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10 things you never woulda considered before kids…
Posted on 07. Dec, 2010 by Andy Ptacek.
Please feel free to add your own…
Bringing back the fanny pack
Using baby’s butt ointment as chap stick
Dancing like a spaz to the Fresh Beat Band
Feeding a baby while peeing at the same time
Trying breast milk… and liking it!
Baby-talk on speaker phone in the store
Trying out a leash on your kid
Giving a teething kid a lollipop
Telling [...]
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I’m off the pill… run for your lives!
Posted on 23. Nov, 2010 by Andy Ptacek.
I was SO excited to get off the pill. That pesky little nuisance that I hated to remember. I thought life would be so much easier if I didn’t have to roll over at night to grab that pill and swallow it dry… it didn’t deserve water, after all.
Get the picture? Yeah, I hated that [...]
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Too tired to keep up.
Posted on 16. Nov, 2010 by Andy Ptacek.
“Oh man, can’t tomorrow be Saturday?” That was my Facebook post… on MONDAY. I feel like I’m drowning all day in lists and errands and dirt that by night, I’m just done. The thing is, the night is my time to play catch up so then the next day I’m even further under water.
I have [...]
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October, hi and bye!
Posted on 09. Nov, 2010 by Andy Ptacek.
Wow. I just logged in to finally sit down and write a post and realized we totally skipped October! I know the other ladies have tons of exciting things going on… you know, just winning medals and making more babies!!!
Meanwhile, nothing that exciting is going on over here, but I did mop tonight… woot!
(Jersey wouldn’t [...]
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“I think I’ve lost my social…”
Posted on 16. Sep, 2010 by Andy Ptacek.
This was the start of my sentence when my husband promptly finished it with, “Skills!” Wow, really? That was fast. I guess that was the truth, sort of. We were talking about how it’s so hard to have an adult conversation or catch up with friends or even say hi to everybody in a social [...]
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My two-year-old drops the F-bomb
Posted on 26. Aug, 2010 by Andy Ptacek.
Damn it. I think he gets it from his dad.
Jokes aside, we rarely curse… I can’t believe THIS is the word he decides to mimic. My husband had been telling me that Tavin, my son, was saying the F word, but I kept telling him he must be mistaken. Then I heard it for myself, [...]
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Media praises Safe Haven Law in recent abandonment
Posted on 11. Aug, 2010 by Andy Ptacek.
This is what I heard in my car this evening on a local radio talk show. The host was bashing the media, bashing the mom and bashing the law saying that we should hold our moms to a higher standard… that they needed to stick around and give medical information and see the child into [...]
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That’s the thing about unconditional love…
Posted on 06. Jul, 2010 by Andy Ptacek.
The thing is you love your baby no matter what. I know my posts have been a little dramatic and sad lately, but man, times were getting tough. Tavin was pushing all the right buttons and I felt like I was turning into a monster who didn’t know how to deal. That’s when I took a [...]
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How do other moms get ready in the morning?
Posted on 23. Jun, 2010 by Andy Ptacek.
This may just be me and my seemingly harder-than-it-should-be mentality lately, but getting ready in the morning with kiddo is like being a ringleader in the circus where I’m simultaneously waving one of those ribbon things around and taming a lion. Serioulsy… He’s fascinated by my blow dryer and the cord, like a cat is to string. He [...]
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I may as well be the baby
Posted on 17. Jun, 2010 by Andy Ptacek.
I am tired. I cry when I’m tired. I get frustrated at new obstacles. I’m sticky at some point during the day. I only want to eat cookies. All true statements and I’m sure I can come up with many more. I started thinking about this when I was really down on myself as a [...]