Christmas night, after I spent an entire day indulging myself and my daughter, as I drove home from my parents’ this thought crossed my mind, “I’ve lived a life of uninhibited indulgence.” I’m not saying that I have lived a life filled with debauchery and excess. I haven’t. Not in the context of American life, [...]
Categories: Life, Motherhood, Uncategorized
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Tags: Holidays
It’s time for my yearly bitch about how I can’t find black/biracial/dark-skinned-in-general dolls in general stores. My biggest complaint is with stores like HEB, Walgreens, CVS, (Wal-mart if I shopped there often enough) and Target. I”m mainly focusing on these stores because I hate to shop, I don’t go to malls, and I’m not going [...]
Categories: Bi-racial, Biracial, Motherhood, Racial Identity, Racism, Uncategorized
| Tags: Annika, Bi-racial, Biracial, Multi-racial, Racial Identity, Racism
One night not too long ago, Annika and I were lying in bed. I was waiting for her to drift off when I noticed that the metal chain on the ceiling fan was catching a tiny bit of light from the outside every few seconds as it twirled. I immediately had a GREAT idea. (You [...]
Categories: Failure, Motherhood, Uncategorized
| Tags: Annika, Motherhood, Random crap
To my surprise, Annika popped the big question to me the other day. “Mommy, is Santa Claus real?” I stammered for moment, wondering what to say. It had never occurred to me that she would ask at such a young age. I guess my critical nature is rubbing off on her. Let me just say, [...]
Categories: Motherhood, Parenting, Uncategorized
| Tags: Annika, Holidays, Motherhood
I’ve recently discussed being single with a couple of married moms, one thinking about getting divorced, and the other, getting divorced because her husband wants it, but she doesn’t. It got me to thinking about how I looked at things so differently when we were still living with Toyin. And now, being single, there have [...]
Categories: Single motherhood, Uncategorized
| Tags: co-parenting, Single Parenting
I missed writing about my thoughts on food for Halloween and Thanksgiving, but I didn’t want to miss my yearly opportunity to write about food and unfooding this year. In the past three years here’s what I’ve learned about teaching a child to have a healthy relationship with food. I’m probably screwing it up. So [...]
Categories: Food/Unfooding, Uncategorized
| Tags: Annika, Picky Eater
