Bless Your Heart

Living out loud in the Carolinas

Category: parenting

  • I have not read the book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.  I have read many articles about the book, which is not as good as reading the book itself.  I’m not sure I want to read the book.  But that’s not what this post is about.  As you can imagine, over the last 5…

  • Thank you for all your input regarding blogging with kids.  I talked everything over with CSP & we’ve come to an agreement.  I had to compromise, but it’s a good thing.  Being married to CSP keeps me balanced. Since we’re fostering to adopt I won’t blog about the children until the adoptions are final.  That…

  • Ladies, I need your help.  This whole impending motherhood thing is new to me.  Add that to the interwebs and it can get a little complicated.  So, tell me…. Do you blog about your kids? Do you use their real names? Do you show their pictures? Do you use your real name? See, I feel…

  • This morning Joey and I went out to breakfast. We met up with a bunch of moms from my mom’s group at IHOP. It was fun to see everyone and meet a couple of new people. I tell ya though, I am going to have to buy stock in Purell or something. We went potty…

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  • When CSP & I decided to adopt I started talking about it on my blog and that drew some new readers from the adoption world. BYH started to appear on blogrolls across Blogistan under “China Adoption” or “Paperchasing” etc. Then we slowed down a bit to figure out the finance end of things a little…

  • As I was doing my make up yesterday I actually thought “I hope Ling Ling likes make up as much as I do. I sure do love make up.”I swear I’ll work on other, more important parenting things like morals and values. But I do hope she’s a girlie girl like me. Cause don’t think…

  • I was eating my cereal while checking my email this morning. The pugs were begging to lick my empty bowl (even though I still had a ways to go). I told them “Girls, it doesn’t help you get my bowl faster when you scratch up Mommy’s legs.”Then Jon yells from the family room “Shred her!“…

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