This morning’s wake-up call

My  mornings when Cameron wakes before I go rouse him usually start off with me hearing him roll over (yay for creaky crib), then he either wails or whines for me. Sometimes he’ll call, “Moooommmyyyyy! Sun UP! Sun is UP!”
 
This morning was different.
 
I heard him roll over and sit up. Then another flop-creak. By the [...]

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Self-Care Review

Tomorrow is my Mama Renew meeting, this discussion group I’ve joined about adjusting to the role of a working mother. The idea is that we discuss a chapter of The Mother’s Guide to Self-Renewal a month, and work through the discussion points in it.
This month was all about self-care, and I thought I’d ‘take stock’ [...]

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The Perfect Day

No, today wasn’t it. Let’s just say it had its moments and leave it at that, shall we?
Chris asked a question I’ve been pondering since reading it on Smart Cookies, a site she sent me to: what is your perfect day? The question as it is on the site is not as things are in [...]

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And again …

I wish I could SEE what is in his mind!
The scene: Midnight, just about on the dot. I’d finished a lovely long and hot spoil-myself non-ecofriendly shower. Cameron yelled something! A moment of silence, and he started sobbing. When I went in to comfort him, he managed to tell me that he was hungry, and [...]

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What is going on inside his head?

There are times that I wish I could plug Cameron into the computer or TV and really see what he is thinking.
It has occurred to me that Cameron hasn’t really seen a river up close. So in our ‘trips to the river’, I have to wonder what his frame of reference is. What is he [...]

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