Daddy’s Little Girl

If you see pieces of a heart, it’s mine

June 22, 2010

Moments like these make my heart want to explode into itty bitty pieces.  From the other room, I hear Craig start to read about a mouse and a cookie.  I listen for the pat-pat-pat of C crawling away or the crash of her pulling a stuffed animal out of the toy bin.  It’s quiet except [...]

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Confession: I’m not the mother I thought I would be

June 17, 2010

I’ve mentioned before that I’m working my way through Babyproofing Your Marriage, right?  It’s a good read and I find myself nodding in agreement at least three times on every page. Except for one thing.   The part where it says that the mother is the protective, gentle parent.  Also.  Over the last few weeks I’ve read [...]

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Baby Talk

June 7, 2010

My daughter’s mouth runs constantly these days.  From the moment I get her out of her crib, to the time right before bed when she’s sucking contently on the paci, she’s babbling and talking.  It’s a constant whirl of ba-da-ga-ada-mpf-ag-wa-ma. I’m sure in her head she is telling a pretty good story complete with details about [...]

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Pillow Talk

June 3, 2010

Me:  Hon, tonight while nothing on the computer went the way I wanted it too, I was looking through pictures from when C was itty bitty.  Him:  Oh? Me:  Yep, there are pictures from the hospital, the first few days home and her snuggling in bed with me after you got up for work. There are [...]

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HELLO! Summer

June 1, 2010

Internet! I haven’t been this excited about summer since the summer of 98, before I went to college and took full advantage of sleeping in until noon, working at MickeyD’s and drinking beers camping in the woods.  If you read the Twitter Home Tour post from a while back, you saw that when we built a house, [...]

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Sunshine & summertime

May 16, 2010

I’m getting better at this turning work off on the weekends thing.  Do I feel bad about it when Monday arrives? Yes.  Well, sort of.  Knowing that I could work all weekend and still be behind helps me to feel better about shutting it down or only putting in a little bit of time.  Some [...]

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Finally! Something to make me think this child is really mine

May 13, 2010

Ever since she was born, all I’ve heard is how much C is her father’s daughter.  A few days after we were home from the hospital, he handed me a picture and I awed over it, asking who took that picture of our little one. In my groggy, sleep-deprived, new mommy state, I didn’t realize [...]

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You'd think it was a Saturday in the fall…

March 16, 2010

I’m not sure what prompted me to dress my child in PSU clothes on the same day that her daddy was sporting the Nittany Lion logo, but I thought we should go with it and get a picture.  Especially for the crazy, I mean, faithful Penn State fans in our lives.  You know who you are.  PS.  When [...]

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Buzzers, Cheerleaders & Bouncing Balls, Oh My!

January 16, 2010

Being married to a high school coach and athletic director, much of my adult life has been spent going to high school sporting events.  Seriously, I didn’t attend as many high school sporting events when I was IN high school as I did when the two of us started dating.  Now that I’ve birthed a child, I [...]

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Movin' On Up

November 5, 2009

Last night was our first attempt at trying to establish a “night time routine”.  Baby Girl got her bath at 8:00, was being fed at 8:30 and gently placed in her crib at 9:00 …  at 9:04 Craig looked at me with heartbreak in his eyes and said “Why do we have to move her [...]

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