls and their social networks are strange and, frequently, cruel.
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While life is often boring, trips make it much more interesting
Our life, by and large, is pretty boring. There's school. There's work. There's a few fun moments, like the Diva's riding lessons or the occasional movie.
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Memories of the kids as they were then mostly recalled in pictures
I have a nearly identical revelation every time I'm forced to go through the stacks of snapshots I really should put in an album already: how did my children get to be so big?
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Even if the box is fun, it's not really enough for Christmas
If I were a true pragmatist _ or a cold-hearted Grinch _ I wouldn't buy any gifts for the kids this year.
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New car's features give kids something else to bicker about
By Adrienne Martini My husband and I gave in to the inevitable and bought a new (to us) car.
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Bedtime routines and stalling techniques change with time
The bedtime battles have changed as the kids have gotten older.
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New year, same kids --- but boy are they different from each other
And, lo, the day came and there was great rejoicing. I rejoiced, at least. I suspect that primary and secondary school teachers did not.
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Parenting Imperfect: Summer starts with great possibilities, but when does school start?
Summer, like pregnancy, goes on for three weeks longer than is tolerable.
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Parenting Imperfect: Summer down time a welcome retreat, but columns suffer
By Adrienne Martini At some point during the last eight years, I absorbed a quote about parenthood and war being similar, in that both contain large stretches of nothing much punctuated by moments of abject terror.
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Parenting Imperfect: Tragedy makes you look at frustrations with kids in a new light
By Adrienne Martini Eighteen-year old Henry Granju died at the end of May.
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Parenting Imperfect: Like it or not, kids are in control of what they will " and won't " eat
By Adrienne Martini At dinner last night, the Boy refused to eat his grilled cheese sandwich, which is his favorite meal ever. His reason was simple: The cheese was the wrong color.
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The older the kids get, the faster the time flies
By Adrienne Martini When the Diva was 4 years old and the Boy wasn't even 1, parents with school-age kids told me that the kids will grow faster than I think.
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As the kids' needs for Mom change, Mom's life changes
