the life and times of a domestic diva extraordinaire
Posted in Ben, Life at Our House on Dec 9th, 2005
I set up the Christmas tree yesterday afternoon. Steve isn’t big on decorating for Christmas. In fact, we didn’t own a tree or even put one up until last year (meaning that the first two years were married we did not have a tree). Steve has always drug his feet and wanted to wait until […]
Posted in Ben on Nov 1st, 2005
Ben was a pumpkin for Thanksgiving. Last year I dressed him up as a bumblebee – he was the cutest thing! – but Steve has not let me forget what I did to “poor Ben.” This year, I swore I was going to make Steve pick out the costume, but I ended up finding this […]
Posted in Ben on Oct 29th, 2005
At play group Friday, Ben spent the entire hour driving a car and talking on cell phone. Please do not ask me where he got this idea. His seat is still rear facing, and I do not spend much time talking on my cell phone while I drive. I think it’s more that he really […]
Posted in Ben on Oct 22nd, 2005
I was watching some documentary on tv recently – maybe it was the show on A&E about the people who work at the mortuary. I’m not sure. The point is they were planning funerals and burying people. One of the deceased persons was of some Eastern religion – Buddhism or something like that. Sorry I […]
Posted in Ben on Aug 4th, 2005
Ben has a cell phone. Well, not really. It’s a luggage tag he holds up to his ear as though it were a cell phone and he was having a conversation with someone. It’s just a heavily laminated business card with a loop for attaching it to a suitcase. The loop, of course, is the […]
We’re transitioning to no naps with Ben. He only takes them half the time, and when he doesn’t take a nap, he goes to bed much earlier in the evening. If he goes to bed early in the evening, Steve can study and I can hold Mary Kay appointments without having to worry about getting […]