Archive For August, 2011
0 Good Job!: Ashburn Patch Article
A mother enjoys random praise from an unlikely source.
I was at Wegman’s putting my groceries onto the conveyor belt in the check-out line the other day. My belly was ridiculously huge and it took me a while to maneuver myself around the cart to get everything where it belonged. Meanwhile, my 2-year-old son was picking up the credit card machine pen and starting to hit buttons. The check-out woman smiled sympathetically as I pushed the cart and my son a little further from temptation.
Then, he said it. Continued on Patch…
0 Stability Helps with Moving Woes: Ashburn Patch Article
Ashburn offers several great options to help overcome children’s stress after a move.
I’ve read that one of the reasons 2-year-olds are so ornery is that they are trying to understand how the world works. They insist on having the same plate everyday because it brings a sense of balance into their developing worlds. (And, we all love balance, right?)
So, I shouldn’t be surprised that moving a 2-and-a-half-year-old boy into a new home hasn’t gone over so well. Continued on Patch…
0 Just Keep Swimming, Swimming, Swimming: Ashburn Patch Article
A mother comes up with ways to cope when life’s joys spit on her all at once.
I think the universe has piled just a little too much crap on top of me, and I came close to snapping today. I dislike woe-is-me, I’m-so-busy tales, but here’s mine as an explanation.
This morning I woke up and knew that I was hugely pregnant, running a growing business, moving in two days, probably reporting for jury duty in one week, finishing up an entry for a writing contest and still nursing a six-week-old cold. By mid-day it got worse:
Continued on Patch…
