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be careful what you share

One of the things that you won’t find in any baby book is how having kids will change your friendships.  Sure there’s advice to have date nights and me-time and all that crap but I’ve never seen this bit of truth documented anywhere:
You have friends that you will drop because of the way they parent.
At first [...]

what is 2 exactly?

Alex is 2 years and 8 months.  He constantly tests me, to the point that I have to physically walk away from him so as not to spank him.  As if he knows exactly how far he can go, sometimes he’ll chase me as I walk away hitting me the whole time, daring me to [...]

so…the potty training

In the midst of the kitchen remodel and without really thinking it through AT ALL, we decided to start potty training Alex.  Not that we decided, we were shall we say – encouraged – by his daycare person.  She felt that he was ready and that the longer we waited the harder it would be [...]

random things, but i’m trying to get my posting groove back

First, the latest on the kitchen…

Just like everything else in our house, figure out the approximate time to accomplish a task and then double it to fix repairs made by previous owners, who like us had no idea what they were doing, but unlike us were too stupid to hire someone to fix things.  This [...]