The MotherVerse Blog: mothering out loud

I think I’m a pretty good mom. I’m home full-time with a one-year-old and a three-year-old, and the fact that I’m still sane, usually dressed, and relatively cheerful most of the time pretty much fits the definition, in my book. We all have our strengths, and mine include getting the naptime routine down to an […]

This time around I thought I would do it ‘right’, because I would not repeat the mistakes I did with my first three children. It’s like a second chance at being a new parent.
Lo and behold, my fifth baby was born with a rolled tongue. He wouldn’t nurse right away, and for the first night […]

I just wanted to send to a thank you, and reciprocate a link, to Five Minutes for Mom for mentioning MotherVerse in their last column. If you have never heard of Five Minutes For Mom give it a look for some fun and easy reading. FMFM is run by Susan and Janice, work-at-home-moms who also […]

I got annoyed with my oldest today. She searched in vain for a certain movie to watch, asked if I could help. I asked her what she thought I could do. If the movie’s not there it’s not there. Really, I wanted to be left in peace. I closed the door […]

Shannon Hyland-Tassava is a psychologist, writer, and full-time at-home mom to two daughters, ages 1 and 3. She lives in southern Minnesota with her family. Shannon recently contributed a work to The MotherVerse Blog and I liked her so much I asked her to guest blog. So Shannon, we’re glad to have you with us.
Shannon […]

All of a sudden, it seems like my 14-month-old daughter understands absolutely everything anyone says to her. Tell her anything (“Go and get your jacket, Genevieve; Wow, a big truck outside—just like your red toy truck!; Can you pick up those sunglasses—no, the ones on the floor, over by the baby gate—and give those to […]

It is fall in Vermont-leaves are falling, trees are beginning to take on their skeletal forms, moving into what Vermonters call ‘stick season’*. A chill has slipped into the air and the unmistakable rolling, heavy clouds of fall are moving in (even if the past few days have been unseasonably warm-near 70!).

Fall also brings inviting […]

Hey everyone, the 2007 Blogger’s Choice Awards has come to an end. Thanks to everyone that voted for us in the two weeks we were in the running .
Now the 2008 voting has begun..so if you cast a vote for us last year please do so again for this year, and if you haven’t […]

My name is Christina D’Addio (as in daddy-yo) and I’m a first-time mother to a voracious eater, Xavier. My grandmother can’t remember his name and calls him excalibur.
In the two short months I’ve been a mother I have become the embodiment of every maternal cliche I used to mock. I cried when I stopped breastfeeding, […]

The herd of elephants stampeded away from their water holes, running for the lives, leaving behind a trail of dust cloud. As the camera captured the scene from their flanks, a stumbling gray figure fell behind of the herd.
“Oh, it’s a baby elephant! Oh poor thing!” I exclaimed, pointing at the TV, as my kids […]