December 2011
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great news
we made it almost 9 months before losing a paci
with the paci clip attached
awesome.
thank heavens for the backups we snuck from the hospital… just off to find a backup clip now
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happy new year
i don’t usually do the Resolutions thing because i have a hard enough time sticking to things i want to change at any other time of year so not sure why doing it now would matter but this year i’m gonna try - there are too many things i need to change and i need some motivation, so here it goes…
get to Pilates at least 2x a week - finally rejoining the gym along with the other...
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i FINALLY listened to the wisdom that is Tumblr and joined eBates this year
it’s been the most rewarding and most frustrating thing i’ve done for savings
every. single. time. as soon as i hit “place order” i realize i forgot to go through eBates and it’s already in process and too late to cancel and re-place the order. this has happened to me 2x today alone! grrrr....
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will not at all be surprised when Jesus takes my rear passenger side tire away. i don’t deserve it. i hit everything with it.
poor little tire.
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you know you have nothing in common when...
they ask if you saw the last espisode of Two and a Half Men
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i haven’t worn my invisalign trays in a week and my teeth shifted so much that i could not physically get them on all the way last night
and yet i ground my teeth so hard last night that they’re snug this morning but ohmygod the pain! i had completely forgotten how much this process hurts, i feel as though my teeth are going to collapse if i eat anything harder than yogurt
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lspoon asked: Tag, you’re it! Here are the rules: Each tagged person must post ten things about themselves. You have to choose and tag ten people. Go to their blogs and tell them you tagged them.
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mom question/help
can anyone recommend a good product for attaching to the stroller for nightime walks so we don’t get hit by cars?
there are no streetlights in our neighborhood and i get nervous. any lights? reflector tape? something else you do that works? i’m having a surprisingly hard time finding options
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happens every time
baby goes down for his morning nap
i decide to enjoy this time all to myself
grab some breakfast and start eating while i turn on the computer
get totally sucked into Tumblr and emails
hear baby cries on the monitor, look at clock and it’s been 30 minutes! oh crap he’s done
look down at half eaten breakfast and panic! WHY DID I WASTE ALL MY TIME ON TUMBLR AGAIN?!?
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and babyproofing the cabinets has begun
… and drawers too
(also he hopped out of the cabinet before i could get a picture… sneaky little guy, but boy was it cute!)
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got a new haircut last week
just washed and dried it again and i think i figured out what i’m not cool with about it - it looks like 2 haircuts, one that ends at my ears and one that ends at my shoulders
OHMYGOD she gave me The Rachel!
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baby genius... or maybe not
for the past month or more my baby has been using his walker like, well, a walker - standing up next to it, holding on, and walking behind it while he pushes it around the room (he does this with his friends in it too). genius, right?
in the past 2 weeks i’ve caught my baby eating dog food on 3 different occasions. and by “eating” i mean sitting there happily sucking on it for...
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so… after spending your last 30 christmases with your family, even when that meant not getting to be in your own home and having to do the p.i.t.a. hectic traveling on the road thing for the better part of the past decade, and your mother decides she’ll be coming down to spend christmas with your little family and her first grandson this year would you…
be happy that she’s...
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is it wrong to drink what’s left in your baby’s sippy cup because it’s sitting right in front of you and you’re thirsty but too lazy to get up and walk into the kitchen to get something to drink?
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re: last post - parent poll
okay so you have all confirmed my thoughts that we’re among the minority being the lazy slovenly parents who change their baby on the floor.
in our defense we started out doing this because the big contoured pretty covered changing pad was on the dresser upstairs and we spent 90% of our time downstairs with the baby, heck we never even used the nursery for the first few months. once he was...
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parent poll
a little debate between husband and me…
do you change your baby’s diapers on a changing pad (on a table/dresser, whatever) or do you just change them on the floor (with or without a portable pad)?
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and the winner is...
Erin who said she’d like the turquoise/brown Woobee Plush.
Erin you have until 5pm tomorrow to send your contact info to me so RoSK can get this blanket out to you!
Congratulations Erin and i hope you LOVE IT!
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last day to win a free thing folks
win your RoSK blanket here by entering before 5pm EST today!
just look at those odds!!
funny story - okay, not funny and probably not even mildly worth reading to anyone but me but i’m telling it anyway… my littlest niece used to love the cartoon Max & Ruby, except when she said it in her little toddler girl voice it sounded like “Mac thand Woooobee” anyway, every...
rockstarwife:
Officially registered for the 10k in Richmond!
YAY!! so excited for Roger’s favorite aunt to get here… and especially since it’ll be in time to celebrate the munchkin turning the big oh one!
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Done.
first Christmas card of the season received, hand addressed to each member of my little family by name, with a nice message inside, and signed by… i have no clue. no return address on the envelope and postmark stamp is too smeared to read where it came out of.
awesome.
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had a dream i ran into Ryan Gossling around town and he was totally into me, holding my hand, dragging me through a sea of hot women throwing themselves at him and by the end i felt so bad and was trying to figure out how to break it to him that i’m married - then he kissed me and was leaving and suddenly i was miffed because what the heck?!
i blame this entirely on you Tumblr, i’be...
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on sharing
i will share with you my inner most secrets. i will share with you every sordid detail of my, shall we say, colorful family. i will share all of the schmoopy reasons i fell in love with my husband and do so a little more each day. i will share the contents of my closet, even the shirt off my back. i will share my toys, my gadgets, my cd collection, and even my car. i will share the secrets of...
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Free Giveaway You Guys!
i don’t normally do stuff like this but this is something i truly believe is awesome and could not let it pass by. you have no idea how giddy with excitement i am about this —-
after a recent purchase with Rain or Shine Kids (moby pouch what what) we began talking and they want to give away one of their incredible blankets to you guys!
okay, okay, must calm down and type this out...
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since he’s so exhaustingly mobile i sometimes look up and see my child getting into something he’s not supposed to be near and my first instinct is a loud and sudden “HEY!” it gets his attention quickly so he’ll stop dead in his tracks before getting electrocuted/cut/bit/broken.
only problem is now when he’s on his way to something i can say “Roger, No,...
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how do you get glitter off of... well, anything?
my son was crawling around in my craft room while i wrapped gifts and i use ribbons with glitter (for certain things) so there’s glitter covering the floor and while crawling he was dragging his pacifier through it.
so now my son has a sparkly green soothie and no amount of water or rubbing has helped.
any miracle cures out there?
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$10 Target Gift Card
did y’all know that you can get a $10 GC back at Target when you spend $50? and when don’t you spend $50 there?
it expires 12/10 so get shopping!
$10 Target Gift Card with any $50 purchase
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i just googled “older and less social” because it can’t be just me but, honestly, every year older i get the less i want to hang out with groups of people and the more i just want to sit at home with my little family, in my comfy (read: pajama) pants, and pop in dvds
i still enjoy get togethers one-on-one and group playdates are the highlights of my week but sometimes i just want to be alone and...
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what i've learned in motherhood
apparently if you dress your baby in all neutrals people assume it’s a girl
i mean seriously, EVERY person tells me how cute “she is”
i guess you have to dress them in stuff with dump trucks on it for people to guess you have a son.
i don’t care that he has “such pretty eyelashes” he’s still a boy.
*also, i don’t get visibly irritated with people...
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it’s official - i’m THAT girl. the one who won’t go to the Sugar Bowl without her baby.
gah, i never fully understood why some women were like that, i mean cut the cord already. but here i am admitting to myself and my husband what i’m not capable of - leaving my baby for days at a time.
(pardon me while i justify myself)
it’s not just that i’ll miss him, because i would…terribly!, but it’s...