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This is part of my practice I guess. Write something. Anything at all, just to get the cogs in my brain turning. Any writing is better than reading emails and mommy boards. After I clear this junk out of my head, maybe I’ll write another …

This week I am learning to own the consequences of my own choices. All this came from one of the epic discussion/debate/fights that Jim and I have most Saturday mornings. I don’t know what it is about Saturday mornings, but that is when they usually …

Waking up early, before the baby, makes all the difference in the world. Just taking that one hour before he wakes up to gather myself. And now my brain is awake, on fire with ideas and creativity. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that there are …

Because it’s Monday, and Mondays are crazy for everyone, even stay-at-home moms, we’ll do a picture post! Roses. I know, who hasn’t seen roses before? But these are my roses, and that makes them special. I’m feeling a little bit frazzled today. I’m organizing another …

He’s watching The Backyardigans and they’re singing. It’s a surfer-dude kind of song, and they’re doing a surfer-dude kind of dance. He turns around to look at me and he’s smiling, as if to say, what do you think? It’s pretty cool, huh? Yeah, man, …

He has two highchairs – one for eating and another for coloring. He goes to the coloring chair and says “chair,” except that it sounds more like char, and that is how he tells us he wants to draw. I pick him up, slide him …

It is disturbing to me how he is drawn to these commercials. He doesn’t care about The View that I am watching as I fold the laundry. But when the commercials start, he is drawn to them like a Siren’s song. The volume is louder, …

When there are lights to be turned on! Yay! Silly Mommy!