Welcome to Heligirl.com: A Positive Parenting, Cleverly Crazy Mommy Blog. Those who’ve known me for a while know I used to have a more personal website for friends and family, but I pulled that down to overhaul it to proportions never before seen at this domain name. The result is the New and Improved HELIGIRL! […]
March 2010
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It’s mid-March, first day of Daylight Savings Time, and the yard looks like POO. Some plants and parts of the grass are in a sad state after that week of 100+ temps last year. I figured they’d recover over the winter, but alas parts are dead and there are bald spots in the lawn. Why […]
Sweetness has this thing for the Penguins of Madagascar. To be honest, Mommy has found them to be mighty entertaining and a hell of a lot better than Barney or any of the other toddler shows out there. The Penguins come in 15 minute episodes, so she can see one, maybe two a day. And […]
Nothing beats the harsh ringing of the phone at 5 a.m. and the bad news a call at that hour brings to throw your whole day into chaos before you’re even half awake, let alone out of bed. Such was this morning. The call was from Sweetness’ home daycare center. The owner was sick and […]
I went in for my bimonthly beauty pampering and old age hiding ritual (hair cut and color) and Janet, my lovely hair stylist, shared a great story a friend of her’s bestowed about how to get her child to cease potty mouth for good. Her friend swore this worked. So for those with slightly older […]
The other day I took a long look at my little house that is feeling so crowded. Yes, I’ve gone from me, two Chihuahuas and a cat to me, hubby, two kids and added hubby’s two cats. But we also added a bathroom and pushed the master bedroom out adding half as much more space […]
