Posts made in April, 2010

Is this what we’ve become??

Posted by Michelle on Apr 29, 2010 in Internet, Life, Linky Love, Media | 0 comments

Okay, so KFC recently introduced the Double Down — a sandwich that uses, amazingly, two deep fried chicken breasts as the “bread”. Not to be outdone, IHOP has introduced a cheesecake stuffed pancake called the “Pancake Stacker”. This filling breakfast will set you back about 1,250 calories.

Aside from the fact that it does look quite tasty — hey, I like pancakes. I like cheesecake. I can admit this — I’m pretty repulsed. I can’t help but wonder if America is so damned gluttonous now that we seek to stuff ourselves unnecessarily for no good reason while folks around the world — hell, people in America – still starve to death.

What a way to set an example.

“Noooo…!”

Posted by Michelle on Apr 28, 2010 in Life, Parenting, Therapy | 0 comments

One of the potential “upsides” of The Little Empress taking her sweet time to say words was the fact that she didn’t really have a word for “no”. For the longest time, she would simply shake her head if she didn’t want something. Eventually she added “nu-uh” to her vocabulary which was often punctuated with a cute little shake of the head.

A few days before she started school, it seemed that she had found a word for “no” but instead of “no” it came out more like “mo”. And this too was absolutely adorable as she still couldn’t quite get the “n” sound for “no” and would simply whine “mooooooooooo” (as in an elongated “mow” rather than the sound cows make) instead of saying “no”.

Her first day of school, she had a new word: no. She had the dreaded N – O word and she could say it without too much difficulty. For a few weeks, she tested out the new no a few times but still relied on “nuh-uh” or shakes of the head to get her point across.

These past few days has seen a huge uptick in the usage of the word no. Instead of a simple “no” it is now “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!” complete with the bold and exclamation points. “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!” is her instant reaction to just about anything we ask her these days, whether we’re suggesting that it is time for her bath, time to sleep or hell, even to ask if she would like a cookie for breakfast.

My child says no to cookies for breakfast. What. the. hell?! Obviously, I have not trained her correctly.

Now I think it is safe to say that the with the arrival of the word “no” (and meaning it — boy does she mean it!!) that the Terrible 2s are (finally?) here in force.

Is it too much of me to hope that the next word that she adds to her vocabulary may be something of the affirmative? I’d love a “yes” to contrast the “no” every once in awhile.

Hitching a ride

Posted by Michelle on Apr 27, 2010 in Babywearing | 0 comments

The Little Empress hasn’t been feeling well these past few days, sick and cranky with another ear infection. She hates being out and about when she’s sickly but we had to head out rather late in the day yesterday to pick up her medicine. I put her in the car without her shoes because I figured we’d just make a quick stop through the drive through only to discover that the drive through line was 6 cars deep. She was already cranky and I didn’t have much patience. I parked the car and eyed her. No shoes meant no walking and I really didn’t feel up to chasing after her anyway. Our Pikkolo was sitting beside her and I had a sudden flash of brilliance.

“Wanna ride on Mama’s back?” I asked.

TLE lit up and clapped her hands yes. She giggled as I strapped the carrier onto me and then hip-slid her onto her rightful place on my back. Our little trip to the drugstore was nearly painless as she happily rode on my back, playing with my hair and waving to passers by. Our next stop to the grocery store, I asked again whether she wanted the cart or Mama’s back. She pointed to the carrier and clapped again. She giggled happily as I hunted for that night’s dinner at the grocery store, sometimes pausing to lay her head on my shoulder or give me a quick hug from the back.

Oh how I’ve missed this!! I hope this just isn’t a fluke of wanting to be worn only when she’s sick. Regardless, I’ll take it. There’s nothing like a great afternoon of toddler wearing to brighten this mama’s spirits.

Confession

Posted by Michelle on Apr 25, 2010 in Life | 0 comments

I’ve got a confession. Even though I regularly participate in things like Menu Plan Monday on my food blog Delishiono, I have to admit that I don’t always follow my menu plan. In fact, it usually goes out the window by Tuesday morning when I realize that I’ve forgotten to thaw/prep whatever I had planned for that night’s dinner. (When I’m really unlucky, the plan gets chucked around 12 noon on Monday when I realize that I have no intention of actually following my lunch plans! )

I seem to really love the idea of being this perfect homemaker but honestly, the reality is so far from the ideal. On great homemaker days, I have a clean everything. (This is so few and far between that it barely warrants a mention.) On okay homemaker days, I may have a clean kitchen. Most days, though, the house could certainly use some picking up. I’m never “company ready” and frankly, I’m at the point where company can kiss my untidy a** if they have anything to say about it.

The Hubs has suggested that we get once a month maid service which would be nice if money grew on trees. Which it doesn’t, sadly. (If it did, I assure you that I would be a master gardener!) So until the fabled day that we win the lottery, I am trying to find my “messy but doesn’t make me gag” point. My not-so-secret fear is that this point will continue to change until I  have a house that looks like it belongs on Hoarders. I keep telling myself that I’m far too anal retentive to ever let that happen but hey, the fear is there.

My Friday Night Excitement

Posted by Michelle on Apr 23, 2010 in Life | 1 comment

In the span of one decade, I have gone from a not-a-care-in-the-world 22 year old who stayed up all night with god knows who doing god knows what to a 32 year old stay at home mom whose idea of a fun Friday night was sitting in front of her computer, blogging about how appalled I am about the fact that I am finding blogs of organized laundry rooms to be positively orgasmic and envy inducing.

I’m sure my younger self would be rolling her eyes, gagging right about now.

Me? I’m planning a trip to Home Depot and trying to figure out how to coerce The Hubs ™ into helping me with my newest diabolical plan to clean up the laundry room.