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Inside Motherhood

Archive for the ‘Family’ Category

August 6th, 2008

Teaching chores

Today, due to a certain level of messiness that has become a running theme in our household, I found myself looking up chore charts - I found some cute ones here with lots of themes to fit plenty of interests.
Now I have to decide whether to use them or not. (I also have to […]

By Sherry -- 2 comments

August 1st, 2008

Summer exhaustion

I had really forgotten how tiring swimming is. I used to swim at my cousin’s pool in the summer as a kid, and it was always the best kind of tired. I’d lie in bed at night, with my hair still damp and smelling like chlorine, and then I would just kind of […]

By Sherry -- 2 comments

July 21st, 2008

Choose your kids’ movies carefully!

I’ve heard some buzz lately about parents who are upset because they took their young children to see The Dark Knight movie this weekend, based on the fact that it was rated PG-13. The anger is because the film is very dark and pretty violent. Also, although the rating is PG-13, many parents […]

By Sherry -- 3 comments

July 18th, 2008

Grieving children

My last living grandparent, my grandmother on my mother’s side, passed away on December 20th, 2006. My oldest was four years old when it happened, and is thus old enough to remember her great-grandmother. She took the news of her death very hard. It was hard on me as well, because it […]

By Sherry -- 0 comments

July 14th, 2008

An apartment oasis

Out of our circle of friends, we’re the only ones who live in an apartment building. Unfortunately, it’s not even one of those big, fancy complexes with its own pool. Meanwhile, all our friends have pools in their backyards. One couple has a fantastic, oval 4-foot pool which is a lot of […]

By Sherry -- 0 comments

July 7th, 2008

Happy Birthday, Sherry!

First off, today is Sherry’s birthday! Please feel free to leave a comment here to wish her a great one! Happy Birthday, Sherry!

So that leads me to ask: do you celebrate your own birthday? Everyone has one, obviously, but do you or your S.O. make a big deal about it?
I read an article years […]

By Heather -- 1 comment