Blogworthy

Jonas has been on fire today.   So quotable!  So blogworthy! Such a pain in my ass!
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Started with everyone’s favorite early-morning-special… the explosive poop.  Honestly, the kid enjoys a steady diet of bananas and cheese, and it has no effect whatsoever.  He’s built up a tolerance to bananas.  Cloth diapering seems to be a thing of [...]

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Throwing my hat into the ring

Actually, throwing Jaynie’s hat into the ring.
So I’ve been instructed to enter this baking contest by one of the Soap Chix themselves. Apparently, friends, relatives, and acquaintances of the judges are *expected* and *encouraged* to enter. Also, my creativity was challenged. Surely, what with all the amazing glue stick projects on [...]

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Happy Birthday to ME!

People. I have had The Best Birthday Ever this weekend. Seriously wonderful. Fantastic. Blissful. Surprising. Fabulous. It was everything a birthday should be. The bar has been set very high this year, folks. You will have to start planning waaaaay ahead – like by Thanksgiving – next year to [...]

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Aspirations

Me: So, Jayne, what do you want to be when you grow up?
Jayne: Umm… either a helicopter pilot, or a music teacher.

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Hooray!

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George came home.  Mom says he’s dirty and a bit thinner, but unhurt.  He’s also not telling where he’s been.  That bastardly cat, scaring the crap outta me like that.  Geesh.  When I see him next month I will hug him and kiss him… and kick his butt all over the house.  Freaking cat.
(The still [...]

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Still around…

Yeah, I’m still here. I just haven’t been in a real happy-go-lucky-bloggy state of mind lately. My sweet, fat, cookie-boy George is MIA and presumed dead. I’ve been trying to blog about him but its incredibly difficult (emotionally) to do (much easier to just think about other stuff and pretend nothing [...]

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Fashionista

Another stellar outfit, brought to you by the Twink.

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So – do you guys let your three-year-old out of the house in any ridiculous thing she wants?  I let her wear anything and everything in the house, but generally try to have *some* rules about what she wears in public.  It has to be weather appropriate, [...]

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Positive reinforcement

Today Jayne went right down for a nap with no jacking around, no attempted negotiations, no sneaky playing instead of sleeping.  I told her to close her eyes and go to sleep, and five minutes later she was unconscious.
So Joe tells her that bedtime is 8pm, but because she took such a good nap blah [...]

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