The MotherVerse Blog: mothering out loud

I’ve had a stressful week (or month) and I’ve been feeling kind of down about, well… everything. It’s easy to get caught in a slump and start feeling like nothing is ever going to go right; that everything you’ve been working towards is never going to happen. And the things that I’ve been working towards […]

Does mommy brain ever go away? Please tell me it does. 
But then again, my son is six… I guess I have to stop blaming things on “mom brain”. I think that’s only a good excuse through the toddler years. 
I’ll preface this by saying: this week was a busy one at work. I worked on probably […]

I opened the door to my freezer last night expecting to find a fudge pop on top shelf. All I wanted was something sweet to snack on while I watched the latest episode of Deadliest Catch after a very long day. 
What I found, instead, was my son’s latest “science experiment”. 
To call it a science experiment […]

I go to grad school two nights a week, working towards a degree in school psych. As an slightly older student (twenty-eight) and also as a mother, I’ve noticed that while I’m happy with the eclectic graduate student body, there’s still a disconnect between some of the other women and myself. I’m only about 5 […]

Kindergarten was the first time that anyone mentioned my son’s unfocused behavior, his dreaminess, and his inability to concentrate. But it was only kindergarten - he didn’t need the concentration of a monk.
In first grade, things began to change. From the beginning, his teacher told me the same things the Kindergarten teacher had said. But […]