Archive for January 2008
Haiku Friday: packing sucks
Posted by: cate on: January 25, 2008
packing up the house an endless sea of cardboard will it ever end? been packing for weeks never be able to tell haven’t made a dent surpised at what’s found where did all this crap come from? do we need it all? less than a month now will packing be done in time? really not [...]
the wandering mind of a toddler
Posted by: cate on: January 24, 2008
as if he had hacked into my email and read the message where i told JJ that i would post this morning’s breakfast conversation of it was blog-worthy, Zander was in rare form this morning! this is the conversation i had with Zander while sitting at the dining room table eating breakfast: Zander: what dat? [...]
snotface
Posted by: cate on: January 23, 2008
both the boys have problems with stuffy noses. their noses are clogged with “boogies” all the time. thankfully, they’ve gotten used to the constant wiping, the use of the snot-sucker, and mom picking their noses all day long. Zander learned how to blow his nose at a fairly young age. by the time he was [...]
spreadin’ some love
Posted by: cate on: January 22, 2008
the absolutely wonderifically wicked-awesome JJ! from Dirty Laundry gave me some love yesterday. she said some amazing things about me that had my head inflating like a balloon me blushing for hours! so now, i will pass this one on. this is the tough part. first of all, if i could, i would give it [...]
Scrolling Saturday: and now for some comic relief
Posted by: cate on: January 19, 2008
when i was looking through my archives for something to post for Scrolling Saturday, i saw this post and new it was the one. it’s the perfect post to follow yesterday’s haiku about how serious my blog has been lately. enjoy! *** the following post was originally published on July 12th, 2007. *** After all [...]
Haiku Friday – where’d the funny go?
Posted by: cate on: January 18, 2008
been all doom and gloom my writing so serious it’s just not like me my loyal readers i’m sure you’ve been wondering where’d the funny go? this blog has been so serious….nothing but serious. all kinds of downer posts. granted, sometimes life is not so funny. especially here in the monkey house. and it is [...]
a breakfast incident
Posted by: cate on: January 17, 2008
something happened at breakfast this morning that hasn’t happened in a long time. Zander threw up. this used to be a regular occurrence. so regular, that it was daily for a while. just the hint of texture in his food would send him gagging, and he would eventually throw up his entire meal. Zander would [...]
Wordless Wednesday – it was a bit windy last week
Posted by: cate on: January 16, 2008
a milestone of the stinky kind
Posted by: cate on: January 15, 2008
last night when dinner was done, Zander told us he had to “go pee pee on da toilet!”. this has actually, to our happy surprise, become a regular occurrence over the last few days. some of you (those who followed me over from my first blog) may remember that we attempted to get Zander into [...]
Scrolling Saturday – the search for Carl
Posted by: cate on: January 12, 2008
Melissa from Such Simple Pleasures and Coleen from Manners and Moxie have started something called “Scrolling Saturday“. basically, you re-publish a post from the past. as Melissa put it, “All you do is, take an archived post, one that was shown no love…back when you were just writing for yourselves and had the random family [...]
