Just when I start to get Cranky

Okay, I know I shouldn't start a post with "okay" but too bad (Cause rules suck, right?). I was all cranky and getting annoyed and feeling impatient, I mean, check out what I started to write on the poor internet that has to gobble up my words no matter what it thinks...

I'm over it. I'm getting really over it. I've been having headaches, you know the ones that feel like your brain is being dragged behind a truck on a road that really needs to be repaved? Yeah, those and the doctors are like, you can have tylenol and I'm like, no thanks, that doesn't even do anything. So whatev.

I'm also soooo over this short sale stuff. Why the Hell can't a bank get their act together when they expect the world from us. I mean, can you imagine telling a bank, you'll get to them when you feel like it?!

Oh, and don't even get me started on Microsoft Word. No offense PC users, but I could NEVER go back.

And then I logged onto facebook because I'm easily distracted and was reading some status updates and wasting time and trying not to be annoyed and negative because, really, things could be worse than being annoyed at a non Mac computer then, THEN my friends, I read that my friend Janet was going to try and cut out dairy.

Cut. Out Dairy.

Those three words are like Christmas to me. A really fun, non debt ridden, fancy lights, family and friend filled, lobster for dinner kind of Christmas. You know, one I hope to have in my lifetime but don't REALLY need as long as people keep realizing how disgusting dairy is and that they shouldn't be putting their bodies through the evils of it and tell me THEY ARE CUTTING OUT DAIRY!

Ring the bells, sound the alarms (the fun ones), start the parade because EVERY single person that decides to research and realize how sucky a cows breast milk is for the human body, turns my frown upside down.

Diary sucks, dairy sucks, YAY! YAY! YAY!

P.S. I said "turn my frown upside down". I'm so lame.

Spread the Love

A lot of times it doesn't take much to make someone else smile.

One of my favorite bloggers, Suzy from Hollywood: Where Hot comes to Die wrote a post today referencing my Fire Burns post. One kind gesture she initiated and directed toward someone else. We can all do this. Why don't we all do kind things for others more often? Make someone smile!

Go read her, be her follower, she is great. Then go buy some coffee and a little something yummy and say thanks to your nearest firefighters, they deserve it.

Timi and Leslie, you are ruining my life.

When I become obsessed, I don't mess around! Remember the unhealthy love I had for that tank top that didn't even look good on me?!?!


Continuing my diaper bag obsession, I've discovered Timi and Leslie.


This one would look mighty fine adoring my shoulder:




Of course you need the bag for dressy occasions:


For more Timi and Leslie, check out their site AND, no, I'm not getting paid, I'm just pathetic, BUT if anyone DOES want to send me fabulous diaper bags for free to write fun stuff, I would happily accept. (NEST and NOT RATIONAL and TIMI AND LESLIE, I'm talking to YOU because sometimes Hollywood stars are OVERRATED!)



Somebody stop me before it's too late and I abandon everything to feed my addiction and end up on some show, starved, friendless, and shaking in the corner clutching on to the latest sack that is essentially created to hold things that people poop in.

Gawd, I'm so over myself.

The old one is just shabby.

I can't event think straight and am even annoying the Hell out of myself.

I'm OBSESSING over diaper bags.

It's bad. Do I really need another one? (Answer is YES.)

Seriously, will I even be USING a diaper bag much longer?! (Answer is YES, only if it's cute and one of the bags pictured below, because, damn, its so pretty, I will use it as a purse and best friend.)




Okay friends, meet Khaki and Black Canvas Tote by Nest.



OMG, and I JUST found it on sale here!!!



Or, or, OR, meet Petunia Pickle Bottom Cake Society? Really, who doesn't love cake?!?!



Can be purchased here.


If you need the clutch version of a diaper bag, meet Corsican Blue Cross Town Clutch.



Can be purchased here.



P.S. My birthday is October 18th. No, I'm not telling you that for any reason at all, none really, I promise...

Dinner for an 8 Month Old

I make all of Sawyer's baby food. It's pretty yummy if I must say so myself. Almost everything so far has been amazing. One bite for Sawyer, one bite for mommy! I have the Beaba Babycook to make Sawyer's food in, which I LOVE and highly recommend. Anyway, everything has been great until I introduced meat. Monday night he had pureed Chicken breast for the first time. He liked it, I wanted to gag. Tonight, I made this instead...

Tomato, Garlic, Onion, Sweet Potato Chicken. (Shut up about the name, I don't know what else to call it!)

So, here it is:


Chicken breast, cooked
Sweet potato, cooked
1/4 cup onion
1-2 cloves garlic
1 tomato- de-skinned, de-seeded
1/4 cup chicken broth

To de-skin and de-seed tomato, drop tomato in boiling water for 30 seconds, then dunk in cold water. Make an X shaped cut at base of tomato. Peel skin off, cut in half then scoop out seeds.

Chop onion and garlic. Saute onion, garlic and tomato with some olive oil. Add broth. Puree, onion mixture, chicken breast and sweet potato. Cool and store.

Tonight, I didn't gag.

RIP Babystyle?

I think I might be a sad mommy grieving a loss.   Babystyle, one of my favorite baby, kid, and maternity stores, I think, is out of business.

It started off with some pretty nifty sales.  Not everything was on sale, and there was no signs warning of any type of liquidation, closing, and so forth.

  

It continued with a non-working web site.  Let me say this, I am addicted to researching... anything and everything.  I will read 400 reviews of every product before I pick out the most perfect car seat (high chair, feeding spoon, swing, etc) for my little guy.  I also love to see what is new.  What is new at Pumpkin Patch?  What is new at Babies R' Us?  What is new at Babystyle?  It didn't help that some of Sawyer's friends have a first birthday party coming up, babystyle.com was where I TRIED to go for the perfect present.  Fine, no website, I'll make the drive to the dreaded mall.

I parked in my usual spot and head downstairs.  Downstairs corner, nothing.  Am I sleepy?  Is it upstairs?  I KNOW it's downstairs, I'll go upstairs anyway.  No Babystyle.  No signs, no empty store, just not there, like nothing was ever there.  I feel like I have false memories like those movies you see.  I know there was a babystyle, it was downstairs, right where I am standing.  I look for a directory walking though half the mall and decide to ask another baby store regarding the whereabouts of Babystyle.  Two other families where there asking the same question.  Out of business, just disappeared, was the answer we received.

Huh?

Babystyle, what happened?  Where are you?  Can you come back?  Can you come out to play?  My questions are unanswered, I only found this online.

Today, I'm a sad mommy.

To Sawyers friends, I'm sorry if  your gift sucks.

On a happier note, I just learned how to make a word a link (See 'this' a few lines above.).  Did you notice how tech savy I'm becoming?

My Kind of Fairy Tale

Another great kids book that is fun for mommy to read to baby while baby doesn't understand what I'm saying.

The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid Tales
by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith

The Really Ugly Duckling

"Once upon a time there was a mother duck and a father duck who had seven baby ducklings. Six of them were regular-looking ducklings. The seventh was a really ugly duckling.

Everyone used to say, "What a nice looking bunch of ducklings-all except that one. Boy, he's really ugly." The really ugly duckling heard these people, but he didn't care. He knew that one day he would probably grow up to be a swan and be bigger and look better than anything in the pond.

Well, as it turned out, he was just a really ugly duckling. And he grew up to be just a really ugly duck.

The end."


This is what you would get if I was an author of children's books!

Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl

I love books. LOVE THEM! I'm excited that the moms group I am in might start a book club. I need some sort of kick in the butt like that to start reading again. I used to read a few books a week. It got ridiculous. I spent WAY too much money on books. Sometimes I skewed reality with what I was reading. Someone would say something to me which reminded me of a memory I had of so and so and what they did and what happened. It always was some great story, but not my real memory. I had to check myself and really think, is this real or a book you read? I read a lot. Really, a lot. Ever since I had Sawyer the reading has gone down the drain. Not all of it, I mean, I can recite most Dr. Seuss books without looking at a single page, but sometimes you need to read something for yourself. AND, well, sometimes you can't. Sometimes you need a book that you can read to your baby that will entertain the mommy as well. This book takes the cake!

Revolting Rhymes. A Christmas present from Auntie Jackie and Uncle Laurent.

And I quote...

"Next day, the Prince went charging down
to knock on all the doors in town.In every house, the tension grew.
Who was the owner of the shoe?
The shoe was long and very wide.
(A normal foot got lost inside.)
Also it smelled a wee bit icky.
(The owner's feet were hot and sticky.)
Thousands of eager people came
To try it on, but all in vain.
Now came the Ugly Sisters' go.
One tried it on. The Prince screamed, 'No!'
But she screamed, 'Yes! It fits! Whoopee!
'So now you've got to marry me!'
The Prince went white from ear to ear.
He muttered, "Let me out of here.'
'Oh no you don't! You made a vow!
'There's no way you can back out now!'
'Off with her head!' the Prince roared back.
They chopped it off with one big whack.
This pleased the Prince. He smiled and said,
'She's prettier without her head.'...


Any guesses on the name of this fairy tale? Lol! This book is great, a little gory, somewhat gross but the the nice guy always comes out on top and mommy and baby are both entertained.

Search for it, it's totally worth it and a book daddy's will be happy to read to the kiddos!

I hope everyone had a great Christmas, has an awesome New Years and starts 2009 WITH their head!