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Insanity and Infants – A Hard Cocktail to Swallow?

After the desperate days of Vman, I truly did not understand how anyone could love a baby. The screaming, out of control, make your head spin to the point of stabbing forks in your ears just to make it stop was sending me into a dark spiral. And yet, the dream of having a family with two children still lived on. Apparently I was clinically insane.

I convinced myself that even though I may not be a baby person, perhaps I was a mom of older kids. That’s where my talents would shine. And besides, if I’m already in the foxhole of infancy, better to get it all done at once rather than start the whole process again, right? Continue Reading →

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Singing the Baby Blues

I do not like babies. Or so I thought for many years. When I was pregnant with Vman I couldn’t wait to hold him in my arms, snuggle him up and just love him. He, however, had different ideas.

Even just days old, Vman made his presence unavoidably known. By the fourth day in the hospital, my husband and I actually recognized his scream from other babies as they returned him to our room (again) because they couldn’t get him to calm down. Continue Reading →


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Choosing to Laugh

My hubby sent this pic to me and it brought me to gushing, sobbing tears.

See that child sitting removed in the far corner from the other kids? That’s my Vman, who has decided to not participate in gymnastics (which he loves for the proprioceptive outlet) because the instructor has long hair that gets in the instructor’s eyes. Yep. My kid is so freaked out by the thought of having hair in his own eyes that he can’t stand seeing someone else with shaggy hair. Continue Reading →


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Find Your Spirit

Miss me? You haven’t heard from me in a while because I recently spent a week in the Colorado Rockies working on a ranch. It was absolutely magical! Backbreaking, exhausting and yet magical. I spent the week fixing a barbed wire fence on 40 acres of land and building two new gates for the cattle around the property. My cowboy boots got their fair share of use this week.

While I do believe there is something about physical work and the joy of seeing the finished product, I also believe in getting away to be able to look back at home and gain some perspective. Continue Reading →


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Out on the Frontier

Last week a group of pediatricians cast doubt on the usefulness of occupational therapy in helping kiddos with Sensory Processing Disorder. Please raise your hand if you’d like to be the first one in line to slap these folks. Continue Reading →

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