Parenting Advice: Pay Now or Pay Later

April 30, 2013

After dinner, we sat around the coffee table with a deck of cards while their angel slept. It was early days yet, not even a flutter of movement, but I was happily ensconced in my pending motherhood. They were newly from the trenches of infanthood and felt confident to instill a little of the serious wisdom from the front.

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Mandy Dawson is the creator of In Mandyland, an almost daily blog recording her adventures in juggling a full-time job, two active children, four arguing hens, a fluffy bunny, and one ex-husband. A self-diagnosed gardening and crafting addict, she often finds herself gluing together clay pots and trying to discover the cure for brown thumb. When she’s not writing, she can be found burning dinners while she stares off into space with a story idea. She was a regular contributor for Makes Fun of Stuff, Aiming Low, and Six Kitchens, and has been featured on BlogHer and Mamapedia. She is an Assistant Editor for Write on Edge and has had her fiction featured in three anthologies currently available on Amazon.