I didn't have the greatest of weekends. My daughter continues to struggle with potty accidents at least once a day, and for a few days we went through multiple changes of clothes for her. One of the rewards I have been dangling in front of her to make this stop is buying her a new Webkinz, but she hasn't even come close to getting one. The ( Read more... )

We're getting a little bit of thunder and lightning right now, but I'm not sure if it's going to develop into a full-blown nasty storm or not. It's been humid and hot all day long, and the us weather service issued a bad air quality warning for the whole day. We haven't had rain in a while so I think we're due. My husband had started to mow the ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago, I couldn't get in touch with any of my son's closest friends for a playdate. I don't know where the hell they all were, but I went through three of them before I finally found one that was actually around and willing to come play. Grrr. Damn vacations and full-time work schedules. But they all came out of the woodwork ( Read more... )

I lost my daughter today for about five minutes at the beach. I'm not even 100% sure how it happened, but it took at least a year off my life. Thank God a lifeguard found her. She is just such a distractable kid - I'm sure she stopped to look at something, got separated from the other kids we were with, including her brother, and somehow she ( Read more... )

I got up this morning with every intention of having a productive day. Now it's 2 o'clock and I haven't really done much anything other than eat and make some phone calls. Yawn ( Read more... )

We're coming to the end of the first full week of summer vacation and I'm a little scared. My son seems to think I am some sort of entertainment director and really all I would like is a nap (no, the CPAP is not working, and yes, I plan to call the doctor tomorrow). But I am trying. Monday we went to my parents' house and they pretty much took ( Read more... )

A couple of days before school let out for the summer, my son's class had a yard sale. The kids brought in old toys they didn't want anymore, and then got to buy "new" ones with play money. I volunteered in the morning when it started, and helped my son pick out a poster and a couple of chapter books. He also snagged a New England Patriots ( Read more... )

On Monday I am getting set up with my c-pap machine. When I did the sleep study with it on, I felt like I slept much better, and I stopped snoring altogether, which will make my poor husband happy. I still had episodes of apnea, though, so they are going to try to increase the pressure on the machine and see what happens. The doctor bluntly told ( Read more... )

The baby shower went very well today. I think almost everyone who promised to show up actually came, although three of them were late (two of them because they got lost, and one because she can't seem to understand the laws of space and time). We had way too much food, but this is a family trait and I wasn't really disturbed by it, probably ( Read more... )

I was doing that frantic morning rush thing today when there was an enormous crash in my daughter's bedroom. It seems she decided to climb the lower drawers of her bureau to get to the top one where her underwear are instead of asking me for help, and the whole thing went over. She was fine, thank God, but it sort of set the tone for an ( Read more... )