Category: Personal Posts
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5 Things To Do To Regain Your Sanity
Lately I’ve felt really stressed. The new school year started up, over the summer Emma was diagnosed as having a mild learning disability, and life has just been busy all around. When I took a step back I noticed that I stopped doing some things over the summer that had been a part of…
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Head Lice – Every Parent’s Nightmare
Every time I get an email from the school I have to read it right away. I have anxiety about the lovely principal emails, and not for any actual school-related reasons. Whenever an update appears in my inbox I immediately tune out everything around me until I can scan the email for those dreaded words:…
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A Farewell to Our Daycare – Kids Grow So Fast!
As working parents it was very important to us to find a good caregiver for our children. Shortly after Emma was born I started searching for a daycare reasonably close to work and/or home. Imagine my surprise when we discovered a home daycare 2 blocks away from our house! Now, 7 years later, we have…
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My Life Chronicles: Episode 2 – Cause For Concern
When something occurs in my life that I want to remember or document I’m going to post about it. How is that different from what I’ve been doing? Good question. These episodes will be more of a memory journal than an opinion piece. I’m hoping to find something once a month to document and share…
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Mom Anxiety – Grade 3 Means More Work
I don’t remember being anxious before I became a mother. True I never like to make the “Where do you want to eat?” decisions, now or when I was younger, but being responsible for the fruit of my loins is slowly driving me insane. I think they call this Mom Anxiety. Every thought I have,…
