new year’s resolutions
on Jan 2, 2009 in The Junk Drawer Blog regularly Potty train Finn Shower more Write letters Lose the back fat Go sledding Choose sides on the  soup MSG war - I’m leaning toward Progresso Sex up my wardrobe - that means stop wearing Nathan’s underwear Win the Publisher

Reprieve
on Dec 31, 2008 in Short and Sweet Last summer Nathan put a beautiful porch on the front of our house.  It took him slightly longer than expected to finish this particular project, and I became quite frustrated with the condition of my front yard while the construction was underway.Â...

auld lang syne
on Dec 17, 2008 in A Match Made in... Harry Potter Harry Potter series Last week Nathan and I read the last page of the last chapter of the last book in the Harry Potter series.  We’ve been reading these books together since I was pregnant with Keira more than ten years ago.  Nathan bought me that first book for.

a toll house cookie memory
on Dec 12, 2008 in Struggling but not Desperate toll house cookies We made Toll House chocolate chip cookies yesterday and it was just like the commercial. You know, the one where the twenty-two year old model mother is baking in her state-of-the-art all white kitchen with her two clean, adorably dressed little ones...

another conversation to drive me to the bottle
on Dec 11, 2008 in My Kids Say the Cutest Things Ow, Ow, Fuckity Ow ROWAN: Mommy, I told Thomas our secret. MOMMY: What’s our secret? ROWAN: That daddy has a big gun. MOMMY: WHAT? Daddy doesn’t have a gun! Why would you say that? ROWAN: But he does. The one he hunts with. MOMMY: Hunts? He&

no better way to spend three minutes and thirty-three seconds
on Dec 9, 2008 in The Junk Drawer Okay, Clayjack, I’ll see your love song and I’ll raise you this: (WARNING: not work or child friendly due to very-dark-can’t-see-nothin’ full frontal nudity.) (Hey, WRH! Are you in or out?)...

in which nutmeg handily proves she has no life
on Dec 8, 2008 in I Slay Me It's a Mom Thing... Struggling but not Desperate Handy Manny Okay, let’s put our nation’s demise aside for a moment, because I have something else on my mind.  Are Manny and Kelly an item?  I mean, he goes to that hardware store every single day and he doesn’t buy anything in bulk.