I offered my first What I’ve Learned as a grandmama when Sweet E hit six months. How much more could I have learned in three months? Plenty. ~ I’m good in a crisis concerning Sweet E, but once I get a green light to cry, I’m all in. Sweet E and DIL were in a …
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Women love to talk about and dissect almost any topic you throw at them. I love that about my gender. We are open and interested and willing to spread our collective knowledge around to help each other. Yet, there are still a few topics that even we shy away from discussing: Miscarriage and, harder yet, …
I get mocked. I get rolled eyes. I get tight smiles and pursed lips. I get long silences and unspoken expectations, begging me to come to my senses. I. Get. Mocked. And that’s OK. I count it as part of dreaming a dream that others might not understand. To each of those moments I whisper …
I was born on the Day of the Dead. If you live in or near a Mexican community, you know what I’m talking about. If you don’t, then you may have never heard of Dia de Los Muertos. Day of the Dead, or All Soul’s Day in the Catholic community, has been popularized in the …
Oh, my sweet little man, one of the best pieces of advice I can give you, as you grow into the world around you, is this: learn to laugh at yourself. As I wrote those words, a smile crept across my face. I thought of the times in my life when I could have been …
I wrote the following post for another site, but since I shared a running post with you on Wednesday, I thought that it dovetailed nicely. ~~~~~~~~~~ The year I approached the San Antonio Express News about writing a running column, which then became a blog, was a turning point in my life. Boy was planning …
Dear Sweet E, what’s an inner voice and where can you find yours? Mrs. Tucker is here to help, baby. For all my years, I’ve had a strong inner-voice. Long before it became conventional wisdom to listen to that voice, I instinctively knew that I should pay attention as something important, something I couldn’t yet …
When I was pregnant with Boy, I was the first in my large group of friends to have a baby; I would be the go-to mommy for all-things-baby advice. The overwhelming info overload of the mommy/baby industry of today was nonexistent. Matter of fact, I didn’t read a single book or do any research on …
Mrs. Tucker has been writing here, and referring to herself in third-person, for about eights months now. Some of you are new to the site (Welcome!) and some of you are gluttons for silliness and just can’t get enough (Welcome back!). As the days have run into weeks and and the weeks have run into …
A new study (who else winces when they see those words?!) from Brown College declares that grandparents and adult grandchildren who share close emotional ties have less symptoms of depression. Dang, I would have been happy to take the funding for that study and share that info; it’s a no-brainer. We found that an emotionally …