Daring Young Mom

01.31.06 Valentine’s Day - Romantic Surprises
01.24.06 What’s For Lunch?
01.17.06 Eating out With Kids
01.10.06 To the Happy Couple
01.03.06 Name My Van - A Tip Day Contest!

Why did no one tell me this 3 years ago?
At age 4 months, Laylee suddenly quit taking a bottle. Period. End of story.
Magoo at age 3 months. Same story. In fact, I wrote about this cold-turkey experience in my second blog post.

I love nursing but it is so frustrating to [...]

Happy getting ready for Valentine’s Day! You are, aren’t you? Getting ready?
I can see all of you now, individually wrapping each of your beloved’s toothpicks and socks in heart-print paper, spraying perfume on be-jeweled handkerchiefs so he can carry your sent with him always, melting down hundreds of Dove bars to make a perfect chocolate [...]

So says Magoo.
Not in so many words.
He hinted at it by gasping and squealing loudly every time we opened the green book of joy throughout church today.
Close the book. Silence. Open the book. Shaking, flailing, laughing and gasping for breath. He then proceeded to zerb the book……repeatedly.
If the people in front of us weren’t feeling [...]

Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum.
Somehow it came up in conversation the other day that Dan can eat more Whoppers than any of his fellow GEEKS (Genius Extraordinary Engineering Kick-butt Superstars) at MegaCorp.

This became the topic of much conversation and it was decided that if he were an X-Man, that would [...]

Some girlfriends and I took our kids out to a slightly too fancy restaurant for lunch. It was a restaurant where, if you’re lucky, a large sea lion will squash your car while you eat.
Picture a classy restaurant overlooking the Puget Sound, full of business women and men and one table that had been accidentally [...]

Things I’ve Learned Today:
1. When the sun is shining in The Seattle - in winter - after it’s been raining for 30 days, you’d better run outside and enjoy it.
It ain’t gonna last.
2. I was born to achieve grocery store parking spot super-stardom.
It is my DEN-SITY.

3. I believe in euthanasia for fish…..if Karli performs it.
Karli [...]

Four jobs I’ve had:
1. Selling things made of horse-shoes…in a booth…at “the mall”
2. Piano Teacher
3. Associate Librarian over a massive media department at a public library
4. Marketing and Sales Coordinator for a digital library company
Four movies I would watch over and over (today’s choices):
1. Not One Less
2. Anne of Green Gables
3. Singin’ in the Rain
4. [...]

Literally. Today I post a poem I wrote as a sophomore in college.
I was always “one of the guys.” Periodically I got sick of “the guys” confiding in me, taking me out on non-dates when actual “girls” had ditched them. Sometimes I developed feelings for these “guys” and then I got [...]

Lunches are tricky for me.
There are a few staple breakfast foods that I feel can be recycled every day - cereal, waffles, pancakes, Raisin Bran, French toast, eggs, cereal with milk, oatmeal, cheerios, grits, shredded wheat, cereal, muffins, and oh - did I mention cereal?
Dinner is wide open, with choices ranging from family favorites to [...]