Archive for the ‘Parenting’ Category

Just let her do it!

Posted by Candy March 8th, 2010

The thought of my daughter learning to spoon feed herself gives me small coronaries. The more I think about it, the more I get until I am in a full blown heart attack. The mess that goes along with learning to spoon feed yourself is a given and I know you know exactly what I [...]

So THIS is what being a parent is all about

Posted by Candy January 24th, 2010

It’s 3 AM. I wish I could say that I was drunk-writing a blog entry after being out on a wild night on the town or a great party but sadly, that is not the case. Oh no, I am writing this because a certain little peanut woke up crying at 2 AM. Hubby rocked [...]

The First Bloody Incident (and I don’t mean that in a British way)

Posted by Candy August 21st, 2009

Thursday I was out having lunch with a good friend when Z was acting pretty tame so I decided it would be a good time to clip her nails. She had grabbed onto my neck earlier that morning and I almost shrieked when I felt her tiny little daggers sink into my neck. I got [...]

I’m having an asthma attack while I type this but I haven’t gone to get my inhaler because I am THAT dedicated to this blog

Posted by Candy August 6th, 2009

The last couple of nights Z has been really hard to handle in the evenings. She cries, hasn’t been eating her last bottle of the evening and has been going to bed around 8 or 9 on what I think is an almost empty tummy and somehow, amazingly, sleeping through the night still. It sounds [...]

Protected: Some parenting choices ahead

Posted by Candy September 8th, 2008

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The beginning of the journey

Posted by Candy September 5th, 2008

So here is the deal, I’ve always wanted to be a mommy. Ever since who knows when. Whenever I would play “house” with other kids, I always wanted to be the mom. I think everyone perceived this as me being really bossy and maybe that is true, but I think it just shows that I [...]