tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13655771Mon, 05 May 2008 00:30:57 +0000http://mommymatic.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (the stefanie formerly known as stefanierj)Blogger179125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13655771.post-9074205577834183592Thu, 09 Aug 2007 22:19:00 +00002007-08-09T15:48:39.735-07:00Ok, so the preschool teacher told me the other day when I went to pick D up that she had been tickling him, because she loves to hear his laugh, and he was laughing, laughing, laughing. And then she stopped, and he stopped laughing and sighed and said "That was amazing." So then we were trekking out to the bicycle stable shed in the backyard and he was asking for, oh, I don't know, the http://mommymatic.blogspot.com/2007/08/from-you-cannot-make-this-stuff-up.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the stefanie formerly known as stefanierj)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13655771.post-8953997072923563995Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:21:00 +00002007-08-02T12:38:20.662-07:00I've really been meaning to update this blog, but something about a solid month of temperatures hovering around, say, 4000 degrees has pretty much drained all the life out of me. But I realized that since I wrote last, the One True Child has done a number of blogworthy things, and it's high time I just sucked it up and got back on the computer. That and it's only supposed to be about 86 degrees http://mommymatic.blogspot.com/2007/08/six-and-half-weeks-seriously.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the stefanie formerly known as stefanierj)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13655771.post-3459426968434297284Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:20:00 +00002007-06-12T07:42:50.273-07:00I got nothing. A weekend-plus of the world's worst case of croup (people still get that! some people get it THREE TIMES A YEAR! Who knew?), a visit from the Outlawz, and about a thousand other things too gross or petty to name have just wiped me out. Luckily, however, my sister is funnier and cleverer--and apparently better rested--than I am, and she sent me this nugget of advice I thought the http://mommymatic.blogspot.com/2007/06/advice-from-sistermatic.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the stefanie formerly known as stefanierj)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13655771.post-3577801678109144310Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:51:00 +00002007-06-06T15:01:35.024-07:00So say what you will about Di$ney, but whatever sticker company they license their "Car$" products to must freaking rock, because D gave me a sticker for my hand yesterday, and it has lasted through the following: 1 very splashy and interactive toddler bath 1 very wiggly and silly toddler diapering and baby-lotion-applying session 1 sinkful of dishes with the level 2 extra-greasy-slime option http://mommymatic.blogspot.com/2007/06/my-personal-answer-to-what-could.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the stefanie formerly known as stefanierj)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13655771.post-7781909953205469773Tue, 29 May 2007 22:50:00 +00002007-05-30T07:31:51.486-07:00Okay, so it's time for a confession, Utah-style. Most of you know that while I am not Mormon, I am quite positively inclined towards the LDS church. I think it's a force for good in this community, and while I don't espouse the theology myself, I think there are some lovely ideas there. Being nice to people. Helping out. Being with one's family for all time and eternity. Now, ten days straight http://mommymatic.blogspot.com/2007/05/lords-day-and-day-after-that.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the stefanie formerly known as stefanierj)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13655771.post-7763990840803162049Wed, 23 May 2007 14:42:00 +00002007-05-23T08:00:33.003-07:00Recent google searches that have led people to this blog: meal moth cat poop testicle grabbing poop "bear down" Mommymatic: Come for the scatology, stay for...what? More scatology? (I know I'm being cliche and that every blogger inevitably does a post about the wacky searches that bring people to their blog, but this past week is the first time I've gotten any really good ones, so http://mommymatic.blogspot.com/2007/05/content-evaluation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the stefanie formerly known as stefanierj)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13655771.post-2518593507161500338Fri, 04 May 2007 15:49:00 +00002007-05-19T13:36:30.569-07:00So you may have noticed our decided lack of news on the pottytraining front here at Chez Mommymatic. That's because there hasn't been any. I've been trying not to freak out about the fact that some lovely people have managed to potty train their children scant months after their two-year birthdays and that we, up until the last few weeks have only shown a third-party kind of interest in the wholehttp://mommymatic.blogspot.com/2007/05/tinkle-tinkle-little-boy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the stefanie formerly known as stefanierj)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13655771.post-1520705464302077782Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:27:00 +00002007-04-26T09:45:17.107-07:00Some thoughts: One: So I was washing my hair the other day, and my little voyeur peeped into the shower. He asked for some "bubbles" out of my hair but told him I was washing it. He looked at me gravely and said "You're doing a good job, mom." Two: We were driving away from the library the other day and a cute Asian couple walked by our car. D doesn't always notice passersby but for some reasonhttp://mommymatic.blogspot.com/2007/04/i-dont-know-where-he-gets-endless.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the stefanie formerly known as stefanierj)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13655771.post-7262254070777133678Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:20:00 +00002007-04-17T08:28:25.885-07:00I've been bad about posting. I really wanted to post just after Easter, but I had a rough week in which I received some pretty bad news about a friend who was killed, and in light of that and the recent shootings at Virginia Tech, it seemed frivolous to post about the fact that D had candy for the first time over Easter and how much fun it was this year to have Easter with him. But I have been http://mommymatic.blogspot.com/2007/04/co-opting-pagan-rituals-for-sake-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the stefanie formerly known as stefanierj)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13655771.post-1757251126872356239Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:25:00 +00002007-03-21T11:27:10.021-07:00D apparently has decided he is destined for the service industry and is hard at work on carving out a niche market for himself. Namely, he sees a big future in becoming a Bathroom Valet. Lest you think this is merely some fancy name for the person who, in very fancy restaurants, hands you towels when you are finished washing your hands, let me correct you: not so. The responsibilities of this http://mommymatic.blogspot.com/2007/03/our-new-valet.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the stefanie formerly known as stefanierj)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13655771.post-606155501265074436Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:30:00 +00002007-03-13T15:09:37.462-07:00Oh, yeah. I've been in Vegas. Vegas, baby! A city so storied it caused Daddymatic to leave me a note of things to do that included items such as 1. Double down on an 11 and 2. If you can't be good, at least take pictures. It was hard-hard-hard being away from my peeps for a week, especially since the One True Child refused, for the first time in six months, to take a nap. This of course was http://mommymatic.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-happens-in-vegas_13.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the stefanie formerly known as stefanierj)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13655771.post-4024941592070024840Fri, 23 Feb 2007 04:59:00 +00002007-02-22T22:48:55.995-07:00One: The One True Child has apparently mastered the concept of the First Person Singular Pronoun. For those of you who don't speak Insufferable Grammarian, that means that instead of referring to himself by his name, a la Bob Dole, he can now use a pronoun to represent himself in a sentence. Thus, "Day-vuss chair" has become "My chair." Unfortunately, "my" appears to be the only first person http://mommymatic.blogspot.com/2007/02/items-of-note.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the stefanie formerly known as stefanierj)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13655771.post-3148651943937753758Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:05:00 +00002007-02-14T22:40:46.030-07:00A number of really nice, concerned and completely great people have written to us to make sure we're okay after the deadly mall shooting that took place about 10 blocks from us here in Salt Lake City. We are shaken, we are sad, we are seriously reconsidering our stance on the concealed carry law, and we are grateful to live in an environment with brave and skilled emergency workers and cops who http://mommymatic.blogspot.com/2007/02/bug-bites.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the stefanie formerly known as stefanierj)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13655771.post-117080329055318343Tue, 06 Feb 2007 22:56:00 +00002007-02-06T16:08:10.586-07:00There are days when my child makes one of my wishes come true to such a degree that I almost wonder what I was doing wishing for that in the first place. Case in point: I could hardly wait for his first words, for him to talk and be able to communicate with me. And now? He. talks. constantly. Yes, the child who Would Not Speak before 19 months now rivals his grandmothers, his garrulous Aunt Katiehttp://mommymatic.blogspot.com/2007/02/words-and-wishes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the stefanie formerly known as stefanierj)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13655771.post-116985776588135749Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:22:00 +00002007-01-26T17:32:29.850-07:00So the slide? Is very big. And is very brightly primary colorific. Very brightly colorific. Also? Two people who together weigh less than 300 lbs are not capable of taking it apart. But the two people in question did not discover this fact until after it had been put together. So my living room now looks like a freaking daycare. Good times, eh? Photo Sharing - Upload Video - Video Sharing - http://mommymatic.blogspot.com/2007/01/what-is-this-global-warming-you-speak.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the stefanie formerly known as stefanierj)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13655771.post-116909377615076571Thu, 18 Jan 2007 03:59:00 +00002007-01-17T22:47:20.786-07:00 Photo Sharing - Upload Video - Video Sharing - Share Photos Well, internets, it's official. We've successfully renegotiated Heavy D's contract for another year, due in large part to a vocal showing by his as-yet untapped fan base. So thanks, Sparky, Kristin and Redneck Mommy in particular for showing the love and letting the management know how you feel about this particular player and his http://mommymatic.blogspot.com/2007/01/its-official.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the stefanie formerly known as stefanierj)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13655771.post-116854934148605638Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:55:00 +00002007-01-11T14:02:21.503-07:00Things in the Matic household have been…interesting. The last few weeks reminded me of when I went to Alaska and saw Mt.McKinley. We were there in June amidst awful weather, and one day, someone said, “Go down to the end of the road and see Mt. McKinley. The fog has finally lifted from it and it’s spectacular.” As I’m walking down the road, though, I’m grumbling something about how in the heck amhttp://mommymatic.blogspot.com/2007/01/forgive-me-internets-its-been-month.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the stefanie formerly known as stefanierj)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13655771.post-116593653240052323Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:11:00 +00002006-12-12T08:15:32.413-07:00Daddymatic finished his semester last week, and this very. challenging. toddler. weekend, we had this conversation: Daddymatic: Did you know D's school goes until December 22nd? Mommymatic: I think I did know that. Why? Daddymatic: Because it just struck me that he's too young to know how much that sucks, but I'm old enough to know how awesome it is. I don't know why, but that struck me as http://mommymatic.blogspot.com/2006/12/perspective.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the stefanie formerly known as stefanierj)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13655771.post-116555196816701349Fri, 08 Dec 2006 03:56:00 +00002006-12-07T21:26:11.803-07:00Soooo the child has finally decided that the educational materials my company designs are more addictive than, say, whatever the toddler equivalent of crystal m3th is. Given what I do all day, you'd think it would annoy me to have to watch 2-minute animated clips of "The Eensy-Weensy Spider" and "The Wheels on the Bus" but all I can say is that it's about dang time. I was getting tired of havinghttp://mommymatic.blogspot.com/2006/12/official-spokestoddler.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the stefanie formerly known as stefanierj)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13655771.post-116495001488409435Fri, 01 Dec 2006 04:19:00 +00002006-12-01T08:40:04.700-07:00Some bloggy bitz first: Today is a mommymatic first. Andrea the beautiful and brave nominated this post as a perfect post. I have never gotten one of these coveted awards before, so I'm kind of like a little kid who's been told she's getting the exact brand-new bike she wanted and not the hand-me-down bike from her older sister. It's like when Roger said I had nice hair. Makes me want to cover http://mommymatic.blogspot.com/2006/11/bits-and-parts-of-things.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the stefanie formerly known as stefanierj)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13655771.post-116421546887805952Wed, 22 Nov 2006 16:48:00 +00002006-11-22T10:18:51.026-07:00All is well--thanks for the concern over La-la's being on the lam(b) [Thanks, Nancy--you know I love a good pun]. We do have a spare--we have to have a body double for Lambie so that she can occasionally be washed. We've ordered another one (thanks, Gund for continuing to make this critter!) and for now, crisis has been averted. But posting about losing one of my child's many, many stuffed http://mommymatic.blogspot.com/2006/11/thanksgiving-tradition-delurk-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the stefanie formerly known as stefanierj)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13655771.post-116406642853547472Mon, 20 Nov 2006 23:46:00 +00002006-11-20T16:59:26.830-07:00Name: Lambie. Also answers to "La-la." Age: 24 months Description: White (ish) with smudgy grey-ish ears, nose and tail Noteworthy marks: Rattleodectomy scar on abdomen. Last seen: November 20, 2006 at ____ Preschool, Salt Lake City, UT If you see her: Do not approach! Her eyes are always closed, so she may appear to be asleep but could, at any time, go ninja-lamb and escape again. Please contacthttp://mommymatic.blogspot.com/2006/11/mia.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the stefanie formerly known as stefanierj)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13655771.post-116379732009174924Fri, 17 Nov 2006 20:58:00 +00002006-11-17T14:02:05.796-07:00This one's for you, big guy! Enjoy your big day this weekend! And mama, enjoy the 2s. We expect a full report. :) Photo Sharing - Upload Video - Video Sharing - Share Photoshttp://mommymatic.blogspot.com/2006/11/happy-birthday-peanut.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the stefanie formerly known as stefanierj)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13655771.post-116363564083347840Wed, 15 Nov 2006 23:56:00 +00002006-11-15T17:07:20.886-07:00Ok, so if I only post half the month, can I say I did NaBlo? Or is it PoMo? Maybe I should just enjoy the collective sigh of relief that I've given in to dropping out (yes, I heard that). I really, really, wanted to be able to post every day, but I'm being crushed by a deadline just now and I don't want to record Memories of Stressed Mommy for D to have when he's older. I mean, if I'm keeping http://mommymatic.blogspot.com/2006/11/nb-pm.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the stefanie formerly known as stefanierj)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13655771.post-116285555294903746Tue, 14 Nov 2006 00:07:00 +00002006-11-13T17:15:02.540-07:00I’d just like to go on record saying that in the event that my child ever, despite my best efforts to purge my own discourse of such things, overhears myself, my husband or anyone else refer to the event of his arrival in the world as an “accident” or something “unplanned,” that this is what that means: We wanted you for years before you ever appeared and when we found out you were arriving, it http://mommymatic.blogspot.com/2006/11/going-on-record.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the stefanie formerly known as stefanierj)