Yay! It’s #fiveonfriday. A free for all to share a list of “five things” with you. I love it because I can write about anything and everything. Like “Five Reasons You MUST Read or Watch the Outlander” (which would pretty much look like this. . . Reasons 1-4: Jamie and Claire, Reason 5: Scotland. And by […]
1. cartoon animal ability-bias There are shows centered around the fact that ponies can speak…and live in houses…and sew dresses. But they have pets! Who are mute wild animals without any of these humanized abilities. I call this ‘cartoon animal ability-biased’. Perhaps it is best represented by the band of civil servant cartoon dogs that […]
It has been well over a year that we have been doing Speech and Language therapy with Levi. I can’t say enough about how it has improved his communication and therefore, his confidence. But there are still some words that both him and his sister just aren’t interested in using in the correct context or […]
I remember sitting in my parent’s living room with my 9 month old on my lap. I was nauseated, tired and frazzled and my Dad said, ‘what’s going on with you?’. I almost burst into tears when I blurted the news to them, ‘I’m pregnant and I’m exhausted!’. I don’t remember much more, but I […]
Nostalgia feeds little gumdrops to the parts of our brain that want everything to have a happily ever after. Childhood has it’s own flavour of nostalgia, Initiated by memories of tricycles….fruit roll ups….rubber boots. You can sense the edges of these objects in your hands, taste their sugar at the tip of your tongue, pinpoint […]
Sometimes my children find me appealing as wearing socks. Translation, the worst ever. Lately they’ve been drawn to me like all the ‘please don’t eat that’ floor food under the table. It started last night over dinner. In sporadic preparation over four hours, I pieced together a nice pasta dish of roasted zucchini, baked chicken […]
Being pregnant in the summer with a posterior baby means I pretty much live on this yoga ball…in front of the AC unit. The photo op made me realize my kids need hair cuts. I cut Levi’s hair a couple times a year. It has evolved over three years from me snipping some long ends […]
A pregnant friend and I were tossing around our third trimester woes – well let’s be real, I was complaining and she was sympathizing and offering me chocolate because she is kinda awesome. The word ‘Prangry’ came up, so let me fill you in on what is. Cause if you were pregnant, you most likely […]
It was a full month before I confessed to anyone else…. I told my sister in law that I forgot to buckle my son into his high chair and he flopped right out, the worst damage done was to my mom pride. She laughed at me. Soon, these mortified moments of parenting became the hushed […]
I came across these picnic pictures in my phone. A reminder that all those visions of what our life with our little children would be like were pretty unrealistic. Maybe they were lies my ovaries told my pre-baby brain. Or maybe they idealizations based on pictures I saw in a magazine, of fake families, doing […]