DOING IT ON MY OWN…

we all know i’m not all that handy.  i’m artistic and can work wonders with a paint brush, but all the manly stuff… i leave it to the men.  well, LEFT it b/c yesterday… wait for it…

I’VE NEVER BEEN ONE TO GLOAT…

i must. i must, i must, i must…
MY KID IS FRIGGIN’ AWESOME!!!
not only did he zerbert my back yesterday, but he smacked my booty twice today and bit my arm 5 times!!! the show of love is astounding.
but i digress…
chase is doing so well in his “chase bed” (and i say “chase bed” [...]

HURT, SCHMURT. OK, YEA, OUCH…

ouch.  over & over again.  ouch. 
perhaps i’ll just get used to it.  i suppose i should already be used to it.  does anyone ever get used to it?  will the old snap-the-rubber-band-on-the-wrist trick work? 
seriously, though. 
ouch.

IKEASPEAK - BLAH, BLAH, BLAH…

joshua & i headed down to cincinnati to check out the new ikea. i know, right? seriously.
the drive is one boring nearly 2 hour trip through nothing but burnt grass, run down barns, a few cows and a ton of roadkill (even squirrels!). once we hit west chester, we saw a HUGE [...]

TOTALLY UNCALLED FOR…

things are looking up. 
not only did i not turn the alarm on last night causing me to bolt from bed this morning (an hour late!), chase refused to eat breakfast (which, by the way, was a mixture of french toast and goldfish crackers) and i slipped in the parking lot while getting gas, which also means [...]

THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID…

if you look back into the archives of this blog you will notice that nothing has been deleted or edited.  still here are posts from a week before “m” left - which, until that point i was still blogging about how things were going to be different and better.  it still houses info about our first anniversary trip, our second [...]

NEW…

this is our new blog site. once i can figure out how to export all of our old posts, i’ll do it (b/c i am so not copying & pasting over 300 entries). comments are open on this site, so feel free to leave them about how adorable my child is and how [...]