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#TBT
- #TBT The Fun is in the Drive
- #TBT – This is why we can’t have mediocre things
- #TBT – tornadoes
- #TBT – Unreliable narrator
- #TBT – The House that Awkward Built
- #TBT – HOSPITAL EDITION
- #TBT – The construction
- #TBT – That time I gave Willie Nelson an enema
- #TBT (#FBF) – The OCD Highway
- #TBT – Too southern
- #TBT – Cinder
- #TBT – Cat hairstyles
- #TBT – Labor
- #TBT – Nursing Rowan
- #TBT “This is Your Year and it Always Starts Here”
COVID19
- Aging in the Age of Corona
- Hey there! *Head Tilt* How are you?
- A Requiem for the Bars
- Where is the “Safe” in “Safely Reopening Schools”
- What Does the Narrator Want
Greatest Hits
- Fallout
- Semi-lucid thoughts of a sleep deprived mother.
- It’s Not All Hand Washing and Light Switches
- Hell’s Jenga
- Into the scary woods
- The dishes can wait and other lies
- Dear mom who is totally screwing up
- Anxiety – An Invasive Species
- My 31 Week C-Section — Prematurity Awareness Month
- When Self-Care is a “Relaxing” Bath Next to a Bowl Full of Pee
- Baby-proofing the Bunk Beds
- Open Letter to the Lazy Mother in the Grocery Store
- Thoughts on Skinny Dipping, Identity, and Taking My Kid to a Rock Show
- On Time Travel and the Collection of Sounds in My Ears
- Videos: Respiratory Distress & Retractions – Infant/Toddler/Child
- The Crying Tub
- A Door Once Opened
- It Makes You Stronger, or so They Keep Telling Me
- The Explosion of Pandora’s Box
- Life Lessons in Course Correction From Ms. Pac-Man
- Dating While Anxious: Lessons Learned
Items I love
- 8 Preemie Essentials
- Riding in Cars with Kids – Keeping Sane
- All Boobs Are Not Created Equal
- “Essentials” For Camping With Kids
- Holiday NICU Gift Guide For Mom, Dad, Baby, and Siblings
- Thanksgiving Vomit and a Last-Minute Gift Idea
- Ideas for Those Holiday Amazon Gift Cards – Courtesy of National Geographic Kids
- Nevertheless, She Persisted: Learning More About History’s Bad-Ass Heroines
- Tagalongs vs. Peanut Butter Patties? The Answer May Surprise You *
- I’m the Mother of a Seven Year Old! So how About a JarJackets Giveaway
- Reviewing Janelle Hanchett’s “I’m Just Happy to be Here” and Why I’m Just Happy I’m Not Sh!tting in a Paper Bag
- Distress Tolerance in a Box — Homework I Can Handle
- Updated for 2022: What is the Deal with all the Different Girl Scout Cookies?
Life
- Family photos
- the boob, the boob, the boob is on fire
- Praise be to cake
- All in
- Equal and opposite reactions
- Day in the life – Snowmageddon edition
- Life is large
- Butthurt
- Friends and babies
- Mutter-Gruppen sind besser als ihr Ruf
- A Bunch of Crap, Both Literal and Figurative
- Criticism Screams Louder Than Anything Else
- What Fresh Hell is This?
- Pneumonia and DC
- A Ranger Stole My Beer and My Family Left Me in the Woods
- Taking Out the Laundry
- Kathie Lee and Hoda are my new BFFs
- Some Weeks You’re the Windshield, Some Weeks You’re the Bug
- Getting Back on the Wheels
- When Writing is Bigger on the Inside.
- Feeling Mighty
- Glitter is Upset by Your Herpes Comparisons
- Floods, Plagues, and Other Signs of End Times.
- My Imaginary Memoir Will Be Titled, “Well, It Could Have Been Worse….”
- Giles Family Goes Under the Sea — Halloween 2016
- At Least There Are No Rabid Donkeys Eating My Toes?
- One Year Later – State of the Blog Address
- There’s Only One Option: I’m Going to Have to Burn My House Down
- Even Dead Snakes Want to Look Pretty Sometimes
- My Cat is Dying
- Saying Goodbye to Squirt
- Hair Cuts and Embarrassing High School Photographs
- Also, Get Off My Lawn!
- Can You Call it a Vacation, Really?
- Where is My Mother of the Year Award?
- Totalifail – The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Naive College Students
- Living Life in the In Between
- “October Gardens Rusty, Ragged, Overgrown”
- Thoughts on Skinny Dipping, Identity, and Taking My Kid to a Rock Show
- This is Halloween, This is Halloween
- On Time Travel and the Collection of Sounds in My Ears
- Onward to January
- Don’t Cry Over Weaned Milk
- Anxiety Pancakes
- I’m Snow Done
- Endoscopy Jokes Sound Inherently Dirty
- Electrified High-Speed Pudding
- Girl Scouts, Guns, and Haircuts
- It is Never a Good Time for Snow in March
- Allergy Testing, Renegade Mothering, and a Confession
- The Crying Tub
- Have Fun Storming the Castle
- Let’s Get Physical
- Splitting in Half and Coming Out Whole
- DBT and the Teeny Tiny Version of Me
- Testing the Limits of Authenticity
- Evacuation: Stop Sitting in Armchair Judgment of Those Who Stay
- The Chromatically Challenged Lines of Definitely Maybe
- Snakes in the Trash: Adding Insult to the Injury
- Michael Rode His Boat Ashore
- Halloween 2018 – Birds of a Feather
- Look for the Helper Fairies
- Here’s the Good News I Promised!
- The Ghosts of Christmas Past and The Grief in Christmas Present
- On Resolutions, Failure, and Perfectionism
- The Flu, Values, and the Belated Utilization of Therapy
- Flying Solo, Values, and Bioluminescence
- A Door Once Opened
- It Makes You Stronger, or so They Keep Telling Me
- The Explosion of Pandora’s Box
- The Future Is Not Now and Maybe I’m Ok With That
- Life Lessons in Course Correction From Ms. Pac-Man
- The Potential Energy of What Could Have Been
- “This is Not the House That Pain Built”
- Is Authenticity Ever “Fearless?”
- To Do: Take a Bath and Ignore the Dishes
- My Personal Sixth Love Language
- Aging in the Age of Corona
- Valuing Personal Growth and its Important Place in Anti-Racism
- Hey there! *Head Tilt* How are you?
- A Requiem for the Bars
- I turn 40 Next Week and My Brain is a Clip Show of the Last decade
- Inertia Is Much More Persuasive
- Showing Up For Myself
- What Does the Narrator Want
- What Is Our Responsibility to the Process of Growth?
- My Therapist is Leaving
- The Story of a Very Good Dog
- Endings
- Beginnings
- Out With Resolutions – In With 101 Things
- I See Myself Digging This Hole I’m Standing In
- Want Me To Write a Book? I Need Your Help!
Mental Health
- Fallout
- “Hey doc, how’s about a refill”
- Not Ready
- “Farewell to the old me”
- Year’s end
- Solstice
- It’s Not All Hand Washing and Light Switches
- Hell’s Jenga
- Into the scary woods
- The Wall
- Today
- Huffpost and Lies from the 30 minute kitchen – Suck it, Rachael Ray
- Loving and Fearing Success
- April Comes She Will
- It’s (sort of) my party and I’ll cry if I want to
- “And the daylight and the wealth of time”
- The Importance of Self Preservation
- Hotel, Star Trek, Puke — Oh My
- Minefields of Nostalgia
- Broken Strings
- How Mama Gets Her Groove Back
- Self Care in the Age of Doing it All
- Anxiety – An Invasive Species
- Welcome to the Winter of My Discontent
- When Self-Care is a “Relaxing” Bath Next to a Bowl Full of Pee
- When You Don’t Trust Birth and Your Therapist Gets Pregnant
- You Get Therapy, You Get Therapy, Everyone Gets Therapy!
- Greetings From the Suburbs of Sanity
- Wearing Flip Flops in the Cold: Meeting Jenny Lawson
- When Tired is a State of Being #funnynotfunny
- Sometimes You Just Have to Do The Thing: Like Throwing a Party Despite the Anxiety
- Teachers: I Appreciate You, I Just Really Suck at Being Told What to Do
- Survival Mode at the Crossroads of Anxiety and Depression
- Permission
- She Has Trouble Acting Normal When She’s Nervous
- “Somewhere on the Other Side the Sun is Shining”
- My Fearful Symmetry
- The “What if” Light Bulb
- Living Life in the In Between
- “October Gardens Rusty, Ragged, Overgrown”
- Thoughts on Skinny Dipping, Identity, and Taking My Kid to a Rock Show
- Who, Exactly, is Steering This Ship?
- Anxiety Pancakes
- Electrified High-Speed Pudding
- If You’re Happy and You Know it, Wonder Why
- Reviewing Janelle Hanchett’s “I’m Just Happy to be Here” and Why I’m Just Happy I’m Not Sh!tting in a Paper Bag
- Asking for Help and Installing Emotional Support Beams
- DBT and the Teeny Tiny Version of Me
- Testing the Limits of Authenticity
- Distress Tolerance in a Box — Homework I Can Handle
- Leap and the Net Will Appear, or Maybe it Won’t
- The Chromatically Challenged Lines of Definitely Maybe
- The Uninvited Lesson of Preeclampsia
- Bricks are Falling: The Uncomfortable Reality of Depression
- The Psychological Chicken and the Physiological Egg
- Neutral looking down? Or Neutral looking up?
- Look for the Helper Fairies
- The Flu, Values, and the Belated Utilization of Therapy
- A Door Once Opened
- The Future Is Not Now and Maybe I’m Ok With That
- Hey there! *Head Tilt* How are you?
- Happy OCD Week, I Guess?
- What Is Our Responsibility to the Process of Growth?
- What I Think the Therapeutic Relationship is Trying to Tell Me
- My Own Worst Enemy
- My Therapist is Leaving
- Binders Full of Grief
- Endings
- Beginnings
- I See Myself Digging This Hole I’m Standing In
Parenting
- Letter to my daughter – Amendment One
- Carpe diem – sort of.
- Outside the lines
- Why?
- Help! I need somebody!
- I believe I can fly. Unless it is proven otherwise.
- All that glitters
- Loose Parts
- In the in between
- Mini me
- Reflux redux
- Lactation Donation
- Sick days
- Lorelei – words of wisdom
- Participation points
- Semi-lucid thoughts of a sleep deprived mother.
- Merry Christmas from the family
- so you should go read them
- Nights are long
- Sick baby
- Hemp Milk and Ovaltine
- Keeping it real
- It’s not the cold, it’s the kidmidity
- Hell’s Jenga
- Couldn’t we have at least named the sport something original?
- The dishes can wait and other lies
- Petri dish of viral hell.
- Camps – Tales From a WOHM
- Dear mom who is totally screwing up
- In defense of the mom group
- I love sleep. Why don’t my children?
- St. Seuss
- To that mom
- Double Double Toil and Trouble
- Dear Yai Yai — And Then You Were Six
- The Beauty of Sleep
- Say what?
- The Last Mermaid of the Sea
- Tales of a First Grade Basket Case – Me, Not Her
- How to Take Your Kids Camping Without Losing Your Damn Mind
- “Essentials” For Camping With Kids
- Hurricane Prep For and With Kids
- Life on the Bright Side: It’s Not ALL Bad News
- And This is Why I Need Therapy: A Horror Story
- “All the Things You Treasure Most Will Be the Hardest Won”
- Rowan’s 18 Month Appointment
- Thanksgiving Vomit and a Last-Minute Gift Idea
- My Family Refuses to Let Me Put a Weeping Angel on Top of Our Tree
- ENT Appointment – Tubes Coming Soon
- Ear Tubes Placed – 5 AM is Not an Acceptable Time to be Awake
- Sometimes Less is Less and Sometimes That’s OK
- Open Letter to the Lazy Mother in the Grocery Store
- The Winter When I Didn’t Completely Lose My Shit
- 5 Whiny Reasons I Hate Valentine’s Day as a Mom
- Just Get the Kids to Help and Other Misguided Parenting Advice
- Hike-in Camping With Kids – Stupidity at its Finest
- I’m the Mother of a Seven Year Old! So how About a JarJackets Giveaway
- Teachers: I Appreciate You, I Just Really Suck at Being Told What to Do
- “Somewhere on the Other Side the Sun is Shining”
- Can You Call it a Vacation, Really?
- Where is My Mother of the Year Award?
- Living Life in the In Between
- Rowan Update
- Rowan is Two and a Half – And He Has Things to Say
- This is Halloween, This is Halloween
- Don’t Cry Over Weaned Milk
- Videos: Respiratory Distress & Retractions – Infant/Toddler/Child
- I’m Snow Done
- Girl Scouts, Guns, and Haircuts
- 10 Simple Steps for Adjusting to Daylight Saving Time
- Allergy Testing, Renegade Mothering, and a Confession
- “The Feeling that it’s all a lot of Oysters, but no Pearls”
- The Flu, Values, and the Belated Utilization of Therapy
- Where is the “Safe” in “Safely Reopening Schools”
- What Does the Narrator Want
- Prematurity
- Call the midwife
- Transport to Duke
- Breaking free
- Back to Duke
- Scales tipped
- Birth!
- The next 24 hours
- The next week
- Duke Regional!
- Under pressure
- Settling in
- Ankles!
- It’s getting hot in here, so put on all your clothes
- All bottled up
- Video of Rowan
- One month
- Nursing!
- Open air!
- Rainbow elf
- Rowan and growin’
- Life in the SCN
- Getting bigger and closer to home
- Lorelei sings to Rowan – Video
- Eyes and ears
- Big sister
- Milk monster
- Big steps forwards, small steps back
- 30 for 30
- tube-be-gone
- Random blabbering
- Right direction
- You can never go home again, but you can go home the first time
- Rowan towards home
- 37 weeks
- Music
- Nurses
- Home!
- First days
- Seven weeks old!
- How many days?
- Lactation leads to multiplication
- 2 months!
- Longest newborn stage ever
- Fallout
- Tongue tied
- I see a corner, I want to turn
- Picture post
- Cheese!
- “Hey doc, how’s about a refill”
- Tripled!
- Not Ready
- “Farewell to the old me”
- after the birth
- Leap and the net will appear
- It’s (sort of) my party and I’ll cry if I want to
- Inconsolable irony of Breathing
- Minefields of Nostalgia
- When Streams are Ripe and Swelled with Rain
- Measure of Success: Was Anyone Hospitalized?
- Happy Birthday Rowan!
- Broken Strings
- #TBT – Nursing Rowan
- An Adjusted Year of Adjustment
- Catching Up
- My 31 Week C-Section — Prematurity Awareness Month
- When You Don’t Trust Birth and Your Therapist Gets Pregnant
- The Reverberations of April: Pregnancy, Fear, and Birthdays
- Sometimes You Just Have to Do The Thing: Like Throwing a Party Despite the Anxiety
- Rowan Small and Mighty Turns Two: Contents May Include Both Sound and Fury
- Special Infant Care Graduation — Way to Grow, Ro!
- Rowan is Two and a Half – And He Has Things to Say
- The Roller Coaster of Awareness
- The Uninvited Lesson of Preeclampsia
- The Future Is Not Now and Maybe I’m Ok With That
Political
- Election 2012
- Are you feeling lucky?
- #TBT – Election 2012
- Beware the Ides of Trump
- Insurance Companies – Let’s Close the Lactation Loopholes
- Watching Hillary’s DNC Speech With My Six Year Old
- Yer a Wizard, Hillary
- 11 Ways This Election Season is Like a Landfalling Hurricane
- 5 Ideas for Engaging Activities for Your Kids on Election Day
- Oh America, What Have You Done?
- Through This Grief We Can Be Stronger Together
- At Least There Are No Rabid Donkeys Eating My Toes?
- Growth vs Proficiency: An Open Illustrated Letter to Ms. DeVos
- My First Guest Post: A First-Hand Account of the Women’s March on Washington
- How Durham Public Schools Saved Valentine’s Day
- Shut Up and Take My iPhone. Oh, and Also? Go to Hell.
- Where is My Mother of the Year Award?
- Totalifail – The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Naive College Students
- Girl Scouts, Guns, and Haircuts
Randomness
- Five minutes
- Lactation creation
- Lactation Graduation
- Another day, Another blog
- Who wore it best?
- Some spammers are genuinely nice.
- Lorelei – Words of Wisdom
- Happy birthday, Nora!
- Dog is love
- Teeth
- Lorelei’s words of wisdom – resolutions
- That’s not lemonade
- “I’m the music and the feeling and the reeling in your head”
- Why snow serious?
- This moment
- Mom Bingo!
- cut once, measure not at all
- Why did I get in a wet paper bag in the first place?
- Lies from the 30 minute kitchen – Polenta chicken slop
- House Divided
- Mutter-Gruppen sind besser als ihr Ruf
- Weird but True – Also, Weather!
- Baby-proofing the Bunk Beds
- Special Infant Care Graduation — Way to Grow, Ro!
- The Stories on Water
- A (Lightly Edited) Email to My Therapist
Satire
- Overwhelmed Mother Preps Lunches the Night Before – Is Late For Work Anyhow
- Saturday Satire: Mother Actually Given Those Three Extra Hours in a Day – Watches Gilmore Girls
- Careless Mother Subject of Internet Lynch Mob
- Saturday Satire: Local Mother Breastfeeds in Public — Nobody Notices
- Local Woman Escorted Off Premises After Gun Was Revealed to be Yoga Mat
- Yer a Wizard, Hillary
- Negligent Mother Implicated in Wolf Habitat Incident
- Excuse Me While I Go Stare at the Eclipse so I Don’t Have to Look at This Fucking Mess Anymore
- Local Family Searches “Literally Everywhere” for Missing Mother
- Happy F*cking Holidays From the McSmiths
- 10 Simple Steps for Adjusting to Daylight Saving Time
- Businessman Succumbs to Power of Eno Festival, or Heat Stroke
