#parenting

Sooooooo tired..... Two days a week, I get to spend the whole day with Bear. Other than about two to three hours in the evening, this is all the time I get to spend with her. I work a full forty-hour week; Lev works around forty-five hours a week; neither of us get to spend…

In the last-to-the-last entry, we talked on 3 things parents should NOT say to their teenager. Today, we are talking the opposite. Why? Because i have a teenage kid and living with a teenager has its perks and un-perks. So, let's begin. i see you. Say YES more often. You are doing amazing!  ...

You are wrong. It's in your head. It's not what you think. Let's begin talking. You are wrong. Which basically means, as a parent/caregiver/guardian, you are announcing yourself right. Teens are no more small children. Their tiny brains have grown bigger, just as their views and opinions on matte...

"I have extra bandages in my purse." These are the words that escape my mouth when I'm asked how I am. It's a well-meaning question, but I don't even know how to explain the mental space I occupy lately, even to well-meaning people. I'm restless, hypervigilant, and increasingly exhausted. The lev...

Hi! My name is Sierra. I am a wife & mother of two beautiful yet hectic children. I have a 5 year old boy who will be 6 on the 18th of this month & I have a 3 year old daughter that will be 4 on the 20th of this month. Don't ask me…

I occasionally handwrite in various notebooks, but thought about an electronic journaling. Lo and behold... Google suggested opendiary. How could I have forgotten something I used for YEARS? Now, nearly two decades later, I reclaimed my old opendiary. I doubt I'll go back and read old entries... ...

I have to wait to go to bed until like Midnight so I can take my meds at Midnight and go to get my blood drawn at noon (there has to be 12 hours from my prior dose of lithium before my test.  I think the part that will suck the most is that tomorrow…

I have been cramming for my much feared A+ Certification Part II exam. I really hope I pass this time because this stupid certification has consumed the past seven or eight months of my life. I have had to stop working on the classes I do like, push all of my friends away, ignore the…

Having a kid with SPD can be terrible , can be exasperating and  truly exhausting. I'm one of the lucky people whose kid is extremely high functioning, so much that we wouldn't have actually reached to a diagnosis if it wasn't because I know a girl in high school whose kid has it and I…

I was looking at my old journal.  I see the last entry I had written was back in 2010 announcing to the community that I was going to become a father.  My daughter will be 7 in a few months.  Everybody always writes about what they love about being a parent.  So what I am…