http://creatingmotherhood.com Mon, 21 May 2012 17:51:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://creatingmotherhood.com/2012/02/13/jcp-shopin/ http://creatingmotherhood.com/2012/02/13/jcp-shopin/#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:07:17 +0000 Dresden http://creatingmotherhood.com/?p=7750 I am sure you have heard about the group that strongly opposes JC Penney hiring Ellen DeGeneres as part of JCP’s new ad campaign. This group threatened JC Penney saying that hiring Ellen was anti family. Because Ellen is gay. And according to this group being gay means you are anti family. As a friend of [...]]]> http://creatingmotherhood.com/2012/02/13/jcp-shopin/feed/ 13 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/ 143 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/ 65 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