http://momingit.today.com Living life mommy-style! Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:48:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My online students are required to submit a rough draft of their research paper this week so they can exchange drafts and do peer reviews.  I'm not a fond of peer reviews, dating back to my own days in high school and college, but it's required by the college for ... http://momingit.today.com/2009/02/19/those-drafts-are-rough-man/ Life in Mid-Cornfield has been chaos lately.  Just a quick recap:  The Bug had her first trip to the zoo in City of the Big Arch two weekends ago.  The kangaroos, lemurs, and big cats were a hit; great apes and non-emu birds, not so much.  She also had her first ... http://momingit.today.com/2009/02/18/lifechaos/ The Geek is in the house, all right.  The dog house, to be specific.  I'm finally starting to feel human again, a week after the Geek Things Incident.  To his credit, he now knows that subjecting his recovering-from-a-cold wife to arctic temperatures for several hours at a time, after promising ... http://momingit.today.com/2009/01/24/is-there-a-geek-in-the-house/ The Bug is spending the day with the Geek's parents so that he may partake in Geek Things with his Geek friends and I can have the afternoon off. While I do plenty of Geek Things of my own, this is not my type of Geek Thing, so instead, I have ... http://momingit.today.com/2009/01/17/more-geek-things/ "Your great you are write." It pained me just to type that out. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to have been painful for one of my online students to write.  That little gem was part of a class discussion.  The student in question was trying to give credit to another student for the ... http://momingit.today.com/2009/01/15/your-great-you-are-write/ I must admit, I haven't gotten much writing done since I got married over a year and a half ago.  I love to write, and I have great intentions, but those intentions got lost in the shuffle in the whirlwind of moving, marriage, job changes, and mommyhood.  I love the ... http://momingit.today.com/2009/01/14/writers-block-writ-large/ The Bug has a cold. I have one, too, but there's something distinctly miserable about a baby too young to blow her  nose with a head cold.  She hateshateshateshates the snot-sucker, and there is all-out mutiny when we attempt to use saline drops.  I did manage to get her into a ... http://momingit.today.com/2009/01/12/stuffy-bug/ Geek things are afoot in our world.  After a holiday break, the Geek has returned to his geek things this week, leaving the Bug and I at home for our first week of “just” staying at home without Mama working from home.  So far, Bug has responded predictably—we've had nursing ... http://momingit.today.com/2009/01/09/back-to-the-grind-for-the-geek/ Welcome to my corner of the world!  I am Jo, wife to the Geek and mom to the Bug, age 9 months.   We live in the middle of a corn field in the Midwestern U.S., where the Geek does geek things on a daily basis and the Bug continues on ... http://momingit.today.com/2009/01/04/welcome-to-moming-it/