My cousin Derek has a cat. She’s a fluffy calico and, as far as I can tell, she doesn’t have a name other than “Kitty”.
We were over at Derek’s house on Sunday helping out with a project for his upcoming Underground Arts Festival this Saturday. While the men were outside building an enormous [...]
Anyone who knows me at all knows that I have this thing for pink donuts.
I looooove me some pink donuts! In particular, cherry cake donuts with rainbow sprinkles. There have been times when I’ve obsessed with finding such a donut to the point that I drove 25 miles in my quest to find [...]
On my quest to get to know my new town better, I decided to brave out of my comfort zone today. I went shopping for a few items at a grocery store I hadn’t been to before. Ryan, of course, decided that despite the charming Muzac version of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” that [...]
The toddler pallet is a very strange thing. An item that was once his absolute favorite food can be treated with utter contempt the next day. You just never know the way the wind will blow when it comes to toddler culinary preferences.
I just experienced this fickleness during Ryan’s morning snack. Since he had French [...]
Gaw. It feels like all that I ever do on my days off from work is laundry and trips to the grocery store. Yesterday was no different.
Following a nearly-two hour midday nap, Ryan finished his lunch and seemed in a perfect mood for me to drag him to the grocery store. So I jumped at [...]
I had the much-needed experience last Saturday night of having a “Mom’s Night Out”. Seven of us got out of our normal mommy gear of yoga pants and stained t-shirts, put on a little make-up and left the babies at home with their fathers in order to whoop it up. It was a much needed [...]
I have finally discovered a food that Ryan will eat–Spaghetti!
I snapped a few shots of him following once particularly messy pasta experience. I forwarded them to my mother-in-law, who promptly responded back with, “I really think spaghetti was invented by Kodak rather than the Italians.” She may be right. Just look at this face!
Just thought I’d let you all know how I’m doing with my “Things To Do” New Year’s list. I must say, I’m quite proud of how much I’ve accomplished in 4 days. If anyone wants to applaud, now would be the appropriate time.
These ones are DONE!
1) Eat more chocolate: I made double chocolate chip cookies [...]
So I have recently moved over to a new stage in parenthood–that of trying to reason with a toddler. Activities that were once simple, like changing a diaper or giving a bath, have become feats that are worthy of a Purple Heart. Now that he has learned to exert some independence, my once compliant and [...]
Last Saturday night was my aunt and uncle’s annual Christmas Dessert Party. I was excited about taking my son this year, as last year when we took him he was only a month old and we were all so damn sleep deprived that I don’t even remember it. I just knew that this [...]