On making excuses & not showing up :: 31 days of messy parenting {day 5}

October 5, 2012 Karen Huber

It's an easy excuse I use too often.

"Sorry, I can't, I've got the kids."

"Oh, that sounds great, but it's a little too close to naptime."

"I'd love to, really, but, well, you know how toddlers are."

Life with the wee three is tailor-made for excuses of all kinds. They're loud and they're fast and they all run in different directions. They distract and disrupt and yell. Did I mention the biting? Or the falling and the crying? And I'm a mess.

We could've never planned this :: 31 days of messy parenting {day 3}

October 3, 2012 Karen Huber

So some days (ok, some weeks) we don't menu plan.

We go to church with nary a chicken nor a beef roast in the crock pot. This is mostly unintentional. CBS Sunday Morning was on and there was a story about old people collecting art for the sake of art and then there had to be showers and hair washing and three of four wardrobe changes for the girl (red power ranger suit does not a church outfit make), and we had houseguests.

And the weather... well, it was just too beautiful to not take advantage of it.

Figuring Out Equally Shared Parenting : Because we mess up

April 10, 2012 Karen Huber

Ok, so we've done the roles thing, done the parenting thing, but here's where the rubber hits the road: how do we try, fail, and keep at it? What is essential, and what's not?

Figuring Out Equally Shared Parenting : Real men pre-soak cloth nappies

April 3, 2012 Karen Huber

So now you know our big secret, that we kind of* subscribe to an Equally Shared Parenting method of life, work and family. Last time I talked about how we aren't so big on traditional gender roles (though I've recently taken on more cooking responsibilities, which has resulted in, shall we say, a minor existential crisis), but today I want to talk about how we parent the brilliant little people.

*I say "kind of" because we're still learning and growing and I'm not meaning this as a specific endorsement of ESP

Figuring Out Equally Shared Parenting : Gender roles, shmender roles

March 29, 2012 Karen Huber

What we have is special.

That's how we, the husband and I, feel. From the day we got married, till last night "spooning at a distance" in bed, we know that what we have is special.

We are also kind of weird.

That's how we have felt as parents and coworkers in full-time ministry who, for the last 5 years, have been a stay-at-home, work-from-home, and work-out-of-the-home family, doing almost all of it together. Once we discovered a name for it - Equally Shared Parenting - we began to feel not so weird. And while we're still working out the kinks, I wanted to share a bit about what we do at home, why we do it, and how.

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