The Birthday Fail and Lesson Learned
During every walk this week, Baby Dude and I concocted a plan about how we were to “picnic” on his birthday yesterday, having lunch on …
Six Months Old
How did that happen? How did I wake up to find a sweet-faced baby scootch-crawling all over floor? One that gnaws on everything she can …
Princess Doll Cake – The (Almost) Caketastrophe
Let this post serve more as a warning to you folks attempting to make your own Princess Doll Cake, m’kay? Note the strategic blurring of the …
A Happy Birthday Lesson (To Me)
Today, as I celebrate being thirty-five years young, and (not) celebrating having to check off the 35-44 category on questionnaires now (instead of the 25-34 …
Toy Story Birthday Party
This was Baby Dude’s first big-deal birthday party, where he was old enough to realize everything happening. He’d been talking about it being his ‘birt-day” …
Baby Dude is THREE!
Hi. I’m Baby Dude.Today, I’m fwee (three).I wike Tars (Cars) and Buzz Wite Year. And Woody. And “Po Sawrai” (Power Rangers Samurai).I wike to eat …
The Road Trip Accident Story and My Soon-To-Be Teenage Driver
It was summer 2007, and our (then) family of seven had traveled to the Tampa/Orlando area visiting my brother and his family and every area …
“Chuck” the Birthday Corn
Husband: “If you want corn for your birthday dinner, we’ll go to Whole Foods and get some whole corn on the cob for you to …
Dora Cupcakes Nightmare (aka Ways to Scare the Crap Out of the Birthday Girl)
I do not own one of those fancy schmancy cake decorator thingamabobs anymore. I did once upon a time, and made a spectacular Dora cupcakes …
I Don’t Feel A Day Over 25, Except Today
Today is my 34th birthday. I was supposed to wake up to kids swarming over me, smothering me in birthday kisses and homemade birthday cards …
Frankenstein of Birthday Cakes – Baby Dude’s Birthday in Pictures
September 27th, the day of his actual birthday, we began with breakfast in the hotel in Asheville, NC, just before we packed to go home …