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Staples

 

1. Of all the hundreds of sizes and shapes bread seems to come in, what is your favorite?

–I love multigrain breads that have nuts in them.   I don’t like paying $5 a loaf though, so I’m hoping to get good at making my own!

 

2. What’s your favorite thing to eat with rice?

–pudding? LOL  Ok, other than pudding, I’d say when I make spanish rice & chicken casserole.

3. What are your feelings about milk?

–I LOVE milk, or at least I used to.  I miss it daily!

4. What was wrapped in the tortilla you most recently ate?

 

Hmmm – probably that spanish rice & chicken casserole!

   5. How many staplers are there in your house and where are they?

 

staplers?  2 – both of them in my desk drawer type thing.

You can do your own Friday 5 here.

1. Why are you making ____ more bread when they never finish it?  Ugh! The birds love it though.

2. I want you to take ___ A BATH/SHOWER.  Why must I have to remind them? Is it just a kid thing???. 

3. __________ then it will be on my terms.

-I have no idea what to put for this one.  Suggestions?

4. Talk sh*t about my kids___ and see what happens.

 

5. I could use a _ a VACATION!

 

6. Hawaii_ and then _Fiji.

 

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to nothing much, tomorrow my plans include _  going to the Big Bucks Bingo! for the first time and Sunday, I want to ___ we’re buying our grill & deck set!

Blogging is, by nature, cyclical.  What I mean is we blog, you comment, we blog some more.  The problem with that is, if you stop commenting, we stop blogging. Blog dies. Blogger folds up like an accordion and a little piece of them dies.

Dramatic huh?

Ok, so it’s not all the COMMENTERS fault.  If we, the blogger(s) stop blogging, then of course, we’re not providing anything for you to comment ON, and the cycle comes to a screeching halt as well.

So I’ve been trying hard to blog more often, not be so whiny (ha!) but still remain true to why I started blogging in the first place.  I needed a place to VENT. 

I vent, I bitch & moan, I complain and sometimes, I even cheer and smile and laugh.  But I *do* try.

By blogging, I’m putting my life out there, yes.  By blogging, though, I’m giving myself the gift of expressing those things that, quite often, keep me up at night and cause problems in my life and psyche.  I go through spurts where I don’t blog, but typically that’s because I don’t want what’s going on in my life at that particular moment, to affect those of my family that do *not* need to know those things.  Sometimes, I’ll blog about those things on other blogs I may or may not have, other times, I’ll just keep it to myself.  Not the optimal way of dealing with it, but sometime’s it’s necessary.

I know that my blogging slacked off quite a bit when I was seeing my therapist in New Hampshire.  Probably because I was telling her all the things that I was experiencing or thinking about, I didn’t need to also put it Here – but seeing as now I have no therapist, I have no outlet again.  So here I am, just a blogger, asking you, just a commenter, to give me a second chance.  I know you’re visiting, I see it in my stats. So just say hi while you’re at it.  It’ll make me feel better, knowing that I am NOT just doing this for the crickets.

my readers.  Those that have come and those that have gone over the last 3+ years – those that have left comments and those that haven’t – those that have emailed me and those that haven’t. 

I wrote a blog post on BlogHer.com asking for opinions on changing my blog name – because Coming to a Nursery Near You just doesn’t seem to make sense here anymore.  That baby came, and although never physcially had a nursery, certainly doesn’t have one anymore.  He’s going to be THREE next month! 

My blog has evolved from being a pregnancy blog to a new mom blog, talking about gestational diabetes and night sweats to breastfeeding, co-sleeping and fifty million diaper changes.  From there, we went to the depression. Oh the depression.  The depression that’s followed me to this day – and has certainly formed it’s own identity on this blog – has taken hold of me and my writing.  Perhaps it’s the depression and the depressive writing that’s driven off all but a very very few commenters, I don’t know.

I do know that the focus of my blog has changed, and I’ve pretty much decided to change the name of my blog.

So I come to you, those quiet, stealthy readers, to ask your thoughts on a new blog name.

This will require you to hit that little button that says “comment”

 

Please? 

PRETTY PLEASE? 

Dayum.  I totally missed my 3rd blogoversary! 

3 years + 1 month ago, I began this blog upon receiving the news that I was pregnant with my 3rd baby!  Now here we are, 3 URLS, more than 50,000 visitors, countless templates and version changes, 3 years and 40,000 diapers later!  My thanks to those of you who have stuck around, despite the blogging outages and general malaise that my life’s become.  I apologize for not keeping up with things better, but hey – I do the best I can. 

In these last 3 years, my baby boy has grown from the sesame seed that he was into a full-blown toddler, complete with daily tantrums, strange attachments to Curious Buddies videos and of course, he is my beautiful beautiful boy.

Along the journey, though, is his big brother, Anthony.  Anthony was rather disturbed to learn he was going to be a big brother again, but he quickly grew into it, and as it turns out, is an even more awesome big brother to 2, as he was to 1.  He’s transitioning into the next phase of his life  -the phase that goes from calling me mommy to ma.  The phase that brings physical & emotional changes that neither of us will know how to handle at first.  My 1st is growing up too fast for me! 

He’s so protective and nurturing.  He loves to teach and explain and just loves the role of big brother.

And of course, Big SISTER Libby – she’s grown from a toddler herself into a 6 yr old who is on the cusp of greatness.  She’s always thirsting for knowledge and loves to draw.    She, with her wild & crazy hair and adventurous spirit – she of the insane tantrums (STILL) and high pitched squeak voice – light of my life!

This blog has brought so much comfort to me in the last 3 years, and I simply DO NOT KNOW what I’d have done without this outlet to keep my thoughts straight – or at least mostly straight.  Thank you all for visiting, and hopefully, I’ll be here for my 4th blogoversary too!

Btw – this is my 800th post! The #1 search term for my blog, of all time, is “Ouch” – in response to my post for Parent Bloggers Network’s ridiculous labels blogging contest. LOL