In Defense of the Cake Man

My mom said I made Cakie sound really bad.
That was not my intent. He is, and will always be, a really good guy.
His behavior on vacation was just waaaay out of the norm for him. He didn’t even throw any tantrums. We did not need to call Nanny Jo. His head [...]

Gory Vacation Details

Actually, the vacation wasn’t all that bad. Here are some things that went wrong, and a few that went right.
Wrong:

Cakie turned into a limit-testing maniac. Other people were there to watch as we tried to learn how to deal with our new son (not the newborn one, the shape-shifting three-year-old throwing things across [...]

Dear Trucker,

I’m copying ohchicken. I’m going to write letters to my baby. Though I can’t promise I’ll do it every month. And I’ll have to post it over at momtourage because I’ve been neglectful of my fellow blog mamas over there. Lame. Absent. Can’t keep not blogging over there. So [...]

I’m Baaaaaaack!

Back from the most stressful vacation I’ve probably ever had.  I recommend, if you have a newborn and an older child who just turned three and decided, suddenly, to morph from a sweet agreeable child to a limit-tester extrodinaire to NOT  I repeat NOT go on a week-long vacation in the Catskills with your extended [...]

Mountains

Hey kids!
I’m on vacation with my kids, honey, mom and brother in the mountains.  I have limited internet access, so it may be a bit quiet here this week.  But keep checking.  You never know what’s going to pop out of this blog-obsessed head of mine.
So far I’ve had one sleepless night, one sleepful day [...]

The Clomid Twins Award!

If you came here to find out how you can have/avoid having twins using Clomid, please scroll down.

Everybody else… one of the things I love about the blogosphere is the mutual admiration society. I love you! Now, love these other seven people and link to their blogs. And link to my [...]

What a Difference a Day Makes

Yesterday I did something that made me feel like a gold-medal breastfeeder. (Cue Olympic theme song!) I was running around, trying to get everything ready for Cakie’s Diego 3rd birthday party. (I’ll upload a shot of the Diego cake later.  I’m no Charlotte, but I can bake a theme cake!)  So I was running around [...]

Slippery Slope

It is indeed a slippery slope into insanity when one stays home with a baby and a stack of baby books.
Have I mentioned breastfeeding lately? As far as my blog is concerned, b00bs are the new uterus. My obsession has moved up my body a ways. How could it not? From [...]

How’s My Hair?

Trucker looks very different from me.  A few things are the same.  We both have long torsos and long fingers and long toes.  That’s about it.  I thought.  Then my mom came up to take care of me and my family for two weeks after my honey went back to work.  She took a picture [...]

The Deep End and the Shallow End

I do a lot of things that seem deep.
That makes me feel good. Really, though, most of them have shallow, or merely pragmatic motivations. Of course the deep motivations come in to play in a big way. But the shallow plays a major role as well. I present to you the deep [...]