Life With Boys

Morgan is using sentences more and more — his favorite phrases at present include:“I did it.”“I find it.”“Where’s Tyler?”and of course“No, don’t like it.” Continue reading

It’s all about dipping. Food in not complete without some kind of dip — even if the combo is enough to make your stomach turn.One of Tyler’s most classic combos has to be tomatoes in maple syrup followed closely by grapes in spaghetti sauce.Morgan is starting to pick-up the habit now too. Yeah. Continue reading

When Morgan was given his envelope of Valentine’s at school he exclaimed, “I got mail.” (And no, we don’t have AOL) Continue reading

Daycare asked me the other day if we were going to have Morgan [intelligence] tested.When I relayed this to Matt he responded, “Why, because he destroys things on a fifth grade level? Continue reading

The first Valentine’s Day Matt and I shared was on the phone. Matt sent me the movie, Bambi and six roses he had drawn himself on Kinko’s card stock (the most our telephone maximized budget would afford — long distance was EXPENSIVE back then — now don’t I sound old.)This year Matt and the boys… Continue reading

You know it’s a bad morning when … your loving husband greets you with “Whoa, you really are tired.” Continue reading

Why can you buy a hot dot at the corner gas station at 7 a.m., but not 7 p.m.? Continue reading

Thought I would clarify a few things — Mom was visiting me in St. Louis when she passed away.Mom already had the CA-ORSA (community acquired Oxacillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus) before she went into the hospital. (Many people have asked if she “caught it” while she was at the hospital — I did too), but it… Continue reading

You would think we would have learned the first time, but no. At about 6:30 p.m. we started the conversion from crib to toddler bed. Instigated by the fact that Morgan has been pretending to be Spiderman for a few days and the crib just seemed like a hazard now. It actually took much longer… Continue reading

And they did. It appears too many people were parked along the road and the snow plows couldn’t get through (it was hardly snowing – I pretty sure some uptight person had to stop for more than 10 seconds and called it in), so all of the well-wishers were forced to move their cars into… Continue reading