My youngest daughter has always been somewhat of an introvert in a primarily extrovert family. Most of her childhood I’ve spent trying to get her to join the crowd or become involved in a sport or take dance or order her own food at a restaurant. It’s been difficult since she was a baby getting her to enjoy her day at daycare or preschool and now school. She is now 8 and what started out to seem normal for a young child to be a bit clingy or have a degree of separation anxiety has now turned into more of an issue that actually seems to affect her happiness. While she is generally a very...

Before my new website design and pillowtalk blog, I used to keep a web column on wendylayne.com. I was going through some of my old articles that are no longer on the Internet and decided that some of them are worthy of a repost. This one brings back a lot of memories. My youngest daughter is now 8 years old and I still have the belly mold even though it’s still carefully packed away in a box awaiting the day that I buy a glass box or some type of display cabinet for it. Here is how the story goes: What is a belly mold? Sounds like a fungus that grows on the belly. No, it’s not a...

I have been a Mother now for 24 1/2 years. Wow, makes me sound old but I’m really not. Just started really early. The interesting thing about Mother’s Day is that I used to think it was a day that I should get a break, a day that I should be waited on and pampered and have very few responsibilities. Reality set in quite a few years ago. It’s not that my kids and husband didn’t try to pamper me or didn’t give me great gifts or tell me how much I was appreciated, it’s that I had the wrong idea about Mother’s Day in the first place. The idea that on...