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Entries from November 2008

Never Read The Book First!

November 29th, 2008 · 15 Comments

If you haven’t seen Twilight yet and plan to, you need to not read this post.
If you really loved the movie you need to not read this post.
If you have no idea what I’m talking about, you need to just move on and not even bother reading this post.
If this is Robert Pattinson and you [...]

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Tags: Mayhew niblets · Mom memoirs · blogger stuff · i like to write · product review · we are a little crazy

Edward better do something about this NOW

November 28th, 2008 · 11 Comments

I asked my husband: Pete, would you pull out that white hair sticking up in the front?
My husband replied: Which one?
Saying the right thing? Ur doing it WRONG.
However, further proof that FAIL is a genetic family trait…Rachael stood behind me as I started to write this teeny post and she was reading aloud, “….would you [...]

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Tags: Mayhew niblets · Mom memoirs · Peter · we are a little crazy

I am full of thankful

November 27th, 2008 · 7 Comments

“Bad things have happened, but we’ve managed to endure it.”
Not exactly the wonderful frame of mind one wants to take into Thanksigiving.
But really?  We have not had the best track record.
2005 brought a stroke for me and a fall full of physical therapy and worries of what kind of mother I would be if I [...]

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Tags: Having faith · Holidays · Mayhew niblets · Mom memoirs · Seasonal changes

I Lack Inspiration

November 26th, 2008 · 11 Comments

Peter amuses me in a special way when he asks me if I’m planning to blog.  He’s been sitting here by my side for the better part of two weeks, experiencing every flu-induced moment of agony, living in the fumes of my sickness.
What could I possibly blog about that he hasn’t experienced?
Perhaps that oh-so-special moment [...]

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Tags: Mayhew niblets · Mom memoirs · Peyton treatments · blogger stuff · mayhew review · parenting is harder than it looks · the cancer life · things our kids do · we are a little crazy

Ya’ll Are NOT Funny!

November 25th, 2008 · 7 Comments

To each one of you who offered up the “fetus inhabitation” theory on my illness…may the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits!
As my baby factory is closed, there will be no more junior Mayhews coming down the assembly line…and if there are there will be some serious lawsuits in our future.
AND I will [...]

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Tags: 5 minutes for special needs · Mayhew niblets · Mom memoirs · blogger stuff · charitable goodness · events and happenings · mayhew review · product review · the cancer life · these people are our friends