Posted in Contests and Giveaways, Friends, Holidays on October 31, 2007 | 4 Comments »
This morning a friend and I decided to “play” tennis at the court in my apartment complex.
She has a nursling. I have a nursling. She has a 3 year old. I have a 4 year old. Hence the “play”. As you can imagine, things didn’t go as envisioned.
Yes, the kids rode their little trikes all [...]
Posted in Family on October 30, 2007 | 20 Comments »
My family could sure use some prayers right now.
My dad got laid off from his job five years ago and finally a company gave him a chance to work 6 weeks ago. Then yesterday they booted him saying he wasn’t coming up to speed quick enough. Is 6 weeks really long enough to give someone [...]
Posted in Humor on October 30, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Welcome to the first ever edition of the Tri-Yearly post, You found me how? Interesting, funny or bizarre search terms people have used to stumble across my blog. Here are some of the best of the last four months:
“you have a big tummy” - Yeah, yeah, another reminder that my stomach has been stretched beyond [...]
Posted in Contests and Giveaways on October 29, 2007 | 78 Comments »
COMMENTS ON THIS GIVEAWAY ARE NOW CLOSED
Because I had enough beads to make another one and bracelets are light and therefore less costly to ship, I am giving away one additional Breast Cancer Awareness Bracelet, exactly like the one pictured below. Rules are the same as HERE, except that this one is open to the [...]
Posted in Contests and Giveaways on October 28, 2007 | 270 Comments »
COMMENTS ON THIS GIVEAWAY ARE NOW CLOSED
So, I planned on having this giveaway earlier this month as part of Breast Cancer Awareness month, but then I found out the date for this:
So I waited. And now I am so excited to bring you this giveaway and to enter into hundreds more over at Shannon’s place. [...]
Posted in Holidays on October 26, 2007 | 22 Comments »
…for most of October. I can only handle so much pink though. It’s still growing on me. I mean come on, after years of hating it, then realizing it was my best color, then realizing that I kind of really like it and it made me feel feminine to wear it, ok, so [...]
Posted in Holidays, Q&A's on October 25, 2007 | 20 Comments »
Halloween is quickly approaching and of course to get into the spirit of things you have to watch at least one scary movie right? Well, here are ten movies I think are pretty scary, in no particular order. And no, you won’t find anything really gory on this list since I don’t do gore. [...]
Posted in Blog Carnivals, Good Eats, Winter Bazaar on October 24, 2007 | 16 Comments »
My mom made these cookies with us every Halloween season and making these with her is a very fond memory. So now I do it with my kids. They already ate their batch though, so these are some I decorated. I was in a hurry so these were a bit sloppily done but [...]
Posted in Babies, Breastfeeding on October 24, 2007 | 5 Comments »
It’s just a mask. Those big blue eyes, looking up at me through long lashes, wide with wonderment. Why did you yelp mommy? Whatever did I do? I don’t even have any teeth yet. Can I start eating again now?
I would have believed your innocence, if you hadn’t stuck your [...]
Posted in Kid Specific on October 23, 2007 | 13 Comments »
So I got some great suggestions on my Potty training WFMW post . I combined a few of the ideas and implemented a plan of action immediately.
I took Obi-Wans diaper away and put him in some of big brother’s underwear. Then I watched him like a hawk. He still ended up peeing on himself and [...]
