The MotherVerse Blog: mothering out loud

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“The Stay at Home Survival Guide” by Melissa Stanton. Melissa’s story […]

I expected a terrible eczema flare up on Baby during our trip to Houston. We received a huge unexpected surprise.
Despite the hassle of traveling, staying in a hotel room, dashing between lecture halls and the babysitting room at the convention, and overall relative neglect in caring for his eczema, Baby’s eczema actually got better, with […]

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 opened the door to the landing, caught the glorious odor drifting up from our building’s common garbage chute three floors down, and cursed again our long years in the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States, aka the ex-USSR). I am ready to take my family home […]

My oldest son, Marly, just flew back to LA after a week home. Warner Brothers has extended his job for another four months, which means he’ll continue to be paid to write and produce short comedic videos, the kind of thing he’s been doing since high school. The job itself isn’t as important as the […]

A few days ago, my 16 year old daughter flew home from spending three weeks in Oregon visiting her friend. On her trip, they traveled to Lake Tahoe and San Francisco, swam in the ocean, went alpine sliding, guzzled pixie stix and stayed up all night. She’s just now recovering from jet lag and end-of-vacation […]

It went too swiftly, like a rainy night. One moment, you were a thought, a butterfly in my belly. Then, the road thickened, and soon, you will fly solo, and start college, leaving me looking through empty pages wondering what happened to all the words?
I must make it perfectly clear, this great love […]

When inspiration hits, one must follow, my art professor used to tell us. Well, that is easier said then done when you are a mother. Just the thought of my two darling boys running around while I am working on my encaustic art gives me the willies. Heated tools covered in molten bees wax does […]

My daughter tricked me into traveling. I thinks she got the traveling gene from her daddy, who was a merchant marine for several years. He sailed to India and Europe long before he sailed out of her life in a car accident.
She wanted to be a foreign exchange student, and spent her senior year of […]

My husband said that he was my favorite child. I did not agree with that. It was just that right from the beginning I felt that he needed me more than the other two did.
When I first saw him in the hospital I was a little disappointed. He was my second […]