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Mother’s Day: A New Perspective

I’ve written often about being torn between the Hallmark ideal of Mother’s Day and the “same day, same frustrations” reality of Mother’s Day. At length and too many times… more →

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Mother's Day: A New Perspective — 22 comments

Naptimewriting wrote 1 week ago: I’ve written often about being torn between the Hallmark ideal of Mother’s Day and the … more →

Tags: Child Wrangling, Crafty Awesomeness, *Feels like Home*, crafty, Creative Gifts, MOTHERS DAY, Mother's Day Gifts

How? Seriously. How? — 21 comments

Naptimewriting wrote 1 week ago: I woke early because the boys were fighting about whether one of them should be allowed to cough at … more →

Tags: are you freaking kidding me?, Child Wrangling, David Foster Wallace

Oh, HAIL no. — 26 comments

Naptimewriting wrote 3 months ago: I just got home from volunteering in Peanut’s first grade class. I’ve wanted to do this … more →

Tags: Child Wrangling, The Man is bringing me down, are you freaking kidding me?, World citizens, ma'am. Try not to get so worked up., Feminism

Holiday gifts — 5 comments

Naptimewriting wrote 5 months ago: Hey, there. I haven’t posted in forever because I’m crazy busy. But I have something for … more →

Tags: Can't decide on a category, ma'am. Try not to get so worked up., The Man is bringing me down, Toxic living, World citizens, Christmas, Fair Trade, gifts, Hanukkah

In case you need this — 15 comments

Naptimewriting wrote 5 months ago: Many fine bloggers handle In Case You Missed It posts, wherein they point us to lovely writing, hila … more →

Tags: are you freaking kidding me?, World citizens, Christmas, solstice, Holiday giving, back down to earth, gifts, December, Hannukah

On interpersonal communications — 32 comments

Naptimewriting wrote 5 months ago: I woke in a panic at 3 a.m., and not just because the congested toddler next to me gets violent when … more →

Tags: are you freaking kidding me?, ma'am. Try not to get so worked up., Humor, this is seriously how neurotic I am, communications

Selling ourselves short — 142 comments

Naptimewriting wrote 6 months ago: I love social media. I enjoy Twitter and Pinterest. I read dozens of blogs. I ditched Facebook but c … more →

Tags: Put the pen to the paper and see what develops, The Man is bringing me down, are you freaking kidding me?, ma'am. Try not to get so worked up., facebook, twitter, Lloyd Dobbler, Selling out, Commercial Blogs

Stop supporting slave labor — 3 comments

Naptimewriting wrote 7 months ago: There have been numerous articles on the use of slave labor, particularly forced child labor, in the … more →

Tags: The Man is bringing me down, are you freaking kidding me?, Toxic living, World citizens, Chocolate, Halloween, slave labor, Slavery

Shut the cluck up — 8 comments

Naptimewriting wrote 10 months ago: Poor, dear Emily over at Motherfog is in the middle of a sh*t tornado. Go leave a bottle of cyber-wi … more →

Tags: are you freaking kidding me?, ma'am. Try not to get so worked up.

Running on empty — 22 comments

Naptimewriting wrote 12 months ago: April’s Runner’s World has an article that promises to tell me “Why [and how] a pa … more →

Tags: are you freaking kidding me?, ma'am. Try not to get so worked up., rants, Rantlets

Plan B — 9 comments

Naptimewriting wrote 1 year ago: Hold the phone. After promising that science would “inform and guide decisions of my Administr … more →

Tags: The Man is bringing me down, are you freaking kidding me?, ma'am. Try not to get so worked up., Feminism, Women's rights, Feminism, plan b, Contraception, get the government out of my uterus

End of Rope Found — 13 comments

Naptimewriting wrote 1 year ago: Today was a day to go with the flow. I’m down to one client project, Butter has spent so long … more →

Tags: Child Wrangling, are you freaking kidding me?, Pure Bliss, Shoot Me Now, ma'am. Try not to get so worked up., Attachment Parenting, Gentle Parenting, limits to parenting, parenting by and for the highly spirited

Take one step back — 22 comments

Naptimewriting wrote 1 year ago: Oh, my word, Interwebs. To say this day sucked rocks would be like saying a deluge can be a bit damp … more →

Tags: Child Wrangling, are you freaking kidding me?, ma'am. Try not to get so worked up., Ear Infections, worst day on record, toddler behavior, rudest woman on the planet

Failure — 10 comments

Naptimewriting wrote 1 year ago: I don’t usually remember dreams, but I always remember nightmares. My recurring nightmare sinc … more →

Tags: Can't decide on a category, The Man is bringing me down, are you freaking kidding me?, ma'am. Try not to get so worked up., .save the world., Terrorist Plot, superspy

And a bag of chips — 5 comments

Naptimewriting wrote 1 year ago: Things I learned while I was deathly ill last week: 9. I’m a very patient person. Stop laughin … more →

Tags: Can't decide on a category, Child Wrangling, are you freaking kidding me?, ow my spleen, I came to help restore your pluck

Enough — 16 comments

Naptimewriting wrote 1 year ago: I started running again a couple of weeks ago. I let go of the Shoulds and the Rules I’d const … more →

Tags: Can't decide on a category, Put the pen to the paper and see what develops, Yoga, Running, dump your frump, To-do lists, Self-Improvement, I'm driving myself crazy

In which I go all Yosemite Sam — 22 comments

Naptimewriting wrote 1 year ago: Frickafracka galldarned fanglewrangle pifflepoffle… [UPDATED 8/21] Searching for a child-sized … more →

Tags: The Man is bringing me down, are you freaking kidding me?, Toxic living, ma'am. Try not to get so worked up., safe backpacks, Back to School, pvc-free backpacks, lead-free backpacks, phthalate-free backpacks

Unsubscribe — 7 comments

Naptimewriting wrote 1 year ago: To: unsubscribe@Internet.earth From: naptimewriting@grouchy.com Subject: Unsubscribe Go away. Leave … more →

Tags: are you freaking kidding me?, Shoot Me Now, ma'am. Try not to get so worked up., unsubscribe

Shirking duties — 20 comments

Naptimewriting wrote 1 year ago: To the two dads at the library this weekend: you are a couple of jackasses. I’m guessing your … more →

Tags: Child Wrangling, are you freaking kidding me?, shitty fathers, Father Daughter Time, do your damned job, Help a mutha out


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