Normally I’m good at this. I am good at finding the energy to do all this Mommy-stuff. But, over the past couple of days, I have been overwhelmed by an all consuming exhaustion. My entire body feels as heavy as my eyelids. My movements are slow. My head is foggy. I feel as though I…
Parenting
Postponing Is Not Advancing
The average age of women giving birth in Canada has been trending upwards for several years. Now a clinic in Toronto is freezing the eggs of healthy women who want to delay pregnancy. What effect are these older parents having on their children and society? Thus asked CBC Radio’s The Current Wednesday morning. I managed…
Thankfully Waiting
I should have known. Airports are rarely neutral territory. They are wrought with the extremities of emotion: from kissing a loved one goodbye to the eager anticipation of new adventures to the feeling of coming home again to joyful opened-armed welcomes. Hidden in the nooks and crannies of airports is magic and stories stuck in the telling….
This Sucks
This is the worst night ever. My baby is crying. He is clean. He is fed. He is safe. But he is still screaming. The hardest part of both parenthood and motherhood (don’t know the difference? There is one, believe me) is this sleep thing. Not sleeping starts during pregnancy. It is laughable how much…
Something for Sunday: Made for Glory
*Like other semi-regular weekly posts, I am going to try to write a faith-related post on Sundays. I recognize and understand that not everyone who might read this has the same faith beliefs that I do. Please read, if you want, because this is part of who I am, part of the mother that I…
Mommy and Daddy’s Great Sleep Debate
So, Cameron moved to his crib last Monday night. Kinda. I guess I should start at the beginning, because honesty? This one simple change of beds wasn’t so simple. When Cameron came home from the hospital, he spent all of his nights in the cradle that I spent my first nights in. We have a…
The Swaddle Saga
A while ago (June 22nd to be exact), I put Cameron in his bed, and he was fast asleep. Normally he gets restless in his bed until I swaddle him and then he’s out. I had been considering de-swaddling for a while, but I just didn’t know how to go about it. So, when I…
It was bound to happen
I’ve mentioned this before, but Cameron loves to stand. In fact, we can hold this three month old little boy’s hands and he will (slowly) walk a few steps. There are lots of times when he simply isn’t happy unless he is on his feet. On Saturday afternoon, the Hubs was hanging out with Cameron,…
