I can do better! Isn't that how the song goes? I would like to say that I excel at some manly type things but at the moment my brain is drawing a blank. Plus, things in our house are pretty equal. We both clean just fine even if it is in our own little idiosyncratic ways that drive the other one nuts. We both claim to drive better than the other. I at least have the driving record to prove it.We can each make a mean dinner, breakfast or lunch.Kid duties? We're even there too. When we do home renovation projects we work together. Granted I shirk the whole power tool thing but it's just not my thing. I am pretty girly, I admit. I like to pick out the aesthetic items and I don't mind painting or digging in the dirt. I leave the caulking to H. I just don't have the patience. Maybe H should … [Read more...]
New Obsessions
I used to obsess about handbags and cute sandals. Really. Just weeks ago. Accessories and nail polishes were like air to me. These days all my creative juices seem sapped by a guppy-sized being inhabiting my lower regions. My desires for cute butt jeans and wedge heels have transferred to working myself into a lather over just the idea of a Pizza Hut pan pizza only for me. When I sit down to work all I can think of is how brownies repulse me and the idea of a nachos bell grande seems like pure bliss. My house never feels clean and I want to change my sheets daily. I yearn to plant acres of flowers, and I've started exploring Top Online Plant Stores for inspiration. All ideas of baking have been put aside. I am not pregnant I have had a lobotomy. People say this about mothers all the … [Read more...]
Random Question #112
After quite a lengthy discussion last night on the following topic H asked that I pose this question-What was your favorite hot lunch when you were in school?Makes me wonder- Does anyone else's paper still print the weekly school lunch menu?Discuss.... … [Read more...]
And done!
I woke up this morning thinking about the Avon Walk. It is less than a month away and we have four fundraisers, big and small, in the works in less time than that. Sometimes I think I must be crazy for attempting to do this walk while still in my first trimester. Sometimes I think I'm crazy for agreeing to do so many fundraising events. Organized I can be. A seller of wares I am not.Just thinking about the fact that I'll have a whole Arbonne table to myself on Saturday makes me sweat giant beads of perspiration no matter how good the cause. I am full of 'what ifs'. What if no one even glances my way? What if my friend who sells Mary Kay kicks my ass in sales? What if no one buys a single thing despite it being for charity. Arbonne is not cheap. It's hard to convey how awesome it is as a … [Read more...]
The First Trimester – Where even I don’t know myself
I remember puking over anything poultry and eating pork up to four times a day when I was pregnant with T.D. Salad made me queasy and want to ralph so badly it took me almost a year and a half to want to eat it again. Now?Now, I'm loving the fact that H just brought me two soft taco supremes from the Bell and I can down them in a sickly wolf like fashion. He should be given the Nobel Peace Prize for getting them so fast and keeping me so happy.I had to pull over STAT the other day to buy three chicken selects. No dippin' sauce. Just give me the damn selects! Only three please. Anymore and I might actually barf.This is not me. I do not eat this way. I shun french fries and almost anything sweet and want to guzzle coke from a fountain. Smartfood is my new best friend.Pizza made me sick … [Read more...]
Currently at J&J Camp Baby
Hour OneThe blogosphere is alive and well. Watching people blog, email and twitter away. Why did I leave my laptop in my room? Baby brain has begun already.Sucking on sorry little butter mints found at the bottom of my purse to prevent the inevitable nausea that never fails at this hour. Thinking about the cinnamon and brown sugar pop tarts hangin' in my purse.Ooh look! I'm sitting between Moms Favorite Stuff and Mums The Wurd!New Food Fact: Nutmeg is a hallucinogen. Anyone have any nutmeg recipes? Eating No More Tears bubbles is A-OK. So is bathwater. Guzzling No More Tears? It's just a good laxative. Whew!Hour TwoDespite cutting boards being dirtier than a toilet seat it is still not OK to make a sandwich on the potty.Just scarfed down the pop tarts. Was tasty despite hearing … [Read more...]
Overheards & Observations – Johnson & Johnson’s Camp Baby
"If your lemon got on your cheese, you're hosed!" - Ted Allen, during wine tasting"The first thing I did when I got in my room was shave my legs and then leave the razor on the tub. I just left it there. No complicated box needed to keep it away from my kids...."The absolute quiet and pristine whiteness of my bed when I first walked into my hotel room. The absolute quiet and pristine whiteness one hour later and then again five hours later. It's still pristine white and quiet unless you count the hum of the Today show in the background and not Clifford.Ted Allen actually being quite amusing causing me to guffaw out loud on several occasions. He clearly knew his audience when he told us to just guzzle our wine at one point. I'm off to learn about braiding hair, what's happening down there … [Read more...]
Angsty Pregnant Blogger Goes to a Conference
Today I'm off to the beautiful land of New Jersey to seek out the answers to infant and toddler sleep patterns, all that is new in J&J products and if I wasn't pregnant to drink a little.Now don't get me wrong, I'm excited to go. Happy to be invited. Thrilled to be carpooling with this crew. But when H asked me this morning if I was packed and ready to go, all pumped up to talk to other bloggers I said, "eehhh..I'm more concerned about food. When will we eat? Will there be snacks? I forgot to buy crackers. I know were talking about sleep issues with kids, will there be nap time for me?" Seriously. This is what it comes down to. A tiny being smaller than a grain of rice is making me nauseous as hell right now and I'm playing it moment by moment most days. It sucks. I've already uttered, … [Read more...]
Ringworm or Puke in the Pool. Take Your Pick.
Today's mission should you choose to accept is to guess which story is true and which one is the April Fool's. It's all part of April's Blog Exchange, though um, we're not really exchanging any one's blog this time... See more stories true or false here. During my freshman year of college a group of girls and I, OK about half my hall, would regularly hang out at a nearby fraternity house. Friday night? We were at the house. Saturday afternoon? Probably playing flip cup and eating pizza at the house. Saturday night? Still at the house. The wee small hours of the morning? You got it. We were at that house. It's not that the guys were especially hot or that they were even that charismatic but for some reason we all took a liking to each other. Then one day as I was sitting on my bed I … [Read more...]
A Riddle for You
So what do you get when you take a cranky toddler who will only nap because when she wakes up Daddy (who has been gone 3 weeks) will be home and then Daddy decides to go to the Nationals Opening Day game first so he's not home when she wakes up?You get dinner thrown at you by a toddler.That's what.You get an egg salad sandwich hurled at your face by one red-faced, crying with her mouth open and full of egg goo, hurt little toddler screaming for her Daddy.Fun times. Fun times, indeed.Then you realize that you have eaten about 12 eggs in three days and that pregnancy does indeed make you eat weird things. Maybe sky high cholesterol makes toddlers behave more like indignant monarchs?*We have a due date...November 28! More on this melodramatic saga later. … [Read more...]