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Thursday, August 31, 2006The Good Wife's GuideI'm off from work today and tomorrow. So I'm home with the baby for 5 days straight! That couldn't be more needed for me. I'm stopping at the Day Care to sign some papers before her starts date next Thursday. Hopefully they will let me bring her in the room to check it out for a bit. So I can get a feel whether she is going to HATE it, or like it. I'll let you guys know! Anyway, I don't have much time but I figured I'd share with you an email I got today from my friend Tara. Hi Tara! The Good Wife's Guide An article from a 1955 Good Housekeeping
So whaddya think people? Are YOU a good wife? Do you HAVE a good wife? I was gonna pick these apart while I wrote them, but I'm gonna leave that to you! Pick your favorite!  
Tuesday, August 29, 2006BBMCI have been known to be a little manipulative at times. I can usually talk you into doing something that I want, without you even realizing that I'm doing it. The easiest person to do this to, and the MOST gullible is myself. That little voice in my head is a manipulative bitch, and she can usually talk me into doing things that I KNOW are maybe not the brightest. She is the reason I jumped out of a plane, sometimes she's fun. She's the reason I smoke a cigarette every once in a while, or drink that last beer or glass of wine that just puts me over the edge. One thing she hates the most is working out and dieting, and I mean with a passion! Believe me she has SOOO many really GOOD reasons why it's so not necessary.
OMG I could go on and on and on. But really, 5 - 10 lbs is a lot to someone who is only like 5 foot tall. I realize that Mike will love me no matter what, but it should be about ME feeling good about myself not him, right? And the mere THOUGHT that getting pregnant is going to do anything about my weight BESIDES make me heavier, and make it harder is just laughable! The fact is that I used to go to the gym almost every day. I would get on a cardio type machine and go crazy for at least 45 minutes if not longer without that much of a problem. Now I get on my elliptical trainer, that I manipulated my wonderful husband to buy for me, and I'm out of breath after 10 minutes. TEN! MINUTES! I stretch it out to 15 and maybe even 20 (rarely) and that's all I can do. Even if I do stretch it out the last 5 minutes is me warming down and going REAL slow. This is my new fitness level, and I don't smoke anymore. The 45 or more minutes that I used to do (not even including warm up or down) was when I was smoking regularly. That's sad. I notice me looking at other women and saying, that's impossible that they have children. Women who have children can't have flat stomachs, can they? So I can either continue on lying to myself about how everything is fine, OR I can shut that manipulative bitch inside my head up and take Black Belt Mama's Challenge. I love a challenge. And if I feel like your all watching me then I can't just not do it, cause that makes me a wuss, and I'M NOT A WUSS! In this challenge I must create an attainable personal goal. Write a plan on how I'm going to accomplish my goal. Write about it in my blog, and maybe take a before and after picture (we'll see about that one). And then Get the code! The code consists on a special blogroll of all the people taking the challenge, so that we can help each other along. Personal Goal: My goal is going to be to get on my elliptical trainer for 1 hour a week. Plan: 60 minutes a week on the elliptical trainer. I am going to start with 3 days for 20 minutes. I'm going to get on during Big Brother: All Stars, which is on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays. So after the baby is sleeping, and Mike and I go down to watch a little TV, I will take about 20 minutes and get on my trainer. I also wouldn't mind - *HINT* *HINT* If my Heavy Bag was hung in the family room so that I could use that for what it was intended, rather than in the garage, that would be a big help. *HINT* *HINT* Code: Come on, why don't you take the challenge with us! ******My renter Have a Great Rest of Your Day is gone. I always forget when the last day is, and they are gone before I even realize it! Oh well, bye hun! I'm a new daily reader, I hope you all are too!*****
Monday, August 28, 2006Eating Update & Book ReviewWell, it's been almost a month since I started feeding Althea real food. Like a good internet addict, I went online and researched how to go about this. Of course every site says something different. I know...youre shocked! lol So basically, like everything else that I've learned about being a mother so far, I have to wing it. Or at least research everything and make my own decisions. Cause how ELSE would you get your daily dose of motherly guilt if YOU weren't the one responsible for doing something wrong? To help me along, I went on Amazon.com and bought myself a book.  The BIG book of recipes for babies, toddlers, and children. It's a cute book. It has a very informative first chapter about what a child needs in their diet at what age and why.My doctor was absolutely no help in this area. At the 9 month appointment..... She said: Are you feeding her table food? I said (with a look on my face like I had no clue what I was doing): I'm starting. She said: good! I asked: Um, is there something I SHOULDN'T be feeding her? Her response: Milk, Eggs, and Peanuts. So yea, that was the extent of my direction from a woman who is an expert in children. Thanks!! I would also like to add that the child has since had things made with milk, eggs, and nuts. So that's what I have to say about THAT! The pictures are very colorful, and it explains everything very well. It's broken up into age group, which I found very user friendly. Of course you have to determine your own boundaries as far as age is concerned. They have a scrambled egg recipe in there for 6 - 9 months, and I think the consensus with doctors these days is to wait on that till a year old for eggs due to allergies. *shrug* I have yet to give Althea a scrambled egg; however I HAVE given her things made with egg. For example French toast (made with whole wheat toast) is like one of her favorite things for breakfast. I have to say it scares me to do things as far as food not within the age limits my doctor gave me (how ever sparse the recommendation was). My friend Cathy (I know she's reading....HI CAT!) went through some food allergy issues, and I don't envy her AT ALL! The other day my mother says to me: Sooooo why shouldn't she have nuts? (I know right away this means the child ate nuts today) I respond: In case she's allergic to peanuts, which could be a serious allergy....WHY? Well, she says, I was making French Toast for her and realized afterwards that it was a grain nut harvest bread. I picked out the nut pieces while I was feeding it to her, but then remembered you said something about nuts. Well, anyway she's fine! My response: Your fucking lucky! LOL What the book has done for me is get over the fear of giving Allie certain foods. Cause I had no clue what she was too small for. Can I give her pork? Is it too tough? Are avocados ok? Peppers? Turns out yes to all of those things, and recipes to boot! The recipes are not exactly.......um my taste, which is to say they aren't Italian. In fact I don't think I saw the word Basil in the entire book, and umm HELLO I can't even make an egg without fresh basil in it. But that's just me. And they have recipes for like porridge. Is there such a thing as porridge? I thought that was only in Goldie Lock's world. Unless they mean Farina, cause THAT is a word I know. They also aren't the fastest easiest recipes in the world either. You're not throwing this stuff together in a couple of minutes. But all in all I really enjoy the book. There is a meal planner in the back which is nice. A list for food shopping, which is kinda obvious, but nice none the less. Of course I'm only through the first couple of chapters, but after scanning the entire book I think it will help me in the future. So now we mostly have family meals. She eats what we eat. Hopefully I can keep it that way. She eats meat, pasta, veggies, & fruit. Last night she had Chicken Parmesan over Rigatoni, and was in HEAVEN!! Her favorite thing in the world is chicken! She looooooves chicken! And the other day I made it with (low sodium) cream of mushroom soup in the oven, and she gobbled it up mushrooms and all! I was sooo happy. Now the mushroom lovers in the house are winning! bwwaaahaahaaa Mushroom lovers - 2 Mushroom haters - 1 (Mike) Now all I have to do is get her to like fish and tomatoes and my plan to overthrow my husband's pickiness will be complete!!! ****** Have you gone to visit my renter today? - Have a Great Rest of Your Day! She needs some hugs after a little daycare mishap, and a new little habbit her little one just picked up!
Friday, August 25, 2006Feeling better, but hiding behind my desk. Oh, and HATING BLOGGER!I just wrote this huge post and freakin blogger lost it. DAMN that pisses me off. GRRRRRRR I'll NEVER be able to do it justice again, not sure if I even want to try. Ya know, the second you STOP copying and pasting your posts into Word, because your afraid blogger is gonna do that, is when it happens! It's like it sucks you back in to trusting it right before it screws you! Ok, I'll try this again.... -------------------------------------------------------- So, Althea is back to her normal 8:30 pm ish sleep schedule. 8:30 (or even 8pm) I can handle cause it at least gives Mike and I a couple of hours every night to hang out with her. So, I'm feeling much better about everything. Thank you all for your encouraging comments yesterday. I think I was PMS'ing. Stupid hormones!! Oh and Jennster, I know how you feel with your comment. I had to go back to work when Allie was 8 weeks old, too. Besides feeling better I kinda feel like I need a big "L" on my forehead, though. Last night I noticed that Allie had cut another top tooth, right next to her two front teeth on her left side. The day before the marathon sleeping day, Allie scared the shit out of me. We got home from work and she was just crying and crying for like a half hour straight. Totally inconsolable! Now I know that a half hour isn't a long time, but it is for her. She has almost never cried like that, even from when she was born. So when it happens it freaks me out. She was hugging me and whimpering and sounded like she was in pain. I gave her some Tylenol and a bottle and she was better. It's funny how as I'm writing this I'm thinking to myself.....uhh DUH! What other signs do you NEED that she's teething?!?!?! But at the time I totally didn't make the connection....like I said, Big "L" on the forehead! She cut her front two teeth with hardly an issue. Maybe a whimper or two in the middle of the night, but that's it! So anyway, it's over. Or at least it is this week, next week she'll be popping another tooth with a whole new set of symptoms, and I'll be clueless all over again! So, it's kinda icky out today. Mid 70's, foggy, rainy, and just all around blech! HOWEVER, it is SUMMER FUN DAY in my office! Last week we got an email that said, and I quote: "You are invited to the 2006 Summer Fun Event! Come for fun, food, and games in your tropical best... Hawaiian shirts, shorts, flip flops optional." Of course the day that I get to wear shorts and flip-flops to work it's freakin cold and rainy. But I didn't care, I couldn't pass up the opportunity! So I put on my green cargo shorts (which could be a tad too short for work but I don't own long shorts), Old Navy flip-flops (which ECHO quite loudly in the office, btw), and a regular blue t-shirt. I was ready for some Summer Fun, Dammit! So I get to work, and as I'm walking in a couple of other people are walking in as well. None of them are wearing shorts. Or Hawaiian Shirts and DEFINITLY NOT flip flops. I start to worry. Did I have the right day? I go upstairs to get coffee, and I see one girl in Capri’s, but that's it. Now I'm panicking. Maybe it was delayed cause of the rain? I start to walk down the corridor with my coffee to my area, and the security guard looks me up and down like, you WORK HERE?!?!?! (He's filling in for the regular guy). Now I'm freaking out. I just want to get to my desk so I can hide! I'm practically jogging down the corridor and the sound of my flip flops are echoing down the hall FLIP FLOP FLIP FLOP FLIP FLOP. I make it to the door and now I'm trying to be quiet. I'm walking to my desk like either I have no knees or a stick up my ass, as to not make the FLIP FLOP noise. Finally I'm at my desk. *sigh of relief* I immediately check my email, to make sure I have the right day. Yup, it's the right day. There is no rain delay. I just work with a lot of UN-FUN people! ****Update: My boss is wearing flip-flops AND a Hawaiian shirt! And there are a couple of other people in the building too, but not many. ------------------------ Did you go and visit Have a Great Rest of Your Day today? She's got a meme up with an interesting (to say the least) sandwich recipe on it. AND, even more exciting, a video of her little one walking for the FIRST TIME! YAY!! ------------------------ Oh, and you HAVE to go and visit My Husband's Site today. He has a hysterical cartoon about Looney Tunes drinking beer. HA! Like they need it!
Thursday, August 24, 2006~~BREAKING NEWS~~We interrupt the original post about how my wonderful little weight loss ticker, that has been so nice to me recently is now going back UP all of a sudden, to bring you this Breaking News Story!  Please someone hand me a tissue. *sniff* *tear* This damn parenting crap! *throws tissue to floor* *grabs new tissue* I never cry....I DON'T even TEAR dammit!!! *sniff* *sniff*  Why did I immediately start to get this hugamungous pit in my stomach as soon as I got off the phone with the school? *throws tissue* A stranger is going to be taking care of my child. Getting her to fall asleep and nap! *grabs new tissue* Snuggling with her!! I have issues with my own mother doing that sometimes!!! *sigh* *sniff* I know Allie is probably going to love it. *wipes eyes* *sniff* And she's going to make new friends *blows nose* and play and learn. *attempts to regain composure* And it is for only 2 days a week. *deep breath* So why am I needing a tissue? *sigh* *pout*Yesterday Althea fell asleep on the way home from work in the car. I got home around 6pm. I picked her out of the car seat, and she stayed sleeping. I sat with her on the couch with the TV on. I figured maybe she would wake up, and then we could have dinner. (which btw my lovely husband was making in the kitchen) But, she didn't wake up. So finally I thought ok I'll put her in the crib. She didn't sleep that well today, I guess she'll take a little nap and then wake up, eat, play, and then not go to sleep until later or something. Well the kid never woke up! She slept from 6pm to 6am! No dinner, no bottle, nothing! Which means that neither Mike nor I really got to see her all day! Then I started to think: Some kids go to sleep around 6 - 6:30pm! The kids next door go to bed that early. And she's starting to refuse her second nap! She seems like she wants to start make the transition from 2 naps to 1. And when that happens, a lot of the time they start to go to sleep earlier to compensate. BUT WAIT! Mike and I get HOME at 6!! Although once summer in over...another week...I'll be getting home at 5:30pm, but STILL. We are never going to see her!! Shit, where are the tissues? *grabs another tissue* *sniff* This can't be right. Do all working parents deal with this? *sniff* How do working parents do this?!?!?!?
Wednesday, August 23, 2006Definitely a sicko........but did he kill JonBenet? I'm fine with John Mark Carr going to jail for a long time regardless, because he is a sick evil man. In fact I think the best course of action is to maybe send him back to Thailand to sit in one of their prisons for the rest of his pitiful life. Cause ya know, they don't have nice beds, food, a gym, or cable TV. But I have my doubts that this freak actually committed this murder. During lunch I sit in our cafeteria at work and watch CNN. It's what's on. Most of the time it's shocking that I still have a appetite left. hmmm maybe that' why my diet is working. Anyway, I've watched the interview with John Mark Carr. (And why do celebrity killers always have three names?) I listened to some of his phone recordings that they have, and I've read some articles on the story. For some reason I just don't believe this guy is telling the truth.
It scares the HELL out of me that this guy was a teacher. I'm starting to understand why people homeschool. Makes me want to NEVER let Althea out of my site! I know that's not possible, but damn it's scary. I think, wow that's why girls make you worry so much more, but then again I guess these predators don't always discriminate. Well, best thing we can do is know our surroundings, keep our eyes open, and talk to our kids. Start here--> http://www.familywatchdog.us/Default.asp Go and put in your address or town and find out what offenders are in your area. You will be horrified at your results. What do you think about the case? *********************
Tuesday, August 22, 2006Have a great rest of your day!In an attempt to use blog explosion like for real instead of just letting that stupid white box sit there taking up space on my site, I decided to rent out my blog again to a new tenant. This time I didn't recognize any of the other blogs looking for a spot. Which is kinda cool cause I get to check out some new sites!! Well I absolutely LOVE my new tenant: Have A Great Rest Of Your Day. She is so different from a lot of the sites that I've seen. She has such a positive outlook on life. It's actually refreshing! She's not constantly bitching and moaning about her kids and her husband and her work and her house. Instead she's happy - What a CONCEPT! I try live life this way as well, as often as I can. A happy mother? pssshh must be boring! Well, on the contrary not at all! I mean I didn't say she was a stepford wife, I just said she was happy! LOL Go visit and check her out for your self.
Monday, August 21, 2006So many titles - All Crappy!Alternate Titles Poop - Funny for OTHER people! Do I have to USE the word poopie? Paybacks are shitty! I didn't actually think it would happen to ME! You thought it, and you were right! So, I'm sure that when you read this post about me laughing at...err I mean with...Angry Dad regarding his Happy (poo) Trails post that you all cringed and said "Oh honey, never laugh at another parent regarding a poo mishap, because it WILL happen to you!!" Well.......*sigh* you were right. Because less than a week from the time I laughed at Angry Dad I was screaming in horror to my husband to - me - "TAKE HER, TAKE HER, TAKE HER!!!" him - "Clean her butt so it doesn't get all over the towel!!!" me- "NOOOOO, JUST FREAKIN TAKE HER TO THE CHANGING TABLE!!!!" There was nothing funny about it at the time. In fact Mike and I were screaming at each other. And we don't do that! Ok, let me back up..... Allie has always loved the bath. From when she was little (cause she's not little anymore *cry*) she's always been happy and smiley to be in the tub. We learned early on that as long as we kept the warm washcloth on her chest to keep her warm she was happy. Then she got bigger and the washcloth wasn't needed, but maybe instead a toy or two. Well recently, bath time has been a little more of a struggle. I'm not sure when or why it happened, but she no longer wanted to sit down in the tub. (She LOVES the pool, so why this is such a struggle suddenly I do not know) We moved from the baby tub with the seat to a blow up tub, but she's been in it for a while and loved it until now. So instead of daddy giving her a bath, and mommy happily watching from the the toilet (used just as a seat!) it turned into mommy holding Allie while she tries to climb out of the tub, while daddy quickly washes her and gets her in and out. It's tiring. So this weekend we tried to coax her into sitting down in the tub again. We splashed (she loves splashing) and moved the toys around...and slowly but surely she kneeled. WOW, an accomplishment! So we continued, and finally she sat. YAY! And she started playing. So Mike left to do some stuff, and and I hung out in there while she played. We figured maybe she'd remember how fun it was. All of a sudden while she was playing.....I hear a grunt. I look at her and think.....ummm what was that? It took me a while cause she's been known to grunt when things don't go her way. So I wait. Then I hear it again. I realize......OH NO!! I scream for Mike.......BABE!!! Get over here!!! She's grunting!!! I hear him scrambling for a towel. I stand her up and just as I do that, she starts to go. SHIT! I scream, not even thinking about the pun. And lift her out of the water just in time so that she's not standing in it. Allie is now SCREAMING. Just then Mike runs in with the towel. I'm sure this little mishap will do wonders for her Bath Regression! *rolls eyes* Go ahead....laugh.
Thursday, August 17, 2006The post where my mom wants to kick my ass.I am absolutely sure that my mother is going to KILL me for posting a video of her on the internet. I mean, I could post a regular picture of her and she would freak out. This is a VIDEO! I'm in so much trouble! I'm kinda shocked I'm posting a video of MYSELF to be honest with you. I'm in it more than she is. Anyway, this was taken the other day. It starts off with my parents hanging out with Althea. I happen to show up to pick her up while they were shooting it. Then you'll see my brother eating a wrap at the end. Not sure why my father felt the need to video him. *shrug* BTW, I had NO idea this was being taken until the end when I said...."Uh, what are you doing? Taking a VIDEO? OMG!" I thought he was just taking a picture with the digital camera. You know pictures, those wonderful things that don't capture how many time I touch my hair in a 1 minute time frame.....cause like 'the fuck? Pictures with no sound, so that you can't hear how highpitched my voice gets when I said Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!! to my daughter after not seeing her all day, cause I think the dog heard me from inside the house and made that "ears up head cocked to the side" face. But...here it is in all it's glory. It's real small, and not that clear....but it's a video! Don't pay attention to me, or my mother. Just look at the cuteness that is Althea and marvel at her almost walking. Cute right? Oh and how funny is the part at the end where my mom explains to me all the things she tried to get Allie to take her afternoon nap? LOL She definitely takes after her father in the sleeping category. I was an AMAZING sleeper! Still am!
Wednesday, August 16, 20064th AttemptSo this is now my 4th attempt in writing a blog post today. I start writing something and get half way done with it and say.... OMG this is the most boring thing I've ever written, or Yea, I don't think I'm in the mood to write something THAT thought provoking today, or Hey, that's pretty good, maybe I should save that for the other website... (Oh right, you don't know about that yet...never mind) Or...Noo, I can't write that....that's the post that Mike should write today.... *goes to look at Mike's site* *reads something about The Police* Cool! It's all mine! BWWWAAAAHAHAHAHAHA (of course there is no way I can do this justice, like he can, but........) *thinks about deleting.....naaaaaa* They broke ground on the New Yankee Stadium today, the day that also marks the 58th anniversary of Babe Ruth's death.  Now, Yankee Fan or not, you have to admit that it's pretty cool to go to Yankee Stadium and think that you are in the same place (albeit it a renovation or two) where the likes of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, and Micky Mantle actually played! Wait, what? You've never been to Yankee Stadium?!?!? OMG! GO! NOW! Before it's gone! When you walk in you almost can see it in black and white, just like the old baseball videos. It's pretty cool. It's kinda sad that by the time Althea is old enough to actually realize that she's at a baseball game, and understand that this is THE Yankee Stadium......it'll be gone. Oh I'm sure Mike will tell her all about how Monument Park used to be located ON the field, and how there used to be a locker left empty in the clubhouse for his favorite player Thurman Munson, and why no one on the team has a single digit number anymore, and how it was the greatest stadium ever, on and on and on. But she'll never remember actually being there and seeing it with her own eyes, so unfortunately I think she might just roll her eyes and be like, yea dad I KNOW you TOLD ME ALREADY I'm sure it was great. *sigh* Now shhhhhhhhhh I can't hear the announcer....and YES I know he's not as good as Bob Shepard use to be!!!!  Ahhh well, I guess the best we can do is make sure we take her to a couple of games before it's gone and she doesn't fit in her Yankee jersey anymore (That picture is already like 3 months old, hopefully it still fits her NOW). Oh and of course take lots of pictures. New Pictures.
Tuesday, August 15, 2006Bye Bye Angry DadThat Australian stud Angry Dad has left the building. But you shouldn't stop going to visit him, cause he is funny as hell! He's up there at the top of my blogroll. There is a story up there now (it's a couple down, but read them all) about him attempting to help his wife by watching the baby and him getting poo basically all over the house. HAHAHAHA I couldn't help but to laugh hysterically at him....err I mean ummmm with him. Of course if and when it ever happens to ME......NONE of you better laugh!!! *stealing Angry Dad's sign off line* Cio for Now, do as I say not as I do Maniacal Mom
Monday, August 14, 2006You say "Dooced" like it's a bad thing...So like, if I get dooced does that mean that I also get to start making thousands of dollars monthly from my website so neither Mike or I have to work any more?? Cause if soooo SIGN ME UP!!! So yea yea I know I'm not supposed to talk about work yadda yadda yadda, but ya know what? I don't care! How about THAT!! I'm kinda pissed... Here's how it went down without getting into too much detail:
So they take a nice big juicy carrot that I didn't even fucking ask for and dangle it in front of my face, make me do tricks for it, and then wipe their asses with it, and throw it in the garbage! As a side bar, they just gave out a bunch of packages to people with high years of service in attempts to make headcount cuts. They were voluntary, so you didn't have to take it. So that is why everything is on hold. There might be a second round, since they didn't get the turn out they expected on them. Which is fine, but WHY OFFER IT TO ME THEN?!?!?!? I SOOO wanna go to HR right now in my best Arnold Schwarzenegger accent and yell:
Saturday, August 12, 2006Blog Food Expo - Dirt! This is FAR from a healthy recipe! Lets just get that out of the way right now. HOWEVER, it's always a huge hit at any cookout or BBQ. And the kids absolutely love it! Dirt 1 bag of Oreos 1 block of creamcheese (room temp) 1 package of instant chocolate pudding 2 c. cold milk 1 tub of defrosted Cool Whip (you can use light, but at this point, why bother) Use a food processor to crush the Oreos. One row at a time works well in mine. Put the whole cookie in cream and all. Pulse until it looks like dirt, go figure! Set aside. In separate bowl, I usually do it right in the measuring cup, make the chocolate pudding by adding the milk and pudding package together. Stir until mixed. In a large bowl, soften creamcheese and slowly add pudding while mixing with an electric mixer. Whip until smooth. Then Fold in entire tub of Cool Whip. Should look like mousse. Try to get something cool that looks like it would carry dirt in it. I have a couple of pails that I've used over the years for this, but this one is my favorite. It's an icebucket with a shovel, a cover, and a lining on the inside to keep the contents cold.  Any metal galvenized bucket will be fine, or whatever else you might have. Take the bucket and layer the cookie crumbs and the mousse mixture. Start and end with the crumbs. Once you get to the top add a couple of gummy worms for effect. Or if you like gummy worms, put some in the middle too while layering it. I'm not a huge gummy worm fan, but they look really cool on the top, half in the dirt like they are crawling out! I love bringing this to people's houses for BBQs. Everyone looks at it with this disgusted face like EWWWW what IS that?!?! I always say the same thing. "Just TRY it!!" The kids always dig in immediately, but the adults usually need a little bit to muster up the nerve. Once they try it though, everyone is hooked! It's rare that people aren't scraping the bottom of the bucket while the wonderful and extremely difficult cheesecakes and the like are sitting there practically untouched! HAHAHA Enjoy! Labels: Holidays
Friday, August 11, 2006Embrace Your Inner Hypocrite!It's official. Mike and I got our paperwork in the mail yesterday. Our local leader let us join over the phone. He's going to send the envelopes in the mail so that we can send in our dues on a weekly basis. I'm a little scared. I've heard of what can happen to people who believe too heavily in these sort of things. We are to report to a class to teach us the right and wrong ways to raise our child, and then we will officially join her as well. Then we are to go to a group session once a week in attempts to sway us from our heathen ways. Sounds like a cult doesn't it? Well.........sort of. We joined our local Catholic Church. *deep breaths* I feel a little hypocritical I must say. Any day now I'll be calling Issa's children heathens, getting my tattoos removed, and buying a modest bathing suit. God Help Me......err I mean, ummmm ok, nevermind. ------------------------------------------------------------------ P.S. Did you go and visit Angry Dad? He's telling a story about Naked Winter Swimming. Sounds like an Olympic event, doesn't it? How can you miss that!?!?!?!
Wednesday, August 09, 2006Isn't there a little Angry Dad in all of us?I finally decided to get back into the Blog Explosion thing and rent out my blog. And when I got my first bid I was so happy to see that it was Angry Dad!  He's already of daily read for me, but do you know him? He's got three kids, one of which is Allie's age, and occasionally turns in to a furious yellow Homer Simpon and can be found strangling at least one of them! LOL Plus he's from Australia, and I don't know about you but is there anything cooler than an Australian accent?!?!? I mean he can go to the bathroom to take a leak (head to the loo for a slash - Or something like that), and it just sounds so cool! So, go down to the left sidebar and click on his little icon and say Hi to the furious yellow wonder from Down Under!
Tuesday, August 08, 2006OMG 2 months till she's 1!!!Yesterday Althea turned 10 months old. Damn those months are just flying by. What occurred to me yesterday is I have only 2 months to plan the best one year old birthday party ever! Is that possible? I have a feeling no. Also what IS a Best One Year Old Birthday Party Ever consist of anyway? Too small for a jumpy thing or a pony, or clown. Plus Mommy HATES and is deeply afraid of clowns, so that's NEVER happening. Anyway, it's something that I will be obsessing over for the next couple of weeks, so get ready for the posts.  Allie is growing in leaps and bounds. She's definitely starting to look more like a little girl and less like a baby, which is a little sad for mommy and daddy. She's constantly babbling in her own little language, but Mike and I keep thinking we hear some real words in there somewhere. Of course no one else would hear them, but we're pretty sure she says: nummys (food), nanna (banana), ok, bah bah (bottle), mom/mommy/mama, dad/daddy/dada, dat (that), dis (this), at-ah (cat), and of course the ever popular NO! She is such a little love. In the morning when I go in to wake her up I am greeted with the biggest smile you have ever seen. I pick her up out of her crib and the first thing she does is give me a huge hug. We go and sit in the chair and she drinks her bottle. You can't even THINK about changing her diaper first or this cute adorable smiley huggy baby will turn into devil's spawn! But Mommy is well aware of this, so on most mornings around 6:30 am you will find both of us sitting in the slider half asleep while she has her morning bottle. This is my favorite part of the day. She sits and stares up at me with those beautiful blue eyes like I'm the best thing since sliced bread.  She holds her 'bah bah' in one hand and plays with my hair with the other. I wish I could stay there all day. Then when she's done with the bottle she hands it to me, and kneels on my lap facing me and smiles. We have a little talk about how she slept, and how the bottle was. She alternates between giving me huge smiles and big hugs. Then daddy comes in to take over while mommy goes and takes a shower. He also get a big smile and hug which then begins his favorite part of the day. Her two favorite things are waving HI and BYE, and kissing everything and every one. Big open mouth baby drool kisses for everything. She kisses her stuffed animals, she kisses the cats, she kisses my aunts dog, she kisses everything. It's all we could do to get her to not ingest a pound of fur every day! She is getting better with the cats though. She is FINALLY starting to get what 'Be NICE' means. *sigh of relief* Now if we could just get her to stop kissing them.   We're eating big girl food now, and she loves it. Her daddy and I are still coping with the fear of giving her actually pieces of food as well as the fact that she eats those pieces of food on our newly purchased area rug.
I went online and bought a book to help me get over my fear of giving her actual food. A book to give me recipes on what food to give her and how much and all that stuff. It's called The Big Book of Recipes for Babies Toddlers and Children by Bridget Wardley and Judy More. I'm the type of person that needs things like this in writing. I research everything that's why I'm addicted to the internet, because it's everything I need to know at my fingertips. It is SOOO much pressure that what I do now as far as eating will shape her eating habits for the rest of her life! As a child I ate everything, and I still like most foods. Mike on the other hand, not so much. If I have to deal with two picky eaters, I'll go crazy! I need someone on my side so I can go back to buying simple things like peppers again! I think we will be starting Day Care two days of the week starting next month. That way it will give Grandma and Grandpa a break, and give Allie the opportunity to play with other kids her age. Hopefully she will like it. Of course she will still be going to Grandma and Grandpa's for 3 days a week so they can teach her how to be the flower child she was born to be.
Monday, August 07, 2006Rockstar BabyYou've heard of Rockstar Mommy, well THIS is Rockstar Baby!
Rockstar Baby is every bit as spoiled as Paris Hilton. She lives the life you wish you had! She has two assistants that are available at a moments notice to cater to her every whim. Their only rest is when she dismisses them to go and Chill in da crib with the Stuffed Animal Posse or to take her afternoon naps. However the second she decides she's done chizillin and is ready to GO, the assistants are back in action. Cooking, cleaning, pampering, and entertaining Rockstar Baby is their lives, and they are HAPPY to do it! If the assistants get out of line she pitches a fit, kicking and screaming only to forget everything when a fast acting assistant give her something shiny. Her likes and dislikes can change with no notice at all, and everyone around her is to adjust. Rockstar Baby keeps her Rockstar title by performing occational dances or just flashing those baby blue eyes to her fans. This inherant charm keeps not only her assistants/parents on a leash , but can also hypnotize anyone near her into joining her ever growing entourage. In fact there is a long list of people who will buy her anything she wants, and play with her to her hearts content just for a glimpse of that smile! Keep your eyes open for a Rockstar Baby performance on THIS SITE soon!
Thursday, August 03, 2006Know how I know your old?Cause I'm old, and I know who all the other old people are... Welcome to my first ever Thursday Thirteen,
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Wednesday, August 02, 2006Melting my damn icecream!!!!!I went to the store last night in search of baby approved real food. I bought chicken tenderloins to cut up real small. I bought cheese for snacks. I bought fruit and veggies to continue on her healthy eating kick that I'm praying never ends. I bought whole wheat bread, now that I know she should eat bread (cause really that never crossed my mind). I bought some real babyfood in case all hope is not lost with it. And then I bought Breyers Black Raspberry Chocolate Icecream to keep me sane during the entire procedure. When I got home the house was dark and sticky. I'm a little scatterbrained, as you may or may not know, and didn't think much of it at first. Mike and Allie were next door at the neighbors house talking. I proceeded to carry all the groceries in and start to put them away. It was dark in the kitchen and I started to hear, in my head, Mike yelling at me that "I'm always doing things in the dark, bla bla bla, turn a light on, bla bla bla. " (I made a little mouth talking with my hands and funny faces when I said that.) So I go to turn the light on, and.........um no light. Shit, no power. All of a sudden I realize, HEY no AC??!?!?!? No wonder I'm hot and sticky! Mike comes in with the baby, and tells me the power has been off since 4, and now it's like almost 7. I'm sooooooo glad that I just bought all this food to put into a fridge that isn't effing working! *rolls eyes* Why is it that whenever you have some great plan, like making food for the next couple of days for Allie so that when I'm not home Wed and Thurs night (working on another big wedding) it's easier for Mike, something always happens to spoil it? Or spoil the FOOD needed for the plan! Anyway, we hightailed out of there and went to our friend's house with at least food enough for dinner for all of us in tow. Allie got to play with her best friend, and we all got to enjoy a little AC. But eventually we had to go home....to the sticky house. When we got home the cats looked at us like we were crazy. HELLOOOO WE HAVE FUR AND IT"S 100 DEGREES IN HERE!!!!!! Then they both poured themselves back on the floor all stretched out and panting while giving us dirty looks. Cause you know....us non-fur human types just LOVE sleeping in 100 degree heat while our black raspberry chocolate icecream is slowly melting away in the freezer.
Tuesday, August 01, 2006Help, she wants real food!!!So in my effort to be a perfect mommy with a child who does everything on-time or even better EARLY, I have now created a child that does not want to eat baby food anymore! Grreeeeaaaaaaattttt! **Note to self: If your going to teach your child to take that "next step", be prepared for that step FIRST!!
Well, with some help from Issa and BBM, Allie now picks up pieces of food and feeds herself. She loves gerber puffs, cherrios, pieces of chicken, pieces of veggies, real sweet potatoes chunks, real fruit pieces, ect. Great right? WRONG! Not every time I go to feed her baby food, she smacks that spoon out of my hand and onto the floor and says....."MOM, I'M WAAAAAY too old for that BABY FOOD now. Give me the stuff on YOUR plate! That's the stuff I want!!" Well, not really but close. What she really says is "MOM! NO!" Yes that's right she now knows how to say NO! HA HA ha h......ahem it's not funny! I'll admit, when it was YOUR child and you told me that their first word was No, *giggle* well that was a little funny, but not MINE! Sheesh!! 10 months next week and the kid is telling me NO already! *deep breaths* In fact last night I put her in her bed after her bottle. She was still awake. I sat next to the crib while she fell asleep. (Yea I know. But I'm not rocking her to sleep, RIGHT? So we're gettin there. Anyway....) She sat in the crib. Then she stood up and proceeded to throw all of her stuffed animals over the side of the crib at me. Then, when she realized that getting wailed with stuffed animals didn't faze me, she flailed all over the place until she found a comfy spot. This is the usual routine. Then once she found the comfy spot, she layed there looking at the ceiling saying over and over "mmom" *15 sec* "nnno" *20 sec* "mmmom" *10 sec* "nnno". She did this till she fell asleep. LOL It was kinda cute. It was all I could do NOT to laugh. The mmmmom and nnnno are such little short quick quiet words, but the message was clear: "Mom, I may be quiet and tired and I might even fall asleep, but I am just letting you know, this whole sleeping thing is going under protest!" Anyway, where was I? Oh yes, food! She wants food, real food! What kind of food am I supposed to feed a 10 month old? Cause I've been opening a jar for the past 10 months, so now I'm lost! Please note I get home at almost 6 pm, and she goes to bed at 8:30 pm. So it has to be quick, and healthy and either we have to be able to eat it too, or I have to be able to cook two things at once! Seriously, any help is appreciated!! Even if I knew like how many servings of meat/veggies/fruit to give her a day, and what constitutes a serving for a 10 month old who's 21 lbs? Unless anyone knows how to force a food regression? lol ********************** P.S. Beth at My Life as a Mommy had her baby boy yesterday morning!! 8 lbs 8 ozs Didn't get a name just yet, I wonder which one she decided on! Her sister Heather said she might be posting the quick story today or tomorrow, so go over there and give her congrats!!!
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