Archive for the ‘General’ Category
December 30 2011
How was your holiday? Good I hope. You may have gathered by now that I’ve taken a bit of a break this month, as a way to figure out where I wanted to take this site. I mean, there’s only so many kid stories one can tell before they all start to sound the same. Except, I like telling our kid stories. So it seems the direction I want to go is the one I’ve been on all along. And I’ll be back after the new year, now with more redundancy. In the meantime, here are my 12 personal favorite posts of 2011, one for each month.
Laughing at a Bad Day
Whatever Gets Us Through the Day
Kids Break Stuff
Bursts
Just Like Rocky Fighting that Russian Guy
How I Imagine it Went
Fudging Gosh Dang Shoot Doesn’t Have the Same Ring to it
Some Mornings
I am a Nosy Neighbor
From the Scent of Powder
What I’m Here For
A Big Box of Knives
I also did a few guest posts that I’m proud of.
Not an Ideal Match at BlogHer
The Joy of Simple Toys at Scary Mommy
How to Live Life with Type 1 Diabetes at Work It, Mom
Have a safe and happy New Year! I’ll see you back here soon.
November 17 2011
As many of you know, my eldest child was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes in August 2010. Our time since then has been a learning process, but what they were telling me from the beginning is true: It really does get easier.
November is Diabetes Awareness Month. I wrote an article for Work It, Mom! as my small contribution.
How to Live Life with Type 1 Diabetes
You know I don’t ask this often, but I would be honored if you would go by and read, maybe even share or retweet if you feel inclined. There aren’t words to adequately express how much I appreciate your support, now and ever since I’ve been writing here. Thank you.
May 03 2011
2 years ago today, I published my first post on this domain titled An Introduction, and it was just that. This wasn’t my first domain, I’ve been blogging off and on for a long time, before it was even called blogging. But I’ve always had a tendency to get bored, pick up and move on to someplace else within a short time. Something about Kid Things, though, has been different.
That difference has been you, the ones that stick around to read about us. You’ve cheered us on and laughed at my stupid jokes. You’ve become my friends.
I didn’t have any great intentions when I started this site. I just wanted something to do amidst a day of chasing kids that was just and only mine. A child can’t smear peanut butter on a piece of the internet, or tear it to pieces. They can delete it all if the right button is pressed, but thankfully that hasn’t happened. Yet. Let’s cross our fingers.
This site, though, is also for them, my children. I wanted someplace to share our stories. I wanted to write, but nothing too introspective or deep, though I’ve been through a lot in these 2 years. But just good fun that hopefully would find an audience. I’ve found more than that, though. I’ve found you, my dear readers. I’m sometimes a little down that my stats aren’t more impressive, especially when those who haven’t been around nearly as long are racking up incredible opportunities and I feel like the dork in the back of the gym at the high school dance going hey, what about me. But then there’s you. I wouldn’t trade the group I’ve found here for anything.
Thank you so much for reading and commenting, whether from the beginning or just recently.
Thank you.
March 31 2011
Hi, I’m C. Of course, that isn’t my full name but I have to keep some secrets. Though it’s not too secret, because if you ask, I’ll always tell you. I’m a full-time mom to my 3 kids. My oldest, Jedi, is 7 and was recently diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Buzz is 4, will be 5 on the 26th of April, and has a speech delay that he goes to therapy for. He’s also the one that keeps me on my toes the most. Then there’s Abby, my 2.5 going on 13 year old daughter, completely beautiful, and a handful of her own.
Here at Kid Things, the name says it all. I do not do giveaways or reviews here. I write about our days and moments in short and sweet snippets. I’m not much into introspection, it’s mostly storytelling in my case. The funny things or sweet things. I’ve been going through a bit of a rough time recently, but I still prefer to write down and remember the bright side.
Just a couple of my favorite posts from the past few months:
Kids Break Stuff
Whatever Gets Us Through the Day
Future Aspirations
I’m also a part of From the Monkey Bars, a parenting collective of reader contributed stories, tips and ideas, all family-related. We’d love it if you stopped by and shared a post!
Don’t forget to leave a comment to let me know you were here and please subscribe or follow the newly added GFC on the sidebar! You can always find me on twitter at kidthingsnet or fromthemnkybars. From the Monkey Bars is also on Facebook.
March 20 2011
Some of my posts at From the Monkey Bars this week:
How I Became Crunchy – I didn’t set out to become an attachment parent, but somehow I am.
Let’s Go For a Walk – Easy ways to make a simple walk around the block fun.
SuperMoon – After all the talk, the supermoon here was a superbust with too much cloud cover to see anything. Hopefully your sky was clear, but if not, there’s still a recipe here for homemade “moon sand”.
Also, if any of you, my lovely readers and friends, would like to contribute a post to FtMB, I would very much appreciate it. Pretty much anything parenting/child/family related goes!
