• Housecleaning motivation: guilt and candy

  

  I still carry it over in my family. If my husband is cleaning the kitchen, I cannot sit down at the computer and blog. I have to put the folded laundry away.

  Read Full Post At AmyMusing

  Categories: Chores, Cleaning, Family, Mother, Husband, Guilt

• Related Stories

• 

  I want to say “be a man, love this child, show him and the world that disabilities don’t matter – Tanner’s disabilities are not a reflection of your precious manhood!"

  Categories: Family, Muscular Dystrophy, Illness, Love

• 

  I have to admit: now that I'm a mother, teaching feels different. I have less sympathy for my students, less time and energy, but, at the same time, I love them more.

  Categories: Teacher, Mother, Getting Older, Suicide

• 

  Teased is the wrong word really. She was manipulated by others for their amusement. A little girl who she thinks is a friend preyed upon her.

  Categories: Daughter, Autism, Teasing, Mother

• 

  Somehow, I have always had this delusion in the back of my mind that my mother is immortal. That she would be here, kicking someone’s ass, long after I had died and turned to dust.

  Categories: Mother, Son, Death, Dying, Family, Acceptance

• 

  My mother sewed this doll for me almost four decades ago.

  Categories: Mother, Daughter

• 

  Tonight I sang him Hush little Baby. He’s heard this so many times through the years. But, tonight he told me it was so beautiful and then he sang me a song.

  Categories: Mother, Parenting, Learning Disability

• 

  Nowhere does it talk about how hitting puberty activates the Lying Gene.

  Categories: Mother, Daughter, Parenting, Puberty

• 

  No matter how goofy we'd dress, how moody and PMS-y we were, or what ingrates we could be, she was always, always on our side- ready to defend us or knock some much-needed sense into our noggins.

  Categories: Mother, Daughter, Love, Getting Older

• 

  This was great, I was using my degree to plan out an efficient yet attractive space for the Clone troopers while spending time with Ewan

  Categories: Mother, Son, Play

• 

  38 is not what I expected. I always thought that I would be a famous writer by now, and of course I would be a MILF. Ha! I don't even want to have sex with me

  Categories: Parenting, Family, Adoption, Getting Older

Top Categories

• Parenting
• Mother
• Getting Older
• Marriage
• Dating
• Daughter
• Love
• Death
• Family
• Son

• Home
• About
• Follow Double Sifted on Twitter

Copyright 2009 Double Sifted