Updated posts 12/9-11/7

Kelly's version of "My Favorite Things" from the Sound of Music: "Tampons in purses and paint on my body, juice on the floor and hands in the potty, screaming in line at the Edaville train..these are a few of my favorite things. When the show ends, when the pop's done, when I'm feeling sad, I simply remember to screa...m with my lungs, and then I don't feeeeeeel soooo bad."

 

Conversation with my cousin Bridget today: Bridge: "Are you doing anything this weekend?" Me: "Nope" Bridge: "You've got a family b-day coming up this month, right?" Me: (thinking), "Um, I don't think so" Bridge: "Isn't Kelly's b-day in December?" Me: "yes" (embarrassed/laughing). Bridge: "Are you having a party... for her?" Me: "Yes, it's this Sunday" (laughing and slightly freaked out about myself)

 

I layed Kelly down on the floor today to change her diaper. She picked up Mr. Potato Head off the floor and shook him. When she shook him all of the Potato Head parts that were stored in his bum compartment came flying out and landing in the poop in her diaper, which I had just opened. So, how are all your days going?

 

Holy Shit! It's silent in the living room and all three of them are in there so I figured they were all up to no good. I just peaked in.....they're all looking at books!!!

 

My son was just watching cartoons and he came in from the living room and said, "Mom, moles are sneaky scary monsters. You have to whisper so they won't hear you and be careful not to eat cheese or they'll smell it." Then he paused and said, "And they come from California!" Better watch out all you California moles!... Brian is on to you!

 

I wanted to be Lynda Carter SO bad when I was little! I didn't even come close, though. I had bat girl underoos and blonde hair...but a kid can dream!

 

Thanks to Paesana marinara sauce, chopped garlic, pecorino romano cheese, and Whole Food's pork and garlic sausage, I just made a lasagna that would make my Italian ansestors proud! So so so soooooooooooooooo good!

 

More Christmas shopping done, check. Trip to Whole Foods, check. Sitting in a (still) quiet house eating my dinner, check!!! Woohoo!!! This has been the best day in the history of the world!!! (once again, refer to previous posts for any confusion you may be experiencing regarding this post).

 

Workout at gym, check. Shower at home in peace, check. Lunch in silence, check. Hair blown-dried, check. Grocery shopping, check. Sipping coffee, check. Heading out to do Christmas shopping.... Great day so far!! (Refer to last post if you're confused :-).

 

Do you see that? It's my minivan leaving my driveway. Do you hear that? It's the silence in my house. No you feel that? It's the love in my heart I have for my husband, for taking our children down to his parent's for the day. Early Merry Christmas TO. ME. Weeeee!!!

 

Just bought a brand new necklace. On the way to the car I accidentally wacked the bag on another car. Just got home and opened the back...one of the large brown glass beads is cracked in half...AWESOME!!

 

This status is a friend of a friend's but I had to share: "Rachel (5 yr old) starts singing Holly Jolly Christmas: "Yo ho, the missing toe. Hung where you can see.". The missing toe?! What is this some Soviet war camp song, where they cut off toes of insolent prisoners, and display them as a warning to others. Got to love kids!"

 

Sometimes in order to get Kelly to eat her meal I pretend like I'm going to eat her food. She doesn't like that & as soon as I put the food up to my mouth, she'll scream "No! My food!" & then she'll take it from me and eat it. Tonight I tried that with chicken, & I actually put it in my mouth and started to chew and... said, "uh oh, I'm eating your food." She looked at me and said, "Good job, Moma. Good job."

 

Kelly was playing with a toy at the table and it fell and she said, "Oops! I drop it." She got down, picked it up and put it back on the table and it immediately fell to the floor again, and she laughed and said, "Oops! I drop it some more." That moment of utter cuteness made up for at least two times in the past ye...ar (maybe 3) that she screeched so loud that paint peeled off the wall.

 

My mom came up to watch the kids today while I went to the doctor. On the way home I stopped at Trader Joe's and got the kids frozen chocolate covered bananas. When I took them out of the box and gave them to the kids my mom says, "Oh! This was on your front lawn!", and she handed me a packaged CONDOM! I wonder what re...minded her of that??!! We had a good laugh.

 

I wonder when my kids are going to realize that sandwiches do not come with bite already taken out of them.... :-)

 

My son yelled at me earlier today because I didn't swing the bat fast enough at the ball he pitched to me....that went behind my back. (Just for the record, I didn't swing at all. I guess he thought that I was eventually going to swing at it).

 

I'm pretty excited so I'm going to post this....I've lost 13.5 pounds! Woohoo!!! Thank GOD the scale is finally going the other way, or else I'd be rolling into my 20th reunion next year. Everyone would be like, "Ooooh, who's the ball?"

 

Me to Kelly (23 months): "Are you a good girl?" Kelly: "no" Me: "Oh, Are you just Kelly?" Kelly: "no" Me: "What are you?" Kelly: "I a baby wrecker". I guess I'm going to have to be more forceful with her sister who screams at Kelly saying: "You wrecker baby! You're a baby wrecker baby!!"....When Kelly knocks ...down her blocks or tears apart the train track! :-o

 

Brian had a birthday party to go to yesterday at a bowling alley. I asked him if I could drop him off & then pick him up later & he said "no" b/c he would be too afraid. I asked, "what would you be afraid of?" He then listed the following, "being alone, getting wet (um,ok??), getting eaten by a wolf, tiger or lion (...bowling alleys are known for those things), and getting stolen." I ended up staying. :-)

 

I have written, posted and then deleted several statuses over the past week or so. Not sure what's going on with me. FB burn-out, FB anxiety disorder, FB confidence crash?? See, even right now I'm thinking about deleting this. Something is up with me that's for sure.

 

Yesterday was the first time in FIVE years I've been able to actually sit and eat my entire Thanksgiving dinner without having to get up and walk with a crying baby, chase a toddler or make sure somebody wasn't falling down the stairs. THAT is something to be thankful for!

 

Best part of my day was on the ride home from my parent's house and Kelly said to me from her carseat, "Hold hands Mama?" And I reached back and we held hands for the rest of the ride. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

 

Jeff asked Kate (age 3) what holiday was tomorrow, and she responded, "EASTER!" (while jumping up and down and clapping with joy). To help her out we just put on "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving". When it was over Brian asked, in a very excited tone, "Can we have toast for our Thanksgiving meal tomorrow!?" So, Happy Ea...ster everyone and don't stuff yourself with too much toast!

 

I came downstairs to the living room this morning and my son looked at me and said, "You sure do look pretty, Mom." Must have been because I was wearing my BEST sweats AND I had make-up on.

 

I have GOT to stop wearing sweatpants everyday! I fear the "What Not To Wear" crew is going to ambush me while I'm at the playground with my kids. My gosh! With the way I dress you'd think I'd given up on life.

 

Many of you know I have my "FAT FIGHT" blog going right now. I am determined to continue losing weight throughout this holiday season. If any of you out there are trying to lose weight or if you're afraid you'll gain through the holidays, maybe the blog can be of some support to you so you don't :-)

 

I am a computer JUNKY!!! Between FB, and two blogs (well, I actually have three blogs:-), I should be getting PAID!!! Anyone want to pay me? :-)

 

Jeff got a company wide email yesterday morning at around 10 that read, "There is a blue Geo Prism in the parking lot with it's lights on." At around 4 in the afternoon Jeff got another company wide email that read, "does anyone have jumper cables?" I thought that was pretty funny.

 

Kate had her neuropsych testing today & she scores above age level in ALL tests. :-) Her neurologist called tonight, & again reiterated how shocked all the doctors are, including the one Kate saw today, with how well she is doing given how ABNORMAL her EEG is. Gosh, that kind of scared me, I didn't realize it was "tha...t" abnormal. I told the Dr., that it must be a miracle, & she said, "I think it just might be."

 

It's time to give some thanks to FB. It helped save me from complete isolation over the past few years, it's reunited me with SO many people I've wanted to be back in touch with (and people I didn't even know I wanted to be in touch with), it's brought me new friends, it's helped me to discovery a love for writing tha...t I never knew I had, and it's profoundly increased my confidence.

 

The Judge's scores are in and Kelly (22mo) receives a 9.0 for her near perfect fall of flying off a spinning chair and landing head first on the corner of a plastic bin on the floor. The only thing that would have made it a 10.0 would have been a trip to the ER!

 

I think I'm going to start "liking" all my status updates because well, I do.

 

Parents:
Sing the following to the tune of "The Gambler" (and yes, I'm a bit slap
happy today): "You got to know when to hold em, know when to scold em,
know when to walk away, know when to RUN! You better count your
blessings, when they're AAAAALLL playing happy. They'll be time enough
...for drinking, when the day is done."

 

Six years ago today the first snow had fallen and Jeff and I stood together at St. Joseph's church and two became one, and a family was born. Happy Anniversary to my best friend and my love.

 

At dinner tonight my son, who doesn't eat vegetables (unless they've been hidden in a brownie by me :-), asked if he could have one of my spinach leaves. I played it down like it was no big deal, but inside I was jumping around like a crazy lady. He said he just wanted to hold it, and I said, "pretend you're a giraff...e and see what it tastes like", and HE DID! My son voluntarily ate something green!

 

I did an automated phone survey about my recent experience at Mass General Hospital. A few times I felt like I didn't have enough time to answer &/or I wanted to change my answer. At the end I was asked if there was anything I didn't like about the survey itself. When I started to say, "I didn't think there was enou...gh time to answer some questions" it cut me off bf I finished & said, "thank you, have a nice day."

 

Just about 3 days (maybe more?) without the sun, coupled with daylight savings, is making me very very very grumpy. This has been the longest day EVER! My kids have been SO needy ALL! DAY! Oh, and this is my first day in five days without dessert!! Let's see, what else can I complain about? Oh yes, my son told me t...hat he can't remember number that I am now because it's "too big". That should just about cover it!

 

Got my son "Slinky Dog" from Toy Story for his birthday. The way my youngest was playing with it my husband and I said, "he won't last long". We were right. Not even 4 hours after opening it, the slink kinked and now Slinky Dog looks like he's permanently going to sit down.... or take a dump.