(and other ways to constantly question your success as a mommy) It is always something. It starts before they are born, with people asking you, “Should you be drinking that coffee?? The baby will never sleep!”. Once they are born, it only gets worse…. “You are going to give him some formula, right? He needs [...]
More like, what didn’t he do today. He: -climbed up on the computer chair, got the keyboard off the back of the desk, put it down on the floor, got back up presumably, got my strawberry shake off the back of the desk, and poured it all over the keyboard. Now we have a new [...]
Where you press different parts of it and it names them and sings songs?? Mine is possessed!! It talks in the middle of the night, it is sitting in the middle of the floor right now, nothing else touching it, singing songs and giggling and saying “blue ear”, “hug me”, etc. It doesn’t matter how [...]
I always said I wasn’t going to be one of THOSE mothers – you know, the ones with toys all over the house, no semblance of adult life left – the ones you scorn when you go over there to babysit….. well….. I am. Every room and closet in my house has the little duck’s [...]
Ok, why is it that dressing or undressing him or even lying him down on his back to change his diaper involves bloodcurdling screams, shaking, shrieking, balling up of fists, and rage for 20 minutes thereafter?? Ugh, you’d think he wouldn’t want to run around naked in 60 degree weather, or that he’d want to [...]
The couch has lived through several moves, the baby days, and even a Koolaid baptism. However, in the past few months it has endured much abuse from my budding artist, who thinks that markers should be used to color on everything BUT paper. Today, however, the final straw occured. You see, being the lazy parents [...]
