Naturally, a lot of our life revolves around Noah right now. His often and stringent nap schedule, His crappy diapers, His need for food, His obsession with putting everything in his mouth and therefore preventing his sister from freely playing with all of her favorite little things, Him, him, him. Due to this unbalanced state […]
Geography Geektasticness.
Disclaimer: Nerdalicious Homeschooling Post ahead. Feel free to skip if you don’t give a flip. After Ali learned all of her states (and a lot of countries) a couple of years ago, she lost interest in geography (or maybe I did…or both), and so she forgot many of them. However, thanks to some of her […]
The Elevator Incident.
So my friend Christen and I went to the mall on Wednesday. …along with our two strollers and five kids. …ages 4, 3, 2, 10 months, and 8 months. (Each child, by the way, adds degree of difficulty points in the classical mall game Avoid the Kiosk Predators.) We began by eating Chick-Fil-A – our […]
An Unexpected Undertaking of the Camping Variety.
Saturday Night, 6:51 PM: I. AM. SUPERMOM. The overwhelming emotions of victory and exultation washed over me. At a time when I should have been exhausted and comatose, I was instead cheering for myself with gusto and pride. It all started last week… 10 days ago: Ali randomly popped out from the backseat, “I want […]
Pigpen.
I had to kill a very large spider this morning…out of my children’s bathtub. Then, I had to dismantle his carefully constructed home, saliva-web-piece by saliva-web-piece, before I could start their bath. This COULD be considered a sign that I don’t bathe my children often enough. Or perhaps it’s just a sign that I have […]
Their Superpower.
“Did you know that an average four year old asks 437 questions a day?” I saw this factoid on Pinterest. My immediate response was…surely not. Yes, my kid asks a crazy amount of questions, but four hundred and thirty seven? That seems absurd… astronomical.. ridiculous… impossible. And besides the fact that it is inconceivable to […]
A Burlap Birthday.
Since discovering the rebirth of Burlap to Cashmere, Chris and I have been living on their music in anticipation of our concert experience. On one of these particular listening occasions, I found myself alone in the car, stereo system blaring, bass turned up, knowing that my car was thumpin’ the surrounding traffic with the insanely […]
It’s Like Doing Laundry With A Baby…
The following is a true story. Unless there are any segments which you find to be terrible acts of parenting. In that case, those parts aren’t true. 3:29 PM: Mommy settles into laundry closet, with Baby in tow, to attempt to fold one load of laundry. 3:30: Baby picks up and eats a piece of […]
Brought to You By The Letter X, for X-Ray.
It’s only fitting that I begin this post the way my phone call to Chris started out. “Everybody is OKAY. However…” I blame it all on Noah. You see, he chose to wear his X-Ray Jammies Tuesday night. … and I didn’t realize that this was an ominous premonition on his part. Wednesday morning. I […]
On Being All Set.
The following inner dialogue occurred Friday morning, directly after my second trip in three days to the Pediatrician’s office. I drove around to the Chick-Fil-A drive-thru window for like the ninety-dozenth time in the past three weeks…she gave me my order and then perkily chirped, “Here’s your large coke and your small lemonade! You’re all […]