Last night Jen found a couple of coloring books in the basement that were supposed to be Christmas gifts for Punk. They were kind of a last-minute impulse buy for her when she was buying a birthday gift for Punk's BFF's birthday party in December - two coloring books with glittery stickers, one from the movie "Tangled" and the other from " ( Read more... )

The child deciding to take a 3 hour nap is a major pro when engaging in Valentine's Day "activities," but does become quite a con at bedtime. Heh.

It's Valentine's Day, and it has been win-win-win around here. Due to my switching jobs, money is at a premium right now so I put the kibosh on expensive Valentine's gifts. We exchanged some nice cards and Jen gave me a chocolate bar. I picked up donuts because Punk has been asking for a donut. Punk won the kid lottery, because I found a DVD of " ( Read more... )

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

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Suddenly my life doesn't seem such a waste.

Yesterday I did about a bazillion loads of laundry while entertaining an infant. At one point I even carried one of the overflowing laundry hampers down into the basement while wearing said infant in front of me with her legs "sitting" on the mound of laundry. I feel accomplished for doing that, but it was largely unsafe and I will never do that ( Read more... )

Okay, so it started with the morning nookie that got denied ( Read more... )

This has been a pretty anticlimactic Valentine's Day. And while I'd like to be all gruff about it and say, "blah blah Hallmark holiday blah blah," there are definitely parts of me that like having a day set aside to remember smoochies - mostly because I like to remember my smoochie ( Read more... )

Argh! I hate when I have a Perfectly Good Plan and it all just falls apart. Because, really, I'm not that great at coming up with Perfectly Good Plans, I mean, Really Flawless Plans, so when I get one it's a Big Deal. (Wow, that's a lot of caps ( Read more... )