Laura Roald
Laura is a contributing writer for BurlingtonVT Moms Blog. A good Canadian girl, she moved to Vermont with her family in 2013, and spends her days chasing two irrepressible little girls around the Green Mountains. She has spent most of her life making and teaching live theatre. Follow her on Twitter @redsmirk
Never Would I Ever
I will never do that when I have kids.
It’s a popular cliché, the idea that in the rosy pre-child-invasion phase of life we make...
Not Losing Myself In Motherhood
Before I had kids, I was cool.
Ha - Made ya look! No, I was never cool. I was a chubby arty geek girl with...
Choose Your Own Adventure: Parenting Edition
Parenting is a series of choices.
Your basic job as the person raising this child is to make the initial decisions that will chart the...
Introvert Mama Begs To Be Alone
I don’t want to talk to my children.
Being around them is exhausting me. I am not talking about the old school exhaustion when babies...
Life with Resting Grumpy Mom Face
Grumpy: surly or ill-tempered; discontentedly or sullenly irritable; grouchy.
"grumpy." Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House, Inc. 15 Oct. 2015. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/grumpy>.
I am not a grumpy mom.
I...
13 Reasons My Little Girls Were Crying This Week
I hate crying.
I mean, personally. If you need to sob it out, please go ahead, I will get you a tissue and offer an...
TV I’ll Watch in Front of my Kids
It's time for me to come clean about screen time.
Not for my kids. They are beautiful weirdos who hate movies and prefer painting to...
I Like the Quiet.
My youngest child went to kindergarten.
The only creatures in my house, aside from some unnamed and unwelcome fruit flies, are me and my cat,...
Let’s Toast the Real New Year!
Happy New Year, Everyone!
(insert silver paper noisemaker being blown in your face.)
No, I don’t need to check my calendar. This is the authentic New...
Writing Letters To Camp Is My Personal Hell.
It’s not that I don’t love my eldest daughter.
It’s not that I don’t want to support her burgeoning independence in every way possible. It’s...
Look Ma, No Hands! De Quervain’s Tenosynovitis and the New Mom
When I was a new mom, the thing I wanted more than anything else was a working set of opposable thumbs. I wanted to...
Childhood Freedoms are a Game of Risk
I was five years old when I came home to an empty house.
My family lived across the street from my elementary school, and as...
Local Liquids: Tretap Taste Test
{Disclaimer:: We partnered together with Tretap to bring you this sponsored post. Although we received compensation for this post, the opinions and thoughts expressed...
Best Friend Heartbreak
Upstairs tonight, I have two broken-hearted little girls tossing and turning in their beds. They are each missing an important piece of girlhood: a...