Graceful Parenting in Austin

I waved to my neighbors. It was completely dark with just a little light from a street lamp. They were going for a walk. It was late for a walk. It was also late for a drive. I wondered if they could see my robe and slippers.
I wondered if it would be strange to get [...]

You hear about the famous bloggers who have thousands of subscribers and make forty grand a week, like my first blog crush, the Queen of Spain. My world has been only slightly different than that. My rewards come in the form of Huggies coupons and free tickets to a kids ballet if I write about [...]

I’m not a tell-all blogger, I don’t share the deepest, most personal struggles in my marriage or the most embarrassing thing my 11-year-old did at school or how my relatives make me crazy. My in-person relationships are more important than my blog and I’ve got to save something for my tell-all book, right? But this [...]

I was back at work last week, working from home, but as busy as I’ve ever been at work, especially since Baby Girl got sick again and then a hurricane hit Houston, where my family lives, so they were all in Austin, spending a lot of the time at my house. When is a girl [...]

I haven’t worn shoes for two weeks. Bed rest is over tomorrow. But Blue Eyes and I were thinking, since I’m able to walk around and sit up lately, that I could do these things while eating dinner at Threadgill’s. I had to find my shoes, they felt strange on my feet. I had to [...]

Sarah Palin fascinates me. A conservative and an ambitious, working Mom. It doesn’t fit into the every day definitions of how we divide the red and the blue and I love reading about how people react to her. It got me to thinking, I wonder what the Attachment Parenting folks think?
I’ve said already in this [...]

I just almost wet my pants the other day. I got this email…

My name is A. Alter, and I’m a reporter at the Wall Street Journal. I’m working on an article about church shopping and came across a blog post that you wrote about your church shopping experience. I was wondering if you would be [...]

Here are my random thoughts on Sarah Palin…
- My first thought when I heard she had a four-month-old baby was “OH MY GOD! IS SHE CRAZY?!?!!!” which may not be very modern thinking. But my own experience right now working and having one small child and one bigger one is that it is FREAKING HARD [...]

- It is really nice, when I’m feeling tired or nauseous, to not have to get up and go to work or make dinner or anything. It is nice to get as much sleep as I want with no alarm clock to wake me up and as many naps as I want. I feel like [...]

If I didn’t know my baby and the blue of her eyes and every freckle on her arms and legs, I would say that maybe this baby in my house isn’t my baby. Maybe Blue Eyes was with her at the grocery store and when he wasn’t looking, Baby Girl switched places with another baby [...]