I try to keep up on stuff for y'all. I try to make sure that I read every damn thing I cancram into this overstuffed, overtaxed brain so that we won't miss something important, or something inspirational, or something informative about perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.
You know how I know my brain is overtaxed? 'Cause I have played the I Spy Memory Game with my four-year-old daughter at least 23 times over the last several weeks and I have never won. Not once. And no, I'mNOT throwing the games just because I'm a sweet mama who wants her 4-year-old to feel like she can win a game. She is beating me fair and square. And as of the last 5 or so games, I've really tried to concentrate super hard, yet she still kicks my ass.
Tonight I opened up my Google Reader because my husband is busy doing something on his computer so I can actually look at mine on a Saturday night without feeling guilty that I'm ignoring him during our personal time together. There were like 857 posts I needed to read. So I've been going through them as best I can and wanted to point out a few …
A great piece from Ann Dunnewold's Who Says? blog about stigma and mothers and mental health