Daring Young Mom

12.27.05 Ringing in the New Year
12.20.05 Driving With Kids
12.13.05 Holiday Traditions
12.06.05 Christmas Gifts-For People Who Have Everything

My family has come down with the plague. It starts with body aches, primarily in the forearm region and spreading throughout the body. Next is chest congestion, complete lack of energy and strength, followed by nasal congestion and a strong desire to leave this mortal body.
My parents came down with it first, followed [...]

We go to the store almost constantly on vacation. We bring all kinds of things we will never use and forget tons of things we “need.”
Yesterday we took our daily trip to –Mart for an air mattress pump. We decided to go for the quality and get the $20 Coleman model. Yowza!
So, [...]

So, crazy as it seems, 2005’s getting its butt kicked out the door and we’re welcoming in 2006 in a few short days.
The year has just flown by. I can’t believe it. Oh - My - Word. I am in such shock. I may fall over dead from the astonishment [...]

Merry Christmas everybody!
As promised, here is the actual Christmas card photo we sent out. I hope you all are having fun hanging out with real people, people who do not live only on the internet (People who live on the internet AND in real life are acceptable for holiday fun.).
I’ll be back on the blogosphere [...]

I apologize if you live south of Seattle and we’ve passed through your town on our Christmas road-extravaganza. We’ve brought the rain with us. Seriously. It’s been pouring the whole way. Better than ice and snow, better than skating all over the freeway. Besides, we have that sweet rear window wiper now.
I’ve been using your [...]

First, I would like to say for the record that when I left Karen’s home last night we both said it was too late and we wouldn’t post until today. Of course, I couldn’t wait to post something. So I put my post up and then hopped over to The Big Trade-Off to see if [...]

The blog world and the real world can co-exist peacefully.

Karen and I had a great evening in the real world, our families meeting in person for the first time.
They were lovely, the kind of family you want to stalk after playgroup and hope they will want to be friends with you. Dinner was awesome. The [...]

The hilarity will have to wait for another time because today is Tuesday, time for Tips.
So, it’s vacation time. Ah, the joys of extensive travel with kids. The laughter, the tears, the strong and persistent Braxton Hicks contractions brought on by cramming my second-trimester-pregnant belly into the back seat of a small car, trying to [...]

Liz just asked about this comment:
Jim Turner said…
Congrats on your nomination for the BoB Awards. Good Luck!

What? Is this guy behind the times? Did he miss out on BoB-Gate 2005? Yes, he probably did miss out on BoB-Gate, the fiasco that wasn’t, but no he is not out to lunch (at least I don’t [...]