Posts from ‘May, 2009’

I should have known the day was not meant to be when dear old cranky Aunt Flo showed up this morning, performing her usual gymnastics routine on my uterus and ovaries.  I might have suspected that the day would not be happy go lucky when The Dictator announced from the back seat of the car [...]

I don’t even eat Corn Flakes, but if I did I’m certain I would be helping myself to a big old helping of already been peed on Corn Flakes.  It seems that we can not catch a break in this house because just when everyone started feeling better someone else had to go and get [...]

Life has been barelling forward at a pace I’m not quite accustomed too and every week I have had just enough time to blink before Sunday has arrived and a new Monday has returned.  I feel incredibly frustrated with how quickly time is flying by in 2009 because I had high hopes for this year [...]

Violet Grace Tummy Roller Night Sleeper Squealer Baby Girl Angel Face Sister Daughter Lover of Exersaucer Pouty Lipped Big Smiling Giggler Tongue Sticker Outer Silly Girl Happy Girl Mommy’s Girl A Pleasure A Wonder A Joy

I’m sick. I’m not sure exactly when I started feeling so crummy but at some point during this past week it must have snuck in on me while I was caring for my children who were fighting off their own illness.  The thing that’s so profound about parenting is how readily we are willing to [...]

We’ve had a long week, one of those weeks where everything is upside down and inside out and you can smell the stank of your exhaustion when you realize you haven’t had a shower in over 2 days. I’ve been trying to blog as often as I can but with two sick little ones it’s [...]

It takes a lot to get me truly mad – I’m not talking about sorta kinda mad….I’m talking about totally pissed off angry steam whistling from my ears mad. There are not a lot of things that can trigger me to be so enraged but a sure fire bet to get me all riled up [...]

A good friend is someone who comforts you during difficult times and offers strength to sustain you through them – so it is not a surprise that an old friend of mine has snuggled its way back into my life. I have a love-hate relationship with my dear friend “caffeine” but over the years we’ve [...]

This morning millions of women in North America and other parts of the world woke up to breakfast in bed, flowers, special gifts wrapped in pretty paper, and homemade cards – slap a little family togetherness in with that and whammo…you have a typical Mother’s Day. I’d love to say that today was all of [...]

My mom had this amazing ability of making the celebrations in our lives seem like they were really important and I have distinct memories of these celebrations as some of the most joyous times of my life. Now that I have grown, left the nest and created my own family…I feel the need to continue [...]