I used to blog at theweirdgirl.com. All of that writing lives here now.
Sprightly Writing
I saw this on a license plate yesterday… BE 4 U I AMYou know, it’s this kind of cutesy, flagrantly ungrammatical shit that is slowly killing my soul. (I know [...]
Pride and Green Snot
Late night last night. We put Chance down about 7:00 and he was fine, and by 9:00 he had woken up screaming with a 103.5 fever, saying his head hurt. We got [...]
Foo-foo Improv
Well, there have been some interesting lines, songs, and words contributed by you grand folks. And I admit this whole experiment has sent me back to prepubescent camp days (and [...]
Foo-foo
I know there’s this new movement to make traditional children’s songs more PC. However, I swear this is what Chance has been singing lately. (Loudly, I might add.) “Little bunny [...]
Back from the Dead…
Or bathroom solitary, whichever you’d like to call it. I felt like death warmed over a couple times this week, because can you believe that flu lasted the entire week? [...]
Feeling like the crappiest blogger ever
Every week I tell myself I'm going to blog more posts. Plus, more reading and commenting. EVERY WEEK I tell myself this. And I'm down to what? Two posts a [...]
In Which I am a Mean, Mean Mommy
So essentially, Chance is at a point where he has the potential to be completely potty-trained… but he’s not. Some of it is normal; he still gets too interested in playing [...]
Hey, let’s talk about my uterus
Because it sounds like there are more than one set of you going through the same thing here’s the scoop about me getting preggo. (If there are no objections I’ll [...]
Thank You Easter Bunny (you fuzzy bastard)
Man, I feel like crap. Earlier in the week I thought it was just a tad bit of heat stroke/holiday burnout but now I think I might actually be fighting a [...]
Ridiculous Things We Do for Our Kids
The most recent… While my son is pretending to be a cat, I play with him WITH the cat toy. (He wants me to!) Then do the same while he [...]
Because I’m so much older than three… Barbie, Feminism, and why it’s good to be a kid (still)
As I was staring at a whole aisle of Barbie products, shopping for an upcoming birthday party, I realized that, whereas I know the whole princess phase starts kicking in [...]
Life is Weird
So check it out... now that I'm in the middle of scheduling all sorts of appointments, and classes, and assessments for both me and the kiddo, and just as I [...]