Mommin' It Up!

March 2, 2009March 2, 2009

Running on Empty

I’m as happy as I can be to see the calendar turn to March. January was emotionally rough and before I had full recovered it was February. And February was busy, insanely busy and full of anxiousness for me. It started out by frantically preparing for BlissDom, and then the amazing-crazy-fun-ecstasy that was BlissDom, and THEN the major post-BlissDom letdown when my house was a wreck and I couldn’t seem to get my groove back.

Then followed two weeks of ridiculous kindergarten-registration-preparation-anxiety and finally, preparations for Joshua’s 5th birthday party.

Somewhere in between kindergarten anxiety and birthday party prep, I just started to feel really…inadequate.

Inadequate as a mother, a wife, a blogger, and a person in general. I am an organizational nightmare, and I feel like life would be so much easier if I could get a good schedule going.

I am hoping March brings me the opportunities I need to recharge, refresh, re-organize (I feel that if I didn’t suck so badly at time management my life would run a lot more smoothly) and re-energize.

I also really hope it gets warmer. ‘Cause 25 degrees on the first day of March? SUCKS. And a little sunshine? Would probably do wonders to improve my mood!

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March 1, 2009

Weekly Winners: Joshua’s Birthday edition

Friday, on Joshua’s birthday, we took him to a really cool place about 40 minutes away called Entertrainment Junction (emphasis on the train). We had an awesome time! I’ll blog more about it later, but here are some of my favorite photos from our outing.

My guys

Joshua was transfixed by the miniature train displays.

They had a miniature car show set up on one of the train displays. I thought this lady and her blue car were sassy!

Miniature train bridge

Thomas steams into the station!

Mommy & Joshua get a quick snuggle.

More on our trip to come later! For more great weekly winners, check out the Weekly Winners HQ over at Sarcastic Mom.

February 27, 2009April 2, 2009

Happy Fifth Birthday to My Baby Boy

Five years ago today at 9 a.m., Joshua Kenneth entered the world and made me a mother.

I was induced the day after my due date because of high blood pressure. I was in labor about 12 hours from start to finish, but ended up having an emergency C-section. The first 10 hours were great, honestly, the last two hours were horrific, truly, but then Joshua was out, and healthy, and beautiful, and it was all worth it.

Joshua was the sweetest baby. So sweet, and so easy. Easy easy easy. He made Bobby and me think we were naturally good parents (then Sophie came along and burst that bubble). He was so loving and such a joy. And you know what? He still is! He’s the sweetest kid on earth!

Some of my favorite Joshua-isms through the years:
* He calls my mom “Muck” – he just made it up when he was about 18 months old. We have no idea why! (No, he had not yet seen Bob the Builder when he came up with that).
* For the longest time, he pronounced the word “huge” with an “f” – “fuge”. To this day we now put “f” in front of a lot of words we say like “fawesome”, and “famazing”. It’s very fun, you should try it (just uh, try it in your head first before you try it out loud, ya know?)
* For about a six-month period when he was between one and two, Joshua LOVED the song “Who are the people in your neighborhood”. He saw it on an episode of Sesame Street and he would sing it allll the way through, complete with wildly flapping hand motions and a BIG finish. He called it “me-hood”. It was the cutest thing ever, and I remember my dad especially loved it and would try to get him to do it. We were all sooo sad when he finally stopped!

As he’s gotten older, one of my favorite things about my son is that he’s now applying his sweetness to the way he treats his little sister. He really is the most loving brother, and it is very heart-warming for me to see how much he and Sophie love each other.

Today my husband took the day off work so we can just enjoy and celebrate our big guy. I’m feeling really sad that he’s so big, but really thankful that he’s grown from such a beautiful baby into such an awesome kid!

So happy birthday, baby boy. I love you more than you could ever know, and I sure do love being your mommy. It’s pretty much the best gig around.