Ali and I have been ailing for the last couple of days. Me because of my own doing, and her because of I-Have-No-Idea-What’s doing. Let’s start with me. Last night I was cooking dinner – an experimental dinner (which turned out marvelously delicious might I add – Chicken and New Potatoes in Nabeel’s Greek Dressing […]
Theories on Toddlers and Anatomy Terminology
Have you noticed that there are a lot of different theories on teaching toddlers about anatomy? They are all very different, all have their pros and cons, but it is imperative that you take one of the strategies and run with it, because we all know that toddlers find the naming (and exploring, especially boys) […]
Photographical Irony.
Be sure to go to Alabama Bloggers to enter my first contest over there (and you don’t have to be an Alabama blogger to enter!!) – There are three prizes worth $40 each – Beautiful coffee-table historical photograph books of Birmingham, Mobile, and Huntsville. You may remember that I gave some of these away a […]
CVS, The Insult Computer.
So I had a very irritable day on Saturday. I’m usually pretty even-keeled (here’s hoping that my hubby would agree with that statement), but something was up on Saturday. And I had to apologize to him several times. Anyway. We had to stop by CVS that evening to get a gift bag and tissue paper. […]
Blushingly Crazy Odds.
I’ve got one of my favorite posts up at 5 Minutes for Parenting today. Be sure to visit and check it out! In a metropolitan area of 1.1 million people, what are the chances of seeing the same complete stranger twice in the period of two weeks? And at two different places? Well, it happened… […]
A Rooty Tooty Itchy Chin.
I am sitting here typing with an extraordinarily itchy chin, but with no way to stop the itching. Why? Because I had the pleasure of getting a root canal this morning, and I suppose the numbness is starting to wear off. OH it itches. My dentist referred to my procedure as a “Rooty Tooty”, making […]
Dolly Parton: The All-Knowing Family Manipulator.
Instead of the silly boob jokes and twangy songs that we grew up knowing Dolly for, Ali thinks that she is the Book Fairy. Thanks to Dolly’s Imagination Library program where she sends every child a free book every month (if you sign up for it), Ali’s life has been excited and enriched by such […]
Apparently, Basketball is My Game. Too Bad I Hate it.
I told you a few weeks ago about my efforts in coercing Ali to make a Basketball Bracket. I entered hers and my brackets into two pools – Chris’ office pool and Boomama‘s online pool. Of course, it was very quickly apparent that Ali was going to be dead last in both groups. However, in […]
In Which Thomas the Tank Engine Drowns in a Puddle.
We bought tickets months ago to the “A Day With Thomas” event that comes to Calera once a year (although it is next weekend as well, if you want to head on over for yourself). Ali has never been, and with her unbelievable love obsession with Thomas, we knew that it would be a dream […]
Always Count on Toddler for a Real-Time Opportunity to Practice What You Preach.
Reading back over this before I post it, I am realizing that this is a very hyper post. Lots of run-on sentences and parenthetical asides. Maybe those cookies are having an affect after all. So be sure to read this post in a hyper-active, way-too-fast, I’ve-had-too-many-espresso-beans fashion. Ali and I went to lunch with Beth, […]