Please help. Every single day I tell my kids "no growing" but they won't listen and I am at my wits end. Alli's birthday party is tomorrow and she's going to get chocolate cake and then I'm just done for. Please make it stop. If I don't close my eyes, tomorrow will never come, right? Yes? I can has baby forever ( Read more... )

Ugggh! Ben is actually asleep right now. You'd think that would make my day, right? We are babysitting for my friend Kelly's three kids tonight and he was way cranky this afternoon, so I told him that if he napped he could stay up with them and play instead of having to go to bed 45 minutes after they got here. He agreed (and was really tired) and ( Read more... )

Just this morning, a friend of mine posted about going to an OA meeting, and how she used to try and hide her disorder from her family. I had no idea that this was something she was dealing with, and was so happy to hear that she is in recovery. Drug and alcohol addictions receive a lot of press, but eating disorders can also be deadly, and also be ( Read more... )

I have come down to the wire on my Mama Talk deadline. I have to write it today, and its about our visit with my great-grandmother for her 100th birthday. Our five-generation photo will accompany the column. And I lack focus. Of course it would be easy to write a narrative, describing our visit with her in chronological order. But that's not really ( Read more... )