No Sense at All

The loss of brain cells that begin with pregnancy was never fully explained to me. It was evident during pregnancy that I lost a few. I just assumed that once the little booger was born that my brain would begin to function just as it did previously. No one warned me that this was only the beginning of a tremendous loss to my overall thought process that I will never get back.

In fact, with each year it appears I continue to lose my mind at such a rapid pace that there is no chance for a full recovery.
I knew it was bad as a stay-at-home mom. When I returned to work I thought that I would be wiping those cobwebs off of my brain and get back to normal. You figure that being around adults all day instead of a PBS watching 2 year old would be better stimulation and get you back on track, right. EH, WRONG!

I think it just made things worst. My brain not only lost whatever quota motherhood requires of your brain capacity (which I think is approximately half in my case). Now my job has retained the other portion as a part of its inventory. My poor little head is spinning from the responsibility that comes with my job intertwined with the throngs of motherhood and wifedom. I feel like I’ve been meandering around aimlessly wondering what in the heck to do with myself.

Where do I go from here? How am I supposed to accomplish all of this in what little time I have? Where did I put my keys (the hairbrush, Sweet Pea’s glasses, my shoes, etc.)? At least once a day I wander around the house trying to remember what it was that I was supposed to be wandering for. Usually it is for one of the above stated items (85% of the time it is that freakin’ hairbrush).

Now what was I in the kitchen for again????? Oh yeah……. Dinner……

Sweet Pea-isms

Sweet Pea has her own little terminology. Whatever she dubs an item, that’s what it shall forever be. When we bought my “new” car, she referred to it as the “new car” for close to a year until she renamed it “Lightning McQueen”. Keeping in the Cars theme she named her Daddy’s truck “Mater”. Under no circumstances shall either of our vehicles to be referred to as anything other than “Mater” or “Lightening McQueen” or you shall stand corrected by the Little Bit.

Recently she discovered the joys of the little junk gumball machines at store fronts that only take quarters. Mommy I want big money. Big money, Mommy. Big money is a quarter and little money is everything else. Makes me wonder what she’ll call a paper money when she finally discovers it……

Pardon Us for Interupting Your Shopping Trip.......

On an adventure to the grocery store a last week, SP was super excited about a little plastic water gun that she was going to get. All the summer stuff was 75% off so I let the kid get a $1 water gun. Being the extrovert that she is, SP made a point to tell each person she saw in the store that she had a water gun. Most peeps were friendly and just smiled at the cute little girl with her super smarty glasses and pigtails.

However, there was one grinchy woman who did not even want to acknowledge little SP’s existence. SP doesn’t always get the hint when someone isn’t interested. This lady was having no part of it and lucky for her we managed to run into her on every aisle. Seriously. Every. Single. Aisle.

“Look. I got a watah gun.”

Nothing. Nada. I could look at this lady and tell she was wishing us away as my small child taunted her in an effort to show her how cool her water gun was. What I found most interesting was that this woman was also rubbing her belly and appeared to be with child (although it was hard to tell but I’m pretty sure she was pregnant). Maybe she just had some major indigestion and that was the reason for all the rubbing. Who knows?

I know that SP has a tendency to get a little overly excited and has a tough time with non-verbal cues but seriously….. Is it that hard for you to nod and smile?  I apoligize if my small child distracts you from making important decisions such as whether to purchase name brand or store brand spaghetti noodles.  Geesh!

The Eyes Have It

In the car driving along one day, Big Guy tells me that Sweet Pea is looking at him funny. It's like she's looking at me but she's not looking at me. I wasn't sure what he was talking about until one day I saw it. Her left eye turned out as her right eye looked straight. This didn't happen all the time just every once in awhile and most often when she was looking out at a distance.

The eye began to stray more frequently and appeared to get worse. It wasn't all the time but it was enough that I mentioned it to the pediatrician at her 3 year appointment. All of this went down at the same time we were moving and all of that chaos. She's been seeing a pediatric ophthalmologist for the past few months.

She has a condition called strabismus and the first line of treatment was to dilate her strong eye and force her weak eye to strengthen. The goal being to equalize her vision and also to make her eyes work together. After the first six weeks, the deficit in her weak eye was cut in half which was so encouraging to know that the eye drops were working.

Her most recent appointment there was progress on her vision equalizing but her eye is still straying intermittently and there hasn't been any improvement on that end. So the doctor prescribed glasses for the Pea in an effort to get those eyes to work as a team. If when her vision equalizes that eye still strays, we are looking a possible surgery. I'm not going to look that far ahead this point but at least the doctor was honest in preparing me for the possibility.

I must say that she does look super cute in her new glasses.....

Life's a Beach!

We took our annual trip to the beach last week. I'm already looking forward to next year already. I'm so looking forward to moving closer to the coast! I'll be glad we when can take a quick jaunt to the beach for the day!



It was cold and dreary when we got there but that didn't stop the Sweet Pea from diving in the Atlantic. She adores the beach.

The waves were huge and Sweet Pea was having fun being chased by all the waves even if the water's a little chilly. Way too cold for the Momma though.


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