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About Me

PA, United States
For now, I work as a stay-at-home mom of three beautiful children (a boy who is 2, a girl who is 4, and a step-daughter who is 18 and currently attending American University, Go Alex!!) while trying desperately to finish my dissertation in sociology. My husband and I have been together for 10 wonderful years and he works as a software architect. While he helped me design this blog, he cannot be liable for its content. I decided to start blogging because: 1) Many of my mommy friends have blogs and I was tired feeling left out, 2) I needed a place to vent my frustrations about my graduate program and rave about my children and my husband, 3) a blog can keep our extended family (who live very far away) updated, and 4) as fellow mommy blogger once told me (thanks Patty), a blog is a historical record that can later be shared with your children.

Favorite Quotes

  • The phrase "working mother" is redundant. Jane Sellman
  • How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! Maya Angelou, African American poet
  • Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back. Barbara Kingsolver
  • The development of a tree depends on where it is planted. Edward Joyner, Yale Univ. School
  • We have been the benefactors of our cultural heritage and the victims of our cultural narrowness. Stanley Kripper, Psychologist
  • Being 'educated' means knowing how little I really know. Carol T Lloyd
  • Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage. Anais Nin
  • We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are. Anais Nin Diarist
  • We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as in insoluble problems. John W Gardner
  • Age is a high price to pay for maturity. Anon

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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Kids in plastic bubbles ....not such a bad idea

So would it be so bad if I put my kids in plastic bubbles to protect them from the world??? This morning I dropped off Maya and Armani at school and as I’m tending to Armani, I see that Maya is standing next to a few of her school friends. She then walks over to a little boy and says hi (I’ll call him J). The next thing I hear is J say to Maya, “I don’t like you, because you are shy”. This just breaks my heart. Obviously, it didn’t have the same affect on Maya since she just turned around and started playing with another child as if he had said nothing to her. But, I’m so not ready for those hearts breaking moments when she comes to me in tears over something someone says to her. I know I can’t always protect my kids but homeschooling is looking better and better.

2 comments:

Kelly said...

I think it is harder on the parents at Maya's age but it is always heart breaking to hear something like that. After I had kids, it was really hard for me to see the poor kid in high school that everyone thought was weird. I could only think how much it hurt him to be rejected. I am really scared of sending my kids to high school! Thank goodness I have many years to prepare myself.

Nancy said...

I'm so psyched you're blogging!!! I'll be reading, that's for sure!!

 

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