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Posts tagged "Around Town"

Working Mom guilt

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Last Friday, I had one of the best days at my daughter’s school. It was the Mother’s Day Celebration and the pre school teachers didn’t forget a thing. The kids sang, read poems, served us treats. The decorations were adorable and the goodie bags included a sugar body scrub (I know, fancy) that each student... Read more »
By Ana Belaval,
May 14, 2012 at 5:21 am
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Sleep specialist

I gave in, I threw in the towel, I called, well, I cried out for help. Coming back from a 5 day vacation where my four year old and I slept in the same room, her infamous and well documented sleeping issues were at their worst. She was not only waking up at 3AM because... Read more »
By Ana Belaval,
April 23, 2012 at 5:25 am
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Help a mom out

You can’t ban families with children from flying the friendly skies. I agree that, at times, kids don’t make for the best travel companions, but I oppose any thought of grounding families like mine. With that said, I do believe it is the parents responsibility to do anything possible to control their children at the... Read more »
By Ana Belaval,
April 16, 2012 at 5:29 am
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Kids and technology

Motherhood has taught me,time and again, that you can never say never. Case in point, I told my husband I would never buy our toddler her own iTouch.  “She’s 2, she can’t have a device that costs over $100.”  Well, Amelia doesn’t have her own iTouch, but uses one of our old iPhones to watch her... Read more »
By Ana Belaval,
April 2, 2012 at 9:22 am
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Mom inventions

I had to go to an event a few weeks ago, so my husband was in charge of taking our daughter to swim class all by himself. Amelia has been taking  swimming lessons  for almost a year now and, most of the time, both of us go with her.  Hence my surprise when I told my... Read more »
By Ana Belaval,
March 26, 2012 at 10:28 am
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Fighting her fight

The Belaval-Diaz kids were taught to talk it out; whatever it was, could be solved through dialogue. Like the good Catholics Mami and Papi are, they raised their kids to always “turn the other cheek.” As a girl, that worked very well, but even my parents agree that my brother Mario would have been better... Read more »
By Ana Belaval,
March 19, 2012 at 5:11 am
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A class visit

I should start by saying that I was never asked to baby sit anyone, not even one of my 5 godchildren, until I had my daughter. It’s not that my friends didn’t trust me, it’s that they could see that I wasn’t that into kids. To be honest, I don’t even think I liked children’s... Read more »
By Ana Belaval,
February 6, 2012 at 5:02 am
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Sleep obsessed

It’s a recurring theme with some of us Ay Mama! bloggers. “When is the baby going to sleep through the night?” “Should I let him or her cry it out?” In my case, I’m still having the same issues and I don’t have a baby anymore. In fact, I can barely write this blog right... Read more »
By Ana Belaval,
January 30, 2012 at 11:07 am
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Accentuate the positive

I spent my Saturday afternoon with my four year old at Sweet and Sassy, one of those “spas” for little girls.  Her face lit up when she saw the place. She loved her manicure and pedicure, the sparkles in her hair. But from the moment she went in, she was fascinated by the catwalk and... Read more »
By Ana Belaval,
January 23, 2012 at 8:20 am
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Toddlers and medicine

I waited the three days required by the office before bringing my feverish and congested four year old to the pediatrician. I joined the other 30 parents who probably waited until Sunday to take their kids to the doctor after restless nights of coughing and sneezing so we could avoid the lecture about being exaggerated... Read more »
By Ana Belaval,
January 16, 2012 at 5:21 am
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