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Overheards: One of Us

July 7, 2011 By Victoria Leave a Comment

Scene: RE and I are sitting at the kitchen table having a chat over our breakfast. TD: Mommy, you are going to live longer than Daddy. V: I am? Why do you say that? TD: Beee-cawsz YOU are one of US! (as she looks across the room at her younger sister.) Maybe all those Newsweek, [...]

Filed Under: kids, overheards, Personal, use its my blog

Totally Untamed Tuesday

June 29, 2011 By Victoria Leave a Comment

I can be a bit of a control freak. I like things to be done certain ways and when they aren’t well, I tend to get a bit, uh, testy. You are sitting there completely shocked right now, I know. When The Comedian started eating cereal straight from the bag yesterday morning I looked at [...]

Filed Under: crazy town, kids, Personal, raising kids

Screw Dora the Explorer and Those Disney Princesses Too!

March 25, 2011 By Victoria 1 Comment

I don’t like dressing my kids in cartoon characters. It’s a real pet peeve of mine. Cars, Disney Princesses, Dora the Explorer, what have you. It looks cheap and makes your kid a walking billboard for stuff that doesn’t need any more advertisement. I mean, really, Disney. Really? They need another dime from me? Bah! [...]

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Tell Me It Is Worth It

November 22, 2010 By Victoria 3 Comments

It’s a busy here. Actually, when isn’t it busy here? I’ve got three kids under five. One of which does all of the following and more in a single day- “Mom! The Comedian has food coloring!” Yes, she did. I entered the kitchen just as she was about to squeeze out drops of yellow food [...]

Filed Under: adventures in parenting, kids, The Comedian, The Wire, toddlers

Damn Girl, That’s Like Grandma Old!

September 16, 2010 By Victoria Leave a Comment

It occurred to me the other day as I was jammin’ out to some funk music (p-funk, g-funk, disco-inspired, 80s stripped, whatever I can’t get enough) in my grocery getter that I am subjecting my kids to music that is akin to what my grandparents made me listen to as a child. Back then, in the [...]

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Kid’s Parties- Is It Just Keeping Up With the Joneses?

August 25, 2010 By Victoria Leave a Comment

Cross-posted and archived from DC Metro Moms. Original post from February 27, 2008. My daughter turned two this weekend. Yes, I know, it is hard to believe. I can barely wrap my brain around it either. However, you know what the hardest part of her turning two was for me? It was- To have a [...]

Filed Under: birthdays, DCMM, kids, Uncategorized

Saturday Afternoon Fever

July 19, 2010 By Victoria 1 Comment

Cross-posted and archived DC Metro Moms post. Original date February 17, 2008. Re-reading this makes me think, ”BLD! I want to go to there! Again!” I have a confession to make. I hate kids stuff. Go ahead and tsk tsk me if you want to, that’s fine, I’m used to it. If you admit to not [...]

Filed Under: archived dcmm, dance, dc metro moms, DCMM, disco, events, kids, TD

New Faces and Places

February 18, 2010 By Victoria Leave a Comment

Maybe we have been cooped up in the house too long because of all this winter weather. Maybe it is the seed that H repeatedly tries to plant in my head about TD branching out her set of friends. Whatever it was, we took a trip just down the road to new horizons this week. [...]

Filed Under: kids, Personal, TD, weather, winter, women

Taking a Break and Some Guilt

December 23, 2009 By Victoria Leave a Comment

After riding behind someone driving a Nissan Xterra who put their hazard lights on to drive through slush, grocery shopping through the holiday melee and putting up a good sweat at the gym I felt a bit addled yesterday. Wanting to beat someone for driving badly in slush is not on par for this time of year. My [...]

Filed Under: am not crazy, free-range parenting, kids, motherhood, the yoke of guilt

Working with Kids. The Unsolvable Equation.

July 29, 2009 By Victoria 1 Comment

I woke up late today. So much for Body Pump. I fear I will never see streamlined thighs again. I find myself running around today trying to catch falling yogurt cups before they hit the floor with a splat. Racing down the stairs with the dog who can’t keep up and ends up tumbling to [...]

Filed Under: bloggy love, kids, motherhood, Parenting, working mothers