What The …?

At about 1:40 in the morning Big and I got an unexpected rude awakening.  The loudest sound we’ve ever heard made us both jump up from a sound sleep.  The house actually shook.  We still have no idea what the hell it was.  It sounded like an explosion.  We looked out the windows but other [...]

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Bet You Didn’t Do This Today

A few things I bet you didn’t do that I did.
1.  Spend over an hour in Home Depot trying to decide which window treatments you want for the basement even though none of them are your first choice.
2.  Put your kid’s Thomas train track together 25 times.
3.  Get stood up by Bose’s installation people (Whitaker [...]

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Clowns to the Left, Jokers to the Right …

We ordered furniture for our basement.  This is what we’re going through:
1.  Order furniture, schedule delivery.
2.  Had to postpone delivery because painter told me it would take three days to paint the basement.  What he should have said was three ‘MAN’ days, which really meant one day with three men.  So, postponed and rescheduled delivery [...]

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Just a Few Random Thoughts

I’m still scratching my head as to why I should care about these items.
Clay Aiken just announced that yes, indeed, he’s gay.
Hmmm, I needed the news to tell me this?  Like I hadn’t figured it out years ago.  And really, who cares?
Brad Pitt just gave $100,000 to fight Prop 8.
Again, do I care what Brad’s views on same [...]

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The Muffin Man

Or shall we saw muffin mom?  My son has made me listen to this song about thirty times today.  It’s a not so gentle reminder that I’m grossly out of shape.  So out of shape that I get winded trying to dance to it.  So out of shape that the walk I tried to take [...]

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Little Pitchers Have Big Ears

My grandmother used to have a small ceramic pitcher that had these large ears.  Whenever an adult was saying something that wasn’t meant for little people to hear she would point to the pitcher.  As a kid I never quite got the message of what she was trying to tell the grown ups.  I’m a [...]

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And Then Some Days All Goes Well

Yesterday I wrote about my doubts and insecurities regarding motherhood.  I’d like to thank the moms who reached out to me and assured me that Shorty was acting like a normal toddler.  With their comments in mind we headed off to our first Lil Kickers class this morning.
It was like the heavens knew I needed to [...]

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Moments of Doubt and Insecurity

It’s amazing how our children can make us feel.  One moment you feel confident and like you’re doing this mothering thing okay and the next moment you feel like you’re getting it all wrong and that surely something isn’t right with your child.  I had one of the getting it all wrong moments today.
Shorty had [...]

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He Makes It So Hard

Bedtime.  One of the hardest parts of our day in this house.  It’s totally my and Big’s fault.  We have given our child no good sleep habits.  First we taught him that to fall asleep he needed one of us to hold him or walk him.  Then we’ve allowed him the luxury of sleeping in [...]

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Fever

Well, it happened.  Shorty has his first official illness that is more than just the sniffles.  Last night he had a fever of 104.1 and a rash that started on his face and then covered his whole body.  Of course, since Shorty has only had the sniffles three times in his life you can imagine [...]

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