May 17, 2012

She’s Crafty. Sort of.

She's Crafty. Sort of.

Actually no. Ask anyone and I will deny being crafty any time, any day of the week.  There was that brief period in the late 90s where I scrapbooked but to that all I can say is, “I got caught up in the frenzy, man!”  I am thrifty.  I like being economical, hard times or [...]

Two Turns Three

Two Turns Three

“Let’s crush her!” I heard it plain as day even though she was whispering it to her older sister.  The talking out of the side of her mouth, the sneaking and stealing of food, hiding out under furniture and popping up where you would least expect it.  That’s all Soucy.  She’s smiling one minute, charming [...]

And Then You Were One

And Then You Were One

I wish there was a pause button, a way to rewind all the magic that this first year has held for our family now that The Fifth Element has entered our world. While the year has been rough for us in some ways her arrival was the starting point for so many things. When Abey [...]

Turning 35

I’m turning the big 3-5 today. My Dad says he is officially old now that he has a kid my age. If 35 is old then what the heck is 90? I’ve been mulling over this new box that I get to check- no longer 25-34 but now 35-54. What the hell is up with [...]

Happy Birthday H!

It’s H’s birthday today. I wish there was a way to surprise him with an in-person birthday wish but that is a bit hard to do when he is in Hawaii for work. I wonder if paradise is just that when you are there without friends or family and you are in a hotel room [...]

Where’s Mummy?

The sound of a dog barking at an evil squirrel, a baby cries out and two sets of plastic dress up heels clack incessantly through the house.  These are the sounds of my life.  Tomorrow the house will be filled with fourteen girls squealing as a real live princess sings, dances and paints faces all to [...]

Five. No Jive.

Five. No Jive.

When TD was little she went nuts for the Elmo video, “Five. No Jive!”  That seems like eons ago. Today, my oldest girl, my first baby turns five.  When you were my little bean.  I’ve been going through photos this week, looking over our past few years and seeing how she has changed and yet [...]

The Comedian Turns Two

The Comedian Turns Two

The last year.  Where did it go? I try to think back and all I see is a haze of pregnancy and randomness.  Now, here we are, celebrating the fact that already The Comedian is two.  I said to H the other day, “It seems like she should be older.  Must be that second kid [...]

The BFF

The BFF

We dropped a few pennies into a well and made the wish that we would be friends forever.  We were three years old.  We were so small we took baths together, slept in the same bed, shared movie theater seats, Happy Meals and even toilet seats.  We were that inseparable.  We thought we were witches [...]

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

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 [...]