Adventures of this New Year's Eve...

Two blown tires, two sisters, two sick babies, and 3 million GLUTEN FREE donuts!!!!!!! YAY! Boy were they yummy....So, two days ago as I'm driving along down Broadway (by myself and with no cell phone, mind you) a tire blows out!!! JOY! What fun for me! So, my poor little car has been sitting at the Japanese Steakhouse for two days now. But good things have come from a seemingly awful situation.....

Just yesterday, an opportunity presented itself. One that, if I would have had a car of my own, might have never come to light. :) Jordan's gift to me for the New Year was a shopping trip for myself. A stroke of genius, pure genius! Well, hmmm..... I don't have a car. I call up ANGIE! Well lo and behold, she wants to go shopping too.... and, what is that she says?.... she is out driving around as we speak and heads to my house without further delay!!! Perfect I tell you, just perfect. The day was fantastic! We hit so many sales and got sooo much that you would think that we spent several hundred dollars, but indeed, we did not even spend one hundred. We're that good. Shopping has not been that fun for me in the longest time! Really, I absolutely adored hanging out with her! She is, without a doubt, a very dear and very fun friend! Thankyou Angie!!! (We didn't get any pics though!!!) :(

But it doesn't stop there.... Today I got to spend some quality time with my sister as well. Our husbands set out on a journey to find affordable tires and to fix them themselves. It has literally taken all day, seeing as how the place to get the tires is out of town and twice they gave them the wrong ones...idiots (the tire people, not our honeys). So, Rachael has been at my house all day. Our children are both sick, we've been chasing after them all day and attempting to stay sane. :) A good day. Our journey? A quest to find out how to make delicious gluten free donuts. A success! ON THE FIRST TRY!!! I was so thrilled. I've just recently started this diet and I've been feeling so deprived, it saddens me that gluten is the thing that has been making me sick for this many months! Really, wheat, rye, barley....the things that are supposed to be healthy? I would have never guessed!!!

But, the donuts! How delicious! no joke! I ate like six and I'm not lying! *Sigh* and I really don't feel guilty about it.
It's been a good couple of days. HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!
(Yeah, no makeup...that makes it an even better day!)

Our new tradition...

Christmas morning comes....no presents.

That's right... NO PRESENTS!

what the he*& are we thinking?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No, really it was great. We got our stockings from "Santa" and we spent some time thinking about what Christmas was really about. We spent the whole day with family and it was fantastic!!! We got presents at Nana's of course. But it was great to not have the focus on gifts gifts gifts! We are getting presents though. We're doing that on New Year's. It's kind of like "Here's something to start off the new year with" ya know? Anyway, I hope that this tradition will continue to work and get easier over time. Christmas is too commercialized.... so yeah.



They have the same bedhead, isn't that great? haha

O Christmas Tree...

O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree

You better watch your branches.

'Cuz Kourtney will demolish them,

You don't have many chances.

She tugs and tugs and yanks and pulls,

She thinks that we are such big fools.

O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,

we've got her pegged.... don't worry :)

So Big!

When did she get so big? Wasn't it just yesterday that I held her for the first time?
When did her smile become so frequent, so natural...
wasn't it just yesterday that I longed for that first grin,
to let me know that there was a person inside?

When did you start laughing?
Has it been that long ago?
You say words, point at things, recognize your name....
sometimes your understanding blows my mind!
My sweet girl, how are you so big?

When did she not need me to move around,
to eat and drink,
to play and have fun...
she can do this by herself?!
When did she start to crawl and walk and run?
My life is skipping quickly by!

When did you start to love me?
Will I always be your closest friend?
Will you always run to hug and kiss me
and beg me to play with you
and tickle you?

When will life slow down?
When will time freeze
just so that I can hold you,
knowing that you don't grow up,
that you always need me,
that you always want me close....

My baby, grow as you must,
I'll always watch in wonder and awe.

But know that no matter how big you get....
You're my tiny newborn baby,
and I'm kissing your forehead for the first time.

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I didn't like it, so it's gone...

Thankyou!

My daughter said please today. I was going to give her an animal cracker when I decided that I would give the please thing one more shot. She just started saying thankyou a few days ago. So, I said, "Say please....pleeaaassee..." and she stopped, grabbed for the cracker and said, "peez". I could have jumped to the ceiling! For real! It was so exhilarating! It wasn't just that she was capable of saying it, it's the fact that I've taught something that so incredibly important to life! I feel so very accomplished right now. I taught her thankyou by just saying thankyou to her all of the time. She just started putting two and two together with that one. Today, I feel like a good mom. I'm a good mom, Jordan's a great dad, she's a great daughter, and it's snowing.... life is good.

FiRefLiEs

Why do i love this song sooooo much? It just makes me want to twirl around in a circle. The way that I did when I was a little girl and I had a pretty, frilly, poofy dress! I envision fireflies in a meadow, the sunset, and me twirling.... ah! how nice! Sometimes my visions are my only escape!

Bath time

Today Kourtney wouldn't get out of the bath tub! stubborn thing, can't imagine where she got that from! So today I really spooked her while in the tub. I was trying to just get a little jolt out of her but she really jumped! She slipped and fell into the water and I'm laughing as I'm typing this! (she didn't get hurt, so I'm allowed to laugh). anyway, she just laid there forever staring up at me. I couldn't help it, I burst into a laughing frenzy! Once she realized that it was funny, she joined in. We were both laughing! It was so great! What was really great about it was that she understood what was going on. I felt connected to her in a way that we have never been connected before. It was pretty special to me. And then she got up, started playing and ignored me while I finished the laughing fit.

Pretzels

Tis the season...to eat eat eat! All my child wants right now is chocolate covered pretzels! If I have one, she has to have two! or three depending on if she wants one in each hand and one in the mouth. How funny she is. She got attacked by a ferret today. Is it just me or do all mothers want to kill the dang thing for hurting their child. For real! You can't see it in this picture, but her arm is all scratched up and yucky looking. My poor baby. She wasn't even doing anything to it. Surprisingly. She was nowhere near it and all of a sudden it darted over to her and felt like attacking. A cat attacked her once, she has a nice scar underneath her eye from that. When that happened I wanted to throw the darned thing out the window! Maybe I'm dramatic, but it was the first time I saw blood on her that was caused from something other than a shot. It made me sad...

So, yesterday Kourtney decided that she was mad at me and she was going to hit me three times, and then bite me! Where do they learn these things?!! I swear I don't hit her, and I've only bit her once! Haha! Just kidding of course. I don't know how she figured that would be okay. Well, I decided that from the start, that would be a "no go". So, I put her in her crib (she was tired) and she cried for....she SCREAMED for a few minutes, and then she decided she was over it, I went to get her, and we were best friends again. Maybe that sounds harsh, I don't know why, maybe because she's only 15 months old, but hitting will never be okay, and it isn't okay now. Besides, she hasn't tried it again. And yes, she has been mad at me today.... a lot.

Why Mommy-World

...Because I need a place where I can do nothing but talk about my Mommy experiences. Let's face it, most of my friends aren't parents themselves and that's really all I want to talk about when I'm with them! I'm a 21 year old wife and stay-at-home mother, what more do I have to discuss? I'm a tear stopper, booger wiper, diaper changer, snuggler, mean woman who says "no" to anything fun and exciting, boring, loving, crazy..... The list could go for days. But I'll stop there.

So, why not use my other blog? Well, because it's technically my husband's as well. But, another reason is that I feel that I'm not allowed to completely express myself on that blog, it's not well received. And it's understood. If I could use one word to describe myself it would be...EMOTIONAL! I am emotional to the core. I have laughing fits, crying fits, sad days, happy days, bad days, ugly days. I don't do my makeup all of the time, actually most of the time. I don't have the time. My house isn't always clean! *GASP* I don't have a nanny, I have hardly any time to myself, I cook my own meals, and sometimes all I want to do is sit down, watch a sad movie, eat chocolate, and cry my eyes out.

This is me, and don't worry... even I can't handle it.