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All Shook Up/Today I learned…

...today I learned that when I think my greatest afternoon angst will come from deciding between a Fig Newton or an Oreo for lunch dessert, that I may, soon, be sorely mistaken. I learned that earthquakes are scary. Really freakin' scary. I learned that when I'm really freakin' scared, I still need my mom. I learned that an afternoon ...

Before I had a kid,

I was the neatest mom ever. I always had time to straighten my hair and my car was clean and crumb free. Last night, as I loaded my little girl into her carseat, I noticed that my backseat is now overflowing with books and toys, laced with cheerio crumbs and decapitated goldfish remnants, and filled with things like stray ...

I overheard my grandparents/A Haiku

They grabbed hands, saying, "This is so worth living for." Then I lost my breath.

An Impossible-to-believe-“Dirty Dancing”-Moment, THE SEQUEL!!!

You see, tonight, as I was cleaning up dinner and picking up after the hurricane formerly known as my daughter, I put on "Be My Baby" by the Ronnettes, so that we could slow dance together. And as I held her, swaying back and forth, she grabbed my face and kissed me, right smack on the mouth. With her ...

Now this is my kind of shopping spree…

And on a related note, thank you Bubbie.

Logic(, logically.)

Baby: More! Mommy: No. Baby: More! Mommy: No! Baby: More! More! Mommy: No. No! Baby: Moooooorrree. Mommy: Ok. One more time. Because, really, how can you argue with someone who smells like Teddy Grahams and has your face and calls you "Mommy" (especially when what she wants "more" of is just to be swung around in the air by you, as you both laugh ...

Time travel.

Just the other day, it hit me that it was exactly two years ago this week that we found out that we were expecting. It blows my mind. Two years, it has been? How the hay did that happen? I can still remember exactly how I felt; exactly what the world looked like; exactly what I was wearing, feather earrings ...

“My sweet baby…”

Tonight, as we headed up to baby's bed time, she crawled up the stairs, as I crawled, trailing one step behind her, this song came on the radio station that filled our house. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J69J18yMv-0] So yes, we were crawling, on the floor, and we were not exactlydancing, but with a face smeared with dark chocolate, my girl was certainly dirty. While it may not have ...

Home.

As I have mentioned before, this has kind of been a doozy of a summer. It has certainly had it's moments of brightness and beauty, but the scarier moments have only served to heighten my gratitude for the loved ones around me. I am so so blessed to have the family that I have been born into. I treasure ...

Of mice and men (and women and bunnies).

Remember my bunnies? Yes. Well, saving them has now become my part time job. They have made a home in our back yard, and every time I let my dogs out, I have to hold my breath until I can be sure that there are no rabbits in sight. And then there are the times that I do spot a ...