Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Nov 4, 2009, 11:15 pm
I will readily admit to you that, while I did make this Super Hero Costume myself, I had a little help. I didn't make the entire thing from scratch, I went easy on myself and bought this compressi...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Nov 3, 2009, 10:30 pm
We literally had to hang Baby Dude by the rafters to get a shot of his new tooth poking through. (Alright, we don't have any rafters, but still...) Operation Dangle Baby Dude had to be done, he wo...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Nov 2, 2009, 11:00 pm
If this is your first time reading and you're wondering what To-Do Tuesday is all about, click to check out the first post to find out more. It's on like Donkey Kong, now. I'm in full-fle...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Nov 1, 2009, 10:15 pm
After a beautiful Sunday drive amidst sunny mid-70's weather, we ventured away from the Bermuda Triangle of Suck™ to Lake Charles. We happily cheered as we pulled into the Target parking lot, an...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Oct 31, 2009, 10:15 pm
As promised, my costumed family for Halloween. I will share the tutorials in separate upcoming posts, as promised. (Homemade costumes make good Christmas presents for the dress up trunk, yes?) {grin} ...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Oct 30, 2009, 10:30 pm
I know, I'm stalling. I promised you all pictures of my children's finished costumes (and yes, tutorials), but I haven't gotten them all photographed together yet, mainly because there wer...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Oct 29, 2009, 11:30 pm
This message brought to you today by the letters "V" and "M" with an "ALIU" in the middle. Mommy's gonna need a lot of these if he keeps this up. Oy! More on mom's insanity - sewing and costu...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Oct 28, 2009, 11:30 pm
Oldest daughter: Can we have apple cider for New Years Eve? Me: Sure, honey. All children collectively: YES! Oldest son: Can we stay up to watch the ball drop, too? Me: Sure.. if you think you can...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Oct 27, 2009, 11:15 pm
Yup, that's what I'm doing. The machine is out (and probably out for the season, too, because Christmas is coming). The fabric has been purchased. The costume has been planned, it's just p...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Oct 26, 2009, 10:15 pm
If this is your first time reading and you're wondering what To-Do Tuesday is all about, click to check out the first post to find out more. I have been working hard to maintain my clean house, b...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Oct 26, 2009, 12:00 am
This is the scene around our house now-a-days. Baby Dude letting go and taking a couple steps here, couple steps there. He's not 100% on his feet, yet. His strength only takes him so far. He gets ...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Oct 25, 2009, 12:00 am
We attended a "Fall Fest" at the elementary school, chock-filled with inappropriate candy, spazzy kids, and Halloween decor. We purchased tickets to play the "games" and we took pictures a-plenty. And...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Oct 24, 2009, 12:00 am
This picture accurately describes how I felt when I first arrived at the event. Cold. Dark. Wobbly. Surrounded. Glow sticks and orange balloons with plastic, pumpkin buckets brimming with spaz-induci...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Oct 22, 2009, 10:00 pm
Dearest Baby Dude, We know we're tasty, and filled with nutritional awesomeness, but we're not a teething toy, nor are we something to poke at, twist, nibble or scratch. We are there for sust...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Oct 21, 2009, 9:30 pm
We've come a long way since part one, baby sister. You can stop growing up so fast, now. Mm kay? Left picture: one year old Right picture: almost 3 years old Time is not my friend :( Never mi...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Oct 21, 2009, 12:00 am
A funny thing happened the other day... The hooziewhatzit hose mysteriously came off the back of the dryer, and it was fuzz confetti, my friends. Woo! Gotta love the house being heated to eleventy-bi...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Oct 20, 2009, 10:00 am
If this is your first time reading and you're wondering what To-Do Tuesday is all about, click to check out the first post to find out more. Sorry this is late, everyone. I fell asleep early last...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Oct 19, 2009, 12:00 am
As I sit here, huddled over my laptop in pain, heating pad attempting to alleviate my stomach ache, I sip a cup of tea and bury my tired head in my hand. Between the baby being sick, the sickeningly j...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Oct 18, 2009, 12:00 am
After a few days of a clingy baby trying to fight to feel better, I needed space. I needed my arms and body back, to own myself and breathe fresh air and see the light of day. To escape the snot a whi...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Oct 17, 2009, 12:45 am
This was me, Friday night. Well, this was him Friday night. First it was the croup, which led me to the doctor's appointment he had yesterday. Double-ear infection she said. Surprise! Home with f...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Oct 16, 2009, 12:00 am
It's time for the Halloween Trading Post again. What is the Halloween Trading post, you ask? You see, our children go out trick-or-treating, collecting various chemically-burdened, artificially-co...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Oct 15, 2009, 12:00 am
(Perhaps I should call this the smacking head edition? You'll see why in a minute.) ------------------------------------------------------ Playing Rummy with my oldest son, I remind him of the ru...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Oct 14, 2009, 12:00 am
If you're a friend of mine on Facebook, you may have read about my "accidental dinner experiment" the other night. You see, we meant to make two traditional Chicken Pot Pies for dinner (yes, we ma...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Oct 13, 2009, 12:00 am
If this is your first time reading and you're wondering what To-Do Tuesday is all about, click to check out the first post to find out more. I forewarned promised you last week we'd be talkin...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Oct 12, 2009, 11:15 am
Ever have one of those "information" moments? Those "D'oh!" moments you wish you could take back with the knowledge you now possess? Yeah, happens to us all the time. Our most recent involves groc...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Oct 11, 2009, 11:30 pm
One of these years, I'm going to fully learn the ins and outs of my camera. In the meantime, it's fun to pour over my pictures and look back and see the cute faces, blurred edges, experiments,...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Oct 9, 2009, 11:00 pm
You ever feel like this year is going to be your year? I'm not saying I mean is this year your year, mind you, I'm saying, have you somewhere down the line realized, at one time, that you'...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Oct 9, 2009, 9:00 am
While I took pictures at soccer tonight (again), I turned to my sidekick alongside me and snapped away at his sweet baby face. The second I saw this picture, though, I giggled (snorted, even). I knew ...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Oct 8, 2009, 12:00 am
Some days, before the crust is out of the corner of your eyes, or the coffee pot is even turned on, your children will tug at your pants as you wobble from room-to-room trying to make sense of the day...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Oct 6, 2009, 10:30 pm
"2 to 1. Them," I was told by a familiar face as we arrived, my husband jogged to the other end of the field to join the coach. I didn't sit. I had only just arrived, and had catching up to do. I...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Oct 6, 2009, 12:00 am
If this is your first time reading and you're wondering what To-Do Tuesday is all about, click to check out the first post to find out more. It's October. Whoa. How on Earth did we get here? ...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Oct 5, 2009, 11:00 am
Dear Kids, Mom here. Listen, we need to talk. You're always coming to me complaining because you can't find matching socks (or socks at all, for that matter). Well, you see, the other day the...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Oct 3, 2009, 10:00 pm
Our "Soccer Saturday" began alright, up and out the door and on the field by 8:45am for our 9am game. Everything was going according to plan. Kids in uniform? Check. Kids playing and having fun? Chec...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Oct 2, 2009, 7:46 am
It's morning. I'm blurry eyed, I'll admit it. I'm fumbling, attempting to get my first cup of coffee so I can function somewhat normally. I reach into the fridge for my skim milk. And ...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Oct 1, 2009, 12:00 am
This morning before school, my son was fumbling through the "junk" drawer (one I'd just organized a few weeks prior and have kept neat, I might add). He comes across my husband's Steeler'...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Sep 30, 2009, 12:00 am
On Sunday, baby dude turned one. One. When exactly did this happen? How is it I woke up and a year slipped by me like a prowler, and suddenly a one-year-old is nuzzling at my breasts? Where is that ...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Sep 29, 2009, 12:15 pm
If this is your first time reading and you're wondering what To-Do Tuesday is all about, click to check out the first post to find out more. Well, I'm back from the Type-A Mom Conference and ...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Sep 27, 2009, 10:30 pm
Ho-ly Moses, I'm smoked. Like, smoked in the I can't lift my arms they're so tired kind-of way. But oh, the joy of joys of being within breathing and tackling distance of those you've ...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Sep 25, 2009, 12:30 am
I'm a rebel. Sometimes I realize I've forgot to buckle my seatbelt while flying. I know, I know, how could I? I have. A fricking. Infant strapped on my lap, that's how. He was good, mind ...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Sep 23, 2009, 12:00 am
I am so pleased to have had a REAL super-hero come stay with us - Moxie Mona from Moxie Media! She swooped in to see us during her busy travels of visiting 60-or-so bloggers throughout the United Stat...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Sep 22, 2009, 12:00 pm
If this is your first time reading and you're wondering what To-Do Tuesday is all about, click to check out the first post to find out more. You know, when I was planning for BlogHer, my mind may...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Sep 21, 2009, 12:00 am
Do you see this pancake lovin' face right here? He took his first steps. {gulp} He's pretty excited about it. Mommy, however - while she screamed, squealed, squeaked and hugged and kissed hi...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Sep 20, 2009, 4:30 pm
I. Love. Fall. I love the coolness in the air, I love the leaves changing, the smell that fall brings in the wind. I love Halloween, Thanksgiving and ridiculous amounts of baking (OH THE BAKING!). I ...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Sep 19, 2009, 11:30 pm
When you get up and go go go from 7:30am on, opening ceremonies, soccer game after soccer game after soccer game, quick lunch to shop to celebrate a birthday party, flying non-stop by the seat of your...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Sep 19, 2009, 12:00 am
I have a nice desk chair. It is cushy. It is black. I received it for my birthday last year, and amazingly enough, the arm is already cracked and peeling (fake leather, I guess). Nonetheless, it's...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Sep 18, 2009, 8:30 am
Do you know what happened to me last night? Nothing. One big fat gigantic goose-egg of nuthin'. What's so special about that? I went to bed at nearly 11. E-l-e-v-e-n. That, my friends, is unh...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Sep 17, 2009, 12:00 am
He doesn't know it yet, but inside that box? Is a birthday gift for him. Yes, I said it. His first birthday is on the 27th. {jaw drop} OHMYGOD, I can't believe I just said that. I can't...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Sep 16, 2009, 12:00 am
The volunteer task for the elementary school seemed simple enough - break down twenty-three workbooks and sort them. Rip. Each. Page. Out. Of. 23. Books. Then I needed to stagger their pages, and so...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Sep 15, 2009, 12:00 am
If this is your first time reading and you're wondering what To-Do Tuesday is all about, click to check out the first post to find out more. Last week's list was pitiful, wasn't it? But m...
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Lisa D. posted an article on Crazy Adventures in Parenting - Sep 14, 2009, 12:00 am
Do you know what's fun? Navigating four school-children to 3 different schools, with two little kids in tow. In rush hour traffic. On- and off-post. In Louisiana. Chock-filled with people who have...
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