It’s approximately a week before my son turns 2 years old, and I can safely say that the Terrible Twos have arrived already. For the last week or so life with Ryan has been punctuated with whining, yelling and irrational crying. Temper tantrums jump out of nowhere and he goes from happily playing [...]
Oh, the Summer Olympics! How I love them. The swimming, gymnastics, track–I just can’t get enough! In my greed to consume as much Olympic programming on television as humanly possible, my dvr has been on overdrive trying to record and keep up with my thirst for athleticism.
One of the downsides of recording [...]
Near the beginning of the year, I wrote on this blog about something my husband, his family and I have experienced; something we call PFL.
Tonight there was a whole new twist on PFL.
After dinner, Ryan had been playing out in the grass in the backyard. Since I had picked up all of the dog [...]
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 [...]
Earlier this evening I went into my bathroom to take out my contacts. As I walked into my bedroom, I could faintly hear an unfamiliar man’s voice. I thought, “Hmm, is the window open?” and walked around my bed toward the window. Then I noticed the baby monitor on the floor below [...]
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 [...]
It’s hard to believe that it has already been 2 weeks since we moved into our house in Bend.
The 1200 mile drive over 3 days was an experience, to say the least. The new Highlander was packed up to the ceiling, AND had a stuffed cargo bag on the roof, making us resemble the Beverly [...]
Last night I cleaned out Ryan’s closet. One of the few remaining items in it that wasn’t packed was my old diaper bag from when he was an infant.
I haven’t carried that sucker in at least 6 months, let alone looked through it. I chucked that bastard right after Ryan turned a year [...]
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 [...]