tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31773345.post116474786323931748..comments2024-03-29T04:09:19.120-04:00Comments on ben and birdy: BenBirdy1http://www.blogger.com/profile/13328557199418095755noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31773345.post-1167715507597699172007-01-02T00:25:00.000-05:002007-01-02T00:25:00.000-05:00hi catherine!my husband bought me your book for Ch...hi catherine!<BR/><BR/>my husband bought me your book for Christmas (after some hinting from me).<BR/><BR/>i loved it. thank you so much.<BR/><BR/>sheriSherihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18058311008894481929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31773345.post-1165764165860583152006-12-10T10:22:00.000-05:002006-12-10T10:22:00.000-05:00When will there be a new Dalai Mama post on Wonder...When will there be a new Dalai Mama post on Wondertime? It is almost two weeks since the last one! I miss it!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31773345.post-1165371866595293472006-12-05T21:24:00.000-05:002006-12-05T21:24:00.000-05:00I cried when I read your entry about Ben the innat...I cried when I read your entry about Ben the innate motherly need to protect our children from every bad thing in life. I feel the same way about my sons, I think most good mothers feel the same way about their children. Life is a cruel place, our world is mean and children lose their innocence so quickly especially when they reach school age. <BR/><BR/>Then I laughed when I read your comments about the brusies on Ben's legs in the photos. My son always seems to have the most of them when we are going to the doctor's office for a checkup or something. I feel like I shoudl put makeup on them or wish I could photo shop them out. Its amazing how active little boys can bang themselves up!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31773345.post-1165345179423952502006-12-05T13:59:00.000-05:002006-12-05T13:59:00.000-05:00okay, catherine, it's me again, (not that you know...okay, catherine, it's me again, (not that you know who "me" is out here in reader land!)..... but i wanted to give you a warm fuzzy feeling here.......... i am a long time reader, for years, and the other day i was feeling so very blue, kids sick, husband and i so tired and grouchy with each other, and i said to myself "what can i do right now at night at home to make myself feel comforted?"...... and, no lie, i immediately said to myself "Read some of Catherine's old journal entries of Ben and Birday!" .............. big smile from me here! ........... once again, i say that i am one of your loyal groupies, honey, and i thank you yet again for all your writing and sharing! (i will have my name not be "anonymous" or whatever as soon as i take 4 seconds to figure out how to register my name here!) take care. sending you hugs and holiday cheer from another East Coast mom!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31773345.post-1165295452111671402006-12-05T00:10:00.000-05:002006-12-05T00:10:00.000-05:00Wow...I just have to say that I think the photo of...Wow...I just have to say that I think the photo of you pregnant with Birdy with Ben's wee feet on you is beautiful. <BR/><BR/>I think it makes a much better cover then the other one personally.<BR/><BR/>I have 9 and 10 year old boys and this year I have been trying to help my 10 year old through the betrayal of his best friend since Kindergarten telling him he isn't as intelligent as even the special education kids in their class. We have walked the path and feel the hurt no matter how much we long to carry the burden for them. They will be stronger better people for it, at least I hope so. People of character and empathy, though clearly your Ben is just full up on empathy, he is such a loving gentle soul.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31773345.post-1165075506352283552006-12-02T11:05:00.000-05:002006-12-02T11:05:00.000-05:00Good greif, I so know what you mean (in your lates...Good greif, I so know what you mean (in your latest Wondertime installment). Sometimes I watch my own sweet girl on the playground, when she's unaware that I'm looking at her, and my heart just breaks for no reason. She's only 3 and a half, so I know I'm totally in for it when she starts 'real' school. <BR/>I have my very own copy of 'Waiting for Birdy' and I LOVED it. I too hope you continue letting us into your life by blogging, or writing colums or another book.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31773345.post-1165008766949747472006-12-01T16:32:00.000-05:002006-12-01T16:32:00.000-05:00I am going to get the book as a present for myself...I am going to get the book as a present for myself. I started reading your column long before I was pregnant, and even then I wanted to print them all out to keep as a reference guide to how I wanted to parent. Now that I'm expecting, I may have to do just that (along with buying the book) because I read your columns and always think, I hope I can be that kind of mom.winterblossomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02454880245298745026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31773345.post-1165005129805798462006-12-01T15:32:00.000-05:002006-12-01T15:32:00.000-05:00Thanks for sharing the other book cover. I love th...Thanks for sharing the other book cover. I love the feet on tummy.<BR/><BR/>I find the marketing of books fascinating. Especially with this whole "chick-lit" phase, the books are pink and look like 1950's martini napkins. <BR/><BR/>I like your book with either cover, though, for me (a biography/memoir junkie), I appreciate photographs. I feel as if I've purchased someone's personal scrapbook, and I like that.<BR/><BR/>I am so happy to have found your blog and your Wondertime column.Goddess of the Dustbunnieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06053079920449217802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31773345.post-1165004901507899412006-12-01T15:28:00.000-05:002006-12-01T15:28:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Kelli Russell Agodon - Book of Kellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01798460634708905783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31773345.post-1165004801507781702006-12-01T15:26:00.000-05:002006-12-01T15:26:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Kelli Russell Agodon - Book of Kellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01798460634708905783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31773345.post-1164947695741108842006-11-30T23:34:00.000-05:002006-11-30T23:34:00.000-05:00Catherine,Could you please, sometime, write about ...Catherine,<BR/>Could you please, sometime, write about how you managed to even write this book, not to mention keep up with your weekly BabyCenter column (some of which overlapped, I realize), your other job(s), Michael and Ben?? As a writer and mom of two 2 and under I'd love to hear about it.<BR/><BR/>Becky<BR/>(with a whole-hearted endorsement of Waiting for Birdy, one of the few books I've read more than once)Beckyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06559305709151865870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31773345.post-1164927223994037362006-11-30T17:53:00.000-05:002006-11-30T17:53:00.000-05:00fat pregnant lady! yuck - no! repeat after me, 'mu...fat pregnant lady! yuck - no! repeat after me, 'must look like angeline jolie! must look like angelina jolie ...<BR/>repeat until you really hate yourself.<BR/>congrats on the book - i'll look out for in the uk.mad muthashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00320873044454083098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31773345.post-1164914599467799242006-11-30T14:23:00.000-05:002006-11-30T14:23:00.000-05:00Catherine,Thanks for that. Wish I could actually t...Catherine,<BR/>Thanks for that. Wish I could actually talk to you somehow. (sorry I am so much more boring than you !!)BensMom04https://www.blogger.com/profile/01889895364784362307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31773345.post-1164910786472616732006-11-30T13:19:00.000-05:002006-11-30T13:19:00.000-05:00Catherine, I just love you so much. Thank you!One...Catherine, I just love you so much. Thank you!<BR/>One of the bittersweet parts of motherhood for me is that amorphous continuum between the memory of what my childhood was like (mostly very happy,) my kid's childhood (so far, so good!) and my awareness of how things I say innocently to my mom now, as an adult, can make her feel heart wrenchingly guilty about things that happened 30 years ago, when I was a grade-schooler. Did you read _Cat's Eye_ by Margaret Atwood? After I read it I made the mistake of telling my mom that parts of it reminded me of my childhood. Oops. Even now I could tell that she would give anything to go back and somehow prevent the pain caused me by *mean* little girls when I was young. Just like we all would do whatever we needed to protect our own young.<BR/>You have so beautifully communicated that painful, driving desire to protect my children from the heart-breaking experience of navigating the emotionally treacherous space of the playground. And take heart! You've provided your own children with such excellent resources! Funny, kind, smart, thoughtful. They're equipped. You’re putting well equipped people out there in the world. That's the thing that we all need to do for each other. Your kids will do no harm. (Now we just have to sequester all the *mean* kids, right? :))Emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09836200721577140501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31773345.post-1164910474372796932006-11-30T13:14:00.000-05:002006-11-30T13:14:00.000-05:00Okay - I have had a book idea!Remember "Under the ...Okay - I have had a book idea!<BR/><BR/>Remember "Under the Tuscan Sun"? It was fiction, but it was written like a Memoir with a bunch of recipe ideas throughout it...<BR/><BR/>How about that???<BR/>You can write an UN-Martha Stewart Book (Can you just see the cover with you mocking her, with holding a burnt Turkey and messed up hair etc?)<BR/><BR/>It would be just like Waiting for Birdy style, article/memoir written format with all you crazy craft or snack recipes all thrown in! We all need to know how to CREAT the Boobie Pinata you know!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31773345.post-1164909948929217642006-11-30T13:05:00.000-05:002006-11-30T13:05:00.000-05:00I loved your column at Wondertime. It hit home.My...I loved your column at Wondertime. It hit home.<BR/><BR/>My mother told me when I was born she wanted to take me to a deserted island to raise me and shield me from the hurt of the world.<BR/><BR/>I understood what she meant when my little girl turned 2 years old. A little boy was playing with one of her toys and she wanted a 'turn.' (You can see where this is going?) She went over and gently touched his shoulder, cocked her head and said "Please share?" to which he pushed her in the chest so hard she landed flat on her butt. <BR/><BR/>My blood boiled. My heart broke.<BR/><BR/>To know that your child is going to be out there in this crazy world, where even when they do all that you taught them is right and good and kind, they'll at times end up flat on their butts. With no good explanations. And hurt feelings. <BR/><BR/>It's true, you aren't alone in this. It's every parents burden to suffer on the sidelines.<BR/><BR/>And on a completely different note, if it makes you feel any better--I adtually DID want to marry the Fonz. He's totally hot.<BR/><BR/>--CathyeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31773345.post-1164902701919963962006-11-30T11:05:00.000-05:002006-11-30T11:05:00.000-05:00Personally, I think the cover of you and Ben would...Personally, I think the cover of you and Ben would be the height of uber-fantastique-ness! I think its absolutely gorgeous!<BR/><BR/>I'm thinking we all need to write the publishers and ask them what in the world is wrong with someone actually looking pregnant on a book about having a baby? I mean, are you supposed to be rail thin, with your bones sticking out all over the place and looking totally unhealthy and gross? Come on. Sounds like they need a reality check.<BR/><BR/>And I'll probably be buying another copy of your book for myself. I've worn out my first copy, and now that I might be pregnant (5 days late... but yet the HPT hasn't come up positive yet), I'll need another copy so I can read a truthful account of being pregnant and laugh my way through the barfing....Amberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01711277816701386519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31773345.post-1164891280607220822006-11-30T07:54:00.000-05:002006-11-30T07:54:00.000-05:00Catherine,I would love a book--and I have an idea ...Catherine,<BR/>I would love a book--and I have an idea for one! And, it might not be a bestseller (or it might only be an article), but nevertheless... <BR/><BR/>I love how you integrate concepts from other cultures and religions into the lives of your families. It could be a "How To" book (with the background that dolts like me need to make it relevant), OR it could be a year of telling your fabulous stories about how B&B interact and react with these happenings. Probably the later--could you see your book in the "How To" section where they keep the books on electrical wiring? :)Jenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12901296381993651115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31773345.post-1164876648245422102006-11-30T03:50:00.000-05:002006-11-30T03:50:00.000-05:00Like so many other people, I could write for hours...Like so many other people, I could write for hours to tell you all about the times when your columns have struck a resounding chime in me. This one perhaps even more than most, though, since my six-year-old is going through similar stuff just now too, and your empty orange simile was just perfect. Makes me wonder whether I'm not carrying unrecognised resentment against my own mother for not having used her magic Mummydust to greater effect when I was facing similar difficulties (and I did, a lot). The hard thing, I find, is not to project and assume that their experience is the same as mine. Once again, your column expressed wonderfully a complex and uncomfortable feeling. Thank you so much - I do hope they pay you well for this stuff!Victoriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08933858749792478128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31773345.post-1164866180993415132006-11-30T00:56:00.000-05:002006-11-30T00:56:00.000-05:00When I read your Wonder Time column this week I fe...When I read your Wonder Time column this week I felt like I was reading my life of a few months ago. It's amazing how absolutely unbearable it is for me when someone hurts my son's feeling, since he is such a sweet, gentle soul with his heart in his face a good deal of the time. It is very different with my daughter - of course, I can't bear for her to get her feelings hurt either, but it hardly seems to happen - she's so full of fire and "f*** you!" when someone even tries it, and always bounces right back.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31773345.post-1164864414470025642006-11-30T00:26:00.000-05:002006-11-30T00:26:00.000-05:00Cool site! Welcome to my sites too: louis vuitt...Cool site! 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I read it over ...I did buy your book and LOVED it! I read it over and over and over again while waiting for my second child to be born. It is one of my favorite books of all time. Please, please write another. I promise to buy it!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31773345.post-1164859983853222972006-11-29T23:13:00.000-05:002006-11-29T23:13:00.000-05:00Oh Catherine! I hadn't read this week at Wondertim...Oh Catherine! I hadn't read this week at Wondertime until just now. My BubTar is such a fluttering little socialite, that I've never thought about that before...and as I was reading my heart filled with sadness for Ben and compassion for you and fear for my little ones in the future.Kylahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03311014761113076785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31773345.post-1164855450995180682006-11-29T21:57:00.000-05:002006-11-29T21:57:00.000-05:00Of course I would buy it if I didn't already own i...Of course I would buy it if I didn't already own it! And I can't think of anyone that it would be appropriate for. Maybe my little brother? No. I need to keep thinking. None of my friends even have any kids.jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17750902247933938129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31773345.post-1164837182530354592006-11-29T16:53:00.000-05:002006-11-29T16:53:00.000-05:00I have been a loyal reader for years. I have a 3 ...I have been a loyal reader for years. I have a 3 1/2 year old boy and an 11 month old girl. Thank you so much for sharing your lives. You are such a great Mom! I just wanted you to know that when I get a short break from the chaos, it's so refreshing to check in with an old friend! Hope your cold improves! I've been coughed and sneezed on so much this week, I'm just waiting for pneumonia to set in!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com