What Is A Clean House?
I’m an anal person. I fully admit that. I love to clean and organize. Having a baby makes this nearly impossible. I clean up my house just to have her follow me and take it all out again. My living room looks like a disaster area on a regular basis. I’ve learned rather quickly that you can’t have nice things with a baby. I’ve had my furniture for 2 weeks and they are already covered in snot, milk, eggs, and cookie crumbs. All house decorations have to be up high or else she will get them. There is a huge change in my idea of a home. Pre-baby I thought of my perfect home as lot’s of strategically placed decorations and accents, always in pristine condition, and never any dirt or mess. Now my perfect house has books everywhere, toys in and on the furniture, random cookies in the couch
Childcare At The Gym: Update
Not too long ago, I wrote about how Saioa hates the daycare at the gym. I felt horrible leaving her there for my hour of working out, but it was a necessary evil in an attempt to shed holiday pounds. Well I’m happy to report that she now happily goes in without a problem! I love that about kids, they are so great at adapting to new situations. It took her about a week to where she wouldn’t cry when I left. The first time it happened my heart melted because she went straight into the arms of Ms.Rhonda, the caregiver, and didn’t even look back at me. I’ve been going regularly for a little over a month, and now she’s at the point where she is actually excited about going! When I say “who wants to go to the gym?”, she shouts “I do!” Then she marches on down
There Is Nothing Happy About Disney Movies-Video Post
When I think of Disney, I think of childhood heaven, happiness, hugs, kisses, peace, love, and Mickey Mouse. Disney World, DisneyLand-the happiest places on the planet. Let us all hold hands and sing It’s a Small World and wear Mousketeer ears. But that’s not really the case with Disney movies. Not when you really think about it. We all saw Disney movies in the theaters as kids. I specifically remember going to see Lady and the Tramp and crying my eyes during the scene where they are dragging a pound dog to be put to sleep. I’ve tried to block the details of the scene out, but you only saw the shadow of the dog fighting against the leash. I also suffer from post traumatic stress syndrome from Bambi and Dumbo-easily the two saddest Disney films I remember to date. Thankfully, I have suppressed Bambi’s mom getting shot. Unfortunately, we
She’s A Trouble Maker
I’m not so proud to say that my daughter is a trouble maker and she’s just shy of a year old. How do I know? Well there are a couple signs. 1. She has an evil laugh. I’m talking like, if she could form the sounds it would be an erie MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. 2. She purposely defies when she knows she shouldn’t be doing something. For example, she likes to play in our dogs food and water dishes. I tell her no and remove her from the situation. She immediately speed crawls back to them but purposefully stops half way, looks back, gives her evil laugh as if she’s saying “Try and stop me!” and then proceeds to the dishes. She thinks that she is hilarious. 3. She bites. I’m not talking a little nibble. She will grab any part of my body she can and just clamp down with her
Bye Bye Bapi
This past week, we finally got brave and started taking away Joshua’s pacifier, or bapi as he calls it. He had previously avoided having it taken away since he didn’t have any teeth to adversely affect with its presence. We also didn’t want to put Grandma and Grandpa through the wonders of weaning a heavily-pacifier-dependent toddler. We want them to want to come back and visit. Now that he has teeth and Grandma and Grandpa have headed home, it was time. As unpleasant as weaning is, with a dentist as a father, there’s no way Joshua gets to keep that pacifier. Dad has seen what it can do to the development of teeth. Sorry, pal. Last week was a quiet week, so on Tuesday, I finally started the process. When I got him out of the crib that morning, I took out his pacifier, put it down in his crib,
Mamta’s Amazing Laundry Feat
Does the laundry in your house multiply faster than bacteria in a petri dish? Do you ever find yourself increasingly frustrated because you’re running late and you can’t find anything to wear because most of your clothes are in the laundry? Is the carpet in your house disappearing underneath the dirty laundry that has long overflowed out of the basket? Have you ever had to dedicate an entire day just to doing 7 or more loads of laundry….. washing, drying, folding… and maybe putting away? This used to be the story of my life. And then one day, after my umpteenth load of laundry, I decided I didn’t ever want to go through that again. I liked that there were clean towels and sheets, everyone’s dresser was full of clean underwear, and the laundry baskets were all empty. I liked the feeling so much that I wanted it to be
