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Happy 2008! For many of us, a new year means big plans, staunch resolutions, and the feeling that we're on the cusp of change. For others, the new year doesn't mean much at all. For most moms, the standard joke is that the kids need feeding no matter what the date. (Funny how that works.)
Today I'm strolling through some of the blogs recently added in 2008 to the BlogHer Mommy & Family Blogroll. (Haven't added yours yet? What are you waiting for?)
What I love most about perusing the category that unites us in one place is how much we have in common and also what a wide variation there is in what these moms are blogging -- both from day to day on each blog and across the blogs.
Carol at Graceful Parenting missed a party due to some co-parenting miscommunication, but she made up her mind on how to deal with it next time. What an interesting solution, to schedule a date with her anger:
I’m going to work on handling my little anger first. I know what I feel like when I get worked up and to Just Say No to that business. Well, at least to do this - to say, OK, anger I’ll go out with you on Friday night. Not now, but on Friday. Until then, I’m going to talk to my husband and my kids and see if there is a way to handle the little anger and if none of that works out, then we have a date to get worked up later.
June is Busting Out All Over with her pregnancy, even to the point of being too fat for a cardigan (oh, honey, been there). After lamenting her recent expansion, tongue firmly in cheek, she moves on to some parenting books she recently checked out:
The sleeping book was full of useless information. I think that everyone struggles getting their babies to sleep through the night, and the sleepless parent market is an easy mark because they are a captive audience desperate to try ANYTHING to get their child to sleep through the night. I tried reading through it twice to see if maybe I was missing something the first time, but I ended up spitting out all seeds on that one.
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The breast feeding book was enlightening, not because it had tons of new information that I didn't already glean from reading Moxie's blog, but because it was written in 1986 when no one was breast feeding. It's full of tips on how to get your doctor and pediatrician to get on board with your choice to breast feed, how to handle breast feeding in front of your husband, and how to handle your mother-in-law when she tries to discourage you from breast feeding. It's hard to believe that was only 20 years ago.
At Motherhood... Unscripted we are reminded that little pitchers have big ears (and a poor understanding of hyperbole):
I’ll leave you with a Steven story tonight. He went on errands with Steve today. Who was listening to Rush Limbaugh in the car. Steve realized that it was time to be more careful about what he listens to with Steven, the Literal Boy, as he suddenly (and in a slightly panicked manner) said, "The Democrats are trying to take away my FREEDOM???!?!!!??"
Whoah. No more Rush in the car for that boy.
Joanna at As the nest empties is adjusting to her nearly-grown son coming home from college and then leaving again:
It's not as if we did anything momentous or special together while he has been at home. He has been working every day and so have I. We have both been living our own daily lives, just being together in the same house. Somehow it is comforting to know he will be home watching TV, reading the newpaper, drinking milk out of the carton, and instigating trouble with either his sisters or the dogs. I guess I know deep down inside that there will not be too many more of these interludes where he actually comes home to live with us and I am not ready to face that.
(As a mother whose oldest child isn't quite 10, allow me to respond to Joanna's situation the only way I know how -- which is to plug my fingers into my ears and sing "La la la la! I can't hear you!")
On the lighter side, Minnesota Mom is expressing love for her
