Growing up, "The Res" was a place that teenagers hung out and did drugs after hours. Turns out that the reservoirs in neighboring towns around here are actually pretty nice, and great places for families during the day on the weekends ;-) Yesterday was a lazy day filled with rain and thunderstorms, tv and lazing about. ...
But no time to say it. Let's see if this rambling post will suffice until I can sit my butt down and really write. And for the hell of it, let's do it bullet-style with categories. Strong Opinions If you are living and working in the USA, you need to learn to speak English. I am not ...
It's a phrase that has been playing in my head over and over for several days. Cautiously Optimistic. When people ask me how I'm doing, it's what I want to say. How do you feel? Cautiously optimistic. I had a very painful experience with my mother this week. Years of anger and resentment, hurt over slights ...
Today rocked. I mean seriously rocked. In the morning I got to sleep in (after being up with the baby for an hour from 5am to 6am & then waking hubby to switch out). I was in bed until 8:30am and that rocked hardcore. The kids played all morning, inside & outside. I got some critical ...
Cupcake, You will be four years old in June, and you say the funniest things. Your vocabulary is growing in leaps and bounds (hell, you know what leaps & bounds means!) and you surprise me, all the time. It's little things. Today while we were going potty you put your hand on my knee while getting ...
We have two little beautiful girls - Cupcake and Geeklet. If you're new around here, you may not know what Cupcake is 3.5 years old, and Geeklet is recently 1yr old. I love them to pieces - for all the usual reasons, but also because: You never have to worry about not having enough Reds to ...
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I struggle with how much I should discipline my children. Since Cupcake is only 3.5yrs, and Geeklet is just a year old, this is definitely not the first time I'll question myself. The problem is that in questioning myself, I find I'm lacking consistency. I'm failing them in my lack of conviction. I was thinking about ...
"Yes, you can eat under the table as long as you are quiet." "Yes, those are Mommy's boobies. No, you can't touch them." "Don't smother your sister!" "No! We do NOT eat POOP!" "That's called your vagina." "My 'agina?" [stifled horrified laughter - good lord that sounds wrong coming from her] "No, Mommy was wrong. Those are your lady parts." "Get that plug ...
