Parenting tips for new parents and experienced parents
Can I shovel snow when I’m pregnant?
It happens: you’re pregnant when it snows, and there’s no one around to help you. While it’s not recommended that you go out and shovel snow like crazy, sometimes it needs to be done.
I completely and utterly went against my own pregnancy advice for winter: I went outside and shoveled snow.
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| Just because it’s orange flavored, doesn’t make it good…. Source: MMcK |
I can’t believe I have less than 100 days left of this pregnancy. It seems so close and yet so far away from pregnancy week 24!
This week’s struggle was actually with my first two kids. My oldest, who has been going to preschool for a few months now, has just recently told us he’s being teased and bothered by other kids (bullying in preschool?!). My second born just turned two, and is no longer ‘my baby’. They grow up so fast!
And soon, I’ll be adding a third child to the mix. What a mix it is! He definitely has his own personality now; he bounces, punches, and kicks at all of the right moments. He knows when I am finally sitting still and when I just want to rest.
For now, he’s just my inside baby, my little one that I can keep from the world and all to myself. I need to stop imagining what he’ll be like and just be mesmerized that he is what he is already.
I also need to spend more time enjoying the young moments with my other two. My oldest, while learning that the world outside of home isn’t always nice, needs to be cuddled and loved. My second born needs to be cheered on as she accomplishes her new day to day tasks, like potty training and making her bed.
I just need to be Mom to all of them.
Good night. Time to go cuddle!
~Marissa
If you’ve been following along, you’ll know that I’m pregnant and expecting a baby boy. He’ll be my #3, and perhaps my last baby (still undecided about that…).
Right now, I’m 23 weeks and 3 days along. I already have a pretty round belly and I’m starting the oh-so-attractive pregnant waddle, mostly due to the cramps I get in my hips. Fun, right? [Read more…]
I’m currently pregnant with my third baby, a baby I have waited for too long after I started trying to have him. He means the world to me, even though he is a tiny, kicking human still nestled within the warmth of my belly and I have yet to meet him.
Thing is, he may be the last resident of my belly. [Read more…]
If you are a writer, for whom do you write? If you are a singer, for whom do you sing? If you are a blogger, for whom do you blog? If you are an athlete, you strive to win for whom? If you are a toddler, in front of whom do you throw a tantrum?
If you are a bully, you most often mock or hurt someone in front of whom?
Learn about how the side effects of Depo Provera can delay pregnancy, even after making you feel like you’re pregnant.
It can be hard sometimes to decide on the best kind of birth control to use. Many women are able to able to take the pill or get an IUD, but many others can’t and seek a different solution.
After my second baby, I was looking for a new kind of birth control that wasn’t a pill and was cheaper than an IUD (which I really wanted but couldn’t afford). My doctor recommended a birth control injection that I would only have to get every three months. I was sold just on that. [Read more…]
Yep. I felt it, the big ol’ East Coast Earthquake of 2011
I was sitting at my desk working on my blog when I felt like I was going to pass out. I was swaying and moving all around. I couldn’t understand it! [Read more…]
“NNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!” Sigh. That’s my son, quite obviously upset over something that has disturbed his little world. His daddy just left to go do some yard work. “I’m Daddy’s partner! I need to go to work with him. I can cut the grass!!”
It’s like this with everything; where we are, doing our ‘work’, he is. I turn around with a basket of laundry in the way-too-small laundry room and trip over a toddler. “Why are you right there? Do you have to follow me into every room?” “Mommy, I’m your helper! I can do the laundry too!”
I need to start writing these statements down and having him sign them. It’s so nice that he wants to ‘help’ now (you know how toddlers ‘help’…), but what about in ten years when we actually need his help? He’ll be nowhere to be found.
I’ll have to give him ‘three special steps’ like Special Agent Oso just to get off the couch. Yet if I have these ‘contracts’, I might have some leverage…like my mom did when she had me sign the ‘prom promise’ when I was seven and declared that I did not want to go to the prom. Of course it didn’t work, but what an idea!
Here are some of the ‘contracts’ he will be presented with at the helpful old age of thirteen: [Read more…]
