Mama Blah Blah

Well, almost. We are all groaning our ways through the last days of school. I have two children, and they are at the same school,...

Today kicked my butt. I got nothing for ya, NaBloPoMo.   Trying to upload a video of Ceeya for your enjoyment, but technology is rathe...

Today, my beloved Ceeya turns five! Here she is, enjoying a birthday chocolate muffin before school this morning.  I can't even des...

I wish this picture were me. But it is! But it isn’t. I am not four years old and squishing in the mud at preschool, glopping clunky...

Photo:   3 pigs craft and flannel board story - Creative Commons, by Mommachels-Flickr I have only touched briefly on the school...

I am seeing a shift in my children these days, and it is this: The one who was miserably bored with school, now—with the shift to a new ...

Four years ago, this: And today, this:   My baby is four years old! What the Doc McStuffins ?? I can hardly believe it.   Be...

The other day, when I was working from home, it was a beautiful day. The weather has been a bit cool, which Viva doesn’t appreciate, because...

I won’t bore you with the details, but on Friday, September 9, the Blah Blah Family finally moved. It took weeks of preparation, as we wer...

My Viva is 8 years old. She is bigger than she has ever been, but she is still, in the scheme of things, a little girl. She often shows suc...

Me and my two lovelies. The picture feels like a hug to me.

1. Ceeya slowly expanding the repertoire of things she will eat. In the past couple of weeks she has added French bread, plain spaghetti, br...

After a week of back and forth over whether we needed a referral for Ceeya and in what format, I finally cleared it all up and dropped by th...

Happy New Year! So far, this year 2011 has been very busy. We are almost a week into it, and it doesn’t suck exactly, but I was hoping for ...

Feeling a bit grinchy today. Discovered that a package containing Christmas gifts that I ordered online was stolen from the FedEx station. D...

So the infant/toddler day care facility where Miss Ceeya frolics during the week has an age cap of roughly 2.5 to 3 years old. At that point...

Two years ago today, I was in the hospital having a wee little person removed from my uterus: And these days, the paparazzi can catch her ...

So here is the thing with Ceeya, as we call her. There are all these neat little boxes that “specialists” want to put her in. She has dyspra...

I have been doing a lot of work with Ceeya’s occupational therapist on her oral motor skills to try and find ways to help her learn to eat b...

I had a pretty good week there where I posted something every couple of days, and then: I fell off the face of the earth. Hello, and welcome...