Kaila Mugford

We're getting cable tomorrow...cable!! I think it's been about a year since we've had it, I can't remember. When we got rid of it, we were doing some super-budgeting trying to figure out if I could be a stay-at-home mom. We have Netflix and Hulu anyway, so we were good. It just meant we were one season behind everyone else. And commercials. I think so many people have DVR now, but I was getting tired of people asking, "Hey, have you seen THAT commercial?" No, no I haven't. I don't have cable.  First world problems. Pretty much though, I don't need cable. I just need a few channels. Mainly: HGTV, DIY, TLC, Bravo, Discovery, FoodNetwork, and FX. And you know what I like FX for? The movies it plays on the weekends. Which usually I own them anyway...but for some reason it just feels so special when I catch a favorite on tv! Why is that?? You know what question I got most (behind the commercial question)? HOW do you get your news?!? ????????...

I'm a supermom. Yeah, you heard me. Okay, I just put curtains up in my house and we've lived here for almost a year and a half. My kitchen (and bathroom) needs a good scrubbing. My eyebrows need plucked, my hair needs washed. But I'm still a supermom. Because... Mira is fed. She is clothed (several times a day). She has a clean diaper on I hope . She has too many toys to play with. She is happy. I may not be able to leap tall buildings, but I bet you've never seen someone move as fast as I can during nap time. That's MY super power. Who'd have thunk that chores that used to take me hours can now be done in one hour's time? Amazing what kind of super powers you get when you become a mother. And if I don't get the chores done...well, I'm still awesome because I probably took a nap with Mira. Which is just as important because who wants a cranky mama? I consider it doing my family a favor ;-) I write this for all the days I don't feel amaz...

"Hope deferred makes a heart sick,                but a dream fulfilled is a tree of life."                                      Proverbs 13:12 I've read this verse before, nestled between 24 others in this chapter. But during this week's service, it just hit me how true this really is. I've been living much of my life in "hope deferred" mode. I've been wanting to be a mommy for so very long, and for the longest time I didn't even realize it. In high school I focused on my grades, the extracurricular, and working. I had my eyes set on that diploma, and couldn't wait to find out where I would be attending college. Graduation day came and went. I found myself in college, with a major I thought would make my family proud and others "ooh and ahh" over. I couldn't wait...

A professor I had in college once said to the class, "... never become a stereotype." I watched as many of my classmates nodded their heads in agreement. But her words resonated with me in a much different tone, and I just had to let her know. "What if you were happy with your life, but just so happened to BE a stereotype? Should you focus on being 'outside' the box just for the sake of it, regardless of how you wanted to live your life?" I just had to ask her. This was a professor I got along with and respected, but it really bothered me that she would give a warning like this to my peers. WHAT in the WORLD is so WRONG with NOT making it your life's purpose to be unique??? I find uniqueness to be pretty hilarious in the fact that it in itself is a stereotype. Do you follow? Are you picking up what I'm throwing down here? ;-) I have a bachelors in biology and 6 years of experience as a research assistant. I just decided to become a stay ...

Time flies when you're having fun...how in the heck did 3 months go by already? I absolutely am blessed to watch my daughter grow up. To see things through her eyes (why is bath time so hilarious? And what is it about rotating fans that are so mesmerizing?) 3 months have come with so many new and exciting things like... Enjoying Saturday morning cartoons, like every good kid! 1. Mira LOVES t.v. (I know, I know, what kind of mother am I?) But to be perfectly honest, Jamey and I love it too. It's just our thing, we aren't even picky. We watch everything from Once Upon a Time to American Horror Story...so it's kind of hard to find something we don't like or haven't seen...although in the near future we're going to need to pick more kid-friendly stuff. Do we exercise as often as we should or read as many 'intellectually stimulating' books as we should? Probably not. But we do our best; we're healthy and can run with the genius crowd (yeah I sa...