After the requisite potty trip and hair doing, I sent Mackenzie upstairs to grab a zippered sweatshirt and a pair of socks. She came down with a pullover sweatshirt and no socks. I put the sweatshirt on her, fixed the damage done to her ponytail in the process, and sent her upstairs for socks. She came down with a pair […]

This is a follow-up to this post where I wrote about the dangers of comparing ourselves to other mothers and feeling “less than” and what I feel I do well as a mother, and this post, where I wrote about the benefits of observing other mothers and the things I hope to improve on. As I mentioned, you cannot possibly […]

This is a follow-up to my last post, where I wrote about the dangers of comparing ourselves to other mothers and feeling “less than”. In that post I shared some things that I do well as a mother. This post is devoted to the things I don’t do well as a mother, but I think are important. I absolutely think […]