Archive for December 2007
Happy New Year!
Posted by: cate on: December 31, 2007
well, it’s 10:41pm here….i’m sitting on the couch blogging, and hubby is currently de-linting a tennis ball (Logan tends to eat lint whenever he finds it). do we know how to party, or what? since we became parents, our New Year’s Eve festivities have gotten a bit more low-key. meaning we stay at home and [...]
Haiku Friday: holiday’d out
Posted by: cate on: December 28, 2007
- In: family | Haiku Friday
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i am so tired got back into town today from my parents’ house Christmas was busy oh so much fun had by all but i am tired ate so much good food i’m sure i gained 20 pounds too good to say no saw the family so many get-togethers i’m now comatose tons and tons [...]
Haiku Friday: a Christmas blasphemy
Posted by: cate on: December 21, 2007
i’m a little sad our last Christmas in this house before the big move just us and the boys i hoped it would be special lasting memories not as i had hoped everything is going wrong so un-Christmasy! this Christmas so doesn’t feel like Christmas. especially not the last Christmas in this house! i’d hoped [...]
i’m not sticking my hand down there!
Posted by: cate on: December 20, 2007
i had a rare chance to have a nice, quiet, relaxing bath last night…well…as relaxing as it can be for a 5 foot 10 inch tall woman taking a bath in a tub built for no one taller than 5 feet. anyway, after my bath i noticed that i had a couple of toe nails [...]
create some buzz for cre8buzz!
Posted by: cate on: December 19, 2007
- In: blogging
- 3 Comments
Sara from Suburban Oblivion turned me on to Cre8buzz in the summer, and the minute i signed up, i was hooked. what a great, fun, friendly community! it’s all about getting more exposure, more readers, meeting new friends…and i’ve had so much fun there since joining. many of my readers are cre8buzz members…if you aren’t, [...]
warning – changes are afoot
Posted by: cate on: December 17, 2007
- In: blogging
- 10 Comments
this post is basically a warning. you may notice over the next few days that there are weird things going on here. basically, monkeys and marbles is probably going to be a little wonky. i’m going hosted, people. finally. but the transition may be a bit rocky because i already owned my domain, and i’m [...]
Haiku Friday: Blogger…why oh why?
Posted by: cate on: December 14, 2007
- In: blogging | funny ha ha | Haiku Friday
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we used to be friends you held my hand at the start so new to blogging then it all started losts posts, wouldn’t save my words we drifted apart then i found WordPress sad was i when i did move still friends though…right? so what now, Blogger? why hast thou forsaken me? i don’t understand [...]
you know your toddler watches too much Thomas when…
Posted by: cate on: December 13, 2007
seriously, my kids watch too much TV. way too much. i was one of those first-time moms that didn’t let their baby watch any TV. i had read the research linking ADD and ADHD to early TV watching. we got all the Baby Einstein videos as gifts, but Zander didn’t watch them. he actually didn’t [...]
missing in action
Posted by: cate on: December 11, 2007
ya…i’ve been MIA for a while now. no blog reading, no blog writing. it’s been crazy here. yet when i look back at it, it hasn’t been so crazy that i didn’t have time to read and write. i just haven’t been up to it. and i can’t quite explain that. i guess i just [...]
Zander’s Secret
Posted by: cate on: December 6, 2007
Zander recently picked up the word secret from watching an episode of Backyardigans…i think. anyway, he’s been using it as often as he can, even though he doesn’t exactly know what it means yet. which, of course, makes it that much more entertaining. the other night we were sitting at the dinner table. Zander was [...]
