A day in my life…..
Lately, my days have been starting around 3 am….. As I lay in bed waiting for the inevitable cry from the nursery, I wonder to myself how have I gotten so used to getting up again in the middle of the night that I am actually waking up before the baby? I am SO supposed [...]
I think it’s time to Ferberize
So, this is a total controversial subject for a lot of parents. Do you let your kids cry it out when they are waking in the middle of the night, or do you get them to sleep by any means BUT letting them cry, even if this means sacrificing your own sleep and sanity? I [...]
Why do my children hate eating when I love it so?
Wyatt has to be on of the pickiest eaters on the planet. It is no wonder at close to 40 inches tall, he still struggles to stay around the 32 pound mark. When Wyatt first started eating “grown up foods” he would eat just about anything I would cook for dinner. Then that week ended [...]
Big Boy Pants = Success!
We are into week two of OPERATION: Intense potty training. A few months back, I wrote about my frustrations with potty training. These frustrations grew from annoyance with pee of the floor to a HUGE DISSATISFACTION WITH CHANGING TWO CHILDREN’S DIAPERS EVERY DAY. I couldn’t do it any more. He’s three and a half years [...]
Partly Cloudy with a Hint of Bravery
I don’t know what it is about western North Dakota, but we sure do get storms out here. I don’t remember the weather being quite as severe growing up on the eastern half of the state. Sure, we had storms, but out here we have house-rattling, Jurassic-Park-water-glass-quivering, lightening-blinding storms. And they all seem to happen [...]
Puppy on the Run
While I was gone last week tending to family business.… Chris was left in charge of tending to TWO CHILDREN AND TWO DOGS by himself for all of three days. I know what you are thinking. Did everyone survive??? Well, kind of. Albeit, Chris is a great daddy, but I don’t think he fully realizes [...]
Puppies Need Love Too
June 25, 2009 by Lisa Beth
Filed under Family, Featured, The Shelties
Have I mentioned that we still have two Shelties? Well, we do, the poor things have been a little looked over the past few months, what with Brooklyn staking her claim and all. Chris, of course, still dotes on them just as much as he always has. I, on the other hand, have been feeling [...]
Rock-a-Bye
Uhg. Brooklyn has started getting up in the middle of the night again. What happened to my baby who never cries and sleeps 12 hours at night? Where did she go? At least she still doesn’t cry. Plus, we had a good run. 5 weeks old until 21 weeks old she gave me my sleep [...]
A lovely day in the neighborhood
Mother nature is a cruel, heartless woman this year. Bismarck this winter was awful- more snow on record than ever in history, along with record low temperatures (can you say -42 degrees?). This spring has been cold, wet and cloudy. This weekend, a lovely June weekend, it was 36 degrees out and sleeting. Sleeting in [...]