You know that bizarre phenomenon where you go to bed thinking “I’ve got to get up at 6 AM tomorrow”, and then you wake up, with no alarm, at 5:59? Or does that just happen to me? (Not recently, obviously – my baby alarm goes off EVERY morning before I’m ready to get up.) Last […]
Gourmet Baby: Yes, I Did Make a Breastmilk Smoothie.
After Noah’s obvious frozen yogurt love last weekend, Chris had an epiphany: I should make Noah his own FroYo, Baby-Kosher-Style. Baby-Kosher-Style = made with frozen breastmilk. Don’t worry – I’m not about to get all crazy. My byproducts will not be made into breastmilk cheese or anything curdish like that, but the thought of making […]
The Diet Bearability Report: Two Months.
On Saturday, Chris and I celebrated two months of our Lose It diet plan with a combined weight loss of 39.6 pounds. (The total being 39.6 completely killed me, seeing as how 40.0 in 2 months would have been such a beautifully neat and clean number. I suggested cutting off my arm – or maybe […]
What You’ve Done for Alabama.
If anyone still doesn’t believe that “Internet Friends” are just as real as “In Real Life Friends”, then they’ve never been in a crisis situation. To help with tornado relief, you have ordered over $1,200 of items off of the Christian Service Mission’s Amazon Wish List (you’re part of the reason that UPS had to […]
Millions of Updates, Updates for You.
My blog posts of late have been a confusing tangle of rabbit trails that lead to nothing but loose ends. And I despise loose ends nearly as much as I despise continuity issues. (Such as, why can Tinkerbell make anything fly in the rain but herself? Even if her wings are wet, couldn’t she just […]
Relief Updates…and…Couponing Advice Needed!
I’ve been able to share about some new Tornado relief options on two other blogs lately, so I wanted to update here as well. And I know that I’m talking a LOT about our tornadoes right now – I hope you’ll understand and bear with me – but that’s quite simply our life right now. […]
My (Three Day) Life as a Minivanning Mommy.
Due to obvious reasons, I began my Grand Minivan Challenge two days late. On Friday, I packed up the two kids and headed to pick up our borrowed ride from Serra Honda. Ali wasn’t quite understanding the concept of a car store, so I got grilled all the way there… “So how are we going […]
How To Be a Tornado Relief Hero By Using Social Media.
We all know that in the past, disaster relief has been a disaster. Katrina, Ivan, the Oil Spills – they’ve all been a nightmare of unhelpful help. There’s administration. And paperwork. And too many people wanting to help with not enough people being able to point them in a direction. And politics – different relief […]
My “How to Help” Recommendations.
I’m going to go back to “normal” blogging next week, although I’ll still be, I’m sure, in tornado-mindset personally. However, many of you have asked how you can help, so I wanted to compile a list of a few easy ways to help the many hurting people of our state. But first, here is a […]
How Geeks Lose Weight.
For the past four months, I’ve been eating whatever I jolly well pleased, under the OBVIOUS assumption that all of the calories were going straight to Noah. And really, it worked for me. …for a very short while. Then I quit losing…and I actually started to gain weight. Wait. What?? I just had a baby! […]