Last year I shared my daughter’s crafty plea to get a hamster:
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Sometimes I want to go back in time and pat first time mom me on the head and say “bless your heart.” Before I actually had kids, I knew it all (ha).
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Post contains affiliate links. OK so I know I’m a little behind the times as far as discovering iPhone features go. This one recently came to my attention via Reddit thread and it’s a great one!
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My 10 year old asked me who my favorite child was and I told her it was whoever wasn’t being a pain in the butt at that very moment. I was only half joking. 😉 Some moms really enjoy a certain stage or age range more than others but that’s not quite me either. Each of my 3 children is very different and I’ve realized that I really did enjoy each child differently at each stage and it really kind of was who was less of a pain in the butt, ha.
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My son is 3 1/2 now and I think I can call him weaned. It was an incredibly gradual, gentle process and was rather different than what I expected. The other day he pointed to my shirt hanging down as I leaned over and said “that’s so I can nurse!”
He hasn’t nursed for nearly a month but I am so happy I truly allowed him to self-wean. I’ve talked about my experience breastfeeding my older children, and how I felt they weren’t able to really self-wean. When my oldest was a newborn, even the idea of nursing a 1 year old was foreign to me.
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Maria wants to live in a world where cloth diapers are the norm and moms can make parenting choices without judgement. When she’s not chasing her 18, 14 and 11-year old kids around, you might find her checking out the latest gadgets, organizing something (again) or exercising in the fresh air. 
