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?