imperfection RSS
Mother to Mother - Keeping it Real
Who Loves YOU? Your baby, of course. Your partner, of course. Your friends... Of course! How about you? Do you love yourself? Most of us do, but probably not all the time. Maybe not even most of the time. Having a baby can exacerbate this lack of self love. Somehow, that little being brings out your worst: your impatience, your sadness, your anger, your low self esteem, your GUILT! You fall into the comparison trap. You see other mothers at their best. You watch TV shows and movies with "Mom Impersonators". Screen writers condemn and make fun of your very...
On Kindness
You're OK - Be a Better Mom Without Doing Anything!
One year old Maya was taking her first steps when she abruptly face-planted, startling herself and bumping her head. Her daddy scooped her up and snuggled her in.
"You're OK! You're OK. You didn't hurt yourself. You are fine. You did it! You walked!"
The Hardest Job
Parenting is the hardest job I've ever done. That sounds dramatic when I admit it out loud, but it is 100% true. My Mom tells me that parenting is not just the hardest, but also the most important job I will ever do in my life.
Toddler Sleeping (Or Non-Sleeping)
Ember has now slept through the night 3 times...
...in her 18 month life – not 3 nights in a row, but rather once every few months we get a joyous surprise when we wake up, look at the clock, see it is 3 AM, 4AM, 5AM, 6AM and she is still asleep!
Tags
- All
- 2011
- 2014
- 2016
- accidents
- anxiety
- baby carriers
- baby food
- baby led weaning
- baby store
- bed sharing
- bedsharing
- Big Latch On
- birth
- breastfeeding
- breastfeeding barriers
- Carry The Future
- classes
- cold
- communication
- community
- compassion
- covid-19
- creation
- daddy
- diet
- domestic violence
- Donna Bruschi
- earth
- Ember
- emotions
- empathy
- empowerment
- exhaustion
- expectations
- fall
- farm
- farm market
- farmer
- farmer's market
- fear
- first foods
- food
- friends
- fruit
- garden
- gifts
- grand opening
- Grand Re-Opening
- gratitude
- grief
- groundhog's day
- guilt
- healing
- holiday
- home
- homebirth
- illness
- imperfection
- instincts
- Jasmine Wood
- joy
- keeping calm
- kindness
- lactation
- lactation consultant
- language
- Lisa Bullard
- loss
- love
- lyme disease
- Main St
- mama
- mastitis
- meals
- meltdowns
- memories
- midwife
- mommy brain
- mothering
- music
- music together
- myth
- NBNP
- new baby
- New Baby New Paltz
- new paltz
- new year
- newbabynewpaltzblog
- nighttime parenting
- nursing
- nurturing
- nutrition
- outdoors
- outside
- overwhelm
- pandemic
- parenting
- play
- postpartum depression
- potty
- pregnancy
- processed foods
- puree
- refugees
- Rita
- safety
- separation
- shopping
- ShopRite
- sick
- sleep
- sling
- snow
- solids
- spring
- summer
- sunshine
- swimming
- Syria
- tantrums
- teething
- ticks
- time
- toddler
- toilet learning
- transitions
- traveling
- TV
- VBAC
- vegetable
- warrioress
- weaning
- whole food
- whole foods
- winter
- working
- worry