We’ve reached day 16. I think we call it NaBloPoMohshit.
Major fail at cupcake equality today. Oliver made me promise (please, let him never learn the pinkie swear) to take him to Coco’s for cupcakes today. They were closed. So we tried Vanilla. They were closed too. Mother of the year, once again. Bless the boy’s [...]
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I’m a morning person. It took forever to figure that out, with it finally being a matter of realizing I don’t typically get squat done in the afternoon. Living with a confirmed night owl also helped reinforce this discovery. Lately I have tried to do it all. Get up early with the kids, or to [...]
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To badly quote Bull Durham, we’re dealing with a lot of shit. Nothing major has hit the fan but there are lots of little piles contributing to the mess and the stench. Nothing I can’t clean up. Eventually.
Here’s a quick and dirty list of the piles making their presence felt in my little life:
Summer is [...]
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Crawling out of my foxhole kitchen just briefly to update you on a little get together scheduled for tomorrow in Pittsburgh. Two fab bloggers, Devra and Sarah, are visiting us as the first stop on their roadtrip to BlogHer. (I’m not bitter. I’m not bitter. I’m NOT bitter.)
In less than 72 hours, kdiddy and I [...]
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We hit two milestones today. Eleanor started talking about bedtime while we were in the car tonight. That should have been my first clue. When she starts says, “No bath! No bath! Brush teeth!” she is thinking about bedtime. She said she didn’t want any dinner. She says a lot of things that are not [...]
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With apologies to all the therapists out there, shortly after hitting the almighty publish button on that last post, I felt better. It was so utterly unexpected I almost dismissed it, attributing it to chocolate or some other source of comfort, but no, it was the blogging. For reals.
I decided this wasn’t some grand conspiracy [...]
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My blog is about as close as you want to get to me right now. When it rains, it pours. Let’s just say there are flood warnings in my vicinity. If I were the Mon Wharf, there would be no parking for months.
It all started last Thursday when CD informed me he’d have to work [...]
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Since y’all so kindly helped me reach my goal for the March for Babies, and put the team in very good shape ($28 away from FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS! as of a couple of minutes ago), here are the updates I promised. Fasten your seat belts. It’s been a bumpy week.
On Monday Oliver came home with lots [...]
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It seems the older I get, the less I have done. Almost daily I end up in a conversation, real life or electronic, about something else I have never done. Here are a few of the latest:
I have never been to White Castle (or “Chateau Blanc” as JT calls it).
I have never had a bikini [...]
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We have some really smart bloggers here in Pittsburgh, women who seem to know what I’m thinking before I do and say it far better than I ever could. Two recent examples are from RedPenMama and My Very Last Nerve. Go read them. I’ll wait.
Marriage is hard. Marriage with children is even harder. I sometimes [...]
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