Category Archives: Parenting

He’s A Big Boy Now

I just returned home from dropping Noah at his first day of Mom’s Day Out.  He’ll go on Monday’s and Thursday’s from 9am-1pm.  I know.  That’s what I am thinking…4 whole hours with only a baby who will sleep for at least an hour or so of that.  I know…even better.  Noah will nap for [...]

There Is No Relaxing When You Have Two Kids

You must constantly be on your game and watching.  I love having two kids and those who know me well know that I want more, but today was our first activity outing with two kids and it really is different watching out for two–even though one isn’t really mobile. 
We had an awesome gathering of our [...]

I’m A Quitter….

So, the past couple of weeks have been pure hell.  Since Noah was coerced into giving up his binky.  He doesn’t ask for it during the day and is pretty happy–but bed and nap times have so completely and totally sucked ass.  It has been pure torture.  Turns out Zoë is a better sleeper than [...]

Growing Pains

We are all experiencing them at the moment.  Zoë is again not sleeping much at night–we had a great week and this weekend it all blew-up in our faces.  It has been a rough couple of days.  Noah is growing and changing so much–especially his vocabulary and he is much quicker to frustration when we [...]

TGIF For Those With Jobs

For me….well at least I’ll have a helper for two days–oh wait only one as he’s playing golf on Sunday. 
I have so much I want to post about, but can’t quite pin it all down. 
Peepers only woke up twice last night–once at 11:20 and once at 3am.  We are making progress and all are all [...]

The Haze Is Beginning To Clear

I knew this transition from one child to two would be hard.  Boy oh boy, did I underestimate just how hard it would be.  I am sure the difficulty is made worse by my own fatigue and stress about about the new baby, etc.  I have found myself completely at my wits end when it [...]

Bad Parenting Moment #15,652

So, I go to get Minnow this morning after he wakes up.  I find his bed sheets/pillow and his clothes somewhat covered in puke.  His puke.  Either he did it in his sleep or we just didn’t hear him.  How awful is that? 
On a positive note…Peepers did sleep a lot last night.  This two kid [...]

Can’t Tell One End From The Other

My life is a complete and utter frenzy of chaos, excitement, sorrow, happiness, sadness, and so on and so on.  I leave for Ethiopia in 3 days.  Saturday at 12:50 I will be on my way to Peepers.  I am so excited and if I didn’t have almost a million other things to do before [...]