There really are only 18 days left in 2007. The means the last 347 days have gone by like an old video in a VCR with the button stuck on fast forward. The picture is moving in a blurry, jumpy way through all the boring and important parts equally. That’s been my life and my life is not a movie.
Even if it were, it would be full of continuity errors. My hair would be wilder from scene to scene, the circles under my eyes would be darker or lighter, the kids would be either dressed to the nines or wearing …read more

You may have guessed that I have been having a week of overwork. This happens a lot when several part-time jobs, instead of one full-time gig, make up one’s 40 60 hour work-week. The lowlight of my week came yesterday when the day care called the language school where I teach because my daughter had developed a fever.

Problogger once asked us what we do with our blogs on the weekend.  I do try to look for breaking news on the childbearing and women’s health front on weekends, but I do need some time with my friends and family on Saturdays and Sundays so the Sad but True Speed Links for Saturday and Parenting Quotes of the Week are generally written whenever I get a spare moment and set to publish on weekends.

Stress. It makes your mood spike and crash. It is influenced by sleeplessness, by being all things to all people, by having to face chores, like laundry, that are never, ever, completely finished. New mothers have special needs and special methods for stress-busting.
According to an article on the BBC Parenting site, this is the single quickest way to combat a stressful moment:
1. Take a slow deep breath in and let it out again. Keep breathing as gently and calmly as you can.
2. Drop your shoulders and let your hands flop down to dangle at your sides.
3. Release all the tension …read more