Argyle & Apricots

Open Door-Slammed Shut

February 22nd was my last post. I hadn’t realized that it had been that long since I had blogged but I had good reason. Morning Sickness. For the past 6 weeks, I could not think clearly or focus on small words and even the light of the computer made me want to puke. I wasn’t walk [...]

Stuff My Mom Was Right About

and a few things she wasn’t: Right about: You can’t see the dirt if you’re not on your hands and knees. But the baseboards look fine from up here. Wrong about: Crossing my eyes did not make them stay that way.  And getting hit on the back while crossed didn’t work either. Right about: The [...]

Stuff My Mom Was Right About

and a few things she wasn’t: Right about: You can’t see the dirt if you’re not on your hands and knees. But the baseboards look fine from up here. Wrong about: Crossing my eyes did not make them stay that way.  And getting hit on the back while crossed didn’t work either. Right about: The [...]

How Old Was Princess Fiona When Her Father Put Her In The Tower?

I wrote the following post 2 years ago and did not put it up on the blog because I felt like I was a big whiney boo hoo about being a mother. I have post after post about my mothering woes. Just click on my “motherhood” or “my girls” category and  scroll down a page [...]

I Never Said I Was Mother of the Year

Tomorrow I am posting my contribution to Fresh Year, Fresh Start! on Knowing When to Say “No” – When Busy Lives are too Busy. So today I am throwing myself under the bus yet again with a re post on my struggles with my young one.  This originally was posted on May 8, 2008. Enjoy. [...]

Scrabble Gracie Style

Another re-post in honor of our Fresh Year, Fresh Start! week on parenting. This one was originally posted on May 5, 2008. Still makes me cringe when I see the picture. Do you remember the post where I weighed the effort and energy I would have to put into cleaning up a mess Gracie was [...]

Incident Averted – A Gracie Story

In honor of Week three of our Fresh Year, Fresh Start! series on parenting I thought I would re-post a few of my Motherhood stories when being a mom was really, really hard. This was originally posted in April of 2008. Be sure to head over to Run the Earth, Watch the Sky for today’s [...]