July 2010

Sweet Saturday

by Heligirl on July 31, 2010

in Daily Ramblings

Sweetness has the power to crack me up and make my heart melt at the same time. This morning, while I was having my morning tea and checking e-mail, Sweetness heard a sound and asked what it was. “That’s Jack snoring,” I told her, without looking from the screen. She went into the living room […]

Getting Baby to Sleep

by Heligirl on July 30, 2010

in Daily Ramblings,Parenting Articles

Another installment in my Positive Discipline Articles. By popular demand, the following is reprinted from a guest post I did for Molly and Mommy on May 24, 2010. I have to admit, when Alissa asked me to write a guest post on sleep I cringed. It’s hard to find a hotter issue for moms of […]

Getting out – The Museum of Flight

by Heligirl on July 29, 2010

in Daily Ramblings

Last week I wrote our wish list of summer outings we must do before school starts after Labor Day. Summer is going so fast and it is so important to me to spend one day a week with the kids doing something fun, either as just the three of us or as a playdate with […]

We continued on in our quest to potty train yesterday. For the full back story, be sure to check out Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3. And if you’re looking forward to returning to my regularly scheduled programming, this here report from the bloody war front of Butt Camp is the last of this […]

Welcome to Day 3 of my little experiment to see if I can finally save $100 a month in diapers. After two years and 10 months of diapers I decided to try a little experiment to see if my little Sweetness, who was showing all the signs of readiness for potty training, would take the […]

It’s Day 2 of my Potty Training in Three Days or Less challenge. To catch up on the background of why on Earth I’d do this and read all about the first day, please click here. Go ahead, I”ll wait… Back? Ok. Just to prepare you, I have to say, after an encouraging end to […]

Sweetness is two months shy of her third birthday and the potty training issue has been driving us insane. For the past eight months she’s shown complete interest in sitting on the potty that lead to her using it once, then none, then interest again including the “big girl potty,” then complete lack of interest […]

How to Blog Badly

by Heligirl on July 23, 2010

in Confessions,Daily Ramblings

Blogging is a great way to dispel information, share stories and images, get a conversation going, support a cause, bring attention to an issue and generate excitement. It’s also a great way to destroy relationships. I’m a fairly new blogger. I started writing in this blog’s current set up in December 2009 and went public […]