Groovy Mama’s Couch is a blog!!!! Yes I’m promoting a blog. Because my friend Rebeca Jones has an excellent blog. It’s not just any blog. It’s an awesome blog. If you haven’t met her yet – well my friends it is time. She will support you, encourage you, lift you up in prayer, make you…
I’ve never been much for the forced romance of anniversaries and holidays. It’s not that I’m a romance Scrooge or anything, rather, it’s the expectations of grandeur on specific days that I resist. Call me crazy, but I expect a bit more wooing in the day to day. We all yearn for someone…
“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” –H.G. Wells Pondering the interesting phenomena of New Year’s resolutions, I was surprised to discover that only 45% of Americans regularly participate in this annual ritual. Considering the depressing statistic that a mere 8% of resolved people actually succeed, I am now surprised the…
At my daughter’s urging last night, we brought the box up from the basement. I hadn’t seen my wedding dress in over 21 years, so it was with an interesting mix of reluctance and anticipation that I tore off the sealing tape. The dress had been treated and painstakingly packaged to keep out the light…
by Rebeca Jones The wrinkly stranger pooped. Again. I looked up at the kind nurse charting my vitals and gestured feebly. “Do you want me to show you again, honey?” Her eyes crinkled a bit as she set down her clipboard and grabbed a new diaper from the bag of freebies on my bedside tray. …
by Rebeca Jones Last month I wrote about the foundation for parenting well. The post was titled, Who Comes First?, and if you missed it, please go back a check it out as it sets the groundwork for what we are discussing today. Today’s topic, parenting as a team, will be impossible if you haven’t…
When my new friend, Lisa Brown, asked me to join her community of writers as a mentor mom, I couldn’t help but giggle a bit since I find that being a grown up is highly overrated. With Thorin’s key around my neck, my superhero belt on, surrounded by my favorite toys, I hardly feel qualified…
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