Actual conversation with Ginger this morning, shortly after I got her up and she saw a package of diapers sitting outside Fred’s room, waiting to be stashed:
Ginger: Mommy, what’s that?
GrumpyMommma: Those are diapers for Fred.
Ginger: I wear those?
GM: No, sweetie, you are potty-trained.
Ginger: Oh. When I get older, I wear diapers again.
GM {long pause}: [...]
Archive for April, 2009
30 Apr
A Toddler Drops Knowledge
28 Apr
When A Neighbor Visits
Yesterday, for the first time ever, I was in charge of watching someone else’s child for an extended period of time. It was our neighbor’s child, whom I’m going to call Red (no nasty comments, please, I have some natural red in my hair as well!) who is one year older than Ginger, and [...]
28 Apr
Diet Dr. Pepper Strikes Again
I hate fast food. Don’t get me wrong – I think it tastes fabulous. However, the older I get and the more educated I get about what goes into such stuff (read Fast Food Nation if you want to have the pants scared off of you), the less inclined I am to actually [...]
23 Apr
For Sale: Two Whiny Toddlers
I realize that I like to be silly in this blog, but as long as I’m playing online, I thought I’d mosey on over here to complain that today was a genuinely bad day.
Fred has an ear infection, stomach virus, diarrhea, and a raging diaper rash, so I will forgive him his incessant [...]
23 Apr
Taking Drugs To Deal With The Kids
Allergy season is in high gear and from what I understand, it’s pretty bad this year. I’m fairly certain I’m suffering but given that I’m doped up on my allergy drug of choice all the time now, I’m not really on intimate terms with reality at the moment.
I’ve had terrible allergies my entire life, [...]
17 Apr
When A Vacation Isn’t
The next time someone tells you they are taking a vacation with their kids, look them in the eyes and laugh.
Because they aren’t really taking a vacation so much as transplanting the physically exhausting task of caring for children from a familiar environment to an unfamiliar environment. In the process, they are [...]
7 Apr
Pray For Us
We are taking a very long car trip tomorrow to visit family many states away. The trip would be 8 hours with no stops and with no traffic through the D.C. area, so I expect we’ll still be driving on Friday and will need to immediately turn around and come home as soon as [...]
4 Apr
No More Nudity
We live in a development where the houses are fairly close together. On the second floor, you can open the window blinds on both ends of the house and see straight through from one end of the house to the other.
On one side of us, our window does not line up with the neighbor’s, [...]
