Last night I was going to detail some of the things we are doing in our new home to save energy and benefit the environment, and then I looked around and realized it was close to midnight and all the lights were on. So I turned off the lights, went to bed, and now I've forgotten how I was going to start.
So anyway I bought a few things from solutions.com last night for the house. You may have seen their pages in skymall magazine. These are a few of the things I bought - Each one of these items takes care of a pet peeve of mine.
#82938 HAND FREE PLATE (S/8) $7.99 (half open cans of coke all over the place after a party because no one knows which can belongs to who)
#81492 SOLAR BUGWACKER (S/4) $79.95 (why did God create mosquitos anyway?)
#62641 CHEMFREE BOWL CLEANER 2/$15.90 (no more blue toilet water - it looks and smells toxic)
#5202 BUHACH INSECT POWDER $12.00 (made from flowers and kills bugs. Dead. I really hate bugs. More than abandoned coke cans after a party.)
#61078 SPOT GONE $7.25 (a nontoxic stain and spot remover. We've only owned this house ONE WEEK. We've barely unpacked. The Baboo was in the new house ONE DAY. He found a crayon (I have no idea where it came from) and colored on the carpet. With a crayon.
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Why I am a Bad Person, Part 1
If I could fix just one parenting issue with a magic wand, it would be to get the Baboo to sleep through the night.
If I could fix one more parenting issue with a magic wand, it would be to get the Baboo to eat proper meals at regular intervals. I thought I had it bad, until...
Another Mom was telling me that on many days her child just wouldn't eat OR drink milk all day. I found this hard to believe, until she told me the next part: at the end of the day, she sits her child next to the stove, tells her that it's hot and that she's going to burn her unless she eats. It was clear she was doing this out of sheer desperation.
My first thought: I am SUCH a better mother than you. I would never do that to my Baboo!
And then I felt like a bad person for being so proud of feeling better than her.
My second thought: Really? Even if he hadn't had anything to eat or drink all day and he was hungry and cranky and I knew that just a bottle of milk would make him his happy self again? Would I ever do something that crazy/desperate? I hope not. But... who knows?
And then I felt like a really bad person.
If I could fix one more parenting issue with a magic wand, it would be to get the Baboo to eat proper meals at regular intervals. I thought I had it bad, until...
Another Mom was telling me that on many days her child just wouldn't eat OR drink milk all day. I found this hard to believe, until she told me the next part: at the end of the day, she sits her child next to the stove, tells her that it's hot and that she's going to burn her unless she eats. It was clear she was doing this out of sheer desperation.
My first thought: I am SUCH a better mother than you. I would never do that to my Baboo!
And then I felt like a bad person for being so proud of feeling better than her.
My second thought: Really? Even if he hadn't had anything to eat or drink all day and he was hungry and cranky and I knew that just a bottle of milk would make him his happy self again? Would I ever do something that crazy/desperate? I hope not. But... who knows?
And then I felt like a really bad person.
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Captain's log, Mother's Day Eve, 2008. He walked.
He's been taking a few steps between chairs... then he started walking to whomever he wanted to pick him up, usually breaking out into a run and falling, but today he got into this positive feedback loop of not falling, which built his confidence, which made him practice more, which made fall less, and you get the idea.
Yay! I have to go buy him some shoes now...
or maybe not. Barefooters Unite!
Yay! I have to go buy him some shoes now...
or maybe not. Barefooters Unite!
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