Today was hard. Today I was not a shining example of how to win at motherhood. In fact, if this was a game, I lost miserably. And days like these are happening more often than not now that Joshua has decided he’s not napping anymore. This not napping? It will be the death of whatever…
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Emma, 3 months
Emma is three months old today! She’s a rock-star sleeper most of the time. She’s down for the night between 8:00 and 9:30 and sleeps until about 1:30. Then she’s up every two-ish hours to eat, but since we’re co-sleeping, this is no big deal. She goes back to sleep for a second long stretch…
Week In Review: 4
I’m not quitting this Week In Review thing. I was just kind of out of sorts yesterday, what with sleeping UNTIL TEN O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING. With Emma, but still. Ten. In the morning. With a baby. I mean…okay, I’ll stop talking about it now. But yeah, I was just kind of “meh” all day…
The Picky Eating Plan
Y’all gave me a lot of food for thought (ha!) when I wrote about Joshua’s picky eating. Your comments, phone calls, texts, and tweets were and are so valuable to me. It’s what I love about this community. My community. I have a lot of guilt over all of this that’s actually independent of the…
My child is a picky eater. Or it’s something else entirely.
A year ago, I wrote about Joshua’s picky eating habits. I’m (un)happy to report that in a year and then some, nothing has changed. Mealtimes in Casa de NSJM are kind of…well…I hate them. At Joshua’s three-year check-up in April, the doctor asked us about his diet. I mentioned that he doesn’t eat a variety…