Last year I described what crunchy meant. My family calls me “the hippie one”, some people say granola, and I’ve heard allusions to attachment parenting. Basically, crunchy is a lifestyle where you may or may not eat all organic (I don’t!), cloth diaper (not anymore but a huge CD enthusiast!), breastfeed, babywear, make your own…Continue reading What crunchy ISN’T…
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Bittersweet
As I begin to experience my last firsts as a parent, I am feeling the way that every mother will someday feel when they reach that magic number of children for their family to be complete. For us, the number of children was four. As I packed away my son’s newborn clothes, a size my…Continue reading Bittersweet
You are the Mirror
Growing up, I so often heard my mother remark about how she was fat. Even now, sometimes the first thing she says to me when I cross through her doorway is something to the effect of, “Look how skinny you are!” We are a society obsessed with appearance and that’s not news to you, I’m…Continue reading You are the Mirror