Mommin' It Up!

April 17, 2009April 16, 2009

The Grass Isn’t Always Greener

The other day I was changing Sophie’s diaper when Joshua asked me something I had been waiting for him to ask me for, well, ever since Sophie was born…two and a half years ago. He looked at Sophie, then looked at me and said, “Why does Sophie’s pee-pee look like that?”

Finally! I was beginning to think maybe he was blind or just so self-obsessed that he didn’t even notice his sister was different from him down there.

“Well,” I answered matter-of-factly, “Girls have different private parts than boys do. You and Daddy have the same kind of pee-pee and Sophie and Mommy have the same kind of pee-pee.”

Joshua regarded his sister with a look that can only be described as pity mixed with relief. “It’s a good thing I’m not a girl,” he said with a shake of his head.

“Why do you think that?” I asked

“Because I would NOT want my pee-pee to look like THAT!” He gestured toward Sophie with a look of disgust.

I stifled a giggle. ‘Cause seriously ladies? How many times have you thanked the Lord that you DON’T have man parts? Yeah, I think I’ll stick with what I got (which according to my OB-GYN is pretty great)!

It’s nice to know Joshua is comfortable with what he’s got too…and that we won’t be on Oprah discussing transgender tweens in a few years.

April 16, 2009April 15, 2009

High Society

The past couple of days I have been on a little adventure. My husband had a training for work in the suburbs of Chicago, and I decided to tag along. We left the kids with my mom – it was the first time both of us had been away from them at the same time! Bobby works for a Lexus dealership, so they gave us a 2008 Lexus IS300 to drive on our trip.

So, while my husband was in class, I was let loose to roam the suburbs of Chicago in a fancy car. Which, thank goodness, also has a fancy navigation system, because I have no sense of direction whatsoever (unlike Emily, who I like to call the Human GPS). Said car was so fancy, that you don’t even have to use the key to start it or unlock it. All you have to do is have the key (called a Smart Key) on your person, and get near the car, and it unlocks. Then you get in the car and you press a button to start it and turn it off. When you get out of the car, you just press a button on the door handle to lock it. Woo-wee! I love it! It’s always a pain to mess with my keys when I am trying to carry my kids and groceries and whatever else. So needless to say, I am very sad to give this car back and give up my precious, precious Smart Key. *Le Sigh*.

But anyhoo, in my fancy car, I tooled around the fancy suburbs and went shopping at the fancy outlet malls. It was super-fun. And after Bobby’s day of training was over, we tooled around together, eating out at fancy places and getting coffee at the fancy Starbucks and just generally being awesome. We had a great time together.

Of course, we really missed the kids. Our second night away, I was just longing for my babies.

But I’m so glad Bobby and I got the chance to have a bunch of fun just being together (and being very fancy.)

January 27, 2009

Laurin and Jenny Talk

So my statuesque, beautiful, glamorous pal Laurin of Laurin and Kelly talk was interviewed by the famous Avitable on her blog the other day. The interview cracked me up and since I love to talk about myself, I left a comment telling Laurin she could interview moi. I did this once before waaay back in the dark ages soon after Em and I started this blog and it was way fun. So, here are Laurin’s questions and my answers.

1. How long have you been addicted to CVS and how did it begin?
Seriously Laurin, have you never read this blog? I said like 4,000 times in November that it was my one-year anniversary of CVSing. GAH! I am so offended. But anyhoo, it began when I found the blog Money Saving Mom and followed her CVSing tips. It quickly escalated when the tips WORKED and I began walking out of CVS paying less than $1 for $30 worth of stuff!

2. Who are you most looking forward to meeting for the first time at Blissdom 09?
Well, since I’ve already met YOU at BlissDom08, I’d have to say Rachel of A Southern Fairytale. I love that girl so much! I want to hug her ~~until she pushes me off~~ for like five minutes straight! (I do want to get a picture with you though, ok? But since you are 8 freaking inches taller than I am, you will need to be seated for said photo. Kthx.)

3. Just wondering how you wish to addressed at Blissdom. Her Royal Stylishness? Madame Editor? You’re a funny girl – come up with an amusing “title” for yourself!
How about Her Serene Dorkishness? Fer real. I am like Queen of the Nerds. I just play fashionable on the interwebz.

4. Even though you’re a fancy schmancy Style Editor, you must have had a bad fashion period in high school or college. Do tell, or better yet, give us the photographic evidence!
College was not a good fashion period for me. I wore jeans & sweatshirts pretty much the whole time. And I owned and wore a pair of black pants with a rainbow stripe down the side. AND I thought they were cool. Sorry, though no pictures! It would take me quite a while to dig one up and I am just too lazy. Not ashamed, just lazy. We all know I have no shame!

5. Tell us the story of the moment you and Emily decided to start the blog together, and how you came up with the great name. For extra credit, where do you see yourself in 5 years? (Hey, it IS an interview.)
I can’t remember the EXACT moment, but I will tell you it was Emily’s idea and she gets full credit. We were really trying to write a book together based on all the hilarious emails we wrote each other when we were first pregnant at the same time. But then, we just realized it would not happen until we were too old to remember what it was like. So Emily came up with the idea of starting a blog. I had blogged on MySpace but hadn’t really read any other blogs. So Em showed me a few, and we started coming up with name ideas. I came up with “Mommin’ It Up” because that’s what I would say when people called and said “What are you doing?” because all I ever did was mom stuff – wipe butts, noses, you know the drill. So instead of “livin’ it up” or “talkin’ it up” I’d say “mommin’ it up!” Em liked the name and so she came over one day and we bought the domain name and hosting. And during that “meeting” we were trying to have, the kids were being crazy, and a newly-potty-trained Joshua pooped his pants, and Emily was like, “We really should be writing this down…”. It was too funny!

Sorry, that answer was so long. Now for the extra credit: In five years both my kids will be in school, so I see myself sitting on the couch watching Regis & Kelly drinking Mountain Dew and eating Twinkies. Umm, seriously…hopefully still blogging, still on staff with Blissfully Domestic, and making enough $$ to afford a cleaning lady once a week! I am AMBITIOUS!!!

This concludes “Laurin and Jenny Talk”. (Kelly, are you like, SO JEALOUS???) If you want to play in this interview game, here’s what to do!

1. Leave me a comment saying, “Interview me.”
2. I will respond by emailing you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will update your blog with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.”