In what I personally consider to be a more offensive marketing fail, I received an email newsletter today in which the featured post was “Slutoween 2.0” (there was a 1.0, apparently), which purported to run down the “over-the-top” sexy costumes available for purchase this Halloween.At the end of the blurb, the poster implored, “Let’s see a little bit more […]
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Quotes I live by [#Blogtober14 Day 15]
So I was just kidding about blogging again yesterday. On the plus side, I wrote two more pages of my book! Maybe one day after it’s published some other people’s favorite quotes will come from its pages. In the meantime…back to #Blogtober14! I actually collect quotes, so the only temporary difficulty I had with today’s suggested topic was whittling […]
Uncluttered
Uncluttered by Gwen Smith has been stuck in my head from the day I first listened to it a couple of weeks ago. I searched for her music on Spotify after I signed up for her Girlfriends in God devotional, and this was one of the songs that just called out like she had written […]
Darth Vader’s Guide to Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day is two days away! I’m just a tad excited because this year is my first real Mother’s Day. (No offense, Artie, but it’s more fun to carry you outside of my body.) I’m looking forward to relaxing – sleeping in all by myself (9 am, here we come!), not cooking anything, and hopefully taking full […]
When adults double down on bullying
So I’m sure you’ve all at least heard about the story that’s been developing out of North Carolina: 9-year-old Grayson Bruce was bullied for carrying a My Little Pony backpack. No child asks to be bullied and bullying is NEVER acceptable. I don’t care if that child is wearing all black or pink sparkles. I don’t care […]
Stop the pregnancy whining!
I’m over pregnancy whining on Facebook. Don’t get me wrong – I love keeping track of my friends’ pregnancies over social media. Over the years my friends have dispersed around the country (and the world!) and it’s nice to see the bump pictures and occasional status updates. But we all have one or two of those friends, […]
Healthy starts early.
During my normal end-of-day Facebook roundup last night, I came across an article that further steeled my resolve to make sure Arthur and his future siblings (fingers crossed!) develop a healthy relationship with food. A new study shows, apparently, that children’s tendency to obesity is mostly established by the time they are in kindergarten. Five. Years. […]
Defining normal
I made an interesting observation on Monday while I was feeding Arthur dinner. I try to talk to him during his meal, usually just comments about how good his food is (and it better be, it’s all fresh!), but this time I looked at the words on his sleeper (“King of the Crib” and “Wild […]
Sleep transitioning
Sleep transitioning. I had this grand idea to talk about the gradual process of moving Arthur from his place in our shared bed to his own crib, but after last night those two words just make me want to put my head down on my desk and sob. Sunday night, we went by the usual […]
Living your values
Living your values is sometimes a difficult proposition. Many of us go through years of our lives without ever actually articulating what our values are. We stick to the basics – murder is wrong, you should be nice to people – but further identifying a set of values and then actually living them day in and day out […]