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I have three fabulous children and a terrific husband. I was recently laid off and have decided to try the stay-at-home gig. We'll see how it goes!

Saturday, July 27, 2013

Advice for Moms of Three

Listen to me all women who have had three children!  (This may also be true for women with one or two)  Never and I mean never jump on a trampoline.  Your bladder is just not going to hold up.  All that wiggling and jiggling will cause leakage to happen.  Now I was lucky;  I relieved myself prior to jumping, but that didn't help much.  Oh well, lesson learned and hopefully you can learn from my experiences.  

Monday, July 22, 2013

Daddy Hypnosis

How does he do it!?  The other morning my son came into our room very early (6 AM or so) and immediately wanted me to make him breakfast.  Unfortunately, I was unavailable because I needed to take the puppy out for her morning walk.  If she doesn't get it, she's crazy all day.  So my son says, "OK" and hops into bed with my husband.  I was thinking, "Ha ha, he'll have to get up and feed the boy."  I went on the walk and about an hour later went upstairs to find my husband and son both ASLEEP!!!

He must have our kids hypnotized because I know they are not trainable.  First of all, my two oldest ALWAYS come to me first thing in the morning.  They completely ignore my husband's side of the bed.  And when I say, "Ask your dad", their reply is always, "But he's sleeping."  What!!???  I guess mom's don't sleep.  Second of all, if I have the nerve to ignore my children's plea to wake up, I am accosted by pokes, whispers, tickles, hugs and bouncing on my back until I get up.  They don't even bother him.  It's not like he's mean or anything.  He's certainly nicer than me about that stuff.  And yet I am the target; not him.

That's just morning time stuff.  They never seem to stomp on his feet, (although there is a period of time where each child has been the perfect height to cause some "man" damage), or throw up on him, or poop in the tub when he's watching, or spill their drink in his lap.  Somehow it happens to me.  I have to figure out his methods.


Thursday, July 11, 2013

Learning to Balance

Keeping my "work" life and my "home" life separate has been quite a struggle since I became a SAHM.  But thanks to my husband and our new puppy, I'm starting to find some balance.  As a SAHM, my life is my home.  My work is my home.  So I never really get away from work and I never get away from home.  The challenge, therefore, is to make a life within my work.  What makes that more difficult is that I don't want my life to consist only of my children and my house.

A few weeks ago, my husband challenged me to a weight loss competition.  I've had a difficult time getting the last 12 or so pounds off and he wants to lose some as well.  We're both pretty tired and lack motivation, so the opportunity to "win" was just what we need.  I hate to lose and more importantly, I hate to lose to my husband.  So, all I can really say is it's on!  My will power and self control have been reenergized and he's is going down, but I'll discuss that more later. 

I know the only way to beat my husband is to have unfailing will power and to exercise.  Nothing major, but certainly more than I've been getting.  Fortunately, our new puppy has a lot of energy and nice long walks are just what she needs to help settler her down.  An added benefit is how I feel when I'm walking the dog.  It's been so hot here, that the best time to walk is super early in the morning, so I go by myself while everyone else is in bed.  Getting up that early is pretty crummy, but totally worth it.  I've been able to be myself away from kids.  I've been able to think about things, UNINTERRUPTED for 30-60 minutes at a shot.  It's quiet and peaceful and I'm starting to feel like my old self again.

It's nice to have something that is all mine.  I don't have to share it and I can do, say and think pretty much whatever i want.  I had no idea what I really needed was time with me and my crazy thoughts.  An added bonus is that I have managed to lose some more weight and have cracked the 150 barrier!  

Thursday, July 4, 2013

Common Sense Gene

The Common Sense Gene, where is it? and how can I turn it on in my children and at least 50% of the adults around me?  I would love if there was some kind of serum in a dart gun.  Then I could get the satisfaction of hurting the moron a little bit while eliminating their moronism (I made that word up).  Kids will be kids and I don't really expect them to have too much common sense, but does it really take a genius to know that you don't swing from a chandelier or jump off your bike while it's moving because it's going "too fast".  

It's the adults who lack common sense that drive me the most crazy.  Like letting your child who is 50-100 pounds overweight suck on a bottle of Mountain Dew all day and then claim to have no idea why their child is fat.  Or stop, and I mean STOP,  in the left lane of a 70 mph interstate so they don't miss an exit.  That brilliant move has happened in front of me at least twice.  There is nothing more stomach turning than seeing the 20 or so cars in front of you suddenly split off into 10 different directions, all for an idiot who is dumber than a gnat.

Just last night, my family and I spent nearly 40 min waiting to turn right onto the street to our house after watching the town's fireworks.  That's to be expected at something like that, but what is not expected is that we couldn't turn because some one about 50 cars in front of us wanted to turn left.  And while there was absolutely no traffic going right, it was impossible to turn left.  The worst part is, if that person had turned right and just gone around the block, it would have taken a tenth of the time for him to get to the street he wanted on.  

It was RIDICULOUS!  People who wanted to turn right finally went to the left of the jack ass and turned right around him.  At least 10 cars did that, which was awesome because finally the traffic was moving.  But then of course other highly intelligent left turners decided they didn't want the people turning right to be able to leave before them, so they  moved to the left making two left turn lanes and ZERO right turn lanes!!!!  That was super RIDICULOUS! Next people resorted to driving in the grass to get around the double lane of common senseless, self-absorbed ninny heads.

After all that time we finally made it through and made it home  before any of the left-turners ever made it out of the parking lot.  If only I had a dart gun!