Archive for November, 2006
I don’t know if it is because my kids are two, or if it is because I am 33, or if there is just some sort of baby boom going on right now, but I know a ton of women who are currently pregnant.
This phenomenon has me thinking about what it was like when I was pregnant with The Goon Squad. I had two really bad aversions. One was to the smell of cinnamon. The other one was the smell of sponge. You know what I am talking about? I must have gone through thirty sponges thinking they were rotten. I think it was the sponge itself.
I craved pineapple. I honestly are an entire fresh pineapple every two days. It is kind of disturbing if you really think about how much fruit that actually is.
The whole Spongebob thing is a total coincidence.
I think.
I know people who couldn’t even go near the deli counter in the grocery store because the smell of lunch meat made them so ill. My Mom couldn’t stand the smell of food being grilled. What did you (or your wife) crave and/or have aversions to during pregnancy?
Posted by Goon Squad Sarah @
1:13 pm |
November 15, 2006 | Pictures
My real life friend, Michelle, has started distributing Dolca shoes and clothes in the United States. I just got these outfits from her.
Michelle’s son was born four days before The Goon Squad. We spent a lot of time waddling around Tampa together hugely pregnant. When I got stuck in the hospital with preterm labor and Michelle would come visit me in the perinatal unit the nursing staff kept thinking that she was me trying to escape.
Go visit Dolca USA and if you use the code gsquad Michelle will give you 10% off.
Dolca has been featured on Cool Mom Picks. Actually, you can go over there now and enter a contest to win a free dress or backpack.
The shoes in this photo are not Dolca Shoes.
(* This is an unpaid advertisement. I mean, looks at how cute the little flower dress is! In the interest of full disclosure, Michelle did send me the clothes for free, but in all honesty she knows that if she has another baby she is in line for my hand-me-downs.)
Also, look at this insanely cute picture of my kids kissing each other.
Posted by Goon Squad Sarah @
9:43 am |
Last month Mommy off the Record and Izzy started up an award for the funniest post you read in a month. I wasn’t nearly organized enough to get my stuff together in time to participate last month, but this month I’ve written my post before three o’clock in the afternoon! (Give me a break. I had to co-op this morning and it involved getting nine two year olds in and out of a real fire truck and vacuuming up about eight pounds of birdseed.)
Dawn is always funny. But this post really cracked me up. I’m not sure if it was the fact that she used a product designed to help with razor burn as a chap stick substitute or the image of her trying to get it off of her lips by using her bed sheet while her husband called her a “nasty mother fucker”. Either way, go check her out. You will not regret it.
Posted by Goon Squad Sarah @
3:31 pm |
Do you want to know what sucks worse than spilling a beer in your lap?
Spilling a good expensive beer in your lap.
Spilling a good dark expensive beer in your lap.
Spilling your last dark expensive beer in your lap.
Do you want to know what sucks worse than spilling your last dark expensive special holiday beer in your lap?
Spilling your last dark expensive special holiday beer in your lap in your nicest chair.
While your husband is watching.
And laughing at you.
Do you want to know what sucks worse than spilling your last dark expensive special holiday beer in your lap in your nicest chair while your husband is watching and laughing at you?
Spilling a really full, really cold last dark expensive special holiday beer in your lap in your nicest chair while your husband is watching and laughing at you.
Oh, and it is even worse if by chance you are wearing a very absorbent pantiliner.
Do you want to know what is good about having a broken camera?
(I guess that question answers itself, doesn’t it?)
Posted by Goon Squad Sarah @
7:44 pm |
Ian just brought me a block.
“We need to wash it.”
I said “We need to wash it? Why? What’s on it?”
“Poop.” He said.
“POOP?” I’m picturing something unspeakable going on five feet to my right as I was paying bills.
“No.” Ian said. “It’s just throw up.”
At this point I put aside all of the bills and the laptop to jump up and wash the block. The cats have been having a rough day.
It wasn’t vomit OR poop. (My best guess would be banana.) I have no idea where he came up with that. I know he really likes washing things in the sink and it certainly got my attention.
Maybe it is time to teach him how to do dishes. You know, just the plastic stuff. If I wasn’t afraid to let him be alone in the kitchen it could really cut back on my workload.
Posted by Goon Squad Sarah @
3:57 pm |
