I’m thankful that she has legs. So, last week was Thanksgiving and I kept sitting down, trying to write some sort of post that reflected the holiday season, giving thanks, and still remain in keeping with my personality. I (obviously) couldn’t do it. Then I got all wrapped up in the cooking, since my mother, [...]
Categories: Parenting
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Tags: Annika, Holidays, Motherhood, Parenting
Mini-me. I never learned how to play cards until I was an adult, well, except Go Fish and UNO. But real cards, like Gin Rummy, Spades, Solitaire, Blackjack, Poker, and one of my favorites, the lesser-known, Polish Poker, are one of the areas of my life where I learned a lot. Earlier in the week [...]
Categories: Motherhood, Parenting
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Annika, my African accessory. Last week the whole attachment parenting community was up in arms over an essay written by feminist Erica Jong. I was annoyed by the article, but not because of her accusations against attachment parenting. She’s right, in a sense. The trendy attachment parenting pedigree would be a prison if you’re a [...]
Categories: Attachment Parenting, Attachment Theory, Motherhood, Parenting, Racism
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They even have curly hair! Apparently, Big Lots stocks the most variety for baby dolls with different shades of brown skin. I’ve mentioned on my blog before my annoyance with all the big stores, HEB, Target, and Walmart, for not stocking baby dolls with skin shades other than White. I found one of Annika’s first [...]
Categories: Bi-racial, Motherhood, Parenting, Race, Racial Identity, Racism
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How I used to celebrate my birthday. Yesterday was my 39th birthday and all throughout the day I pondered all of the deep and profound thoughts I’d share with you on this milestone birthday. I planned to spend a couple of hours massaging all of my deep thoughts after I put Annika to bed and [...]
Categories: Life, Motherhood, Parenting
For those of you following my series on attachment theory I need to apologize. I left you hanging on the last bit of the chapter on maternal violence. Things got a little hectic and I dropped the ball. But here we go again. The final part of chapter five, on maternal violence in the book, [...]
Categories: Attachment Parenting, Attachment Theory, Books, Parenting
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Cowgirl Uniqua Last year Halloween was not that exciting for Annika. She didn’t seem to understand the correlation between running to each house and the collection of MORE candy. This year was not much different. We gathered at a friend’s house for a pre-trick-or-treating potluck. When it was time to go out to get the [...]
Categories: Attachment Parenting, Parenting
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