Comments on: Mothering: A Draft In Progress http://spanglishbaby.com/2011/03/mothering-a-draft-in-progress/ Raising bilingual and bicultural kids Thu, 26 Jul 2018 07:12:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 By: BethO http://spanglishbaby.com/2011/03/mothering-a-draft-in-progress/#comment-22958 BethO Tue, 10 May 2011 20:25:03 +0000 http://www.spanglishbaby.com/?p=10877#comment-22958 great idea, Cassandra!!!
i have a fabric tablecloth to hide my ugly table and over that is a large piece of clear vinyl (easier to clean)… hm… i could slide printouts under the clear vinyl! i am sure there could be some conversations started!

]]> By: Cassandra http://spanglishbaby.com/2011/03/mothering-a-draft-in-progress/#comment-22916 Cassandra Mon, 09 May 2011 23:26:03 +0000 http://www.spanglishbaby.com/?p=10877#comment-22916 I know the feeling all too well. I miss that creative voice everyday. Quite a difficult thing to be able to somehow incorporate it into each day in a way that includes Degas as well. I don’t know if I’ve been all that successful, but I recently started trying to do just that. I choose a favorite, print it out and tape it the the surface of the table where he sits each morning to eat breakfast before school. I leave it there for a couple of weeks with the hope that something will be absorbed. We talk about it over dinner and he’ll ask his questions. Sometimes he doesn’t like it at all—but other times, just like you said, he’ll surprise me.

I hope all is well,
Cassandra

p.s.
great poem :-)

]]> By: Emma http://spanglishbaby.com/2011/03/mothering-a-draft-in-progress/#comment-21695 Emma Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:10:09 +0000 http://www.spanglishbaby.com/?p=10877#comment-21695 Very very beautiful, I can only hope that my Spanish is one day good enough to be able to write poetry in both languages and not just English. Your poem made me smile, and cry and go and watch my 14 month old baby girl sleeping. Thank you very much for sharing.

]]> By: Melissa http://spanglishbaby.com/2011/03/mothering-a-draft-in-progress/#comment-19184 Melissa Sun, 06 Mar 2011 22:05:25 +0000 http://www.spanglishbaby.com/?p=10877#comment-19184 Me encanta el poema… Its very being: a catching up on good intentions, always making up for things in moments where the priority placed on our children has a quiet moment of relief. Awesome rhetorical reality: being the very sentiment it expresses. It captures the commitment and life and passion we breathe into the everyday mundane moments of motherhood. Thank you for sharing!

]]> By: Susan http://spanglishbaby.com/2011/03/mothering-a-draft-in-progress/#comment-19113 Susan Sun, 06 Mar 2011 10:30:40 +0000 http://www.spanglishbaby.com/?p=10877#comment-19113 Beautiful post. Beautiful poem. I was never a good writer, but when I had children, I was able to write some poems that couldn’t have come from anywhere but my heart. Children are wonderful like that. Thanks for sharing yours with us!

Susan

]]> By: Carla http://spanglishbaby.com/2011/03/mothering-a-draft-in-progress/#comment-18958 Carla Fri, 04 Mar 2011 19:32:33 +0000 http://www.spanglishbaby.com/?p=10877#comment-18958 I cried before I even got to the poem – “Because if I want them to love their two languages, then I need them to play in all their voices and I know they have multitudes of voices inside. We all do.” So true and so easy to let that slip by when you’re busy being mom. I’m slowly but surely flexing my writing muscles again and it feels so good.

Then I got to your poem and well, more tears – happy, joyful tears from eyes that have read something beautiful, something they recognize but did not know they were looking for.

Gracias =)

]]> By: Blanca P. http://spanglishbaby.com/2011/03/mothering-a-draft-in-progress/#comment-18922 Blanca P. Fri, 04 Mar 2011 08:14:59 +0000 http://www.spanglishbaby.com/?p=10877#comment-18922 Absolutely amazing! Looking forward to more Elsie!

]]> By: Elsie http://spanglishbaby.com/2011/03/mothering-a-draft-in-progress/#comment-18910 Elsie Fri, 04 Mar 2011 05:15:00 +0000 http://www.spanglishbaby.com/?p=10877#comment-18910 Beth: They will always be our little girls won’t they? I can see with my own mother that I am still sometimes her baby in her eyes. It’s a lovely feeling.

]]> By: Elsie http://spanglishbaby.com/2011/03/mothering-a-draft-in-progress/#comment-18909 Elsie Fri, 04 Mar 2011 05:13:49 +0000 http://www.spanglishbaby.com/?p=10877#comment-18909 Oh, Anna. Mil Gracias! I can’t wait for you to meet your girl. It is all rather amazing. Being a mom is such a privelege.

]]> By: Elsie http://spanglishbaby.com/2011/03/mothering-a-draft-in-progress/#comment-18907 Elsie Fri, 04 Mar 2011 05:12:40 +0000 http://www.spanglishbaby.com/?p=10877#comment-18907 Congratulations! I’ve always loved that name.I love all the voices you mention. What I notice with Marisol is that she (and all kids) is sooo fluent in those voices, sometimes I think it’s my job just not to quiet them, you know?

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