parenting

The Burn of Parental Guilt

by JW Moxie on May 3, 2012 · 29 comments

in FAMILY, The Minions

  So. Yesterday, we did” Go for What You Know” for dinner. You want cereal? Have a bowl or two. Leftovers? Nuke it to your heart’s content. A sandwich and chips? Jordan and Kaelyn usually go for PB&J, while the twins generally prefer ham and cheese. Kaelyn and Jordan to have ramen. Groovy. I put [...]

Tagged as: parenting, the Minions

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Ask Me Some Questions…

by JW Moxie on April 17, 2012 · 17 comments

in Bullets Are for Gangstas, I'M JUST SAYIN', On Writing

…and I’ll tell you some lies. No, I’ll tell the truth. Maybe. Seriously, though–sometimes after I’ve written a big piece into which I’ve dumped a lot of brain energy and thought, I’m left a little drained until my tanks refill. Give me some prompts, please. What’s something that you may have always wanted to ask [...]

Tagged as: Aiming Low, blogging, community, parenting, writing

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My Week, As Illustrated by Prince

by JW Moxie on March 28, 2012 · 33 comments

in FAMILY, Frankly Speaking, On Writing, Stupid Things That Have the Funny, The Minions, Worth a thousand words

I can tell from StatCounter (don’t act like you’ve never stalked your metrics) that many of you have been coming back to see if I’ve finally gotten around to posting Part III of my series on emotional/mental infertility and how it affects the Adoption, Loss, and Infertility (ALI) community (here are Part I and Part [...]

Tagged as: Frank, friends, humor, music, parenting, Prince, the Minions, The Sads, video

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Love: A Letter to My Daughter

by JW Moxie on March 14, 2012 · 7 comments

in Baby ART, FAMILY, Flashback, Infertility, On Writing, Outsmarting Infertility, Sort-of, The Minions, Worth a thousand words

I am working on the second of my posts about the upheaval in the Adoption, Loss, and Infertility community. In the first, I discussed emotional infertility and then posed some questions about how it may have affected the type of support you sought in the infertility community. The comments on that post are some of [...]

Tagged as: adolescence, Aiming Low, blogging, Miss Unlimited, parenting, the Minions, writing

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Song Lyrics – Time Warp Tuesday

by JW Moxie on October 11, 2011 · 20 comments

in I'M JUST SAYIN'

This is a meme that my good friend Kathy at Four of a Kind started up a couple of weeks ago. I’ve wanted to participate before now, but between getting into the swing of Aiming Low and (barely) keeping up here, I’ve been pretty busy. This was a good week for me to jump in. [...]

Tagged as: blogging, Frank, Mommy Lady, music, parenting, Steely Dan, surrogacy, tattoo, the Minions, writing

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Adolescence: In Which Parenting Gets Scary

by JW Moxie on October 4, 2011 · 29 comments

in FAMILY, The Minions, Worth a thousand words

Thank you for sending along birthday wishes to my sweet girl. How is it that they grow so quickly? Just yesterday Kyra and Jaiden were born. Now they’re ten and are barreling towards the end of their elementary school careers. Next year, they’ll be up at the middle school with me, albeit a couple of halls [...]

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Tagged as: adolescence, birthday, parenting, puberty, teaching, the Minions, twins

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