My daughter seems to be completely immune to reprimands. I think she might even like them. I might prefer her questioning my love (I’m only half joking).

It IS insanity…but I AM hanging in there. Thanks for the encouragement from someone who knows this scenario personally!

My friend has a ritual she goes through with my 3 year old godson, after she punishes/lectures him she says that she loves him and hugs and kisses him, or something along those lines. At that age Niecey was the most sensitive kid ever, seriously she was completely inconsolable when I got her a pig cookie and she licked its face off, it could just be a phase, 3 is a weird age! Oh and you might want to watch out for some of the pbs kid shows, Niecey picked up some horrible habits from some of them because she would pay attention long enough to see the bad behavior but not long enough to see it corrected, Caillou was the WORST from what I could tell (Professor of whining). That’s all I got, at least at the moment, I hope that this behavior ends soon!

And how can you possibly be busy, you are a grad student?!?! I may not be in the same field but it sounds like you are taking quite a heavy course load. I took one 15 week course, three 5 week courses that were one at a time, and had a weekly seminar, the rest of my time/credits were in research. On top of it I just have my self to take care of (good thing the state can’t remove me from my own custody), you have a family to take care of. Hang in there, if you need to whine about grad school or anything my inbox is always open. We crazy people, er I mean grad students, have to stick together!

A lot of people say it’s being three, yes. I’m praying it’s a phase. T minus 165 days until she turns 4….

Second, have you entered this yet?

Third, we stalk each other equally. I created this page on Tumblr for precisely the same reason you cite in the first paragraph: Blogging is time consuming. My buds on the front of the digital media world, those “early early adopters” tell me that sites like Tumblr might make it easier to make the most of the medium: pictures, links, audio, video, etc. without it being a big time suck.

Check it out, I’d love to hear what you think.

Finally, I can cross “Have my own stalker” off my life to-do list. YESSSSS!

If it was your 12th anniversary, you’d have a Macarena story, too. Trust me. But your wedding sounds like it was a lot of fun! Did you have an after-hours, too? Cuz we did, LOL

“Macarize” means “to make happy; to praise.” So I really don’t see why they called it “The Macarena.” Doesn’t that seem a little misleading?

You know how you just had your first anniversary…? Well, I’m coming up on my 12th next month, which means (if you do the math) that I got married right at the peak of the blessedly short-lived “Macarena Craze.” And I had a DJ who was determined to play some sort of group dance thing, and I totally nixed the Hokey Pokey and the Electric Slide [I believe I threatened him with 'the electric CHAIR' if I heard that song] but it never occurred to me to forbid a song I’d never heard of. So there are actually PICTURES of me, in my wedding dress — hey, wait. Why am I telling you this?

The other philosophy of nonprofit blogging is to fell no guilt for not posting. Because this is a hobby. Do you apologize to a garden that you neglect or crafts you don’t do? I sincerely hope not, or else you are, indeed, psychotic.

This comment feels very serious. Why so serious, Alias Mother?

BOOGERS! There. Better.

Am very possibly, indeed, psychotic. However, Goat Daddy is the one who gardens. And therefore, *he* apologizes to the garden that Goat Mama is not remotely interested in it. Then again, it’s less hobby and more obsession with him. ANYway – thanks for the guilt-assuaging seriousness. And the mucus-y comic relief.

I win for most unrelated comment ever.

Actually, .5% of my comments are unrelated. Sorry.

And to chime in on your first point, I doubt you’re a bad mom, dear. Kids know how to manipulate us from the first glimmer of our defenses crumbling. If she sees your gears spinning when she says that to you, she’s reeling you in. Not trying to ’solve matters I know nothing about’ in your house, but I’ve got a kid who can do this to me, too, and I had to step back and not let him have the option to pull in his prize! I wish you luck!

You should see if your local video store has Entourage on DVD (and trust me, it gets way better after Season 1 [not that Season 1 is terrible, just not as smooth as the rest.]) And as for you solving matters at my house, it sounds like you know PLENTY about it to me! She probably is just yanking my chain, but someone needs to get that kid an agent, because she. is. GOOD.