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 […]
Checking Up – Seven Weeks.
Since I have been open in the past with my struggles when Ali was a newborn and about my fears about doing it all over again, I wanted to honestly share my experiences with Noah as well, even if it forces me to be serious for a post every now and then. I hope you […]
Unprepared Preparedness
Disclaimer: More-Serious-Than-Usual Post to follow. I am going to earn the title of Mom of Two Kids ANY DAY NOW. And I am totally unprepared. My house is a wreck (because I’m unwieldy and exhausted and constantly contracting and therefore don’t feel like doing anything), thank you notes are not written, Christmas presents, although bought, […]
Adventures in Illnesses. Of Every Variety.
So this week isn’t starting off with quite the happy vibe I would hope. I’m thinking about declaring Wednesday to be Monday and starting over, but two Mondays in one week sounds rather worse than just accepting that it’s a bad week and moving on, so I think I’ll just look forward to next week. […]
The Innocence of Childhood.
We arrived at the beach today, and due to some last minute mix-ups, we ended up with a major condo upgrade, thanks to our very hard-working rental agent, who I’m pretty sure did nothing for the last 24 hours except try to get us settled. When we arrived to the 19th floor of our amazing […]
My One Rant of the Year, Brought to You by BP.
We live 4 1/2 hours from the Alabama Coastline. We have always adored the beach, and, thanks to the fact that we have relatives that are locals, we are fortunate enough to get to come fairly often. Alabama was not blessed with much coastline (I personally feel that is due to Florida being a bit […]
The Sequel: In Production. Release Date: Unknown.
Sometimes it’s refreshing to simply answer questions. Especially when it’s a question you get asked at least a dozen times a week, and you run out of vague ways to not actually answer, which usually answers the question in and of itself. So….yes, we’re trying to get pregnant. Or rather, we’re not not trying. And […]
The Magic of Mommyhood.
It’s been a long week. My normally very emotionally stable and logical three year old has for some reason found the need to have multiple and quite sudden breakdowns. And for very little cause, such as the one about her best friend AJ, which, through tears, she told me tragically, “But she told me to […]
Christmas, Really.
Ali wants nothing to do with Santa Claus this year. She doesn’t want him visiting her house (unless he promises to be gone by the time she wakes up), and she CERTAINLY has no interest in visiting HIM at the mall. And, up until she actually opened one, she wasn’t a bit interested in presents. […]
A Lifetime Ago
I don’t feel that old very often, until I start thinking about how long ago things happened. Nearly eleven years ago, I met Chris. I was 17, and he was 22. We met through music – he was this awesome and passionate singer/guitar player/pianist/keyboard player/songwriter. I was still a teenager and a good-guitar-player-but-only-in-my-classical-picking-style-so-please-don’t-ask-me-to-strum-niche and a […]