Chicky Chicky Baby

• Winning is its greatest reward. Winning, not having to wear spandex AND eating a jar of Nutella the next day is better.

  Number of comments: 13
  Whoops. I might have missed posting about a little something last week.
  
  That bet I had with Matthew? Ahem... [totally doing my best impression of Elle Woods when she finds out she got the last intern spot] I WON!
  
  Oh yes I did.
  
  I lost [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 11:19am EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Because no one else understands my obsession with Ralph Macchio like she does

  Number of comments: 5
  My heart hurts today.
  
  I'm going to just cut to the chase - My friend Anissa Mayhew had a stroke yesterday and today she is in the ICU. I am completely devastated by this news. Anissa is a new friend, I only just met her in July at' [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:18am EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Sometimes a cough is just a cough and not the end of days

  Number of comments: 19
  Flu hysteria is solidly upon us, and by "us" I mean the country. I'm still only mildly concerned, but as the season progresses and more kids get sick (Hello, my town's high school was closed for five days due to an outbreak of what might have been H1N1. Freaking out? [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 10:04am EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Need

  Number of comments: 42
  CC and I went to a local children's store today to exchange a hat and mitten set I had bought for Chicky. Despite my insistence she stop growing, she seemed to have had a growth spurt and needed a larger size. We were just going to run in, get the' [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 2:02pm EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• *Insert voice of an adult in a Peanuts cartoon here*

  Number of comments: 23
  Okay, I need to address the elephant in the room - Why I'm not writing anymore.
  
  What? You don't see an elephant? It's right there. It's soiling the rug as we speak. It's an abomination! You just see a lumpy, smelly couch in need of replacing? Elephant, old couch.' [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 9:44am EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• I know as their mom I should have warned them their faces would freeze this way

  Number of comments: 32
  But as the woman who vomited for a combined 18 months while carrying them in my womb, I'll take the silly where I can get it.
  
  
  This is what happens when I say, "Make a silly face!" Wow.
  ' [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2009, 9:12pm EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• But if I do lose I'm totally going to rock it Olivia Newton John style.

  Number of comments: 23
  Apparently, it takes another bet to force me out of hiding and writing on my blog again, but this is so worth it.
  
  But let me back up a bit.
  
  There comes a time in every person's life when they see the handwriting on the wall, where it' [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 10:16am EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• It would be cheaper to tape his mouth shut

  Number of comments: 16
  How to guarantee you'll need a new car:
  
  Sit down with your wife to discuss your finances. Talk about how certain things will be paid off by a certain date as long as your car keeps running well, therefore keeping you both out of a second unnecessary car payment.' [...]
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  Posted: October 02, 2009, 8:44am EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• [No Title]

  Number of comments: 26
  I think I may have lost the ability to write.
  
  No, really. It's lost. I swear I just had it but then I went to pour myself a glass of water and now I can't figure out where I put it... A month ago.
  
  Who am I [...]
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  Posted: September 22, 2009, 7:47pm EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• What's next, life? Kicking kittens?

  Number of comments: 20
  Hi, internet people. I've missed you.
  
  I wrote a post - really, I did! And then Blogger ate it. Gluttonous bastard.
  
  Two weeks with no posting - TWO WEEKS - and when I finally sit down to write something... Poof! It's gone. Off to the great internet junkyard [...]
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  Posted: September 16, 2009, 11:01am EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Well Rope, it seems we've reached the end.

  Number of comments: 55
  My daughter and I are at war. All out, nuclear missile, weapons of mass destruction, war. W-A-R, WAR. What is it good for? That's right, absolutely nuthin'.
  
  My heart hurts, my head is pounding and my throat is sore from yelling. And I'm pretty sure my neighbors are wondering' [...]
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  Posted: September 01, 2009, 7:29am EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains

  Number of comments: 7
  I am a baseball fan. More to the point, I am a Red Sox fan, but I'll root for any local team even a Little League team. And when one roots for the local team sometimes a wager or two needs to be made in their honor. Sometimes you win,' [...]
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  Posted: August 27, 2009, 1:00pm EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Bad Mommy Confessional - Part 275,398 in a continuing series

  Number of comments: 25
  I've made some pretty magnificent fuck ups when it comes to my kids in my four years as a parent. I'm pretty stellar in the fuck up department anyway but when it comes to my kids I try to keep it to a minimum, which only makes each fuck up [...]
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  Posted: August 24, 2009, 12:40pm EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• It won't always be this way

  Number of comments: 41
  We pack the bags, the beach toys, the towels, the snacks, the drinks, the shade tent, and the kids and we head to the beach where we unpack the bags, the beach toys, the towels, the snacks, the drinks, the shade tent, and let the kids have their way with [...]
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  Posted: August 18, 2009, 9:33pm EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Grandma's little helper

  Number of comments: 22
  While preparing to grind my coffee at Trader Joe's this afternoon a nice older woman approached the adjacent bread section.
  "I'm sorry," I said, smiling, moving my cart out of the way. "Let me move this so you can get to those muffins."
  "Don't worry about me, honey, nothing's going" [...]
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  Posted: August 16, 2009, 4:16pm EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• But I'm keeping my black shit

  Number of comments: 30
  Friday afternoon, in the car:
  Me: So, you heard John Hughes died, right?
  Him: Who?
  Me: [head threatening to explode] John Hughes? The man responsible for The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Planes, Trains and Automobiles and many, MANY other excellent movies? The man who created Duckie' [...]
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  Posted: August 10, 2009, 10:14am EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• BlogHer '10 or 20th high school class reunion? Decisions, decisions.

  Number of comments: 44
  When BlogHer announced the date and location of next year's conference two things went through my head:
  1. Yay! It's closer to home next year. A bunch of us New England bloggers can take the train together and bond over mimosas in the club car and get to know [...]
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  Posted: August 06, 2009, 10:45am EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Baby steps

  Number of comments: 32
  
  We're at the playground on one of the first nice days we've had in what seems like forever, shaking off the fever, both cabin and viral, and slathering sunscreen. The bigger kids are playing make believe by the swings and climbing like monkeys on the aptly named bars. They're' [...]
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  Posted: July 31, 2009, 8:57am EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• I'm too sleep deprived to come up with an interesting title. So: Post-BlogHer '09 recap post. Yawn.

  Number of comments: 32
  Raise your hand if you've never said or done something you really wished you could take back.
  The three of you who raised your hand, the ones who are either sainted, mute, or have lived alone in a cave all your life, you can put them down. Your prize is' [...]
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  Posted: July 28, 2009, 9:21am EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• The search for the perfect pair of jeans. Alternate title: The grass is always greener on someone else's thighs.

  Number of comments: 38
  I am at war with my body.
  
  After two kids and almost 37 years on the earth, not to mention the winter and long, cold, wet spring we just went through (or as I like to call it, Nutella-Palooza, '08 - '09), things don't look quite the same as' [...]
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  Posted: July 15, 2009, 9:03pm EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Not dead yet...

  Number of comments: 101
  ... Just busy. Very busy. And lacking inspiration to write anything in this blog. Which is great right before a blogging conference.
  
  But the sun came out finally. So there's that.
  
  So we've been taking advantage of the nice weather. For instance, we've been spending many, MANY hours' [...]
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  Posted: July 13, 2009, 8:29pm EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• And no, Christopher Cross is not invited

  Number of comments: 17
  It's the Thursday before a holiday weekend - except for you Canadians, happy belated Canada Day! - and we here in the North East are experiencing a pattern of weather that I like to affectionately call A Hundred Pounds of Shit in a Five Pound Bag.
  
  Too harsh? You' [...]
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  Posted: July 02, 2009, 9:42am EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Don't "Hon" me, Hon.

  Number of comments: 14
  If you're significantly younger than me you have no business calling me "Hon".
  
  Yeah sure, you're saying it over an intercom in the drive-thru of a Dunkin' Donuts and I am quite youthful (sounding. Some might describe me as "Juvenile", but not to my face), but after I've [...]
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  Posted: June 30, 2009, 9:27am EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• It's a really good thing my oven is electric...

  Number of comments: 12
  
  ... Because my head would be stuck in it right now.
  
  It's been raining for weeks. WEEKS. The kids are going crazy, I'm going crazy. Everything is wet and don't even get me started on my frizzy hair. It's a really good thing I [...]
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  Posted: June 26, 2009, 2:33pm EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• New technology and the right to privacy - No, you do not have the right to take my kid's picture

  Number of comments: 33
  Yesterday was one of those rare days when I could run to Trader Joe's (and I use the term "run" very loosely since I might have broken my baby toe the day before) with only CC in tow, leaving Chicky behind to have a Father's Day cartoon-fest at home with [...]
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  Posted: June 22, 2009, 1:56pm EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Mean girls and the hurting words

  Number of comments: 20
  Chicky, CC and I are part of a playgroup that meets once every week. It's one of those groups that are equal parts playtime for the kids and sanity saver for the moms. This week, seeing as we were experiencing one of our only nice days in the past five' [...]
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  Posted: June 18, 2009, 11:59am EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• What I need is a pig's head and a stick

  Number of comments: 21
  Captain's Log - Day 19:
  
  We have been stranded in the "no school zone" for what seems like forever and yet still days away from any scheduled day camps that will bring necessary relief. The natives are getting restless.
  
  The weather, I'm afraid, has not been cooperating. Dreary, [...]
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  Posted: June 15, 2009, 2:17pm EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Could be worse. At least I don't worry about her chasing squirrels.

  Number of comments: 11
  A few weeks before the end of Chicky's preschool year [*moment of silence for my sanity* Amen.] her teachers held their end-of-the-year parent-teacher conferences. Or as I like to call them, Learn What Your Child Is Really Like When You're Not Around To Give Them The Evil Eye.
  
  Like [...]
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  Posted: June 10, 2009, 12:10pm EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• I Spy - mornings

  Number of comments: 15
  I think I've figured out why writer's block is kicking my ass. My life? It is boring, hopelessly mundane and not inter....
  
  zzzzzzzzzzzzz
  
  Whoops, sorry about that. I fell asleep there.
  
  So instead of fighting it, I'm going to embrace it (Viva la Boring Ass Life!) with' [...]
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  Posted: June 05, 2009, 10:14am EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Good times never seemed so good

  Number of comments: 27
  CC,
  
  I blinked and then you were one.
  
  I know it's cliche, I know every parent says it, but where did the past year go? It seems like I just had you but it also seems like you've always been with us. You just have that way about [...]
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  Posted: June 02, 2009, 8:20am EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Empty

  Number of comments: 8
  My head is full.
  
  My head is full of phlegm and to-do lists and firing synapses of lightning and thunder. But right now, mostly phlegm.
  
  My head is full of memories I try to beat back with metaphorical witch brooms and fabulous high heeled shoes I wish I [...]
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  Posted: May 28, 2009, 9:36pm EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• What's next? Brimstone?

  Number of comments: 19
  Hi there.
  
  *waving*
  
  So, how was your Memorial Day weekend?
  
  Oh, mine? Thanks for asking (my readers are so considerate). It wasn't bad. A cookout with friends, planted some herbs, shoveled some ice. You know, typical end-of-May activities.
  
  What? Yeah, I said "shoveled some ice". Did' [...]
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  Posted: May 26, 2009, 9:22am EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Lopsided

  Number of comments: 24
  I think I can say with almost 100% certainty that CC is now officially weaned.
  
  *throws salt over shoulder*
  
  *knocks wood*
  
  *beats on a rabbit's foot with a horseshoe*
  
  After ten months of exclusive breastfeeding and then slowly and painstakingly trying to get her to' [...]
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  Posted: May 19, 2009, 11:41am EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• The Ultimate Struggle

  Number of comments: 17
  "Mommy, I wanna *mumble mumble mumble* -uggle."
  
  "Huh?"
  
  "I wanna *mumble mumble mumble* -uggle."
  
  "What?"
  
  "I. Wanna. *mumble mumble* -UGGLE."
  
  "I'm sorry, hon, but I have no idea what you're saying."
  
  "I wanna do that." Points to the DVD player.
  
  "Okay first, chew" [...]
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  Posted: May 18, 2009, 10:34am EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Say hello to my little friend (it's not really my friend but the title is catchy. I just can't place where I've heard it before.)

  Number of comments: 40
  Chicky brought home a little someone the other day. She wasn't aware this little guy had followed her home which is good because he's a little goth and a real wannabe blood sucker and hhe's a little young to deal with that type. The little guy didn't have a name [...]
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  Posted: May 14, 2009, 3:25pm EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Cookie Puss - the only slightly less edible kind

  Number of comments: 21
  The writer's block is lifting. I know, you're thrilled. Try to contain yourself.
  
  So why am I not writing? Uh... I actually have quite a bit to blog about now but there are big things brewing (Big, people. BIG) and I just don't have the time to write anything' [...]
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  Posted: May 11, 2009, 9:47pm EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• I hate Mother's Day and I don't think I'm the only one

  Number of comments: 56
  I hate Mother's Day.
  
  There, I said it. I hate this damn "holiday". I hate being reminded that my mom isn't around anymore. I hate every PR pitch about it that finds its way into my inbox (but I do take a perverse satisfaction out of deleting each [...]
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  Posted: May 08, 2009, 3:05pm EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• This will gross out at least 50 percent of my readers. But I'm okay with that.

  Number of comments: 34
  
  Oh, honey. I know what you're thinking. Please don't do it.
  
  
  
  I'm begging you, PLEASE don't do what I know you're about to do.
  I mean, I could stop you myself, but you need to learn some self-control,' [...]
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  Posted: May 05, 2009, 9:24am EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Caption this - Here Kitty

  Number of comments: 19
  Have you ever gone through your photo files looking for a specific picture only to find one that makes you go, Huh?
  
  
  
  I have no idea what is going on here. All I know is that when I took this picture (and for [...]
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  Posted: May 03, 2009, 9:24pm EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• This has got to be a record

  Number of comments: 17
  
  93 degrees. In APRIL. I'm too hot to come up with something witty to say about that. But I do know this, Al Gore is pissed right now. Vindicated, but pissed.
  
  Now, I like warm weather as much as the next person but this' [...]
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  Posted: April 28, 2009, 3:14pm EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Sometimes I don't know if I should wind my a*s or scratch my blog.

  Number of comments: 32
  Two things -
  
  First of all, thank you to everyone who left a comment on my last post. General consensus seems to be "Hey, dumbass. Call the cops already. [exaggerated eye roll]" But you didn't actually use the word "dumbass" and I appreciate that. A slight nudge feels' [...]
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  Posted: April 25, 2009, 2:19pm EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• *Dong Dong* ? *Doink Doink*? *Bong Bong*?

  Number of comments: 30
  Let's say you live in a house near a wooded area and that house - and wooded area too, duh - are in a cool climate experiencing a cold, rainy spring. And you're going a bit stir crazy because you've been spending too much time in the house due to' [...]
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  Posted: April 23, 2009, 9:37pm EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• That dweam within a dweam

  Number of comments: 9
  Yes, I still have writer's block. So when I saw that Julie had done this meme about our spouse's I decided to steal the idea and run with it.
  
  And for the record, I hate the term "spouse". I prefer "Love Sponge".
  
  Besides, the poor guy [...]
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  Posted: April 21, 2009, 7:51pm EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• See ya Blondie...

  Number of comments: 27
  
  
  
  ... Hello Red.
  
  Tune in next week when I get bored again and dye it blue. On a related note, I think I may need a hobby. [...]
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  Posted: April 19, 2009, 8:03pm EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• So I sing a song of love

  Number of comments: 21
  Chicky -
  
  Today you are four.
  
  
  
  I want to write so much to you. I want to tell you all the ways you've grown this year right before my eyes, but it happened so fast I didn't notice you had changed from [...]
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  Posted: April 16, 2009, 1:03pm EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Isn't it ironic? No really, is it?

  Number of comments: 17
  In my last post I was all - Hurrah breastfeeding! Fuck 'em all if they can't stand to see a woman's breasts used for what nature intended and not airbrushed within an inch of their life and splashed all over the covers of Maxim magazine, today we nurse like' [...]
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  Posted: April 13, 2009, 2:03pm EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Massachusetts makes a bit of NiP* legal. Finally.

  Number of comments: 12
  Massachusetts, the first state in the United States to make same sex marriage legal, today - that's right, TODAY - made it legal for a mother to nurse her baby in public without fear of being charged with indecent exposure or lewd conduct.
  
  Think about that for a' [...]
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  Posted: April 09, 2009, 8:15pm EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Because we can. Because we should.

  Number of comments: 4
  Today I was beaten repeatedly with a rattle. I have a fat lip, a bump on my nose and a headache.
  
  Today I was used as a jungle gym and now my back hurts too.
  
  Today I listened to whining, screaming, crying, demanding, and multiple tantrums.
  
  Today [...]
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  Posted: April 08, 2009, 5:12pm EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Blogger in a box (Alternate title: Miming sucks)

  Number of comments: 10
  
  A few weeks ago I lost my voice. Really, an almost 100% loss of the use of my vocal chords and it sucked about as much as you can imagine. Daily activities become extremely complicated when one has to pantomime what they want, since pointing [...]
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  Posted: April 07, 2009, 9:30am EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• I blame it on all the fresh air

  Number of comments: 28
  
  Hey Mom, this outdoor stuff is great and all but I'm kind of sleepy....
  
  
  And my hat keeps getting in my eyes. Do you think you could put down that camera and come pick me up? Maybe fix my' [...]
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  Posted: April 02, 2009, 10:34am EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Let sleeping dogs lie. But if you insist on poking one with a stick be prepared for the dog to write about you on the internet

  Number of comments: 43
  There are some parts of my past that I would rather forget forever. Nothing too horrible, I've never worked a street corner or anything. Just unpleasant memories that are better left swept under the rug with the rest of the dirt. So why is it that those are the things' [...]
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  Posted: March 27, 2009, 2:10pm EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• My next post will be about how much I love Polident

  Number of comments: 23
  To the people in the red Jeep:
  
  Hi there. Yeah, I see you. It's hard not to, being as close to the woods as we are. I see you trying to be all sly, driving out of the woods with that shit-eating grin on your faces. You pass me' [...]
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  Posted: March 24, 2009, 1:00pm EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Party politics

  Number of comments: 37
  Chicky has a birthday coming up - the big 4. Which means three things; 1) My baby isn't a baby anymore, 2) I need to start planning a birthday party, and 3) My baby isn't a baby anymore and my head can't quite grasp that notion so all the cogs' [...]
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  Posted: March 19, 2009, 9:45am EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• We should all be so lucky

  Number of comments: 33
  I took CC to her 9 month well baby visit last week (And can we just pause for a moment to wonder where the hell the last 9 months went?? Damn.), a visit I was very much looking forward to. Not because she was going to get a shot and [...]
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  Posted: March 16, 2009, 11:37am EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Cheeky Cheeky Baby

  Number of comments: 27
  
  I've been wanting to use that title for a long time, which would be really sad if not for OMG! THE CHEEKS. THE CHEEEEKS. NOM NOM NOM.
  
  Scrumptious? Check. Always on hand? Check. A low calorie food? Um, check?
  
  Take that, Girl Scout' [...]
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  Posted: March 12, 2009, 8:19pm EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• SAHM I am. For now.

  Number of comments: 37
  I've been thinking about going back to work a lot recently. In times like these, with the economy in the toilet, what stay at home mom doesn't toss around the idea? However, in my case, though money is right up there as a motivating factor, financial security is not the [...]
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  Posted: March 10, 2009, 9:34am EDT
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• February ROFLs

  Number of comments: 3
  It's time for the ROFL Awards!
  
  Here are this month's nominees. Visit them, laugh with them, in some cases laugh AT them. It's all good.
  
  
  
  
  Congratulations to all!
  
  
  Vodka Mom awarded Idiot Stew
  
  simply' [...]
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  Posted: March 06, 2009, 8:23am EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• This is NOTHING like being a Deadhead.

  Number of comments: 24
  You've heard about The 30 Day Shred, right?
  
  Jillian Michaels? Biggest Loser? She who will kick your ass back and forth 'til Sunday because she wants you to be the best and most sore person you can be?
  
  Yeah, that one.
  
  That psycho hose beast woman [...]
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  Posted: March 03, 2009, 10:53am EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• I swear, she's never seen "Leave it to Beaver"

  Number of comments: 11
  
  But maybe we've been watching Martha Stewart too much? Possibly?
  
  ----------
  
  In other domestic news, I've got a new review of the Sylvania PalPODzzz LED nightlight over at May We Recommend for PBN. Don't let the name of the product scare' [...]
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  Posted: March 02, 2009, 9:44am EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Tomorrow is another day

  Number of comments: 33
  Today is not a good day.
  
  Today is that day, but five years later. Five years. I can hardly believe it.
  
  In those five years I've had two beautiful girls who would be the light of my mother's life, and she theirs. Life is not fair. Life [...]
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  Posted: February 27, 2009, 9:29am EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• What do you mean, acid washed jeans aren't in style anymore?

  Number of comments: 27
  I used to love to shop.
  
  Back in the day my mother, sister and I would drive hours out of our way to pray at the altar of consumerism - or The Mall - all in the pursuit of fabric to cover our bodies. We'd make a whole day' [...]
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  Posted: February 25, 2009, 1:26pm EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• This might explain her God complex.

  Number of comments: 28
  I have a bit of a potty mouth. Cursing, cussing, swearing, whatever you like to call it, I like to do it. I like to talk like a trucker. I like the feeling I get when someone who doesn't know me very well, who assumes I'm as pure as the [...]
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  Posted: February 22, 2009, 4:43pm EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• But this one doesn't go with my shoes. No wait, this one ATE my shoes.

  Number of comments: 2
  I'm pinch hitting over at MamaPop today, doing what I do best - ranting about dog owner's irresponsible behavior. Oh, and I do rant. I am a Ranty Ranterson.
  
  Do join me, won't you? ' [...]
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  Posted: February 20, 2009, 10:48am EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Raspberry

  Number of comments: 22
  
  She's lucky. I don't let just anyone spit at me.
  
  (Let's chalk this one up to a nearly Wordless Wednesday. I'm new at this.) [...]
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  Posted: February 18, 2009, 7:31pm EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• And the word "NO" isn't mentioned! Not even once!

  Number of comments: 4
  We had a tough day with Chicky today. A really tough day. Let's just say this - she's lucky she still has her tongue.
  
  Lucky for me I have video proof that she was once cute and would do the most ridiculous things to make me happy. Instead [...]
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  Posted: February 16, 2009, 7:42pm EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• She puts the hitch in my giddy up

  Number of comments: 9
  I can be a bit of a pessimist, believing that given the chance things will almost always go wrong. But sometimes something good, really good, happens to someone who deserves it and my faith in human kind is restored... For at least five minutes.
  
  One of those sometimes happened [...]
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  Posted: February 15, 2009, 2:14pm EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Who would have thought it?

  Number of comments: 16
  I was going to write a follow up rant to my last post containing stories of mothers being led away in handcuffs and threatened with legal action, and some who had the authorities called on them because they dared be sarcastic on the internet [*bangs head on keyboard*], because [...]
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  Posted: February 12, 2009, 9:52am EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Is it ever safe to leave your kids in the car?

  Number of comments: 91
  Here's the scenario: You've got two kids, both in car seats and one has to be carried. You need to run to the convenience store for a gallon of milk, or the cash machine, or the dry cleaner - each of these tasks taking, maybe, 3 minutes tops to get [...]
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  Posted: February 10, 2009, 10:32am EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Do you see what I see?

  Number of comments: 13
  I closely monitor what Chicky watches on television. If she watches commercial television chances are she's watching it with me. What can I say? We like Ellen. We are fools for the dancing.
  
  It's important to me to be with her when she's bombarded with images of Barbies and' [...]
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  Posted: February 09, 2009, 9:21am EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• January ROFLs

  Number of comments: 3
  It's time for the ROFLs! Time to tickle those funny bones - which is infinitely better than bumping your funny bone because that hurts like a sunufabeech.
  
  My nomination for this month defies explanation - you just need to read it to believe it. And if all her' [...]
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  Posted: February 06, 2009, 8:01am EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• The gall!

  Number of comments: 19
  So, my husband had to have emergency surgery this weekend to have his, and I quote his surgeon here, "Very Angry" gallbladder removed. That sucked.
  
  What also sucked was sitting at home all day after hearing he was being driven to the emergency room (he was over an hour [...]
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  Posted: February 03, 2009, 1:53pm EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Save your ice pick, I'll show you what a real crazy chick uses

  Number of comments: 2
  Remember that scene in Basic Instinct when Sharon Stone chops up the ice for her drink with that ice pick and you knew then she was a few blocks short of an igloo and maybe, if he were smart, Michael Douglas should stay away from the crazy bitch but he [...]
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  Posted: February 02, 2009, 2:31pm EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Facebook: Like a high school reunion but worse

  Number of comments: 26
  I've been a casual Facebook user for awhile but my history with it has been spotty. I opened the account to stay connected to some friends I met through blogging but soon after I essentially abandoned the thing, mostly thanks to their position on posting breastfeeding pictures. I' [...]
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  Posted: January 29, 2009, 3:26pm EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Kicking the Bucket

  Number of comments: 26
  It's the end of an era. Over the weekend we put away CC's SnugRide infant car seat - otherwise known as "The Bucket" - and swapped it for the car seat she will use for the next three years of her life. I'd be lying if the process didn't make [...]
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  Posted: January 26, 2009, 8:01pm EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Talking to walls

  Sick kids, days on end stuck in the house and emergency trips to the doctor's for the littlest one have made me a little bit introspective today. Which is to say, there's a new post at Operation Get Happy.
  
  Wiping noses is fairly mindless work. I've had' [...]
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  Posted: January 21, 2009, 4:23pm EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Someday is Today

  Number of comments: 20
  On our way to preschool this morning, Chicky and I were listening to morning DJs pondering whether or not the Secret Service was going to let (soon to be) President Obama continue with his pickup basketball games.
  
  What would the other players call him while waiting for a pass, [...]
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  Posted: January 20, 2009, 10:33am EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Laugh if you want but it totally worked

  Number of comments: 28
  Scene: Trying to put a very sick CC down for a nap this morning. Neither one of us slept last night and she's screaming her little head off because she's overtired and can't breath - which made her even more pissed because she couldn't breath because she was overtired and [...]
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  Posted: January 19, 2009, 8:52am EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Parenting without a net

  Number of comments: 34
  Do you ever feeling like, as a parent, you're making things up as you go along? I do, you betcha.
  
  The other morning I left the girls alone in the living room for two minutes, tops, while I ran upstairs. I needed to retrieve a sweatshirt for Chicky before' [...]
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  Posted: January 15, 2009, 8:09am EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• New post at Operation Get ...

  Number of comments: 0
  New post at Operation Get Happy - Finding pleasure in the simple things.
  
  There's happiness all around, sometimes I just need to open my eyes and take notice. Who knew?
  
  (Not me obviously.) ' [...]
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  Posted: January 14, 2009, 2:57pm EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• I never said I was 100% truthful

  Number of comments: 55
  I've got a new post up at Operation Get Happy - This is me at the beginning of this journey, unhappy. With makeup and my hair not in a ball cap but with a shot of longing for fun. Eh, whatever.
  
  Also, it's delurking day. So delurk already [...]
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  Posted: January 12, 2009, 5:00pm EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• December ROFLs - The last of '08 edition

  Number of comments: 5
  Happy happy, joy joy.
  
  Okay, she's the Joy and you brought the happy, right? Right? It is the ROFLs, after all.
  
  The post that had me peeing my pants - in a good way, not in that icky, wet feeling and then you don't have a fresh [...]
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  Posted: January 09, 2009, 8:06am EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• The greatest story ever told. So far.

  Number of comments: 18
  I was picking Chicky up from preschool one day before the Christmas break, waiting in the hallway with the other parents also waiting for their rugrats, when the door opened and instead of Chicky being shuttled through the door and into my waiting arms her teacher gestured me inside the [...]
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  Posted: January 08, 2009, 10:03am EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Housecleaning

  Number of comments: 2
  I should have made a New Year's resolution to update this blog more. Sure, I would have broken it almost immediately but at least I would have given some sort of consideration to this poor space. My last post was my 600th. Six Oh Oh. As in "Oh oh my'" [...]
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  Posted: January 07, 2009, 1:05pm EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• I can haz happy?

  Number of comments: 10
  So.
  
  I sort of started a new blog, which makes it exactly not at all different from the other blogs I've started in that I'll probably get overwhelmed and run away from it screaming in about 3 months. Or not. I'm fickle.
  
  See, it's about finding my happy. [...]
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  Posted: January 04, 2009, 5:46pm EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• I think the fish may be on to something

  Number of comments: 18
  If you've been blogging for any length of time and are experiencing a bit of writer's fatigue, I highly recommend taking an unscheduled vacation from your blog. Sure, it may have lasted longer than I had told myself it would, like, oh, a week longer, but it was fantastic. Even [...]
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  Posted: December 31, 2008, 2:14pm EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Read this before getting that Christmas puppy.

  Number of comments: 31
  What could be more quintessentially Christmas-y than giving little Billy and Sally an adorable fluffy puppy on Christmas morning? It's a Hallmark moment waiting to happen. The excitement on their little faces when you hand over a box (with holes punched into it, of course, because' [...]
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  Posted: December 17, 2008, 2:54pm EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• The ice storm cometh and there my brain goeth

  Number of comments: 28
  Do you know what you DON'T want to happen less than two weeks before Christmas? A huge ass ice storm that knocks out power to the entire region. And what you really don't want to happen after that? Being one house out of thousands that still doesn't have [...]
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  Posted: December 14, 2008, 8:18pm EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• The third annual "I can't believe we don't pay someone else to do this" holiday card extravaganza

  Number of comments: 33
  It's Holiday card time here at Chicky Chicky Baby.
  
  (Heavy emphasis on "Holiday" because I don't want my Jewish friends throwing their latkes at me. Unless my mouth is open. I loves me some latkes.)
  
  That means the photo session from hell. Hurrah!
  
  This year there was [...]
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  Posted: December 10, 2008, 12:31pm EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• On the bright side, my dry cleaner is thinking of making me part of the family

  Number of comments: 34
  Warning: The following is a full blown MommyBlogger-type post. Proceed at your own risk.
  
  
  
  C.C. has been a joy lately.
  
  She's an extremely happy baby. When we take her out in public we can pass her from person to person and barely hear a peep out [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2008, 6:23pm EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• November ROFL Awards

  Number of comments: 5
  Boy howdy, do I need funny right now. And would you looky here? Today is ROFL day!
  
  What a coincidence.
  
  My nomination for this month came out of the whole Motrin fiasco. A ray of sparkly light shining brightly from out of the shit storm on the [...]
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  Posted: December 05, 2008, 7:20am EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• My faith in humanity has been restored. No, really.

  Number of comments: 8
  This year I really wanted an Advent calendar so Chicky and I could count down the days to Christmas together. And so the two of us would have an excuse to get a piece of chocolate every day for 25 days all in the name of the holidays.
  
  I [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2008, 1:05pm EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Nudge nudge

  Number of comments: 1
  Today is the last day for nominating a post for a November ROFL!
  
  (My how time flies. It seems like just yesterday we were spraying coffee through our noses and onto our keyboards because of the October nominees. Memories.)
  
  Pick a post that made you... well... [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2008, 1:28pm EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Free to... have bad taste in music? I don't think so.

  Number of comments: 30
  You can sum up the difference between my husband's upbringing and mine with one simple truth: His parents bought him "Free to be You and Me" when he was a kid and mine didn't.
  
  I didn't even know there was such a thing as that album until I [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2008, 1:59pm EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Gobble Gobble

  Number of comments: 19
  I'm thankful for first hand-print-turkey pictures.
  
  
  
  (And, dude, she totally can write her own name. It looks a little funny but that's definitely her name. My baby, she is obviously brilliant.)
  
  (And and, I about wet myself with glee when I saw [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2008, 7:35pm EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Revelation

  Number of comments: 29
  Chicky and I were enjoying a rare quiet moment together this morning. We were looking at pictures from my wedding day and she was showing an interest in them she had never displayed before. She was enjoying pointing out everyone she knew when we got to a series of photographs [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2008, 1:06pm EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• If you are pushing your child around in a forward facing stroller not only are you stunting their emotional development but you're also a sucky parent

  Number of comments: 36
  Oh for chrissake.
  
  Hey parents! Are you using a forward facing, or "away*" facing stroller to push your young'uns around town? Then you're probably hurting them emotionally! According to the above-linked study, they will grow up to be stressed and anxious and possible end up being social misfits, [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2008, 10:35am EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• And this is why I don't do crafts

  Number of comments: 27
  Because Chicky and I set out to create something from a toilet paper roll and construction paper that was supposed to be a girl in a pink dress but ended up looking like a giant transvestite squid with technicolor boobs and a bad perm who was attacked by a rainbow [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2008, 2:48pm EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• The ad missed its mark but I'm still a Motrin Mom

  Number of comments: 34
  Motrin really put their foot in it, didn't they? They jumped feet first into the babywearing phenomenon in their latest ad and came out smelling like a full diaper pail that had spent two weeks festering in the hot sun.
  
  By now you've probably heard all about it - [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2008, 10:15am EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• It takes more than an extra generation to make a great grandmother

  Number of comments: 13
  If I was 100 percent positive there was a God, today I would thank him for giving my girls a truly Great Nana.
  
  
  Happy Birthday, Nana. It's a selfish birthday wish but today I wish for you the gift of time so that Chicky [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2008, 8:29pm EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby

• Because if you don't help me I will be forced to go into great detail about my sex dreams

  Number of comments: 51
  News Flash! Life with a preschooler and an infant is not conducive to writing.
  
  No, really. I'm not making this up. It's really hard to string together a coherent sentence when you spend most of your days either making baby talk or saying nothing but "No. I said, No. [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2008, 7:30pm EST
  by Chicky Chicky Baby