I have a love/hate relationship with New Year’s Eve, and it seems like each year, I am more and more conflicted on how to spend it. It’s my birthday, which is part of the reason I hate/love it. New Year’s Eve sucks as a birthday because it means double the build-up, equaling to double the let-down should the day play out in any kind of mundane way. I am not immune to the birthday blues . . . those pangs of disappointment when THE BIG DAY is less than stellar. When you add New . . .
The stages of acceptance for men who watch The Bachelor
Stage 1: Outrage REALLY HONEY?!? You're watching that right now? Stage 2: Righteous Indignation I am going in another room. This is @#&! Stage 3: Curiosity But wait. Why is that girl in a wedding dress? Stage 4: Mocking These people are so dumb! I'm only watching them to make fun of them. Stage 5: Acceptance (Sits down with bowl of ice cream) Stage 6: Emotional Investment HE NEEDS TO GIVE SARAH THAT ROSE RIGHT NOW. . . .
holiday road trip, part 1: destination Daytona Beach
We are finally settling in after our trip to Florida. We came home to our new house that we’d moved into shortly before the trip, which was a surreal experience. It’s the first time I’ve ever come home from a long trip and not felt like I was “home”. We’ve still got a long ways to go in terms of packing and making it feel homey. We left for Florida on Christmas night, in short because it was the only affordable fare that week. Not many people are keen to take a red-eye . . .
we need to talk about the downton abbey season 3 premiere!
Alright, folks. As I’ve admitted before, I’m a bit of a Downton Abbey dork. Luckily, I have other people in my life who share my passion. My friend Sarah and I decided we needed to make a video after each episode to process our Big Feelings about this show. So, without further adieu, I present: Look how serious we are!! I was cracking up trying to get a screenshot of us looking “normal” during this video. One of us is cringing or emoting during the entire video. Here’s our reaction to the first . . .
that’s what SHE said: all about race (and the unsettling Django moment)
What White People Can Do About Racism | Red Letter Christians As good as it may be that folks are noticing the orphans and widows, we are also told to keep ourselves from being polluted by the world. I once had a shirt with a quote by Dom Helder Camara, “When I feed the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.” It seems to be getting easier to find ways to talk about and to serve the poor and yet we ignore (or are ignorant to) the many . . .
mama said: what are the parenting items you can’t live without?
In this week's Mama Said, Sarah and I are sharing the things we can't live without . . . our "must have" parenting products. Click here to watch the episode on Babble! . . .
what i want you to know: foster parenting is hard
What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest posts is by anonymous reader. Wait, you already knew that. You are probably one of the people who has said to me, "I've always wanted to be a foster parent, but it would be so hard to get attached and then . . .
what i want you to know about being on food stamps
What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest posts is by Abby. What I want you to know is I never dreamed that my family would ever be on food stamps. What I want you to know is how much it hurts the looks that I get from others when I am at the store . . .
What I want you to know about being a foster mom
What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest posts is by Addison Cooper. I've been a social worker in foster care and adoption for the last several years. A joyous part of my journey has been helping kids finalize their adoptions out of foster care. . . .
top ten posts of 2012
For the year’s end, I decided to peek at my stats to figure out the most popular posts (based on pageviews) of 2012. Here are the top ten. 1. where is the mommy-war for the motherless child? This is a post I wrote in reaction to the brouhaha over the attachment parenting/breastfeeding story in Time magazine. I was so sick of watching mothers fight over parenting issues of privilege, while ignoring the kids who have no parents at all. I love that this one was so widely shared since it’s . . .
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