http://creatingmotherhood.com Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:03:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creatingmotherhood.com/2011/11/09/food-stamp-etiquette/ http://creatingmotherhood.com/2011/11/09/food-stamp-etiquette/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:27:58 +0000 Dresden http://creatingmotherhood.com/?p=7123 This is now officially the first month in two years that my family has not been depending on food stamps to feed ourselves. The moment that I realized that I no longer qualified for these benefits was incredibly triumphant for me. Within the same moment of celebrating I also felt so incredibly thankful. I have [...]]]> http://creatingmotherhood.com/2011/11/09/food-stamp-etiquette/feed/ 138 http://creatingmotherhood.com/2011/10/31/brazilian-keratin/ http://creatingmotherhood.com/2011/10/31/brazilian-keratin/#comments Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:55:20 +0000 Dresden http://creatingmotherhood.com/?p=7060 As soon as I found out about getting one’s hair straightened out at a salon I was intrigued. (And by “intrigued” I really mean, “I SO WANTED IN!”) My friend Paz was the first person I know to get it done and it looked amazing on her. It’s been one of those “when I can [...]]]> http://creatingmotherhood.com/2011/10/31/brazilian-keratin/feed/ 23 http://creatingmotherhood.com/2011/10/17/a-weekend/ http://creatingmotherhood.com/2011/10/17/a-weekend/#comments Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:17:50 +0000 Dresden http://creatingmotherhood.com/?p=6987 It’s impossible to even try to capture the bliss of our weekend. It was, hands down, one of the best I have ever had. Sunday, in particular was the ultimate day for us. It was one of those perfect Fall days in Philadelphia – the kind of day where you could totally put on a [...]]]> http://creatingmotherhood.com/2011/10/17/a-weekend/feed/ 10 http://creatingmotherhood.com/2011/10/02/i-met-the-bangles/ http://creatingmotherhood.com/2011/10/02/i-met-the-bangles/#comments Mon, 03 Oct 2011 01:44:33 +0000 Dresden http://creatingmotherhood.com/?p=6911 I would like to pretend that I was incredibly calm and mellow when I heard that Vicki, Debbi, and Sussana were about to walk up the stairs. And I don’t mean they were about to walk up to the stage. I mean they were walking up to the little atrium area of the theatre where [...]]]> http://creatingmotherhood.com/2011/10/02/i-met-the-bangles/feed/ 15 http://creatingmotherhood.com/2011/10/01/the-bangles-story/ http://creatingmotherhood.com/2011/10/01/the-bangles-story/#comments Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:36:11 +0000 Dresden http://creatingmotherhood.com/?p=6891 I know that I am not unique when it comes to being a girl child of the 80′s that carried a torch for The Bangles. They were beautiful, they had great hair, they had cool clothes, they sang songs that I could sing along too and (hurrah!) their songs were on the radio all the [...]]]> http://creatingmotherhood.com/2011/10/01/the-bangles-story/feed/ 14 http://creatingmotherhood.com/2011/09/14/forgotten-coffee/ http://creatingmotherhood.com/2011/09/14/forgotten-coffee/#comments Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:13:27 +0000 Dresden http://creatingmotherhood.com/?p=6813 I was trying to think of a way to describe the kind of taffy-pulling-super-stretched-every-which-way my days are going lately. Then I looked over at my coffee. It’s my 2nd bowl of coffee (you know, one of those giant mugs that are essentially a bowl with a handle) but I poured it at 11:00am. It is [...]]]> http://creatingmotherhood.com/2011/09/14/forgotten-coffee/feed/ 9 http://creatingmotherhood.com/2011/08/11/saying-goodbye-to-an-alias/ http://creatingmotherhood.com/2011/08/11/saying-goodbye-to-an-alias/#comments Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:12:14 +0000 Dresden http://creatingmotherhood.com/?p=6601 In May of 2005 I joined my first on-line forum to talk to and learn from other women trying to become mothers in unconventional ways. I sat and looked at the screen asking for a username for twenty minutes. A wave of anxiety washed over me and I knew that I could not, would not [...]]]> http://creatingmotherhood.com/2011/08/11/saying-goodbye-to-an-alias/feed/ 64 http://creatingmotherhood.com/2011/07/14/im-getting-married/ http://creatingmotherhood.com/2011/07/14/im-getting-married/#comments Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:30:41 +0000 Dresden http://creatingmotherhood.com/?p=6359 Ok fine. I’m not getting married. I’m getting bummed. In addition to not having a sidekick to my life I also don’t have all the COOL STUFF that a person gets when they find and marry their side kick. I routinely discover, when asking a friend about a cool gadget or appliance that it was [...]]]> http://creatingmotherhood.com/2011/07/14/im-getting-married/feed/ 42 http://creatingmotherhood.com/2011/06/16/hummingbird-post/ http://creatingmotherhood.com/2011/06/16/hummingbird-post/#comments Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:59:18 +0000 Dresden http://creatingmotherhood.com/?p=5876 It’s honestly been one of the most forward-moving weeks I have ever had. I am used to weeks of highs that either slowly fade back down to reality or come swiftly crashing down. But so far I have been floating and flapping my wings so fast and with such force that I really seem to [...]]]> http://creatingmotherhood.com/2011/06/16/hummingbird-post/feed/ 36