Comments on: Day Twenty-nine.

By: Corinne

Corinne — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 02:39:15 +0000

You’re completely right. I have learned to embrace this mantra: Half-assed is better than nothing. (It applies to most situations, and it is really quite a relief.)
Also, I feel like I have to tell you that I totally read the confidential to your mom. Didn’t even try to look away. Sorry.

By: MaggieO

MaggieO — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:57:49 +0000

Okay, I just had to come back and say that I thought NaBlowhatsit was great here this year! I’ve loved the little snippets from your day and have been so happy to come here and have something new every day!

And yeah, the perfectionist mother thing only gets more impossible with a two-year-old. Sigh.

By: Mary Helen

Mary Helen — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:15:44 +0000

Oh honey, you have to abandon the perfectionism for the sake of your sanity. You are a fabulous mother, even if you don’t think you’re living up to your standards. Once I accepted that, I was much happier. Or at least a little more normal. Maybe?

My 11-month-old is about to start walking and she is completely fearless. She climbs on EVERYTHING and falling, bruising and bleeding doesn’t stop her, it just slows her down.

By: Kimmer

Kimmer — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:34:33 +0000

Before my son started crawling, I remember that stage, ack. It was the worse. He could sit and scoot on his butt but wanted to crawl so badly, he would just scream. It will get better once S starts crawling. But, holly hell, watch out! She’ll be into everything. I actually think when B started crawling it was much worse(as far as getting into stuff) than when he started walking.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:59:26 +0000

“It is becoming obvious that perfectionism and motherhood are severely incompatible.” Hold that thought. I’ve been at this for almost 29 years and it’s still true. You’re doing well to discover this so early.

By: Patti

Patti — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:24:28 +0000

“It is becoming obvious that perfectionism and motherhood are severely incompatible.”

I came to the same conclusion this morning.

IVF Mom

By: Tea

Tea — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:24:14 +0000

After all that, I have a typo in my comment! Argh~clearly I am merely an ex-editor now, a shadow of my former typo-catching self (sigh).

By: Lucia

Lucia — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:45:37 +0000

You write a blog about your life. If your life gets hectic, your blog is going to reflect it, and isn’t that the whole point, anyway? We, your readers, don’t expect you to write anything you don’t feel like writing. If it’s all you can do to post a picture of a white flag, then, by God, post that picture! I don’t know if I’m making sense, but I don’t think you should call NaBloPoMo a disaster. You wrote, and that’s what matters.

Here’s a verse I came up with the other day. (Too late, I know, but I was proud of it.)

Oh, I wish I were a wee listerium
Oh, I wish I were a wee listerium.
I’d go lurkey, lurkey, lurkey
Inside Sara Lee’s turkey
Oh, I wish I were a wee listerium.

By: Tea

Tea — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:10:49 +0000

I’m just chuckling at you editing your diary (I’d have done the same, if I’d kept one).

My friends still give me a hard time for editing the letter I received from a long ago love (you’re the one, he says, six freakin’ years later) before sending it to a friend. The grammar really did need some help.

And we editors sometimes can’t help ourselves.

PS. I’ve always though Saxby Chambliss sounds like a stripper. At porn star, at least.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:59:43 +0000

Wow. Thanks for this post. After a cold, rainy Sunday home with DH and DS I feel that our collective accomplishment for the day is that not one of us murdered any other one (or more) of us. Even the dogs are still alive! So, yeah. It’s good to read this post and the comments and to know I’m not the only one who struggles…