Now: Stuffed To the Gills

[This qualifies as Fabulous Food Friday but don't be fooled. It's entirely by accident.]
The more I looked at yesterday’s post the more I realized it was impossible, especially when the little details I left out were considered. So we shifted gears a bit tonight. We traded our symphony tickets for Sunday afternoon but kept the [...]

Hello Neighbors

This post really needs a photo but the kids were not still long enough to let me grab one.
Spring has sprung and we’re out of hibernation at last! Though my neighborhood is teeming with kids all summer, we hole up in our houses when snow flies. My kids are both under 5 so I [...]

He’s Right

Sometimes my son speaks the truth, like this morning as we were walking to the bus stop, at 7:19am.
“Mum, you never get any rest.”

enormous changes at the last minute

I’ve been a bad little blogger. Not that I haven’t been thinking about it. This post has been rattling around in my brain for weeks. It started in late August when I knew the family was in for some schedule changes when Oliver started at his new school. I started trying to modify my sleep [...]

shifting time

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 [...]

all in the details

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 [...]

cold feet

Eleanor has been a champion sleeper for a while, only occasionally having a few days or a week here and there when she wakes up in the night. We’ve been in one of those phases. If I go in a vicious cycle begins. She will not let me put her back in the crib. She [...]

the up side of sleep deprivation

The best thing about getting only four hours of sleep last night? I have no guilt about skipping the train wreck that will be the VP debate. I stick to an earlier prediction that Palin will be dumped from the Republican ticket. 

What really fries my bacon (sorry, that was yesterday) is that she does not [...]

situation normal, all effed up

Eleanor is in week three of her cold. Now it’s the coughing. Still with the running nose. I think she may need to see the doc. Sleep is what is really suffering, hers and ours. If her throat is sore it isn’t due to the cold, but more likely all the screaming she is doing. [...]

Nap

Eleanor is having her first nap at school.
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