Queen of Rambles

I need a massage or a hot bath or both. A demon has taken over my son and I am ready to call in the priest. I hate days that are all about fighting. I HATE fighting with my boy. I hate that he kept testing and testing and testing and testing my limits until [...]

There’s a flip side to the delightful Erik that I was talking about yesterday. When a child is scared and shy, the child tends to stay glued to Mama’s leg. When a child is adventurous and self-confident, he doesn’t. Instead, he flies through the exit when Mama’s attention is diverted for one second. He’ll crawl [...]

When I was pregnant, I used to make myself sick with worry over the fate of my poor baby. Would he be an ugly neanderthal? Would he be shy and sad? Would he be lonely? Bullied? Would his life be miserable? Would his childhood totally suck. Projecting from my own childhood, much? It has been [...]

What do you get when you combine a crampy, cranky mommy with a hungry, cranky preschooler? A delightful day of grocery shopping! Or, you know, the exact opposite of anything resembling delightful. Our grocery store has this new system where you can take a hand held scanner with you while you shop, so you scan [...]

I hate having a chemical taste in my mouth, but I hate hacking up a lung even more. Erik had a lingering cough for well over a month. He seems to be over it, but now I’ve got a chest full of gunk and an unrelenting need to cough. I’m taking Mucinex DM at night. [...]

I totally forgot we have our playgroup at Chick-Fil-A this morning. I don’t want to eat another meal of disgusting chicken strips. I feel totally nauseous this morning and I think it’s due to a chicken overdose (or possibly little Barack making his presence known early–I am going to be so disappointed if I can’t [...]

It’s been rainy, foggy, cold and gross all day. Yuck. I kind of hate Mike’s new job. I’m glad they pay him with real, live money, but I’m not so glad they make him work real businessman’s hours. He had to go to a client dinner tonight. It’s starting at 9 pm. We saw him [...]

When I’m a rich old lady, I’m going to have a ginormous table, perfect for spreading out a full sized quilt for marking. I don’t know how I’ll be able to mark the middle, but it will surely be better than marking it on my hands and knees on the floor. Maybe I can rig [...]

This morning Erik announced that he’s no longer sleeping in his little bed. I inquired as to where he planned on sleeping for the rest of his life because it sure won’t be in my bed. No worries. He just plans on not sleeping. Ever. Again. He’s off to a very good start on his [...]

I really really really really really want to go make cookies right now. They had chocolate chips for $2 at Target yesterday so I bought a few bags for holiday baking. STUPID. I can’t hang on to them that long! It’s been at least a year since I’ve made chocolate chip cookies. Wouldn’t they be [...]