Just because it sounded like fun... & because I am home alone for a week... & because I want to be cool like my friend Gen over at Uniquely Normal Mom... :o)
I decided to join the "natural parenting" blog party hosted by The Peaceful Housewife!
To start things off, there are some get-to-know-you questions. I answered them below...
(and am about to go read everyone else's... as soon as I get my rambunctious 2 year old who JUST learned how to climb out of his crib :o( to stay in bed for the night!) Tips and advice welcome!!!!! :o)
(and am about to go read everyone else's... as soon as I get my rambunctious 2 year old who JUST learned how to climb out of his crib :o( to stay in bed for the night!) Tips and advice welcome!!!!! :o)
Ok, here we go:
I have three boys!!! A 9 year old, a 2 year old, and a 4 month old. :o)
2. Do you have a partner, or are you a single parent?
I have been married to my husband Andrew for 4 years. Our 9 year old is technically 'his', but whatever...
3. What are your “hot button” parenting issues?
Sleep-training and un-informed circumcision really get me going, for sure! I just wish everyone would hear and really try to understand the truth behind these practices before making such permanent life-altering decisions!
(That said, if you really make an effort to hear both sides before making your decision, I can respect your decision as parents... it's the ignorance - chosen or innocent - that really gets me!)
4. Have you made any parenting choices that you didn’t think you would make before you were a parent, i.e. cloth diapering a child when you had previously thought it was disgusting?
Ummm... yeah. I was never going to be one of those 'cloth-diapering' parents! :o) haha. Now I'm addicted and would rather shop for fluff than just about anything else!
5. Is there one book or person in particular that’s heavily influenced your parenting choices?
I guess I would say Ina May's books have been very influential in my life... I just love her!!
If I had to pick one specific thing though, it would be the movie The Business of Being Born (I know it's not a book, but same difference!). That's what really pushed me over the edge into a home-birthing, natural mama!
6. If you had to describe each of your children using only one word, what word would you use?
Oh this one is tough. I hate labeling my kids, but for the sake of novelty I will try...
Navy (9) = teenager. Bjørn (2) = stubborn. Haakon (4m) = smiley!
7. Is there one parenting decision that you regret more than others and wish you could change?
Every single day I regret having my firstborn circumcised. I was completely ignorant (maybe because I was afraid to be anything otherwise?) and that ignorance is not something I can take back, as much as I wish I could. :o(
8. Is there an area of your parenting you wish you were better at?
Oh I completely wish I had more patience! :o( I was telling a friend the other day... I'm pretty sure I almost never swore before I had a toddler. He sure knows how to push my buttons!! (Needless to say, I'm pretty much terrified for when he's a teenager!) :o)
9. Now for the fun questions – is there one particular food or type of food that you could eat every day?
mmm... bread for sure! I could live on bread! (with butter and cheese, of course!) :o)
10. Vanilla ice cream or chocolate?
Breyer's Vanilla Fudge Twirl (best of both worlds!)
11. What’s your guilty pleasure?
fresh bread. I have been known to eat a whole loaf myself!!
(Seriously... a few months ago, my husband was home when I brought groceries in - including a loaf of fresh french bread - and he said "that's how big those loaves are?! I thought they were way smaller than that!") :o)
12. If you could be part of any television show, which show would it be?
Glee!! (I just got done watching Season 1 on Netflix!) Wouldn't that be just so much fun???
or The Pioneer Woman's new show on the Food Network... I'm almost tempted to get TV again for that one. I just love her!! :o)
