On the left side of the sanity bell curve
Today is the first day Cara has ever been anywhere other than with me or with our family. Well, there was this one time when she stayed with our friends, Alana and Parker, but she’s known them since she was an infant. Today was Cara’s first day of school. Kindergarten. And, yes, I am going to… Continue reading Cara’s First Day of Kindergarten
Specifically, I removed all of my junk from our bathroom counter. I don’t remember the last time I could see my sink. Somehow stuff started migrating to my sink and eventually filled it and then started spilling over to Tucker’s side. Sometimes it would get to Tucker and he would shove all of my stuff… Continue reading I Organized the Bathroom
The last time I had to wake up at the same time everyday was when I worked at the Mayo Clinic. Do you have any idea how long ago that was? Cara will be six in November. I quit Mayo as soon as I found out I was pregnant with her. It’s been a while,… Continue reading Wake the Hell Up Boot Camp
Monday felt like a week. After my “freak out” post–that’s what I’m going to start calling it–I did all this ugly crying crap for entirely too long to be considered healthy and woke up with my eyes so swollen I could hardly see. I was hot. Come to find out, my biological mother had messaged… Continue reading I Talked with My Birth Mother and Biological Brother
I need to preface this–very long–post with some background stuff. My mom gave me my adoption records a long time ago. I’ve gone through them several times. They were put in our lock box and forgotten. Yesterday, Tucker was going through paperwork and sat a stack of papers in front of me and told me… Continue reading My Life In Bullet Points
Yesterday sucked. The end. For the most part it’s still Cara and when she reads this in a couple of years, she’ll understand just how awesome her parents are for letting her live that long. Yeah. When I was younger, I never bought into that whole “Respect your elders,” thing. That makes me a very… Continue reading Diary Entry 7.31.12
Cara has been giving us ridiculous amounts of attitude recently and when Tucker went to brush her teeth last night she hollered at him that she didn’t need his help and then covered her mouth and screamed at him. She got a spanking for that and she didn’t get to have stories before bed.That led… Continue reading You Can’t Get Rid of Family
Just about every morning I wake to find at least one kid in bed with us. Obviously, at some point during the night, the kids are getting out of their beds, wandering around the house and then finally ending up in our bed. The wandering around the house thing hadn’t been a concern since they… Continue reading Ollie Loves Cheese–A Video
Tucker’s bathing the kids right now in our garden tub–why do they call it that?–and I figured I’d sit here, in my sweat, and write this…while I have time. Family Exercise Time We went around the neighborhood today. It’s pathetic how much sweat you [I] can produce when large hills are involved. You think I’m joking about… Continue reading Diary Entry 7.22.12
Stupid Inertia Today is one of those days when you’re sure you’re about to start your period but you look at the calendar and know that blessed event won’t be happening for quite a while so there’s really no excuse for your bitchiness other than your meds aren’t working. I don’t want for my meds… Continue reading Diary Entry 7.20.12
I hypothesize the reason my children fight like children possessed by opposing sides of the demon world is they’re so close in age–22 months. However, the only way for me to test said hypothesis is to wait a few years and acquire another child. Since Tucker’s fixed, I would have some explaining to do. Two years ago I… Continue reading Watch Out For That Flying Shield!
I remember the day before kindergarten picture day I had a loose top tooth and it was ready to come out. I pulled the first and having that second sitting there messed with my young sense of symmetry and I sat in front of my mirror and wiggled that second front tooth until it was ready… Continue reading Cara Lost Two Teeth in Two Days
