Category: preschoolers

• Swallow Back the Years (from the Momplex Blog archive)

  I do not want my kids to grow up. There. I said it. I like them little. I like how they smell. I like how my daughter’s voice still sounds about half her age when we talk on the phone. I like how my son says he’s built a Lego structure by following the “durkstructions.”…

  Jenny

  July 18, 2014

  humor, kids say the darndest things, motherhood, preschoolers, sons, vomiting

  bedtime, humor, kids say the darndest things, motherhood, preschoolers, puke, sons

• More Depressing than a Sad Santa

  From the Momplex archives: It would be an understatement to say I’ve been a little blue lately. Blue’s such a pretty color anyway. Why don’t we refer to the doldrums with a color like diarrhea brown, as in “I’ve been feeling a little diarrhea-brown lately.” I have. My daughter, who will be five this week,…

  Jenny

  June 8, 2014

  daughters, marriage, military life, mood issues, motherhood, poop, preschoolers

• Answering Life’s Big Questions (from the Momplex Blog archive)

  (The following was originally published in 2009.) My daughter is getting to that stage where she’s starting to ask the Big Questions. Actually, she hit the stage some months ago, around the time I became pregnant again. I’m a fan of Dr. Spock’s advice on these matters, which is to offer no more information than…

  Jenny

  May 14, 2014

  daughters, death, mood issues, motherhood, preschoolers, sexuality