Interestingly, my biggest motivator and friend, Melissa, is also celebrating her 100th post TODAY! I guess we both started taking our writing more seriously about the same time, only she was much more disciplined than I was for a while. Then she started nursing school, and with four kids and a husband to take care [...]
Tags: 100th post, funny, humor, Motherhood, parenting, roundup
Posted by Barely Knit Together on Mar 25, 2009 in
Wordless Wednesday In the morning, the boys and I usually have snuggles, which sounds like “tuggles” when Ethan says it. I was already up on this particular morning, so they had to settle for each other.
Tags: children, funny things kids say, Motherhood, snuggles, the cuteness, Wordless Wednesday
Posted by Barely Knit Together on Mar 23, 2009 in
Motherhood This child, the one in the picture holding the weeds flowers that are the totality of my lawn, just asked me why there are lines on the Italian pottery bowl he is eating his pizza from. They are meant to make the bowl look rustic, I suppose, or something like that.
I told him that the [...]
Tags: children, funny things kids say, Motherhood
Yesterday I got to laugh a bit while taking a break from writing about depression when I came across Her Bad Mother’s post about house cleaning.
I’ve been pretty clear about my skills in that area, but I haven’t been what you might call…transparent. She posted pictures!
So in a show of solidarity (and maybe just a [...]
Tags: bad housekeeping, homekeeping, Motherhood, parenting
Posted by Barely Knit Together on Mar 20, 2009 in
A Bit on the Dark Side,
Mental Stability,
Motherhood I finished my story, and posted it over on Blogher.
I’m not thrilled with it, just like everything else I do. There’s more to tell, more to sort through, more to figure out. I want to be able to tell you I am all better, but I’m not there yet.
PPD can disguise itself as normal parenting [...]
Tags: antidepressants, Breastfeeding, depression, medications and breastfeeding, Motherhood, parenting, postpartum depression, ppd, weaning
Posted by Barely Knit Together on Mar 17, 2009 in
Breastfeeding,
Mental Stability,
Motherhood I have turned this topic around and around in my head over the last few days. And now several bloggers have beat me to the punch.
But that’s okay, because I’ve decided to take a slightly different direction with it. I want to talk about medications used to treat depression, anxiety, irritability, anger, and suicidal ideation, [...]
Tags: Breastfeeding, depression, medications and breastfeeding, Motherhood, parenting, postpartum depression, ppd
Posted by Barely Knit Together on Mar 14, 2009 in
A Bit on the Dark Side,
Mental Stability Sometimes, late at night, when it’s dark and quiet and I’m completely alone at last, I think: maybe I should never have had children.
And my heart clenches and I start to cry and I want to argue with myself that it’s not true, but there is some little, hard, honest place inside of me that [...]
Tags: borderline personality disorder, depression, honesty, jesus, love, Motherhood, parenting, self harm, self injury, truth
Posted by Barely Knit Together on Mar 14, 2009 in
Homemaking Made Easy,
Mental Stability,
People Are Idiots Here is the run down of my day:
1. Bread. In the bath tub. That’s right, ladies and gentlemen. Witness:
2. See cell phone. See glass of milk. See mom scream. See that it’s too late. I am sure gonna miss my milky, qwerty keyboard phone. This I have no photos of. It’s just too painful.
3. Forward [...]
Tags: children, Motherhood, new math, rant
Tonight at bed time, these are the questions I answered:
“But Mommy, what if the bugs come in and eat all my toys?”
“But Mommy, can’t we bring the TV back into your room from Ellie’s room because you said you were going to just do it for tonight! Can’t we just take it?”
“But Mommy, why can’t [...]
Tags: children, funny things kids say, living in an old house, Motherhood, parenting, squirrels
Posted by Barely Knit Together on Feb 28, 2009 in
Motherhood The scene: Walmart, last night. The detergent department (yes, it’s a whole department).
From across the crowded aisle, I hear a voice, “Mommy, here. Here!”
Ethan comes hobbling up to me, lugging an impossibly heavy bottle.
Whether it was the angelic, smiling girl on the bottle, or some other, more subtle message that made him decide what the [...]
Tags: funny things kids say, humor, Motherhood, parenting
