Embracing MomminessEmbracing MomminessI had a career in marketing and loved it. When I had my first child, I couldn't bring myself to go back to work full time. Instead of working in marketing, I'm embracing momminess. Articles
Walmart haircuts
0000-00-00 00:00:00 I needed to get Little Miss Throwsafit's and Littlest One's hair cut. I also needed to get bubble wrap for packing some glasses and other things. Why not kill two birds with one stone and get them both done at Walmart ? I've never been in Walmart's salon but it seemed ... More About: Haircuts
How do you wrap your head around this
0000-00-00 00:00:00 I keep forgetting my camera at our house Up North so I don't have any pictures to show you of our new place. Each time I pack more items to bring down to the new house, my mind is focused on the essentials so I forget the fun stuff, like ... More About: Head , Wrap
Par-tee
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Every July my mom's side of the family gets together and has a little party that we call the Par-Tee. The men go to play golf (hence the play on words). The women sans kids go to the Ann Arbor art festival while the women with kids go to the Toledo ...
He’s got a fever and the only prescription is mommy
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Littlest One has another fever, the second one in three weeks. He doesn't have any symptoms: no runny nose, no diarrhea, no coughing, no nothing. I've got him on ibuprofen and he's acting pretty normally, except that he looks a little tired and periodically he wants to be held and ... More About: Mommy , Fever , Prescription
The chilliest summer I can remember
0000-00-00 00:00:00 This has got to be the chilliest summer I can remember in quite some time. Right now, it's about 65 and rainy. I don't want to complain too much because we need the rain badly because, sadly, our grass is brown and crunchy. But this chilly summer weather combined with ... More About: Summer
I can’t imagine a better way to begin a marriage
0000-00-00 00:00:00 This young couple got married with such joyful abandon that they and their wedding party danced down the aisle. I have to say I got choked up watching it because I could feel their happiness through the computer. Be honest: for those who are married, weren't you so excited on ... More About: Marriage , Imagine
Could it have been that simple?
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Littlest One's fever is completely gone. Actually, it left as quickly as it came on, leaving us a bit baffled as to why it arrived in the first place. It was a mystery until I checked out his mouth yesterday evening. He's finally getting in two teeth that should have ... More About: Simple
Trip to the dentist
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Little Man has another trip to the dentist tomorrow morning, just three days after a cleaning on Monday. I'll give you three guesses why we're going back, but it's not hard to figure out. LM has cavities. Four of them to be exact. Yikes! They're not bad, just tiny ones ... More About: Trip , Dentist
Settling in
0000-00-00 00:00:00 We're slowly settling in our new house. Since we didn't get our Invisible Fence installed until this past Tuesday, I wasn't able to introduce Sarah to the house until today. She's adjusting well, thankfully. She is still learning where the fence border is, so I am not yet ready to ...
This is one interesting tree
0000-00-00 00:00:00 The other day I got to spend a little time outside in our new backyard. I don't know how I missed it before, but we've got a tree I've never seen before. I thought I'd post a picture to see if anyone else has seen it and can identify it ... More About: Interesting , Tree
So here we sit on a beautiful fall day
0000-00-00 00:00:00 We're up north this weekend. It's one of our few remaining weekends of our canoe season and we're enjoying every moment. It is beautiful today. The air is warm and not a cloud in the sky. This morning was perfect as far as fall mornings go. It was cold, yes, but ... More About: Beautiful , Fall
She’s a growing girl
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Tomorrow is kind of a big day for Little Miss Throwsafit. As I've mentioned before, she has hypotonia (low muscle tone). Her low tone affects all the muscles in her body as well as her joints and ligaments. The biggest issue for her has been learning to walk. For a ... More About: Girl , Growing
Books are great Christmas gifts
0000-00-00 00:00:00 If you're looking for a Christmas gift for your kids that embodies what Christmas is about, I would recommend Glenn Beck's The Christmas Sweater picture book. My mom got it for my boys as a birthday present (theirbirthdays are one week apart in November) and it is such a nice book. The illustrations ... More About: Books , Gifts , Great
An American Christmas in 1919
0000-00-00 00:00:00 This photo is really interesting. It was taken in the home of Secretary of War (it's now Secretary of Defense) Newton Baker as he and his family gathered around the Christmas tree. The quality of the negative is not bad and you can still see the important aspects of American ...
Life is what you make it
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Have you ever felt like you were faced with a challenge that was simply too big to overcome and wanted to give up? Don't give up. Keep fighting: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy As long as you are alive and breathing on this ... More About: Life , Make
So we missed out on Santa
0000-00-00 00:00:00 We spent some time at Bass Pro Shop today with the intention to seeing Santa . Well, the Santa part didn't work out the way we planned. We arrived this afternoon, looked around the place, took a few pictures, and then grabbed lunch. It was after all this that we wandered ...
A Christmas song that really gets me in the mood
0000-00-00 00:00:00 I have many favorite Christmas songs. They range from the traditional "I'll be Home for Christmas" and "O Holy Night" to the fun "Mele Kalikimaka," which I just downloaded as my ring tone by the way. But one song really gets me in the mood and makes me want to pick ... More About: Song
Looking for a few cool gifts for Christmas?
0000-00-00 00:00:00 End User Blog has quite a few interesting kitchen gadgets, like this shopping list organizer: The SmartShopper, both in its original incarnation and a newer deluxe version, attempts to rectify some of the issues inherent in grocery list making (bad handwriting, missed items, multiple lists/requests) by centralizing the process. With voice ... More About: Christmas , Gifts , Cool
Trip to the barber
0000-00-00 00:00:00 There's a great barber shop downtown that has all the quaintness that you'd expect from a small town barber. I've never taken my boys to a barber shop before we moved to our new town but since it's here and easy to get to, I thought I'd try it. I ... More About: Trip
Christmas concert
0000-00-00 00:00:00 My son has his school's Christmas concert this morning and I brought my video camera along to capture the moment. Both my parents and my in-laws were able to attend. I was thrilled that both Little Miss Throwsafit and Littlest One loved it. They each sat calmly and watched as ... More About: Concert
The only problem with having a Great Dane
0000-00-00 00:00:00 The only problem with having a Great Dane for a pet is that when she wants to be petted, she'll be petted. For example, while I was sitting here at my desk writing, she came up and put her face in my face. As try as I might, I could ... More About: Problem
This would be a lot of fun, I think
0000-00-00 00:00:00 I haven't seen a full season American Idol in a few years, but this sounds like it would be a lot of fun: Billionaire show producer Simon Fuller, who managed the Spice Girls, is in talks to hire Posh, 35, as a judge. It comes after Paula, 47, yesterday revealed on ...
No shades of gray in one Burger King
0000-00-00 00:00:00 A Burger King in St. Louis ejected a family from the restaurant because their 6 month old baby was shoeless. How many of us moms allow our babies to go without socks or shoes in the summer? Probably most of us. Employees at a St. Louis Burger King were a bit ... More About: Gray , Shades of Gray
If it’s Saturday, then it’s raining
0000-00-00 00:00:00 This season has been very discouraging for us. Unfortunately, our sales are down this year compared to last year for the simple reason that the weather has been awful. Weekdays have been decent, not very hot, but decent, but as soon as Friday night rolls around, a front moves in ... More About: Saturday , Raining
We’re holding our own
0000-00-00 00:00:00 I wrote a couple days ago how Little Miss Throwsafit had a cough. She's significatly better and hardly coughs anymore, thank goodness. Unfortunately, Littlest One has gotten worse, especially yesterday. His cough is as awful as LMT's was on Monday but compounding it is his really stuffy, gooey nose and ... More About: Holding
To the vet’s office
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Yesterday my husband and I noticed that our golden retriever, Sammy, was breathing a little harder than normal. On top of that, she didn't want to eat or drink anything. Even though she is 13 years old she's always been healthy and spry, so this scared us a bit. Not ... More About: Office
Gratituesday
0000-00-00 00:00:00 It reached a high of 52º today. The sun shone brightly; it was simply beautiful. I'm sure it would have felt even warmer if there weren't so much snow still on the ground. Even though it was so warm, Little Man's school was canceled. Did I know that? Of course not. ...
Sammy update
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Sammy is doing so much better. By yesterday afternoon, she was looking more alert which told us her fever was reacting to her pain meds. She ate dinner, had some water, and went outside several times. I watched her carefully, looking for any sign that her fever was coming back, ... More About: Update , Sammy
The sweetest story
0000-00-00 00:00:00 I turned on the Early Show this morning to make sure Little Man's school wasn't on a delay, saw this story and smiled. The Westminster Dog Show crowned Stump, a ten year old Sussex Spaniel who came out of retirement after a serious medical condition, its newest Best in Show. I ... More About: Story
The Valentine’s Day card hunt
More articles from this author:0000-00-00 00:00:00 Well, it wasn't really a hunt. I just had to drive a couple of blocks to Rite Aid and pick up some Valentine's Day cards for Little Man's kindergarten class tomorrow. While I was there I picked up one for my husband, too. I got a good one that is ... More About: Card , Hunt 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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