Birth, although an amazingly beautiful and miraculous occasion, is, let’s face it, also pretty fantastically disgusting. You’ve got blood and guts and possibly poo and definitely puke and meconium and blood and guts and…Placenta. There’s just nothing pretty about placenta. (I would normally insert a picture of a placenta in all it’s glory right here, […]
Across My Path as of Late.
Need a great Daycare? In Birmingham, we have only the best: …I bet those kids take GREAT naps. We were browsing through the baby section the other night and ran across belly mold kit – you know, so you can always remember exactly how gargantuan pregnancy makes you. Although we didn’t buy it, we learned […]
Mile High Shopping.
I never take a magazine onto a plane with me because I’m always completely fascinated by the Sky Mall catalog. So this last flight, I obeyed the instructions at the top and took it. So they could joyfully replace it. The first thing I always think when I look at catalogs like this is, “What […]
The State of State Hysteria.
The state of Alabama is now officially under the trance of the upcoming football season. And the teensy-tinesy detail of Alabama being the defending National Champion AND coming into the season ranked number one nationally is making the hysteria just a wee bit more deserving-of-straight-jacket-insanity than usual. Unfortunately, this football hysteria causes some people to […]
The First Step is Admitting That I Have a Problem.
If you are a Mom like me that has found quite a bit of lethargic pleasure in renewing your love of coloring thanks to having a coloring-aged-kid (even if you are also, like me, a serial crayon breaker), THEN YOU MUST GO TO TARGET RIGHT NOW. You have no idea the level of satisfaction – […]
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 […]
Chiggeremedies and Chigger Pie
To help make Chiggerade out of our Chiggers, Ali and I made Black&Blueberry Pie with some of our pickin’s… Ali was especially proud of her butter pat pattern placement: And, since it’s the first time I’ve ever made a pie quite like this and I changed the recipe around a bit, I didn’t know if […]
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 […]
Dora, The Saint.
There’s a new trend in cartoons this generation, and it kind of freaks me out. Attempted Interactivity. I say attempted because half the time I can barely get my toddler to interact with me while she’s watching TV, let alone the TV itself. Dora does it. Handy Manny does it. Even Mickey Mouse has come […]
Someone Needs to Change the Dirty Diaper of Fashion.
Last fall during the American Music Awards, I noticed a very scary trend: the Adult Onesie. It was disturbing, it was edgy, and, as I feared, it was the first step on the way to a new and terribly horrifying trend. The Onesie is now known as . . . . The Romper. If you […]