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  • No Stick Homemade Play Dough in 8 Minutes or Less

    I hate homemade play dough recipes. Either they have ingredients that I don’t have (cream of tartar) or they turn into glue, and usually they do both.             I finally figured out how to make… Continue reading

  • Backstory: I Never Wanted Kids

    I write a lot about parenting, but don’t often write about myself. Nurshable Readers have asked that I share some of my backstory with them. Who am I? Do I really have the patience of a mythical saint? Where did… Continue reading

  • Is “Wait It Out” Really a Method?

    This is a rough draft. I am publishing it as a draft for feedback from the WIO community. Is WIO really a method? Or is it just a term that I have coined to mean literally “wait until the child… Continue reading

  • Tales and Sightings of the Magic Unicorn Baby (Part 1)

    Month 17, Day 12 Dear Diary, Last night was no different than the rest. The darkness that engulfed me and my sensitive tracking equipment was broken only by the familiar screams of the strange yelling beast somewhere in the distance.… Continue reading

  • Seventeen Months, Tear Free Night Weaning

    Dear Daughter, Seventeen months. Teething. Up every 90 minutes like clockwork wanting to nurse. Nose running. Congested. Feverish. Gentle whispers “Yes, babygirl you want to nurse. We’ll nurse for a minute then you can roll over and try to go… Continue reading

  • Harvest Comes Anyway

    Some of you might remember when a tree fell on my garden and killed about 75% of my plants. I wanted to share today’s harvest with you. Sometimes things seem irreparably broken and you want to just walk away. All… Continue reading

  • Seventeen Months, Sucky Sleep and How Progress Looks Like Regression

    Dear Daughter, You’re seventeen months old. Your sleep is craptacular. I do not enjoy the night wakings at the moment. At all. I’m sleepy. I’m cranky. You’re sleepy. You’re cranky. This stage of the sleep journey feels like nothing more… Continue reading

  • In the Real World I’ll Want You to Know I’m Here For You

    Dear Kids, Eventually you’ll be going out in the real world more and more. And you’ll discover that sometimes people are really mean. In theory I should teach you to deal with this now by being really mean to you.… Continue reading

  • Give Yourself the Same Grace You Want to Give Others

    Dear Future Self, You’re really going to be a bitch, aren’t you? I can see it now in how you treat yourself. It’s past noon and you haven’t eaten breakfast let alone lunch. You’re whirling around trying to put away… Continue reading

  • Motherless

    Dear Kids, Since you were born two of my mom-friends have passed away, leaving behind young children. Motherless. Adult friends have grieved the loss of their own mothers. My mother’s mother has passed away.  Your father’s best friend passed suddenly… Continue reading