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February 14, 2017February 13, 2018 Rhiannon Giles

5 Whiny Reasons I Hate Valentine’s Day as a Mom

There are a million reasons to hate Valentine’s day. Expectations run high, parenting energy runs low. Restaurants are overbooked and babysitters are hard to come by. It has become a Hallmark holiday. Single people have their face rubbed in their singleness. Etc, etc, and on and on. I never really cared much one way or another. Now that I’m a mom I have found it to be another exhausting holiday and one that happens to come right on the heels of the 100th day of school. It shows up just as we have recovered from the winter holidays. And we don’t even get a day off work.

Parenting

February 7, 2017July 7, 2017 Rhiannon Giles

The Winter When I Didn’t Completely Lose My Shit

Rowan slept through the night last night. This is not a drill. I repeat — Rowan slept through the night last night. This is the first time in many, many months that he has slept all the way through. On those occasions, my body was so used to waking up 29384029348 times in the night that I did not sleep well, anyhow.

Greatest Hits Parenting

February 4, 2017July 7, 2017 Rhiannon Giles

Open Letter to the Lazy Mother in the Grocery Store

Dear Lazy Mother in the Grocery Store,

I saw you.

Lunchables? Really?

I heard your kid whining for popsicles. I saw you reach into the freezer and ask which type.

Parenting

December 29, 2016July 7, 2017 Rhiannon Giles

Sometimes Less is Less and Sometimes That’s OK

Christmas was good. Our Puppy Surprise tree worked out wonderfully. I wanted to write a whole Christmas poem about it but I didn’t because, ya know, reasons.

Mental Health Prematurity

December 20, 2016July 7, 2017 Rhiannon Giles

When You Don’t Trust Birth and Your Therapist Gets Pregnant

I don’t trust birth.

Or pregnancy.

There. I said it.

I feel like I’m supposed to be a good little half-hippie, trusting birth and bodies and earthmothergoddessblahblahblah.

Parenting

December 19, 2016July 7, 2017 Rhiannon Giles

Ear Tubes Placed – 5 AM is Not an Acceptable Time to be Awake

I remember coming across a meme that said something like, “I’m not a night owl or an early bird. I’m a perpetually exhausted pigeon.”

Parenting

December 10, 2016July 7, 2017 Rhiannon Giles

ENT Appointment – Tubes Coming Soon

Rowan had yet another audiologist appointment yesterday, followed by an appointment with the ENT. It turned out the audiologist appointment was very brief; she did the test to check eardrum flexibility and it was still showing that his eardrums were not moving nearly as much as they should be. She decided not to make him sit through another hearing test.