The story of my life.Here's to finding humor in the smallest of things.
Monday, January 29, 2007
Friday, January 26, 2007
Best Life Diet
Was intrigued by it after reading about it on Cathy Z's blog.
Clicked on the link she had, got totally jazzed out over the suggested meals like smoothies (yum!), did the profile and found out it isn't for you if you are pregnant or nursing.
Bah.
Apparently, achieving good health or weight loss whilst expecting or nursing is not important to Mr Bob Greene, aka Oprah's Diet Guru.
I suppose it is time to go back to WW, even though they frown upon nursing moms, too.
Any suggestions???
Clicked on the link she had, got totally jazzed out over the suggested meals like smoothies (yum!), did the profile and found out it isn't for you if you are pregnant or nursing.
Bah.
Apparently, achieving good health or weight loss whilst expecting or nursing is not important to Mr Bob Greene, aka Oprah's Diet Guru.
I suppose it is time to go back to WW, even though they frown upon nursing moms, too.
Any suggestions???
Thursday, January 25, 2007
"When I Wrote To the Zoo"
So this is the reason why Emma's room is so messy.
Very interesting.
Haven't heard that excuse up until now.
Monday, January 22, 2007
Ten (plus one) on Tuesday, first edition
1. Claire goes in for her 4 month check and shots today.
2. Baby Mozart is a life saver.
3. I cleaned out my patterned paper stash and gave away two 12x12 vertical Cropper Hopper paper holders FULL of paper. And I do mean FULL. Now that said paper stash has been purged, I am now working my way through the land of forgotten or never used embellies...*sigh*
4. This scrapbook purging could quite possibly take days, I am fully convinced of it. But it has become so necessary since I quit working at the SB store and managed to collect.more.supplies.than.one.person.should.ever.need.
6. Have you seen the February Make and Takes in the Garden???
7. Jackie Bonette is fast becoming a new favorite 'cause she LOVES patterned paper. And I love a girl who loves paper. :)
8. "Super Emma" came to visit for the day.
9. I took a few cute pics of "Super Emma" and will post them later this week.
10. Did I mention Baby Mozart is a life saver?
11. I think I have found a way to carve out a few minutes to scrapbook now, thanks to numbers 2 and 10.
YAY!
2. Baby Mozart is a life saver.
3. I cleaned out my patterned paper stash and gave away two 12x12 vertical Cropper Hopper paper holders FULL of paper. And I do mean FULL. Now that said paper stash has been purged, I am now working my way through the land of forgotten or never used embellies...*sigh*
4. This scrapbook purging could quite possibly take days, I am fully convinced of it. But it has become so necessary since I quit working at the SB store and managed to collect.more.supplies.than.one.person.should.ever.need.
6. Have you seen the February Make and Takes in the Garden???
7. Jackie Bonette is fast becoming a new favorite 'cause she LOVES patterned paper. And I love a girl who loves paper. :)
8. "Super Emma" came to visit for the day.
9. I took a few cute pics of "Super Emma" and will post them later this week.
10. Did I mention Baby Mozart is a life saver?
11. I think I have found a way to carve out a few minutes to scrapbook now, thanks to numbers 2 and 10.
YAY!
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
A conversation about strangers and dangers
Surely I wasn't ready for this.
No, I wasn't.
Emma answered the door to a stranger while I was in the shower.
She came running into the bathroom to tell me and then dashed back into the living room.
I don't think I have EVER gotten out of the tub, grabbed a robe and ran to the door faster than I did last Saturday morning.
But I could not get to the door fast enough.
My heart stopped.
She was thisclose to getting out of the door before I was able to intervene.
As soon as we got back into the house the cautionary, but not scary words started flowing.
And then the tears.
Of fear.
Of relief.
And then a trip to Home Depot for a keyed deadbolt lock was purchased and installed.
(Prior to the new lock, our front door was secured by a regular lock on the doorknob and a deadbolt that only had a keyed feature on the front side of the door which makes it too easy for a wee little to unlock the door in the first place.)
I learned a hard lesson that morning.
It is NEVER too early to talk to your kids.
Do it.
Today.
And tomorrow.
And then again.
No, I wasn't.
Emma answered the door to a stranger while I was in the shower.
She came running into the bathroom to tell me and then dashed back into the living room.
I don't think I have EVER gotten out of the tub, grabbed a robe and ran to the door faster than I did last Saturday morning.
But I could not get to the door fast enough.
My heart stopped.
She was thisclose to getting out of the door before I was able to intervene.
As soon as we got back into the house the cautionary, but not scary words started flowing.
And then the tears.
Of fear.
Of relief.
And then a trip to Home Depot for a keyed deadbolt lock was purchased and installed.
(Prior to the new lock, our front door was secured by a regular lock on the doorknob and a deadbolt that only had a keyed feature on the front side of the door which makes it too easy for a wee little to unlock the door in the first place.)
I learned a hard lesson that morning.
It is NEVER too early to talk to your kids.
Do it.
Today.
And tomorrow.
And then again.
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
She giggles! She rolls over! She is teething!
Life is ever so slooooowly returning back to normal.
:)
P.S. Thank you so much for all of your kind words of encouragement.
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Chronicles of a sick baby, a neglected preschooler and a heaping dose of mama guilt
C'mon over.
Claire has an ear infection.
Emma has another URI.
Mama has a sinus infection 'cause it wouldn't be fair if only the girlies were sick...
Thankfully, Emma perked right up with antibiotics and Motrin.
However, now finds herself fending for herself with loads of Welcome to Ralph's World CD/DVD, back-to-back episodes of Charlie and Lola and Little Bear, her new My Little Pony play sets, 10 tubs of play-doh, a new box of crayons and markers with a stack of blank paper, tons of snack-y type foods and a few new books that Nana bought her.
I guess that doesn't sound too bad until I fess up the fact that she's largely unsupervised during the daytime while I sit in the rocking chair in the girls' room for the 157,786th time with Claire.
That would be where the heap of Mama guilt comes into the story.
It makes me sad that I can't be in both rooms at the same time.
Or that I am secrectly rejoicing in the fact that school resumes tomorrow.
Or that the tree and decorations are still out.
I could go on and on.
So.
I will close this depressing post out.
"Generally Happy Stephanie" should be back around in a few more days.
Bye for now.
Claire has an ear infection.
Emma has another URI.
Mama has a sinus infection 'cause it wouldn't be fair if only the girlies were sick...
Thankfully, Emma perked right up with antibiotics and Motrin.
However, now finds herself fending for herself with loads of Welcome to Ralph's World CD/DVD, back-to-back episodes of Charlie and Lola and Little Bear, her new My Little Pony play sets, 10 tubs of play-doh, a new box of crayons and markers with a stack of blank paper, tons of snack-y type foods and a few new books that Nana bought her.
I guess that doesn't sound too bad until I fess up the fact that she's largely unsupervised during the daytime while I sit in the rocking chair in the girls' room for the 157,786th time with Claire.
That would be where the heap of Mama guilt comes into the story.
It makes me sad that I can't be in both rooms at the same time.
Or that I am secrectly rejoicing in the fact that school resumes tomorrow.
Or that the tree and decorations are still out.
I could go on and on.
So.
I will close this depressing post out.
"Generally Happy Stephanie" should be back around in a few more days.
Bye for now.
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