Genius Mama Moment: How I Aquired 30 More Minutes of Sleep
In a rare moment of Mama Genius, I contrived a way to bank an extra 30 minutes of sleep in the morning. While the increased daylight hours work wonders to improve my mood, the earlier sunrise also works against me since the moment a ray of sunshine creeps through her blinds, Abigail bolts out of [...]
Mama’s Friday Muse: Quitting Time
I have decided to take a blogging hiatus. Turns out juggling blogging, writing a book, running a business, raising two toddlers, trying to stay in shape, and maybe a minute or two of occasional “me” time is leading to inappropriate mood swings on my part. Unfortunately for my cat, I tend to take a lot [...]
Mama’s Friday Muse: Listen Up
I hate when I yell so loud at my kids that my throat hurts. There it is – a vague tickle lingering around my tonsils, all day reminding me that I behaved irrationally. But seriously, my irrational behavior is simply a response to their irrational behavior. Take the other morning for example: two identical plastic [...]
Mama’s Friday Muse: Carpe Diem
Okay…so I’m cheating this week and not writing my own blog. Hey, I’m on vacation. What do you want? Instead I’m sharing this article which I may as well have written since I couldn’t agree more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/glennon-melton/dont-carpe-diem_b_1206346.html?ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false Enjoy!
Mama’s Friday Muse: Mama Crimes
Confession #1: The other day I fished half a corn muffin out of the trash and allowed Paige to eat it. It’s not the first time I’ve done that either. Let me be clear though – first of all, it wasn’t touching anything gross and more importantly, it was obvious my two year old was [...]
Mama’s Friday Muse: Meltdown Mama
It is Christmas morning and I’m having a meltdown. The morning started off sanely enough. After just a few hours sleep since Christmas Eve night in our house is traditionally spent in our basement with my in-laws opening stocking stuffers into the wee hours, Abigail bounced into our room full of news. “Santa ate his [...]
Mama’s Friday Muse: Elfin’ Around
I promised myself I would not blog about our Elf on the Shelf. Every time I check my Facebook newsfeed, there is inevitably another picture of one of my mom friends’ eleves dangling from a ceiling fan or perched on a surround sound speaker. I refused to add to the elf madness. But I can’t [...]
Mama’s Friday Muse: I Don’t Want To Be A Toys ‘R Us Kid
Do not go to Toys ‘RU. I repeat: DO NOT. I have three holiday shopping guidelines: 1. Shop early, 2. Shop local, and 3. Shop online. Yesterday was December 8th so I thought an attempt at Toys ‘R Us was keeping with guideline #1 – shop early. Wrong. Other like-minded parents had the same idea as [...]
Mama’s Friday Muse: Mama’s Hair Salon Open For Business
Since I’m too lazy and busy to take my kids to the salon to get their hair cut, I decided to take a fairly huge risk at the expense of their image and open Mama’s Hair Salon. With two daughters who are incapable of sitting still for more than five seconds at a time and [...]
