December 15, 2011

your doin’ it wrong

Today’s Reverb prompt: What are your biggest pet peeves? Right now, right this second, my biggest pet peeve is when someone uses your instead of you’re. Because I’m a spelling/grammar nerd THAT’S WHY. (please click here if the video doesn’t work) It’s taking all my willpower (is that supposed to be all one word? spell [...]

December 14, 2011

of gifts and books and things

reading in a tea cup Noah and I dropped the kids with the in-laws last night and finished almost all our Christmas shopping in under three hours. We hadn’t bought a single gift until last night and the two littles and I bought the remaining two gifts today. This may sound like a huge accomplishment [...]

December 13, 2011

because my dear schmutzie is here to save the day, if what you need to be saved from is hipstamatic confusion and/or frustration

So. I’m a bit of an iphonography addict. It’s so much easier to pull out my iphone than to grab my big camera and I am very lazy and I think apps are swell. I really like the hipstamatic app, but I usually have to take five or so shots before I find the right [...]

December 12, 2011

eight months

Weight: 24.6 lbs Height: 30 inches Clothing size: 24 months My little dude’s weight gain has slowed down, but he’s still above the 97th percentile. I was very sensitive about his size when he was born (not helped by some particularly-rude comments), but I quickly fell in love with him and liked his big baby [...]

December 8, 2011

Why blog?

Today’s Reverb prompt: Why blog? Why do you or why do you like to blog (recognizing that these are not always the same thing)? The answer to this question has changed somewhat over the years, but basically it has stayed the same. When I first started blogging seven and a half (!) years ago, I [...]