“I am signing off from Facebook for a while, starting this evening, please PM me for my email/cell before 9pm this evening if interested in getting a hold of me. Also, I'm planning to hide and delete all political...
Species: Mama Extroverta.
Age: 30 (but might accidentally say "27" if you ask.)
Status: Rescued from a (semi-) wild twenty-something life in the big city. Currently on exhibit in a quiet neighborhood of a not-so-big city.
For the past couple of years...
Before I had kids, I was cool.
Ha - Made ya look! No, I was never cool. I was a chubby arty geek girl with a flair for the dramatic. I worked very hard for very little money and spent...
A few years ago, I was asked to help run a swim curriculum for the local middle school. One where my own daughter was in eighth grade. A school I was very familiar with, having had my son there...
Tucked in the Old North End of Burlington is an amazing playspace and resource for families and children.
It's actually been there for 25 years and it's called the Family Room. The Family Room is part of the VNA (Visiting Nurses...
Despite the still warm days and brilliant colors, I feel the anxiety of winter stealing my ability to just fall into the graces of this season.
Now, before having kids, I would have been relishing in endless days of mountain...
For a number of years, I parented from a very broken place.
(I never realized the time was going by and that I couldn't get it back.)
I was broken.
Not just kind of broken.
Busted broken.
And yet I was the beacon for...
Sometimes I can't turn it off.
The hum in my head keeps swift tempo with an ever changing list of do's and don'ts, subtly morphing philosophies, absolutes, critical warnings, and mothers who are jealous for the long gaze--the one that...
The First Hour after Birth: A Baby’s 9 Instinctive Stages
So much effort is devoted to preparing for labor and birth throughout pregnancy, but what happens after the baby is born?! One minute, your baby was in your womb, and...
To be honest, you won’t know right away.
When you find your child lying on the ground beside her bike with no obvious injury, you won’t immediately pick her up and run to the hospital.
Instead, you’ll most likely say, “You’re...
Being a parent of a child with ADD/ADHD can feel isolating.
As with any perceived difference, however slight, you feel like the only parent that’s ever faced such difficulty. My daughter is 6 and is amazing. She’s brilliant, creative, funny,...
I went to a physical recently. I haven't seen my primary care doctor, whom I love, since I became pregnant and gave birth to my youngest last November. As I sat in her office I confessed something. "I am TOTALLY...
I’m 33 weeks pregnant and recently was having signs of early labor, after an afternoon being monitored, they determined baby was staying put for awhile but I needed to “take it easy” for the remainder of my pregnancy. I...
I miss the years where my two year old would throw herself on the ground and throw the most epic fits to try to get what she wanted.
I remember being in a grocery store with her screaming at the...
In + Around Vermont
The UVM Men’s Soccer National Championship Matters to Vermont Families
Late into the evening on Monday, December 16, I lay in bed while my three kids were asleep, watching the Men’s National Collegiate Soccer...
