Comments on: Random List of Stuff

By: Shannon

Shannon — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:16:33 +0000

HA! It’s funny…right before I read this, I thought to myself as I was driving in the rain, “I think I’m different than a lot of people. I love gray skies and rain even though everyone else seems to crave sunshine.” Everyone used to get depressed in Ohio in the winters because it was so gray. Not me! I loved it. I love that cuddly, sleepy weather.

I think blogging isn’t about having a remarkable life. I think what used to make it so much more fun was that more people would bring personality to it and didn’t treat it like a record of events. I also think that people would try to make it funny and would make sure the writing was entertaining so people actually read it instead of just putting family pictures (can you tell I am sooooo guilty of this?). I have to say though, I love your blog Dixie! I always look forward to it cuz it sounds like you and so it’s fun to read.

By: Dixie

Dixie — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:58:12 +0000

Sorry girl, hope this week has been better! The non-stop cloudiness and rain puts me in a funk … sleeping in until 9:00 until my kids convince me that they are REALLY hungry and I really need to get them some breakfast. Isla is the cutest baby, but hanging out with baby day after day, and no adult human interaction, and no husband around, ever, can do that to a person.

I don’t know what to think about the blog thing… sometimes I love it, and sometimes I hate it. I’m not good at it and want to change things up in a big way but haven’t found the courage, or any real reason to actually do it. Also, as I was surfing the blogs last week I realized that I’m just one of millions of mommy bloggers, with highly unremarkable lives. And that’s a little depressing as well.

Facebook drives me crazy too, and is a big pointless time waster, yet, I fear if I let it go, I won’t be in the loop with people I care about …but have so many people on there that I don’t even REALLY know anymore. It’s an escape, just like a lot of things we do :)

By: Lesli

Lesli — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:50:03 +0000

I second betsy. It took me four years of motherhood to finally stop reading parenting magazines, and worrying if I was doing it right. I’m so much happier now, that being said, babies are tricky buggers and sometimes a few instructions/guidelines are nice.

By: betsy

betsy — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 06:47:02 +0000

go with your gut on the baby food thing…humans have roamed the earth for many years and most of them don’t have books or any sort of directions. find your inner cave woman!!

By: Shannon

Shannon — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 03:12:59 +0000

@Kristy: THANK YOU for saying the labels are crap. I’m such a rule follower sometimes, I have a hard time breaking written rules like that, even if I think to myself that they’re probably crap. I have those puffs & also the rice thingies that they can gnaw on, but I haven’t given them to her cuz I was so nervous that I’d be doing the wrong thing even though my instincts were saying she was ready for them.

@Lesli: Yeah, we’re totally the opposite about the weather funk. I found myself daydreaming about winter today actually & longing for Ohio autumns & winters. And yeah, it is depressing about blogging. Stupid facebook.

By: Lesli

Lesli — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:34:39 +0000

I think you are the opposite of me, I get in a funk the second half of winter, you seem to get in a funk the second half of the summer. Sorry life sucks, blame it on facebook. Blogging has totally changed, it depressing, I agree.

By: Kristy

Kristy — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:52:48 +0000

The labels are crap. Have you tried puffs or “crunchies”? They dissolve. Almost all of the babies I know have gone nuts for those damn things and it’s a good cranky baby distraction. Yogurt was a winner for mine too. YoBaby. I tried to avoid eggs, nuts and lots of sugar (aka juice) like a good mom, but breaking the cowmilk rule with yogurt was brilliant. And, I didn’t feel so bad about switching straight to whole milk when I weaned at a year, neither ever got formula. Free to cheap that’s the way to go.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:56:42 +0000

I’m so confused about this eating thing. I’m trying to go off the labels on the baby food, like sitting, crawling, etc. She won’t eat the sitting food, and she’s not crawling with her tummy off the ground, so I can’t give her that stuff. Then my book says something else — they seem to be saying it’s okay to give her small pieces of bread and crackers at this point. I don’t know what to do, but I’m scared to death of giving her something that’s going to make her choke, so right now I’ve only tried baby food.

By: Kristy

Kristy — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 03:05:53 +0000

It’s all the baby. When things are funky in that the department (esp. with the sleeping – ack!), everything ticks you off (or at least that seems to be the case for me).
The sleep fighting and refusing the baby food is all part of her developing an opinion. Hopefully, she’ll get over it quick. I always obsessed about trying to get mine to eat baby food, neither really ever went for it and eventually it’s just easier to give them “people food” and they tend to like it more anyway.
I hate the sound of that dogs’ nails on our “wood” floors, drives me INSANE! And the barking . . . which makes me hate the biannual fireworks.
If you want to come vacuum my house for fun, just gimme a call.

By: Lesley

Lesley — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 06:59:52 +0000

i finally saw friends with money a couple weeks ago