This year, my daughter is in grade one, and is learning how to read. As a book enthusiast, I am so so so so sooooooooooooooo excited!
Just last summer, I would try and get her to sound out words, because I know that she has known her letter sounds for a long time. She would get anxious, and forget a lot of what she had previously learned and would give me the "but Mom!! I don't know how to read yet!" and would get frustrated, and give up.
The past seven months or so, she has completely turned it around. I mean, this kid is a genius in my eyes. She still has smaller struggles, but she's reading everything! I can`t spell things out in front of her anymore, because even if she doesn't get the whole word, she can piece it together on her own. She is starting to write her own stories, and though there are lots of misspelled words, most are spelled semi-phonetically.
I have been beaming about her journey and her progress for months, and I just cannot get over how fast she absorbs these things that just a short time ago seemed impossible to her.
Being a parent truly is the best job in the world. I know that sounds sappy and cliche, but it's true. It's hard as hell sometimes, but it's just so rewarding. I'd never give it up.
'Til next time!!
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Touchy Subjects...ish.
I've been meaning to make this post for a couple days now, but I've had a very long week, so I've been putting it off but today is my friday, and I decided it was about damn time I update this thing!
Just to begin, I just bought new nail polish last night, and I looooove it. It's Coconut Crush by Revlon, and it's this very pretty pearl colour and it's SCENTED!! I'm still a little girl at heart, and I love that it has a faint coco-nutty scent. To be fair, I purchased it because I love the colour, but I do think the scented nail polishes are a neat gimmick:)
Anyway!
For some reason, this topic has come up in my life a few times in the last couple days, so I figured I'd write about it.
*Deep breath* Circumcision.
I have absolutely zero qualms with any parents who choose to have their son circumcised. If you believe that is the right choice for your family, then who the hell am I to say a word about your choice?
I just wanted to get that out of the way first.
If I were to ever have another child, and it happened, to be a boy, I would not have him circumcised.
These are my reasons:
- It's an unnecessary surgery, that is mostly cosmetic, save for religious reasons, which I absolutely do not have.
- With the very little I've researched, I've seen a doctor demonstrate how a circumcision is done, with the tools they use, and a doll. They strap the baby down on a little table thing, where I assume they do so in case the baby moved and made the doctor injure him, and use this strange clamp that looked like a mini stainless steel sewing machine to pinch the baby's foreskin so tight that the doctor could cut it off without having to anesthetize, instead they use a numbing agent and also to prevent a lot of bleeding.
I just can't imagine wanting to put someone I love through that.
Here's the "torture table" (what I call the restraint table when I'm discussing this with my boyfriend and I'm being dramatic and teasing him)
And this is the clamp I mentioned:
-It hurts the baby! I've heard the argument a number of times that he won't remember the pain, but it still hurts them in that moment, and in the healing afterwards.
- The foreskin is there for a reason! It is a protective piece of flesh.
- It was free however many years ago in Canada, but it now costs somewhere between $150 and $200.
- I've learned that an uncircumcised baby is not hard to clean, and that the foreskin should not be retracted until it is easily able to do so, otherwise you can injure him. So the "it's cleaner to have a cut penis" is complete bullshit. If parents are properly educated, there should be no issue with cleanliness.
- Speaking of education, if we educate out children to understand that we are all different and unique, then the argument about wanting your son's dick to look like his father's/brother's falls completely.
Anyway, this is completely just my opinion, and I'd love to hear yours as well!
Please be respectful, as I tried to be.
'Til next time!
Just to begin, I just bought new nail polish last night, and I looooove it. It's Coconut Crush by Revlon, and it's this very pretty pearl colour and it's SCENTED!! I'm still a little girl at heart, and I love that it has a faint coco-nutty scent. To be fair, I purchased it because I love the colour, but I do think the scented nail polishes are a neat gimmick:)
Anyway!
For some reason, this topic has come up in my life a few times in the last couple days, so I figured I'd write about it.
*Deep breath* Circumcision.
I have absolutely zero qualms with any parents who choose to have their son circumcised. If you believe that is the right choice for your family, then who the hell am I to say a word about your choice?
I just wanted to get that out of the way first.
If I were to ever have another child, and it happened, to be a boy, I would not have him circumcised.
These are my reasons:
- It's an unnecessary surgery, that is mostly cosmetic, save for religious reasons, which I absolutely do not have.
- With the very little I've researched, I've seen a doctor demonstrate how a circumcision is done, with the tools they use, and a doll. They strap the baby down on a little table thing, where I assume they do so in case the baby moved and made the doctor injure him, and use this strange clamp that looked like a mini stainless steel sewing machine to pinch the baby's foreskin so tight that the doctor could cut it off without having to anesthetize, instead they use a numbing agent and also to prevent a lot of bleeding.
I just can't imagine wanting to put someone I love through that.
Here's the "torture table" (what I call the restraint table when I'm discussing this with my boyfriend and I'm being dramatic and teasing him)
And this is the clamp I mentioned:
-It hurts the baby! I've heard the argument a number of times that he won't remember the pain, but it still hurts them in that moment, and in the healing afterwards.
- The foreskin is there for a reason! It is a protective piece of flesh.
- It was free however many years ago in Canada, but it now costs somewhere between $150 and $200.
- I've learned that an uncircumcised baby is not hard to clean, and that the foreskin should not be retracted until it is easily able to do so, otherwise you can injure him. So the "it's cleaner to have a cut penis" is complete bullshit. If parents are properly educated, there should be no issue with cleanliness.
- Speaking of education, if we educate out children to understand that we are all different and unique, then the argument about wanting your son's dick to look like his father's/brother's falls completely.
Anyway, this is completely just my opinion, and I'd love to hear yours as well!
Please be respectful, as I tried to be.
'Til next time!
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
I knew it was coming...
This post may be on the sad side. If you are here to read something uplifting and happy, it certainly isn't the day for that. Fair warning.
My brother and sister both passed away almost 14 years ago. They were 7 and 9. I was 13, and it was the summer before I started high school. I miss them both very much, and there are three dates will be forever burned into my memory.
Each of their birth dates and the day they died.
Until early this afternoon, I had forgotten all together that today would have been my sister's 23rd birthday. Which is absurd to me. She was basically still a baby when she died, so it just pains me to think that if the accident didn't happen, then she'd be a grown up, possibly with a family, and would know my family.
It's hard on days like today not to think about what might have been. I have been given great advice from a lot of different people, and the one thing that tends to come up most often is to not worry about what the future might have held for them. That it would just make me crazy.
If anyone who is reading this right now has ever given me that particular piece of advice - you were right.
Anyway, I just wanted to write this post to recognize my sister's life. She was a wonderful child, who looked up to me (who would've thought??). We fought, as sisters do, but then sometimes she'd ask me to lay with her, and sing Silent Night, even though I can't hold a tune worth a damn. She was happy, goofy, and loving and kind.
I miss my little sister, and I wish she were here more than anything right now.
'Til next time, I promise I will be happier then.
My brother and sister both passed away almost 14 years ago. They were 7 and 9. I was 13, and it was the summer before I started high school. I miss them both very much, and there are three dates will be forever burned into my memory.
Each of their birth dates and the day they died.
Until early this afternoon, I had forgotten all together that today would have been my sister's 23rd birthday. Which is absurd to me. She was basically still a baby when she died, so it just pains me to think that if the accident didn't happen, then she'd be a grown up, possibly with a family, and would know my family.
It's hard on days like today not to think about what might have been. I have been given great advice from a lot of different people, and the one thing that tends to come up most often is to not worry about what the future might have held for them. That it would just make me crazy.
If anyone who is reading this right now has ever given me that particular piece of advice - you were right.
Anyway, I just wanted to write this post to recognize my sister's life. She was a wonderful child, who looked up to me (who would've thought??). We fought, as sisters do, but then sometimes she'd ask me to lay with her, and sing Silent Night, even though I can't hold a tune worth a damn. She was happy, goofy, and loving and kind.
I miss my little sister, and I wish she were here more than anything right now.
'Til next time, I promise I will be happier then.
Introductions!!
Alright... If you're reading this, you likely know who I am, but I'll give you a quick refresher course, just in case!
My name is Terra, I'm a twenty-something mom to an amazing little girl, and in a wonderful relationship with an even more wonderful man. I am from the east coast of Canada, a small town in Nova Scotia to be specific. I've lived in a small handful of places across the country, but mostly when I was itty bitty. As an adult, I've lived in Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and now I'm in British Columbia.
With this blog, I want to write about some of my experiences with being a mom, or at least those that I remember. "Mommy Brain" is a real thing, you know! Hopefully I'll have some tips (and get some in return!), give reviews, show you some of my recipes, and share some of my life with you!
I'm very excited for this journey, and I hope we can share a lot together.
'Til next time!
My name is Terra, I'm a twenty-something mom to an amazing little girl, and in a wonderful relationship with an even more wonderful man. I am from the east coast of Canada, a small town in Nova Scotia to be specific. I've lived in a small handful of places across the country, but mostly when I was itty bitty. As an adult, I've lived in Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and now I'm in British Columbia.
With this blog, I want to write about some of my experiences with being a mom, or at least those that I remember. "Mommy Brain" is a real thing, you know! Hopefully I'll have some tips (and get some in return!), give reviews, show you some of my recipes, and share some of my life with you!
I'm very excited for this journey, and I hope we can share a lot together.
'Til next time!
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