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I so wish I had a picture to share with you of what happened last night. It’s bone-chilling. My words will have to paint it for you.
My hubs has been working overnight shifts the past 7 weeks or so so he could be home to get the iToddler out of bed in the morning and put her to bed at night, because I had been on rest for placenta previa (now resolved, and a post will be coming about that soon). It’s been great…until about a week ago.
What
Continue reading Forget Clowns, I’m Terrified of Toddlers
My girl is going to be two on Sunday.
Two.
TWO.
Man, did that fly!
I love two. I really do. What a fantastic age. She has strong opinions on dressing herself (which in and of itself gives me tons of belly laughter), speaks in full sentences and plays a terrible, but hilarious game of hide & seek. I love that I can understand her now. I love that she asks for sugar on everything.
I Love Two.
It’s a funny thing, expecting a baby while raising a toddler. I find myself constantly wondering what life is going to be like raising a newborn and a tornado simultaneously. Toddlers are strange, irrational, unpredictable and delightful little creatures and you don’t have to pay super close attention to catch some real gems pretty much every day.
Like today.
The iToddler was happily munching away on her Annie’s Shells & Cheese when mama’s Chinese delivery showed up earlier than expected (she was supposed to be in bed, so as to
Continue reading The Laughs That Await Us
I love sleep. Sleep doesn’t seem to like me.
For 8 1/2 months, I have struggled with severe insomnia. It started out mildly enough…waking up every night around 2 or 3 a.m. and laying awake for hours…but over the past few months it evolved into not being able to fall asleep (and then literally getting ZERO hours of sleep), and most recently, anxiety.
And then I fell apart, got doctors more involved and spent some time getting some serious rest. As of today, I’m seeing marked improvement (7 hours last
Continue reading Role Model
It’s true. There is actual, scientific evidence to support my claim. Okay, well maybe babies don’t physically consume your brain matter, but they absolutely do shrink a woman’s brain size.
Remember that the next time you roll your eyes at some poor soccer mom who can’t remember her husband’s employer. Or name.
I have no pride about how dumb I’ve become. What I’ve lost in memory and common sense, I make up for in the incredible capacity to operate on an 8-month sleep deficit and the uncanny ability to imitate
Continue reading The Babies Ate My Brain
I guess you could say she gets it honestly, although I truly hate to admit it. But our little girl certainly knows how to put on a show. And it’s really, really hard to not laugh, honestly.
Example.
Tonight, our little drama queen started pushing buttons on all the electronics and Sean firmly told her “no, no.” Her response? She calmly walked to the middle of the floor, assumed child’s pose, grunted, and proceeded to bang her head against the floor three times. No tears, no bruised noggin, just three
Continue reading Drama Queen
It was never really my intention to jump back into writing and try to write every night, but little miss adventure never fails to give me fodder for my posts.
So thank you, sweet one, for always keeping my life interesting enough to need to sum it up, one day at a time.
You, my dear, are a funny, funny girl.
I eated the bwoo chock, mama!
That’s a major overstatement, because I don’t get embarrassed. I just don’t. I could fart in front of our pastor and just laugh. I hope my monkey-girl gets my sense of humor and self. I hope she doesn’t get my thighs.
Anyway, a couple weeks ago, she and I took off for a few days and drove down to Maryland to see one of my childhood BFFs at her wedding reception. My kiddo danced for 3 1/2 solid hours. I am not kidding you.
She’s a maniac, MAAAAniac on the
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I’m a lucky mama. I have a super-hot, hard-working, loving husband. My job is awesome–my boss and team are great. I have a humble home with window AC units to fend off the fierce 95-degree May days in Pittsburgh (who’d-a thunk it). My friends and family and church are second to none–I am always surrounded by inspiring people.
And I have a beautiful, smart and insanely funny little girl. Who’s almost two.
Two.
Yes, two. And she wears underwear on
Continue reading The Bigger She Gets
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August 16th, 2011 | Category: 
