LYNNABEL's CalorieKing Blog
Friday, June 12th 2009
Today is a day for feeling lonely and fat and anxious.These feelings used to be much more common than they are now, which I appreciate. But that doesnt make them any easier to deal with.
I know why I feel this way. There is an event I had committed to attending tomorrow and when I looked up directions for this event, I found out that two other individuals from a troubled/anxiety-ridden time in my past will be there. While these individuals probably meant well, they hurt me badly and...
Friday, June 5th 2009
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8072739.stm'Cuz life isn't hard enough already, we have to have too-high expectations of ourselves. I suppose the high expectations themselves wouldn't be a problem without the associated guilt and self castigation. There's the rub. Ive really been thinking about how to help Ellen realize, as she grows, that she doesnt have to put the words I think in front of every sentence, or compulsively apologize. Both of which I do, and both of which affect ...
Wednesday, May 27th 2009
Ellen is 1.42 years old.She is very communicative, but not necessarily in an understandable way. Some of these are guesses on my part:
She is saying bubble. What I thought was Ernie or Barney is, I think, Le Nez from a Baby Eistein DVD. She says Mama just the way Will does which is yelling it from another floor of the house.
She signs Thank you have I mentioned that? Its very sweet.
She says, Light! with the exclamation mark, too. As i...
Monday, May 11th 2009
I'm starting a "Sucky Mother's Day" club. So far its me, Tori, and Jennie. Anyone else wanna join?
My only bright spot was a certain text message I got.
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(Feminist issues aside, this is hilarious)
WHY GOD MADE MOMS
Answers given by 2nd grade school children to the following questions:
Why did God make mothers?
1. She's the only one who knows where the scotch tape is.
2. Mostly to clean the house..
3. To help us out of there when we were get...
Tuesday, May 5th 2009
I'm here. Just crazy busy at work and home.To amend that statement Im not Callies kind of crazy-busy, just Lynns crazy-busy, which is probably what most people would consider a vacation. Im spoiled, a bit lazy, and Im going to stop trying to change what aint gonna change. (This assumes my husband, the source of most of said spoiling, decides to stay married to me. Looks good so far.)
Traveled for work last week Kansas City. I was joking with some playdate mom-friends...