———————————————————————————————– After a bath, I look over at Miles (his bath, not mine) and he’s standing there pulling on his nipple. Hard. So I say, “Honey, that’s not going to come off.” And he says, “Yeah, I’m just seeing if it will come off.” So I say, “Those are part of your body.” And he says, “Yeah. They don’t come off. They’re not play doh.” “No, honey. They aren’t play doh.” ——————————————– After a long day of NOT LISTENING AT ALL (Miles, not me) I put him in a time-out and he starts freaking out. So I say, “Miles, I would stop doing that if I were you.” Pause. “What, mommy?” with a look of confusion on his face- what do you mean, if I were you? So I explain (really well). “You know. If I were you, like if mommy was you, I would make a good choice and listen to me.” […]
I totally screwed up the giveaway thing, dangit! OOPS. I had a little thing about a giveaway in the sidebar. I couldn’t figure out why there were no more entries since the first time I posted about it. Then I clicked on my sidebar giveaway thingy. And it went to nowhere. It said ERROR blah blah blah. SUPER. So I said to myself “OH! That’s why my sitemeter shows all these people clicking on that and yet, no one is then commenting on that post who hadn’t already….oh….I get it now….it’s because when they tried to click on the giveaway thing they were told ERROR blah blah blah. So I’m sorry to those of you who tried to figure it out and hit an immediate dead end! I should have clicked on that like maybe two weeks ago or so. OOPS. So this is what I’m going to do. Anyone who comments on […]
Warning: If you’re not in the mood for a sad story that leads to a rant, you should probably go read something else. Just sayin‘ OH! And also, all of you sweet people who said my rant the other day wasn’t a real rant. You are so right. Because this one might be more along the lines of a real rant. Don’t say I didn’t warn you and don’t be mean in the comments. Thanks.——————————–I really haven’t been making it up when I say that I don’t have “regular” TV on during the day with the boys around. So it’s rare that I see daytime television. But somehow yesterday it worked out that I found myself alone in the kitchen at 4pm. Uncle Kevin had taken Miles on an adventure, and Asher was playing quietly in the living room. (Weird.) I turned on the TV and started thinking about dinner. Oprah (maybe you’ve […]
I hit the pillow last night with a whole lot of shame and frustration. I don’t know what it is about Tuesdays. When Ryan is out of town for work, Tuesdays just totally stink. I think it has something to do with it being only the second solo parenting day and feeling like it’s more like the fifth. Then I’m hard on myself. I can’t figure out how I could be so impatient and crabby, barking at my boys every thirty seconds. When it’s only Tuesday. Long story short, I didn’t handle things very well. I was just one big ball of uptight tension and negativity. So I woke up (still exhausted and much too early) this morning and I looked up and thought something toward God, “I can’t do this alone. I stink at alone.” Not even the slightest moment passed and I was flooded with a fullness of knowing, “You’re never […]
