The MotherVerse Blog: mothering out loud

Well, I hope everyone had a fantastic holiday, and survived it!
I am currently reading Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care, by Jennifer Block.
Just reading the title hurts-
But seriously. If you are a woman who has given birth, contemplating birth and pregnancy, you need to read this.
There is some crazy situations going […]

No doubt about it, this is the year of ‘kikus’-what my daughter calls Christmas. We are, by no means, Christian, or even remotely religious-in the conventional way-yet my girl is absolutely crazy about Christmas. It must be the lights, the fanfare. She knows of Santa, and believes the jolly guy with the beard and red […]

Just as Hagar dashed back and forth between the two hills named Safa and Marwa while her baby wailed in hunger, I too bustled about in the house preparing for a road trip spanning six states that is about to take place tomorrow.
Baby food - check
Washcloth- check
snacks - check
extra clothes - check
recharge camera - check
laptop […]

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I am starting to feel the Christmas spirit! The kids and I made marzipan coco balls yesterday and we will begin our traditional holiday baking extravaganza today. It is still early in the morning and the house is quiet. I have turned on the Christmas tree lights, light a few homemade beeswax candles and made […]

     We’re in the middle of a heavily predicted snowstorm. The forecast was for the storm to hit at midnight and we saw the first flakes at about 11:30. Since then, about 5 ½ inches have fallen and the sky is still filled with tiny snowflakes like dust coming down. The forecast, which has been […]

I got the honors this year and cut down the Christmas tree. I picked out a medium sized one that struggled beneath the branch of an old cedar, never seeing the sun or stars. It didn’t weigh much, and it cut a smooth trail on the snow.
My daughter, 19, arrived with a gaggle of giggly […]

I have a confession to make, I have never believed in Santa. I have always found it completely absurd that adults tell their children a large white man with a big belly and a long beard will crawl down the chimney Christmas eve and leave them presents under the Christmas tree.
There was no Santa in […]

My first child was almost three and not transitioning all that well into independence. He had days when he was miserable all day long and my efforts to cheer him, to bring him back to equilibrium, were at best momentary fixes. He was unhappy and I felt at a loss to explain why.
 
There were symptoms […]

(Cross-Posted at Non-Toxic Kids)
I wasn’t planning on posting tonight, but a few days ago I received several emails about a new site, healthytoys.org.
The site was unable to open the first few times I checked, and I finally got in tonight. Now I can see why. The site is jam packed with useful information about toys […]