Entries Tagged as 'Parenting'

SKI NANNY

January 30th, 2012 1 Comment

Winter Sports are finally here, but instead of delighting in the new snow-cover, I’m skidding around on the icy territory of teaching my girls to ski.  Not downhill sking, whereby a child gets snapped into a secure pair of metal-edged rockets, rides the Magic Carpet up, and zooms back down.  We’re going cross-country in our [...]

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TONGUE SUSHI

January 18th, 2012 1 Comment

Saturday morning dance party in the yoga studio.  C is doing her wild-child, hair-tossing dance to Lady Gaga, sashaying across the floor to the insistent beat of “Poker Face.”  A is arranging her stuffed animals in a corner, constructing a house for Lambie and Penguin out of yoga blocks.  After a few songs, I slip [...]

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BIG DATE IN BED

October 17th, 2011 2 Comments

Last Sunday the perennial rain increased to the intensity of a monsoon.  We were shacked up at my in-laws’ house on the Maine coast, shrouded in banks of salt fog.  I dressed the girls in their matching blue Kitty raincoats and flowery rubber boots and sent them out into the elements to explore. Three minutes later [...]

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FOOD SERVICES

June 8th, 2011 5 Comments

After my first baby was born, I lay in a milky haze in a dim room with dark crimson sheets.  We nursed and slept, nursed and slept as late summer pulsed with cricket-song, and sunflowers blazed in the garden below the window.  My body, which had previously been decorative, had become functional. I fed the [...]

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The Writing Life in The Baby Cave

March 31st, 2011 No Comments

All of you know that I haven’t exactly taken to the blogosphere like a duck to water.  I don’t have a SmartPhone or do Twitter (yet).  There are over two million Mommy bloggers on the web and some of them are even making a living at it, and a very few of them (ie, Heather Armstrong [...]

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Another Planet

January 21st, 2011 4 Comments

January brings a sweet relief, a welcome return to school, work, and Bunny Noodles– the blessed routines that keep parents sane despite their mind-numbing monotony. I’m back in Vermont after a fleeting visit to the Twenty-Something universe of my younger siblings.  While I love them all dearly, I can’t help dreaming of the day when [...]

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The Season of Unmet Expectations

December 27th, 2010 1 Comment

The pressure starts building in early December. No matter how firm my resolve to keep the holidays low-key, stay relaxed and enjoy the sugar-high, I quickly find myself wound like a top, wishing I could trade all the trappings of Christmas–the tree, the lights, the parties, the cookies–in for a ticket to Barbados. I imagine [...]

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Do Your Snow Dance

December 20th, 2010 No Comments

Is there anything more grim than a bitter cold, brown December with no snow?  Of course there is, and I’m grateful we’re not living in an earthquake zone or tsunami territory or a malaria-infested swamp. But I am hard-pressed to feel enthusiastic about the holidaze in this weather. Most afternoons, the girls refuse to leave [...]

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Go With the Flow

November 17th, 2010 No Comments

Oh yeah, life goes on. C. put a button up her nose and it got stuck. T. had to extract it with tweezers while I was teaching yoga (my favorite red eyebrow tweezers, in fact). A. had a pee accident in her bed yet again, after I’d forgotten to buy a waterproof mattress pad. Ducky [...]

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I Am Three, Hear Me Roar

October 26th, 2010 4 Comments

There are two kinds of mothers.  Those who can calmly craft a homemade Halloween costume, wielding a hot glue gun like a calligraphy pen, and those who settle– whether in shame or resignation– for a store-bought get-up. For weeks, my youngest seemed content to be a Ladybug.  We already had the Ladybug costume that Grannie [...]

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