There’s a scene in the movie Clue (a per­sonal favorite garbage brain movie) where this woman is scream­ing hys­ter­i­cally, uncon­trol­lably, being com­pletely irra­tional.  She is met by a quick slap in the face and abruptly stops.  Every­one looks at the smacker and his response is “I had to stop her from scream­ing.”
I’m not sure why […]

As Eli­jah topped off his Duplo (which are now called Mega Blocks, which I don’t like near as much) tower I swear he was hold­ing his breath.  When this silence was fol­lowed by a breathy “Wooooowwww” I felt very proud that I have taught my son to be impressed with things.  Espe­cially things of his […]

Robert nailed it when he said this first Ijah free long week­end was like a sea­son finale.  It’s not a show chang­ing one, but it’s a big step.
When Sher­man and I first met I wasn’t sure that I wanted chil­dren.  I had decided that I didn’t in an ear­lier rela­tion­ship and the thought hadn’t really occured […]

I’m pretty sure that the “first” birth­day cel­e­bra­tion is really just as much for par­ents as it is for kids.  He gets an out­fit and atten­tion and a pretty righ­t­ious mon­key cake, we get a pat on the back for keep­ing him alive and well for a year.
And let me tell you, that first year is […]

Eli­jah has been very con­tent lately to sit and look at his books.  He lifts the flaps, turns the color wheels, flips the pages.  It gives me some quiet.  Actu­ally it gives ma a lot of quiet.  He’ll play like that for quite some time.  He doesnt have the same atten­tion span for his other […]

I want a do-over of the morning…one where I take up Sher­mans super sweet let­ting me sleep in offer…where I wake up when he needs to get ready and Ijah is not in a crabby, screechy mood.
There are times when I am 100% sure that I can not do this, that I can’t take one […]

Its warm here today, I guess Sum­mer is around the cor­ner.  I always for­get how June creeps up on you and then *POW* it’s Sum­mer.  A lot of things have been that way lately…*POW* I mean…I’ve been hav­ing some *POW* moments.  Some­times they suck, but no mat­ter what they wake you up.
So a few smacks in […]

There was really only so much more cold and dreary I could deal with…I felt my san­ity slip­ping away…running actu­ally, run­ning away from the cold grey.  “What?  You com­plain about cold and rainy yet you dream of Seat­tle?”  I know, but its different…way dif­fer­ent.  Seat­tle has an ocean, for that, I deal with rain.
But the infusion […]

How Sher­man and I made some­thing so insanely cute is beyond me… I mean it’s not like we were beat with an ugly stick, but com­pared to this kid…
Then again…maybe it’s the air­plane pjs…I need some of those…I imag­ine my cute would go up a bit…

I used to write in here a lot. It was like a brain purge. And I was hon­est. When life was good I wrote it, when it wasn’t I wrote it, when preg­nancy was awe­some or it sucked I was hon­est about it. But for some rea­son I’ve always avoided writing […]