Four years. My friend Ashley and I have gone to lunch once a week, every week, with our kids in tow. Tessa, Ali, AJ, and Noah. Yes, Noah IS in the photo. Seriously – we’ve missed less than a dozen weeks in FOUR YEARS. We do fun things with the kids, too – the Zoo, […]
February: A Review, in Conversations.
These types of conversations with Ali can usually be found on B-Sides in my Yittle Fings series, but February was especially noteworthy… Most Philosophical Statement of the Month: “When I’m scared in the night and I have a bad dream, I can always count on God… just like people can always count on […]
Family Photos – Mine AND Yours! (Giveaway!!)
A few weeks back, we decided to attempt the scary – the impossible – the potentially traumatizing. Family photos. With a newborn. A newborn that was not (yet) out of a three-week-long fussapotamus phase. AND without my Mom along to help corral little people and bring about smiles. I’ve never attempted photos without my Mom’s […]
Answers, Part Two: Homeschooling.
Disclaimer: Before answering your questions about homeschooling, let me clarify: Any commentary herein is based only on my opinions and my family – please don’t take offense or feeling like I am making any blanket statements about your family. For instance, if I say that I chose to homeschool so that I am able to […]
Dora The Ignorer: If Dora Could See.
Disclaimer: This post may only make sense if you’ve seen at least 50 Dora The Explorer episodes, preferably repeatedly ad nauseum. I sometimes wonder if Ali secretly thinks that Dora isn’t exactly the brightest cartoon in the tube. Because she doesn’t exactly seem to get it. Dora turns and looks directly at Ali, asks a […]
The Latest on the Greatest Show on Earth.
As of Friday night, Chris and I officially earned our Mommy (and Daddy) Scouts Badge for “Taking two kids, one that is under six weeks old, to the Circus, not getting home until 11pm, and living to tell about it.” And it was worth it – even the ridiculously priced light-up spinning toy souvenir that […]
A Few of My (New) Favorite Things.
Thanks to Christmas, new babyness, and other events lately, I’ve run into a few cool new things that are making my daily life easier and more fun. (And, for the record, I was not asked to promote any of these items, nor do the companies mentioned know that I’m writing about them, They just rock […]
You Know You’re a MOM when…
The events depicted are real events that happened to the author in much-too-recent memory – no actors were harmed used in the creation of this post. …You’re hungry enough that you’d rather hold your baby and eat – while smelling dirty diaper – than risk waking them to freshen up their backside. …You notice people […]
Who Needs Imaginary Friends to do Your Dirty Work?
One of the first questions that everyone has asked me about our transition-to-two-kids is, “So how is Ali taking it?” And, since Future-15-Year-Old-Ali is feeling pretty indignant and forgotten due to my lack of blogging-record of her life lately (thanks to an influx of posts about pregnancy and childbirth), I figured it was time to […]
Recipe For the World’s Most Bizarre Weekend.
Start with a Three Week Old Baby: Who, despite his preciousness, does not sleep good on Friday night, therefore also adding in one Very-Sleep-Deprived-Three-Weeks-Post-Partum-Mommy. On Saturday morning, stir in a Four Year Old’s Birthday, starting and ending with complete sugar overload: (Sugar Overload shown in recipe provided by Krispy Kreme and my amazingly talented friend […]