Six Degrees of Blogging

6 Aug posted by

Have you ever heard of the game ‘The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon’?  Basically, it’s a trivia type game where you try to link celebrities through their film roles to Kevin Bacon in six steps, going off of the small world concept.  Well I’ve determined that blogging is the same way today.

Back when I was still pregnant with the twins and first blogging publicly, I somehow stumbled across a blog of another pregnant mom, Christa.  She was having her first, and we’d both started our blogs because of our pregnancies, and we’ve been friends ever since.

Over the past couple of years, we’ve introduced each other to more bloggers we’ve connected with, creating a little network of friends.  These ladies are my people, my tribe.  I can count on them for comments, I can bounce ideas off of them, and I can go to them with topics I’m not comfortable blogging about.

Through Christa, I was introduced to Summer.  I immediately loved her.  We have similar parenting styles, she gets my sense of humor, and I think we just clicked. (I hope she feels the same, or I’m going to feel like a huge dork.)

I promise there’s a point to this story- and I’m getting to it!

Last night, we were talking about BlogHer12.  We’re both really bummed we aren’t at BlogHer right now in San Diego, and when we found it it will be in NY next year, we both decided we were going.  I mentioned that it is perfect, because even if Aaron can’t get leave to watch the kids, I can leave them with my mom since she’s in NY and not worry about them.

Summer asked me what part of NY I’m from, because her husband’s family is also there.  We realized that our families are from the same county.  Then we put together that her husband’s family and my parents knew each other.  In fact, my parents were so close to her father-in-law, that when I was born, they asked him to be my Godfather- although we’ve lost touch through the years.

But holy wow, my blogging friend who lives in Georgia is married to my Godfather’s son!  What are the chances?

The internet is smaller than we realize.


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Excited!

30 Jan posted by

Megan from Best of Fates does the best excited face ever.  If you haven’t read her blog, you should.  I find her highly amusing and very entertaining.  And I’m not just saying that because she’s paying me.

So last night, when we attended a going away party for one of the Marines that Aaron works with, and I captured this photo, the first thought to spring into my head was ‘OMG Paul (that’s the dude’s name) has an excited face, just like Megan-Best-of-Fates.

Megan-Best-of-Fates is her full name, and I used the whole thing during my internal conversation because there was a girl named Tori at the party that this guy named Josh kept calling Megan, and she was not the same Megan as Megan-Best-of-Fates.  She is Tori-Megan-according-to-Josh.

Paul is quite good with kids- he’s got a bunch of younger siblings.  And if you give him a bowl of Hamburger Helper, he will babysit your children so you and your husband can go out to dinner.  If you have a husband.  And kids.  And of course Hamburger Helper.  Pretty sweet deal, if all those pieces fall into place though, eh?

He and Ryan Wii’ed for a bit, between games of Beer Pong.  For the record, Ryan did not participate in the Beer Pong.   He’s too short to reach the table.   Such a shame, really.

Dylan likes the little cups.  Kids seem to be drawn to miniature things- probably because they’re miniature themselves.  Don’t worry, any and all inappropriate beverages were consumed by people old enough to do the consuming.  Even though Mia really wanted to have a little cup instead of her big one.

While the title of this post is ‘Excited!’, I am not.  I am not the least bit excited that Paul is leaving, even though he’s excited to PCS out of this town.  But we like him, so we don’t want to see him go.  So goes the transient life of a service member.  At least we’ll always have World of Warcraft…


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My New Friend.

5 Jan posted by

I think I’ve found my new IRL BFF.  She works at the local fast food place- currently in the drive-thru.  I need to find out her name.  I probably should have checked her name tag.

I first met her the summer that the twins were born.  She was pregnant then and worked at a different place.  Well she may be working at both places I suppose…or maybe she does one in the summer and the other in the winter?  I’ll ask her all about it when she becomes my BFF.

Anyway, we’d walk to DQ for dessert in the evenings and she’d admire my babies, so of course I automatically loved her.  Since she was pregnant and I had two newborns, we often talked pregnancy and baby talk.

So tonight  I went through the drive thru to grab dinner and she was there.  I had to wait on my onion rings so when she came out to bring me my bag, she also said hi to the babies who were with me.

And she hooked me up with a free slice of pie.   She’s definitely BFF material.


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He’s a cat…

1 Aug posted by

When we were in NY with the older boys, B kept listening to this.  I think he even might have downloaded it as his ring tone.  It really gets stuck in your head.  The twins love watching it… LOL

Dylan is still taking a few wobbly steps here and there.  Every single time I try to catch his drunken stumble on video, he sits down and crawls over to me.  One of these days I’ll get it!  Ryan isn’t far behind, he’s doing a lot of letting go when he’s standing, but hasn’t yet tried to take a step.

So far this pic is as good as it gets… hopefully I’ll be able to get a video soon.

Ryan is still a bad sleeper.  He doesn’t seem to like to take naps- and frequently goes without one.  The days he does take one, it’s only because he’s passed out on the floor.  If we try to move him into his crib, he wakes up and gets no sleep, so we’ve just been letting him crash where he falls.

Night time isn’t much better.  He goes to sleep well after Dylan, and wakes up earlier.  Sometimes I can get him to go back to sleep if I bring him in our bed and cuddle him, but not always.  Generally, he’s a happy baby, and the lack of sleep doesn’t seem to affect his personality, so we’re lucky there.  But I know he needs more sleep to grow!

Lastly, would you keep two of my friends in your thoughts?  One lost her toddler 6 years ago today.  She’s always remembered my babies, and been supportive, and I want her to know I will never forget her little guy.

Another friend just had her baby girl, about 10 weeks early- due to pre-e.  I’m so happy she made it as far as she did, she’d had a loss previously like I’d had- right near viability- and I know how hard it is going into a new pregnancy.  BUT her baby is here, and a great size- bigger than Ryan!- and I hope she has a smooth and fast of a NICU journey as we did with the twins.


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IDK, My BFF ____?

8 Jun posted by

Mama Kat was talking about making real life friends from blogging buddies.  I could use a BFF.  Kimi decided to ask for applications.  I think that’s the way to go, being lazy and all.  Not that I expect you all to be falling down trying to win me over… But I figured I’d post 10 of my unique and special attributes that I can bring to the relationship, and if you feel I would be worthy of your BFFness you could reply with something that you’d bring to the table.

  1. My house is always messy.
  2. I don’t like to talk on the phone.
  3. I never finished college and I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up.
  4. I only like to listen to music that I know the lyrics to… which seems to limit me to classic rock and 80′s.
  5. I swear way too much.
  6. I hate the beach.  I hate wearing a bathing suit.  I find them uncomfy to wear.  And I hate hate hate sand.
  7. I hate pants (shorts, skirts, etc). I never wear pants when I am home, unless we have guests over. I wouldn’t want to scare them LOL
  8. I don’t do mornings.
  9. I play World of Warcraft.
  10. I am overweight now, but in high school and the bit of college I did attend, I was a skinny little cheerleader.

So what have you got?


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