Category: Mama Life

  • First Day of School Fail

    First Day of School Fail

    For the past three weeks, I’ve been counting down the days until the first day of school. When I bought my new planner, one of the first dates into the calendar was the first day of school. It was circled and had sunshine rays coming out of it.  I couldn’t wait. You see, the temps…

  • 32 hours is all it took

    32 hours is all it took

    On Friday, Nick came home and declared we needed a vacation.  He was right. It had been a rough week or two. We’d been cooped up inside hiding from the ridiculously high temps and humidity and I was anxiously waiting to hear if Mariah had made it into PreK (another post coming on that situation).…

  • Bye Bye Baby, Hello Toddler

    Bye Bye Baby, Hello Toddler

    As I edited last month’s pictures, I noticed something. My baby. Just last month with a pacifier in her mouth she was still a baby.

  • Why’d you have to go and make things so complicated?

    Why’d you have to go and make things so complicated?

    Someone could sing that line of Avril Lavigne’s song to me after almost every one of our “fun family outings”. The rest of the song doesn’t apply, but man that line sure does. I am not a spur of the moment, spontaneous person. Not at all. I’m a planner, a perfectionist. So our plans to…

  • Toddler Sleep Training

    Toddler Sleep Training

    If you’re a Facebook or real life friend, you’ve heard way too much about sleep issues in our home. I blogged a bit about it awhile ago too. We’ve been delusional and losing sleep since December. Yeah. That’s right, 8 months. Our child is only 18 months old. She was a great sleeper in the first…

  • Gray Staycation 2013

    Gray Staycation 2013

    This summer we chose to do a “staycation” instead of traveling with our toddler who has all kinds of crazy sleep problems. We figured this would be less stressful for everyone AND it means Nick and I can take a romantic getaway vacation in the fall when his parents will be in the country to…