It’s that time again- Monthly awesome free stuff time.  I LOVE Pear Tree Greetings and am so happy I get to pass on monthly giveaways and discounts to all of you. Read the rest of this entry…

My husband and I talk about a multitude of things, we come up with hilarious fictional fairy-tales about the life our Dog lived before we adopted him.  We make fun of each other.  Imagine what MJ will be like 20 years from now & so on…. Him and I are usually on the same level as each other, we can give each other a certain look & know exactly what the other person is trying to say.   So last night we were having one of our “talks” Read the rest of this entry…

Ohhhhh Hipstamatic, I simply cannot count the ways i love theeee.

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Dear Momma,

You can comeover and spend the night with us whenever you would like.

You need no excuse.  If you keep up with the awesomeness like Getting MJ up in the morning

and letting me sleep in, and doing my dishes you might as well just move on in!

Love,

your kristi maristi <3

(now you know where kristi maristi came from, my momma calls me it)

St.Patricks Day '09 festival, a month before I popped out a baby Milo.

I’m not sure if any of you can relate to this or not- but, my child acts his craziest when he is in my care.  He pulls the craziest things, craziest melt-downs ever, and so on.  When my husband has him alone while I’m out and about running errands and what not he never pulls the stuff on his Dad that he does to me.  I don’t get it.  Maybe just because he’s the most comfortable with me, or that we spend the most time together? Anyways, it results in me looking like an over-dramatic MOM, and liar.

Yesterday MJ was scooting down the hall and shaking something.  I perched up from my comfy spot on the couch and looked at him, held out my hand, and asked him to bring “it” to Mama.  He did (he’s really good at that. He’ll bring me anything I ask him to. Perhaps I should teach him how to uncork a bottle of wine and up his level of usefulness.) and some how he found an old, dried up, bottle of White Out.   Of course I took it and held on to it. That is when he lost it.  Like, ridiculously upset over me hijacking the White Out.  Flips out.  Grabs my arm with his hand and digs his dagger nails into my skin, and then proceeds to squeeze as hard as he could, with a severely malicious look on his face.  Like, “that bitch is gettin’ it” Seriously scared me.  And then , he got more pissed off and proceeded to try and rip my face off, with the same little shit headed demeanor about him.   He scratched my nose and gouged out a chunk of skin.  I couldn’t believe it.  I didn’t know how to react, was a bit in shock, and had a burning nose.   My reaction ultimately was ignoring him.  I pushed his hands off of me, and then stood up and tried to re-direct his attention.  It seemed to have worked but, I wish the entire situation could have been prevented in the first place.

My question is how does he know how to do this?  To hit and hurt out of anger.  He’s done this type of thing once before but not on this level.  I have to tell you that when I get SUPER pissed off, like LIVID, my first instinct even as an adult is to hit (like another adult, a child could never anger me to that point).  I don’t act on that feeling, but, it’s definitely there.  Do we just have that naturally built into our systems?  Or is that just me?

I’ve smacked MJ’s hand twice.  After the second time I did it, I knew it was not a style of parenting that I was personally comfortable with and we never did it again.  Do you think that’s where he learned it from? Those two times? I’ll punch my own self repeatedly if he learned this crap from me!  Taking breaks from my shame spiral.

Does anyone else’s child do this? Is there a good remedy? Is this early signs of him having future, more severe behavioral problems? Seriously, any input would be appreciated.  My Google searches failed me a bit on this.

My very first wordless wednesday.

taken with iPhone 4. No editing. Just awesomeness.

It’s true.  You really, truly do.  While I’ve never actually visited the Garden State I enjoy it through television and Movies.  If a reality show is based in Jersey, or has anything to do with Jersey I will watch it. Read the rest of this entry…

MJ walking around in his little backpack I bought him for $2.50 at Target the other day.

One of the wonderful things about living where we do is that the Beautiful, Lake Tahoe, is just a little under two hours away from us.  One of my ‘Summer Goals’ was to take MJ there for his first time.  So Friday my Hubs took the day off work (which I’m still trying to figure out HOW that even happened. The guy NEVER takes a day off work. Read the rest of this entry…

What are you looking at?

Yesterday was yet again another day where I felt like everyone was staring at me all day.  I feel like this often but, even Mercer confirmed it yesterday that he noticed it too.  He thinks it’s because everyone thinks I’m like 16 years old with a baby but, I don’t know?!  I really feel like i don’t look that young.  I notice it more when I have make up on.  It makes me feel SO weird.  Like I’m super ugly, or my outfit is dumb, or I started my period & was the last one to notice or something.

SO, PLEASE stop staring at me.  I don’t like it, it makes me feel weird, and makes you look like a judgy asshole.

My kid turned into a walking machine this weekend! He’s been technically walking for a bit now but he hasn’t been confident with it.  When we’ve tried to get him to walk for friends or family he’d take two steps and fall to his knees and start clapping. Read the rest of this entry…