Cleaning Update

Okay so that whole plan on keeping the house clean hasn't been a total failure. Yes, my husband does ALL the dishes and the laundry (I know what else is there you say?) well there is actually quite a lot! We have to eat right? YES WE DO and I have cooked dinner every night. Go me! I have to give myself some kind of pat on the back.
I have kept the downstairs decently clean, vacuuming every couple of days, straightening up twice a day and making sure Tyler cleans up his toys after he is done playing with them. It's now one of his chores.
Yep, Tyler now has a chore chart that he has daily chores that he does. For example he has to feed the dog, cat and fish, brush teeth twice a day, clean up room with mommy and pick of all toys from the day before bath time and/or movie time. I honestly can say I haven't been too consistant with his yet but I'm getting there. I will say that on days where I've had him mark things off on his chore list calendar thingy the day goes a lot smoother and I have a little more patience with him.
I'm not perfect. I would like to meet a single mom that is. I think all of us have room for improvement but I don't think I am doing SOO bad. Yes, there are still toys on the floor, my husband and I's room is a wreck and there is still dust on the book shelves downstairs but hey I'm a work in progress!

Crabby Patties

Woo Hoo, I made crab cakes for dinner. My husband LOVES crab cakes but I've always been to nervous to try and cook them. We had a whole bag of crab that my dad had brought over from a crab feed so I found a very simple recipe from Martha Stewart and decided to try it out.

Let's just say that they were sooooo simple and yummy yummy yummy with just the slightest bit of spice to them. Check out the pictures. I am proud of myself. I'm also just proud of the fact that I made dinner with two kids. Tyler tore up the leaves for the salad for me....what a big helper!

Here's the link to the recipe:

http://www.marthastewart.com/recipe/mothers-crab-cakes?lnc=5a79cf380e1dd010VgnVCM1000005b09a00aRCRD&rsc=cf_link

My little helper, Tyler

Ingredients

Fresh Crab Meat! I cracked it all myself!

Cooking in the pan

The finished product

Served with green salad this was dinner...yum!

Living in Filth

Ever feel like you are just living in a dump called a home? Papers stacked on every counter, toys strewn about everywhere, dishes over flowing in the sink stains on carpets and clothes on the floor of every bedroom. When did I become this much of a slob? I always knew I was not the most anal of people when it came to cleaning but aren't moms supposed to be cleaning freaks?

Last night and this morning we scrambled to get ready for the carpets to be cleaned today. The house looks so clean when there isn't any clutter. Maybe I just lack the space to store anything so it just seems to stack up and collect in odd places. Maybe I should set certain days to clean specific things ie....

Monday: vacuum,
Tuesday: dust,
Wednesday: pick up and sort clutter,
Thursday: clean bathrooms,
Friday: outside poo poo duty and clean cat box
Saturday: Laundry
Sunday: REST

How long do you think this will last. I give it a month! Okay, maybe 2 weeks! Wow I don't have much confidence in myself but hey I'll try.

What works for all of you? Are we all just messy? Is it just because I have a newborn and a crazy, draining toddler that my home looks this way? HELP!

Yes I have BIG BOOBS!

Okay so it seems that my poor, huge, freakishly large breasts are getting a lot of attention lately. Any friend that I see lately starts with saying "holy boobs mama!", like as if I had missed them or something this morning. I'm a 34 F, yes F! Watch out they squirt! My hubby would say F is for fun but really fun is the last thing that I think of when I look at them. Lets just say that if I lived in Africa and the whole village was starving I could feed them all with the milk that my boobs contain.

They say that there is no connection to the size of your breasts and how much milk you produce. Well, then why the hell do I need to have such large ones? Did God just think that it would be funny to see a poor mom scramble around trying to find a bra that would actually fit her petite sized body and enormous breasts? This is when I'm convinced that God is a man!

It's almost like because my boobs are a topic all the time I'm so use to talking about them all the time. I even told some lady at Nine West what size they were. Why did I do that? It's not like she asked. Wow, do us moms just share too much sometimes?

My brother in law, one drunk night, even made up a song about my melons and was trying to get one of their friends husbands to come over by telling him all about my melons. Okay so it was a VERY DRUNK NIGHT and yes my sister was present for all of it! So sad. But what is even more sad is the way that they are going to look in like a year when they go from F's to B or C sized deflated balloons!

MNO

Finally! MNO and some much needed R&R. Last night 9 ladies from moms group and I went out for margaritas and mexican food. Yum! It was so much fun. I'm really glad that I have finally found a group of ladies that actually want to get involved. Not just with the kids but with the moms too. Dinner was yummy. No weird silence and I finally got to enjoy some drinks after 10 months of being pregnant. Marni and Carina I love you girls! Thanks for taken the shots with me! Roseanne, you are awesome for being my DD. When you aren't pregnant anymore I'll drive. Finally I can go back to being mom today after some much needed rest and recovery. Now I'm ready for another LONG week!

Getting ready

The Group

Roseanne and I

Marni and I

Carina and I

Shots for 3!

She is so BEAUTIFUL

1st Bath

Too cute. I just had to give Addie her fist bath with her brother. He loved it and wanted to wash her belly the entire time. She cried for the first second that I put her in but after that she just chilled and looked around. She really is a good baby. I mean she has her moments like every baby where she cries and I have no clue what for but that is to be expected. Now back to the bath. She loved it so much that she fell asleep. Haha, silly baby! It made it really easy to wash her though without her kicking and squirming.
It's funny when I look at my children I think, "how can two kids from the same parents look so different?". Just look! Tyler is seriously white and Addie has a completely darker completion with dark hair. They really are sooo different. I wonder if the nurse didn't bring me back the wrong baby with Tyler. That type scenario makes me think of that old 80's movie with with Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin. That was twins in there case. Oh well they are mine!

The Act of the Disappearing Husband

Life is crazy! I love it sometimes and other times I just want to cut and run. My husband has been working tons. 1st he does investments during the day Mon-Fri. After work he has either practice or games cause he coaches the 7th grade boys basketball team. Wednesday and Sunday nights he plays in a basketball league and on Tuesday, Friday and Sunday he plays poker professionally. Also he does this side job that is overnight down in the bay where he'll leave at 11pm and get back home at 7am. Ouch! Yes, read it over and over and over and ask me when I get to see him. Not a whole lot. Geeze I know he's making money but call me crazy but I need him. Addie is only 6 weeks and I thought that I would have him around a little more. Am I being selfish?
Tyler has been seriously crazy disobedient and I just want to give him away! Addie is doing better sleeping like 4-5 hours during the night. Seriously it doesn't help that we all are just getting over the flu and pink eye. Why does everything bad always happen at once?

He's a Big Brother Now

Okay so I've been absent for awhile but there has been a lot going on. I promise I'll get back to writing. Some of us aren't as good of jugglers as Shannon when it comes to baby #2. I'll return soon so keep checking back!

Addie is Here!

Finally she is here and a week early just like her big brother. Life is a little more crazy yet so much more at peace, it's so hard to explain. I'm doing GREAT and for it being more than likely our last baby I had an awesome labor experience.
On Saturday Jan. 5th we were hanging out at my inlaws house doing some laundry when at about 5:15pm my water broke. I felt a little leak and leaped up from the couch, slipped on the hardwood floor on the blanket that I was laying with and took a hard fall. Not exactly a graceful way to get to the bathroom! I think I was even laughing at myself telling the rest of the room I'm not crazy or clumsy but my water just broke. haha!
I wasn't feeling any contractions at that point so we decided just to slap one of Tyler's diapers under me and wait a little while. In the mean time I sent Phil home to get our hospital bags. With in 45 mins my contractions had kicked in pretty good and I was ready to go to the hospital. Upon arrival at the hospital at about 7:30ish they monitored me and checked me...4 centimeters, 80% and at 0 station....FUCK YEAH! Here we go! By 9:30pm I was at 6-7 and very uncomfortable...Epidural please! Complete with her head almost making an entrance by midnight and ready to push at 12:30am. 15 mins of pushing with the nurse and another 15 with the doctor and Addie made her grand entrance into the world. Born January 6th 1:04am 7lbs 3oz and 20 inches long. Beautiful!
It was so different this time. It was just Phil and I in the room besides the nurse and the doctor and I had not once ounce of pain. Addie came out, they put her on my chest and I got to clean her off. I was so excited and she was so beautiful that I was just enjoying the moment and breathing her in that I wasn't overwhelmed with tears, fears and emotions, just love for my baby girl. Really a beautiful experience. Everything felt so complete as she cried and looked into her mommy's eyes. I love her so much!

Happy New Years Everyone!

I know I'm a little late but Happy New Years to everyone!

We brought in 2008 with kisses and an apple cider toast for two, but it was kind of lame. Phil says this is the last year we are this pathetic. Sorry honey but at almost 10 months preggie I'm not about to just jump off my ass put on my highest heals, dance my booty off and get wasted. I know he never expected that of me but doesn't it sound like sooooooooooo much fun?! God this baby needs to come out! I really need a strong drink to calm my nerves! "Yes, waiter I'd like a Gray Goose Martini extra cold, extra extra dirty (like me!) with 3 olives" THANK YOU!!!!

Anyone have any new years resolutions out there? I think I swore off resolutions days ago but this year I may bring some up for myself. Here they are all 10:

1. To have more patience
2. To try and find something new every month that makes me a better mom (an activity, information, a new discipline technique...etc.)
3. To fully potty train Tyler (it's true what they say about moving and big family changes. It makes them take a step or giant leap backwards)
4. To breastfeed Addie for 1+ years. (I made it to 8 months with Ty so I'm going for a little longer)
5. To start with a personal trainer after my 6 week dr. clearance
6. Go back to school for a month for two days a week starting March 1st
7. Get my license for skin care
8. Stay on top of improving our credit
9. Get a raise at work (I am soooooooooo worth it!)
10. Lastly I'd like to at the after summer but before winter fully sets in move back to the Sacramento Area.

I hope that I'll be as successful as I think that I will but hey I have a whole year to do most of it. Wish me luck!!

38 Weeks Pregnant Pictues

I'm in a HATE PHASE!!

Okay so I don't know what it is but I have begun to HATE everything and everyone! I need to get this baby out so I am a normal person again. What's that? How bad could it possibly be? Well let me make a little, no actually a long, very long list of everything that I am hating right now. I feel CRAZY!!

I HATE:

-the weather
-how it gets dark so early
-when my boobs leak and get that really uncomfortable tingle
-how maternity clothes still don't fit right
-when I pee only like 2 drops comes out
-seriously hate my fucking husband right now! ASSHOLE!!
-every 21 year old bitch that thinks she looks better than me
-how cold our house is and how we are too poor to be able to turn on the heater
-how I can't kick this cold that I've seriously had for over a month now
-how my daughter can't make up her mind and just come out already!
-there are so many things that I dislike about my son right now! He doesn't listen, he demands everything, he hits (with a fist), he jumps on my belly on my head on everything, he makes me cry because he says mean hateful things to me... etc etc
-Little Einsteins and Mickey Mouse Club House....I have watched the same ones over and over and over
-how fast the bath water cools off because of the fucking fan
-I can't paint my toe nails and yet no one offers to paint them for me
-how my boobs sag and rub on my belly....arrrr totally pisses me off!
-how my husband brought me pepperoni pizza and not cheese pizza
-how I cried because he brought me pepperoni and not cheese
-how my dog keeps fucking pissing in the house cause he won't go out in the rain
-how my fucking dog seems to think that my underwear are his fucking chew toys....arr
-the looks I get when I go into the labor and delivery now....it's like they are saying to themselves "she's back again"
-how my husband keeps leaving me home by myself with Tyler! Does he seriously expect me to chase him for 8 to 10 hours?

Oh the list could go on and on and on...but I'll stop before you all think that I am literally CRAZY!!

Merry Christmas

I hope that everyone had a GREAT Christmas. Poor Tyler was sick all Christmas Eve so he missed everything that night. He slept and slept and slept. He even slept on my lap at the table. We didn't get home til after midnight so the next morning was really hard waking Tyler up. I tried to get really excited told him that Santa had come but he was like "no, sleep". Oh well he finally got up and had so much fun opening gifts. I love what Christmas brings out in children. Thank god the morning perked him up enough for when we went to my dads he was in a really good mood and was really excited about opening more presents.
Wow, I love Christmas but I am so glad that it is over!