-
Older Entries
- On such a winter’s day
- Off to the deep end
- That’s what kids do
- We now paws (HAAA) for dog identification
- What’s been happening around here
- Skin deep
- 3 workout DVDs that will kick your butt
- His own man
- Friendships and firepower
- Resolved
- Update on Vioguard
- Yearly recap: 2011
- Hook, line, and sinker
- Heartbeat
- Hold the figgy pudding
-
Find me elsewhere
Read my column via Facebook
Daily piffle:
Photos
Oct
14
JB is out of town for several days and while last time I cut him some slack because he was on a business trip that included the once-in-a-lifetime experience of hiking the Great Wall of China, this time he’s . . . well, he’s in Wyoming. Hunting antelope.
Can you even EAT antelope? I don’t think so. I don’t want to try, anyway, unless there’s such a thing as an antelope tiramisu.
Anyway, I’ve been dreading this little testosterone-fest because holy crap, a whole week on my own with the children. I love my boys but uhhhhh, parenting solo with a baby and toddler pretty much shits the bed. And not like a dry, easily-rolled-off-the-sheets turd, either, more like a horrific splattermess a la Trainspotting.
Well, we are making the best of it, as evidenced by recent camera contents:
Heh. I was trying to take a mirrored photo of the two of us, but Grabby McLungerton was all about that camera strap. How apropos that I was wearing my SOMETIMES I WORRY ABOUT ZOMBIES t-shirt.
Boing.
Boinga.
BOINGA.
Riley’s room is messy. I KNOW.
My god, when did he get so big?
(Tonight he told me, “I help you make cookies. That make you happy, Mommy? I like to make you happy.”)
Tell me, what have you been up to lately? Really, I want to know. I’M LONELY OVER HERE.
Comments
101 Responses to “On the range”
Leave a Reply
-
Stuff I Like:
Eureka Enviro Floor Steamer.
Why did I not buy this YEARS ago? WHY? OH MY GOD MY LIFE IS FOREVER CHANGED.
Neutrogena Healthy Skin Clear Skin Cream.
Maaaajor difference in my skin since I started using this. I alternate with Pond's so my face doesn't get too dried out.
Magic Bullet.
I use this almost every single day to make a smoothie. Really a surprisingly awesome little kitchen tool.
Neutrogena Revitalizing Lip Balm.
Amazing lip balm that gives natural color and somehow makes your lips look more full.
Voluspa Candle.
Discovered via Jennie. These candles smell wonderful (at least the Goji/Orange scent does), and I love the pretty tin.
NARS Flamenco Lipstick.
Whoorl was right, this is the perfect red lipstick.
I have been job hunting, working on hand-made Christmas gifts and playing a lot of Xbox. I love that shirt, by the way. Where can I get one? =)
How, oh how on earth do you still have perfect hair even when you’re solo parenting? My husband was in charge of the kid today while I went to my office job, and I’m sporting the same ponytail I left the house in. Which is similar to the ponytail I wore all weekend when I was in charge of the kid and only got one shower in three days. I genuinely admire your commitment to personal grooming.
What are we up to? The kid is figuring out how to pull herself up using whatever is nearby – us, her bathtub, the crib rails. I suspect the cats will be next if they stand still long enough. It’s amazing how strong her chubby little legs have gotten.
Love love love the pictures of Dylan, btw. The expression on his face is priceless.
Your hair looks awesome. Damn you for reminding me of that scene in Trainspotting – GAG!
I’m in survival mode these days – week two of Extreme Body Bootcamp…at 5:30am – and I have a 6 month old who doesn’t sleep through the night, what in the HELL was I thinking?
So it’s pretty much all I can do to get through my day of bootcamp, baby wrangling, working full time from home, and oh yeah, then there’s that husband who needs attention.
Here’s hoping your next few day don’t completely suck!
Most of my time is spent making a drawing of tangled up bridges, cooking autumn-type dishes, running, worrying about money, trying not to worry about money, and playing a lot of wordtwist on FB with my brother’s ex. Good luck on the single parenting. Isn’t it about time for your week long spa trip?
The room is NOT messy!
As for my life, I have been dealing with the attitude of a 20 month old and let me just say how very over it I am.
Good luck this week! :)
Today is my first real “day off” in nearly 3 weeks. So I have been cutting flannellette into nearly 1000 3″ triangles to make a quilt… yeah, excitement, I have it. Oh and I have been watching series one of Boston Legal
You’re looking skinny in those pics. Not that you don’t always but you motivate me to get off my ass. I accidentally blogged about wanting to get into shape earlier today and then got nominated to start an online fitness tracker support thingee. Shit. Now I have to workout or people will notice.
As usual, you have some damn cute kids.
Antilope, seriously? I didn’t even know people hunted those. Let’s see, I’ve been studying, twittering, emailing, and oh, did I mention studying?
I have a question for you though! What kind of camera do you have? I think it’s a Nikon, but can’t quite tell. I’m looking to get one, but am on the fence between Nikon and Canon. Thoughts, maybe? Thank you!
Hi Linda,
I don’t want you to be lonely. I love you. And your children are to die for. I know it’s easy for me to say from waaaay over here in Boston…
My husband and I moved into our first single-family home (we had a condo before) about 2 months ago, and I have been working for HOURS every day after work and on weekends to unpack and get the place in shape. It is finally paying off…things are looking great and I am really enjoying it.
We have 1.5 wooded, peaceful acres with lots of trees, and the weather was perfect last weekend…sunny and sixties. We worked outside the whole weekend. Looking forward to a recap of that this weekend.
The in-laws (who we both enjoy very much) are coming in this week for a visit, and we can’t wait to share the new house.
Also, we’re trying to get pregnant. Currently in the two-week-wait to see if we achieved it this month.
Good luck alone with the kids!!!
I’m dealing with a 16 month old with a never-ending cold and an attitude problem, but that is totally overshadowed by the fact that I put a profile up for ONLINE DATING. Dude. I haven’t dated in 10 years. Just logging on makes me nervous. I’m beginning to think I’ll be more comfortable as a crazy old cat lady.
I have been trying to figure out Facebook. Holy smokes it makes me feel totally out of touch and old. I am not that old.
Also just trying to keep up with the kids. I mean who knew a 3 year old and a 9 month old could get into SO MUCH TROUBLE together?!?!? Sheeesh. I mean I swear they can read each others minds. They both know exactly what the other is going to do. It’s insane.
So sorry you are running solo this week.
i’ll be wishing I had one of those slugmonkeys of my own. crap. I DO want one. new chapter,toute suite. yes, I just killed someone in france with that murderation of fracais.
MMMM Antelope! Antelope steaks with biscuits and gravy for breakfast, to die for. Course my hillbilly ass family eats anything!
You and the boys are so cute, and look like you are having a good time together, although I’m sure it seems like forever on your own.
I am doing absolutely not a damn thing. Oh, except I loaded a bunch of photos on a chip for a photo frame I bought for my mom and dad’s 55th anniversary on Saturday. Can you imagine? Just shoot me.
Riley’s room is NOT messy. Charlie’s got a wadded up pair of big boy pants in one corner, a vaporizer that is probably growing mold in another, and an entire train set in the third. The fourth corner holds his Thomas the Tank Engine bed, duh.
I showed the first pic of Dylan to my husband who, after cracking up, said, “Let’s have another!”
I took Charlie to his first day at preschool today. I got to stay with him all day so I didn’t completely break down. Talk to me next Monday, tho. Good luck with the munchkins!
gack! Wyoming!
distraction:
spent the night with the boy de jour– carving pumpkins (with obama logos!), making sweet potato fries, drinking the fanciest bottle of wine in the stash and generally being all smitten-smitten-gag-me-with-a-spoon-smitten.
the next four days are ALL WORK ALL THE TIME AYEOOGA so I suppose I should get it while I can.
good luck with the boys. oh, and the zombies, of course.
Antelope? Totally yummy. Tip: If you get some that is a bit gamey, put it in the some milk to “marinate” overnight and it totally fixes it.
I’m busy trying to get details for my house-under-construction figured out: paint, tile, carpet, cabinets, etc. Tomorrow is my day to volunteer in my son’s 1st grade class and also my hubby’s birthday. So I’ve got to get his presents together and figure out if I’m making dinner or we’re going out. Not to mention the piles of laundry that are threatening my very life and the grocery shopping that needs to be done.
Hope your week goes by quickly and you find lots to keep you busy!
I’m coping with a temp job that is tolerable and a commute that is not so much. Why didn’t anyone warn me about the frickin 405?!!?
Did I mention I just moved (less than 2 months) from central CA to WA?
I’m scouring your local weather reports trying to decide what to pack for my impending visit to your fair city. While also trying to figure out what to pack for my mom, my sister and my nephew to eat on the plane. Often times, I enjoy planning the trip more than living it. I’m working on it, though.
I don’t have much to say except DAMN Dylan looks like JB! Totally. I’m sorry you’re lonely but think of it this way – you get the bed to yourself at night and don’t have to put out. That’s how I like to think of it, anyway! My husband is going away next week for nine fucking days – to the British Virgin Islands, no less. Despite my being insanely jealous and hateful about it (his best friend is getting married there) I STILL am having happy thoughts about getting my bed all to myself for over a WEEK and not having to even consider any sort of SEX. Whee! It’s like a vacation, almost. Have fun. You look fabulous.
Tonight, I’m watching as Canada gets yet ANOTHER minority government which means that the “winning” party – of 5 major national parties – doesn’t have enough seats in the House of Commons to actually, you know, pass laws or make good on any of their vague election promises. 4th election in 6 years, and minority gov’t means we’ll likely see another one in a year or so. Blergh. Also, the province that I live in?! Has been pretty much 100% Conservative for the last 35 years or so. Still that way after tonight. /rant
Otherwise: working, gestating, mothering, wifeing (?! I think I’ve earned to right to make up words if I want to, I live with a 2.5 yold and she does it all the time!), twittering and eating too much licorice.
Today I ordered my brand new MacBook. I am a PC user and I have been waiting for the Mac release for months. I am soooo excited!!!
Good luck… mad props to full time single parents. If my husband is 3 minutes late coming home from work, well let’s just say it’s not pretty. THINK: ZOMBIES, only WORSE.
I won’t bore you with plans for this week- they are probably similar to yours b/c my boys are pretty close in age to yours (who, I’m sure you’ve heard, are adorable BTW).
I just wanted to pass on a trick I recently learned with my picky eater: he will eat ANYTHING he can stab with a toothpick- chunks of meat, veggies, fruit, cheese, seriously ANYTHING. I bought the fun ones with the colored thingy on top just to sweeten the deal. If you’re still having trouble with Riley, give it a shot. Might as well capitalize on all that male aggression. (Next up: antelopes!)
That first photo had me laughing out loud. It’s too perfect.
And me? I’m smitten with a guy I met over the interwebz, and he’s flying 2700 miles to meet me next week. Don’t tell anyone, I haven’t blogged about it yet (and as we all know, it’s not official til you blog about it).
I’m in Montana, in the snow. There is SNOW. In October. Jesus christ.
Bless your heart. Thank god other people have children because that way I don’t have to. I am massaging, being sore from boxing and yoga, contemplating how to live a life that’s basically all yoga, all the time, waiting for my sort-of manfriend to come visit me from across the country so I can get some ACK-SHONE, worrying about eating too much now that I’m off my fall cleanse, feeling cold because Tucson got cold all of a sudden, writing out detox recommendations for my friends, working on other methods of income so I can spread it out over several avenues, thinking about a trip to Europe next summer to see my best friend but not sure how I’m going to do it what with taking months off to go back east and also do some volunteering in the fall, and wondering why I feel the need to plan so far in advance knowing that I’ll be laughing by the time I’m there because it never looks like you thought it would when you get there.
dude. if that room is messy, my five year olds room is something that is going to RISE UP AND EAT US at any second.
i had a baby almost 6 weeks ago! and i purchased a very pretty top today.
I’m stuck over here cleaning out my bf’s bachelor pad while his car is in the shop and he’s using mine to commute 250 miles. OMG…SO disgusting, and the things you can learn? I’m finding unopened bills from 2002 and an alarming number of unmentionables.
In comparison, Riley’s room is a picture of cleanliness and sterility!!!
I’m just about to be in the same position as you, home with 2 boys, almost the same age as yours, while my husband returns to the US for a work thing. We just moved to AU and it will be my first time alone, so I have been trying to figure out what the hell I am going to do…….hm. Not sure. SHopping and take-out sounds good. As for what I’ve been up to, just trying to make a life here for myself, and entertain 2 boys in the meantime. Not easy! Love your hair :)
OMG I love that first picture of you guys in the mirror, at first I was laughing because it looks like he is grabbing your boob. Then I noticed his face right in front of the camera, priceless!
I haven’t been up to much. The usual, work, work, work and carting Eric around to his various activities, bowling, chorus, swimming etc.
Wednesday nights my husband and I shoot trap at the local sportsman’s club, then Saturday he is taking part in an ATV ride/benefit.
I’m home recouperating from nose/nasal/sinus surgery. I’ll spare you most of the grosser than gross details, but after the past couple of days I think I can honestly say 1) I know what it would feel like to be hit in the face with a baseball bat, and 2) after sneezing I now know what it would be like to be a crime scene cleaner. Ugh.
I’m off work for an entire week, so I’m taking the opportunity between drug-induced naps to (finally) update my journal and (finally) paint my toes.
Stayed home yesterday with both kids who, miraculously, were no longer sick once they had the day off of daycare. I’m a sucker, apparently.
Also, we had the same pooping issue with my daughter and it made me insane. Finally we let her go back to pooping in a diaper and when we took diapers away again about 6 months later, she pooped in a toilet no problem. I guess she just wasn’t ready for pooping in a toilet yet, the first time around.
I have an 18 month old son, and I’m due on NYE with a little girl.. I look forward to your blogs… because I know you can get through almost any situation with a good sense of humor. Even a laugh of despair feels sort of good… Antelope? On this continent?
I do that alone parenting a lot and it’s torture sometimes. Your kids are beautiful. Kind of miss that baby stage. Except for the middle of the night waking up business!
Oh, god, my uterus – make Dylan grow faster so that he is less baby, because right now, it’s twinging MORE BABY PLEASE RIGHT NOW OMG.
Yeah, that first picture made me laugh at 6:30 this morning – something that does NOT happen very often.
This week I’m trying to get enough rest and things done because we had company last weekend and will have more this weekend, also something that doesn’t happen very much.
Also, we’re going to a Halloween party Saturday, where I will be dressed as the Cat in the Hat. Yikes.
That first picture is priceless. I love it.
Yesterday was my one-year wedding anniversary (woot!) so I celebrated by going out for a fancy dinner with my husband and attempting to eat our year-old, freezer-flavored cake.
If I told you I was on vacation the last 5 days, that might make you depressed so forget I said that. My son started WALKING the other day and you know, it’s great and all but they become little people who open cabinets and walk away with things. So I have been chasing a 13 month old around like crazy. That’s what I have been up to…
I love the referrence to Trainspotting. And to think, I had almost forgotten about that movie…thank you.
Making lots of batches of Insanely Good Pumkin Chocolate Muffins and chocolate brownies, and eating them all. I am 8 days from my due date and DONE with being preggers. Oh, and some serious nesting. The dog is on tonight’s list of things to tackle with soap and water, along with maybe my car….
Well, let’s see. I’m getting a manicure later today, I’m getting my hair cut and color Friday, I’m reading a wonderful book, and I’m leaving Saturday for a two-week cruise. See? There is some gold in the golden years.
How nice of you to ask! I’ve been doing some work on HTML email marketing and deliverability in my office life.
In my home life, we’ve given up trying to eat out with the kids unless it’s at a fast-food place, and consoling ourselves that this is just temporary.
I’m reading two novels. Ahab’s Wife (Naslund), and The Small Rain (L’Engle).
I am never going to tell my husband about this site because I always tell him that NO wife would let their husband GO AWAY on trips and leave them alone with two kids and I want him to keep believing it. You are too kind.
I am up to the same exact stuff as usual – dropping at preschool, picking up at preschool, going to therapy, not sleeping all damned night, trying to get my daughter to take a bottle, or a cup, or a freaking champagne flute of milk so she could maybe someday leave me alone. Just the usual, glamorous life.
Busy taking care of my 6 mo old and getting ready to make the transition to being office manager at my husband’s office (he’s self employed). Excited to see a friend for lunch today, especially since I get to leave the baby with my MIL.
Oh, and just signed up for a gym membership which means I need to start working out. I have to pay for something to motivate me to work out, as I hate wasting money. But I will be holding off on working out one more night because I HAVE to watch the finale of Project Runway tonight!!
LOVE the photos!!
I have been crazy busy at work, which is pretty much seeping into every other aspect of my life. So the laundry is piling up while I collapse into an exhausted heap on my couch every night. Oh, and my 9 month old daughter has started walking and also climbing on everything so I am spending a lot of time chasing her as well.
Good luck with the boys! Riley is such a sweetie!
I bought a new camera, so I’ve been obsessively taking photos of everything in my house, just to see how the different settings work.
I want a Sometimes I worry about zombies t-shirt.
Dealing with more stress than one person should. My 4th grader has decided he no longer wants to pay attention in class, do anything he’s asked to do or pass the 4th grade. Apparently, I’m supposed to MAKE him do his work so now Hubby is giving me stress. Hubby’s workplace is now closed down for the week, just like the other plant did right before they closed for good. I made a huge mistake in a class I subbed in and now I can no longer sub at that school. JUST SHOOT ME NOW.
Moving in with my future mother-in-law in an attempt to save money while simultaneously trying to figure out how to go back to school to make a better life for my kids.
In other words…not much.
Dylan is starting to look exactly like Riley, SO cute! I love your hair also!
I have been doing the usual homeschool daily grind, shopping online for Christmas (I’m determined to be finished before Thanksgiving), getting my 9 year old ready for her first Girl Scout overnight, and planning our family vacation that is, gloriously, only 12 days away!
Well since you asked…I am dealing with a 10 month old with a double ear infection…he isn’t crabby or cranky…just very clingy…..once I do get him to bed I spend the rest of my night praying for Edward Cullen to make me a vampire…TWILIGHT…OMG I totally got sucked in…..I tried to avoid it…but I am weak!!!!!
I’m in the opposite boat as you. I’m in Baltimore on business while my wife is back home in Illinois taking care of our 3 year old daughter who knows it all and our 1 year old son who doesn’t get along with sissy much at all. Can’t blame him, I wouldn’t want to get pushed around and knocked to the ground all the time either.
The part about helping you, that’s funny. My daughter always wants to help me cook dinner, she tries to help out although it just pisses my son off more that he can’t help.
Wow – kudos to you for doing the single mom thing again. Methinks I’d be kicking hubby’s ass if he left me to go hunting right after getting back from China…
I’m at work prepping for a trial in Memphis in 3 weeks. Looking forward to ribs and music – notsomuch to being away from Nugget and Hubby. On the personal front I’m trying to figure out if I’m cut out for this blogging thing.
That first photo is simply awesome. Hee!
I’ve been painting, and painting, and PAINTING our damn weight room downstairs (on my week off, because I am insane), where apparently, tinted primer and multiple coats of paint are not ADEQUATE. Also, the cat got paint on her back paw and I only noticed eight paintprints later. GRAH.
OK, if that room is messy, I be livin’ in the slums.
Trainspotting…all I took away from that movie was FREAKY ASS BABY ON THE CEILING!!! FREAKY ASS BABY ON THE CEILING!!!
I’ve been seemingly going through the motions. Sunday foot ball, work, work, Tuesday Weight Watchers, work, work, Thursday Zumba, work work, Saturday soccer practice. Immersed in the middle of all that is playing with a baby and a toddler, the continual washing of clothes and bottles, the packing of daily lunches and what the heck am I going to throw together for dinner. And ewe, can’t remember the last time I washed the toilet so yeah, better get on that.
The leaves are peaking and in the blink of an eye Fall will be over. I think I missed it!
The other day I called my son a shoefly. He looked at me, smiled and said, well mom your a fucking fly. Then proudly walked off to tell daddy.
Great pictures! I’m with everyone else – your perfect hair makes me want to have angry words with my lank ponytail!
Antelope’s tasty. Not as good as caribou or elk, but better than some deer. And, um, I’m not sure it would make a good tiramisu, ’cause, you know, it’s meat and all… But it DOES make a kick-ass stew, honest to goodness – just use the same recipe as whatever kind of beef stew you like.
Those pictures are fabulous. And what Riley told you about the cookies? Made me melt!
I’ve been trying to avoid having a panic attack every day because of our finances, the economey, and the election. Really, that has consumed most of my time. Oh! And fighting with our insurance comapny about how much we own out-of-pocket for Theo’s birth/NICU stay. It’s a party over here!
Well, I am scared now. I have a 16 month old and am pregnant with another. Yikes. I am tryng very hard to find a nice cookie monster or bamm bamm costume. Looks like we will be heading out to the fabic store to see what my non-sewing self can throw together.
those boys! dylan kills me. i love the bouncy pics!
let’s see…i’m trying to figure out how to dress my boys for their 10 month pictures on saturday. hmmm.
Grabby McLungerton–why am I giggling so much at this?
Oh, and cuuuuuuute pictures!
Good luck with the solo parenting. As for JB, Wyoming is just lousy with antelope so he should have a good time (we drove through there last summer and several times came thisclose to hitting one with the car).
As for what I’ve been up to, very sloooowly preparing for a half-marathon (I may have to just walk 5K and call it a day) and trying to figure out exactly how much money I should stuff under our mattress.
Lucky JB! A fact – there are more antelope in Wyoming than people! I love antelope meat, really good stuff, but then I’m a hunter myself and love cooking with any wild game! My hubby, father in law, and bro in law all got buck Mule Deer this past weekend so we have tons of venison to use this winter!
Love the boing pics! He’s such a cutie. Nom nom!!!!
And if Riley’s room is messy, you should come over to our house where a 3 year old and almost 2 year old share a 10×10 bedroom! Not much room and tons of books and toys! Can’t wait until they’re older and can move to the big basement bedroom and spread out more!
I feel your pain on single parenting though. I will be doing that next month when the hubby and brother in law head to Salmon Idaho to go steelehead fishing for 3-4 days. If I survive with my sanity, I might not kill him! But I will require many many bottles of good wine and Captain Morgan Reserve to tide me over!
I have been swearing at the Red Sox and trying to figure out how much to feed my 6 month old, who is now not sleeping all night. But we have made progress in the last couple days. I am working my waste-of-time job, and the only reason it’s not a total waste of life is because it pays well, has great benefits, and will put my kids though college if I can stay here for 13 more years.
I’m taking up muay thai! It’s Thai Kickboxing. Also am signed up for their one month boot camp, am eating healthy and otherwise gearing up for my trip to Belize.
taking care of the newborn & toddler, breaking in the nanny, thinking about going back to work in a couple of weeks, contemplating what the hell I am going to wear to work w/ my post baby bod – oh the fun I am having ;)
Job hunting (don’t tell, but maybe I have something?!), started 30-Day Shred and after two days in a row at level one I can no longer sit down, walk without shuffling, or roll over in bed. Can I PLEASE take a day off? I feel Jillian will know and hurt me if I do … Otherwise, figuring out COBRA payments (oh god, MS, please take me back!), severence packages, and how soon we can afford a housecleaner again. Oh, and listening to the dog snore.
I love reading your adventures in parenting- it makes ME not feel so lonely and isolated too, mommying a 10 month old and working at home-try to manage THAT mess, along with a FT student husband!
I am starting a fire in the woodstove, trying to get motivated to sew more infant & toddler pumpkin hats, thinking about making tomato soup for lunch… going into work this afternoon. I feel guilty because I had my husband drop my toddler off at daycare this morning and haven’t managed to actually DO anything except for stuff my face with candy corn so far.
Kids look adorable as usual.
What I am I doing? Well tonight I will be coaching the local Junior High Robotics Team, thus passing off my nerd legacy to 20 unsuspecting children. (Bwahahaha)
It is fun to teach the kids about science and encourage their natural curiosity. Unfortunately educating a new generation in robotics is just moving us one step closer to the robot apocalypse.
Though I hear that the RA includes Christian Bale, so that should work out nicely (for those of us with vision). (RAWR)
Hugs from the future servant to the Robot Overlords,
q.
What I’ve been up to is wondering when JB is going to stay home with the kids for a week while you go some place fabulous.
Well, let’s see…I’m praying that the hard drive in my Mac hasn’t just bitten the big one. Also trying not to worry about money. And wondering why the ass pockets of my jeans are hovering somewhere around mid-thigh.
Love your blog! Thanks for making me laugh every day.
Ah! OMG! I live in Wyoming and my partner is going antelope hunting this weekend!
This is not a topic I expected to find posted on your site. I am thrilled, in a weird, weird way.
Yes, you can eat antelope, though it is my very least favorite of game meat. (If you talk to your hubby, a good tip for antelope hunting is not to shoot an animal that is on the run. The meat will be tough and taste like sagebrush. No, really. Ew.)
We are such a small state it is always exciting to:
- See the name Wyoming in print, anywhere
- Here it mentioned on the radio or TV; and
- see familiar landscapes in movies, on TV, etc.
E-mail me with where he is hunting – how funny (if you feel like it). I did not expect to read this topic here AT ALL.
Good luck with the kiddos. I love the photos!
Flying solo will probably suck a LOT, but you’ll rock it for sure.
My best friend is leaving for the Air Force in a few weeks, for several years, and I am entering long-term inpatient treatment for my eating disorder in two days. As a last hurrah, yesterday we spent the day together.. We took hallucinogenic mushrooms (my first time with that, and most likely my last) and went around town (with a sober friend driving of course), visiting a pet store, a toy store, a stable, a Halloween store (this last may gave been the strangest experience of my life to date). Afterward we went to the grocery store, bought blocks of ice, found a steep hill, and spent the wee hours sliding down under the full moon. It was mind-blowing.. We are both turning 21 next month, and it feels like our last chance to just be stupid kids having fun together.
I’ll say it again, that picture of you & D in the mirror is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen simply for the look of shear terror on his face juxtaposed with your pretty smile and the frantic mammary grabbing.
Dylan reminds me of Riley in those bouncy pictures! it’s the first time.
I just got my placement for student teaching and met the teacher I will be working with for my last semester of college. She is AWESOME and I am EXCITED. I also just ordered my [potential] wedding dress and am awaiting it anxiously. That’s what I’m up to!
Here is what I have been up to: Wondering when JB takes the kids and looks after them all by his lonesome for a week here or there so that you can take off and have a fun trip by yourself.
Doing my best to totally poop out the kids, put them to bed EARLY, have my best girlfriends over, eat yummy-sushi, drink WAY too much wine, and talk about anything that isnt baby-related.
Wanna join us? :)
well I just told my boss that I’m pregnant. He was surprisingly cool with it! Other than that, just trying to figure out how we’ll get the bills paid when I need to go on maternity leave.
Riley’s room is not messy.
After these two trips, I assume that JB is going to hold down the fort for a couple of days while you have a spa weekend or something? Going to BlogHer doesn’t count–that’s a work trip.
I’m back a work after a week-long trip to Fiji (currently being written up on my blog if you’ve got copious amounts of free time) and trying to remember what normal life is like. Wish I could go back to the beaches instead!
Good luck with the boys–I’m sure you’ll survive, even if you have to wash the sheets a couple times!
First, a couple of observations…
1) It is unfair that you look so good (hair perfection) while parenting solo. UNFAIR.
2) Riley is wearing a lot o stripes in that last pic.
3) Holy moly, Grabby McLungerton is catching some serious air in his Johnny Jumper.
Second, the answer to your question…
I am finding excuses not to work out (cramps), avoiding work (yeah google reader) and preparing to launch a new review blog (shining the spotlight on shtuff made in the Pacific NW).
It sure looks like you guys are having a *good* time. Love how tinyD is lunging for your boob – he is a total frat rat in training!
It is raining here for the first time in over a year so I’m curled up inside. It is still over 80 degrees, though, and I am totally ready for fall. Thus like your first commenter, I’m working on some Christmas gifts since they are all going to pretty much be home made / baked / thrifted / books-bought-used this year. It actually has me kind of fired up.
Been busy being a moody mess. That about sums it up.
Yes, you can eat Antelope – I’m thinking a curry might be nice. Um, that is SO not a messy room.
Yesterday was my first day on my own with a newborn and 3 yr old, so…..I TOTALLY feel your pain.
Antelope Tiramisu! Hee hee hee, haw haw haw!
I’ve been working…grumbling about how big my ASS seems to be getting INSTEAD OF my belly so far this pregnancy…and currently refreshing the hell out of Amalah’s page: where’sthebabywhere’sthebabywhere’sthebaby??
Dude, you call that a messy room? Hold on while I bang my head against the wall….okay. Um, lets see what have I been up to? Well as I write this my youngest is upstairs screaming “MAMIIII. MAMIIIIII” instead of snoring blissfully away. I have sent his father to deal with him. Something to do with bendaryl…..
Other than that I seemed to have contracted some sort of zobie-like virus that has made me practically into one of the walking dead. I am SICK, and am feeling more and more like a walking, talking (well GRUNTING) corpse that happens to do the laundry and wash all the dishes in the sink in between bouts of sleep and too much daytime tv. Halloween is coming and the costume place I ordered from sent the wrong costume for one of my toddlers. Still waiting for the cuddly lion costume to make an apperance. Trying to figure out what do do with the TEENAGED sized demonic clown costume they mistkenly sent. It’s giving me nightmares. O.K. are you more bored now then when you started reading this? Dude, my life is boooring. Sorry to unload on you and possible make your day even worse. :-P
Love,
Bumbling
Just a quick comment cuz I’m rushing but hmmm I think JB OWES YOU a week at a spa or maybe a yoga retreat or whatever you like.
I’m stewing and fretting over my daughter’s peanut allergy and how it seems that nothing is truly safe to eat and no place is truly safe to go. I’m practicing my deep breathing to ward of a full-fledged panic attack. The only thing scarier to me right now would be zombies wielding peanuts!
Arg.
I love the photos but it is really sad how long I had to look at the one of you and Dylan in the mirror to figure out what was going on!
Good luck flying solo – I hate it when my husband is gone. This summer he was gone for a week because he was in Orlando coaching a basketball team at U-11 Nationals. We even had reinforcements part of the week and I still really hated it that he was gone. I hope the time goes quickly for you!
Dude, I’ve been watching ridiculous amounts of Weeds, possibly one of the best shows ever made evah. Let me list the reasons that I love it. One: it is normally only on expensive ass cable channels which I don’t get cause I’m broke, but now is free thanks to the internet and it’s ethically dubious file sharing free for all. Two: it’s about weed and the cultivation and distribution thereof. Three: Nancy, the lead role, is really really hot. Like crazy hot. No kidding, best milf ever. Four: it has Kevin Nealon. Five: It’s about weed and Nancy is really hot and it’s free and has Kevin Nealon.
The bitchy, uptight, cancer lady next door who had her tits chopped off is pretty hot too. She’d be terrible to live with, but the hate sex would be incredible.
I don’t know how you do it? Though my hubby works till 8:30 every night, so I guess that’s almost the same, since my daughter’s bedtime is 8…so never mind. I get it. But I only have one girl, who is pretty easy, not two boys. I think that’s the kicker! She just went to bed and I should be working out. But I’m on here. TELL ME TO GO WORKOUT!
Holy shit, dude, nice legs. Wtf are you doing? Rubbing them down with baby oil?
OMG! that first picture made me LAUGH! LOVE IT!
Let’s see. Not sleeping much, as Gwen suddenly hates every single soothing measure we’ve been successfully employing for the past 5.5 months. Not having any sex, and really enjoying your post on same. Praying for my cousin’s one-week-old baby girl who just had surgery and has now contracted an infection (life is SO not fair sometimes). Completing a half-marathon. (Proud!) Binge eating. (Not Proud!) The usual.
Too much work too much work! Thanksgiving. Still single. Um…. trying to cut back on calories. Addicted to surfthechannel.com. :)
What is it with our children wanting us to be happy. Whenever I get mad at Jordan, he pouts and states, “but I want you to be happy mommy.” Holy talk about melting my heart.
I’ve been trying to avoid The Plague. My husband came down with some stomach thing that my son then got. My baby girl has Pink Eye and some kind of cold/snotfest/teething/boogery eye thing going on and I just want to make it to the weekend before being felled by it all.
Other than that, just hanging out.
I’m just working at my super fun job at the courthouse and suddenly feeling all the sore muscles from last night’s work out. Ow ow ow. And yet? Yay!
I’m going back to school! Which means I’m taking a chem class with a bunch of college freshman this quarter. When did they get so YOUNG? I’m sort of all, “The first time I took this class, you didn’t even know what chemistry WAS!” I feel very “Get off my lawn, you young whippersnappers” about it. When did college freshman get so YOUNG?
Just think about what i went through when you have your occassional weeks alone… my husband and I split when my three 3 boys were ages 1,3 and 5 – now that was tough! Especially when you consider that I had them on avg about 80% of the time.
Hang in there – it gets easier!