I MISS MY MOM

The holidays always make me think of my mother, she was a sucker for the decorations and the traditions, I even think she got into the going into debt to make sure we had a great christmas. She was really quite an amazing person, She decorated her tree with the most hilarious south western decorations including little luminarias. She really loved buying us stuff so this was her shining moment. But she was practical as well, always socks and underwear in every stocking. She made biscochitos every year and a handful of other cookies that were off the hook delicious including the sugar drops with little kisses in the middle, chocolate canes, some sort of ball like cookie that was so goooooood, she loved it and without her it all seems just not as great. We never went without real luminarias outside of the house on Christmas eve and a big mexican breakfast on Chirstmas morning. I just loved her breakfasts, they tasted so much better than anything I can make. She also loved to take us to see the singing Christmas tree that West High put on every year and drive around the hood to check out other peoples lights. We loved the tree and the decorations so much one year that we left it up until May. If I had to ask Santa for anything right now it would be "one more Christmas with my mom" Having a daughter opens upp my world in so many ways but it doesn't replace that feeling of having my mother near by, The love a child has for their mother never ends beyond the barriers of this life time it carries on.....She is the star on top of the my tree...

Attachment Parenting

What is Attachment parenting? Well there are entire books written on the subject but it is really much more simple than many people make it out to be, essentially it is Parenting with your instincts. You wear your baby as often as possible after they are born, since they go from being carried around 24 hours a day, seven days a week for 9 months and then they are born and they are all of a sudden supposed to be ok with only being carried a few hours a day. Well I don't know about you all, but I would be pissed off if I lost that connection to my mom. Even holding a baby for 12 hours a day is half as much contact that the baby is used to. You have to breastfeed as long as the baby wants or needs for not only nutritional value but for emotional connection that it offers to a baby and its mother. Attachment parenting is the practice of putting the bond between family and baby before conveniences of modern parenting. Attachment parenting is co-sleeping or bed sharing. Its not the easiest but it is worth the pain that it sometimes causes to wake and sleep in a family nest rather than alone in a cage ( crib)