What do you think the hardest part about parenting is? For me, it’s when the kids have trouble making friends. Watching my little ones cry when kids are mean to them is heartbreaking.
In my Goldfish article this month, I talk about what we’ve been doing to try to help them make friends.
I love this photograph my son took. For one, I don’t look fat in it . . . most pictures my kids take are of me in that exact moment when I’m smiling and have a double chin or something, and others are when I’m slouching or looking angry. In this one, I look content, and I’m in the kitchen, which is where I feel the most in my element. I love that the shot is candid, and I love that Stuart is following in my footsteps and working on his own skills as an artist, a designer, and even as a cook. Have I ever told you what a great support he is to me as a blogger? Maybe I never have . . . that’ll be a post for another time.
See the look on my daughter’s face? That’s the look your kids will give you when you start using the stuff I’m about to tell you about . . . but if ends up working for you and your family like it has for ours, then trust me . . . you won’t even care.
The product is called Xlear Sinus Nasal Spray*, and it has literally changed our lives. Maybe that sounds a little dramatic, but when your little kid coughs so much that you worry about whether or not she’s breathing, and when you don’t have good medical insurance and you need to be in and out of the doctor’s office at least three times a month, then any change for the better, no matter how small, is a blessing.
My kids are playing video games right now, and the constant stream of technology never seems to end in our house.
But I have to admit, for a mom with way too much to do (which is, by the way, the definition of the word mom, i.e. /mom/ n. woman with way too much to do), sometimes the sound of computer generated dings and bells is, I confess . . . soothing. It is often the sound of no one fighting (at least for the moment), and it is the absence of hearing your own name shouted like an obscenity (MOM!!!!!!). That annoying computer game music more often than not represents peace and quiet for me . . . a chance to read, decompress, or sit and stare.
