It's been a long time since I've done a Potty Diaries installment (see end of post). Since we first went commando and put Jolie in underwear Memorial Day weekend, many months have passed. I somehow thought that potty training success was achieved over the course of a few months, yet, I'm reconsidering that as we still have our good days and bad days.

The good days are days that we pick her up from school/daycare and she is in the same… Read More

Now that I'm 32 weeks pregnant - yes, no DOUBT about that - I keep getting asked 3 questions over and over again by friends, acquaintances and perfect strangers: 1) When are you due? (Answer: In 8 weeks) 2) Do you know if it's a boy or a girl? (Answer: yes, it's a boy.) 3) You must be getting excited?!?! (Answer: Um....I'm not sure if I'd use the word EXCITED.)

The sad truth is that while I am looking forward to… Read More

Last weekend, we were racking our brains for something fun to do with Jolie. It was too cold to go to the park (at least for me anyway) and we felt like we had wasted most of the afternoon with Jolie's tortured weekend nap schedule (Sequence: 1. Put down for nap. 2. Wait for the ½ hour to hour to possibly hour and a half for her to fall asleep. This will be the subject of another post. 3. Sleeps… Read More

Believe it or not, It's flu season time. We've started our flu vaccination campaign in our hospital already and the atrium of our hospital has been converted into a flu vaccine center, trying to vaccinate as many patients as possible.

I've always viewed the decision of whether or not to get the flu shot akin to getting travel insurance when booking travel plans or like those extended warranties on various products: You could probably be just fine without it, but on the… Read More

Let's face it. Halloween is the beginning of the holiday feasting that leads to serious weight gain for many people.

Even before Halloween, I started breaking into the fun-size candy packages, taking a few to work everyday for that hunger/boredom pick-me-up, in the form of a yummy snack-sized piece of chocolate goodness. I'm not a crazy chocolate fan or anything, but if it's around, you can be pretty sure I'll want to eat it. The so-called seafood diet.

Now, at the… Read More

Ever since Jolie was born, we've been fairly neurotic about her schedule. Mainly, the sleeping part of the schedule. For, a well-sleeping Jolie is a Happy Jolie and a Happy Jolie is a Happy (read: non-postal) Mommy and Daddy.

We've done everything possible to protect her bedtime (note: that is, once she had established that wonderful quality of having a bedtime after those initial Please-Shoot-Me-Now-and-Get-It-Over-With Days) including running madly through the mall parking lot trying to get home for a… Read More