Today while Monkey & I were grocery shopping I saw a dad with a completely full cart of groceries & a car seat.  He smiled at me because clearly I’d been there (with the car seat inside the cart).

When you have a baby in tow, it’s like you are part of a group, I think.  Like “been there, done that, & I completely understand the look in your eyes”.

Anyways, after I smiled back with a [click to continue…]

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Sometimes I wish I could just run away from everyone & everything & start over.  Well, with the exception of my husband & son, that is.  Not that anything is terribly wrong right now, but life just gets more difficult as we get older & sometimes I wish I could run away from it all.

I’ve never been one to be afraid of getting older.  In fact, I always look forward to my birthdays with such joy.  Now I know that I’m only in my twenties, but I don’t see myself ever getting crazed over a number.  I’ll be turning 30 years old this year & I am excited about it.  It doesn’t make me feel old at all.

But as I get older, my [click to continue…]

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Today Monkey & I went out to lunch with my brother.  My brother is a really good uncle & has really surprised me with how much he wants to spend time with Monkey.

While we were waiting on our food to come my brother said, “No offense, but I had no idea that I would [click to continue…]

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In those first few months Monkey slept like a champ when in his swing, like 3-4 hours.  It was glorious!  I knew that he wouldn’t be able to fit in his swing for too much longer, so I started the transition to his crib about a month ago.

At first it was a complete nightmare, which is shocking considering he’s slept through the night in his crib for about [click to continue…]

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Yep, Monkey broke the control key on my Mac.

I admit (& I really hated to admit to Tarzan that he was right) that it wasn’t my brightest moment, but when it brings a smile to my kid’s face, well, let’s just say that I’m clearly a sucker.

Monkey really likes the knee bouncers website, so that’s where we were when the control key came off.  Of course I have learned my lesson & don’t let him touch my Mac anymore.

What a way to learn my lesson, eh?!

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I like to feel that my life is balanced.  A good mix of craziness with calm to balance me out.

Before having Monkey my life was exciting when I wanted it to be, but very mellow the rest of the time.  I dictated my own schedule, did what I wanted to do, & had all of the free time I could handle.  All in all, my life was pretty balanced.

Now that I’m a mom, I’m constantly in a rush.

A rush when I [click to continue…]

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Today Monkey & I lunched with one of my best girl friends.  Monkey is & always has been really good for the past (almost) 6 months, so I guess the time had come for him to surprise me.  & by surprise, I mean fluster the hell out of me.

We had just sat down & I strapped Monkey in the highchair & was ready to start talking it up with my friend.  Before I could get one freakin’ word out of my mouth, I heard screaming.

Piercing screaming, I tell you.  It was like something was seriously wrong with the kid, hence the bloody murder scream.

Naturally I [click to continue…]

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Remember way back when I found out I was pregnant & I swore that I would never became “that” mom who talked about strollers, didn’t want to leave her kid with anyone else, etc?  Well, I’m going back on my word.

It’s amazing what a baby does to your life, isn’t it?  The one thing that changed my life so drastically, a change that I wasn’t even sure I wanted, but now he’s the one thing that makes my life complete.

So one of my friends is getting married in the Caribbean in a couple of months & her bachelorette party is coming up [click to continue…]

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Ladies & Gentlemen, we have a sitter!  A real unassisted-for-a-very-long-time sitter.

Monkey has been, uh, balancing himself I guess you would say, while sitting assisted for a few seconds for a couple of weeks now.

I’ve felt like he was thisclose to the real thing, but [click to continue…]

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