May 2011

I’m not ready for this next milestone

May 30, 2011

I started quasi potty training Chessa last week. Sort of. Not really. Maybe. For the past few days, every time I changed her she would look at me and say “POT-TEE” or “POT-TEE TWAIN”. I kept brushing it off because I didn’t think she was ready. Not more than two months ago when I was [...]

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Here’s hoping it’s a really long summer

May 26, 2011

I know football season seems like it’s a long time away. Hell, it’s not quite Memorial Day. But this night, the one I just had with my adorable and wonderful children, is the kind of night that makes me dread August and the return of helmets and shoulder pads, x’s and o’s, film and scouting and at least [...]

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“I love you”s don’t come easy

May 26, 2011

Chessa can ask for cookies and milk – “CUH-KEES AN MUK?” she says. And if I get anything other than the mini Oreos that her aunt brought for her, she says. “NO. CUH-KEES CIN-EE BOT” (I want the cookies that Cindy bought). She can tell me when Craig goes to work – “DADDY WOK,” or [...]

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She can have my eyes or love of Oreos, but not this…

May 24, 2011

It’s mid-afternoon and I’m getting dressed for Cole’s doctor’s appointment. Chessa is in the bathroom playing at my heels, pulling my cotton balls and hair spray out of the bathroom drawers. Between brushing my teeth and asking her to please put mommy’s stuff back, I bounce a little on my toes and pull my jeans [...]

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our weekend in pictures

May 23, 2011

I love weekends so much more when I’m working. That’s obvious, I guess? When I was on maternity leave any given Tuesday could have been a Saturday or Sunday. Other than Craig being home there was nothing to tell them apart. But now? Now, I start looking forward to the weekend somewhere around 8:37 on [...]

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Between two doors

May 19, 2011

I tuck the baby into bed 25 minutes after his big sister. Chessa spends those 25 minutes chattering away in her crib, playing with the soother, talking to her stuffed animals and occasionally yelling for her daddy. Cole spends those 25 minutes curled up in my arms, sleepily drinking his last bottle of the night. [...]

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You can get mad, but you can’t stay mad

May 18, 2011

A while back, maybe six or seven years ago, Craig and I were spending our usual Fourth of July week at the beach with his family. It was mid-week and Craig was being a wee bit pesty. If he wasn’t picking on his mom, reminiscing about the day she dropped him off at college football [...]

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Yes, you have permission to tell me to quit whining.

May 16, 2011

I had another post planned for today. One that was a little bit sweet and sentimental. A good one for the kids’ baby books. I didn’t quite have it finished though. And now? I’m tired, you guys. This two or three wake ups a night thing is quickly losing its charm. And I KNOW. I [...]

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There’s a reason I was never a track star

May 11, 2011

Leaving Chessa behind to play on the tractor with her daddy, I pushed the stroller down the street. I wasn’t sure if the extra bounce in my step was because it was one of the first absolutely beautiful spring days or because of Adele playing on my Ipod, but there it was. As I rounded the first corner, [...]

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Man to Man Defense

May 9, 2011

About three seconds after the the second (well fourth, I needed two both times to believe it) pregnancy test of my life turned pink, I started to panic about how I, how we, would parent two children. We were on vacation and Chessa was having a tough time adjusting to sleeping somewhere other than her [...]

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