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Bring On The Skinny Jeans

May 14, 2007

Okay, maybe some of you like those pencil leg skinny jeans, you know the ones who show every womanly curve you posess whether you like it or not. Did I even spell whether right? There’s no spell check on this thing. Anyways, props to you if you like them and have no curves to squeeze into them. Me on the other hand, I have curves, and lots of them…they just happen to be in the wrong place.

My husband may think my ghetto booty is cute, but somehow the size 4’s I see all over the TV look a bit more appealing to me. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not advocating the skin and bones look, but if my thighs could be slimmer, by tummy tighter and my boobs didn’t have the flat and nursed 4 kids look, that would be fantastic. I’d even be pleased to comfortably wear a size 8-10. I’d like to go to the pool in my swimming suit and not be embarrassed that my legs rub raw together and my belly bulges.

So, for Mother’s Day I asked for the Nike+. It’s a device that plugs into your iPod and tracks things like distance, calories, etc. Since the low-carb diets just don’t work for me,
I thought if I skipped sugar, lowered my portion and logged in 20+ miles of walking and jogging a week I might slim down and get some hot legs. My husband, the good husband he is, thought hot legs was a great idea to get me for Mother’s Day.

So, my Nike+ is all ready to go and to start my ‘diet’ I broke down and had chocolate covered toffee for breakfast. Crap. I guess I’ll start the no sugar part tomorrow.

I will be starting a link this week to track my miles. My goal is 200 miles in 2 months. If you’d like to join in, let me know and I’ll post your weekly miles too.

And….as promised, there will be a load of prizes this week to celebrate getting back in the swing of things. I’m not sure if I’m settled after being Mommy, Interrupted since I’m still catching up on laundry and the scrubbing of my house and getting the kids back on schedule. Wait, maybe I am settled, that’s what I ALWAYS am doing!

The first prize is in honor of getting my kids to pitch in around the house and National Scrapbook Month, which we’ll talk about tomorrow. We’ve been using these chore charts for a while and they are stinking dang cute! One kit makes 2-4 chore charts. If you want to win one, post a reply below mentioning a way you get physical exercise during the day WITH A HOUSE FULL OF KIDS.

Spread the word, if there are more than 30 participants, there will be 2 kits up for grabs.

Posted in Being Mommy, Running and Getting Off My Lazy Bum, Walking, chores | 12 Comments »

Mommy, Interrupted

May 8, 2007

I’d like to take this moment to thank my 2 dedicated readers, who may not be so dedicated anymore, for coming to check on my bloggy wisdom even though there hasn’t been much to share lately. I think at one time I had, hmmm, maybe 5 dedicated readers, but then I became Mommy, Interrupted and there hasn’t been much blog fodder to report on at all. I ~~lie~~ fib, there’s been more blog fodder than I know what to do with, but by the time I can get to the computer, I’ve forgotten it all.

I haven’t been at my house more than one week during all of April and here it is May already, and I’m still away from home taking care of my Mom, who had surgery on her foot and my sister, who just made me an Auntie with her first adorable baby boy.

Now don’t get me wrong, I’m glad to be helpful, but I’m burned out of cooking, cleaning and house hold worries and I dread going home to get myself back in order! Thankfully, my MOMMY ONLY weekend is coming up, which I’m counting down the days until I can escape all matter of mommy-ness and be wild and crazy with my girlfriends for a long weekend.

In the meantime, I’ll be back in the groove of getting some goods back up on the blog in just a few days. I’ve been stashing great stories, tips, tricks, recipes and crafty ideas and will get them posted as soon as I get home and do some laundry. So be sure to come on back in a few days. Do I need to bribe you with some prizes? Fine then!

Posted in Being Mommy, chores | 7 Comments »

Laundry Lessons

March 24, 2007

With Rooster playing hooky from school this week I’ve exhausted all entertaining resources. I cannot play one more game of Strawberry Shortcake Dominos, create another sculped bust of Daddy out of pink, orange and green mixed play dough (although I do have a killer recipe for play dough), water paint an exact replica of the Black Beauty DVD cover (18 times), string plastic pony beads into anklets or pick up itty bitty scraps of paper off the floor from ‘cut and paste’ time….until Monday when we’ll do it all again.

Anyways, I was trying to find something to do and with all the fun we’d been having we really needed to get some chores done. In attempts to gather a little help, I taught Rooster (5) and Tootsie (3) how to do the laundry. We learned about sorting. We learned how to empty the dryer and reload the wet clothes, put in a dryer sheet, turn the knobby to the star and push to start.

We learned how to start the water, scoop and pour the soap INTO the washer without a generously sprinkling detergent all over the floor. We learned how to empty one of the sorting bins into the wash and gently close the lid so the boi-oi-oi-oi-oing of the crashing washer lid didn’t wake the babies. (yes, we did have one nap on Thursday for about 20 minutes-ugh) Then we’d use teamwork, (thank you Wonderpets!) and drag the basket inside the house.

With the babies waking so soon, I never got to folding the basket, but the girls would listen for the dryer to finish and run out and do another load, and another, and another, dumping the clean clothes in the middle of my living room so they could re-use baskets and at this very moment, here is what I still have left to fold:

The Laundry Pit

Yes, it IS the chaos that it looks like.
I think they did 8 loads, plus a two loads of towels, a load of all their sheets and blankets (Impetigo rules) and even a load with their doodle dolls. There is no more laundry left in the house and they are devistated! I keep hearing them talking about what they can do to get dirty to make enough clothes to put in the washer.

Why have I not utilized this FREE help before? Now if I could only get them to fold and hang…..

Posted in Crafty Kids Projects, Recipes, Rooster, Tootsie, chores | 3 Comments »