Mommin' It Up!

November 11, 2009

Some Babies are Kind of A Big Deal

As I’m sure you’ve read, Emily and I like to hang out with a few awesome blogging moms who live here in our local area. We call ourselves the Big Deal Moms, because, we think we are as Ron Burgundy would say, “Kind of a Big Deal”. (Oh, and *maybe* because some of us are coupon/frugal bloggers.) Anyhoo, two of our group, the fabulous food bloggers Erin of $5 Dinners and Tricia of Once a Month Mom are both REAL pregnant right about now. And so, I decided that we needed to throw them a Big Deal Baby Shower!

I even COOKED, y’all. And used my FANCY CHINA and glassware and silverware. I don’t do that for just anybody!

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potatoes

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(Thanks Tricia for the photos!)

After we stuffed ourselves with yummy food and cake (ok, fine, I bought the cake! Geez!) there were of course PRESENTS!!! When I told some great folks about the shower, they offered to send Erin and Tricia some items just to be NICE! Bethany from Little Peanut Originals sent Erin these amazing burp blankets:

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They were so thick and sooo soft!

And she sent Tricia one of these great diaper totes:

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Tricia received the one on the left (*cough*genderneutral*cough*), and I loved hers so much I went to Bethany’s Etsy shop and ordered the pink & orange polka dot one for a friend! These are the perfect little holder for your diapers and wipes. Throw it in your purse or diaper bag and go! Thanks, Bethany! She makes all kinds of great stuff including really cute Tooth Fairy Pillows for the older kiddos so check her out!

I wanted to get the girlies some great swaddling blankets, because I swaddling Sophie saved my sanity when she was little! Jill told me aden + anais had amazing swaddling blankets and they sent the girls each four for me to give them!

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These are super-soft muslin blankets and the box even comes with swaddling instructions for the new parent. *Love* that!

We had a really great time at the shower. And both prego mamas looked GREAT! And I was quite disgusted by the fact that Erin, at 38 weeks pregnant, could wear these shoes, which my fat feet never would have fit in at that stage:

Thanks to all the Big Deal Moms who came to the shower and the great companies that sent gifts! Can’t wait to meet those Big Deal Babies!

November 10, 2009November 10, 2009

Fail Whale

Today could very well prove to be my ultimate (to date, I’m sure there’s more to come) parenting FAIL.

I drop Kate off at my grandma’s on my way to work in the morning, and then my grandma takes her to school. As I left this morning, Kate told me she wasn’t feeling well and that her throat hurt and her back hurt (enter my suspicion – throat and back ailments aren’t a typical combination). She seemed ok, so I headed on, but about halfway through my commute she called again to tell me she wasn’t feeling good (despite her nutritious breakfast of cinnamon rolls and ice cream, which of course was the only thing that could possibly make her throat feel better). We agreed that Grandma would take her temperature, and if she didn’t have a fever, she’d go to school.

Great.

Except she called me again about 15 minutes later, still insisting that she didn’t feel well and she couldn’t go to school. I could, of course, be totally wrong about this, but I really do not think she is sick. Moms can tell these things, right? Yeah, famous last words. So in any case, we decided she would go to school and I said if she still felt bad there, she could have the secretary call me. I am banking on the fact that once she gets there, she will be fine.

However.

After I got off the phone with her, I checked my calendar and wouldn’t you know it, today is the day Kate will get the H1N1 vaccine at school. This day totally crept up on me. I was planning to prepare her for it, but I totally didn’t, and I was afraid that if I called her and told her after all we had gone through debating her attendance today anyway, that it would be a giant disaster.

So now she’s headed to school as we speak (or I type), blissfully unaware of the fact that she’s going to be vaccinated today. Unless, of course, she does know about the vaccination because of school announcements (the same way she found out about the skating party last week that I was conveniently not going to mention), and that’s where this entire problem is coming from.

Or maybe she is sick, and I didn’t believe her. And if she is sick, she shouldn’t be getting the vaccination. And that, my friends, would be a parenting fail of epic proportions.

November 9, 2009

The Great Donut Debacle of 2009

Friday morning I needed to go to Kroger to get a few things, and I decided on the way there, being the indulgent mother that I am, to go through the Tim Horton’s drive-thru to get Sophie a donut for a special treat. But then I thought, “Hmm, donuts are so messy. I always get her the glazed donut and the glaze flakes everywhere. Maybe this time I should get her the chocolate dip donut, because the icing is thicker and harder, and it won’t flake off like the glaze does.”

THIS my friends, is where that VERY FLAWED logic got me:

Please note my favorite part of this photo: Sophie’s hair matted with chocolate and stuck to her chin like a BEARD.

The nice people at Tim Horton’s gave me FRESH donuts. As in fresh, dripping with chocolate icing that had not yet had time to harden. And of course, having promised the Soph a donut, it’s not like I could withhold it!

So, the second place this flawed logic and my own dumbness got me, was the parking lot of Kroger with a child covered in chocolate icing and NO WIPES! Because really, I DO have to earn my “Mother of the Year” badge somehow!

I REALLY had to get some groceries for a little shindig I was having, so I could not turn around and go home to clean my child up. Out of desperation, I left Soph in the car, dashed in the entrance of Kroger, and grabbed about 40 kajillion of those clorox wipes they have out for you to clean your cart with.

That’s right! I scrubbed my toddler’s face and hands clean with CLOROX wipes!! Again, I should definitely be up for some fabulous award. She was NONE too pleased with the situation. And as the clorox wipes couldn’t break up the layers of hair matted with chocolate icing, I had to throw her in the bathtub and scrub it out when we got home.

But at least she didn’t look like a mini “Bearded Lady” going through Kroger!

*Sheesh*. The chocolate dip donut was a bad choice. Next time I’m gettin’ the TimBits!