It’s funny that I really didn’t consider myself a ”true mother” the instant that my first baby was born. I guess what I considered a “true mother” to be was, not just the mother of a child, but a mother who does some of those weird mom things that your own mother did that you swore you’d never do. Like show up to [...]
I’m not really sure how it happens, I just know that it does.
It must take place late at night while everyone is sleeping. I’m not sure if it’s multiplication, cloning, or mitosis, but some how when I wake up in the morning there are twice as many toys in our house as there were when I went to bed! And [...]
I thought that I would spare you my horrible singing voice by writing the lyrics down for you to sing to yourself as you read this wonderfully re-written rendition of the Star Spangled Banner. Please enjoy “Ode to the Bedtime Battle”.
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OOOHHH, say can you see, by the evenings fading light,
what so loudly had wailed was my toddler not sleeping.
Whose small feet [...]