A Mommy Story

Holy sitemeter, Batman! Nothing like getting linked by a high-traffic, and now TV famous blogger to drive your stats through the roof! Yesterday, more than triple the average number of visitors clicked through, most to read my take on the cocktail playdate bru-ha-ha. Izzy noticed a similar trend, as we watched our sitemeters explode. Thanks, Melissa – feel free to link to me anytime!

Speaking of stats, another big event happened to my sitemeter yesterday: I hit 50,000 total visitors sometime early in the day. 50K in just over a year – never thought I’d type that. Thanks for reading, and I hope you’ll continue to enjoy stopping by. Here’s to the next goal of 100,000!

Does anyone else have a toddler who insists on taking half of his or her toys to bed? At first it was just her puppy, but then she started grabbing one other item each night. Now she loads up her arms with toys, stuffed animals, cups and balls overflowing from her tiny frame and blocking her view, insisting that she needs each and every one in order to go to sleep.

Since bedtime is never protested as long as the toys go also, we try not to make an issue of it. But I’m starting to wonder how she sleeps in all this:

And finally, this song has been stuck in my head for two days now, so I’m going to unload “Why Mommy Left” on all of you. If you’ve never heard of the singer-comedian Stephen Lynch, you must go to YouTube and find more of his music. He’s one of my favorite comedians, and his twisted songs always cheer me up on bad days. If you like this one, be sure to check out his song “Superhero” also.

These are the network-friendly versions of the songs – most of his work is generally not this profanity-free.