http://blog.littlewritermonkey.com Wife, mommy, writer, and book snob. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:12:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I’ve seriously been working on this blog post for 2 weeks. Where have I been? Down the rabbit hole. Okay, I’m being really dramatic. There was no rabbit hole involved, promise. I’ve just been amazingly busy, stressed, and frustrated. Just a number of things I think. The diet isn’t ... http://blog.littlewritermonkey.com/2012/02/15/maslow/ January 24, and as I sit here I'm eating M&Ms. Darn it. I am such a stress eater. The last couple weeks have been rough. Poor Fynn has just been so frustrated with speech therapy. It doesn't help, I'm sure, that I'm frustrated as well. We're sucking all of the ... http://blog.littlewritermonkey.com/2012/01/24/stupid-wagons/ Well, that was a bad weekend for the diet! While I ate a bunch of healthy foods, I also ate too much bad. Frustrating, but today is a new day. At least I didn’t do a lot of sitting around the house this weekend. We took the opportunity to go ... http://blog.littlewritermonkey.com/2012/01/16/winter-motivation-and-the-urban-mom/ Fifteen days into the diet and I’m still going strong. I’ve still only dropped 2 pounds, but I’m finally resting comfortably within my allotted calories. It’s always a balancing act between meals. If I don’t eat enough for breakfast or lunch, dinner is a disaster. If I eat too much ... http://blog.littlewritermonkey.com/2012/01/10/113/ So I'm struggling to figure out what to read next. Anyone have any advice? Here are the choices because I'm not allowed to buy any more books. It's a self inflicted fast: "The Gravedigger's Daughter" Joyce Carol Oates (because I love being depressed by novels) "The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo" ... http://blog.littlewritermonkey.com/2012/01/09/need-somevotes/ My son has a beloved stuffed animal. Actually, he has two beloved stuffed animals. They are exactly the same. For the longest time, Fynn would not play with a stuffed animal, but he eventually fell in love with the Ty brand stuffed dog “Calhoun” that my husband bought for me ... http://blog.littlewritermonkey.com/2012/01/08/replacement-puppies/ My kid is a picky eater. I know, I know, all l kids are picky eaters. We’ve been working very diligently lately (now that we feel like the speech stuff is going better) to work on the eating. So tonight we thought we had a slam dunk – Noodles’ Mac ... http://blog.littlewritermonkey.com/2012/01/05/toddlers-are-bad-for-your-diet-erin%e2%80%99s-new-study-reports/ Well, still on my diet (although I went off course a little tonight with the potatoes au gratin – low calorie…but I ate too much of that delicious warm potato goo). It was a pretty good day without a lot of cravings. So yesterday, the Dr. Oz plan day was ... http://blog.littlewritermonkey.com/2012/01/04/day%e2%80%a6oh-i-don%e2%80%99t-know/ Hello from day six of the diet. Now that the carbohydrate addiction has abated, I can actually think clearly and I’m not starving all of the time. Today was a good day for healthy decisions. The family and I were out and about today, shopping and getting photos taken, and ... http://blog.littlewritermonkey.com/2012/01/02/january-2-day-6/ Happy New Year! So far the day has been interesting. Besides the EPIC temper tantrum this morning because I wouldn’t let him play with the knife drawer, the little man is doing better. Nate and I were actually able to give him amoxicillin without covering ourselves with it as ... http://blog.littlewritermonkey.com/2012/01/01/day-5-and-success/