NOTE: My computer is acting wonky and I can’t get pictures to load. Will put up tomorrow. If computer behaves. First of all, I don’t want to tar all Turtle Mothers with my messy brush (tar is sticky, after all). However, this one, solitary, individual Turtle Mom is an extremely poor housekeeper. No ifs, ands [...]
This Turtle Mom tends to come out and blink in surprise at the arrival of most holidays. Including Memorial Day (my first clue was the sign warning about a parade in town this a.m., which effectively prevents me from leaving my house for two hours). I debated forging ahead with my intended post. And then [...]
We have a lot of pictures. A storage tub full of them. And another storage tub full. And there are still some pictures I haven’t (re)found yet that are tucked into drawers and boxes. A lot of them are very bad, technically. The kind a Tiger Mom would throw away. Or burn. Or rip into [...]
To the even mix of one-boy-one-girl family, we added another boy. This made a lot of change for daughter to handle in just about two years: new state, new house, new school, new friends, new brother, another new brother. She would have preferred a sister, I’m sure. Someone to dress up in pink and practice [...]
It seems appropriate that I would be late to post this confession. I’ve been in my shell all day formatting and editing the rest of the Once Upon a Wedding series books. Three are up at Smashwords, two at Amazon, and two more are close to being put up. There are no pictures to depict [...]
It seems reasonable to assume that Tiger Moms dress the part – a wardrobe that says success, drive, winner, get-outta-my-way-or-get-run-over. They probably know what decade it is, too, so you won’t see a Tiger Mom with a 70s perm. Turtle Moms, by their very nature, not so much. Unless fashion is their shell? I am [...]
Both Tiger Moms and Turtle Moms know how critical family can be. In both senses of the word. Especially grandmothers. From the day she was born, both grandmothers waged a campaign to keep a hat on her head and a coat on her back in the winter. They waged this campaign with sighs, tongue [...]
The phrase Tiger Mom gives the impression of a mom who would rip you apart if you threatened her child, right? Turtle Mom, not so much. This Turtle Mom thought I would do anything for my daughter. When ScienceDad was ready for grad school, he considered several schools. We visited Stony Brook, and took in [...]
I don’t know about Tiger Moms and dogs. I can see it both ways. I bet if a Tiger Mom let her daughter have a dog, it would be for some purpose, inspired by awards for Best in Show. The kind of dog that comes with an embossed certificate of pedigree, and needs special food, [...]
Daughter went almost eight years as an only child, with two doting grandmothers and a doting grandfather wrapped around her pinky finger. Not to mention Turtle Mom and Science Dad. Like many children, she thought it would be fun to have a little brother or sister. So why not add a sibling, right? There were [...]
