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Kid’s Meals
We’ve all done it. Well, most of us have. The McDonald’s appeal is for those of us who need a reprieve from life with small children. And I don’t regret a single meal that I bought my kids there, because it bought me some precious sanity when I desperately needed it. That said, I do (…) MORE »
Clutter
I know this: even though the very temporary tidiness of my physical space has cleared up enough mental space for me to write, in spite of the copious noise pollution that defines my life, it’s fleeting. Tomorrow, the reindeer games of my preschooler, the pack-rat penchant of my 11-year-old, the flighty, devil-may-care strewing of all things of my 9-year-old, will all conspire to turn our home into the barely managed chaos that has defined it from the beginning.
Resolute
Heather talks crazy about New Year’s Resolutions
Popularity
I didn’t know that popularity carried such responsibility with it. In the end, I think that’s where I uncover a deep truth: I don’t really want so much responsibility, because it means that the capacity for fucking it up is that much greater. It’s why I sometimes chafe against being an adult. I have noticed that there are many other mothers who don’t seem to mind being needed on such a grand, 24-h0ur-a-day, seven-day-a-week, forever-till-you-die scale.
On Reluctance and Motherhood
I decided to homeschool my three school aged children this year. My youngest is four and, since I’m homeschooling, she goes to pbskids.org school. I opted to homeschool because there weren’t any other viable options available for my seven-year-old, and since I wasn’t about to try to keep one home while running the chaos-that-was-school, they were all chosen for homeschooling.
