Your Questions Answered, Part 1

You asked, I answered. Here we go:

If there was one thing you could go back and do differently when parenting your children (assuming there is something), what would it be? 

Oh, there are a handful of things. If we don't count the times when I have lost my temper and yelled at my children for no reason (something I don't like to admit to, but have done nonetheless), the two other things that have stood out in my mind are:

1) I wish I would have eaten better prenatally when I was pregnant with my first two children. We didn't start eating organic whole foods until three or four years ago. Before that, we ate stuff like the generic version of Hamburger Helper, frozen pizza, 33 cent "whole wheat" bread from ALDI, the generic version of Spaghettio's, etc.

2) When Ocean was around four years old, I started doing "homeschooling" with her. I wrote up a schedule. I used a book called Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons. I tried to get her to "learn" things. I wish I would have just trusted in the process of child-led learning from the beginning and avoided all that. It seems so far from where I am now, with my unschooling approach to learning. I wouldn't do that again.

I read Peace's birth story and wondered what Ocean and Ezra's were like?

I had midwife-attended home waterbirths with both Ocean and Ezra. Ocean's birth (my first) was probably the easiest of the three. I got kind of cocky after her birth and didn't do much to prepare for Ezra's birth... which really knocked the wind out of my sails (is that even an expression?). His was probably the hardest out of all of them. I have both of their birth stories saved, so maybe I'll post them here someday?

What do you most look forward to once the kids are in bed at night? (Is that a leading question?)

Oh, you know... reading my books, watching my shows.

Boxers or briefs?

It's funny that you should ask this because I am actually wearing my husband's boxers at this very minute. I'm wearing them because my pajama pants have poop on them (not mine). Boxers are also a good thing to wear after having a baby... it lets "the area" get airflow without having to be totally naked. (Was this the answer you were looking for?)

Okay, folks. That's it for now. I'll answer more tomorrow.