Why Girls are Easier than Boys
When you have a three year old girl following you everywhere you go, and it gets to the point where you either go kill whatever is growing in the shower or give it a name and start a college fund, you...
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View ArticleScrew Radio Silence
Yes yes, I know, and how are you? Good, let's go. Owen has been doing this little camp thing this week, basically a preschool prep where they go through all the motions (line up, sit on the rug, play...
View ArticleWhat to eat
It was 2:00, 92 degrees, 1098 percent humidity, and I was in the backyard in my bathing suit pulling weeds. I was in my bathing suit because Owen had told me he wanted to play in the wading pool, and I...
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Foods to which I am not allergic: Beef Pork Foods I do not eat: Meat Foods to which I am allergic: Wheat Soy Eggs Peanuts Corn Foods I eat every single day: See list above So, I am now soliciting ideas...
View ArticleDork vs. Geek
I was literally in the middle of writing an actual post, and then Chris and I started having an argument about which of us is a geek and which of us is a dork. We cannot agree, so I submit it to you....
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I was at Trader Joe's today, without my children, chatting with the ever-friendly cashier, and I made a comment about school starting next week. He asked me what grade I was going into. Blink. Blink....
View ArticleFirst Day of School, Child 1
She can read, write, add, subtract and do some basic fractions. She can swim, ride a two-wheeler, make her own lunch, carry a tune, hit a baseball, and tell a joke that is actually funny. She's six....
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View ArticleQuestion from Owen
Owen (three and a half, in case you have lost track) has an important question that I am unable to answer, so I offered to ask you. "If The Hulk was frozen in carbonite, would he be able to use his...
View ArticleSecret Word
Mia has a secret word, let's say it is Tulip. If someone she is not expecting shows up to pick her up from somewhere and says "Hey, your mom asked me to come get you" she knows to ask them for the...
View ArticleTen Years On
I had dinner last night (with my husband, you remember him) at a restaurant where I once had dinner with you. It was strange. It has been so many years since I have been anywhere that smelled even...
View ArticleUpdate, of sorts
Things currently in the back of my car: One bag of assorted bathing suits, towels, goggles, and a Star Wars bathrobe for Owen's twice-weekly Mommy and Me swim lessons. One bag of snow pants, gloves,...
View ArticleLife skills
Yesterday I became the proud auntie of yet another perfect, beautiful niece. As I was dropping my first two perfect, beautiful nieces off at their house to spend the night with their grandmother it was...
View ArticleGrateful
We are just back from the beach, we cut the vacation short so that Owen could attend his last day of preschool. And while at the beach we had ice cream sundaes and played stupid-expensive mini golf and...
View ArticleLick the Needle
I'm 38 today. I could be coy and just say that today is my birthday, but I got over coy roughly a decade ago, so now I am 38 and here we are. I debated and debated what to do with myself on my birthday...
View ArticleGo Turkey Go Turkey Go
I started running in mid-August. And then I went on vacation and then I started running all over again at the beginning of September. I did Couch to 5k via a handy dandy iPhone app and lots of...
View ArticleBorderline
Sometimes it is fine, really, almost totally fine. And other parents and other kids have it so much worse, and really it is fine, and probably totally normal, and developmentally appropriate or at...
View ArticleLet You Entertain Me
What are you watching? I'm watching Sons of Anarchy season whatever they are on now and Dowtown Abbey season 2. Chris and I are caught up on Walking Dead and working our way through a backlog of Mad...
View ArticleTraditions
We started making gingerbread men on Thanksgiving morning before Owen was born. We turn on the parade, cut out the cookies, decorate with homemade frosting, and have eaten enough to be in a full on...
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