Happy Leap Day

Yesterday, time was moving too quickly.  Today it’s going too slow. Where the heck is spring????  I know, I know, we’re in Michigan (Wisconsin, Minnesota….) and should expect winter to last until the end of April, but I just can’t take another day of cold and snow.  If we could have just one really warm [...]

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Where does the time go?

Do you realize that daylight saving time is only a little more than two weeks away?  I always associate that with summer and late nights, and here it is, arriving in the middle of winter.  Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining. I much prefer daylight at night after I get home than in the morning [...]

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YIKES!

A mom’s worst nightmare:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/02/22/lamb.nc.nanny.cam.abuse.wral
Eeeeek.

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Croup

Spent all day Thursday in the Pediatric ER with Jessie and her barking seal.
She was a little congested during the night, and she woke us up at 5am with what sounded like a good throat cold.  I called the doctor’s office at 8am when they opened and the earliest they could get us in was [...]

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A Day Off!

Last night didn’t go very well.
Matt took Jessie upstairs to feed her and get her ready for bed. After he put her in bed, she started screaming.  So, he gave her a couple more ounces and she finally fell asleep.
Getting Sam to bed wasn’t any easier.  First, I picked her up to give her a [...]

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Pictures of the Kiddos

Sam’s on the left, Jessie’s on the right. That’s Matt’s hand holding Winnie-the-Pooh.  Click on the picture to see a larger version.
Note to Mom T: Do they look like they’ve grown more hair since you left?
 
 Sam in the bouncy seat.  For comparison, there’s a picture of Jessie in the same seat about a week after [...]

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Happy Valentine’s Day

May you all get your full share of sugar candy hearts and chocolate.
Matt got me a box of Fabiano’s chocolate. Mmmmmmmm.  He knows me pretty well.
Sam got up around 3 this morning.  For some reason, it just seemed harder to get up with her, knowing that she is capable of sleeping through the night.  It’s [...]

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That was too good to last.

Both kids were up at 1:45am, requesting a bottle.  Both parents were up at that time, administering bottles.  The cats were perched on the bed thinking “Too bad for all of you, we get to sleep all day tomorrow.”
It was pretty hard to get up this morning. We got about 3 inches of snow Tuesday [...]

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Two Days in a Row!!!

Our little Sam has slept all night two nights in a row.  We may be on to something here (I hope I didn’t just jinx it).
Although, she woke up at 3:30 and Matt got up to put a pacifier in her and she went back to sleep but Matt couldn’t. Poor guy looked miserable this [...]

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Brrrrrrr.

Dang, it’s cold out there.  It’s currently 9 degrees Fahrenheit. It was much colder than that this morning when we took the kids to daycare in the dark.  And windy!  Wind chill temp right now is 1 degree.  Again, Brrrrrrr.  Matt & I were commenting before he dropped me off this morning that we miss [...]

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Friday Update

It’s insane how much of my time is spent thinking about sleep, or the lack thereof.  Everyone keeps saying it’ll get better, and I’m sure at some point Sam will sleep through the night more often.  But for how, I’m fairly sure she’s trying to kill us.  And this was even a fairly good week.  [...]

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An Ugly Ending to a Very Good Weekend

In general, this weekend went pretty well. We got out of the house several times. Considering that each outing can become a major logistical challenge, this was quite an accomplishment.    We haven’t taken the kids out to a restaurant in a while because they have a tendency to want to scream at inopportune times, but [...]

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The Kids Are 5 Months Old Today

That’s hard to believe. 
On the one hand, I still can’t get used to the idea that I’ve got kids.  After forty-two years of being at the end of the family tree, it’s hard to get used to being someone’s “mom.” It’s even harder some days to wrap my mind around the fact that there are two of [...]

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