Daring Young Mom

Do any of your friends spontaneously plan a family fun 5K for all their girls when they’re 38 weeks pregnant? Do they print out their own number stickers for all of their friends and provide a time-keeping board, finish line tape, water, snacks and placement ribbons?
Mine do. I know. [...]

My sister Becky is about to pop. She’s at the taking-crazy-potions-to-induce-exodus point of her pregnancy and I like to do things to help keep her occupied, like play Doctor Mario online with my wii. I’m selfless like that. And also rad.
Today Laylee was watching us play and talking to Aunt Becky on [...]

At night, in the dark laundry room, I call myself Uhura as I work the controls. Because I am way not a dork who should be filed away with all the other PZ4s. At all.

While I was working out listening to New Kids on the Block (NKOTB as they’re known in the hood), [...]

You find that your purse is suddenly inexplicably filled with legos and orange crumbs.
People abruptly unveil way too personal parts of their bodies and ask you if they look red.
Your chapstick is filled with dirt.
Several times throughout the day you notice that there is ketchup on your arm again but you can never find the [...]

I’twas, i’twas. And we consumed greatly large amounts of the fats and the sugars. Because we are patriots.

The cupcakes were made from scratch and about 80% organic, which seems somewhat ironic considering that after eating them we let the children on our street light over $300 worth of toxic chemicals on fire [...]

Until recently, dinner conversation at our house frequently consisted of Dan and I trying to have adult conversation while the kids interrupted to ask if they could get down, eat ice cream or spill their milk all over the table. [read more at Parenting.com]

I worked out for the first time today since I overdid it trying to beat that hunch-backed old lady in the race and ended up flat on my back for 2 weeks from the strain. It felt great to be sweatin’ it out again, pumpin’ up the music on my MP3 player and reawakening [...]

There’s a great giveaway for people in the Portland/Seattle area over at SeattleMomBlogs.com.

Icannotstaywell! Icannotstaywell! If my body is cooperating and healing from my many seasonal plagues, I must sabotage it in some way. Today was a MODEL day. I drove Dan to work and Laylee to preschool. I watched two of my friends’ kids while baking bread and starting some seeds sprouting. [...]

We’re all green around here. At this moment, my sinuses are all over the green movement. I hate them. I want to rip them out. I want to stomp on them and run them through my Cuisinart, squeeze them dry and then light them on fire. I have great displeasure [...]