What the Diaper Dictates
It’s Sunday morning and I totally just rejoiced about a poop. Seriously these days we are excited, gleeful even as we open the toddlers diaper and reveal none other than a mostly solid poop. I call my...
View ArticleConfessions: I’m Why Your Kid is Sick
It comes when I need it the least. The moment I am knee deep in the most important piece of work I’ve done all week, or the minute I finally have time to breathe between back to back meetings. At...
View ArticleSometimes Work Can Wait
The coughing went through the night, though I didn’t know the difference thanks to my saint of a husband who snuck out of the bedroom in the middle of the night to take care of her just so I could ...
View ArticleWatching the Sick Leave Drain Away
Over the past few months, I’ve had to take several days of sick leave because baby boy had a fever. It was a weird virus thing that seemed to only cause fever and nothing else. He seemed to feel fine...
View ArticleWAHM Sick Days
I read posts like this one that talk about taking a sick day and enjoying movies on the couch and time to themselves and my normally brown eyes glow in a neon green fashion from the jealousy that...
View ArticleUnexpected Kid Sick Days aren’t so Bad
I’m sitting here typing this at 8am from home. Abby is still sleeping after getting up to pee and requesting to go back to bed. Her own bed; not snuggled up with me. (This is how I know she’s still ...
View ArticleThe 1%
99% of the time I rock the working-mom thing with no problems. I love my job. I love the people I work with. My girls are well taken care of. I have a supportive husband who does way more than ...
View ArticleSick of the Sick
So far in January, between Lucy, Zach, my husband & I, we’ve had bad colds {negative for flu & RSV} along with pink eye, then RSV for both babies & double ear infections for Lucy while my...
View ArticleSick Momma Day
Katherine has posted recently on the importance of us mommas taking our vacation time for ourselves. I love that idea & added it to my hopefully-one-day-sooner-than-later to-do list. I think as...
View ArticleBeing Present while Disconnected
The sermon at the church we joined a couple weeks ago focused on the parable of Mary & Martha. Pastor Ned spoke about truly being present for those we love & on learning to savor the day...
View ArticleImmune Systems and Daycare
I have a love-hate relationship with daycare. On one had, I love that my son is being socialized and that I get some peace and quiet to focus on my work. On the other hand, well don’t get me started. […]
View ArticleThe Dreaded Daycare Phone Call: Dealing with Sick Days
I keep my cell phone on my desk at work. Its ring interrupts my thoughts and with the exception of my husband’s personal ringtone,...
View ArticleMeasles: We’re Better Than This
It’s February, 2015. If you would’ve told me fifteen years ago that I would carry a tiny computer phone around in my purse, I... The post Measles: We’re Better Than This appeared first on Liberating...
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