Ambitious readers. Ambitious people impress me. You know the ones. They work really hard, night and day, being productive and attaining their goals. They rarely sleep, they exercise daily, they eat right and still find time to have a successful career that took ambition to attain. I have to admit that I am not one of the ambitious ones. Never have been. I can name some things I am ambitious about though (just for fun). Food. Relaxing. Socializing. Cleaning. Sleeping. My family. My friends.As for things I have excelled at? Well, let’s see. In school I did just what I had to do to do “well.” I didn’t have a desire for college and I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up. When I did get “real” jobs I pretty much just coasted through the days. I did a good job, but never an over-the-top-excellent type of job.Here’s […]
My friend Kim is having a baby and we had a shower for her yesterday. I’m so excited to meet the little one. I love it that she and husband, Roy haven’t found out the sex of the baby. But I hate it at the same time. The anticipation is killing me. I’m guessing boy. I think I always guess boy though since I have two of them. And it seems like lots of people are having boys these days. Kim is going to be a super mom. One thing we all really enjoyed about this shower is that there was none of that “guess which candy bar is melted in the diaper” game business. We just ate and talked and opened gifts. Refreshing. It’s so much fun to be a part of people’s lives as they’re having babies. I love to be able to relate and pass on a little advice here […]
I thought of one more song I used to hear wrong. Couldn’t resist sharing that I thought the song “Voices Carry,” (80’s tune) was “this is scary.” Love that one.I don’t have much to say today. Miles has a stomach bug it seems. Or it’s teeth, I’m not sure. I feel like I’m constantly saying that as a mom. It could be this, or that, or maybe it’s just this. Maybe I should try this, or now I’ll try that and then it won’t be this but it will be that. I find that to be one of the hardest parts. I guess it’s probably because I’m a control freak and there’s no way I can control everything with motherhood or my children. I suppose it’s good for me to learn to stop trying to rely on myself so much. I just don’t like letting go that much. I want to make everything […]
I’ll get around to making pumpkin bread, but in case I don’t, here’s the recipe – it’s SUPER good pumpkin bread. My sister made it recently and I couldn’t stop eating it. It’s a Taste of Home recipe for pumpkin bread with a cream cheese filler: 1 can pumpkin 1 cup and 2 Tbsp. sugar 1/2 cup brown sugar 4 egg whites (divided 3 and 1) 1/2 cup milk 1/4 cup canola oil 2 cups flour 2 1/2 tsp. Baking Powder 2 tsp. pumpkin pie spice 1/4 tsp. salt 1 pkg cream cheese (8 oz) Heat oven to 350. Mix pumpkin, 1 cup sugar, brown sugar, 3 egg whites, milk and oil. Add flour, baking powder, pie spice and salt. Stir just unitl moistened. Filler: Beat cream cheese, 2 Tbsp sugar, and remaining egg white until blended. Put half the pumpkin batter in loaf pan. Spoon cream cheese mixture evenly over the top […]
I realize my posts have been a bit serious these days. But I guess that’s because life is pretty tricky most of the time. One of my dear friends, Tiffany had her daughter, Chloe prematurely about a year and a half ago. The doctors could never find any obvious reason why this happened, but it’s currently happening again. Tiffany is in the hospital trying to keep baby #2 inside that body of hers. She is 25 weeks pregnant. Obviously, this is FAR too soon to have her baby boy. Each day counts. Another day, a healthier baby. Tiffany is doing her best to take care of each moment to ensure as many days as possible. In the process she has had to let go of caring for Chloe and entrust that to loving family members. She also has to let go of taking care of things at the practice she and her husband, […]
So today is one of those really good days. Both of the boys have been sleeping since around 1pm and it’s now almost 4pm!!!! I am in shock and don’t quite know what to do with myself. I got an extra long visit with Kate, which is one of the best things in life. If you don’t know her, you should, she’s a real catch. I got time to snoop around on the internet and talk with Ryan on the phone. In short, I got a little time for myself. That’s always good for a mom. Somehow it does leave me feeling a bit guilty, but I’m starting to realize that’s a bit ridiculous. I’ve been realizing that feeling sorry for myself or feeling guilty (2 of my favorite old hobbies) is just another way of focusing too much on myself. Ryan would call it navel-gazing. I DON’T want to be a navel-gazer. […]
