My blogging furlough is over which means I'M BACK!!! I hadn't planned on taking the entire month of March off but I'm sure it had something to do with giving up pacifiers, Matt's grandmother passing away/road trip to New Jersey, my grandmother with health complications, two kids with hand, foot & mouth, a mama with a sinus infection, a birthday (for me), an anniversary (for us), a couple of baby showers, birthday parties, and spring break (for all my babysitters, not for us). In other words, I plead temporary insanity.
Because I will slap myself in 20 years for not writing about my kids giving up their beloved pacifiers, I need to go back in time for a minute. The date was Wednesday, March 14, 2012 and it was sunny, totally irrelevant, but it was. Last minute, I decided that instead of implementing our plan to cut the pacifiers as advised to us from fellow parents of pacifier-crazed kids, I would have the girls mail them to their baby cousin Leah who just so happens to be their favorite person on Earth. I felt like my girls would actually understand the concept of that and luckily, I was right. So after a trip to the post office, they were gone. Like FOR REAL gone. We mailed them to Indianapolis. Surprisingly, Diana was the easiest of the two to break which TOTALLY threw me for a loop. That girl asked for her pacifier all day long, while Lil wasn't quite as obsessed, or so I thought. However, Lilly throws a fit at bedtime, wakes up about an hour earlier every single day, and is a terrible napper. But neither has ever actually asked me for the pacifier and never once has whined for it during the day. They simply point out to me (fifty times a day) "Mama, Yee-aw has passie." Yup, girls, she does. But we have bigger fish to fry. Time for potty training!
BTW, why did no one tell me that at two years old (TYO) it would be like toddler boot camp?! Pacifiers, potty training, big girl beds? People always try to reassure me by saying, "Have you ever seen someone graduate high school with a pacifier in his mouth?" Ummm....NO, but I suspect his poor mom went through hell trying to get rid of the darn thing! Someone's gotta teach these kids to pee on the potty!
Another reason for my leave of absence, I am managing my daughters' new rock band. Di is lead singer while Lil is on guitar. Their talent is first rate. Move over Sophia Grace and Rosie...Ellen has some new guests in town!
Happy Anniversary to my hubby of fourhundred years!!!
BTW, why did no one tell me that at two years old (TYO) it would be like toddler boot camp?! Pacifiers, potty training, big girl beds? People always try to reassure me by saying, "Have you ever seen someone graduate high school with a pacifier in his mouth?" Ummm....NO, but I suspect his poor mom went through hell trying to get rid of the darn thing! Someone's gotta teach these kids to pee on the potty!
TYO Boot Camp - Bye Bye Pacifiers: CHECK.
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Next up: TYO Boot Camp, Potty Training. |
Another reason for my leave of absence, I am managing my daughters' new rock band. Di is lead singer while Lil is on guitar. Their talent is first rate. Move over Sophia Grace and Rosie...Ellen has some new guests in town!
Happy Anniversary to my hubby of four
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