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why I need a PDA

I just finished clipping my too-long toenails on Snickerdoodle who is sitting in my sink napping and I was musing over this week. It wasn't super bad or anything, I just managed to screw up like I wrote about in another blog. I decided to hi-light the best of the worst:-so TODAY, for example. It started out good, Summit woke up around a quarter to 8 so we put him in his swing to get an extra hour … [Read more...]

The bottom 5%

Who here is optimistic? Would you say that the bottom 5% is really just um... well, you optimists can come out and tell me how to say it more positively. It's not a 50-50 deal where the glass is half full. The bottom 5% and 10% are kind of bad for whatever you are making a scale of. Right? I'm not trying to be pessimistic, just realistic. So, what I'm getting at, what all the percent statements … [Read more...]

"Pulled a Heidi"

"You pulled a Monica," Phoebe tells Monica's mom about her on Friends trying to make 'pulling a Monica' something good rather than bad.Friends is so quotable. I feel like I "Pull a Heidi" sometimes, like when I have good intentions but my lack of foresight makes everything go down the crapper. Ben really likes mixin' chicken. This consists of boiling noodles, then adding cream of chicken and a CAN … [Read more...]

being "all natural"

I've been called hippie before- not the tie-dye wearing kind- but in that I like to use natural methods when I'm sick, I wear all natural deodorant, (which... isn't quite working as well as I wanted it too...) I give Summit organic baby food when I don't make it, and (GASP!) I'm waiting to give him immunizations! -that topic is another blog in itself so I'll get to my point here. My choice of … [Read more...]