Easter progression
Easter is a fun holiday at which to measure Abby’s growth and development from year to year. It’s usually right after her birthday, and I can usually fire off a few pictures before she gets covered in chocolate. On Abby’s first Easter, she was just about a month plus a week old. She was a [...]
What’s in Pandora’s box?
Some projects should come with tsunami warnings. They would say: Caution! This project will swallow your life whole, leaving your desk a complete mess and destroying any sense of equilibrium you may have gained from attaining a work-life balance. I’m in the middle of one of those projects this week. Holy crap, it’s Wednesday! I’ve [...]
I’m not sure I want to know
That is my child, sleeping with her big plush puppy stuffed under her nightgown. I’m pretty sure that’s a penguin where her bust will someday be. She had no explanation for this turn of events. Someday I will show this picture at her wedding. Revenge for all of those temper tantrums will be sweet.
I swear officer, it was the four-year-old
As if to prove that things could always get worse, last night Abby broke my nose. For the second time in my life. We were playing an innocent, pre-dinner game of Tickle Monster with daddy in the titular role when she veered left and I veered right and SMASH goes Abby’s very hard forehead right [...]
Inch by inch, row by row
I have a confession to make: I read the Pioneer Woman’s blog like it’s the Bible. Seriously, Ree Drummond is my personal hero – if only because she seems to get even MORE done in a day than I do. And she does it while isolated on a ranch in the middle of Oklahoma! For the [...]
Circling back
Last night – or early this morning, depending on how you think of it – when it was beyond apparent that that decaf coffee was NOT, in fact decaffeinated, I started thingink about all thing things I wrote about here in March. You know, all 4of them. And I figured that I made it sound [...]
Off to school
First of all, thank you. For reading, for commenting, for leaving me messages on Facebook. Thank you. Reading about other people’s perspectives and experiences has helped bring some much needed clarity to this crazy mess of a situation (which seems messier at night than it does in the clear light of day and which has [...]
Can someone please tell me the right answer?
As you may or may not be aware, I have this kid. She’s incredibly beautiful, funnier than hell and smarter than all get out. It’s that last part that has her father and I in knots right at the moment. Because Abby is… well, not to put too fine a point on it, but Abby [...]
Back in the saddle
Whoa, Nelly! Take a long-ass vacation immediately followed by a business trip and apparently you forget how to blog. (Or that you HAVE a blog!) Of course I would love to post a beautiful, long update about our fabulous Disney trip with tons of wonderful photos and videos. I would LIKE to post that. But [...]
Funny bone
When a child is adopted, her parents often strive to find ways to point out that she is truly connected to her family. Obviously, there usually isn’t a family resemblance – at least not one for physical features – so we tend to look for connections that come from other places. For example, my daughter [...]
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