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Four years!

The Delaney & Waylon Diaries is celebrating FOUR YEARS! I started this blog on June 23, 2005, just three months after Delaney was born. My life was completely turned upside down by my beautiful baby girl and a new work-from-home opportunity, both of which were the inspirations that led me to where I am today both personally and professionally. It seems I hardly post here any more but I can't find the guts to shut this blog down. So, if you're still reading my occasional posts, thank you. I've met so many smart, savvy, wonderful and amazing people through this blog. You've inspired me too. Thanks for coming back again and again.

Waylon is...

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...saying all kinds of words and trying to say others. Sure, crocodile, popsicle and helicopter all sound the same (and a little like Czechoslovakian) but *I* know the difference.


...walking up and down the stairs and climbing up the couch and giving his mother heart attacks. 

...learning to be a comedian with his funny faces and by saying yes when he means no and no when he means yes (He shakes his head in the inappropriate direction just to get laughs. Who can blame him? It works.).

...in love with the swimming pool.

...completely weaned.

...a strong-willed, feisty little boy and a shy, quiet soul all at once.

...the most handome boy I've ever seen (funny faces included).

More four-isms

Delaney, as she looks wistfully at me: "Mom, you know what I wish we had? More dresses than I could ever wear. More house than we could ever live in. More food than we could ever eat."


Me: "Well, Delaney, I like to think we have everything we need. We have a wonderful family who we love. We have a nice house and plenty of food. We have clothes and books and friends."

Delaney, scrunching up her face as she thinks about that: "Well, I wish we had more construction paper."

Another day, another job

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Because I have sooo much time on my hands (ahem), I started blogging for the San Antonio Express-News about being a work from home mom. It's a topic I originally wanted to discuss over here at The Delaney & Waylon Diaries. But, as this blog evolved over the last four years, it's really become a place for me to jot down silly, lovely, maddening, adorable, hysterical things about my kids. Now I imagine reading back over this blog and these first few years of their lives when I'm an old lady, howling with laughter at my inexperience and bravado. That's pretty much what I do these days when I read my high school journals. *cringe*

At my new blog, Work from Home Mama, I'll still talk about Delaney and Way from time to time but I plan to focus more on me and the challenges I face while attempting to balance work and home from the exact same spot. If you have perspectives on working from home, or even thoughts on the work/mom/kids/family balance in general, I'd love it if you'd visit me at Work from Home Mama!

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