I'm a mother of three, five and under. I'm a wife to a perpetual student. (Seriously, just graduate already - I mean, "I support you, honey.") I'm a child to the only Father who can claim to be Perfect, and I study under Him daily in hopes of learning from the Best.
I believe in breastfeeding, natural childbirthing, cloth-diapering, co-sleeping, baby-wearing, and attachment parenting.
Compared to the bottle-feeding, Pampers-wearing, crib-sleeping, day-caring world around me, I thought maybe that qualified me as a Natural Mommy.
Well hello there! My name is Beth and I’ve been c diff free for… Weeks now. (I’m bad with remembering details, such as the passage of time.) I faithfully took my $133 (after insurance) liquid antibiotic that was supposed to taste like cherries. (Ha!). I could have gotten the pill form but that would have [...]
Filed under: The Mommy, The News on February 1st, 2012 | 8 Comments »
Spring is baby season for me. Or, at least, it has been. Every other year since 2005*, I’ve had a spring baby. 2005, 2007, 2009… And here I sit in 2011 with an empty womb. Granted, it’s been a trying year. I spent three months separated from my husband, taking care of my mom. Then [...]
Filed under: The Mommy on April 4th, 2011 | 15 Comments »
Sometimes it seems I only post the bad parts of my day. The melodramaticness of this morning passed rather quickly after I posted about it. We went inside. Benjamin put his hangers in his shirts and then whined about going outside, which I told him was out of the question. I put all of 30 [...]
Filed under: Motherhood, The Mommy on March 19th, 2011 | No Comments »
Like when I tell my 5yo to look at the overcast covering of clouds and she says, “I do not see any clouds.” I give up. When my 3yo says he’d rather sit on the living room floor staring at the wall than put hangers in shirts so he can come join us outside. I [...]
Filed under: Motherhood, The Mommy on March 18th, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I have disappeared. I told them to pick up the train tracks and then slipped into the back bedroom and shut the door. I’m all for open floor plans, but sometimes I just need a hiding place. When I’m the only adult around, my brain refuses to stop. My ears are unable to stop listening. [...]
Filed under: The Mommy, Uncategorized on March 10th, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Sometimes my kids do things that just make me want to cry. This afternoon, for example, Benjamin (who is almost four) threw my kitchen timer on the floor. I didn’t see the first throw; I figured someone had simply dropped something. I was curious when I heard the second throw. I came in just in [...]
Filed under: Motherhood, The Benjamin, The Mommy on March 7th, 2011 | 1 Comment »
For the 17th consecutive week, I forgot to have Josh take the garbage out on garbage day. So when I saw the truck rumble up to our neighbor’s driveway, I grabbed my coat and rushed out. But, rewind, this was a weird morning where Josh was actually here when the children awoke. (Since he didn’t [...]
Filed under: The Mommy, The Ramblings on March 4th, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Well, the craziness of the past two weeks is over. Perhaps I should start blogging again? Honestly, Between Valentine’s day and this past Sunday, the kids saw Josh that first Monday, the following Friday, Sunday morning for church, Wednesday, Friday again, and then Saturday night for a birthday party. He was trying to get a [...]
Filed under: The Mommy, The News, The Ramblings on March 1st, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Benjamin misplaced his green goblin toy last night. So naturally, today has been an onslaught of “where is the green gobawin? When will we find the green gobawin?” I finally told him not to ask that anymore. I hadn’t even drawn my next breath when he asked it again. So into timeout he went. When [...]
Filed under: The Children, The Mommy on November 30th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
We went to the mall yesterday to combine a $15/50 coupon with a jean sale at Old Navy. After piling all the kids into the car, then out of the car and into the stroller, then through the mall doors that weren’t really created to accommodate double jogging strollers, I found that I hadn’t read the fine [...]
Filed under: The Funnies, The Mommy, The Ramblings on August 6th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
