I’ve been meaning to update y’all on my Happiness Project for a couple of weeks now, but I’ve had so many other awesome things to write about, it kept getting put aside. It’s all good though, because now I can reflect on how I did and hopefully inspire some of you who are doing it, [...]
Categories: Books, Happiness Project
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As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, Annika has started pre-school. We got together with a group of friends and put together a Montessori-style learning co-op. We’ll be meeting in our friend’s home twice a week with some other AP kids and mamas. I’m pretty happy and excited about it, especially the Montessori style. Everything I’ve [...]
Categories: Life, Parenting
| Tags: Annika, Parenting, School
Well, it’s done. Annika is a swearer. A curser. An obscenity user. Monday morning, as we were getting ready to leave for our new pre-school, she swore at me. Defiantly. With intent. With, shall, I go so far as to say, with malice. She’s mimicked me plenty of times. She’s even sighed a breathy “damn [...]
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She’s been sleeping with me since birth. I firmly believe that lack of sleep is the truest foe of women during motherhood. Forget about all the arguments. Feminists say that men oppress women. Parenting experts say that perfect motherhood is a societal myth used to control mothers. The media portrays children as evil savages waiting [...]
Categories: Attachment Parenting, Motherhood
| Tags: Annika, Co-sleeping, Motherhood
Poking my lens. Oh no she didn’t. It always baffles me to hear people talk about how they don’t understand where their children picked up certain habits or behaviors, but then they will talk about how children are influenced so easily by television or video games. This week I’ve been talking, a lot, to Annika [...]
Categories: Motherhood, Parenting
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Martin Luther King Jr. With it being Martin Luther King Jr. day I feel compelled to share a brief anecdote from my own life and also some inspirational thoughts. When I was a student at Wayne State University in Detroit, the topic of Civil Rights came up sporadically throughout the year, not just on Martin [...]
Two days before Christmas I came home one afternoon to find a swastika drawn on the small wooden table next to my front door. It had been drawn in yellow chalk, the same chalk I keep in a box on that table for Annika to draw on the concrete with. Completely out of character, I [...]
Categories: Bi-racial, Fear, Motherhood, Parenting, Race, Racial Identity, Racism
| Tags: Annika, Bi-racial, Motherhood, Race, Racism, Stereotypes
I have been scrolling through some of my old posts from when I began blogging oh so long ago, back in 2009, and I thought it would be fun to re-post this one since I think all of three people read it. I had forgotten how unbelievably concerned I was over this, which just goes [...]
Categories: Fear, Motherhood, Parenting
| Tags: Annika, co-parenting, Motherhood, Parenting
Different shades of brown. Annika noticed that her brown markers were two different colors, yet, they were the same. She had picked up two different brown markers, (btw, her favorite colors to color with seem to be brown and black, am I reading too much into that? Probably.) and as she did, she said to [...]
Categories: Bi-racial, Racial Identity, Racism
| Tags: Annika, Bi-racial, Inter-racial, Motherhood, Multi-racial, Racism
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin You may or may not have noticed that in one of my last posts I wrote “I feel such gratitude for The Time of No More Naps.” The reason behind my writing that final sentence is part of a new project that I’m undertaking this year. One of the [...]
Categories: Books, Goals, Intentions, Life, Motherhood
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