There are two types of people in the world… The type that jump into life’s mud puddles full force… Embracing every drop of nasty gooeyness… Without concern for fashion… Or appearance… And requiring a new transportation system to be invented to avoid their completely organic embodiment…. And then there are the uptight. That can play […]
The (In)Appropriateness of Toddlers and the BCS.
Toddlers are inappropriate. That’s all there is to it, and if you try to explain to them how they’re being inappropriate, it just makes it funnier and, therefore, more desirable behavior. So, all you can do is hope for Best Case Scenario (BCS): That no one else is around so you can just enjoy the […]
A Craving Fulfilled.
Chris felt very cheated during my first pregnancy. He was oddly, yet very excitedly looking forward to me tapping him on the arm in the middle of the night, telling him that I just HAD to have three soft taco supremes with extra sour cream from Taco Bell right now, and him jumping out of […]
The (Movie) Education of Rachel
So, apparently, children’s movies were not the only movies that I was behind on watching. Last Thursday night at our small group, the topic of old movies somehow came up. Not old like Casablanca old, but 80’s and 90’s old. Because we’re getting old these days, you know. Anyway, so somehow old movies came up. […]
On a Cheerier (and much Shorter) Note…
Newbie’s first inclusion in a family picture: 11 weeks! I’ll be back and “really” blogging tomorrow. Newbie is giving me quite the day today (of which I promise you don’t want to hear the details), most presumably as payback for doubting his/her force over my body by daring to get off the couch and go […]
The Legends of Mysteries.
Since I haven’t been much of a fun Mommy lately, I wanted to get Ali a special craft that we could do together while still in my couchbound status. So I bought her a new Sticky Mosaic kit, but this time it was super exciting: Mosaic Princess Crowns: After all, no three year old can […]
My Friend, the Television.
As I feel somewhat couchbound these days, and, therefore, am not doing much of anything exciting to blog about, I have found a bit more solace than usual in the television. (That, and a new love for painting my fingernails, something I haven’t done in a decade. Because long, thick fingernails is one of the […]
Yet Another Deep Mystery of Life.
I’ve had a lot of strange realizations since becoming pregnant. I’ve smelled things I’ve never smelled before, I’ve tasted ingredients in things that I didn’t know were there, and I hate half the foods and drinks that I usually love. But this one…I’m totally confused. I was leaving the house the other day, and on […]
The Princesses of the States.
There’s nothing that Ali loves more than Princesses and Princess dresses. I spend approximately 28% of my week helping her dress and re-dress her little plastic princesses, trying my best to avoid the task of putting their microscopic shoes that refuse to stay on their nearly-microscopic feet. (I try to convince Ali that Princesses are […]
Parties: The Cure for (Kid) Morning Sickness.
It’s been a very sickly house around here this week. Chris got a cold on Monday that stuck around all week, I’ve (obviously) not been feeling well at all (sorry, dear blog), and then there’s Ali. You see, she’s got morning sickness. Bad. Except it’s the all-day-sickness variety, mysteriously just like her mother’s… I feel […]