After the manicured loveliness of Mohonk and the wonderfully spare camping cottage at Hickory Run State Park, I am finding our house so filthy and cluttered I can barely speak. We are buzzing about frantically trying to restore some order.
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Home. Relieved. Sick ( Read more... )

My vision of becoming a parent included lots of thoughtful musings about the parenting process and waxing lyrical about the amazing things our child was doing. The reality is that I'm always scrambling to keep up with cooking, laundry, and sometimes even cleaning the floor when I'm not actually taking care of the baby. Or I'm at work. Or I'm ( Read more... )