Hi guys. I’m still spending time with Ben and the girls...and by spending time I mean I’m repeatingly pulling two wet bathing suits up and down two wet toddlers in a public bathroom. [Hint: I’ll be returning with a bruised tail bone and chlorine poisoning].
Today’s guest post was generously provided by Jon who writes and publishes Daddy Scratches.
Jon, I think I think I've found the perfect power suit for your pending job interview. Don’t thank me...it’s just my way...I’m a giver. ...Continue Reading »
July 2010
Meredith | July 30th, 2010
LIFE.STYLE | July 29th, 2010
I’ll be out of arm's reach of my keyboard for the next couple of days. I usually find the prospect of navigating through the many hours of the day without the guidance of my Twitter feed or FaceBook updates akin to making lane changes on the Chicago Loop without side mirrors. I mean, how will I know if any of my peeps are 'LOL' or if one of their 'hubs' is making them all 'WTF?'
However, this self-imposed online break is much needed. I’ll be spending a little ‘face time’ with Ben and the girls, and I’m really looking forward to it. In the meantime, while I’m away, I’ve lined up a couple of guest posts. Today’s post was graciously provided by Allison Zapata who publishes and writes Me and Mine.
I’ve never met Allison in person [I would consider her one of my ‘online friends’], but I’m pretty sure she’s the kind of girl who’d hold my hair back after fifty bucks worth of tequila shots.
'Woot, woot!'
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Meredith | July 29th, 2010
I took this photo of Heidi and our friends’ snuggle bear, Dakota, two summers ago. Sadly, Dakota passed on, but he’s now in a better place. A place where squirrels always let Dakota catch them. Also, notice how close I let Heidi get to his thingy. Not once did I bite my lip or ask Ben, fourteen times in a row, if he thought she was getting too close. ...Continue Reading »
Meredith | July 28th, 2010
Whitney and Heidi share a bedroom. And when I say ‘share,’ I mean occasionally when Whitney’s feeling extra generous, she allows Heidi to *look* at the toys...the one’s they ‘share.’ So referring to it as ‘sharing’ might be playing it a little fast and loose. However, the one thing they do ‘share’ in their bedroom is their thirst to destroy it. I don’t mean burning it to ground kind of ‘destroying,’ think more Kate Moss' and Lindsay Lohan’s shared penthouse suite the morning after a night of drunken debauchery. ...Continue Reading »
Meredith | July 27th, 2010
When I first relaunched this site, I told you I would be transferring posts from the old site over to this new one. So that’s just what I did...I’d open up the old site, choose an old post, read the old post and then lie down next to my desk on the floor until the muscle relaxer I’d taken kicked in. Every word I read was processed in my brain and then sent down into my body where it responded by contorting and contracting in embarrassment.
If you could see my face when I read those old posts, you’d think I was watching circus bears riding bikes around in circles until they fell on the cross bars. Bear crotch injury isn’t easy to watch. ...Continue Reading »
LIFE.STYLE | July 25th, 2010
Ben and I are taking a break from our regular routine today. And by ‘regular routine,’ I’m of course referring to sitting around all day in our pajamas scraping the bottom of sour cream containers clean with potato chips. Instead, we got up, took showers and drove an hour to attend an all day Drupal conference. Do you know what that is? Me either.
So far, Ben’s filled half a legal pad with notes while I’ve been updating my Twitter and Facebook feed. I mean, come on now, it’s not like my feeds are going to update themselves! ...Continue Reading »
Meredith | July 23rd, 2010
Frankly, this site has evolved into more than what I had originally intended it to be. Originally, I'd started this blog as a way to chronicle the time we lived in Mexico. I thought...oh how nice, a place where I can post photos of the beach and document that heat rash on my underarms. The Internet will be riveted! ...Continue Reading »
Meredith | July 22nd, 2010
The second Parents Ask episode, featuring a slice of our Groenevelt lunacy, went live yesterday. It’s called ‘Mom of All Ages.’ A title the producer and I didn’t see eye to eye on. I really thought they should have gone with ‘Mom Loses Her Shit,’ but it wasn’t my call to make.
I worked with Katie again; she’s the one who produced the other episode I ‘did’ for Parent’s Ask. Both times I’ve sent her a mishmash of video. Hours and hours of footage of my feet mixed in with shaky shots of kids snacking. Somehow, she’s taken it, bent it and stretched it into really polished pieces.
After the last episode, ‘Sibling Rivalry,’ Katie asked if I had any other parenting questions I’d like one of their experts to answer. What? Didn’t I already give her a list of my questions? Don’t play dumb with me Katie, you know dang well I wanted to do the ‘How to Keep Pants on My Child?’ video. But, I decided to let it go, and instead asked her if we could do, ‘How to Control My Child’s Compulsive Gambling.’ Shot down AGAIN! ...Continue Reading »
Meredith | July 21st, 2010
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