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From::New Jersey, United States 100 Things About Me I'm 34 and happily married to a wonderful man. As you can see from the 8,000 pictures we have 2 adorable children! They make us smile, make us laugh, and then shock the hell out of us on a regular basis. We're totally learnin as we go here in the maniacal household, but we're havin fun!  along with my Darling Husband Come visit us!
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Thursday, March 30, 2006It's not Stoli or a Marlboro for petes sake!Why is it that everywhere I turn there is a disclaimer about how anything BESIDES breastfeeding your child is not the best thing. Look on any formula, or any baby cereal and you will see this: At [insert any formula name here], we believe that breastmilk is best for babies. But if you choose to supplement breastmilk with formula/cereal or if breastfeeding is not an option, you can feel good knowing your baby is getting 100% complete nutrition with this supplement. Did Breastmilk win some sort of lawsuit saying that they are the BEST, and everyone else MUST write this disclaimer on their sub-par food? Now before anyone gets in a huff (ha, who am I kidding...not enough people read to huff) I realize that breastmilk is good. I attempted to breastfeed Althea for as long as I could. Turns out it was a little over a month, that's how it worked out. I just don't understand why we need a Surgeon General Warning on every other type of food. I mean when you buy bacon, does it say: We believe that broccoli is the best thing for you to eat. But if you can't seem to find broccoli in the store or your allergic to it for some reason, then feel comfortable that this bacon was made as well as we could make it. A little off the topic, (completely off topic) I'm going for a massage and a facial tonight after work. I have had this gift certificate for quite a while (got it for my baby shower) from my Aunt. Thank you Ann Marie!!! I can't wait to get on that table and have that woman massage all the aches and pains that comes with carrying an 18 lbs 6 month old around every day. Maybe she can massage away some of the crankiness as well. As far as the facial, I'm a little scared. I have really sensitive skin that breaks out really easily. Since I've been pregnant, it's been really good! I'm afraid to ruin it. But hey maybe it'll make me look 20 again....that would be nice! BTW I can't believe I'm freakin old enough to say that I wish I looked 10 years younger. When the hell did that happen?!?!?!?!?  
Wednesday, March 29, 2006You learn something new everydayToday's lessons:
Tuesday, March 28, 2006I'm IT!!!I was tagged at Jennster which means someone out there in cyberspace actually likes me!!! I'm sick, and tired....so I'm not sure I'm gonna be funny enough for this...but here goes. Accent: I'm 100% Italian and live in NJ..... fuggetaboutit Booze of Choice: Oh but I love them ALL. Margaritas!! Yuengling!!! RED RED WIIIINE!! Chores I Hate: Yes I hate chores....NEXT! Dog or Cat: Yes please. And a bird too. (Still working on the dog with Mike. APPARENTLY batting my eyelashes and my pouty faces don't work as well as I hoped they would. HMMPH!) Essential Electronics: I can't live more than a couple of hours without email. I'm one of those people you read about who are addicted. Hi, my name is Jenn....and I'm an email addict. Favorite Perfume: I'm a hippie....the only perfume I ever wear is Patchouli Oil.... Gold or Silver: If it's gold, it's white.....but yea Silver. Hometown: I'm not sure what this means....where I live now?, where I was born?, where I grew up?, went to Highschool?, went to gradeschool?....they are all different and who cares! All you need to know is I'm a Jersey Girl. Insomnia: Yes, his name is Monster, and he is a grumpy old cat. Job Title(s): Bitch Goddess (this term is taken from the one the only MTM) Kids: The most adorable, cutest, giggliest, happiest baby in the world. *hug* Living Arrangements: For the first time in almost 10 years I'm not living in sin! I live with my husband and my daughter in a house that we own. (WOW! It sounds so normal!!!) Most Admired Trait: Am I supposed to like ask people this? WTF? Overnight Hospital Stays: Just to have Althea. Phobia(s): I don't like having fear. I conquer them. I was afraid of heights, so I jumped out of a plane! Only one I can't seem to shake.....Spiders! Quote: OMG I have so many quotes. But today I feel this one is appropriate - "You say I'm a bitch like it's a bad thing!" Religion: No thank you.....NEXT! Siblings: 1 brother who's 22. He's kinda like my first child....MUNCHKIN!! Time(s) I Wake Up: 6am. Before my husband starts freaking out that I put that....it doesn't say TIME YOU GET OUT OF BED...so BACK OFF!!! Unusual Talent/Skill: I'm a witch. Like my mother. Veggies I Refuse to Eat: I eat most everything. Worst Habit: I'm sure my husband could make a list of bad habbits that I have. I'd say the WORST is my pile of clothes on my dresser. Right babe? Yummiest Food I Make: I can make Pasta 1,283,947,560 ways....ALL YUMMY! Zodiac Sign: Aries. I'm bossy, and I'm right! Now who to tag back? I'm not sure I'm popular enough for this, but lets see....Well, for one I'll Tag Mike (cause he has a blog now! YAY!! Everyone GO SAY HI!!!) And Tina (cause unlike Jennster, I don't think she's a sucky mom I think she's cool! =oP) and well.....(I'm not sure if they read mine, but I read theirs everyday, so I guess we'll find out) Beth and Erika. *shrug*
Friday, March 24, 2006Make her stop!Friday Afternoon "Hey" "Hi, so how are things going?" "Your daughter is acting spoiled today!" "Why? What do you mean?" "She wants me to hold her all day and nothing is making her happy, and she's fussing....." "Well, babe....she doesn't feel good" "Well, make her stop!" "I'll be home soon" "k, Say bye Allie....Mom will be home soon!"
Thursday, March 23, 2006I'm a Honda?I'm a Honda S2000!
You live on the edge, and you live for the adrenaline rush. You don't need luxuries, snob appeal, or superfluous gadgets. You put your top down, get your motor revving, and take all the curves that life throws at you at full speed. So what if you spin out occasionally? Take the Which Sports Car Are You? quiz.
Wednesday, March 22, 2006No means NO!I'm a pretty reasonable person. And I'd like to toot my own horn and say that as wives go, I'm an easy goin wife. My husband and I tell each other everything and we don't get offended. He can feel comfortable telling me: -When he thinks the hooters waitress he had at lunch is hot. -That she lives in the town next to ours. -When he doesn't like something I do. -About the women in his past. -About girls he talks to at work. He can go out whenever he wants. He can buy whatever he wants. He can pretty much DO whatever he wants. (Note: we do discuss the above things with each other however, out of mutual respect. He doesn't want me to just go out without telling him either...sooo) I have one rule! He can NOT have a motorcycle. He knows the reasons for this. I used to have many friends with bikes, and I used to ride on them all the time. However, I have been to 4 funerals (IN ONE YEAR) all from friends of mine who have died on Motorcycles. That changes your mind. QUICK! Some of them were the drivers fault, some weren't. Some were speed bikes, some of them were touring bikes. It doesn't matter. So below, you will find a picture of the closest thing that my husband will ever get to riding a motorcycle.
Ok, babe....you can commence complaing!
Tuesday, March 21, 2006It's not just me....I went to a website today, and I put in all my stats. Height, weight, gender, age......and clicked Submit. I sat and waited while the computer calculated. Then the answer came back. I just stared at the screen in awe. I'm not sure why I was shocked. I knew it was the case. But for the first time ever, it's official. It's not just me, and my warped sense of self. It's not just me, wanting to be perfect. It's not just me, wanting something that is not attainable. The website spit out the answer: OVERWEIGHT *blink* *blink* *blink* Yes, I know I just had a child....thank you. That is not the point! It's been 5 months and I barely dropped any weight since month 1 post-pardom. You don't understand....if I want to drop weight I just cut a little something here and there....couple minutes on the elliptical and it's done! So...I'm not sure WTF is going on here!!! Is it because I'm in my 30's now? Is it because I don't have as much will power as I once had? Is it because of some THING that happens to your metabolism after having birth? So anyway....in an attempt to shame myself into loosing weight, I am putting a ticker up on the website to track my weight! This way EVERYONE on the internet will know if I am NOT doing what I need to do to make it into a bathing suit by summer!!! That oughtta do it!!
Went to my SIL's house yesterday (Hi DAWN!) to go see some of Mike's family, and all the kids. What an exciting day...especially for Althea (Mike too, but that is for tomorrow's post). There were a total of 6 adults, 3 children, AND 2 dogs all attempting to get their Allie-Time in. I may have held her for approximately 4 minutes the whole day. Which BTW is fine...I hold her all the time. Her cousins are all just in love with her. Couldn't WAIT for it to be there turn to hold her.  And she loved them even MORE! They're little, and they run around! And they actually LIKE when you pull on their hair! AMAZING!!!  In fact it was SOO exciting that the child hasn't calmed down since we left! She refuses to sleep, she just wants to run around like all her cousins, and is NOT happy that she can't do that!! She even got to ride a pony!! An INDOOR pony! AND I bet it runs faster than a real pony too! We just need to make a saddle of some sort, and we'll be set!  It's gonna be hard to top that trip Dawn! Although, I'm sure the next birthday party will do it!
Friday, March 17, 2006Lucky Charm Lucky Charm Originally uploaded by faeriegirl515. My own little Italian Lucky Charm. Labels: Holidays
Happy St Patrick's Day Today I like to celebrate how kind and generous Italian people are. As you may or may not know, St Patrick was Italian. He was kidnapped off the shore of Italy as a young boy by pirates and then later sold to a farm hand in Ireland where he lived and worked most of his young life. Even after seeing a vision in a dream on how to escape his capture, he stayed in Ireland to help  and teach the Irish. He loved the people and the land. He used the 3 leaf clover, that is such a popular part of the holiday, to teach the Irish people about the trinity as one. Each leaf representing The Father, The Son, and The Holy Ghost. In true Italian form he taught the most important lesson. That we are all family, and with a 15% skim off the top and a Holiday named after him, he wont call the piasons over. Labels: Holidays
Thursday, March 16, 2006Michael BoltonYesterday we went to lunch for a supervisor's 15 year anniversary. As we were walking out I told the guy I work with "I'll drive" so we walked towards my car and got in. As I was getting ready to leave I noticed our Boss lingering outside my car not sure what to do. So he came up to the window. "Can I get a ride?" So, I said, "Sure...as long as you can fit back there with the car seat." So he gets in, and sits on a toy. This is to be expected, I have a 5 month old...my entire life has toys scattered around it. He laughs and off we go. On the way there.... *I turn up the music in the background* Boss "what are you listening to?" Me "God Smack" (kind of a heavy rock band for those of you who don't know) Boss *laughs* Guy "Gee Jenn, that's not very motherly of you." Me "oh yea, what am I supposed to be listening to Michael Bolton?" Quick aside movie quotes go off in my head: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Are you any relation to the pop singer?" "Naw, it's just a coincidence." "Because I'll be honest with you! I love his music! I do! I'm a Michael Bolton fan. For my money, I don't know if it gets any better than when he sings 'When a Man Loves a Woman'." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I told those fudge packers that I liked Michael Bolton's Music!" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Me: "I wasn't aware there WAS suck a thing as MOTHERLY music." *they both laugh, not sure what else to say* So apparently mommys blog about only mommy stuff, AND they listen ONLY to MOTHERLY music. You gals writing this stuff down?
Wednesday, March 15, 2006Month 5....a little lateWell, I'm a little late on the 5 months update, but since Althea has been sick....well I've been a bit busy and A LOT tired.  This month she changed so much, and she is doing all sorts of new stuff! Well, first of all she is SOOO noisy all of a sudden. In addition to making scary noises that make mom's heart skip beats...she screeches, and screams and babbles away. I guess she's gonna talk a lot. Not sure where she got that from. *whistle* She is now starting to enjoy tummy time, which is good   And starting the beginning of the month she was attempting to sit up. She would sit there about 30 seconds, then unable to hold my breath any longer, I would breath and she would fall over.    Anyway, a couple weeks of practice and she's a pro now. Of course she's not at the point yet where I can just sit her on the floor without sitting behind her to make sure she doesn't fall...but we're getting there.  Oh yes, and the cats....in fact animals in general. Anything that moves, breaths, runs or swims around....she loves! A bunch of us went to the NYC Aquarium a could of weeks ago, and she just loved watchin all the fish and walruses and stuff swimmin around. there are some aquarium pics on my flickr page - see the right---> Still one of her favorite things is the mirror. Our little narcissist. And I have these little flowers on my mirror in my bedroom, she thinks that's the coolest thing ever.   "You mean I can look at myself AND flowers! WHOA!" She is also standing by holding on to our hands, and looks like she wants to start walking already!
Tuesday, March 14, 2006When you have too much time on your hands....Sorry, both the server and the video itself was giving me issues. It's silly anyway....and no mom it's not Allie. Check out the "Must See Finale"! http://www.chrisbliss.com/videopresskit.html But it is pretty cool!
Monday, March 13, 2006Small LoveYou know that Dunkin Donuts (I think it's dunkin donuts) commercial where there are cranky people who haven't that their coffee yet all over the place. The one woman sprays the little kid on a bike with the hose, and then there's a guy who oops....accidentally knocks over all the books on the shelf at work. At the end there is a woman who is drinking her Dunkin Donuts, and she doesn't give you a dirty look....and you should be lucky about it!!! Well, that's me today.....don't even look at me, or I might trip you. Althea is getting over being sick. While she was sick she started waking up in the middle of the night. Couldn't blame her...she was sick with Diarrhea...so *shrug* she woke up to be changed. Well, she's better, and she's still waking up. I've been up since 4:30 am. I'm not sure, but I THINK that it's because I told a whole bunch of family yesterday how GREAT she sleeps....bla bla bla. And so.......she decided to prove me wrong. I also decided that I can't watch that new show on HBO - Big Love - We watched the first episode last night, and I now hate my husband because I could just tell by the look on his face (and by him saying "it sounds good on the outside but.....") that he might even for a second think that having more than 1 wife at a time is a good idea. Yea, I know that he said afterwards that he wouldn't want to bla bla bla.....but I didn't really hear anything passed "it sounds good...." Oh you think I'm over reacting due to lack of sleep, huh? *knocks over the books on your shelf*
Thursday, March 09, 2006Daily I tell you!My husband and I prove on a daily basis that our sanity and intelligence fades. (see above) The last two nights while watching American Idol we had a serious conversation about who Althea (my 5 month old daughter) should vote for. Each of us gets 1 vote. I started this ritual when I was pregnant, and wanted to vote for more than one person on Idol. Why did I have to make this up instead of just voting for whomever I wanted? Cause the insanity started early, that's why. First it was the girls and Allie was going to vote for Mandissa. Why? Well because she has big boobs of course! But instead we decided Paris was a better choice for her. Cause she's young and cute....like Allie is. (not as cute, but you get the idea) Mike voted for Kathrine, I voted for Melissa. Then the boys last night. Mike voted for Taylor I voted for Chris and Allie...... well she voted for Ace of course. Why? Cause he's hot...and mom gets the final say in her votes!
Wednesday, March 08, 2006You breath, or I'll give you something to choke about!!"If your baby's making rude noises, it's normal. Most 5-month-olds delight in adding new sounds to their repertoire! In fact, she may love it so much that she'll do it over and over again. That's normal, too. Most babies master one skill before they move on to the next." says Babycenter.com Well, I'm assuming that pretending as if she is gasping for air is considered rude! It sure is rude to make your mother freak out that you can't breath over and over and over again every day and then laugh at her. Why do I keep freaking out when afterwards she just laughs at me? *shrug* Must be one of those damn things that comes with being a mother. I'll just add it to the list I guess: 1. Never wear a bikini again 2. Never sleep soundly again 3. Become amused by silly things, just cause your child does it. 4. Become totally gullible.
Thursday, March 02, 2006Fruit...or is it?This is for all of you, but specifically for my friend Bean who has a thing about wanting to feed babies pickle juice just to see that :-X face. Well, Bean....aparently apples create that face as well!
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