Graceful Parenting in Austin

Welcome to Graceful Parenting. This blog chronicles my journey searching for balance and peace in my role as a parent. I’m not a graceful parent already and I’m not an expert in parenting, relationships or spirituality. I’m just an every day parent looking for ways to handle the every day that will lead to [...]

“%@$^* this %@$^*-ing door,” I yelled.

I was cursing at the sun room door because it was locked again. And by being locked, it was keeping me from where I needed to be and by making me get my keys out again, it was slowing me down, all of this preventing me from protecting my family [...]

Today I held Baby Girl and we danced around the living room to Corinne Bailey Rae’s Little Star. What a perfect song for dancing with a baby, it’s not too fast or too slow and it has a groove and a rhythm. The words are easy to learn and sing and the first verse is [...]

I still remember that day when I was four and my Mom was late picking me up from pre-school. I don’t remember anything else about the pre-school or much else about being four, but I remember being the last kid left and feeling sad, alone and worried.
I thought of this this week, because I forgot [...]

According to its web site, Why Mommy is a Democrat is a children’s book that “brings to life the core values of the Democratic party in ways that young children will easily understand and thoroughly enjoy.”
This book makes me so mad I could spit. And it’s not because I’m a Republican. It’s because I’m a [...]

Sometimes normal, every day things happen in a funny order or with odd timing that makes me laugh. Like when I was shopping for my husband’s birthday present. I got him a tennis skirt. Well, not for him, for me. But, for him because he really, really likes tennis skirts. So, even though I’m not [...]

I have seriously considered the life of a Safest Parent in Town. For one thing, I have the skills. I can be very goal-driven and task-oriented and that combined with basic Internet skills can lead to a wealth of information about the dangers around every corner. Then there are my organizing skills, writing skills [...]

Grace was born at 10:45 am on Saturday, March 31, 2007. I was so scared to see her. I was scared to see how small she would be and scared I would break if I held her in my arms. I was only four months pregnant when Grace was born.
Grace was beautiful. She had a [...]