Fresh Perspectives

Hello Everyone! To start my part of the blog is an excerpt from an email I sent to Heather, which she was so tickled with she asked me to post it word for word.  Some history:  I work at Barnes & Noble and observe lots of moms with kids. …yesterday every single kid that came [...]

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Top Ten True Confessions of Stephanie Rayburn; Wellington, CO

1.  I often respond to my son’s whining with an exasperated, “What?!!” 2.  A common lunchtime for my child involves microwaved fish-sticks or chicken nuggets drowned in ketchup, some macaroni and cheese, and maybe a pile of blueberries or some other fruit to counter the nutritional value of the rest of it.  Frozen peas if he’s [...]

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True Confessions of Marianne

1. I don’t brush my kids’ teeth every single night 2. I will give in and give them a lollipop at 10 am on Saturday morning if they will please please stop whining 3. On days they get a lollipop at 10 am I DO brush their teeth 4. Some nights I turn on Tom [...]

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True Confessions of Teresa Soltis

1. I turn the radio up in the car really loud so I don’t have to hear my kids talk. 2. I tell my kids I have homework so I can sit at the computer and eat my dinner. 3. I havn’t mopped my kitchen for over a month 4. I tell my kids food [...]

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True Confessions of Kira Nelson

1. I really would rather stay in bed and read than get up at 5:30 to feed my kids cold cereal. 2. I have raised whiny selfish kids, but I think they are happy. 3.Motherhood is the biggest kept secret in the world and if we all knew what it was really like well that [...]

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True Confessions of Kyndra Wilson, Colorado Springs, CO

We almost always eat dinner in front of the TV. My husband is the one that gets up with my daughter at night. On the rare nights when I actually wake up to hear her crying, I sometimes pretend to be asleep. I justify this by telling myself that I’m waiting to see if she’ll [...]

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