Mommin' It Up!

November 14, 2008

Ear-O-Dynamics

Awhile back, Emily wrote this post about how Kate’s “comfort item” isn’t really an item per se – it’s her belly button. We have a similar issue with Joshua and his ears. He plays with them when he is tired or nervous, and has done so since he was about two. Now that he’s a big boy, however, he has discovered that he can really play with his ears. He can, in fact, make them do things that they are not supposed to do. Like this, for instance:

He folds his ear inside of itself and then pops it out by smiling really big.

It is too hard for me not to crack up at, and he LOVES making me laugh!

So he runs up to me with his ear like that about 1,000 times a day.

It is HYSTERICAL! But probably not good for his ear…

This is bad, right? What should I do?

November 12, 2008

WFMW: Couponer Blogs

Almost exactly one year ago, I began couponing. It was the week before Thanksgiving 2007. Can you believe it has only been a year? Now I can’t imagine my life without the wonderful world of coupons! Putting my grocery and CVS plans together each week takes time, but it would take me waaaay longer if I didn’t have some help from some great coupon bloggers. So, I want to give all the “regulars” I visit a big shout-out! These ladies find the deals and coupon match-ups and basically do the hard part for all of us! I appreciate them all so much! Go visit them and give them some love!

Thrifty Mama
Stretching a Buck
Being Frugal is Fabulous
Coupon Cravings
and, the original blog that got me started: Money Saving Mom.

Reading coupon blogs works for me when I’m planning my money-saving strategy! For more Works for Me Wednesday ideas, check out Rocks in My Dryer.

November 11, 2008

Let’s Talk About Me, Shall We?

I’ve had a few things going on lately, and I feel a little disconnected. It’s Sophie’s birthday week, and I am utterly unprepared. Haven’t even sent out the evite for her party yet, whoops. (Although I think I have decided on a cake). So I am pretty much mother of the year, but you all knew that already. She’s really and truly weaned, and for that I am thankful, if not a little sad. Twice during the week after she last nursed, she got excited when thinking she was going to GET to nurse, and it broke my heart. Really, there is nothing funny about a crying toddler sticking her hand down your shirt and saying her newly-learned word “Please”. It’s a killer. But this past week she was fine and seems to be starting to be adjusting and it’s a relief.

So it is time to move on. There are a whole host of things I’ve said I would do after Sophie was weaned, and it’s time to do them. I need to get a sleep study done and find out why I can’t sleep. I need to get my #@! wisdom teeth out before they push my teeth together so hard that the front ones just pop right out of my head. I need to find out how to get my hormones back to normal.

I don’t want to do any of it. I just want it to be done.

*Sigh*

But first I have to get through Soph’s birthday, and then I’ll have the holidays to use as my excuse, right? So…I guess we’ll just have to pick this conversation up later…

In the meantime, I’d love for you to take a look at some of what I’ve been up to. Yesterday I published the Blissful Style 2008 Holiday Gift Guide over at Blissfully Domestic. Lots of stylish gifts at lots of different price ranges! Please go check it out and let me know what you think! Also, on Sunday, I guest posted at Velveteen Mind, in an effort to save Megan’s NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month) efforts. I’d tell you what she calls NaBloPoMo but my mom reads this blog, so you will just have to head over there and find out for yourself!

Oooh one more little thing I need to let you in on. Did you like the contest we posted yesterday? I hope so, and I hope you get used to it! To celebrate the craziness that leads up to the Fa-la-la-la-Lalidays, Emily and I will be doing a giveaway every Monday until Christmas! It’s our Monday Holidaze Giveaways! So make sure and check in with us ~~obsessively several times a day~~ every Monday!

Mmmkay. That’s all I got, fer realzies. Now leave me a comment and tell me to get my ACT together!!