the life and times of mommiehood, part deux

THAT I LOVE SINGSTAR?!?!?!

This is the bestest PS2 game EVAH! Andy and I have so much fun playing and Stephan likes dancing and laughing at mommie and daddie being total goofballs. We have Singstar Pop and 80's and want to get the 90's one too. I also want to plan a party and invite everyone over for a little Singstar fun. I'm not so good with the 80's songs. I wasn't aware enough then to know the songs so I don't know the words and they are super hard to sing and attempt to match the notes (not like I'm good at that anyway but some of those artists do some crazy hard stuff in their songs). My favorite is Singstar Pop. I love to have fun with Britney and Destiny's Child and Whitney. Andy and I actually do pretty good with The Fray and 3 Door Down and Snow Patrol. We got Lead Singer status tonight on Cable Car!

Enough ... I sound like a gushing tween. <embarrassed giggle>

My dream of a fun new computer has flown the coop. We are now having to spend the bulk of our tax refund to on season tickets.

Bronco image

I'm happy for the hubster, he's wanted this for a long time. Just bad timing in my book. Wish we could have waited another year.

May 13 snow?!?!

I know I live in Colorado ... BUT seriously, I'M SO OVER THE SNOW. It's not October. Thankfully I can stay home and chill and not have to drive in it. This is probably the most snow I've seen this late in spring. They said something about still having great snowboarding and skiing conditions in the mountains too. Crazy how much there is and it's still coming down pretty good too. Love the green grass and white snow combo, don't get that too often do you?

So here’s my little bear and his mess. Apparently, I only thought he was taking a nap and really I was the only one doing any napping!

me 'n' my mess 1

Mommie only thought I was asleep, but I was having LOTS of fun discovering the wrapping paper after I pulled most of my clothes out of the drawers and books off the shelf and trash out of the trash can.

me 'n' my mess 2

Mommie was thankful I didn’t discover all the gift bags and tissue paper stashed in my closet.

i'm done mom

After mommie came I with her camera I was a bit more interested in getting ahold of that … but she didn’t let me.

sword fighting with daddie

When daddie came home we cleaned up the whole mess and then we got to play sword fight with the paper rolls, how fun is that? I was a super giggly boy after all this!

I think Jimmy fallon is great and am excited for him hosting the Late Show. Too bad I rarely stay up late enough to watch it, but there's always the DVR!

To anyone who is or someday might be a mom! And here's to hoping your day will be better than mine. I finally succumbed to whatever befell Andy a couple weeks ago and Stephan last week. It's AWFUL. As Andy pointed out, one of the perks is getting waited on, HOWEVER, I'd rather be healthy and going off to church in the morning. Instead I hurt all over and ... well, I'll spare you the gory details.

So enjoy your day with your family, I sure hope it's a good one!

Yay! I had the time to finish my book ...

Certain Girls: A Novel

Jennifer Weiner

I must say that in the end I liked it. A good reminder to tell the truth to kids (as much as they can deal with at whatever their developmental age) ... they always figure things out anyway and then they won't be pissed at you for lying and might retain their faith and trust in you even if the truth hurts. Not to give anything away, but the thing that redeemed the book for me was the author killing someone off. Usually that upsets me and at first I was annoyed, but it really did bring everything together and wrap the book up nicely, along with the other surprise but alas I don't want to completely ruin anything for someone who hasn't read the book and wants to.

Here's a quote from the book that really resonated with me:

"This is motherhood for you, " said my own mother. "Going through life with your heart outside your body."

Just struck me as an interesting thought. I want the best for my son, I love him dearly. For the moment I'm the center (or mostly so) of his little universe. All is well when I'm nearby. As he grows this will change. He'll go to kindergarten, middle school, high school and maybe leave for college. He's mine for a season and God's forever. Wherever he goes I'll think about him, wonder how things are going for him and probably want to pick up the pieces when things fall apart ... he'll always have a piece of my heart with him. I think my biggest job as a mother is to make sure he has confidence, enough to weather the ups and downs of life, enough to know when he needs the help of others, enough to know he needs his Savior through good times and bad. 

Some people might chalk this up to mere coincidence, I however do not. I think it's totally a God thing.

Yesterday we went to the grocery store armed with several coupons, one of which was for a free six pack of some sort of gatorade. We couldn't find what kind so Andy went and asked someone and discovered it was these little tiny bottles, Andy picked the strawberry kind.

Then as you know Stephan got sick. Yuckies coming out both ends. We are concerned about dehydration since all he wants to drink is milk but that induces more yuckies so we were trying water and gatorade. He didn't seem into either and pushed most everything we tried away. Today we pulled out the little bottles of gatorade and he LOVED drinking out of the little bottle and we were very happy.

I'm grateful that that coupon showed up at just the right time and we went to get the gatorade at just the right time and that it was in the prefect little bottles for Stephan to drink and now we feel better about him not getting dehydrated. That's too many coincidences for me, I see God's hand in it all.

Stephan's got whatever daddie had a week or so ago. Uncle Dan got it, then Papa & Nana got it and now Stephan's got it. I'm sincerely hoping I'm not next. Yesterday he threw up all over daddie in Target near the end of our grocery shopping trip. Andy headed out to the car to clean up as much as possible in the parking lot and I flew through the checkout line (thankfully there was one open with no one in front of me!). We drove home to the odeur of hurl and got everyone cleaned up and the groceries in the refrigerator that needed to be there and pretty much crashed.

Stephan, who earlier didn't take a nap (he decided it was way more fun to climb on the big bed in his room and look out the window or open and close his doors), crashed at 5pm. Not a good time for nappy! We woke him an hour and a half later even though he was none too happy with us just so we could have him fall asleep again about an hour later :)

I ended up sleeping some with him on the recliner after midnight and then moving into his room a couple hours later with him in his crib and me in the big bed. He woke at five with an ouchy nasty diaper which I think we changed before creating any worse diaper rash. He had a hard time getting back to sleep so when he woke up again at six I just asked Andy to take him while I tried to get more sleep since we were supposed to work in the church nursery this morning. A few minutes after I passed off the kid he threw up again and thus ensued yet another clean up in the bath and since he tagged the rugs we are now washing those and I swept out the bathroom too. So no more sleep this morning and no nursery. We called and told them it isn't a good idea. While I'm not sick I don't want to chance passing on the bug to a poor 9-18 month old or their family!

I hope to take a nappy today with Stephan since I think I'll need it quite badly as the day wears on. And no more milk either, we're trying to get the kid to drink water, and maybe a little bit of gatorade, but he's not having any of it. Hopefully he'll work with us to keep himself hydrated so he can get healthy again.

Hope today isn't as bad as I fear it will be!

Forevermore

Cathy Marie Hake

Finished this book a few days ago. Not bad. Sweet story. Sort of follows Fancy Pants, there are a few characters from that book in this one and it's set in the same area.

Now I'm on to Certain Girls which I just picked up from the library. I'm kind of excited to start reading that ... and am off to it as soon as we can get Stephan to take a nappy!