Welcome to my new regular session called “You Know You’re Having Fun When..”Your four month old is teething so you’re carrying him everywhere in an effort to keep him calm (but he’s crying anyway) and you’re trying to put the groceries away one handed (and you’re clumsy enough with TWO hands) and the blueberry container … Continue reading Holding Your Kids Above the Swirling Waters of Your Flaws…one minute at a time

Experiment: Make my own almond milk at home and see if it's true what I've heard, commercial almond milk has more water than almonds.Data:  It takes 40 almonds to make a half gallon of almondmilk.  (Says the HEB organics unsweetened vanilla flavor almond milk I usually buy at HEB).My almond milk recipe called for one … Continue reading Almond Milk Myth Confirmed and Other Odd Things I’m Up To

We all know how bad processed sugar is for us.  I won’t rehash it.  A mere teaspoon full can depress our immune system for up to six hours.  Not to mention the cumulative effects of weight gain and metabolic diseases like Diabetes and Heart disease.  And cancer?A new study from the University of Texas MD … Continue reading SUGAR IS TOXIC and other things we know but try to forget

Welcome to a new segment I like to call, What’s On My Radar, What’s In My Rearview:What’s In My Rearview:Sleep.Baby is three months and tricked me with some decent sleep last week.  This week has been party time at night time.  It’s all baby, all the time.  What’s On My Radar:Cocaine.  And Sugar.  While I’ve … Continue reading What’s On the Radar, What’s In My Rearview

No one could give her such soothing and sensible consolation as this little three-month-old creature when he lay at her breast and she felt the movement of his lips and the snuffling of his tiny nose. ~Leo TolstoySo I wanted to take this time to talk about…BREASTFEEDING.  To feed or not to feed.  (In public)There seems … Continue reading TOP EIGHT REASONS WHY BREASTFEEDING IS AWESOME FOR MOM

What’s life like with an almost three year old and a 10 week old?  Well I’m sleeping at night again in chunks of time so that’s good.  I’m getting chunky sleep.  I don’t feel so much pressure to try to rest while Ellie naps and so now Ben naps too, usually for at least 45 … Continue reading My 600LB Life

Here we are at the start of another weekend and I just have to say…we got a big weekend planned.  PLANNED I say and we all know what life likes to do with plans.Nonetheless we make them.  I planned on taking the kids to an Arbor Day fun day at the park in the Woodlands.  … Continue reading Best Laid Plans

Trump.  He makes me want to take a long hot shower…for my SOUL.  His speech was indicative of his mindset - dark and rife with pointless, token phrases.  It was angry and also totally empty of any real meaning.For example, he says he has a government for the people, but they’re stacked with nominee’s like … Continue reading Trump’s In, Screaming Vortexes of Germs

Recently I put together a blog for A Fine Parent magazine, who rejected it about 12 hours after I submitted it leading me to believe they probably read the title and flunked it out.  Or maybe just my name.  (Who's that?  She sucks!)There’s a lot of controversy around co-sleeping, I get it.  What I don’t get … Continue reading The Rejected Co-Sleeping Article

What I’ve learned or remembered this month:1) Babies sleep for the first month.  Then cry for the next two.2) There are people who aren’t bothered by babies crying.  I.  Am.  Not.  One.  Of.  Them.  For the first time in my life I've asked myself....do I need Valium to survive this!?3) They don’t sleep at night for the … Continue reading Six Things I’ve Learned About Babies