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!
The dust has all but settled after this past week’s Adventures in Hacking. The only remaining fallout has been that Facebook disabled my account on Tuesday and has yet to reinstate it. On the one hand, I’m sort of annoyed about this, because I followed the recommended steps and sent an e-mail right after the […]
Now that I’ve recovered from some of the panic from earlier today, I thought I’d try to distill down as much as I know about what happened to my account(s) so that anyone reading this can be on the lookout for similar problems in their own e-mail accounts. This was NOT, as I originally thought, […]
Any of my female readers who are like me and, well… (ahem) generously endowed, already know that sports bras can be tricky business. I’ve always thought it was ironic that those of us who need support the most seem to be furthest from the minds and intentions of sports bra designers. First of all, it’s […]
Man, time flies…. My Little Monkey is now five months old, and all the books and websites tell me that his language development is at a critical point. So I’m supposed to be talking to him often, labeling things, and using lots of vocabulary words. As much as I love to talk, I have found […]
A few months ago, I signed on as a contract writer for one of those content-engine websites [the ones that hire freelancers to generate as much keyword-driven web content as possible, in hopes of driving traffic to Internet ads]. The contract requirements are pretty simple: just 10 short articles in three months; with pay based […]
Okay, so maybe not everything has a positive reframe…. As the title indicates, we had an invasion in our kitchen this weekend — ANTS. It was actually the third or fourth time we’ve had a major visit from the ants this season (rain and cold, I guess); but this was the first time the little […]
So I was in the kitchen yesterday and I heard MDH in the living room, entertaining the baby. In the middle of a stream of coos and squeals, I overheard this: “We like blankets. And that is a blanket statement.”
Infancy, especially early infancy, is chock full of milestones. It seems that every week that passes brings some new fascinating behavior or endearing social interaction with our “new roommate.” For the past sixteen weeks, I’ve enjoyed so much watching and learning as our little guy teaches me all about babyhood, personhood, with each tiny new […]
Yesterday, about halfway through my morning walk (just when turning around and going back would do me no good), it started to rain. At first I was a little freaked out by this, since I was pushing my little guy in the stroller in front of me — I had visions of a wet and […]
Yesterday was one of those days. My little man was so exhausted that he couldn’t sleep — and it was driving us both crazy. I tried everything – his crib, the pack-n-play, the swing, the bouncer… every contraption known to man designed to make babies comfortable and sleepy. I tried a ride in the car […]
