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Time After Time

2012-01-25T21:17:00.001-05:00

Dudes. I hate time. It goes way too fast! My son, precocious Dr. B has asserted the fact that he is no longer my little baby. Yes. Indeed. He has taken his first steps. A happy moment, indeed! But just another indication of time flying. Remember when I was upset about his colic? Wasn't that yesterday? Seriously. Actually, remember when my world was all about e and I wrote about it daily and was

If You Thought You Were Financially Savvy - Here's Your Test!

2011-11-06T20:22:00.000-05:00

Okay. So lots of people have offered up thoughts and opinions. And let me preface this money management moment with a compliment to all my friends: while it doesn't take much YOU ALL ARE BETTER AT MONEY MANAGEMENT THAN ME. However, the BEST Money Manager Award goes to...HRL - and, besides being the smartest and most disciplined person I've come across, she's also the most generous, as she

Ways to Stretch a Dollar 101

2011-11-02T19:43:00.005-04:00

This blurb is me trying to make sense of how to stay in control of my finances - he he! (Though, really, not a joke...um...mostly)! Maybe I'll start with what I know, that's what good writers do, no? (So says Eric Walters, anyhow...) ! And what do I Know, you ask? Well, I know how to SPEND a dollar! Or - many dollars! *Here's one thing I've learned I should not do: I should not take e shopping

Mama's Got New Lingerie....

2011-10-23T22:17:00.002-04:00

This might be tmi - but whatevs. I propositioned my hubby in a very disgusting, spit-up covered, baby-cereal pasty-coated mess of a sweater ensemble (part lu-lu, part maternity, mix-and-match special).... I was gonna take a pic of this disgusting outfit for all to see.... but um. it's so embarrassing, that I cannot bring myself to share. Sorry... And jb? well, it's a good thing boys are sometimes

Boning Up...he he.

2011-10-18T21:39:00.002-04:00

Alright, my friends. Did I properly grab your attention? I hope so. Cuz I have some very important questions and I hope you can take a moment or two to help me out. If you've talked to me EVER, but more particularly, in the last little while (as in as my Mat Leave progresses and my disposable funds digress), then you know that I. Am. On. A. Mission! That is right, my friends. I am on a very

Mommy's Found Her Groove....

2011-10-03T21:54:00.002-04:00

I don't know about you, but staying at home with babes two and under (even my own), is not an idea I really relished. I mean, I love my kids, more than anything or anyone, but days with kids are long...I remember counting down the seconds when I used to babysit. So Mat Leave Number Two was not really an exciting prospect for me. Again. I love my kids, I really do. I just wasn't sure how long

Shopping - Shopping - Shopping!

2011-09-23T09:01:00.000-04:00

Okay. I am going to make a promise here to you today and I am going to try to stick to it! (After I make the following statement, I am sure most of you will roll your eyes and say, 'Yah, right')... Regardless, Here goes: I am going to attempt not to buy ANY clothes, shoes, accessories for a full year (for myself). Let's see, today is September the...23rd. Can I do it? I am seriously going to try

Philosophy

2011-09-20T20:20:00.002-04:00

I took e for a walk tonight. And she took her baby for a walk in her baby's little umbrella stroller. While most people choose to walk on the sidewalk and make their walk easier, e decided to fight through the grass instead. She was often stuck, exclaiming emphatically 'I stuck!' But this constant issue did not dissuade her or motivate her to change her route. Nope. She is my daughter. My mom

Weaning and The Like....

2011-09-10T22:35:00.002-04:00

So, if you're my friend on fb then you know that this was the week I decided to move dr b out of my room (not my bed, my friends, calm now....), and into his big boy room and his much roomier crib. My heart hurt. My tummy was in knots. My eyes were all welled up. He looked so tiny. And the crib was ever-expansive. I nearly rationalized our way out of this messy weaning process. But no. I was

Life After iPhone

2011-08-24T10:21:00.002-04:00

Last Maternity Leave, I was acquainted with the wonderful blogging world. I felt revitalized, renewed, tech-savvy even! When I went back to work and was presented with new technologies I could use in my classroom, I was not afraid, I was pumped! After all, I was now a pro at all things technology, thanks to my days blogging and htmling, etc.... Nothing to this technology stuff, I thought!!! (In

AND....

2011-08-19T09:23:00.014-04:00

Before I can tell you about my peanut butter pie making experience (remember, from Beth's blog?), may I remind you of this incident of 2010:)! Okay, now that you are fully prepared and suitably underwhelmed, I shall share my tale of making the peanut butter pie in memory of Mikey and in honour of Beth, the busiest, most involved and engaged person I know! So, step one of all baking is to read the

Slow DOWN!!!!

2011-08-18T09:48:00.001-04:00

Things are just moving way too fast; I can barely process, let alone be one with all these changes. First, e was no longer the 'baby', then she wanted her hair styled like a big girl every day, then she graduated to a big-girl bed, and now they're weening her from her bottle at daycare!!!??? Wtf Wah!!! I cannot fight the inevitable, but does it all have to happen at once???:(

jb Says I am 'One of THOSE Parents'....

2011-08-11T21:20:00.001-04:00

What do you suppose that means? Shall I write my original title and let you decide? Mmkay. My Five Month Old is Smarter Than Me! Any ideas what he meant ;-)!? I guess with child number two we're supposed to be seasoned parents, right? We're supposed to know the cues, and certainly realize when we're being manipulated... I consider myself double seasoned after e. (er. during e? - as she's still

Dear Tracy Hogg,

2011-08-10T07:59:00.006-04:00

F. U. Well, sorta, anyhow. You see, I have been actively attempting your approaches since my first little baby was born in 2009. And in theory, and in some practice, I love what you offer in the baby rearing advice department. But then, sometimes, I get really mad at you. Those are the times when my baby won't drink said amount of liquid in the proper routine outlined for his and her age

Indicative

2011-08-01T13:01:00.003-04:00

Why is it that after 20 years of shaving my legs I still manage to forget to shave around my ankles???

My Life's New Metaphor -

2011-07-26T12:42:00.000-04:00

I am no longer able to take a shower on my own (that is of course unless it's after e is down for the night)! E has decided that showers with her mummy are da bomb! Lucky me!...Soon I may not even be permitted to use the facilities on my own... Oh. Wait... We're already there!!!

Things You Might Not Know About Me....Not that you asked.

2011-07-22T19:51:00.002-04:00

1. I hate Lady Gaga. Her first album was awesome and creative and really great to workout to. Her recent release sounds plagiarized, her look is obscene and I just wanna get all up in her face and ask her what her target market is, what she's trying to teach this target market and why she's such a try harder poser. She actually makes me passionately angry. She will never be Madonna. 2. I am a

on teaching.

2011-07-20T22:00:00.005-04:00

If ever asked what carebear or smurf I'd be, I'd be either Teacher Bear or Bossy Smurf...Or maybe those two adjectives are synonymous! Anyhow, the moral is, what I think is my talent, is teaching. I love it! I thrive on it. And now, I am seeing how my need to teach is impacting my daughter...I wonder, actually, if having a teacher parent is really a positive or negative thing? I always thought it

A Room of My Own...With Nice Wallpaper!

2011-07-19T21:30:00.005-04:00

I am back people. Back from the fog that occurs in the first few months postpartum. I am almost me again. I am less the energy sucked mommy whose every spare moment was taken up with someone's needs. That is, someone's needs other than mine. I am not bitter. I was getting there, though, I can tell you that. I love being a mom and a wife. However, I don't love that I seem to have disappeared a

My Baby Girl

2011-05-17T21:47:00.007-04:00

A question I often received while pregnant with dr.b was, 'Are you excited?'. One would think my response would be an automatic 'YES!'. But no. Actually, my response was not an automatic anything. I had to really search myself to appreciate or even understand how I felt about the inevitability of this new babe. I know one reservation I had about a new child was the whole going from one to two

Control

2011-05-05T22:38:00.002-04:00

So, I thought I knew myself well, and on the surface, I do. But at the core, I am very ignorant about a very prevalent (apparently) trait of mine. Seemingly, I am a control freak. I think I've tried hard to spend my life pretending I am carefree - a free spirit if you will. But you only have to know me for a brief minute to know that my free spirit act takes a lot of effort and energy....

The New Chapter of Play Dates

2011-04-27T22:06:00.001-04:00

Once upon a time I felt worried and stressed, though excited, about play dates. I am one for routines and schedules and tidy, neat orderly days. So I worried when play dates occurred over nap-times or feeding times (seems I have sensitive babes who not only need their naps, don't really eat well around busy-ness - they need quiet calm--or something like that!). But I came to need and love these

Hooter Hider Head-aches...

2011-04-23T18:28:00.005-04:00

So, God has graciously blessed me with being a Klutz of the utmost extremes (I can hear some of you arguing, but I urge you to just discretely watch me for a day - I'm my own 'America's funniest home video' I promise you). Everything I do is awkward: there's no grace to me. My mom's always said that one can dress me up, but one cannot take me out...It's true. This comment does not hurt me in the

Inundated!!!!

2011-04-21T09:55:00.004-04:00

I've never been one to obsess about the Royal Family (snobby british accent added for emphasis) - (I've even seen the Royal family once, from afar, at Westminster Abby, leaving a mass; I was not all that excited--though the buzz of all the people around me was fun--... - sidebar - even from afar, Charles's ears were very prominent - hilarious!); however, being a 'stay-at-home-mom' these days and

3-2!!!

2011-04-17T08:43:00.001-04:00

Tomorrow I turn the same age my mom was when she adopted all four of us children. Tomorrow I am turning the age I have always used as my 'old age' barometer. She hd grey hair (I pulled out two yesterday from my own head, my friends); she had some wrinkles; (My forehead is just itching to form some pretty deep lines - they're there, just waiting to pounce, I can feel it!) And yet, I am very