It's probably not very surprising that the boys have had trouble sleeping for the past couple of months. With all the changes in their lives and family structure, of course they're going to toss and turn a bit, have insecurities and nightmares, need extra snuggles in the wee hours. Completely understandable. But, from my point of view, it's ( Read more... )

Realized I never actually wrote my intended ( Story Of The Camping Trip. )

( Authorities respond to distress call at Casa Crisis... )

QOTD from Emergency Backup Prince Gabe:

"Oh hai, Mommy! Crackerz pleez give to me kthx!"

I swear upon everything holy he said it exactly that way. My toddler is a lolcat.

The Official First Head Cold of the Season has hit us all over here at Casa Contagion. The thrills! The chills! The headache! The used tissues all over the floor because apparently it only takes one weekend away at Daddy's to forget the location of all the household trash buckets!

Eating soup, drinking tea, trying not to think.

Today, for the first time since two years ago when I left the area, I visited Wild & Woolly in Lexington. I'm not in the market for anything at the moment, I just wanted to poke around - it's been so long since I've been in a LYS that I was beginning to suffer withdrawal. It was a risk, I know, taking Gabe in there with me. But, true to form, he ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I am taking the boys on a Great Adventure ( Read more... )

My baby came home! Ethan got on the right school bus, and stayed on until he saw Gabe and me waiting for him at the bus stop, and then he got off the bus, and he came home! He didn't get lost! I can breathe again ( Read more... )

The came this morning and took my baby away on a big yellow bus. My baby, who I made from scratch, using just spare parts that were lying around in my body. My baby, who came out of me just like ten minutes ago ( Read more... )

8/31/08 bedtime: Gabe's first full sentence! I was changing him into his pajamas and growing impatient with his exuberance. I yanked his little shorts up, he wiggled around and fell backwards, thunking his head on the floor. He stopped moving, looked around, got back up, and said to me, "Sorry me did dat."

*melt*