Tag Archives: letting go of perfect
I’ve Been Cursing Like a Sailor
Once you land on the European continent, each and every shrill scream that can be heard from your child’s mouth when she is angry and the “cute” tendency to knock things over and act like a lummox in a china shop will go from dwelling at the level of partially manageable to driving you totally insane. Continue reading
The Ant Parade & Other Reasons I Suck as a Housekeeper
There were ten of them, maybe twenty, walking in a fine delicate line across the counter top as another group of four or five worked mightily on picking apart a flake from a piece of bread in the corner of … Continue reading
Is Being a Good Mom Good Enough?
Every once and a while it happens–you have a moment of absolute clarity that will stick with you for a lifetime, or so you hope anyway because you really do deserve to have your memory serve you well when it comes to a moment of mommy uplift.
I had one of these moments the other day as I was loading my car, in the Target parking lot, full of goodies for my son’s birthday. As I situated the bags of blue-and-yellow construction truck wrapping paper, precurled ribbon to match, and the sunglass-wearing, singing-pig birthday card into the back of my little SUV, I found myself falling into a familiar thought pattern. “How lame I am! Do I have to start every (self-employed) work day late?!” Guilt, disappointment, and feelings of failure bounced around in that crowded head of mine. Continue reading
Permission to Be Human?
Yes, that was me the other day who posted on Facebook that I needed a hug. It’s been a rough go since I got back from Mexico City (which was wonderful by the way and yes you should go) because … Continue reading
The Guilt-Free Mom
Because I awoke this morning feeling a little bit off, kind of down, and slightly disoriented as if I had forgotten something, lost something important, or done something wrong (was it the rain? the fact that it was a Monday morning? or some misalignment of the stars?), I decided today’s blog would be dedicated to clearing any guilt from my subconscious and taking time to appreciate some of the things I have managed to do right in the past few days. Continue reading