This past week, I took Daniel to get registered for kindergarten. It hasn’t really hit me yet that come September, Daniel will be going to big-boy school, as we’ve been calling it. It hasn’t really struck me yet that within a few months, I’ll no longer have a preschooler on my hands, but an honest-to-goodness [...]
Archive for the ‘Daniel’ Category
17 Dec
It’s rest time; Cafe going on Christmas hiatus
So if I was Daniel a couple of years from now, I’d be like, “Wait a minute. We live about an hour away from Wisconsin Dells, with all the water parks and rides and fun, fun, fun…and we can go up anytime we want, and you didn’t tell me? Why aren’t we up there EVERY [...]
28 May
End of a Stay-At-Home Era…at Least for Now….
Today is my last day as a stay at home mom. Well, for now, anyway.
Phase I of settling into Madison is complete. All the boxes are put away, things are somewhat in their rightful place again, we’re not tripping over things–much. All we got left is small things, putting up pictures, finding a system to [...]
21 Apr
In honor of April being Poetry Month…a Poem from Daniel
5:53pm
Spoken in the bathroom:
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“The angry poop is scared and mad.
It wants to fight.”
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Wow.
What else can you say to something like that?
Maybe I should bring back his Word of the Month.
10 Jan
And just like that he was…dare I say it…potty trained?
Yesterday, I was going over Daniel’s clothes, I came across a full pack of Pull-ups. That made me glad because that meant that I didn’t have to go to the store for new ones. Then I thought, wait…when exactly did we get these? A month ago? And it’s still full?
Then I realized, except at night, [...]
15 Nov
Another sign that life as you remember is becoming obsolete…
Okay, think back. Way back. Remember back when they had the Fisher Price record players? Come on, if you’re a product of the 70s, of course you do.
It came with plastic records that you pop it on the turntable, wind up the crank, put the ‘needle’ on and out came music box nursery tunes like [...]
4 Sep
Big boy, Big pants, Big Bed, Big Yikes!
So you’re probably wondering why you haven’t heard much about the potty training in our household. I decided to start over again around the end of May, and, aside from the human sprinkler incident, I don’t think I’ve written about it since.
To be honest, there’s really not much to talk about.
Daniel’s got the peeing part [...]
23 Aug
And now, a moment of Ewwwww…
So I’m in the backyard picking–yum–more tomatos. I’m getting to the point where if the tomatoes are plucked just as they ripen, they start to split open, disgorging their insides. As long as the splits are small and there’s no mold on them, I’m guessing they’re still good, but it still is gross to look [...]
29 Jul
MWW Aftermath
That Matrix dial-tone is back.
I had promised myself not to write anything when I got home. I didn’t even want to blog. It’s not that I don’t want to talk about writing, period. It’s just that, I have a whole lot to think about. It’s like when I finish writing a story–I need to let [...]
4 Jul
Screw you, King George! I’m watching Higgley-Town Heros! (or the overthrow of the crib…)
It is now 7:02am as I write this. I’ve been awake now for about half an hour now. Whenever I sit down to write at this early time, I usually do it of my own volition (and those have been becoming increasingly rare as of late. I’m just not a morning person). But not today.
As [...]
