by Stephanie | Oct 19, 2012 | motherhood
This morning I awoke completely disoriented at 5:30 a.m., and realized I had miraculously slept all night long! I couldn’t remember the last time I had slept for more than six hours, or more than four for that matter … perhaps my second trimester of pregnancy? At...
by Stephanie | Oct 16, 2012 | parenting
When my brother and I reached elementary school and beyond, we often behaved poorly at the dinner table. Whining, bickering, complaining- we did it all. “Why can’t mealtime just be pleasant?” our disgruntled mother would lament. Years later, we would...
by Stephanie | Oct 15, 2012 | Uncategorized
**I wrote this post two years ago after the discovery of the body of Jessica Ridgeway, a local 10-year-old girl who was abducted by a teenage neighbor on her way to school and murdered. I am not sharing details of the case—this is simply my reflection of that terrible...
by Stephanie | Oct 9, 2012 | parenting
Tonight I stood in the shower and fought back tears. The reason? A mere thirty seconds after I began unwinding under the hot, soothing spray, the sound of the water being turned on in the bathroom down the hall assaulted my senses. Moments later, my water pressure...
by Stephanie | Oct 9, 2012 | Uncategorized
In the past month or two, we have been attempting to battle our chronic sleep deprivation with some strategies to push our 12 month old’s first nighttime feeding back. It has taken weeks to inch her wake-ups back, due to our desire to keep our techniques as gentle as...
