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Rage Against the Minivan: A Fair to Remember
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A Fair to Remember. I am slowly recovering from the Frenzy of Fair we were involved in last week. I am sitting here trying to think of how to explain what lead me to the fair, not once, but TWICE, in one week. Really, I have nothing to say for myself. Mostly I blame Rosie, my housekeeper. Rosie cleans my house twice a month on Wednesday mornings, in order to keep me from. Or "How many liquids can one person spill in the fridge in fourteen days? We hurried to the car, where I sat them down, buckled them i...
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Rage Against the Minivan: Top Ten Annoying Things People Say To Adoptive Parents That, Even Though They Mean Well, Drive Adoptive Parents Up A Tree
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Top Ten Annoying Things People Say To Adoptive Parents That, Even Though They Mean Well, Drive Adoptive Parents Up A Tree. My friend Karen Walrond. Is an adoptive mom, and also a writer, photographer and author of the gorgeous and soul-nurturing book The Beauty of Different. Photo by Maile Wilson. 10 “You look like you could be her real mother.”. 9 “Did you get to meet her father? Yup In fact, I married him. Please see Number 10, above, and re-word your question appropriately. No Aren’t you afraid ...
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Rage Against the Minivan: How to monitor safety issues while managing your own parental anxiety
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How to monitor safety issues while managing your own parental anxiety. This post was sponsored by Empowered SAFETY. Must be liver failure. A fever and a rash? Sounds like smallpox. Since my kids were born, I have been convinced that they were afflicted with:. Spinal meningitis (bad fever). Malaria (we went to Mexico and then they caught a bug). Autism (my two year old is ignoring me! Sensory processing disorder (why is she covering her ears at that noise? Hepatitis A (tan poop). And tracks product and fo...
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Rage Against the Minivan: Finding justice for Trayvon: seven actions steps for our outrage
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Finding justice for Trayvon: seven actions steps for our outrage. I take for granted that I belong wherever I happen to be.". 8221; I remember feeling so disgusted by his question, as if he were speaking some kind of prophecy into the character and potential of my new son. My son who was six months old. Despite the fact that the pictured men were Timothy McVeigh and a black Harvard professor). It’s evident when people assume a black man to be a criminal over a white man. Trayvon just brought to light the...
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Rage Against the Minivan: parents, please educate your kids about adoption so mine don’t have to
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Parents, please educate your kids about adoption so mine don’t have to. I took the kids to the park the other day, and I was seated just close enough to the play structure that I could faintly overhear a conversation that occurred between Kembe and several older kids. At first, I had a hard time understanding what was being said, but something about Kembe’s posture caught my attention. Typically, he’s a relatively. Surely they are not ganging up on him about adoption,. 8220;Yeah, where is your REAL mom?
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Rage Against the Minivan: James Baldwin for Esquire magazine in 1960
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James Baldwin for Esquire magazine in 1960. Wednesday, November 26, 2014. James Baldwin for Esquire magazine in 1960. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Hi, I’m Kristen. I’m a mom of four kids via birth and adoption and a writer living in Southern California. MORE. How to make a good first impression (the montessori mortification). What Am I Doing Wrong Here? The Celebration of Color. A Fair to Remember. Homeless, Hipster, or Redneck: A Guide to Distinguishing The Younger Generation. The New "Mom Jean".
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All Categories - Beauty in Breakdown
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I've never been one of those people to wake up each morning with a fire under her butt ready to conquer the world. I've never been the gal to always think positively about everything under the sun or the one to tout the mantra “everything will work out as it should.”. For me, life has always been one of introspection, of questioning everything, of doubting. a lot. Ndash; whether it be people's motives, God's plan, or just a simple decision of what to wear to school that day. Hell Didn't Freeze Over.
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Beer & Hymns - Not Mutually Exclusive - Beauty in Breakdown
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Beer and Hymns - Not Mutually Exclusive. Ldquo;That was so fun! Ldquo;I'm so glad we came! Ldquo;I can't wait until the next one! Those are just a few of the exclamations I heard as I waited for the Ladies restroom after the culmination of the first Beer and Hymns. Event in Orange County. Held at Durty Nelly's. Rdquo; It was amazing to see how so few of us actually needed to look at the words in the hymnals once our temporal lobes kicked in to high gear recalling the lyrics, the melody, and the rhythm of...
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