As a parent some days are challenging. Those days make you yell or cry or feel so overworked you can’t imagine things being harder. We’ve all been there. I’ve been there. On the flip side some days are just sort of magical. Those magical days, no matter how normal and boring they might seem on the [...]
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7 Comments »The other night while out at an event a few friends and I got into a discussion about marriage. The question posed was this: “What will you tell your daughter, marry for love or marry for money?” Well, I blurted out love. Actually it went more like this, Love(!) of course(!). I married for love. [...]
Posted in Catherine Evolving, Motherhood & Parenting, Pure Catherine Tags: love, marriage, Motherhood & Parenting, parenting 5 Comments »I’ve got parenting on the brain. You could say I am over-analyzing my parenting. This week I have five great anedotes on different aspects of parenting. Authors of these posts touched my heart, or my brain or both. They had me shaking my head in agreement, recalling some of my moments as a mom, laughing [...]
Parenting. Is. Scary. I think I tend to be one of those moms who over analyze, worry and plan too much. My worst fear besides what every mother fears the most, is that I will royally screw up my child. Sometimes my power as Mom is intoxicating and exciting, but most of the time it [...]
Posted in Catherine Evolving, Motherhood & Parenting Tags: Motherhood & Parenting, parenting, worries 6 Comments »Potty training even with its 13 letters is a four letter word of parenting. In our house potty training was a rough road. I know that some people have suffered through much worse in the potty training department so I will not complain, much. We did great in the beginning. I was calm, cool and [...]
Last night Luke came home and I had not planned dinner. Bad Catherine. Okay not Bad Catherine. More like oops Catherine you should have thought about what you were going to feed your family but instead you played with your daughter and read her a big pile of books. So instead of waiting for me [...]
I figured something out. Maddy calls me Mama when she is being sweet. Tonight while sitting in my room at my brand new (!) desk trying to get caught up on life Maddy rounded the corner and in her sweet little girl voice says “Mama, I wanna put polish on my nails. Can we polish [...]
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