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Poo

I spent last weekend, through Monday, in San Francisco for a tradeshow. If just so happens my sister lives there so I got to spend some time with her as well. More on that later, though. I ended picking up a bug while I was down there and now? I feel like a steaming pile of poo. Hence the lack of blogging this week.

But, that’s not actually why this post title is poo.

Last week we started Reese on solids. Anyone that’s ever introduced a baby to solid foods knows that there’s quickly a drastic change in the #2 department.

So last night we’re all sitting at the table for dinner and Reese starts…ummm…filling her drawers. She was making hilarious faces, so I kind of giggled and said, “Looks like Reesie is filling her drawers.”

Ry, without looking at her sister, looked at me and said “how do you even know that!?”

I said, “I can tell by the faces she’s making.”

Rylee looked over at her sister who was still doing her thing, and without skipping a beat says, “whoa Reese, you look angry!

Andy & I then preceded to erupt in laughter while both girls looked at us like we were crazy.

Rereading this now, it really doesn’t seem all that funny I guess…but it was. I swear it was.

I’m officially not allowing myself to post again until I feel better, because that whole thing was just kind of a hot mess that sounded a whole lot better in my head than it does typed out. Whatever. I’m sick.

And thus concludes today’s poop post.

A little dream I keep

I have this dream I keep tucked away in my back pocket. I’ve never really told anyone about it, yet I think about it quite often.

I think it’d be a fun adventure to turn our rental house into a bed & breakfast.

I feel like there will come a time where we will no longer need to rent the house out, yet neither one of the girls will be ready to live there.

It wouldn’t take much, just some furniture, really.

With the way the house is set up, it actually lends itself to a B&B set-up quite nicely. 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms. Each room could have it’s own private sitting area. The kitchen is nice & spacious and there’s a big dining room that I can just picture a nice big country table in the middle of.

I love to cook and entertain. I could cook breakfasts with eggs, fruits & veggies harvested right from our own backyard.

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Our property is beautiful. I would love to share it with others as a peaceful weekend getaway. A little piece of country living.

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We live within mere minutes of some amazing wineries. We’re within an hour of the pacific ocean.

Guests could spend their days wine tasting or hiking or visiting the ocean and spend their evenings enjoying a beverage of their choice while relaxing and watching the sunset off the back balcony that happens to have the perfect view.

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People from across the county, who knows, maybe even from around the world, could share their stories with us. Write their names in our guest book. Leave a mark on our lives.

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But I don’t know…it’s all kind of silly. It’s just something I daydream about sometimes.

So. Resolutions.

Happy New Year!

Let me just start out by saying that this latest 4 day weekend is exactly what I needed to feel refreshed. A little bit of lazy. A little bit of fun. A little bit of productive. A perfect amount of time spent with my family. It was great.

Now, on to the resolutions.

I’ve never been one to make resolutions. I still don’t know that I’d call them “resolutions”, but whatever. I put some together for Liberating Working Moms a couple of weeks ago and it got me thinking about things other than “working mom” stuff. I guess it all ties together, really. It’s just life. There’s things I can do better. Things I WANT to do better.

So anyway, here’s some of my other “things”…

I want to floss more. Yep, it’s true. I am awful at flossing my teeth…as in, I may do it 2 or 3 times during the week before my dentist appointment. Because clearly I’m fooling them. NOT. Rylee was told at her latest cleaning that she should floss her teeth so Santa brought her some of those little animal shaped flossers in her stocking and now she is all about flossing once a day. Sometimes twice. So, if my 4 year old can do it, why can’t I!?

I need to declutter. My house just overwhelms me sometimes. I feel like we have so.much.stuff. We’ve been talking for a long time about putting up a better shelving system in our laundry room, moving the current shelving we have in there into Ry’s room and the “office” in order to help better organize those spaces. And now, it’s happening. Our house has been more overwhelming that not lately and I’m ready to tackle it.

In a step to declutter, we’re switching everything to paperless billing. Why it’s taken us this long to do so is beyond me. But basically, making this switch will clear up our filing cabinets so we can consolidate and then get rid of the giant desk in the office that we NEVER use. Unless you count stacking up paper bills that need to be filed on it. Seriously, I file our “very important things” maybe twice a year. DUMB. No reason for that.

My theme for the year is simplicity. I want stuff streamlined. I’m sick of stacks of paper all over the place. I’m sick of feeling overwhelmed to the point of just flat out not wanting to do anything. It’s time for a change. Might as well be staring along with a new year, right?

Did you make any resolutions? What are they?

Taking a Break

This morning as I was comforting a sick kiddo after  I rocked the baby back to sleep for the third time, I started thinking about blogging. Because at 4:15 in the morning, after being up who-knows-how-many times, that’s exactly what makes sense. Only not at all.

I mean…I thought of other things too…like how badly my knee ached from the giant rug burn I got from skidding across the living room floor while trying to run across the house to my crying sick kiddo after being woken out of a dead sleep. And no to mention that looming to-do list and all the things that need to be taken care of before Christmas.

I’m trying to not get overwhelmed by all the things. I’m lovin’ on my kiddos. I’m trying to soak up the family time that I know will go all too fast. Soon, my sisters will be in town and we’ll have all sorts of fun family activities to partake in…and hopefully some eggnog with a touch of Kaluah.

So, with all that in mind, and my aching knee, I’ve decided I’m going to take a little holiday break from the blog. Well, that’s what I’m saying anyway. If I find some time and feel like posting, I will…but I don’t want to feel like it’s just one.more.thing. that needs to get done.

But I can’t very well start my break with my last two posts being downers, so tomorrow, I’ll share what our holiday letter/year in review would have been if I would have got my -ish together long enough to send one out with our Christmas cards.

Crunchy like Granola

There’s a lot of moms around the interwebs that call themselves crunchy. I’ve always kind of wondered what that means.

Last night as I was breastfeeding my cloth diaper wearing baby, while wearing her in the Ergo front pack, all while making stuffed manicotti with grain fed ground beef I bought right from the farmer and home canned spaghetti sauce made with the organic veggies I grew in my garden, I started thinking about how my parenting style is different than I thought it would be or has changed over the last four years.

How I’d never imagined I’d be into cloth diapering two kids, at least part time…or how dedicated I’d be to nursing.

How four years ago, no way in hell I would have nursed in public, then just a few weeks ago found myself in a situation where I was, in fact, nursing in public.

How I always thought sharing breastmilk was the weirdest thing and never in my wildest dreams did I imagine myself giving nearly all of my frozen breastmilk to a 3 week old baby that needed it. Then, again, found myself doing just that a few days ago.

As I stood there in the kitchen, reflecting on all these things, I kind of laughed and couldn’t help but think, “when did I become so hippy? So…granola?”

Then it was like a light went off.

OOOOoooohhh…baha…I get it

Crunchy like granola.