My Fridays are dotted with emails and iPhone notifications that New Girl is growing. And in doing that growing, we’re all growing closer to her arrival. Fridays are my “turn days” where I advance from one week of pregnancy to the next. Today, I’m 24 weeks pregnant. In so many ways I feel completely unprepared…
Motherhood
The Santa Situation
No, this isn’t THAT Santa situation. We’re firmly Team St. Nick over here at Casa de NSJM. But a conversation on tonight’s car ride home has proven that we (Dan and yours truly) do not see eye-to-eye on how, exactly Santa brings the presents. Here’s a recreation of our conversation: Me: “I really need to…
They’re baaaaaaaa-aaack.
So, last Friday, after a 15 hour day at work (thank you, basketball season and games that go into overtime following games that ran long), I hobbled into the house completely exhausted. I pretty much headed straight for the bathroom to brush my teeth and wash my face and all that jazz. While I was…
Pissed off or pissed on? Doesn’t matter. Both suck.
This has been a week, y’all. A long, busy, tiring week. Three nights of basketball, one night of gifted class, and one night spent frustrated because Joshua decided to “decorate” the couch cushions with an ink pen while I was making Christmas presents. Add in a healthy dose of anxiety over his picky eating and…
This is harder than I thought
It’s been my experience over the past 2.5 years that cute, non-puppy, non-cartoon character-laden, non-UGLY inexpensive boy clothes can be kind of hard to come by, so shopping’s difficult. I’ve spent hours scouring the few stores that carry semi-decent, in-my-price-range boy clothes endlessly for Joshua’s outfits (at least the non-play clothes ones). Even if that…