Day 211: The one where she doesn’t insist on eating books

Despite the fact that I’m an English teacher, I think most parents want to expose their kids to books.  (I wish I could say all, but being a teacher I can tell that some kids are just never read to as children, which is why I sometimes read to my students.) Of course we have [...]

Day 210: I’m Getting Crafty

When I was younger, I used to heart crafts.  I mean when given the choice as to what activities I wanted to do in summer camp, I always chose arts and crafts for the morning.  (When I got older, I chose tennis b/c of all the cute boys.)  But as I’ve grown up, I’ve forgotten [...]

Day 209: Pure Bliss

This past week has been on the hot side and when you don’t have central AC you’ve got to get creative about how to cool down.  I think Abigail was having fun with creativity.  What do you think? Post Script:  My bloggy friend, lawmomma, is raising money to help a good cause of a Momma [...]

Day 208: I Heart Most Things Retro

NOTE: This post was brought to you by using two spaces after each period. About a week and a half ago, I rushed over to Smonk You:  A Story about Being a Dad, to check out which lovely lady he had guest blogging for him.  To my delight, it was Morgan, from the818. Morgan and I [...]

Day 207: Screw You Anxiety

So over the past couple of weeks, I’ve noticed an increase in my anxiety level.  And on three of those occasions, I was on the verge of full blown anxiety attacks.  The third time this happened, I was feeling claustrophobic and needed some air.  Fortunately for me, my mom is in town so it was [...]

Day 206: I Think I’m on to Something

You know when you go on vacation and you let loose and don’t focus on trying to stay healthy?  Well for me it’s kind of the opposite.  When my family comes to visit, it’s all about the comfort foods…the familiar foods that I haven’t had in a while…Southern Fried Baked Chicken…Brisket…Corn Beef and Cabbage (yes [...]

Day 205: I’m busy.

Day 204: I’ve got a shrimp on my hands

Last Thursday was Abigail’s last day of swim lessons for the first summer session at the Y.  I think she had the most fun as she splashed me pretty much for the entire 30 minutes.  And when it was our turn to decide what type of fish the whole group should be (a silly song [...]

Day 203: It’s a Small World After All

Do any of you ever blog and wonder if one day when you are walking in the grocery store Target, someone will come up to you and say, “Oh my goodness…It’s Metta and Abigail!”  (Well of course insert your names.)  I think about this sometimes.  Not a lot, but sometimes it crosses my mind.  I [...]

Day 202: Channeling Susie Homemaker

Look at what I made! Don’t they look just scrumptious! I can’t take full credit for coming up with them.  Someone tweeted last week with a link to Bakerella and her cupcake bites, and I was determined to figure out how to make them. (Though hers in the link are purple too, I did purple [...]