I can’t remember if I have ever mentioned this before, but for a number of years, I volunteered as a puppy raiser and trainer for a guide dog program. Growing up, I loved animals, and my family bred, trained, and showed Shetland Sheepdogs and Boxers. I spent many weekends at dog shows, competing in obedience [...]
Archive for June, 2008
28 Jun
Hair Update
There are some days when I really miss my old hair… the long silky locks that cascaded down my back. Oh wait, that’s wrong. They were long, unruly locks that often fell flat and refused to obey without much styling and random threats of “I will cut you OFF, so help me GOD!”
And so one [...]
26 Jun
he’s clearly a genius
Aiden was evaluated by Early Intervention today for a speech delay. YES I know he’s not quite 13 months old. YES I know that it is awfully early to establish that there is a speech delay. YES I know this might make me look like some compulsive neurotic freak. That’s why I haven’t written about [...]
23 Jun
Zapped.
One of Aiden’s favorite new games is playing with a nose hair trimmer. I know, I know. Gross. He has eighty bajillion toys and he likes the nose hair trimmer. The ridiculousness of this is not lost on me.
It all started when he heard the trimmer buzzing and got curious. So Jason and I started [...]
19 Jun
Thin Thursday- The Bikini Reveal
So we come to the day I’ve been dreading. What WAS I thinking when I promised to post a photo of myself in a swimsuit? Oh, I was thinking it would keep me accountable. It sort of did. I could have done way better over the past eight weeks, but I did lose weight! Over [...]
16 Jun
Thank god he’s so cute.
Apparently I am such a bad role model that Aiden resorted to desperate measures to try and convince me to give up the SAHM thing and put his butt into daycare. What did he do? Well, yesterday he dumped nearly a whole bottle of fruit punch all over our brand new couch. (I’ll pause a moment [...]
14 Jun
Feminist, my ass
Interesting. I just had my very first troll. Was it as good for you, troll, as it was for me? Check out this comment, which was left in response to a post I wrote back when I was pregnant, in which I was already hating the idea of putting Aiden into daycare. As we all [...]
12 Jun
Thin Thursday- Week 7
Okay, finally moving in the right direction here! I’m down a pound this week! And with just a week to go until I post of picture of me in a swimsuit (HOLD ME) I think this is good timing. Maybe I can eke out a couple more pounds in the next week. That would be nice, [...]
10 Jun
Wild Thing, Part Two
So last week I shared how I broke out of my good-girl mode and became a lying liar who employed her mother as an accomplice to the deception.
But, friends, the bad girl that dwells deep within me has made a few other appearances over the years. I’ve mentioned before that I am not a big [...]
9 Jun
Some days
I carefully slice the cheese into small, manageable bites, and present them to His Highness, Sir Aiden of Attitude. He smirks and starts shoveling the cubes into his mouth. I add some crackers to the mix, and he tastes them. Finding the addition of the crackers extremely undesirable to his highly refined palate, the child swipes his hand across [...]
