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Mar 312010
Mar 312010
People say the nicest things:
After nearly two years of blogging…I’ve made the leap to a self-hosted blog that is smoothly integrated with my professional site. You’re warmly invited to explore the entire site where you can learn more about me and my services, in addition to reading my blog.
The switch to my new professional site and blog would not have been possible without the services of my amazing web designer, AAG of AAGBlog. Over the past year I have attempted to contract with quite a few designers, none of which were able provide me with a prompt, attractive and highly functional design (especially for a reasonable price). I started asking around with others in my field and discovered that this is a common problem. Therefore, I was all the more overjoyed when a friend and fellow blogger suggested AAG. Right from the start she invested her time in speaking with me about my needs and goals for this project, and consistently checked in to answer questions and respond to my requests throughout. AAG has a great way of making her clients feel valued, and always uses a clear and concise style of communication. For all this great service, she also cost far less than any other designers I have spoken with and I can even update my own pages easily now that it’s done! YAY! If you’re looking to give your site a facelift or even a brand new site, I strongly encourage you to check out AAG and please say hi for me!
Thank you Dr. Ruthie. It was a pleasure to help you out.
Go check out the whole site here: ExploringIntimacy.com
Mar 302010
My proclivities don’t really lean this way so may I request your assistance in how best to respond to this query which arrived in my email last week?
Do you have any advice for a submissive who’s trying hard to wrangle the strength of a toddler’s assertion?
My partner describes me as a type-D personality; he’s a type-A, but he’s gone during the day while I’m home with our child, who is as strong-willed a three-year-old as they come. It’s always a struggle, and it doesn’t seem to matter what I do. Something in my demeanor apparently conveys to my cute, loving, and oh-so-ornery kidlet that his mommy is a wuss.
My partner encourages me to stand up to this little tyrant and develop a spine but it’s clearly not happening quickly enough. No matter what I try he digs in and fights until my meager resolve is worn down. I think he just ‘gets’ that I’m a wuss, and that it makes the normal toddler power struggles a lot harder.
I’d be happy to hear of anything you or your more submissive readers have tried.
Thank you!
–Type D and Terror Baby
So readers, what advice can you give to the submissive-leaning mother of a strong-willed child? Please help out Type D in the comments below.
“She calls herself a good girl but you know she‘s licked just as many balls as the rest of us.”
–For a smart critique of the above-referenced article, please read I Ate Your Marriage with Some Fava Beans and a Nice Chianti
Mar 262010
Mar 262010
Like feminine hygiene, household upkeep and mobile phone plans, parenthood in reality is far less rosy than television commercials would seem to suggest.
This fact knocked me sideways immediately after my first-born arrived, when I discovered that there was simply no time to consult the baby book about the child’s excessive crying because of the child’s excessive crying. It continues to surprise me even unto this very moment as I write with a snacking girl on my lap (she’s under the impression that I need to smell her cheese; I’m thankful that this is not a euphemism), a cat purring on my arm (at thirty-second intervals he alternates between presenting me with a fish-whiffy nose and his fuzzy buttons), a slumber party going on its fourteenth hour in my basement (it finally broke up after a record-busting 28 hours), all while wearing a shirt spotted with little-boy vomit.
(To all those I’ve encouraged to remain child-free: I’m glad I can serve as an auxiliary means of birth control. You’re welcome.)
Call me naive, but I honestly expected more sun-drenched moments of snuggling chubby necks, more fresh flowers offered up by neatly dressed wee ones with clean faces, more walking hand in hand through gently waving grasses while my offspring hung on each wise word which passed my lips. While a few of those episodes have certainly happened, they’ve been far outweighed by things regurgitated, thrust into my face or stuck on the back of my shoulder when I’m not looking and then noticed by the stocker in the grocery store (not that this ever happened to me).
So when I watch others contemplate parenthood I just can’t wait. I can’t wait to see how they handle the never-ending challenges, the never-ending busyness, the never-ending grime.
I bet they manage better than I have.
Mar 252010
Mar 252010
This is what I’ve been up to:
Also, dealing with barfy kids.
Which has made my own tummy go “bleaaaaawwwwrrrrp.”
Oh, and did I mention that it’s Spring Break?
On a positive note, my skin is still firmly attached. That’s something, right?
Mar 242010
Mar 242010
My poor blog roll sat neglected for months, gathering new entries while never being cleared of the inevitable dross of dead and abandoned websites until such a point that it contained well over 700 items and attracted the unfavorable attention of a potential client (!!!!!) who questioned my ability to maintain her site given that parts of mine sat in ruins.
Ouch.
Spurred into action, I deleted as many expired sites as I could find, finally stopping when the count had dwindled to just over a third of the previous bloat. But pulling weeds so vigorously means that flowers might have come uprooted too.
Therefore I ask for your assistance. Will you please glance at the updated list? Will you let me know if you’d like your site tenderly patted back into place? Or planted amidst the other flowers? Leave a comment below or email me at aagblog @ gmail.
Thank you ever so kindly.
