Archive for May, 2008
Random
What did Brad and I do on a Saturday afternoon with no toddlers to entertain? We made a playlist of Industrial and Goth music from the late ’80s – early ’90s and jumped around the living room with The Bog by Bigod 20 and Headhunter by Front242 blasting so loud that our cats went [...]
There is no such thing as too soon
Brad has been playing the didgeridoo for about 10 years and has 7 different ones of various sizes and materials. The boys have been exposed to them since my pregnancy and have been encouraged to “play” them since they could figure out how to put their mouths to the mouth piece. Recently Brad [...]
The Ties that Bind
I can not tell a lie, I am glad to have weekends without the boys. I remember when my friend Wendy’s ex-husband started taking their daughter for weekends and how she felt so blessed to have those breaks. I totally get it. After two weeks of travel and family while Brad was [...]
Almost there
I’m really starting to feel the move towards “18 months”. It’s amazing. After about three weeks of eating non-stop, Logan is starting to slow down and is sleeping a lot. Forest is still eating like a bottomless pit. Where he puts it, I’ll never know. They are both talking a [...]
Manners
The time has come. We’ve moved the boys into booster chairs at the table and have given them forks and plates to accompany their spoons and bowls. An d napkins. There are some messy days but I have a feeling that right now it’s the novelty and that they will settle down [...]
Bonus
I just painted my nails. This is huge. I have never had nails long enough to paint, except for when they were fake nails. But these are MY nails. And they are pretty! This is one unexpected but greatly appreciated bonus of having braces.
Missing Daddy
Brad has been gone for 10 days. The boys now know how to communicate that they know who their daddies are and when they miss daddy. And let me tell you, it just kills me. I have had tears in my eyes so many times over these 10 days because every time [...]
And Now Back to Your Regularly Schedule Program
The past five days were spent catching up with my parents and letting them catch up with Forest and Logan, literally and figuratively. It was a great visit for us all and we managed to get in some shopping trips and still feel relaxed the whole time. On Sunday one of my dad’s [...]
Braces – Week One
I thought I’d take some time to fill in on how things are going with the braces. As I mentioned previously (I think) the removal of the four teeth took a lot more of a toll on me then I had expected. The pain lasted for several days, then there was pain in [...]
Trip Summary
Last Friday Brad and I took the boys on their seventh plane flight as we traveled to California to visit his family. The boys were so wound up at the airport and when we first got onto the plane, it was not a pleasant experience. It was stressful trying to keep up with [...]
