My Son Was Left Alone…

When I came home, I was expecting my son to be sitting in his chair looking at his dad. When I come home and enter through the door, I see my son on my bed crying his eyes out reaching out to me happy to see someone. That’s right, my soon to be ex-husband, left my son alone and for what? So he can go hang with someone in the building to play PS3, smoke and drink. How is he you ask? He’ll be 26 this year. I can’t get that image of him crying alone for who knows how long out of my head. Continue reading »

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My Son is Either Going to Hate Video Games or Love Them

Ever since he’s been home from the hospital, my son has been fascinated by video game controllers. I’m not sure it’s how they light up or he wants to play along with dad and I. When we hand him a controller that’s not plugged in, he looks up at the screen as he’s pressing buttons, he immediately gets upset — for good reason. Continue reading »

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“You gotta give your son a sibling…you just gotta!”

Says who? You? Society? At first I was up to having another child but then I asked myself: do I really want to go back to changing diapers all over again? The answer is no. I was told by a group of rather old women that I need to give him a sibling so he … Continue reading »

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What if My Son Grows Up to be Gay?

I’ve wondered about this since before I had children. If my son grows up to be gay all I can do is tell him I’m proud of him; let him know that he’ll always be my son no matter what. I would also commend him for being himself and not allowing society to mold him into something he didn’t want to be. I love my son and if Gay is his sexual orientation then who am I to say otherwise? I’m his mom, I have my own life and he has his. Continue reading »

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“Where did his binky go?”

Instead of Sir Adam the Great, my son’s name should be Sir Adam the Magician. I think I say “where did his binky go” at least 12 times a day. My son cannot walk or crawl but when he maneuver around, he doesn’t go far. It’s a known fact that you don’t have to move to lose things. My son has made losing his binky into an art form. He loses it in the crib, in his lounger, in his car seat, in his high chair. Continue reading »

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“It’s only going to get worse”…

Today Sir Adam the Great turned 8 months and you know what this little rascal gave me? A diaper that was so scary I had to call up my grandmother and ask her was it normal for my nose to run away from my face after smelling what just came out of my son. Well, she said yes and to add insult to injury she went on and said, “it’s only going to get worse”. Well, I don’t want it to get worse. Continue reading »

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To Spank or Not to Spank…

Ah yes, one of the most controversial topics of parenthood: spanking. I firmly believe spanking doesn’t work. I was raised in a household were beatings (not spankings) were upheld. Even though my guardians tried to strike fear in my heart, it didn’t stop me from doing what I wanted to do. In case you didn’t hear me the first time I’ll say it again, corporal punishment does not work! Continue reading »

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Babble.com: No Black Bloggers

Babble is one of my favorite sites I like to frequent on. It dawned on me a couple days ago that there aren’t any black bloggers on Babble.com. I wonder why that is? No way am I trying to conspire anything, I just found it weird that it’s not one black blogger on Babble. Continue reading »

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Parents Arrested for Children’s Tardiness. What?!

There’s this family in Ashbur VA, that’s going to court over their 3 children being tardy to school — because of LCPS (Londoun County Public Schools). The children were tardy to class by 3 minutes or less. Now, I can understand 40 minutes, an hour but 3 minutes or less? What can a child miss in 3 minutes? Continue reading »

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First Nightmare

I wish I was here the day my son had what my husband describes as a nightmare. He laid him down on his lap to take a nap while he used the computer. All of a sudden he woke up attacking him. Something scared him and when my husband told me this I immediately felt helpless. It made me realize that there are going to be things that I can’t protect my son from and that scares me. I will eventually have to let my son live his life and I’ll be there for him to support him and nothing more. I can’t live his life for him and I won’t even attempt to. Continue reading »

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The Wind Almost Took My Baby!

Today, I decided to step foot outside with my beautiful beautiful son. I needed to go to the library and it was a unusually warm day. The twist, is that it was a warm and WINDY day. Today is the day I talk about how the wind almost took my baby. Cleveland is a gloomy city and the weather may surprise unsuspecting people. I — was one of those people. First let me tell you where I stay. I stay downtown. If I’m in a tall enough building, I can see the lake. Add that fact and crazy Cleveland weather and you have a disaster. Continue reading »

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The Big Man Tub

My son has always been big. When he got his first bath tub at 2 months he was a couple months away too big for his tub. The maximum months for this tub is 6 months. He was too big for it at 4 months. With his new found glory in the world of using his feet. He really couldn’t move them like he wanted to within the confinement of the infant tub. Well although those facts were presented to me I still used it. What kept me using it was partly because I was in denial. He’s 7 months now. Where has the time gone? Where is it going? The bath tub in the sink time days are over. It’s time to move onto the big man’s tub. Continue reading »

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