Mommy Fail

Nap wars are going to kill me

March 21, 2010

I’d like to be writing a beautiful post right now about the joys and struggles of motherhood. How I look at C’s face and fall more in love every time I look at her.  Or even one about how I struggle with weekends because I want to turn off work, but my to-do list is still looming and [...]

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Flashing my "First Time Mom" badge

March 4, 2010

I don’t have Mommy instinct.  There I said it.  To everyone who said “you’ll just know what to do,” I say “you lied”.  I don’t know what to do.  When C was a wee one and went through a fussy spell every night in the early evening, I read “Happiest Baby on the Block” to [...]

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Valentine's Day in Review

February 14, 2010

Disclaimer:  My husband is extremely hard to buy for.  Like, high school calculus hard.  But he gives really good, thoughtful gifts and is a good man who deserves a day where I take a breath to show him that I appreciate the husband that he is to me and the father that he is to our [...]

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She Rolls! She Rolls!

February 4, 2010

(Is that title causing anyone else to have flashbacks to Ricky Martin circa 1998 with the ever catchy “She Bangs”?  Oh, maybe it’s just me.)  After weeks of being so close she could taste it, my child has learned to roll from her back to her belly.  As much as this kid HATES tummy time, [...]

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4 Month Shots Today. Hold Me.

January 26, 2010

Thank you, Dear Lord for making it so that children can’t remember their first few years on this earth.  Because I am sure that if C could remember that two months ago, we took her to this same place, held her down and let a stranger stick a needle in her thigh.  THREE TIMES.  That [...]

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When I grow up

January 19, 2010

I used to spend a lot of time imagining what my life would be like when I finally had a job that I liked and was good at.  Or when I could convince Craig to marry me.  Or when I did what I always thought I was put on this earth to do and had a [...]

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Oh the Pain!

December 1, 2009

If given the option of choosing between holding down my baby and listening to her scream as she gets her vaccination shots or having my heart cut out with a butter knife (and no anesthesia) I choose the latter.  Thank you very much. I thought I was prepared.  I mean, I’ve heard stories of mothers [...]

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Swaddle Fail

November 19, 2009

After a couple of nights of Baby Girl being harder to put to sleep, being more restless while she was asleep and waking up earlier, I decided to take on the battle of Operation: Sleep 2009.  I gave her a little bit more to eat at her last feeding, kept the lights low, swaddled her [...]

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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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I Interrupt

October 31, 2009

…this one-month birthday celebration ( letter coming later today, I hope) to bring you this confession… Sometimes, when I’m taking a bath with Baby Girl on the floor, securely belted into the bouncy seat and she starts to get fussy… I take a few extra moments rinsing the shampoo out of my hair, keeping my [...]

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