A sleeping child is one of the most beautiful sights. The day I’ve been waiting for is here. I think. I mean, with toddlers you never really know for sure how long anything is going to last. The only thing that’s for certain is that they will eventually grow up and you will be able [...]
Categories: Attachment Parenting, Motherhood, Parenting
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Tags: Annika, Attachment Parenting, Co-sleeping
Not just my bed, she’s taken over my gadgets too. Annika has been noticing her “spot” in bed as of late. If I happen to roll over there, or if god forbid, we happen to switch sides and she is lying in “my spot,” she screams, “Mama! That’s MY spot! You can’t lay in my [...]
Categories: Attachment Parenting, Motherhood, Parenting
| Tags: Annika, Attachment Parenting, Co-sleeping
Dancing in her Nigerian dress at 18 months. Even though I’ve been told numerous times that, according to the world, Biracial (mixed with some parts Black) is Black and there’s nothing that will change that, I still wonder. I wonder just how the world will see Annika, and others like her, when she’s an adult [...]
Categories: Bi-racial, Motherhood, Race, Racial Identity, Racism
| Tags: Annika, Bi-racial, Inter-racial, Multi-racial, Race, Racism
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been thinking on and off about taking Annika to see a Santa Claus to get her picture taken. I have my doubts as to whether she will actually sit in the lap of a stranger, but I decided not to take that into account. Either way, I thought [...]
Nursing at 18 months. Her legs are longer now. I’m fucking sick of nursing. There. I said it. I know it’s not very AP of me, but extended breastfeeding is not all roses and daisy chains like I expected it to be. Okay, I didn’t really think that. I didn’t really know what to expect. [...]
Categories: Attachment Parenting, Motherhood, Parenting
| Tags: Annika, Breastfeeding, Motherhood, Parenting
I don’t want her to be on the bottom. I like to think I know what it feels like to be a minority. I don’t. But I have had glimpses. I lived in Okinawa, Japan for three years with my ex-husband, an Air Force man. So I know what it feels like to be the [...]
Categories: Bi-racial, Race, Racial Identity, Racism
| Tags: Annika, Bi-racial, Multi-racial, Race, Racism
Annika explores her world. After two plus years of hanging out in the Attachment Parenting world, I have begun to think that breastfeeding should not be so fiercely held up to the world as a necessity or even as the most important measure one can take with a newborn. My mother was a La Leche [...]
Categories: Attachment Parenting, Attachment Theory, Motherhood, Parenting
| Tags: Annika, Attachment Parenting, Attachment Theory, Motherhood, Parenting
Magical tree lights! Last night we took Annika to the Zilker Tree Lighting (an Austin park) where we ate, watched the lights get turned on and danced to Christmas carols. As we walked back to the car I said to Toyin, “You know, this could very well be one of Annika’s first special memories.” It [...]
I have a question for y’all. Would you, or have you ever re-gifted a used toy to your child for Christmas? I happened to get this adorable little Melissa and Doug dollhouse for free from another mama whose girls had outgrown it. It is in great shape, except that it needs to be painted over [...]
Categories: Motherhood, Parenting, Uncategorized
| Tags: Annika, Holidays, Motherhood, Parenting
