Yesterday AG and I hit a couple of stores to buy her some clothes. It had become glaringly obvious in the past two weeks that the nine-month onesies were no longer cutting it and there was a decided lack of actual outfits in her closet that fit her. Thanks to so many generous loved ones,…
Category Archives: Family
Month 11
Sweet AG – This letter is ridiculously late, mostly owing to me not having my act together, not because we’ve been out-of-the-ordinary busy this month. It’s amazing, though, how out of hand things can become despite having a pretty predictable schedule. The routine of our lives doesn’t alter much, but I suppose the energy we…
Brains vs Boobs
The other day my girlfriend posted a link to my Facebook timeline, to this blog post: Rules for Parents of Daughters. So much of it I loved. Especially the parts such as, “Teach your daughter to be strong and confident in her abilities and not be afraid of failure.” I know of few people who…
Years Are Short
Today my daughter took her first purposeful step. She’d taken one before, with the aid of a basket or her little walker, but today was the day where she took two bumbly, tumbly, glorious steps toward me. I’m a little ashamed to tell you I screamed and startled her a bit. Not scare her, mind…
Month Ten
Dear Miss AG – Yesterday you, me and your new nanny were all in the playroom crawling around when all of a sudden you yelled out “MA MA!” and looked at me and scurried on over my way, crawling at full speed, right up into my lap and yapped once more, “MA MA!” Oh my…
Problem solved and other items
So we found a new nanny. Sorry to be so dramatic and then leave, but it’s been a little crazy lately and every time I sat down to update this blog, something else got in the way. And, truly, at this moment, I don’t feel much like writing. I’m tired. So tired. My schedule is…
What Didn’t Kill Me
I’ve spent the past three weeks holding my breath. Seemingly out of nowhere, our nanny told me she was heading to Poland the week after Thanksgiving, the same week we’d also taken off of work. I thought that was wonderful; she still has family there. She then told me later in the day she would…
More from Gimpy McGee
I am still With Boot. I am not by any stretch of the imagination a Shrinking Violet, but I swear on all that’s good and holy I hate attention for attention’s sake and walking around on crutches with a bum foot is just that. Just now, in the line at the Jimmy John’s in my…
The same ol’, same ol’
Most days, we go about our business. We are people of repeat. Of routine. Of monotony. Such a milquetoast approach to living makes sense, when you think about what a baby typically needs. Order is the name of the game and, quite frankly, we’re just old enough to be more than happy to deliver that…
My Family
My girlfriend, Leslie, came to visit us this weekend and take pictures of us. What she produced using our scrappy, goofy little family as subjects is something to behold. I could not feel more grateful to have Leslie as a friend AND that she so generously shared her talent with us. And seriously! We look…
A Mom
I haven’t given much thought these almost eight months as to whether I see myself as someone’s mother. At least not through the lens in which I’d always viewed women who mothered, no matter how that mothering happened. Truth be told, there really hasn’t been the extra time to ponder such things. Parenting is exhausting…
Regression
Abigail is knee-deep in the eight-month sleep regression. And it is killing us. Last night was the worst so far – we got a total of three hours of sleep, and that was with both of us taking shifts and trying to calm her down and get back to sleep. She slept from 6:45 p.m….
Colic Survivor
I don’t know what prompted me last night to re-read the posts I wrote when Abigail was at the height of her colic, but there I was, on our bed, pouring over the old entries. After reading about three posts, all I wanted to do was go back in time to hug that poor woman…
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I got a sample of this from Sephora a few weeks ago and was instantly hooked. I'm not too gonzo over anti-aging products, at least at age 35 I'm not, but this stuff is awesome. Amazing. Seriously. After one sample.
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Another sample, another addiction. And I know, I know. It's a CELEBRITY perfume. But it is awesome. This sample can't last me long enough.
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With the Hashimoto's Disease and Midwestern winter, right now my hands look like someone took a grater to them. Cracked, dry and nightmarish. Plus, they ache from being so dried out. Enter this stuff. Dries quickly, lasts long and makes my hands and cuticles silky smooth.
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A couple of years ago I bought this juicer on sale and loved it. Up until AG was born, I used it weekly. One of my New Year's resolutions is to bring this puppy back into regular rotation. My favorite combination is apple, carrots, spinach and ginger.