Kid Poops-a-Lot

*talking*
Oh. my. gosh.Becky, look at that butt. That diaper’s big. It looks like one of those diaper commercials. Who understands those commercials? They only talk to about poop because they can make a lot of money,ok? I mean that butt!It’s just [...]

Moo.

A little over a week ago, we had an activity at church for all of the kids. As it fell very close to the wildly popular (in Utah, but still observed periodically around here) Pioneer Day, all of the activities were centered around things the Mormon pioneers would do. Some of the favorite activities were [...]

Week 39–Perspectives

Awhile back, my mother commented to me about the fact that I had stopped posting regular pregnancy updates. There really has been a few reasons for this, but the main one had to do with what I had to say. You see, this being my fourth pregnancy, I don’t have the same wide-eyed wonderment that [...]

Week 34—The Weather Report

At this point, it has basically been a whole month since I have done any kind of pregnancy update. Mostly, this is because I’ve never felt like doing a picture. I actually tried to do one last week, but they all turned out awful. And you aren’t getting one today—after working in the garden in [...]

Sushi on Ice (and Other Random Bits)

This afternoon, as I was in my car driving to a Cub Scout leader training meeting (more on that later), I was listening to the local news on the radio. They were talking about the death last week of a local high-end seafood restaurant owner while he was taking pictures in Death Valley (how apropos). [...]

If Life Were a Musical, We’d Sing About Fat Fingers

Sometimes, people, the contents of my subconscious completely defy explanation.
As the sounds of children getting out of bed started to fill my house this morning, I awoke from a rather vivid dream. I was at the house of one of my IRL bloggy friends.
Her husband was explaining some of his feelings about fatherhood—in a show [...]

Self-Reflection from the Sidelines

I am a competitive person.
If I go to the gym, you can rest assured that I am looking at the settings on the treadmill/spin bike/elliptical machine next to me. As neurotic as it may sound, I don’t want to feel like I’m being “beat” by the person I’ll never see again working out on the [...]

Week 19—Knock, Knock!

Have I mentioned yet that I get pretty neurotic when I’m pregnant?
The way I see it, once a kid is out of you, it is a lot easier to tell how he is doing. Even if there is a problem, you can see it and do something about it. But when the kid is still [...]

Cookie Contemplations (Random Insight Into My Personality)

Last night, I decided to make chocolate chip cookies (the natives rejoiced). I used to bake cookies on a regular basis. Due to a combination of lack of time and acknowledgement that, as the only adult home all day, I was consuming the majority of them, I just don’t make them very often anymore. But, [...]

Shootin’ the Bull

How the heck do you follow a post about a rogue cow?
With a follow-up, of course.
Naturally, after Bessie went tromping through my yard and down the street, I couldn’t help but wonder how the situation played out.
That’s the great thing about having a mother who is one of your small town’s elected officials. Eventually, someone [...]