Month: May 2009

• Soldier (from the Momplex Blog archives)

  My husband is a soldier. It’s odd for me to type that out. Frankly, I think it makes him sound like a scuzzball that drives around in a rusty truck wearing a wifebeater t-shirt, listening to Lee Greenwood and Def Leppard. Why is that? I don’t know. Few of the soldiers I’ve personally known in…

  Jenny

  May 26, 2009

  military life

• LOVE (from the Momplex Blog archives)

  Yeah, that’s us spelling out our LOVE, in snapshots from our everyday lives. One of the best things about my Mother’s Day today? Flowers from my daughter, including one purple iris, the flower my grandma loved most. My grandma died the year before I got pregnant, and I miss her. “I know your grandma liked…

  Jenny

  May 10, 2009

  holidays, miscellaneous

• Who Has It Harder? Me or Mine? (from the Momplex Blog archives)

  Exhibit A ME: I spent most of yesterday spray painting a loft bed for my 5-year-old. Long story short, I kept running out of paint, had to wedge multiple hardware-store trips between naps and preschool stuff, and ended up inadvertently turning our new driveway pink. My arms ache terribly from spraypainting the whole freaking day…

  Jenny

  May 9, 2009

  babies, body image, daughters, death, motherhood, religion, sons, teething