Kaiser Mommy

Choose Joy. Every Time.

Goodnight Moonlight Ladies

I have an iTunes playlist that is labelled simply “camp”. I could name a hundred people who would know exactly what to look for in that list – Indigo Girls, James Taylor, Styx …. Those same people know the importance of the phrases “Polar Bears”, “The Bell”, “Aunt Jean”, “Three Tiered Dress”, “PnL”, “Hey Jean, What’s the temperature?”, “Wolf Spider”, “Blue Ball”, “Whats the chances”, “So there I was” …… Read More

Together a Team

I went to church this morning. I didn’t want to. Alex wanted to. So Scout and I took him, he ran off to play with the preschoolers (So we thought … he actually went with the big kids … another story) and we sat in church. I’ve been a ball of rage at the universe. My own little world isn’t coming together with the glitter and fun I’d been praying.. Read More

Why I won’t try online dating

Since I’m single and not exactly in a hotbed of male activity, the question has come up more than once. Frequently accompanied by “so and so met her husband that way”. I think it confuses people that I’m so “online” yet resist online dating. I’ve always hated the bars, the meat market, the feeling of having to sell myself. Over Christmas Break, I sat in front of one of the.. Read More

The #suckit list

I’m all about the good good stuff, but tonight my therapist made me cry when she called bullshit and saw through my “chin up, kid” attitude. So in honor of THAT. I give you a list of things that can just #suckit cancer calories Clothes that don’t fit dying check engine lights cold stomach flu sleeping alone love dishes laundry bills deadlines paperwork fingernails bedtime alarm clocks republicans democrats the.. Read More

So there I was . . .

Disclaimer: If you have a weak stomach – do not read. If you would ever like to see me naked – do not read if grossness would change your mind.   Anyway. I threw up. Easy as can be. None of that staring into the porcelain God misery waiting for the gagging to start. I spit a bit and realized how much better my stomach felt. Then I realized I.. Read More

January 7, 2012

alex – that huffing around in protest of bedtime would have been more intimidating if you hadn’t come back in for your purple bear that smells like lavender. Love mommy.  

January 5, 2012

My kid is in the safe seat for telling another kid to “build the f***ing house” how is your day? Chrisy: Alex or a kid in your class? Dawn: Oh this is MY child. Audrey: Well, maybe the other kid should have just built the f***ing house. AJ: Seriously!!! LMAO!! Lindsey: When its your kid, it isn’t quite as funny as when it is someone elses. I hate to say I got a.. Read More

January 3, 2012

Alex woke up liking me again. Got 2 file reviews done. Took care of a piece of business. Built a Lego train with Alex. Currently creating snarky awesome texts with the west coast cracker. Good day. Today’s genealogy funny: Under cause of death “Dropped Dead” (Granted, he WAS 96, but still.) I will be adding Lego expert to my resume. I am now an expert at 9 MAP power standards… Read More

Parenting

Once upon a time, Alex didn’t like me. By once upon a time, I mean most of the first four years of his life. He had his daddy, and I was Cletus the Slack Jawed Cousin who he tolerated at best, usually because I made milk and he liked milk. Once the milk days were done, he didn’t need or want me for much. I lost track of the number.. Read More

January 2, 2012

958am Heading out for Illinois to get Alex. 5 hours in the car. 247pm backass illinois, waiting on alex. 743pm “Mommy, I like Missouri and Kentucky, but I don’t like you, only Daddy.” Punk Ass Punk Child of Mine. Just Now. Comments from the above: Lori LAhhhh, kids. Kris K ugh…I’m sorry. Dawn Exactly 🙂 my comment is a solid “thank you for trusting me enough to tell me how you feel”.. Read More

Two hearts

It’s been a long time coming. March will mark the 4th year since pulling the sheet over your face, and patting the top of your gray hair that last time. The last I looked at you. Four years since you died and left without saying goodbye, leaving me confused and hurt and in a mess of shit you left behind (legally and literally). Most of these four years I’ve fought.. Read More

January 1, 2012

Day 1 – had the windows open BECAUSE I COULD – finished a book (#6 for the break) – and tomorrow I go get AlexCat. I call this a GOOD DAY. (cc Megan Hook)   Today’s genealogy funny. “Usual Occupation: Vibrator Operator”   67 degrees and sunny on New Years Eve – 43 degrees and, I think, raining now. I *love* Missouri!    

Older. Wiser.

Yeah, yeah. We’re all sitting around reflecting on our year. Here’s my post from last year summing up the Christmas Season. A year ago I was part of a big family. I spent New Years Eve with a house full of people, and at midnight I was singing Alex to sleep while my immediate adopted family was in the next room, quietly waiting the 3 year old to give up.. Read More