Taste Like Crazy

Oliver has been doing this weird thing where he wakes up around 3am and then screams bloody freakin’ murder until someone comes and gets him out of his room. Granted, I realize we’ve conditioned him to do this since we have repeatedly followed the same routine of blindly stumbling into his room in the dark and [...]

Being up super early is a double edged sword. On the one…edge…I’m up and can’t go back to sleep so I might as well get the day’s work out of the way. The other edge/side/whatever is I’ve been up [off and on] since 2am and I’m tired. I’m really, really tired. I’m tired enough that I could [...]

This was a weekend for firsts for me. First time someone called me ma’am – AND MEANT IT – the first time my mom came to visit for an entire weekend and we didn’t fight and actually had a great time, the first time someone read something of mine and understood the characters. So. Let’s start from [...]

It has been a very busy couple of days. On a whim, I made an appointment with a new psychologist and had my first appointment last night. I’m not sure what my first impression of him is. Of course, before I made the appointment, I did some research on the guy and he’s ex-Army, has a [...]

Since I don’t feel like thinking about monumental moments of 2009 or the decade for that matter, I’ve decided to go through the posts of the past year and list my favorites. The list starts with my favorite of this month and goes down to January. Some months were better than others and picking a favorite was [...]

The problem with going on any sort of overnight trip is it completely screws up the kids’ sleep schedules. We’ve been home for four nights now and Cara and Ollie are still out of sorts. When we stayed at Tucker’s parents’ house, Cara slept with Tucker’s parents and Ollie slept in our bed so that means [...]

I bitch at Tucker a lot. I realize this, he realizes this but doesn’t complain about it too often. He’s not henpecked or anything…mostly he just listens and files it away for future bitch sessions at me. My all-time favorite thing to bitch at Tucker about it how he’s better at everything than me. Correction. I’m a better speller [...]

The problem with writing a reactionary blog is that you tend to only write about things that stick in your mind and not the day-to-day tedium. Last week I found a couple of journals from when I was younger. One was from when I was 11 and one was from my senior year of high school. My [...]

Last night was one of those nights when having two parents around would have made things a lot easier. Actually, I don’t know how much easier things would have been but at least I would have had someone other than myself to bitch to. I’m fairly certain that Ollie has developed a couple of ear infections again [...]

Ollie’s 14 months old now. He’s been walking for months, nods his head “yes” and “no”, beats up on his sister and does long division. OK. So the beats his sister up part isn’t true… Anyway, one thing Oliver doesn’t do is sleep through the night. He’s normally in bed by 7 or 7:30 and then will [...]