Posts Tagged ‘parenting’

Have you seen the Vloggersations at OC Family? They are great and I’m in some of them!

This one is from about 2 months ago. We are giving parenting advice to Jen who is about to have her first baby. The vloggersation is a compilation of a few of us OC Family bloggers. If you only want to see me (Mom) my advice is at 39 seconds, 2:34, 3:19 & 5:30 and Jen says something nice about me at 4:30 (mom, you’ll want to hear it). It has to do with being an only child. (TIME Magazine just did a great write up about only children too!)

And if you don’t feel like clicking over, you can watch my uncut version below. WARNING: I talk about boobs and ugly babies.

Your turn…

What is the best/worst parenting advice you have received or given?

Side Note: She was due on February 5th and the ONLY day I DIDN’T want her to be born was on Valentine’s day. Ha! Sure enough that little sucker came 9 days late, on V-day!

 After she was born I couldn’t help but be sad that she was going to get shistered on her birthday every year by her future husband or she would be one of those folks that has such a high expectation for their birthday that nothing could ever live up.
My idea to off set the future therapy factor is to celebrate Valentine’s Day on the 13th. That way…
a) Cora gets her actual Birth Day to herself
b) Eli isn’t getting a gift on his sister’s actual birthday (because it is totally lame if your sibling gets a gift on your birthday… I mean shouldn’t they learn to be excited when someone else gets something special and not feel entitled to something themselves!)
c) If we do her birthday after the V-day festivities then (my thought is) the birthday is what will be most remembered.
What do you think?
REALLY!
I need to know.
Is your birthday on a holiday? (or near one?)
What did your parents do that totally sucked?
What did they do that was totally awesome?

 

 

 

 She already has the muchies!!

*update*

My grandmom brought to my attention that I may offend families who do sibling gifts on birthdays. If you do sibling gifts, don’t be offended. Be proud of your family tradition and think I’m lame

If you were at the post office and felt that feeling (you know the kind) AND told your mommy you had to go poo poo AND did it in your travel potty AND had no accidents during errand time then…
…you might get to go to TARGET and pick out anything you wanted in the whole store (dollar section)!!
WARNING!! Your mom will probably put the Tomboy Rock n’ Roll Lid (black side out) on you in 100 degree weather to take a picture!

Eli chose the Dinosaur play pack isnstead of 1 larger dinosaur because the pack had “Like 5 dinosaurs in it!” Already a deal shopper… I’m so proud

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Don’t forget to enter to win…
…a Rock n’ Roll Lid and an iPod shuffle here!
…a vintage inspired cartoon tee shirt here!
See the full list of giveaways coming the next 2 months here!

I’m 29 today!!

I’m not one of those people who cares about getting older… especially since for most of this year I already though I was 29!

Hot Hubby let me sleep in and woke me up with freshly baked chocolate chip waffles and snuggly kiddos. We all ate waffles in bed with no regard to where and how many crumbs were ground into the sheets.
Then I watched my little family leave the room and close the door so I could lounge in bed and read… ahhhhh.

I heard my children and husband playing.

Inside Out started playing on the iPod and I couldn’t help thinking how thankful I am for my family and my Faith.
I’m Happy.
When I felt like emerging from our room I came out to cheers from the kiddos and a tired looking Hubby. I sent him to take a nap and set the kiddos up with stickers (thanks Nana… or is it Nannie now?) at the kitchen table while I swept the downstairs and vacuumed the couch. I even smiled when the kiddos knocked over a glass and the sharp shards spread across the floor (in the manner that glass usually does) everywhere.
Why am I so content?
I mean I am cleaning on my birthday, the kiddos shattered glass and my hubby is taking a nap!
Because this is everything I have ever wanted.
I’m a wife adored by her husband.
I’m a mother needed by her children.
I’m a woman who takes pride in her home.
I’m the daughter of The King.
Now, my dear invisible friends, my sweet little family it taking me out to lunch.
Sending you wishes of bliss on my birthday!

(my 1st birthday with my parents… notice the awesome homemade b-day cake and the flowers lovingly embroidered on my dad’s shirt by my mom!!)

P.S.
I stumbled upon Blog Hop ’09 and decided to add this post to the blog hopping F-U-N!
Head on over to Penseive… magically delicious to join in too.
P.P.S
If you are Hopping from Blog Her please click on my header to see my whole blog! I jumped the gun and just added the link to this post… oops!

We have been sick (cough cough sniffle sniffle) so going to the Christmas Eve service would have given us many mean looks as we dropped our booger nosed kids off at child care. So we decided to spread our germs around at the mall instead.
We started off the night eating at our favorite place…
… then headed over to the mall to par-oose the shops and ride the choo choo train…

Got home and asked…
“Eli, what would you like for Christmas?”
Lots and Lots of Choo Choos…

Bob the Builder stuff and

a guitar!!

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We were thinking… “got you covered son!”

Bed time
then

time for…
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