My sister and I took our Mom to NYC for Mother’s Day to see Newsies. It was amazing, as was the Muse hotel where we stayed. I LOVE weekends like this 🙂

I love this.

Am I Mom Enough? A Motherhood Wish List

I hope I raise a child who says “thank you” to the bus driver when he gets off the bus, “please” to the waiter taking his order at the restaurant, and holds the elevator doors when someone’s rushing to get in.

I hope I raise a child who loses graciously and wins without bragging. I hope he learns that disappointments are fleeting and so are triumphs, and if he comes home at night to people who love him, neither one matter. Nobody is keeping score, except sometimes on Facebook.

I hope I raise a child who will stick up for a kid who’s being bullied on the playground. I also hope I raise a child who, if he’s the one being bullied, fights back. Hard. Oh, and if he’s the bully? I hope he realizes that his mother, who once wore brown plastic glasses and read the phonebook on the school bus, will cause him more pain than a bully ever could.

And I hope that if my child turns out to be a colossal screw-up, I take it in stride. I hope I remember that he’s his own person, and there’s only so much I can do. He is not an appendage to be dangled from my breasts on the cover of a magazine, his success is not my ego’s accessory, and I am not Super Mom.

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One of my favorite things about the Porkchop is his excellent taste in music – and his ability to find new music know I will like it, and either buy it or send it my way. He introduced me to this band today, a group he stumbled upon while looking for a video for a sobbing Peanut (he woke up from a very short nap in tears).

They’re awesome and have a great story. A small group out of Canada who created loads of low budget videos, posted them on YouTube and parlayed that into a record deal with Columbia. I love stories like this.

I Skype my mom every day. It’s always entertaining and I like helping the Peanut know her. She’s currently emptying their garage and attic of stuff, and so has taken to showing me boxes of my stuff over the computer. Artwork, schoolwork, stuffed animals… and today, all the cool hats I made in grade school.

And she modeled them. 🙂

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LOVE this.

Yesterday was my 1,000th post, something I didn’t realize until I logged in today. Pretty crazy.

One of the Peanut’s favorite things to do is climb on the couch, and then run back and forth. His absolute favorite thing is when I tell him, very sternly, to SIT. He giggles maniacally and continues his sprinting. I sit him down, he laughs, gets back up, and we repeat the whole thing. Fifteen or twenty times, lol.

The evil house has struck again. Our dog stumbled playing frisbee and ruptured her cranial cruciate ligament in her knee. We have to call an orthopedic surgeon on Monday — she’s currently high on pain meds — and then we’ll end up shelling out around $3K for surgery. Ugh.

The bummer is that we were having a fantastic day. The Peanut decided to feed himself yogurt from a spoon and ate Rice Chex and Cheerios (only a few, and eaten individually – but PROGRESS!).

Sadly we passed on our cold to the Porkchop, so our grand plan to see the Avett Brothers was thwarted. He’s been in bed since the Peanut went down for the night, while I’ve wiled away the evening watching On Demand and working.

I’m currently watching Water for Elephants, a really fantastic book that was turned into an OK movie. Casting Edward from Twilight was their first mistake, sigh.

The Avetts are amazing live.