• awkward,  birthday,  superhero

    The Princess and the Ant

    My belly button is swollen from ant bites. Apparently a lone ranger got lost in that sucker and bit me 5 times. Five. In my belly button. (Just a fun fact in case, you know, you were feeling like an awkward human being today or something. You aren’t.) Let me back up. On Saturday, Beckett and I went to a princess-themed birthday party for a set of twin girls. We met these friends at reading time at our local library when Beck was maybe 5 months old. (5 months old, because you’re much more active in fostering your child’s intellectual development when there’s only one of them. My second child doesn’t even know what a library is. Just…

  • running,  superhero

    Superhero 5k

    Guys. Any minute now I could have a nephew. How fun is that?! Also, I might change pediatricians because ours is very scantily clad. I have seen her bra literally every time we’ve gone. She’s a great doctor, but I don’t want my 7 year old son to get “sick” every week so he can get a view of her lady parts. I mean, really. It’s quite unprofessional. Superhero 5k I got invited (or maybe I invited myself…the details are fuzzy now) to run in a 5k in Dallas last weekend. I agreed as soon as I heard that a) the cause was for CASA, an organization that helps abused…