I know my weakness.
Anyone who knows me knows how much I love the internet. I love connecting. I love having conversations. I love sharing blogs and photos. I love promoting other people and myself. I just plain love it and think it’s an incredible tool and a luxury, too. When I accepted my job, I knew very well that would mean a significant decrease in my online time. I admit, I was concerned that I would miss being online and feeling connected. Straight off the... Read More
Being judgemental? Or trusting a gut feeling?
Something happened at church today that has never happened to me before… at least not to this extent. I’m still trying to figure out why I reacted the way I did. I had already dropped the twins and Lily off in the nursery and Colby and I were sitting together in the church service. We were singing a few songs and I happened to glance over and see a man, dressed all in hunting clothes and carrying a hunting sack, walk swiftly in and sit... Read More
Why I love 9-11.
I haven’t watched TV all week. I have flipped the channel every single time any 9-11 coverage has come on. It isn’t to shield my kids from the terror. It isn’t because I’m not patriotic. It isn’t because I don’t want to remember. (Well, okay, maybe it’s a little that I don’t want to remember.) Read More Read More
We have decided to let him choose his gender.
This picture will be even more entertaining if you know the story of the whack-a-doodle Canadians who are not divulging the gender of their child so s/he can choose his/her own gender. Insert *eyeroll* here. Since we want to be free-thinkers, too and not have our children bogged down by those pesky gender roles, we decided to take a page from the Stockers’ book and let Zander choose his-erm- I mean its own gender: Read More Read More
Breaking News & My Mixed Feelings
I had a blog post all set to write. It was probably going to be something tongue-in-cheek and silly. I actually even sat down to begin writing it when the news erupted all over the TV, cyberspace and my phone. Osama bin Laden: Dead. Woah. My entire adult life has been lived in a post 9-11 world. September 11th, 2001 was my 19th birthday. That day, I abandoned all birthday plans and sat glued to my television screen in horror, in tears, in disbelief,... Read More
The nail polish doesn’t make the man…
Ack! Almost a week with no post?! Sadly, my blog isn’t the only thing that’s been neglected. Mount Foldmore has reached record-breaking proportions and I’m pretty sure the crockpot I used to make dinner on Monday is still dirty in the sink. Read More Read More
I kissed a girl… and I liked it. {Throwback Thurs}
Well whaddya know? I was on the ball enough to get a post up today. This week’s Throwback Thursday is one of my most popular blog posts, originally posted in July 2008. I hope it gives you a good chuckle. I Kissed a Girl… and I Liked It. Read More Read More
Dark Mom Thoughts
My Disclaimer: I’m going to get real down and dirty with you guys in this post for two reasons: I need to write this down for my own mental processing and I think that it might help others to read it for various reasons. Before I begin, you should know this is going to be a dark post, likely void of my usual banter, and I’m going to go to a place that I only just last weekend admitted out loud that I’ve been. If you’re in... Read More
Recap: The Santa Gift Dilemma
Quick note, since I know you’ve all been dying to know what we ended up deciding to do about the Santa Gift Dilemma… We didn’t swap the gift. The more I thought about it, the more comments I received about breaking his heart… the more I knew I didn’t want to go out of the way to get the movie into his stocking. I know my little man and I wanted to see how he would deal with it. Sure, he’s five, but as I have learned... Read More
Stop. Preaching. At. My. Door!
I am not close-minded about religion. If you choose to believe different than I do, that’s totally 100% fine in my book. In fact, I think there are some amazing aspects of religions other than mine. However. Do not come to my door at 11am on a Saturday morning, hand me your leaflets, start reading from your bible, and preach to me. It makes me so, SO angry. There’s this woman who has been coming to my door at least once a month for the... Read More
Snip snip!
After getting pregnant with Colby by merely holding hands (swear!), then our IUD baby Lily, and then twins, it was quite clear that Clint and I were insanely fertile. At one of my first OB appointments after finding out about the twins, I informed my doctor that I definitely, 100… no 1,000% wanted my tubes tied on the operating table. I then reminded him of this fact at nearly every subsequent appointment. The closer we got to the delivery date,... Read More
Readers, beware: There are frauds among us!
At a humor writers’ conference, you’d expect to find a great deal of interesting, extroverted, and, most importantly, knee slappingly hilarious people, right? After all, they have entertaining blogs! Their writing makes you giggle, makes you think, “Man, I would really like to sit down and chat with her/him.” I have come to a crushing conclusion over the past few days of the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Conference: Not all humor... Read More
The truth about *writing * about playdates.
In my last post, I dissected what generally goes down when playdate occurs, according to my experiences. I wrote it as a funny ha-ha blog, but am totally surprised at how many comments I have received about that post, both in real life and online! The only other posts I have had so much feedback on were: my post on gender disappointment (and how I don’t understand going into full-blown depression over the sex of your baby), my post on how I... Read More
I’m ridiculous!
News flash: According to a current debate on a BabyCenter thread, I am ridiculous! In the opinion of some, moms who leave their new babies to go out with their husbands are selfish and ridiculous. Those ladies would probably crap their pants if they knew what I was doing tomorrow… Turk and I are blessed to have an amazing support system in our parents. As if that weren’t cool enough, our moms are friends. So, early tomorrow morning, our... Read More
Hot Button Topic: Abortion
Abortion is one topic that gets me seriously hot under the collar, especially when I read about the reasons behind those who consider themselves pro-life. This topic keeps coming up everywhere I look, likely because of the recent murder of Dr. George... Read More
