Posted on | May 16, 2009 | 2 Comments
after realizing i missed days of our lives yesterday, i actually found the soap channel and searched for days of our lives until finding a midnight showing of the days episode and then recorded it to watch today. shame.
my husband is for sure shaking his head reading this.
Posted on | May 16, 2009 | No Comments
this picture is seriously one of the funniest things i’ve ever seen. i crack up everytime i look at it, and thought i’d share it. chins!
today harper and i went to the mall. not my favorite place, but i had to find a present for a friends birthday so i packed up the kiddo and off we went. i snagged quite a few deals for myself, which always makes me happy, and booked my birthday hair appointment at gene juarez. as a mama who hasn’t had a haircut since december, this makes me more happy than a normal person should be about a haircut.
my biggest pet peeve about the mall is all the pushy people working at the kiosks. HATE. you can’t walk peacefully down the mall without some sprint guy up in your business about why you have t-mobile, or without some scary lady trying to sell you a velour print of a wolf head. i don’t need a license plate cover that says “mandy and scot est. 2006″ and if i did, i’d come to your damn kiosk and let you know. today i got snagged by a very foreign man trying to make me look “like miss america” with some 260 dollar flat iron. i tried to keep walking, but he made it seem like he just had a question about my makeup (i couldn’t understand him and he purposefully spoke quietly and made gestures around his face), but in reality he wanted to sit me down and make my hair “sparkly”. this guy was a NUT. he even grabbed my hair and said my current flat iron was burning my hair (thanks, actually it’s raging split ends, did i mention i haven’t had a haircut since 2008?). when i tried to walk away he yelled “20 dollars!”. i rudely said “i have a baby and no job” and took off.
harper dazzled everyone we came in contact with and she happily people watched the entire time. we came home and then headed to tar-jay with my mom. mom bought me and harper one of those cart covers for mothers day and we used it. awesome invention. covers every part of the shopping cart that the baby touches so no germs, folds into a little bag and is machine washable with a zipper pouch and toy loops. she sat like a big girl in the cart the whole time flirting with people. an employee even asked if he could take her picture, then did with his iphone and sent it to his girlfriend. yeah, seriously.
topped off the evening with dinner with GG and scot at tanglewood, where we ate ginormous burgers and garlic fries, washed down with our beverage of choice (blue moon, corona and a chardonnay – i’ll give you props if you can guess who had what). harper chilled in her pjs since it was past her bed time. party animal.
Posted on | May 15, 2009 | 3 Comments
that’s what it feels like to be a stay at home mom. every day is exactly like the last, with a few details different (like how much of another humans pee or poop lands on your body, or maybe one day you actually get to put your bra on). some people like schedules, to know what they’re going to do when they’re going to do it. not me, really. i like a little spontaneity. yes i’m thankful that Harper is on a schedule (that she set for herself), but tomorrow is Friday and I haven’t done a darn thing this week (with the exception of monday). i’ve washed dishes twice a day everyday, cleaned the same bottles 5 times, took 5 naps on the couch with a sleeping baby, watched ellen, the 4th hour of the today show and days of our lives 5 times, and sang the same songs and changed 5 diapers every day (yep, she even pees and poops on a schedule).
note to harper: mommy is just venting in a blog on the internets ok? i in no way want you to start doing things all crazy like at crazy times. please do not take me literally and start wanting to stay up all night or eat every two hours.
my weekly trip to target is not only getting old ( i rarely see something new), but expensive (LOVE YOU hunny!). at first, target was a big outing. it took me lots of time to get out of the house and lots of time to shop. well now i’ve got the hang of it so it’s just an errand at this point. mom and baby yoga costs over 100 bucks a month (and thats only for one time a week) and there are NO mom groups in the harbor. i’d have to drive to tacoma. what peeves me is i see other stay at home moms out and about during the day. they are here! what do i do, just go up and hit on them to make a play date? my friend meg wrote about the perrils of “mommy dating” and it’s scary out there! i’m this close to making my own group. but what would be sadder than me and Harper sitting in a coffee shop waiting for our blind date to show up and no one coming at all?
don’t get me wrong, i LOVE being at home. i wouldn’t trade it for the world (although i might pay someone a dollar to wash the bottles). i know that summer is coming (?) and soon we’ll be able to go out and play, take walks, ect. right now it just feels like weeks are passing by. at least they’re passing by and i get to spend everyday with my bff.
omg! i saw harper up on her hands and knees for a split second today. she is loving pushing herself backwards, especially in her crib. she can push herself up so far on her tummy now. gah. i bought some organic green beans and peas to start making her food this week. so excited to see her face when real food gets in there. i gave her some avacado last week while we were at lunch with GG and she LOVED it. stay tuned for pictures of solid fud 2009.
Posted on | May 11, 2009 | 4 Comments
what a great one. harper spent the night with GG and scot got up and let me sleep in. when he
returned much later with the kiddo, he had a bouquet of flowers and the best card i’ve ever gotten. when you open it, scot had recorded a message to me, followed by phil collins. um, amazing. made me tear up big time! when we left for the day i was surprised to see my car was sparkiling clean and completely spotless inside, too! just what i wanted. he had spent the morning washing and detailing the whole thing. loves. we spent the afternoon at the olalla house with scots parents, sister and brother-in-law and nephews. it was great to see my in-laws and spend time with two ladies who inspire the heck out of me – my mother-in-law and sister-in-law. it was a lazy day of hanging out on blankets on the grass, naps and kiddos. it was really great. later we had dinner with my personal hero, my mom! scot took the two of us out for mothers day dinner and i am still full like 4hours later. a lady eating with her family almost went into cardiac arrest as i was carrying harper to the table. she gasped, yelled “oh my gawd! she’s beautiful!” and then looked genuinely embarrassed that she reacted so loudly. it was by far the most extr
eme reaction i’ve seen, but scot was telling me that when he took harper to the grocery store this morning, ladies were freaking out about her. hopefully she doesn’t get such a big head she can’t fit in her carseat.
i absolutely loved my first mothers day. i got to spend it very important people, and i finally GET it. everything my mom went through for me, did for me, put up with from me. man, i was a bad kid sometimes. by kid i mean age 9-17. sorry again, mom. becoming a parent really helps to understand everything more clearly when it comes to your parents. not only did my mom do this, but she did it all on her own. you’re amazing mama! i love you, and harper is SO lucky to have a GG as wonderful as you. with you and Bobbi as her grandmas, she is quite possibly the luckiest kid alive.
happy mothers day to my grandma, my auntie, my aunt sherry, cousin katie, emily and all the other mamas, mamas to be, and hopeful mamas out there.
