Yesterday, after a brief trip to the grocery store on my own, I spent the rest of the day in captivity — held hostage by the continual flow of mess & disorganization brought on by this: Living with an imaginative & creative child is both wonderful and exhausting. A young child’s attention span is roughly [...]
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Small children can’t tell time, especially babies. If you’ve ever been woken in the middle of the night by a hungry baby, you know that this statement is true. Do adults eat waffles at 3 am? I think not. When they get a little older, toddlers go through a phase where they wake before the [...]
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Dear Bounty Paper Towels, I don’t know what I’d do without you in my life. Without you, spilled milk would be something to cry about. You’ve been there for me in good times and in bad. It’s comforting to know that I have someone to help in my hour{s} of need, whether it be cleaning [...]
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I totally get that there can’t be public restrooms in every location on planet Earth. I get that. SHE does not get that. On Tuesday afternoon, she had to pee so badly after watching football practice that I pulled over on the side of the road and opened the back hatch to let her pee [...]
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If you want to know how to give your kid nightmares FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE, go ahead and google search the Easter Bunny. A simple web search might safely produce a rapping Easter Bunny or a tutorial on how to draw the Easter Bunny. But BEWARE of the IMAGE search. All the bunny [...]
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We took the accelerated course in potty training at this house. On the day we started, Ellie peed through seven pairs of princess panties and just as many outfits. That being said, she had an equal amount of successes. A couple days of peeing your pants will teach a girl to hold it. With the [...]
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Sometimes I say things under my breath to entertain myself. Have you ever done that? When you’re home all day with someone too short to ride a ferris wheel, sometimes you slip up. They ask a question – you respond with something silly that they couldn’t possibly understand and how often are two year olds [...]
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I wish I had all the answers for potty training a girl. The truth is: I thought it would be easier. I thought she’d love it and it would take little effort on *my* part to convince her that diapers are for babies. We’ve done the Potty Dance on youtube, tried Princess Pull-ups, bought packs [...]
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