Pennies from heaven

Momisodes — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:33:55 +0000

Another shift is happening.

Drops of water sit firmly, hanging onto the windshield. Little beads squeezed from the clouds, each barely missing the chance to remain a snowflake due to the 35F degree temperatures outside.

A gentle right turn sends them swaying to one side.

Despite their wobbling, they remain standing, tiny prisms refracting my life.

But they rarely last. Just as the soft tapping of the raindrops lulls me into a heavy-eyed trance, I reach a Stop sign. My foot hits the brakes and everything lurches forward. In one fell swoop, a crashing wave from the roof washes every last bead of water away.

Lately, by 5pm, I always stumble upon a Stop sign. Every fiber of my body responsible for keeping me vertical collapses, and I fall into a pile of goo.

Apparently lugging around an extra two dozen pounds all day while chasing a 4-year old, running errands, and climbing the house stairs, is finally taking it’s toll.

I have been mentally writing this post since Sunday, but not until today have I been able to muster the energy to string two sentences together.

So in these final weeks, while I struggle to stay awake, please know that I am still here, only slower, more cautious.

I’m just carrying a heavy load.

(35 weeks)

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C is for Cookie…or Crap

Momisodes — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:21:47 +0000

A little person in our household is starting to show the early signs of reading. At first I found it odd, but a nice surprise, since my husband and I are in no way force-feeding literature, letters and/or phonics onto the plate of our three year old. And we know that her preschool had not begun covering words just yet.

In recent weeks, I’ve mentioned the pitfalls of allowing my daughter to watch children’s TV programming, and how she immediately fell prey to the flashy, sugar induced marketing ploys of children’s products. Anyhow, since then, we’ve cut down TV time, and instead replaced it with more non-commercial, children’s DVD’s.

Her most recently viewed programs are from Leap Frog (this is not a paid post, but if they’d like to to do so, I’m ). Her aunt sent her their Letter and a Word Factory DVD’s last year, but Babisodes was terrified of the Leap Frog characters (something about the frog’s eyes being huge and not blinking). But now, she loves them. In fact, if she had her way, she would have them in constant rotation on our DVD player until I eventually threw something at the screen to make it stop, but we’re limiting her viewing time.

The DVD’s explain the sounds each letter in the alphabet makes, and then goes on to sounding out the letters to form words. All of it is done with clever songs, characters and a storyline. And surprisingly enough, she loves it. She sings the songs, remembers dialog from between characters. Even while riding in the car I’ll hear her sounding out letters on department store signs.

Mmmuh……Aaaaahh……Lllllll

Muh…Ah…Lllllll

Muh-Ah-Ll

MALL!

Look mommy, it says “mall”!

Me: Good job honey! That’s right. That is the mall.

Sssss….Tuh….Oooooah….Puh

Sss…Tuh…Oooah…Puh

Sss-Tuh-Oah-Puh

S_T_O_P!!!!!!

*Screeeeeeeeeach!*

Babisodes: Look mommy. We just passed a “Stop” sign!

*Damn*

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Looky what Holly the Anglophile Football Fanatic had Ashlie from MommyCosm send me!!! Holly has been so kind to let me borrow some of her literary crack. I’ve been forewarned from Ashlie that the contents may be addictive. I can hardly wait. Thank you ladies!