Wednesday ( Read more... )

My mom's in the hospital due to a fall on Saturday ( Read more... )

The other day, I clobbered Erika in the lower back with a tennis ball. I hit her so hard, she stumbled and burst into tears. #momoftheyear

When her father helped her shower later that evening, he had not heard nor read of the story on Facebook yet, but noticed the giant bruise welt on her back and grew concerned. "What happened?" he asked. She ( Read more... )

On my birthday (Jan 23), I slid on the ice, crashed my new car, broke the suspension and snapped the alignment, it's been in the shop for two weeks and racked up almost $4000 in damages. (Thank you, Geico, for great insurance coverage! Will post more later about that). So as a result, Brian rushed home and didn't buy me a birthday cake, we had no ( Read more... )

Erika had her first major accident on Saturday morning. By major, I mean Brian, Erika, and Kade came back from their morning walk and Brian calmly said "we need some help." I go to the door and Brian's holding up Erika's hand and it's covered in blood. It's so red with blood, I can't even see her fingernails and my skin crawls. We rinse it with ( Read more... )

Some people feel it's a really dickwad thing of me to say, but I feel like unless you actually looked and saw the burning buildings, felt the thick smoky air, heard the bombardment of sirens as ambulances and police cars zoomed by, smelt the acrid burning smell (of industrial materials and what must be the smell of burning human flesh), then you ( Read more... )

Followed geminigirl and _evalution's suggestion of lowering the bed. We removed the supporting beams underneath and dropped the boxspring to the ground. So our raised bed, which used to be 3 feet high (about thigh-high on me) is now 2 feet high (knee-high). Erika's about 30-inches tall, so we spent a day teaching her how to slide off the bed, feet first, and dangle ( Read more... )

I feel like a terrible AP mother, but Erika's fallen out of bed twice in the past month. And by fall, I mean she dives head-first off the mattress and wakes me from a deep slumber with her hysterical screaming ( Read more... )

Sunday morning, we had scheduled for a professional photographer to come and photograph Erika and the two of us for some newborn photography. So of course (Murphy's Law...), things go wrong ( Read more... )

Remember the fender bender that I got into right before Christmas? I got the police report, which stated the officer beleived the cause of the accident was due to "the inattentiveness of [other driver]". So I called her insurance company, and they responded within 24 hours, saying that they spoke to the other party and it's an uncontested ( Read more... )