How Do Rock Stars Get that Green Streak in Thier Hair?

February 10, 2010

My mom doesn’t tell many jokes, but when she did when we were kids they were funny to us. The answer to this one, one of her oddest, is an action. Make a huge sniffing sound as you wipe your nose and rub your hand up over your forehead and back through your hair. Lovely. […]

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Shifting Gears

February 9, 2010

I remember an echo of a time when my life revolved around helicopters. I lived and breathed them. In fact, other than my dog, Jack, there was not much I loved more than them. I even called my life “as the rotor turns.” If you had a helicopter or a helicopter rating, I idolized you, […]

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Teething Pain

February 8, 2010

For the past several days, Little Man has been calling us to party with him several times a night. No matter what we did – feed him more, be extra quiet, beg profusely – he refused to sleep through the night. His gum line has been growing, but despite my several attempts to gag him […]

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Scary Parenting Moment

February 7, 2010

I think Sound Transit is hoping to offset its deficit with child trafficking. No, seriously. Hear me out. If I hadn’t have heard about a mom and child becoming separated when a light rail train doors closed before mom could follow her child out the door, I’d not have been super vigilant the two times […]

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This Too Shall Pass

February 6, 2010

There’s a monster in our midst. It is a very ugly beast that challenges everything I thought I knew and struggle to learn. Despite all the classes, books, moms groups and research, I feel like this monster and all it’s relatives are staying just a step ahead of me, threatening to take over and destroy […]

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Sick Day

February 4, 2010

There is one downside to my somewhat neurotic, OCD, type-A personality. It takes an act of Congress to slow me down. I’ve been carrying around this bug for months, coughing since November, having on and off sore throats and fevers, and constantly feeling completely drained. I’ve never felt like this for this long. I blamed […]

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Dog Tired

February 2, 2010

You know you just don’t have it in you when someone throws their underwear at you and you can’t be bothered to do anything about it. Tweet

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Self Reliance in Action

February 1, 2010

As soon as Sweetness started walking, she wanted to be doing what we were doing. I found it most encouraging that she loved mirroring my house cleaning. Images of me sitting with my feet up as she polished the silver were probably a bit premature. But she was serious about wanting to help. In fact, […]

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