Our team played two airplane flights away today and so Babycakes and I stayed home this afternoon to listen to the game on the radio. Listening to the game stresses me out — one minute I’m playing blocks with the baby and the next minute I’m standing at the window with a towel and a bottle [...]
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Let it be known: I just burned 13,000 calories. Forget the stair climber or sit ups, just try to put a child seat on your bicycle by yourself. You’ll see. It’s a two person job, baby. Since the other adult in this house works 12 hour days, it was up to me to get the [...]
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Coach works a lot — you’ve heard me say that before. If you want to squeeze in “family time” during football season, you have to be creative. On Wednesday afternoons, Babycakes and I always head over to the office to have lunch with Coach. She loves the long hallway leading to her Daddy’s office — [...]
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Babycakes is talking. One problem: we need a translator. The newest addition to her daily conversation: “Ssssmee.” Sometimes it’s a statement, sometimes it’s a question. This morning she brought me a loaf of bread and said, “Ssssmee?” Is she saying “for me” or “some more” or is she the understudy for a new Disney film? [...]
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I was all set with a clever post for today, but then Coach received a tragic message just as he was walking out the door. Did I remember RC from our first season here? When someone dies, we seem to get our emotions and words confused. No one ever seems to know exactly what to [...]
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My daily life is busy — too busy if you want my opinion. The more connected I am, the more I want to move to the country and raise goats and grow my own food. Take a moment to breathe in deeply and explore nature. Play outside. Let your kids dig in the dirt. Appreciate [...]
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Ever have one of those moments where you think, “I don’t know if I can do this?” About 200 miles into my drive back home, exhausted from interrupted sleep and with a screaming baby in my ear, I toyed with the idea of booking a room at the always pet friendly Days Inn. Somehow I [...]
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When Babycakes and I left home last Wednesday, I foolishly slipped on my favorite pair of flip-flops for the journey. The further north we drove through the rain & dense fog, I quickly regretted my decision. As we crossed the Mason-Dixon line, I knew that I had made a mistake as the radio broadcasted the [...]
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Road Trip, Baby! Dear Elmo & that nutty puppet from Baby Einstein, Your mission today — should you choose to accept it — is to entertain my child through the magic & wonder of your television entertainment. This isn’t your normal situation — this is not push play while Mommy cooks dinner. This is [...]
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Children everywhere are making Halloween plans while bags of candy & costumes line the aisles at every store in town. Costumes tend to be fairly elaborate these days, wouldn’t you say? When my siblings and I were young, our Halloween costumes were planned over an early dinner before Trick-or-Treating. First, we had to dress in layers — [...]
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