Brown with a white background makes a nice combination Annika has been making note of her brown skin color lately. And today, in our learning co-op, we had our first Black History lesson. We talked about skin color. I gave them a coloring page of a map of Africa, showing them Nigeria on the map, [...]
Categories: Bi-racial, Parenting, Race, Racial Identity
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Tags: Annika, Bi-racial, Books, Inter-racial, Multi-racial, Parenting, Race, School
For February, I’m requesting submissions from mamas on what they do to show their love to their children on a daily basis. So far I’ve received several submissions, and I’m hoping to get more. If you’d like to submit something, please read this post for more detail. My first post actually came in the form [...]
Categories: Happiness Project, Intentions, Life, Motherhood, Parenting
| Tags: Anger, Month of Love, Motherhood, Parenting, Submission of Love
How to pick a good wine eludes me. As many of you know, I enjoy a good alcoholic beverage as much as the next Texan (read, heavy drinker/alcoholic) but how to properly pick out wine eludes me in the same way that I can’t really tell the difference between good and bad poetry. I know [...]
Categories: Alcoholism, Motherhood, Parenting
| Tags: Drunk blogging/Dr-logging
She slept in the Moby wrap a lot as a newborn. People are always talking about “getting babies to sleep,” or, even worse, “making babies sleep.” Or, how did your child “learn” to fall asleep on his/her own? Sleep is a funny thing in the parent world. There are basically two camps in the baby [...]
Categories: Attachment Parenting, Motherhood, Parenting
| Tags: Annika, Attachment Parenting, Breastfeeding, CIO, Co-sleeping, Extended Breastfeeding, Parenting
Me, and the love of my life. Annika’s been sick for a couple of days, and wanted mama by her side at night so at night, I have been lying in bed and thinking, instead of writing. For the month of Februrary in the Happiness Project the topic is “Remember Love.” In the book, Gretchen [...]
Categories: Attachment Parenting, Books, Happiness Project, Intentions, Life, Motherhood, Parenting, Uncategorized, writing
| Tags: Annika, Books, Month of Love, Motherhood, Parenting, Submission of Love
