Monthly Archives: January 2009

I’m No Lara Croft

I knew that letting the Monkey play video games would come back to haunt me, but I had no idea that it would turn like this. After the first couple of times I let him play some video games...

Chores and Allowance

There is a parenting debate about whether you should teach your children that they should do chores simply because they are a member of the household or if they should get paid for doing chores. I think that allowances...

Unexpected Things About Motherhood

Going to the bathroom with an audience. Privacy who? That it IS possible to be this sleep deprived and still function. Vacations are no longer a vacation. They are just very long trips away from home that require a...

What is Church?

On Saturday night, I told the Monkey and the Puppy that we would be getting up early the next morning to go to church. The Monkey asked, What is church, mama? Egads. Well, Church is a place where we...

A Typical Day

4am: Miss Piggy wakes up. Lay down with her on guest bed (in her room) to give her a bottle. 4:45am: Put baby back in crib and slip back into my bed. 6:30am: Wake up to hold up covers...

Princesses Don’t Wear pants!

A few weeks ago, I noticed that every time the Puppy was left to his own devices, he would quickly remove his pants and would be seen running about the house without pants. Since the temperatures outside where not...

Bathroom Blues

It seemed like I couldn’t get a chance to go the bathroom at all this afternoon. Every time I started to walk in that direction, someone small and stinky detoured me with requests to fix the volume on the...

New Blogger Template

Hi. I had to change my blogger template temporarily because there seemed to be something wrong with it that prevented anyone from leaving comments! So, here is a temporary one that I found FREE at http://www.giselejaquenod.com. It’s a bit...

Client Meetings & Puddles

I used to occasionally host client meetings at my home office. These meetings weren’t the optimal situations for conducting business, but were often my only option for short notice meetings or meetings for certain times of the day. Usually,...