You Sure Waited a Long Time to Get Started by Melissa Swedoski
June 18th, 2013
It's a tricky business, this later motherhood life. On the one hand, you feel so supremely blessed to have this child(ren) who you can love, hug, snuggle, cuddle, nourish, teach, inspire, support and laugh with, when you perhaps thought you never would. But then there's the trick of time. You feel ...
Finding a Pwesent for Dada by Melissa Swedoski
June 11th, 2013
If you go trolling around the Internet - you know, for fun in your spare time - you'll find a lot of information on being a mom. Meaning, more information than you ever wanted to know on more topics than you ever thought possible. Turns out, the same can almost ...
Marriage Moments with a Cougar and Her Cubs by Melissa Swedoski
May 14th, 2013
My second official Mother's Day came and went, and I learned some valuable lessons. First, I learned my husband has awesome graphic design skills, as he created a personalized card for me using pictures of our girls along with some clever quips. The cover was a picture of our 1 ...
Adventures in Attachment Parenting: Feeding A Toddler by Allison Silver
May 2nd, 2013
This past week Charley turned eighteen months old and almost on cue has decided to no longer eat foods that she usually enjoys. This week she is refusing most fruit except for applesauce and pears but every other fruit be damned! She is not having it. In fact as I ...
Ode to My Mother by Margaret Hart
June 5th, 2012
My mother is a courageous and resilient woman. Characteristics she inherited from her mother, who, as a young war widow of a captain in the merchant marine, raised my mother and her sister with lots of love and steely determination. My mother never knew her father, who was killed when ...
A Magical Week by Margaret Hart
April 24th, 2012
My family and I just returned from our spring break vacation in Orlando. It was a high-octane trip built around Disney theme parks, as well as visits to Universal Studios, Islands of Adventure and Discovery Cove. It was a whirlwind of activity, and now that we are back home, I ...
