Category Archives: Life as a Mom

The Power of Persuasion

This has been on my mind alot the last day and a half.  I am currently handling the homefront solo this week while H is away on business. He left on Monday for the airport and returned that night after his flight to meet his connection was cancelled. Then he left again on Tuesday - [...]

First Work Trip Away From Baby Z

H commented to me today that I have not posted in several days. The days have gotten away from me for preparing for a sales meeting that is next week. Lots of things are done at the last minute but I have not been good at managing the other work to avoid it needing to [...]

Quest to be normal

A friend and I attended a speaker event at my church last night. I really only go to one of these a year, depending on the topic.  This event caught my eye because it publicized “the quest to be normal” in its description. “Normalcy” is something for which I strive!  Perfect for me! I grew [...]

Did I fall for it or what???

On our way over to Meijer yesterday after work to pick up our FREE antibiotic, I was talking about how smart this is for a company to do to bring people into their stores probably hoping that they will then continue on looking for other things and buy them there. I don’t deny that this [...]

The dreaded antibiotic

My boys, A and Z, both suffer from chronic ear infections. Well, I say this mostly about A - who had over 10 ear infections before he was 13 months old and they FINALLY put in the tubes. One tube fell out last fall and between January and March 2008, he got two more ear [...]