Hi, My Name is Michelle, and I'm a Paranoid Mom
My son is a year old. I let him play in the dirt. I let him eat puffs off the floor (my floor at home, not like the floor at the grocery store or some public bathroom--I draw the line there). I let my...
View ArticleConclusion: I'm a sucker
So, dear readers, I know that you know that my firstborn was sick recently. Luckily, we have, as my heavily accented (and, in my opinion, sent directly from Heaven) pediatrician said, "I believe we...
View ArticleBye Bye Mini Mouse
I am not a car person. If you stood me next to a busy intersection and told me that you would pay me $1 to name the make and model of each car that passed by, I probably wouldn't have enough money to...
View ArticleMy Nameberry Obsession
As an English teacher, I love names. I love the sounds of names, I love the meaning behind the names, I love names overall. So when I found out that I was pregnant for the first time, I instantly...
View ArticleBeen There, Done That
Chime in if you feel this way, but in a second pregnancy, all the excitement of having a baby seems to have been birthed out with the firstborn child. Not like I'm not excited about this baby, but...
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Happy (Belated) Birthday to my Baby Boy!
For those of you who know me and my son intimately, his birthday has long passed. However, this blog post is not about him, but about the cute little theme I threw for him. I know that everyone loves...
View Article10 Things to Do to Someone Who is Pregnant
While talking and carousing with a few of my knocked up girlfriends the other day, we started to swap stories of offensive and rude things that people do and say to pregnant women.As my Zooey...
View ArticleHappy Mother's Day
iIn Chinua Achebe's novel, Things Fall Apart, the protagonist's uncle tells the protagonist that "Mother is Supreme". He explains how although in their patriarchal society the father makes the rules,...
View ArticlePublix, You Win. I Surrender.
Every mother in the world I know has talked about it: that damn Publix Mother's Day Commercial. I saw several posts on Facebook about it before I even saw it. Most posts pretty much cursed Publix &...
View ArticleWhat Thom Yorke Did for Me: A Playlist for My Boys
I have always had a deep love for music. And, this is a secret, so don't tell my students...my love for music goes deeper than my love for books. I remember the first time that I truly listened to an...
View ArticleHi, My Name is Michelle, and I'm a Paranoid Mom
My son is a year old. I let him play in the dirt. I let him eat puffs off the floor (my floor at home, not like the floor at the grocery store or some public bathroom--I draw the line there). I let my...
View ArticleConclusion: I'm a sucker
So, dear readers, I know that you know that my firstborn was sick recently. Luckily, we have, as my heavily accented (and, in my opinion, sent directly from Heaven) pediatrician said, "I believe we...
View ArticleBye Bye Mini Mouse
I am not a car person. If you stood me next to a busy intersection and told me that you would pay me $1 to name the make and model of each car that passed by, I probably wouldn't have enough money to...
View ArticleMy Nameberry Obsession
As an English teacher, I love names. I love the sounds of names, I love the meaning behind the names, I love names overall. So when I found out that I was pregnant for the first time, I instantly...
View ArticleBeen There, Done That
Chime in if you feel this way, but in a second pregnancy, all the excitement of having a baby seems to have been birthed out with the firstborn child. Not like I'm not excited about this baby, but...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Happy (Belated) Birthday to my Baby Boy!
For those of you who know me and my son intimately, his birthday has long passed. However, this blog post is not about him, but about the cute little theme I threw for him. I know that everyone loves...
View Article10 Things to Do to Someone Who is Pregnant
While talking and carousing with a few of my knocked up girlfriends the other day, we started to swap stories of offensive and rude things that people do and say to pregnant women.As my Zooey...
View ArticleHappy Mother's Day
iIn Chinua Achebe's novel, Things Fall Apart, the protagonist's uncle tells the protagonist that "Mother is Supreme". He explains how although in their patriarchal society the father makes the rules,...
View ArticlePublix, You Win. I Surrender.
Every mother in the world I know has talked about it: that damn Publix Mother's Day Commercial. I saw several posts on Facebook about it before I even saw it. Most posts pretty much cursed Publix &...
View ArticleWhat Thom Yorke Did for Me: A Playlist for My Boys
I have always had a deep love for music. And, this is a secret, so don't tell my students...my love for music goes deeper than my love for books. I remember the first time that I truly listened to an...
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