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  • motherhood,  Parenting,  sleep issues,  toddlers

    The long miles

    By Jenny Uebbing

    I’m letting my infrequently nappingĀ almost 4-year-old stay up today, because his big brother is home and “too bored to live” when he’s the only bird chirping in the middle of the day. Luke, our resident 6 month…

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  • motherhood,  Parenting,  pregnancy,  sleep issues

    Sleeptraining and other parenting curse words

    By Jenny Uebbing

    Do you sleep train in your house? Would you consider letting your little snowflake cry it out? My little sister, a freshly minted mom, was asking questions aboutĀ the trauma that is sleep after baby, and I had…

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  • Parenting,  sleep issues,  toddlers

    Crutches

    By Jenny Uebbing

    1. My Ergo 2. Alcohol 3. Amazon prime streaming 4. Blackest black espresso 5. Driving aimlessly through the burbs in my minivan because I’ve forgotten where it is we’re trying to get to. Truly. Enough with the…

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  • Catholic Spirituality,  motherhood,  Parenting,  sleep issues,  Suffering

    Up All Night

    By Jenny Uebbing

    Ex-utero bambino number two has been dripping with snot and sorrow for the past 3 days and seems to find comfort only in my arms – or more accurately, clawing up my back – lying in out…

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  • Catholic Spirituality,  Family Life,  Life in Italy,  sleep issues,  Suffering,  toddlers

    How (not) to suffer

    By Jenny Uebbing

    Been curled up in a ball of self-pity and eye twitches most of today, due to nothing more serious than a broken laptop, a country that refuses to grant me resident alien status or internet access, and…

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  • Parenting,  sleep issues

    7 Quick Takes from a Crazy, Crazy Week

    By Jenny Uebbing

    Alternate title: 7 places my kid’s face has been on the news throughout the world. Too obnoxious? Yeah, me too. 1. But obviously this was the highlight of our little family’s week, followed by write ups here…

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  • Life in Italy,  motherhood,  Parenting,  sleep issues,  Suffering

    Dear Diary

    By Jenny Uebbing

    What is the number one easiest way to ensure that some recently ‘mastered’ parenting trick or technique fails spectacularly? Oh, oh, I know…talk about it! (See yesterday’s post.) Last night was hell. Hell, I tell you. I…

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  • motherhood,  Parenting,  sleep issues

    He Sleeps!

    By Jenny Uebbing

    And so do I! 2 nights in a row now, I’ve gotten 7+ hours. Fricking fracking miracle, I tell you. Evidenced by a frenetic mopping of both the kitchen and bathroom yesterday, and daily Mass and a…

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  • Parenting,  sleep issues

    Cry Me Out

    By Jenny Uebbing

    I am awfully afraid of sleep training. In my past life as an idiot without any children, I judged many a parent in my heart for their seeming incompetence/obsession with their children’s sleep habits, and I even…

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  • Life in Italy,  Parenting,  sleep issues

    7 Quick Takes

    By Jenny Uebbing

    1. These kids are killing me. Killing me, I tell you. I am literally considering enrolling Joey in a half-day, thrice weekly preschool program – okay, fine, daycare – to the monthly tune of roughly what tuition…

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