On the left side of the sanity bell curve
When you’re a gifted, worrying, perfectionist seven year old kid, sometimes all that worry can literally make you sick. I figured listing out the things that WERE going to happen (but maybe she was worried they wouldn’t) would give Cara, my kid, a few less things (20, actually) to stress over. Seems to be working. Maybe it’ll work for you, too. Even if you’re not a seven year old girl.
Before Tucker left, he joked about having to spend a week fixing all the stuff the kids and I broke while he was gone. Bet he wasn’t expecting me to break a kid. OK. So I didn’t break Ollie. Ollie broke himself. Well…I guess the chair broke Ollie but Ollie caused it so it’s his fault.… Continue reading Ollie Broke Himself. Kind Of.
I’m writing this super early today before I finally crawl into bed. What’s funny is that I’m usually up this late but after you’ve spent hours in an ER, you get a bit bushed. Ollie had his ENT appointment yesterday and we were up and moving much earlier than is normal for us. Cara mentioned… Continue reading Cara’s Trip to the ER
What do you do when your kid turns blue? You freak out, right? We had errands to run and we all needed showers so I figured we’d kill three birds with one shower…or something. Imagine my surprise when Cara hopped in the shower and looked like she had a blue tan. So maybe she wasn’t… Continue reading Cara Turned Blue!
Oliver tried to take out his left eye today. Well…not really. He was up a lot last night and when he finally decided this morning to get up for good I decided to stay in bed and enjoy the almost forgotten feeling of NOT being used as a human pacifier. Tucker took the laughing child… Continue reading Baby Tries to Remove Eye:Parents think that Sucks
