Disney is a complicated beast. They create characters so lovable (and widely marketed) that no child can go a day without running into them somehow. In fact, my kid doesn’t go a day without pretending to be at least five of them. In the same day. Repeatedly. And not answering to anything but the particular […]
The Lion of Her Skirt: Case Closed.
I really thought we would never solve the mystery. But, since every child’s goal is to be as entirely unpredictable as possible, it was solved in less than 24 hours of my post. My parents stopped by on Monday for a little while (apparently they were going through Grandkid withdrawals), and since they had read […]
Bumptastrophe.
Yesterday morning, I noticed some red bumps on Ali. Due to where they were, I assumed that it was a heat rash due to our hour and a half of blueberry picking in the extraordinarily hot Alabama sun the day before, but decided to keep an eye on them. By last night, they had quite […]
How Ear Fluid Can Adversely Affect the Contents of your Refrigerator.
My ears are driving me crazier than pregnancy is already making me. They have been for three weeks, but they’re getting increasingly, and very quickly, worse this week. So much so, that for 15 extra potential hours of relief, I moved my next OB appointment up by one day in hopes that he could fix […]
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 […]
The Truth About Cats and Dogs.
Every now and then, I have mentioned my cat, Oreo, whilst blogging. From the comments on those posts, I have become aware of a very interesting phenomenon. People hate cats. They aren’t just “not cat people” like I’m “not a dog person” (and really I’m not that much of a cat person either but that’s […]
Uncle Joe’s Tot Locker: An Investigative Report.
We have been having an exceedingly odd Winter here in Alabama. In a state where we’re lucky if we get snow once a decade, we have had half a dozen snow predictions in the past three months. And it was because of these unheard of winter conditions that Uncle Joe’s Tot Locker found it’s way […]
Rachel, Child Not-So-Star.
The year was 1987. I was six years old. There was a movie being filmed in town, and they needed antique cars. My Dad and Granddad both had Model Ts, so they were loaning them to the producers for the movie. And, it happened to be my lucky day that they needed some children as […]
Riddles, Romance, and Christmas
Chris and I are all about a good game or puzzle. We especially like scavenger hunts. The year we got married, we didn’t have much money (if anyone DID have much money the year they got married, the rest of us think you’re lying). Anyway, there was an Eddie Bauer grey wool coat that Chris […]
A Stinky Reason is Better than No Reason…
(I bet you think I’m going to talk about poo again with “Stinky” in the title. Well, you’re wrong. I CAN blog about other things, you know.) I have come to the conclusion that I can’t take any medications. No, I’m not a hippy. I’m actually a big fan of medicine – I don’t like […]