One of the most important relationships a family can cultivate is with their babysitter. Leaving your precious children in the care of another is an anxiety-invoking prospect. You want to make sure that the person you charge them with will maintain consistency with your parenting style and the children’s environment, particularly if they are coming [...]
This post was inspired by our friend Stephanie when she commented on an earlier Heart to Heart post asking what the pros and cons were of having 3 children and what my experience has been with “Middle Child Syndrome”.
Like many young women, I imagined my future brood long before I knew anything at all about real motherhood. [...]
Well She’s Here! You may have seen Love Bird featured in Wondrous Wednesday #89, or you may have seen me tweeting from the waiting room…
Starting from the moment I learned my DD was being moved during a possible version procedure (turning of a breech baby) into the O.R. for a C-section, I am learning what [...]
Now that my three girls have all flown the nest and Bunny just gave birth to her own little bundle, I think quite often about their growing up days. Time has a way of passing by so quickly and the best laid plans fall by the wayside. We also get caught up in the throes [...]
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Searching for some fun baby shower ideas? Just had to report in about BGT’s baby shower…Boo Bear (who is BGT’s aunt) and her wonderful chef of a BF threw the greatest baby shower ever (IMHO). It was a Jack N Jill shower so the men were included and it made for all the more fun. 42 [...]
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This year, Grandparents Day will be celebrated for the 3oth time on September 13. The role of grandparent has always been integral to the family in American culture, but it is a role that has consistently been “morphing” in response to changes in lifestyle, economics and evolving subcultures. Here’s a brief blurb on the Day’s [...]
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As I approach being a first-time grandmom, I’ve been thinking a lot about how to give advice without meddling and how to be fun but supportive of “the rules.” My hope is to be fair, wise AND relevant. Naturally, my mind returns to my own Mamie and the 45 years that I was lucky enough [...]
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I was hopping around on some of my favorite blogs and found that Parentsconnect.com is playing a fun game where readers submit 5 of their own “Mom-finitions.” As parents, we all know how easy it becomes to invent new words and that we have a tendency to come up with our own funny sayings, original [...]
It didn’t occur to me that I would have to pick a new name for myself, but one of the first questions everyone asks me when they learn of my impending granddaughter’s birth is “Do you know what you want to be called?”
My first reaction is to let her name me. Shouldn’t that be one [...]
Like a lot of people “our age,” Hubby says he doesn’t like the idea of “ruining” the surprise by finding out the gender of the child before birth. Hearing those words “It’s a….. It’s a…..” he says, is the fun part of waiting to find out. With our girls, we always wanted to [...]
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