Eat the Frog

Whoa baby. The holidays are here. Even those who don't believe in religion or celebrate the traditions can't seem to escape the st...

This is a funny story: Last week I was in the front yard with Lil'Bug and our neighbor pulls in her driveway.... She says, "I just ...

You know those Hallmark commercials that can move certain people at certain times to tearful sobbing masses (ice cream in hand.....)? I had ...

I just finished ALL the laundry. Washed, dried, and put away. It had been looming as a giant pile of clean clothes in baskets on my bed for ...

Today I feel really warm, from the inside out. Calm. I went out and examined the Praying Mantis case. It vibrates to the touch, I could hear...

This weekend we packed, sorted, and threw out things. We are preparing for an upcoming garage sale, but it is more than that. I threw away t...

Soon after the kids from our group started showing up, but they were the older kids. They tried to play with her but her mood had turned so ...

This is an issue we are dealing with here at Chez Podkayne lately. For Lil'Bug it really started about two weeks ago at Park Day. Some k...

Today served as a reminder for me as to how far I've come. 10 years ago I thought breastfeeding a 1 year old+ was yucky, co-sleeping was...

Last night was Bradley class. We did an encouragement exercise and went through the stages of labor. Lots of questions were asked by us and ...

In a quiet contemplation I realized a couple things: I am over complicating. What that means to me is complicated, go figure. In my search t...

I don't have the winter blahs. I had the blahs in the summer. Our snow total for the season is 39 inches, our average is 30. Heh. More s...

Making progress : I am experiencing quite a bit of anxiety over the Wii purchase. Sure, we made the decision for all the right reasons.....B...

The temperature right now is 49 degrees (F) and the snow is slushy and melting. I have a headache, possibly from the barometric pressure, po...

"Consider the lilies" is the only biblical command I have ever obeyed. --Emily Dickinson So, through this all I may have sounded l...

This one is really tied up in Identity too. For the past 9 years I've called myself the Mistress of Hatton House. The house restoratio...

I've been reading over at Happy and Free almost every morning. Stephanie has been writing these lovely posts about the parenting aspec...

I suffered postpardum depression with Lil'Bug, though I did not acknowledge it at the time. I was overwhelmed and unsure and nothing I ...

This is trickier. I was once a star prodigy in our local Historic Preservation movement. I was named by the local paper as a new leader to b...

Release heartache, tension, and bottled up emotions. Sounds simple, so simple....it is anything but. I still hold on to resentment about how...