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My Incredible Daughter – Raising Beauty Inside and Out

brandyellen — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 10:06:23 +0000

My only daughter is also my first born child. I am also the first born child so I know with that role in the family comes a lot of expectations and a leadership type personality, in most sibling cases. I could not be more proud of my daughter, as she grows older she only grows more beautiful inside and out. Some may say I am bragging, but to me, I am not bragging, I am simply sharing how proud I am of my daughter as I do with all three of my children. Being proud of your children and showing them you are proud of them only encourages a deep level of love for their own self. It’s much easier to build up a child than it is to fix …

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That Moment You Realized, “I done Good”

brandyellen — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 16:46:57 +0000

This right here is my daughter. My lovely first born and only daughter. My sweet, lovely first born child and only daughter is at “that age”, and parents, I know you know what I am talking about! That age where hormones go flying, your child becomes someone you don’t know and things are a bit testing at times. It’s an age of changes across the board …. friendships, relationships, body image, hormones and much more! What I had hoped would happen but didn’t really expect to happen during this age of changes, keeps happening! The other day I had an “I done good” moment with my daughter. It went something like this …. Daughter says, “So my friend {name left out for privacy} the other day was sitting at a …

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I Became Guilty of Being Somewhat Lazy

brandyellen — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 11:14:43 +0000

I guess using the word lazy isn’t really fair when you think about being Mom to three kids and working from home, but it’s the only word I could really think of to describe the habit I got into for a long time. You see, over the years my daughter’s Dad just sort of handled everything. I got into the habit that he was great at being in control so why bother? Then as my daughter got older and we formed a closer bond of communication, I found out that she didn’t really want me to take the “back burner” anymore. I must start off by explaining a bit of a back story as to why it was just easier for me to let him take care of everything for …

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Co-Parenting Isn’t About Personal Feelings

brandyellen — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:03:52 +0000

The holidays are coming and to be honest I have absolutely no clue if this is the year I have my daughter for Thanksgiving or not and as I started thinking about that it stirred up a few thoughts inside of my head; mainly thoughts surrounding my witness of other co-parents being so territorial about their child. Whenever I see co-parents; two parents no longer residing together in a personal relationship but raising child(ren) together, they are not usually super friendly with each other. If these co-parents have moved on to have children with other people it seems those children are not super close to their half siblings parent either. This makes me sad. I admit, my daughter’s father and I don’t always see eye to eye on life, heck …

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Lack of Hearing, Arguments and the Joys of Parenting

brandyellen — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:03:12 +0000

My daughter is the brightest, sweetest little girl in all of the world. I love this child of mine as much as I love my boys but let me tell you what, even though she is among one of the teachers favorite students and is always willing to lend a hand to help, she is a pain in my bum sometimes. Miss Ki will be 9 years old in October and as she grows I realize more and more how much we butt heads being “take control” kind of people. We both have that need to mother and need to organize personality which makes parenting difficult. We don’t fight much, we actually get along really well, however, she has certainly started to show a lack of hearing, a love …

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Dealing with Parenting Multiple Children

brandyellen — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:05:36 +0000

When I had my first child it was easy to parent her because she was an only child for four years. She had my undivided attention and since I worked outside of the home when I was home I was not thinking about getting her to sleep so I could log on and get work done. I went to sleep with my daughter and woke up with my daughter, dropped her at home daycare and headed to the office. Life was very different raising my daughter versus when I added my second child and then my third child. My daughter was always a great sleeper, she had no issues. My daughter would co-sleep with me and we slept the same hours. I would even take naps with my daughter during …

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