No news is good news?!

So it has been a SLOW week on the homefront for me. Everything is just chugging along. Sometimes it seems to be chugging along at breakneck speed especially where the 2 yr. old is concerned! We found out the 4 yr. old grew an inch in 6 weeks! That certainly explains why she's eating mass quantities of food. God help our grocery and clothing bill! :) I can only imagine what it's going to be like in our house when BOTH of the kiddies are teens and growing and eating everything. I remember being sooooo hungry ALL the time when I was a teen and no amount of food could make me full(apologies to my parents!). Seems like I'm still hungry ALL the time now too, but that's because I work out so much...right....right?! :) On that note the 4 yr. old and I have gotten into making our own pasta. I've done it before, but it was years ago. I forgot how easy it really is. Our first attempt we made fettucine and it was out of this world good. Yesterday we made crab stuffed ravioli's and I'll have to let you know how they turned out AFTER dinner tonight! The only bad thing was that we lost our pasta machine somewhere when we were "decluttering." I actually ended up rolling it out by hand and was thinking about how happy my Italian ancestors would be...actually they'd probably be yelling at me in Italian telling me I was doing it wrong and then smacking me with a wooden rolling pin!
On a sad note Patrick Swayze died yesterday. I feel like my childhood/young adulthood also died. This has truly been the summer of death. We've had Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Bea Arthur, and now Patrick. What a bummer it feels like the 80's died too! I'm hoping no one else kicks the peverbial bucket anytime soon...I mean really with all the deaths lately who's left?

Labor Pains?!

So thank God for long weekends! Both Hubby and 4 yr. old had off from work/school on Labor Day and we had a pretty busy weekend after all is said and done, I'm learning that I love my kid going to school more and more. Not that I don't want to nurture and hang out with her, but just in the past few months of being 4 1/2 she has started to cop a real "teenager," if you will, attitude with me and the Hubs. I swear this is a view of how it will be when she's a PMSing teen. For example she was chasing after her little brother and just smacking him and tripping him, etc...those with siblings can understand this behavior. Who wants an annoying little brother around ALL the time. Well after a few failed attempts at changing this behavior I told her that I was going to take dessert after dinner away. She immediately responded with how she would just get a chair and and push it up to the fridge(our "safe" spot for cookies, candy, etc..) and climb up there and get it herself! I got a little snarky at this point and told her that it's pretty hard to do if all the dessert is in the garbage! Points for me though she did calm down after that. I definitely thinking she is going to be my challenge, or at best challenging me like I challenged my Mom(sorry Mom!). Parenting is just one, big school EVERY second of every day! Thank God for wine!! :)

Bad Mood Risin'

Here's another little morsel from when I was in my funk. I don't know if it could be considered a poem, or just a bad mood risin'!

Wrong, wrong, wrong
Always wrong and NEVER right
Fighting the man day and night
Turning a corner...finally
What lies ahead?!

Poo-stravganza!!

So today started out unlike any other day I've had in a while and this wasn't even kid related! I get up this morning and let the dog out. Well while he's out he steps in his OWN poo! He gets let back into the house and the next thing you know there is poo ALL over the carpet in both the living room and the hallway and poo on our wood floor in the dining room...luckily we have the bedrooms closed off due to the 2 yr. olds destructive tendencies. :) I will say it took a few minutes for the hubby and I to figure out where the god awful stench was coming from! Once we realized it we let the dog BACK out and got to cleaning up the floors...Bleck! All of this before 8 a.m.!
When I go to let the dog back in the house I realize he STILL has chunks of poo stuck to his foot and tail...ewwwww. Out he goes again! I finish mopping the wood floor and vaccuming the carpets to get them ready for the carpet cleaner...thank god we have one! Meanwhile we realize the dog is going to need a bath and so I end up giving him one, because the hubby and 4 yr. old need to get out the door for school and work. Then I get to work on the carpets. Luckily it only took about an hour the clean them and I THINK everything came out. Next came the washing of the wet dog towels and driving the in-laws to the airport for their trip.....it's not even 10 a.m. at this point. I don't think I ever felt this tired from just a MORNING!
Makes me wonder what else can happen today. I also think I have 3 signs of the apocolypse happening in my house. We have this moth problem that I can't peg where they are coming from I just keep whacking the hell out of them with a fly swatter when I see them. Our guest bathroom toilet also broke today and then the poo thing. Is the world coming to an end? Who knows, but I didn't think it would take sooooo much work to get there. I thought it would just be BAM and it's over. :)

Random kid funnies for the day

The 2 yr. old and I were heading to pick up the 4 yr. old from Pre-K and we saw a backhoe on the side of the road. He said "BIG truck!" I told him it was a backhoe and all he could say was "Ho!" My juvenile sense of humor thought this was hysterical! He said "Ho" all the way to the 4 yr. olds school. Hee! Hee!

I decided in ALL of my laziness today to pick up McD's for lunch for us. I ended up doing this before we picked up the 4 yr. old. Once we got to the car at her school and she saw the chocolate milk from her happy meal she was sooooo excited and practically bouncing off the roof of my car! This is the point where I had second thoughts about the chocolate milk....

The 4 yr. old in all of her worldly knowledge also announced that if you took off Spongebob's nose and pants we could use him to wash dishes! Hee! Hee!

Office Space?!

I yearn for freedom
True freedom.....
I feel like I'm cramped in one of those cubicles from Office Space
Clamoring to get a glimpse, or a taste of the sunlight.

How desperate does that sound!! :) My friends and I always joke that since becoming parents we wouldn't mind going to prison for a night, or so. Hey who can argue with a hot(?) meal and a full nights sleep! I don't even think I'd use my one phone call. Ha! :)
Don't get me wrong I love my family most of the time, but there are times that a looooooong break would be nice.

What Motherhood means to ME

Let's just say that yesterday going into today has been a BAD. I've been feeling bogged down with this whole parenthood thing. I feel as though I have no freedom, no identity and no time. My husband on the other hand still has some semblance of a life and an identity. He works 40+ a week(god love him for that) and he also gets to go and play in a band at least once if not twice a week. Bottom line is I'm jealous of someone who just gets to up and go out and have a good time and call it "band practice." See I was/am in a bad spot right now and here's my ode to motherhood from last night:

I am a servant
Serving everyone's needs, but my own
Some would call me a wife, or a mother
I call myself confused....
I have lost my identity
and fight for scrapes of who I am on a daily basis
I hope for more clarity in the future
I feel weak at the prospects of what is
or what will be
There is no "perfect" in the world.

Welcome to Mom-O-Blog!

Here it is the first Mom-o-Blog post! This is for all the good, bad and ugly of parenting! Come and share your thoughts and feelings on the topic at hand. As parents we ALL have our good and bad days. We can always love our kids, but have times where we don't like them very much and it's O.K. to feel that way. I always thought that I was the only one that sometimes harbored negative feelings about being a parent....turns out that it's not just me! Yay! In my conversations with other parents there are many that have "days like this." By the way this is my SECOND attempt at this being that my 2 year old son thought it would be fun to unplug the computer before I had a chance to save this! It may be "one of those days!" :) So come on in make yourself comfortable and leave your thoughts and experiences. Welcome!