While we have not prohibited the television from our daughter, we are fiercely discriminate about what she is allowed to watch and how much/how often. Lately Mirabelle has become a huge fan of some classics from our childhood which we love because, in my opinion, entertainment was just better back then! Her to current favorites [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘life as a parent’
July 9, 2009
Four P’s
I have realized lately I have been particularly impatient and down right disrespectful towards my daughter. Now you might look at that word “disrespect” as spoken by a parent about her child and think I misspoke but stick with me. In order to teach our children to respect their parents as well as others and [...]
July 5, 2009
Too “Wasted” to blog!
Just a week ago I was bragging to friends about how I felt we had finally turned the corner in our two-year struggle to get Mirabelle to sleep as normally as possible. (Obviously as an AP mom I was NOT looking for a “sleep thru the night” infant but by 18 months to two I [...]
June 29, 2009
Birthday 2.0
My baby-girl is a baby no more!! As of 11:06 pm last evening, Mirabelle turned two! Its amazing been such an amazing journey thus far. I had so many wonderful and joyous expectations about motherhood and all have been exceeded!
There have been a ton of hurdles and unexpected challenges, but its fun [...]
June 29, 2009
My Best Birth Celebrity Trailer
From the makers of “The Business of Being Born” comes this next edition! I think this one is going to be good…
Check it out:
June 4, 2009
A week full of firsts!
That’s right, my daughter Mirabelle experienced a handful of firsts last Wednesday and not one of them was fun or exciting! So, here’s how it all went down:
Wednesday around noon, we had just returned from running tons of errands and my baby girl was ready for lunch and requesting mac’n cheese. We walked in the [...]
May 21, 2009
Couch-Commando Parenting
I was totally convicted the other day of the parenting I have succumb to lately. I don’t know if it just crept up on me or came out of left field but I have delightfully coined it “couch-commando parenting”. What does this look like in terms of parenting? Lots of, “Hey Mirabelle, don’t do this! [...]
April 28, 2009
“Keep your Self-Fulfilling Prophesies Away from My Daughter!”
Before the birth of my daughter, my husband and I had one of the thousands of discussions that I’d say all couples have prior to having children (or in those early days of infancy) about how we would parent and live as a family. I wouldn’t go so far as to say we claimed the [...]
March 6, 2009
Night-Weaning (Updated)
Night-Weaning went from going almost too smoothly (which made me suspicious since NOTHING about Mirabelle’s sleep her entire life has been easy), to rough, to non-existent. That’s right, I committed the cardinal sin of CAVING as a result of exhaustion. On Wednesday she woke up multiple times in the bed and would sit up screaming [...]
March 1, 2009
Night-Weaning
I came to a place a few weeks ago where I just couldn’t handle the relentless night-nursing anymore and decided it was time to wean from our night time buffet. If it was once (even the occasional twice) a night I could handle that, but I am often going in 3-5 times a night. Its [...]
