100 things you never knew you wanted to know about me

i’ve finally reached 100 posts…not without a few bumps along the way. so, in honour of this important milestone, here is a list of 100 useless facts about me…i’m sure you will be riveted! note: i’ve sprinkled the more interesting tid bits throughout…so you have to read them all to get to the good stuff! [...]

a bloody lesson

well folks…he did it again. the monkey called Logan went against my wishes (what a shocker…) and got up on the couch again and took yet another one of my beverages off that damn table…again. before we could stop him, he had fallen backwards onto the couch again…this time the glass hit him [...]

the good, the bad and the ugly

ever since i saw Sara’s post at Suburban Oblivion, i’ve wanted to do something similar…well, this afternoon the perfect fodder made itself available to me….
the good: Logan finally picked up a cup and tried to drink out of it all by himself…and almost succeeded!
the bad: it was my glass of coke that he [...]

i’m not a bad mother…really i’m not

i’m not liking myself very much right now.
i yelled at Logan in a way i didn’t like…in a voice i didn’t like. and it scared him.
you have to understand, Logan is…well…he’s an asshole. now, before anyone jumps down my throat, i would like to defend myself. you see, Logan suffers from what i like [...]

Haiku Friday: an ode to my monkey boys

i have written two
poems for Haiku Friday
there’s one for each boy
ode to Logan

note: this might make more sense if you read my post from yesterday…
Logan, sweet Logan
you are my big baby boy
just fifteen months old
at times you can cause
pain in my posterior
you monkey boy you
and now i know why
you’ve been a bigger asshole
than per usual
when [...]

they see progress

we went to the Children’s Hospital to meet with Zander’s Occupational Therapist and Psychologist…and it went pretty well.
we brought both boys, since we couldn’t get anyone to watch Logan. we were told to bring their lunches, so that Zander could be observed eating. we made sure to bring his new favourite veggie, corn, to see [...]

the joy of corn

it was a busy day, so we ended up throwing together something quick for dinner…breaded fish sticks, baked beans, kernel corn and a fresh-baked whole wheat baguette (okay…before you get the idea that i’m some kinda martha stewart nut, it was one of those frozen baguettes that you throw in the oven for 15 minutes…who [...]

haiku friday: chunky monkey – humpty dumpty revised

the monkey called Logan, whose nickname is chunky monkey, got himself a big booboo on his forehead…he actually has lines from plastic train track that he fell on! here is the story….the first part in a revised “humpty dumpty” style…the second in haiku, of course….
chunky monkey sat on a wall
chunky monkey had a big [...]

ea’ peet-za!

since we wanted a quick dinner tonight…a dinner that Zander might actually eat some of (since he has to fast for his upper GI in the morning…dinner is his last meal until lunch tomorrow), we decided to pile the monkeys into the car and go get pizza.
to give you a peek into the World of [...]

6 and 5 years

6 years ago the world was changed forever. 6 and 5 years ago my family was changed forever.
6 years ago, on August 30th, 2001, my uncle Jens, my mom’s brother, succumbed to Cancer. he was diagnosed in the Spring, and by the end of August he was gone.
some of my fondest memories of [...]