The Pee Puzzle

Katie, my beautiful, sweet, lil warrior princess... went from completely potty trained (for months)- to peeing all over the house, van, office... well, everywhere!
My husband and I were afraid that if we started putting her back in diapers, that it would confuse her and give her the wrong message. We have tried everything from firmly telling her no and showing that we were really upset- to just cleaning the mess and not making an issue of it. But nothing is working. The reckless peeing continues...
Now that I, and everything I am surrounded by, is soaked in urine... I have decided that I've been beat by a 2 year old... again.

Back to diapers it is?!

What's the worst that could happen? She'll be ten and changing her Pampers before T-Ball practice?

Mom's Top 10 Medical Maladies

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1. Congestive Art Failure: The inability to find room for one more cross-eyed portrait of Daddy on the fridge
2. Sexczema: The way your skin crawls when your husband tries to cop a feel after you've spent a long day with a whiny, clingy kid
3. Mallergies: Severe aversion to large shopping centers after enduring back-to-school shopping with your moody tween
4. Damnesia: Disorientation at hearing your child use a bad word, until you remember he heard you use it first
5. "My" Graine: Throbbing headache after spending a two-hour playdate refereeing fights over a single toy in a chock-full basement
6. Hymnsomnia: Sleeplessness due to anxiety over how one's offspring will behave in church
7. Manopause: Overwhelming need for a girls' night out following an afternoon of baseball widowhood
8. Robotomy: Abrupt reversal of your upbeat mood after you step on your child's favorite action figure, amputating its limbs
9. Gastrointerestitis: Excessive focus on what your child could've eaten that made him sick
10. Carpool Tunnel Syndrome: Sensation of spending one's days endlessly shuttling rowdy kids to soccer practice and piano lessons.
    By: Deborah Skolnik

Shampoo Daydreams

Woke up late, crick in neck, half hanging off the bed...
- my 2 year old was taking up the queen princess size mattress.

Fought with my 7 year old about the principles of putting on clean undergarments every day and the practicability of wearing two socks vs. just one.

Luckily, my 12 year old can get himself ready in the morning-  but as usual, required the daily convincing to walk his little brother to school.

No time for Mama to take a shower. Again.
Spent a great majority of the day internally whining about my greasy hair.

After work, errands, and then soccer... dinner started at 7pm.

The second my husband walked in the door, at 7:30, I escaped for a 2 hour bath. Minimally interrupted by the mini's, it was great to unwind.

Forgot to wash my hair.