Nerdy McNerdisons

Remember that scene from Star Wars: Episode III when Anakin Skywalker finally gives into evil? The Emperor takes a deep breath through his nostrils, as if enjoying the smell of his own...

Little Miss Evil Kenevil

As it turns out, my pretty pink princess is also pretty bad ass. Gal laughs in the face of danger....a squealing, giggling, belly of a laugh. We brought Madeline to the town fair on Friday night...

Mother's Day Recap...Late

I know Mother's Day was an entire week ago, but I have a severe case of lazy-en-gitis when it comes to blogging lately, so I'm just getting around to sharing the photos now. Cause seriously, these...

Letters to Maddie Bear May, 2013

Dear Madeline, I'm not going to lie. You've been a bit challenging lately. I've heard that three is much worse than the "terrible twos." Perhaps now you're on the downward slide to three. It seems...

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

Madeline has now been to two Red Sox games. Back in 2011, when she was little more than a loaf of bread, she sat on our laps, drank a bottle, and took a nap. This time she was able to clap and...

Passing Doors

The classrooms in Madeline's daycare are laid out in a U with a large common area in the middle. As I made my way around the hallway this afternoon, I passed by the infant room, the toddler room,...

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Today's my sweet sixteen times two, which means I'd be at least twice as awkward in braces. I'm pretty sure my bras from 1997 still fit though, so there's that. I had the idea to create a Super...

April, 2013

I totally forgot the world had moved on to May until trying to pay for my groceries the other afternoon. Credit card expired. Womp. Womp. Cue crazy lady dragging toddler by ankles in a mad dash to...

Why Eric Wins at Life

I've apparently gone on a cooking strike because my plans for dinner so far this week have amounted to, "Meh, how bout peanut butter and jelly?? Oh, we're out of bread? Well, fend for yourself...

What We've Been Up To

If the real Mother Nature accidentally fell off the roof, and I were appointed the new Mother Nature in her place, (think The Santa Claus but with less Tim Allen and more frizzy, red hair...) my...

The Many Faces of Madeline Lee

Sometimes when Madeline watches a movie, I like to watch the faces she makes. (Mummas are sometimes creepy that way.) Apparently there's a lot going on during the last five minutes of Beauty and...

Living Room Progress

Some people might refer to me as stubborn. I prefer to think of myself as determined. (Tomato, To-mah-to.) Therefore, I had a specific idea and look in mind for our living room built-ins that, for...

Spring Break

As soon as Madeline was excused from dinner tonight, she went racing to the bottom of the stairs and started crying, "I tired! I want to go upstairs and take a nap!" I couldn't have said it better...

Maddie Bear Says...

Dear Madeline: April, 2013

Dear Madeline, Being your Mumma has made me so much more sensitive to the tragedies in our world. Sometimes it feels like one big, hopeless mess. But at the same time, you are such a ball of...

Boston

Eric and I go into the city to watch the Boston Marathon every year. We brought Madeline with us for the first time today. We walked through Beacon Hill to the Common and Public Garden. There, we...

Vacation Friday

Usually on a Friday before vacation, I'm filled with the kind of bubbly, positive energy that makes people with normal jobs want to punch all teachers in the face. But this dreary, sleeting...

Playing Favorites

It takes a special kind of person to share a house with two feisty redheaded girls. Between my mood swings and Madeline's extreme toddler-ness, Eric is constantly kept on his toes. Yet, in spite of...

Goodbye, March

March was good. We kicked off the month in the snowy mountains of New Hampshire, and finished it beside the palm trees of Florida. Two vacations in one month? My life is so glamorous sometimes that...

Florida Photo Fun

We spent Easter weekend in Florida celebrating my grandmother's 85th birthday. The weather was beautiful, we saw members of the family we don't get to see very often, and we enjoyed watching the...

I Like Pleasure Spiked with Pain: It's My Aeroplane

I am scared of flying. I am also scared of asteroids, ghosts, zombies, roller coasters, most kinds of snakes, tall buildings that sway in the wind, home invasions, getting stuck in traffic on tall...

Living Room Updates

Updating our home to suit our style and taste is sometimes a frustrating experience. It's a long series of starts and stops. Paint the walls. Stop. Buy a new piece of furniture. Stop. Frame a...

Lessons in Bad Parenting: If at First You Don't Succeed...

If at first you don't succeed...you should probably just give up. Cause I did it again. I ruined my daughter's hair. After the debacle of giving Madeline her first haircut, one would think I'd have...

Snow YOLO

According to the weather gods, we may be hours away from our sixth snow day of the school year. This means we'll be making up for lost time in June when the weather is beautiful and the cherubs are...

Letters to Maddie Bear: March, 2013

Dear Madeline, I can't believe that you're half way through being a two-year-old already. It was just September. It was just last March when you were only one and still my baby. You're having a...

Pet Peeves: The Run Around

Someday, after years of unresolved feelings, Madeline will download this blog post to the digital device embedded in her arm to provide her therapist with evidence of her mother's lack of support....

Maddie Bear Says: March, 2013

Winter Family Get Away

When my family started talking about spending a weekend in the White Mountains a few months ago, we skeptically agreed upon the first weekend of March. After all, would there really still be much...

February 2013

February got off to a rough start due to a yummy stomach virus. Then, it quickly went uphill. It was a nice mix of lazy and exciting. We got snowed in, traveled to New York, gained five pounds, and...

Story Time with Maddie Bear

Madeline is apparently quite the ham....as evidenced in the video below. It's a little long, but believe it or not, I cut a lot out. She was just too cute to trim down the video anymore than I...