I was sitting in a coffee shop during my ‘time off’ last weekend just blogging and enjoying the fact that no one was pulling on my pants leg and signing “up”, when a young woman practically hollered at me from across the cafe: “I love your hair pin!” she shouted. “O! Thanks!” “Where’d you get… by on me”>Read more »
June 2010 Archives
and now for something happy
DanO snapped this picture this weekend when the two of them were ‘patting’ the couch (a favorite activity around here – you know, that phenomenon of toddlerhood when everything becomes a drum (even my face)). (Also happy? A {GUSSY} giveaway on Mama Manifesto today.)
seems I need to be more explicit about my PPD symptoms so the interwebs will believe me
What’s that? You think that yesterday’s post about being blindsided by motherhood was my basis for waltzing into a therapists office and turning into a puddle on the floor? It wasn’t. You think the reason I take zoloft to get through the day is because I’m just a disillusioned 20something who chose to have a… Read more »
grieving motherhood as I thought it would be
“The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous.” – Anna Quindlen Blindsided is right. This was not what I had signed up for. The anger. The fear. The desperate exhaustion. The feeling of being swallowed up by my own… Read more »
O, hi there. I’m Allison.
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