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This is a list of some of my favorite posts. Click on the “more” for a link to the entire post.
Putting Out Fires
Before I became a mom, I made grandiose plans for enriching family time activities and warm, fuzzy moments of true togetherness.
Picture an unholy mix of June Cleaver, The Waltons and a dash of Body Language.
Reality has caught up with me and is laughing its ass off.
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Is Baby Einstein Evil?
Baby Einstein, you’ve been getting some bad press here lately. Are you feeling unloved?
I’ve noticed a lot of press recently concerning the Baby Einstein series of videos and its friends.
Do the videos really slow learning and lead to ADD/ADHD?
Dr. Christakis seems to think so and he’s a doctor so he’s got to be right. Right?
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Suicide
The guy who killed himself on Friday was a co-worker of Tucker’s. I had met him once and found him charming. He was a good looking, tattooed guy who seemed to be very polite, if a bit “twitchy”.
His parents found him in their garage; he had pulled his car into the garage, shut the door and left the car running.
Yesterday, I was sad about the whole situation. Less than a month ago, he had become a father and I just kept thinking about how sad it is that his son will never know his father.
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On Why My Husband is Weird
We were in bed last night talking about how I have never been to a spa.
Perfectly innocent, right?
Somehow that innocent subject quickly devolved into Tucker talking about anal bleaching. You read that correctly. Anal bleaching. [Can you imagine the hits I’m going to have from Google from this one?]
The conversation went something like this:
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We’re Still Friends, Right?
When Cara was around eight weeks or so, the Crazy family attended a birthday party for the daughter (I’ll call her Sara) of some friends of ours. The friends are young [because you know, I’m so ancient] and Tucker and I don’t always [pretty much never] agree with their parenting style. Being the amazingly tactful people we are, we would never tell them that…we just bitch to each other…often.
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Blue Floral Shirt Lady
Dear Blue Floral Shirt Lady in line at Starbucks around 2:30 today,
Thank you so much for allowing me to hear your entire phone conversation. Every time your phone would make that obnoxious “beep-beep” noise, I waited with bated breath for the next tidbit to spew forth.
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Other People’s Kids…
When I was eight months pregnant with Cara, I took Sophie and Beck out back to go pee. The grass was dewy and the two idiots were tip-toeing around like the wet grass was going to eat them.
As I was cussing at the duo to get down to business, an itty bitty Sheltie came out of nowhere and charged my dogs…my leashed dogs…with me attached to the end of the leashes.
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Mrs. Judgy McJudgers
We’ve all done it; judging. Whether it’s casting an disapproving look at the mom whose kid is screaming in the store, or the parent who “lets their child run wild”, everyone has those moments where you can’t believe what you’re seeing and there’s no way that you would let that happen.
I’m that person…a lot. I’m not proud of that fact but I can’t say that I really try not to do it. Today I became one of the people that I judge. How ironic (and just) is that?
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Special Little Snowflake
I was over at Strollerderby today reading new stuff and came upon Sense of Entitlement? Blame Mr. Rogers!. Honestly, it was the picture of Mr. Rogers that really drew me in. I’ve always thought that Mr. Rogers was a bit on the creepy side…but that’s not really the point of all this.
Anyway, the discussion was about children being coddled and congratulated for being special just the way they are.
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How long are you going to do that?
Or, there’s the variation (yet still annoying) “So you’re going to stop after six months. Right?”
“That” would be feeding my kid…with my boobs.
Cara never took to the idea of eating from a bottle. I’m left with two options: nurse her or starve her.
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Confessions of a Mommy Blogger
I originally started this blog over on Everything Baby as a journal of sorts. It was a way for me to vent about crap that was going on in my life and a way for me to talk about Caroline without having to worry about people thinking that I was bragging.
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Bikinis for Babies?!
Isn’t this the cutest string bikini you’ve ever seen?!
I was over at Strollerderby yesterday and saw the title “String Bikinis For Toddlers”. I had to do a double take. I found myself thinking, “That’s for a BABY?!”
If you want your daughter to wear it then that’s fine for you and that’s your choice. But I have an issue with putting my daughter in something with that small amount of fabric.
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Ann Coulter and Why You Should Quote Fairly!
I’m pissed. I never thought that I would be writing in defense of Ann Coulter. Actually, I’m not so much defending Ann Coulter as I am bitching about only half of a story being told.
Coulter’s words have been taken out of context and twisted and that pisses me off. When that happens to ANYONE it pisses me off.
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Organic Baby Food, Puke and Politics
I got a Gerber coupon flyer in the mail yesterday. You know the ones that are addressed to “Current Occupant”? It made me feel special. Anyway, on the back is a picture of an ADORABLE asexual baby smiling over a bowl of fruit with the tag line - Taste the Organic Side of Gerber. To add to the prestige of Gerber’s new line of USDA Certified Organic baby food was the line “Available at fine retailers”…yeah, right. Like Wal-Mart?
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Boobs and What I Think About Them
I just got my new issue of Cookie in the mail. On the cover is a glowing thirty-something mom in a micro-mini dress with a huge rock on her hand, holding an adorable baby boy. To complete the picture perfect mom there is a cute as a button blond little girl holding onto “mommy’s” leg.
I read Cookie because it’s an upscale mom’s magazine that has tons of high-end kid’s products and some pretty good articles that are geared more toward the actual woman than issues with the kids. Basically, it’s a magazine for women who also happen to have kids.
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The Good, the Bad and the Jury’s Still Out
Hollyn’s friend, Jennifer, kindly mailed me her copy of The No-Cry Sleep Solution book. She enclosed a handwritten note (great penmanship, by the way!) saying, “Good Luck! Chapter 4 is the one to read if you want the quick read”.
I thumbed through the first three chapters. They contained basic safety information about your child’s sleep environment, the basics on your child’s sleep cycle and then a chapter on “sleep logs”. The vast majority of it was stuff that I’ve previously read in other resources, so I have to admit that I wasn’t the most diligent study on Chapters 1-3.
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Goodnight You Moonlight Ladies
Cara went to sleep last night at 7:15 pm. She promptly woke up at 7:30 pm and we implemented our plan once she woke. She cried and fussed and flipped us the baby finger until 8:32 pm. Tucker and I took turns going in and reassuring her.
The first “wait” was three minutes. The second was five minutes and every other “wait” thereafter was ten minutes. It took a while, but it was easier on us since we had a schedule that we had to stick to. There was no going in and picking her up. Once we started, we knew that we couldn’t give in since we would just be undoing everything that we had done up to that point.
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