If you’re a stay-at-home mom, how can you prevent your brain from turning into mush? I’ve been a SAHM for almost four years now and as long as we don’t have another child, I expect to be at home until Saioa’s in school…. which is another 3 years. Your brain is a muscle and if you don’t exercise it, it will turn into a goopy, gloppy clump of grey matter, very similar to a giant bowl of limp noodles. I’m currently taking a Social Science class online. As I was reading over the first chapter in my text book, these are some of the words and phrases I came across: Paradigmatic method, logical empiricism, asynchronous, qualitative evaluation, syllogisms. In response my brain said, “Huh? What? Say again?” These words were too big for me and my brain. Ever since I’ve been a SAHM the biggest words in my vocabulary are
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I have wanted to visit my sister, Kathleen, and her family out in California for the longest time. Now that Kathleen and I both have daughters who are only three months apart there is even more of a reason to visit. I really want Nora to grow up knowing her cousins well. So I did some research and made some phone calls and decided that Nora and I are going to take a MAC flight to a base in San Diego, California. MAC stands for Military Aircraft or so I think. I might be making that one up. Another word for MAC flights is Space A or Space Available. Basically if the Military already is flying to a certain place and they have some room available they will allow active duty military members, military family members and retirees to fly with them. Flying Space A is perfect if you’re like
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It has been a long time since I have been home with just one child. It has also been a while since I have had a toddler running around. I almost forgot about the tantrums and how toddlers are always testing their limits. Well, here I am, spending my days with a darling and very vivacious toddler girl. I don’t think I really noticed what a stinker she could be until the older children left for school. I tell you what, she can throw one mean tantrum. I have been so busy with all the children that she has been able to run free. I would have the older children chasing her and helping me out. To be perfectly honest, I find her to be a bit out of control. So, the teaching, the time outs and the discipline have begun. I may just have to wipe the dust off one
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I apologize in advance if the phrase “oh crap” offends anyone, but “oh crap” is exactly what I have appropriately said while finding myself in the below situations. These situations are just some of the annoying mommy blunders that happen to EVERY mom (especially me) that make us want to pull our hair out! Your child falls asleep during the car ride home. It is closer to his bed time than not, so you just go ahead and put him in his crib for the night. After a few minutes, your mommy brain starts to worry that his diaper is wet now and won’t last through the night. You sneak in his room quietly and carefully try to gauge how wet the diaper is without waking him. You decide that the diaper needs to be changed and unfortunately wake him up during the process, only to find the diaper was barely wet in
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Most of my past blogs have been about the lighter side of being a dad. Diaper changes, smiling, bath time…they have all been fairly positive and upbeat. For this blog, however, I decided to be a little more serious and talk about one of my fears as a dad. I am sure my wife shares my fears about SIDS, but it has been on my mind recently. I find myself constantly worrying about whether little Owen is breathing in the middle of the night. I am not sure why I am all worked up about this lately, but it has been on the forefront of my mind. I can count twice during this past week that I have gone to the bathroom, walked by his crib, and camped out there just trying to hear him breathe. On occasion, I have caught myself putting my finger under his nose to feel
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Some days it hits me really hard that I am officially a parent now, not like I can ever forget this or even want to, but do you know what I mean? Activities that used to be part of my childless life, like sleeping in, taking last minute road trips, spending a lot of money and time cooking a gourmet meal, swimming in the ocean and kayaking all day, etc. remind me, “Hey you are a mom now, don’t forget it! “ I’m constantly reminded that the “before” was quite a bit different than the “after” and probably more carefree (and not as responsible or intelligent in certain cases like the one I am about to mention). The last time we had a decent hurricane, I think it was 2.5 or 3 years ago, I reacted much differently than I did this time around. I was not even pregnant at the
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