April « 2009 « Finding Yourself Despite Yourself

Holy crap ya’ll, I need your help

I’ve been flogging away at this blogging thing for quite some time now. It’s been an exercise in agony, joy, patience, friendship, and madness. Weekly, I slave over a hot keyboard to bring you the goings on in my head, home, and even my womb. And today, is when I get to grab the microphone [...]

Stroller folding hell

I have this really awesome stroller that I won. It rides smoothly, looks sleek and even has an adjustable height handle which I totally adore. Yeah, it could use more basket space but that’s really the only complaint Ive got about the thing. My second favorite part (i say second favorite because the adjustable handle [...]

He likes the meat

I just thought you all should know, Bo is no longer a vegetarian.

I keep the kids meat free until abut 1, you know when they have teeth enough to chew it because that meat slurry in a jar scares the tar out of me (though at this pace, Bo won’t have enough teeth by [...]

My Mom Logic

‘Ef it’ has become my mothering war cry, my mom logic. Four kids and ankle deep into this thing call motherhood, ‘ef it’ has become a sanity saver. I guess you could say “don’t sweat the small stuff” but “ef it” has more panache.

With Mira, my hopes of perfecting motherhood were quickly dashed. She [...]

Operation dumbo plop

We’ve been doing the potty training thing with Levi lately. I’m not one to push potty training but his daily meltdowns over flaming baboon chafe were getting kind of tiresome so I started bribing him with jellybeans.

Here son, you poop in the potty and Mama will give you CANDY! Jellybeans! magic! WEE!

and he fell [...]