Posts Categorized: Life’s a Butter Dream
Life’s a Butter Dream – Author M.J. Pullen blogs about body image, weight loss (and gain) (and loss again), fitness and struggling to stay healthy as a working mom. When my oldest son, Skywalker, was a toddler, he used to sing “Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily… life’s a butter dream.” And he’s right!
A mommy first today… I got a call about an hour ago that my sweet baby was vomiting “everywhere” and I needed to go pick him up from preschool. Yuck. And poor baby. So I am busy scrapping my plans for the afternoon, desperately rearranging my work schedule, and waiting for a call back from […]
The latest obsession around our house, edging out the toy vacuum cleaner that a girlfriend let us borrow, is Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Before MLM was born, people warned me that this book would be the object of pure passion, and that has certainly has been the case. I now read that book, […]
I hung one more year on the lineI should be depressedMy house is a messBut I’m having a good time… [With my deepest, most sincere apologies to Paul Simon.] Just an update blog because I’ve been missing you guys… Thought I’d tell you why I love November. Elections: I know it’s dorky, but I love […]
So it’s Day 43 of my 30-Day Challenge. So much for the best of intentions; and I guess Morgan Spurlock’s job is safe for now… But here we are nonetheless, at Blog #30. When I started this little assignment for myself, the High Holidays were just drawing to a close and I was still sort […]
Nothing deep to report today, just relaxing at the end of a lovely fall day. The weather was perfect today, and we drove to North Georgia to see the beautiful leaves and take MLM to a pumpkin patch. A stop at Greenwood’s in Roswell for some home-cooking out on the porch, and a nap on […]
You wouldn’t believe how uncomfortable it makes people. Especially skinny people. We’ll be together in some social situation, talking about whatever (often it’s food or dieting or fitness), and I will make a reference to myself as a fat girl. I often do this in an outrageously self-applauding way. For example when someone compliments me […]
It starts out with me thinking that my scale is broken. So, I look up the company that makes it and call customer service [because everyone knows that’s my favorite pastime]. CSR: “Thank you for calling Pleasantly Plump Weight Indicator Technologies, How may I help you?” ME: There’s something wrong with my scale.CSR: Could you […]
Earlier tonight, I had a nice opportunity to catch up with a colleague I don’t see outside of meetings very often. You know, it’s odd, private practice therapy can be a bit of an isolating profession — one that attracts people who are generally very sociable. I got into this business because I enjoy being […]
Don’t use the TV as a babysitter. This is one of those rules I always hear thrown around about parenthood. Actually, come to think of it, I hear it less often as a rule and more often as a derisive example of bad parenting that people desperately want to avoid. It’s usually something like, “I […]
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