Meaningful

  • 10 Things

    I love and hate get severely annoyed with about my toddler: Annoyed: 1) When she drops her precious toy/book/drink/snack while strapped in her carseat while I’m driving, and proceeds to wail, whine, whimper and moan that I don’t stop the car and pick it up for her. 2) When she learns new words that she…

  • Happy Anniversary!

  • Burning Bright

    Friday was a gorgeous day and I did not want it to get away from us without doing something with it. On the way home from work I dropped by the liquor store to pick out some wine. Taking the advice of the sales associate who was extremely excited about two particular bottle of wine,…

  • Easter Bunny no-show

    Skyler didn’t get to go Easter-egg hunting this year. Part of me feels a bit guilty about it since it could’ve been fun for all of us and started a fun tradition, but another part of me just doesn’t really care. My family never made a big deal out of Easter. I should rephrase: my…

  • New Year Quiz

    I saw this quiz on one of my favorite blogs, so I thought I’d give it a shot. After I answered all these and looked over it, I realized how big Skyler’s health issues were this year. I knew it was a big deal at the time and am so glad it’s behind us, but…

  • Giving Thanks

    This is the weirdest Thanksgiving to date. I’ve been at home all day with Skyler, counting the minutes till it’s time to head to my side of the family’s dinner. Ronnie went to his family’s dinner earlier today without us since we decided it would be better not to take our germ infested child into…

  • Curse of Motherhood

    Our plane leaves approximately 7 1/2 hours. The bags are almost packed except for the few things we’ll need in the morning. I should be going to bed, since I have to wake up in 5 1/2 hours. And I shouldn’t even be thinking about bed since I should be so excited for vacation to…

  • Blast from the past

    I’ve been meaning to go back and look at my old babysite from time to time, on the same date last year, and see what my thoughts were, since I was still pregnant. I finally did that tonight, and I’m so glad I did! It was actually a pretty significant “turning point” in my pregnancy.…

  • I sense…

    …the relatively calm chapter of life with an immobile baby is fast coming to a close. …using the diaper-changing table is most likely becoming more hazardous to both Skyler and myself. Whether she is flipping to her belly in mid-change, or grabbing a pooh-filled Pamper and shaking it like her favorite rattle, we’re soon going…

  • The Koi and the Lotus

    Tattoos have recently been made more trendy and mainstream with shows like Miami Ink and the spinoff, LA Ink. But my husband is one that had his first tattoo over ten years ago at age 18, got another in his early twenties, has been around enough to realize his first tattoo was meaningless, and a…