The Natural Mommy

My head is spinning, my knees are weak, and my hands can’t stop shaking. I feel as though I just ran a mile. Or five. How many calories does one really good adrenaline burst burn anyway? Where to start… We were in Olivia’s room. Reading books. I thought I smelled smoke, but passed it off [...]

Filed under: The Funnies on March 31st, 2008 | 17 Comments »

(See also: the year in pictures.) I’m taking the easy way out. With my newer, faster Internet, I can do such fun things as upload directly to Picasa! And then embed a slide show! With over 50 pictures because I don’t want to take the time to decide the keepers and the losers! Enjoy! ————————————- [...]

Filed under: Meet-and-Greet-Mondays, The Benjamin on March 31st, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Apparently, you don’t want me to write this anymore than I. You’ve become the master of micro-naps. Currently, you are asleep in the sling. Whoop, no, awake now. And quite sweaty. But in a rosy pink, could-you-get-any-cuter type of way. You’re staring up at with with your studious blue eyes and furrowed brow. You’re gonna [...]

Filed under: The Benjamin on March 30th, 2008 | 6 Comments »

On the heels of my last post (I debated the singular form of ‘heel’, but decided ultimately that my last post had two heels, as I do), comes an article claiming natural food masks to be “useless, unproven or harmful.” Since I received some comments suggesting a couple of the “debunked” food remedies (honey, olive [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized on March 28th, 2008 | 3 Comments »

It’s my motivation during the day. Because sometimes I need some motivational music to get me off my duff and get stuff done. Pandora.com is, and I hesitate to say this, because it’s quite the understatement, an online radio, of sorts. Since 2000, it’s been hard at work on what it calls the “Music Genome [...]

Filed under: Frugal Fridays on March 28th, 2008 | 10 Comments »

Here’s a meal I’ve made… twice? Maybe three times. It’s, in my opinion, a culinary masterpiece. (It involves making your own sauce.) (Which I’m sure many of you do on a daily basis.) (So maybe this meal won’t be all Fancy-Schmancy for you.) But, due to the time involved, and the fact that everything is [...]

Filed under: Recipe Swap '08 on March 27th, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Before shopping CVS and Walgreen’s I didn’t wear much makeup. I couldn’t afford it. All the ladies in my bible study, MOPs group, church did. And they wore it well. I felt a bit like a hillbilly grade schooler transplanted into an O.C. high school. Then I started getting makeup for free. So I could [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized on March 26th, 2008 | 42 Comments »

Sometimes I feel my Meet-and-Greet Monday posts fly under the radar. Maybe no one really cares to see pictures of the most beautiful children ever. And then my brother-in-law yells at me. And I feel loved. Step Two in Dying Easter Eggs (after hard-boiling them, of course): Color liberally with crayon. (No, you didn’t skip [...]

Filed under: Meet-and-Greet-Mondays, Uncategorized on March 24th, 2008 | 5 Comments »

It caught me completely off-guard, by surpise, I did not see it coming. I just assumed my mom would come.  And she would make it a magical Easter.  Just like all those magical Easters of my youth.  Where the eggs hid themselves.  The baskets filled themselves with candy and green plastic grass.  The ham hopped [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized on March 24th, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Phil & Ted’s Sport Buggy with Double Kit Retail Value: $429.95! (I would never pay that much for a stroller.) (Which makes it SUCH A GOOD GIVEAWAY.) Here’s a snippet: The sport has a sleeker feel thanks to new tailoring and great new additions such as a ratcheting handlebar to accommodate parents of different heights, [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized on March 24th, 2008 | 2 Comments »