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Marie-Ève Laforte
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- About My Family
- Martin and I are both in our mid-thirties. We're not married (but very committed to each other and our family). LP is our first child. We are urban people who happen to live in the 'burbs, because we both felt like we needed the floor and yard space.
French is our first language, but we live in both French and English (our son is just learning French right now though).
- Website:
- http://marie-evelaforte.blogspot.com
- What are your children's ages and names?
- Louis-Philippe was born on February 2, 2007.
- Are you considering having more?
- Maybe bordering on no.
- How would you describe your parenting philosophy?
- I kind of stumbled upon the attachment parenting thing in reaction to dealing with my very high-need baby on a daily basis.
- What's your favorite parenting book (if any)?
- The Fussy Baby Book by Dr. Sears
- What are your family’s favorite books and toys?
- We're both very verbose people who love to read, so it was important to me that LP be exposed to a lot of books. Thankfully he seemed very interested in them from the start. He likes interactive books and he's really into Thomas the Tank Engine.
- What are you family’s favorite TV shows or movies?
- Right now, Thomas and Sesame Street (I like that it's the same thing I used to watch). Oh, and LP loves monsters trucks more than anything, yikes!
- What are your family's favorite foods?
- I was blessed with a baby who ate anything right from the start and graduated to real food very early. He cries for more broccoli and cabbage, and is just a miniature sushi, Thai food, foie gras (well, you know, once), lobster, spicy curry, extra garlic (you name it) eater... Not saying this in a snob way, just in a "he'll eat garbage if we let him" way. He'll still have mac and cheese and chicken nuggets any day, of course. We're big food lovers and try to make this happen for him as well.
- What are your family's favorite places to hang out?
- There's nothing like home, and the nearby parks.
- What one adjective would you choose to describe your household?
- Happy although sleep-deprived (see, I can't even pick just one).
- What do you see your kids doing when they grow up?
- Be himself (both so cliche and true)
- Describe your most humbling parenting moment.
- LP had not been feeling really good for a few days but didn't look that sick either, so we had blamed an earlier bout of gastro and waited it out. When we finally decided to do something about it, our usual clinic was closed so we drove to the hospital instead, fully expecting to be sent back home with reassuring words. Instead, they admitted him immediately for four different things, including dehydration and mild pneumonia.
- Who are you looking to meet on Ning?
- Like-minded parents which whom you can share your experiences
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The teenagers are good kids, but they don't really help me much. I don't feel comfortable telling them what to do. I would if I had to, since they are in my house, but I let M handle that stuff. And while they are nice to Michael, they are kind of in their own world and they don't really reach out to him. I don't want to force him on them, either. I'm hoping as he grows older they will take more of an interest. Maybe just seeing him grow up will forge some kind of bond.
Having Michael has really been a learning experience for me in so many ways. Some people I expected to be all over him haven't been and some people I didn't expect to fall in love with him did. I always loved babies. I always jumped right in with any babies I was around, changing diapers, holding, rocking, feeding. So it was weird to see some people that were kind of scared of him, some people that were not really interested, etc. One of my best friends visited for a weekend when he was a few months old. She never asked to hold him once. She held him one time the whole weekend, and only because I initiated it.
Oh and I must have been feeling a bit melodramatic the day I wrote that letter to Michael. I guess I do still feel that way, in the way that we all want to do our best for our kids and give them that perfect life we envision. But I think I'm a much better mother than I would have been earlier. And with the taste I had in men at that time, I would have been a struggling, single mother!
Thanks for your concern. No, I haven't lost my job. Things are not awful, but the economy here in America is making things more difficult.
Right now I pay $125 a week for Michael's daycare. That is considered cheap. He is with a friend of mine that does in-home daycare and she charges me less. It's been great because I didn't have family close by to stay with him and I had to go back to work when he was two months old. But she lives about 20 miles away, so I drive to her house, which takes about 45 minutes with traffic. Before Michael, I just carpooled to work and took a bus home. It was much cheaper than now, when I have to pay for gas and Metro fare and parking. In September I'm starting him at a daycare close to home. But it will now cost $220 a week, so it kind of evens out.
In addition, my SO's teenagers have been staying with us all summer. Their mother had left the area, but is moving back and she has to find work and an apartment. So that is an additional expense.
Then there is the havoc that George Bush has wreaked on our country. Everything is more expensive now. But I still have many blessings to count! I bought my house before the housing boom so my mortgage isn't in jeopardy like so many other people. I just have to find creative ways to economize.
Anyway, enough moaning and groaning. Thanks again for your concern. I wouldn't mind the great benefits of Canada, but I don't think I want to deal with the weather. I'm originally from New York City, and I doubt I'll ever move north!
Louis Phillipe is adorable! He's born only 1 week after Michael.
Louis-Phillippe is one babalicious young dude.