From the monthly archives:

December 2007

Monday morning potluck, New Year's Eve Edition…

December 31, 2007

In honor of 2007 slinking away into warm fuzzy nostalgia, I am providing random favorite foods for your grazing pleasure: freshly popped popcorn, peanut M&Ms, coffee with Vanilla Caramel coffee-mate, large bowls of Jelly Bellys so you don’t have to eat the gross ones, Target’s Blood Orange soda, a variety of cakes–beautiful, tasty, yummy cakes, [...]

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To sum it all up…

December 30, 2007

Blog-Stedman wrote the following for our 16th anniversary: Roses are red, The color of riches, I’ll always love you, and your thirty-two stitches. Isn’t that the sweetest? Let’s hope when the bandage comes off my head that 32 is a huge exaggeration (my guess is that it is closer to 8).

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Happily ever after: year 16…

December 29, 2007

Today is blog-Stedman and my 16th wedding anniversary. I met blog-Stedman on registration day of my sophomore year in college in the girl’s dorm lobby as I was moving into a new college. He called and left a message on my answering machine a few nights later to ask me out. Before returning his call, [...]

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Crazy-headed Holly…

December 28, 2007

Today was planned to be blissful. My mother came over and I dumped provided her with three handsome grandsons to watch. I took a shower, did my hair, put on some cute clothes including my favorite sweater (MAJOR forshadowing here) and skipped out of the house, hopped in the minivan, drove down the driveway toward [...]

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GOOD MORNING, Merry Sunshine, How did you wake so soon?

December 28, 2007

All three of my boys are early risers. This genetic material was not passed through my DNA. I am now an early riser by default, against my will, kicking and screaming, and moaning and complaining. Last night Reid fell asleep in the car at 5:30 on the way home and after attempting to wake him [...]

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My wish comes true?

December 27, 2007

Thanks Beyonka!

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These cones of silence are really megaphones…

December 27, 2007
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ConesSpheres of silence needed ASAP…

December 27, 2007

You know those hamster balls (you take the hamster out of the cage and place them in a self-contained sphere to run around your house and pee through the airholes)? I need 3–only bigger–to fit 2, 4 and 6 year old boys. Thanks.

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Energy crisis…

December 27, 2007

This my newest conspiracy theory: What if the toy manufacturers were just a cover for where the real money is made–BATTERIES? Just in case you were wondering…we have been through 4 AA batteries this morning in the new erector set with which NOTHING has been built (except various versions of metal bladed fans), but the [...]

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Sanity and the Aunt Dorothy effect, part I…

December 26, 2007

In an effort to maintain my sanity, I am going to try the “Aunt Dorothy” effect. I attribute my ability to appear relatively sane in public to a two-fold approach of yoga and blogging. My yoga teacher is out of town for another week so its up to you blog. So what about Aunt Dorothy? [...]

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Toy story…

December 26, 2007

Dear Toy Manufacturer that is a 3 letter word that starts with “C” and is not “DOG”, Reid has been your biggest fan since birth. I have been on board until this Christmas. Until recently, your toys have been relatively tough with a decent price. This year Reid spotted your remote control excavator at Target [...]

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