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Working Mom Issues: a series

2012-02-12T21:22:00.001-05:00

I have always considered myself a “working mom” – I worked from home when Gianna was 2 weeks old, worked full time through her 18 month birthday, started my own business right after that and was “at home” and started back to work full time when she was about 28 months old. I am sure her earliest memories of me have to do with meetings or going to work or something related. But ALL mom’s work –

Cute Toddler Saturday-ish

2012-02-11T21:51:00.001-05:00

A few random pictures from the last month-ish First Snowman! helping out at Miss Dani’s baby shower silly G and her papa More actual blog posts to come soon!

Have a Heart - {Akron Children's Hospital Radiothon}

2012-02-10T09:52:00.002-05:00

I remember the first time I heard WKDD's Radiothon that supports Akron Children's Hospital - I was BAWLING in the car because of all the sad, yet inspiring stories, that were being told. The next year, the cause hit a lot closer to home. A friend had just lost her 18-month old son and I decided to be a part of the Radio-thon that year. In 48 hours I was able to collect close to $500 to

Gianna-isms

2012-02-07T11:13:00.000-05:00

Aunt Jacqui brings out the best in Gianna. Or the funniest. Either way, it’s adorable, see: -------------------------------------- Aunt Jacqui: Gianna, you’re being a drama queen Gianna: NO Jacqui – Gwama is the QUEEN! I am the princess!! clearly…..we should know better…. ---------------------------------------- sitting at the table with Aunt Jacqui eating dinner before I got home:

Adulthood: a new appreciation

2012-02-06T23:07:00.001-05:00

Growing up, I KNEW my mom worked hard to make sure her girls were happy, healthy and well cared for. I also knew that working hard meant her working several jobs at once, cutting back when necessary and making sure that we never felt the financial struggles that were a part of life. And then I got married young. And incurred a ridiculous amount of student loan debt. Some credit card debt. A few

Wordless Wednesday

2012-02-01T09:10:00.001-05:00

In the crazy that is our life and our schedules, weekend date nights are pretty non-existent. So a Tuesday date night at the Cavs game (courtesy of my employer! Yay company suite!) was just what we needed!

My Toddler’s Taken Over My Bed

2012-01-30T21:13:00.001-05:00

Gianna has been sleeping in her “big girl” bed since the summer. Gianna figured out that she could get out of bed herself sometime this fall. Gianna started actually getting out of bed and either coming upstairs to play or coming into our bed around Christmas. This past week she has been waking up at 4 or 5am, coming in our room, climbing over me and getting to “her” pillow between Mike and I

A post in which I vent a little

2012-01-28T22:37:00.001-05:00

This is probably going to be totally random, but I just need to get it out there. Today was the baby shower for one of my best friends, that I threw. It was a pretty great party (pictures soon!) and I hope that she feels overwhelmed with love and support. But as I was watching Gianna interact during the “gift opening” – all her “O! That’s so CUTE!” comments and general cuteness over all the “

Friday Night Leftovers

2012-01-27T22:25:00.001-05:00

I have been so snarky today. Not that I’m not usually snarky, but today was more than normal. I share an office with 2 other ladies. By friday every.single thing they do annoys me to no end. I’m glad it’s the weekend and I don’t have to deal with eye rolls and keyboard pounding. My BFF’s baby shower is tomorrow*. That I am throwing with her sister. I’m excited to see her (she lives in

Up close and personal with Dr. Wonderful

2012-01-25T22:16:00.001-05:00

Tuesday (I guess that would be yesterday) we had our first appt with the RE, we’ll call him Dr. Wonderful* for now. Unfortunately (but fortunately for me) several of my close friends has been to him and they each RAVED about how great he was. One of the warned me he talks fast, and that was spot.on. But it wasn’t talksofastitsannoying so, I can deal. Anyway - We went over the book of

She Said–the inner tattle tale edition

2012-01-23T12:30:00.000-05:00

Gianna stayed with my mom on Saturday while I was in Columbus and Mike was working at a basketball game. When we were on our way home the following conversation happened: G: I gotted in trouble at Gwama’s. I had to go to my room. Me: What happened that you got in trouble? G: I just scweamed. And scweamed. I didn’t want my applesauce or chocolate. Me: So you didn’t want to have any

Sunday Random Ramblings

2012-01-22T12:20:00.001-05:00

I haven’t participated in ICLW in awhile, but HI! to my new friends who are visiting from there! Check out the about me section for the readers digest version of my life, and ask away if you want to know anything. You can follow me on Twitter and Facebook too if you just can’t get enough here! This weekend I was in Columbus for the Premier Designs rally, this was my 3rd one since

A very necessary weekend

2012-01-15T19:14:00.001-05:00

Things have been a little crazy and emotional in these parts, but busy, of course. Mike went to Philadelphia for a lacrosse conference, so it was just going to be me and miss G – I was pretty excited to have some one on one time with my girl and we had fun plans. Friday Gianna stayed with my mom and I picked her up after my jewelry show (which was really nice, laid back and some good girl time

Wordless Wednesday

2012-01-11T13:13:00.000-05:00

We have had 1 real snow fall so far this winter. And this girl was VERY Excited to make Frosty!

Observant Driver

2012-01-10T21:10:00.001-05:00

Do you ever watch the drivers around you? I have a 30 mile commute each way to work, mostly highway, which makes for some good people watching. Or ridiculous road rage. Depending on the stretch of highway I am on. I see the same basic drivers each day: Multitasking Drivers: eating, drinking coffee, putting on makeup et cetera et cetera at the same time. This is me, on occasion. I have

What do you call it?

2012-01-08T09:27:00.001-05:00

The technical definition of Infertility is one year of attempting to become pregnant without success. So what is it called when you are where I am? Subfertility? Secondary uterine-backlash? I have had 7 cycles since my Mirena was taken out. with 2 early miscarriages. Lots of tears. Lots of anger and frustration. And I feel alone. And like the only person who can’t successfully conceive and

Friday Night Leftovers

2012-01-06T21:16:00.001-05:00

This has been a freaking long week. I am sitting on my couch, “snugged up” in a blanket, drinking wine, eating a margarita pizza and watching the DVR. And I plan on having at least one more glass of said wine. Because I can. Because my uterus, it hates me. More on the above in a separate post. I scheduled the Traverse for its first oil change. And I went over 5,000 miles today. I

Wordless Wednesday

2012-01-04T19:43:00.001-05:00

2012, bring.it.on.

Germies be gone with “The Germinator” {review}

2012-01-02T21:01:00.001-05:00

Lately it seems that many of the small people in the lives of my tweeps have been constantly sick. Almost making me think that germs can be spread via tweet. But that is just ridiculous. We are lucky that the germies have pretty much steered clear of our house with the exception of the occasional sniffle, but that doesn’t stop us from going on the defensive. BabyGanics, the makers of “The

Friday Night Leftovers: The end of 2011 Edition

2011-12-31T15:43:00.001-05:00

As usual, I am late on the leftovers and thankful Danifred is such a forgiving host. It has been a pretty great week to end 2011 – I only worked 2 days, got to see a lot of my favorite friends, celebrated the 1st birthday of one amazing girl, and celebrated the 30th birthday of a great friend. I got to spend lots of time with G too, which I so desperately needed. And one on one time

Christmas Morning Reveal

2011-12-29T10:18:00.001-05:00

At 2 years and 8 months, we were able to see the magic of Christmas through her eyes. Everything that we did this holiday season was THE COOLEST EVER and she was just so into it. She asked Santa for a Belle baby doll and for a dollhouse. Good thing Santa has good listening ears, because she was a pleasantly pleased little girl on December 25th. Belle was a huge hit! Santa was good

Love Him

2011-12-27T15:47:00.000-05:00

If you have been around my piece of the blogger world for awhile, you know that my marriage has not always been rainbows and sunshine. But as much as we struggled, we have been working even harder to make things awesome between us. I can’t tell you the one thing that we did that “worked”, or any secrets to get your marriage through a rough patch – at least not anything besides constant, open,

December to Remember: Gianna’s point of view

2011-12-26T14:52:00.001-05:00

We have been busy (surprised?) this month doing all kinds of fun stuff – my Mommy and Daddy are so cool! Because I am waiting on Daddy to edit a pretty awesome Christmas morning video I figured I’d show what we have been up to this month. On December 10th, the Goodyear Blimp hosted a Toys for Tots drive, and when you’re Uncle Joshie works for the Blimpie, you get the insiders visit. On

Friday Night Leftovers

2011-12-23T16:00:00.001-05:00

It’s the day before, the day before, Christmas. How nuts! We are taking G here tonight – I think it will be fun! It’s been a long few weeks at work, but I am off until Tuesday, so yay! Why do kids nap, for longer than normal, when you have plans? We have to clean out the play room tonight. THAT should be entertaining… I started clearing out my friends list on FB – what a PIA

More Cawfee Talk

2011-12-22T21:39:00.001-05:00

More fun from Rebecca (and an easy way to get some blogging done!) 1. How was your week? Every week for the past too many weeks has been busy. this week I got to have dinner with friends and socialize, so that was really nice. 2. What was the one thing you wanted to get done this weekend? this past weekend?! Not one clue. 3. Did you get it done? see above. 4. What is one popular