But even so, I try to stay true to myself and my general sense of
what feels like home to me and my husband.
Fiction is
what feels like home to me.
Not exact matches
Years ago, my son Tim and I were waiting for a commuter train
to take us
home, from
what felt like the middle of nowhere.
And I
felt like:
What am I — someone who came
to the Bay Area for a tech job and is paid a lot — doing in this
home instead of someone else who actually can't afford
to pay more than $ 1,000 a month in rent?»
The biggest thing that I had
to deal with was not
feeling like God was mad at me every time I made any kind of a little mistake, because in the
home that I grew up in you just never knew
what was going
to set my dad off.
He writes with
feeling to a parent of the school, «I often think
what poor creatures we priests are, who,
like gentlemen of England, sit at
home at ease, while you, married men, have all the merit of anxiety and toil which the care of a family involves.
I
feel like I'm telling a lie when I'm asked
what I'm doing and I reply by» I'm a Stay - at -
home - Mom
to a 2 - year - old».
Don't
feel like you need
to make a special trip
to the grocery store for the apples though,
what you have at
home will be fine.
To this day, it's still one of my great «kitchen sink» salads:
What goes into it or how I dress it depends what I find left over from service the night before in the salad station, or what I find in my fridge at home when I don't feel like shopping or cooking m
What goes into it or how I dress it depends
what I find left over from service the night before in the salad station, or what I find in my fridge at home when I don't feel like shopping or cooking m
what I find left over from service the night before in the salad station, or
what I find in my fridge at home when I don't feel like shopping or cooking m
what I find in my fridge at
home when I don't
feel like shopping or cooking much.
Over the last few years, I've returned
home from
what should have been dream escapes
feeling worn out and chubby —
like I needed a vacation
to recover from my vacation.
I'm trying
to imagine
what your man Carvalho might look
like beside Xhaka when he starts
feeling at
home, gets used
to our pitch and surrounding then becomes confident.
What is also normal is developing other interests, playing with other groups of friends, spending family time at
home or in the community, bopping from activity
to activity when their interests move in another direction, and then coming back
to an activity they dropped some time ago, when they
feel like it.
And given
what I've read and watched on the news since January... looks
like his camp is the one: - giving him bad advice (not being with the team for
home games / playoffs)- giving leaks out
to the media on how Kawhi / their camp
feels - wants him
to leave SAS for a bigger media market
to get a bigger shoe deal (screw the max deal with SAS)
Despite continued snipes in the media the stadium is fine; not perfect but it is
what we have and is a place that we need
to make
feel like home.
The statistics show that
home teams have an advantage, certainly
home teams that score first...
What we wanted
to do today was
to make sure we put them under pressure early, that they
felt like, «Look, this is going
to be a long afternoon.»
He did and now, following a season - opening performance of 6.63 in France at the end of last month — his first race since June — the 2014 world indoor champion has every intention of being in contention
to find out
what it
feels like to win at a major championships in front of a
home crowd in Birmingham in a few weeks» time.
@Gretchen, when you make a statement
like «Would that all women had the resources and confidence
to say this,» you transition from your reflection on your own thoughts and decisions and move
to a blanket statement of
what you think is Right for all women (the implication here is if women had the correct amount of resources and confidence, they would all
feel like staying at
home because they would be able
to recognize that they were the most qualified
to care for their kids.)
In part 2 of this two - part series, James discusses exactly
what to do when your children get in trouble for fighting at school or at
home — and the right kinds of consequences
to give them so they learn
to use appropriate behavior instead of lashing out when they
feel like hitting someone the next time.
I had irrational fears about
what it would be
like at work,
felt completely helpless on multiple occasions, and had a very hard time letting my son out of my sight even
to run
to the bathroom (when my husband was
home).
If you
feel like you know
what's going
to happen when you get
home, then great!
We
feel guilty because we know we are so lucky
to be able
to stay
home with our kids but still don't love it at every moment and sometimes think about
what it will be
like when we return
to our old jobs.
We have all been there and we know
what it is
like to feel at
home all the time, but unsure how
to take your son or daughter out though too when they are learning
to potty train.
Sometimes I think that stay - at -
home mothers
like to think that because we have given up (
what feels like) everything that our children will turn out better, will be smarter, will be more successful, will be healthier, more loved, more, more, more....
around midnight i began
to question my decision
to have a
home birth, & maria was getting tired... she called in a second midwife for support & my doula arrived from another birth... i was afraid of the power - i hadn't
felt it
like this in kayenn's birth... i was afraid that i would come apart - even though i had
to - i know now that coming apart is a part of the process... someplace in the middle of this birth i realized that i did not know how
to do this - i was acting against the birth process - literally & emotionally... i had a mental idea of
what it should look, sound, smell, be
like... after some hours maria checked me again, i had been at 9 cm for 4 hours... she said
to me, «some babies can come through at 9 cm, but yours will not, sokhna... sokhna, you are going
to have
to fight
to bring this baby out... go into the bathroom, get in the shower & work it out... «so i did... i went in the cold bathroom alone & remembered every cold detail of kayenn's birth... i wondered if i could get
to the hospital on time
to have an emergency c - section & i began
to cry... & as i cried i had
to go
to the bathroom - i sat on the toilet & the rushes came down
like nothing i can explain - but they didn't hurt - it was just POWER!
And none of those things even come close
to what it must
feel like if you are
home with your laboring wife, and an incompetent midwife and suddenly the midwife starts cursing and freaking out, and you can see from where you are standing something is wrong, the baby's feet are coming first, and too much blood, and your wife is screaming in agony and you can't remember how
to dial 911.....
Someone who has never attended a peaceful
home birth where the woman is completely focused on
what she is
feeling and is conscious
to the fact that she is about
to give life, will never understand how birth is not an sickness and that it should not be treated
like so.
What if you could visit a place close
to home, but it
feels like you're in an exotic location?
I cried several times knowing exactly
what it
feels like to sit in that doctor's waiting room, in front of his desk as he gives the news, in the MRI lab waiting for my child
to emerge, and at
home wondering when the symptoms will end and my child will be healed.
If you want someone
to come into the
home and you want them
to straighten up as well and perhaps you are not sure that you are working full time so you are around and there are times when you might wan
na take your child and I often see parents get stuck in that dilemma, «Well, I have childcare today but I really wanted
to be with my kid and now
what I am not gonna pay them but yet they are
feeling like they wan
na be there.»
Andrea do you find that toddlers want
to nurse more often when mom is at
home just hanging out, and
what tips do you have if the mom doesn't
feel like being a twenty - four hour drive - thru?
After we got
home, it was still rocky with his latch, there were many nights where I
felt like giving up, wondering
what kind of formula I needed
to tell my husband
to go out and buy.
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What You Do»] Emily McKhann, The Motherhood [«You Are Courageous»] Jane Maynard, This Week for Dinner [«Savor Even the Hard Seconds»] Mary Ann Zoellner, producer at NBC's TODAY [«Play
Like a Dad»] Lian Dolan, Oprah.com [«Life is Serious Enough»] Maria Bailey, Mom Talk Radio [«Take Time
to Celebrate You»] Christie Matheson, Stroller Traffic [«Nothing Better Than Coming
Home»] Carla Naumburg, Psychcentral.com [«You Are Not Your Thoughts»] Jenny Lee Sulpizio, JennyLeeSulpizio.com [«I'm Not Above Mom Jeans»] Kimberly Coleman, Foodie City Mom [«Follow Your Own Inner Voice»] Missy Stevens, Wonder, Friend [«Nice Things Are Still Just Things»] Rachel Jankovic, Femina Girls [«It's Not Supposed
to Be Easy»] Megan Brooks, Texas Health Moms [«The Love Language of Listening»] Carissa Rogers, Good N Crazy [«Here's
to Embracing Change»] Dina Freeman, BabyCenter [«Learn
to Swim in the Deep End»] Elizabeth Grant Thomas, Elizabethgrantthomas.com [«It's Easier
to See Light in Darkness»] Wendy Hilton, Hip Homeschool Moms [«They Want
to Make Us Happy»] Renée Schuls - Jacobson, Rasjacobson.com [«Beware of Emotional Vampires»] Shannon Lell, ShannonLell.com [«Don't Be Afraid
to Sparkle»] Bunmi Laditan, Honest Toddler [«
What Makes You a Writer»] Erin Dymoski, Sisterhood of the Sensible Moms [«
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Feeling Bad?
sometimes i
feel guilty for getting overwhelmed, im a first time mother that stays at
home but fell guilty for needing a break and i
feel like everyone just looks at me
like»
whats so hard, you get
to hangout with your baby at
home all day».
Part of this transition includes making new friends and reconnecting with old friends who have also become moms and understand
what it
feels like to be
home all day with an infant, or how heartbreaking it is
to leave your baby while you work and provide for your family.
It was so nice
to put my son straight in his crib, no scary car journey with a new born I also
liked the fact I
felt I could do
what I wanted as it was my
home.
I just had my third baby and I
feel so stressed I forgot
what cluster feeding was
like but this time I don't have any adults at
home to take the other ones out.
H.H.: You know, when I was going around the country, on the Pink Bus, talking specifically
to women, so often they would say «We've got one child, we'd really
like to have another but we just can't afford it,
what with our
home's not big enough and the child care is too expensive», and there is then, they're working hard and then
feel that is unfair on other people they they
feel that they have bigger families that they would love
to have if they were in a position
to do that.
First, my family was military, so the race
feels like home to me, and at the end of the race you receive a coin instead of a medal since that's
what they give out in the military as a sign of accomplishment / respect.
Get
to know WHO we are and
WHAT we do + WHY this place will
feel like home.
I guess when you haven't been at the receiving end of that yourself, because perhaps you never
felt willing
to put yourself in the way of such vitriol, backlash, takedowns, for the sake of other women or something you believe in, then you might not ever understand
what happens when you post something
like your comment here, anonymously, sat at your desk at
home.
You might
feel at
home right away, or if you are
like me, you may first say
to yourself «oh dear,
what have I got myself into».
We've also tried many things at
home with little improvement and I just
feel like we need
to know exactly
what we're dealing with.
Not only does this make guests
feel more welcome in our
home, it also gives people the space
to cook
what they'd
like.
I already know
what it's
like to order a $ 20 cocktail at the Hudson,
to get giddy on prosecco at the Pier,
to feel fuzzy after too many glasses of red at a wine bar on the Upper East Side,
to shoot astronauts in Brooklyn (don't ask),
to get drunk from some random spicy
home - brew at a speak - easy in the East Village,
to slurp sickly sweet maraschino drinks at the Dominican joint in Queens,
to share a bottle of Patron with on - duty parking lot attendants in SoHo (again, don't ask), and of course, the rounds of the seemingly requisite mimosas at brunch.
I was raised on «poverty food» and
home grown fruits and vegetables, and I know
what it
feels like to feel good.
Not everything is a
home run and not everything is going
to be a success... but I realize the more I push myself and the more I work out those creative juices on a regular basis (even if it's NOT something
to do with fashion, per se...)... the more I
feel like I'm improving and getting better at
what I am doing... whatever it is I am doing.
It took one year
to finally
feel at
home, two years
to feel like I knew
what I was doing and three years
to start
feeling like a local.
If you are happy with
what your
home looks
like you won't only be able
to be much more productive — but also
feel more motivated and, in general, be in a better...
If you are happy with
what your
home looks
like you won't only be able
to be much more productive — but also
feel more motivated and, in general, be in a better mood.
I have
to admit I
felt a little intimidated since I
feel like our
home is still such a work in progress after our rennovation, but I am thrilled
to be able
to show you a little bit of
what I have been up
to since my holiday
home tour!