I have a huge green monster on my back when it comes to family. I see people that hang out with their mom. I hear people say how much they miss their mom. I rarely even see my mom and she lives less than 20 minutes away from me. We don't hang out or talk. It's almost like we are simply acquaintances.

I think it is great that my friends have a relationship like that with their mothers. A few years ago I would have said it was just plain weird. In my eyes it is a little weird. Growing up in a family where emotions were taboo and family togetherness meant watching Married with Children on Sunday nights, it was rather ingrained that this was how families acted. I never knew that families went on walks together, talked about puberty and school work, or had family board game nights. And it was normal.

I look back and wonder how that all happened. I want my children to be able to talk to me about boys, sex, drugs, and whatever else is on their minds. I want my children to have fun at family board game night, and I want them miss me when they are grown and raising families of their own. Granted, I want them to live near me, but that can't always happen in today's world. I don't want my children to groan and say "I have to go to my mom's for Christmas". I want them to say "I can't want to go to my mom's for Christmas" and I want them to want to come for more than just my chocolate cream pie (which is awesome by the way).

It pains me when my friends say "I just want my mom right now" because I want so badly to be able to say that but I know that I never will. I guess you can never say never, and maybe I will try to take steps to fix that in the future. Maybe. For now I just keep feeding that little green monster.

posted by Mommy the Maid at 10:52 PM 11 comments links to this post

If you have read my blog for a while now, or have looked back at past posts, you will see that trying to take a shower when Sweet Pie was little (and known as Little Bear then) was quite the task. It still can be. Many times I would just let her shower with me. I told myself I would do everything I could to avoid that with Little Man.

Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!

That, my friends, is the sound of mommies all over the world laughing at me.

My plan was to put Sweet Pie in the shower with me while Little Man played in his crib after filling his tummy with breast milk, cereal, and bananas. Sweet Pie then decided that she was not going to take a shower with me and threw a huge fit. This was not going to work. Sweet Pie is a little too "helpful" to leave them out of sight together.

Fine. I threw my hands up, undressed the boy and stuck him in his bath seat in the bathroom. Nope. He can't see mommy, not going to work. I gave up. I stuck his bath seat in the shower with me. Not too bad, he seemed to like it and all was well. Until Sweet Pie realized what was going on.

"I wanna take a shower with you mommy!!!"

"You said that you didn't"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! I wanna take a shower with you too!!! I wanna take a shower with baby brother! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

"Fine, take off your jammies and get in."


That was interesting. An infant, a toddler, and me all in one small shower. Between the whining of "I want a bath now instead" and the constant picking up of bath toys to give them back to Little Man, I somehow got my hair shampooed and some of my body washed.

Looks like I get to go back to showering in the middle of the night between Little Man feedings.

posted by Mommy the Maid at 12:02 PM 1 comments links to this post

I know I know. I don't post for a month and a half and then suddenly one morning at 5 am I decide to blog. I suck, I know.

Lots of things have been going on in my world. I have my beautiful children, my wonderful husband, and my fun hobbies. I also have my cranky and messy children, my 29 year old toddler husband, and my expensive and somewhat neglected hobbies.

Make sense? Give me a break, it's 5 in the morning and I do believe that I am up for the day. If you pay attention to my facebook at all, you will see that I went to bed sometime near 3. Booooooo.

Miss Turtle is doing great in school. She has caught up to her grade's reading level and I couldn't be more proud. She is working very hard towards her goals with her horseback riding and taking responsibility. I have no doubt that this will be a great season for her. After all, she is the reigning State Champ :D (he he, just a little mommy bragging there)

Sweet Pie is a true Gemini. There are times when she is so sweet that I just want to pour chocolate on her and eat her with a spoon. Then there are times when I want to pop my own head like a zit. She is really doing well in preschool and her teacher just loves her...most days. Other days like last Tuesday she hid under the table because "her tummy hurt".

Little Man is getting big. He will be 7 months soon and is scooting himself all over the place and sitting up. He thinks that his sisters are just the best thing ever and loves to play with daddy. There are even times that he likes me although I have my shirt on. LOL

Hubby Lubby and I are doing well. The exhaustion that comes with an infant and a light sleeper of a three year old and a kid who is entering the "Growing and Changing" lesson at school is weighing on us at times. We need a date. Seriously. MIL tries to help us out when I have my knitting night or when Hubby is working and I have something for my Pampered Chef business to take of, but she is only able to watch one of them at a time. Sweet Pie is a lot to handle on her own and gets very upset if Grandma tries to take care of him. We need two baby sitters and a date.

I haven't posted a lot of my crafty-ness lately as I have been making it all for a big swap or for Christmas gifts. Soon I will be able to display my addiction all over the web without worrying about ruining surprises.

And some obligatory pics:







You try getting 8 rambunctious children to all look at the camera at the same time. It is truly an adventure. I believe they were yelling either "for the Horde" or "pork chop sammiches" in this one.

posted by Mommy the Maid at 5:19 AM 0 comments links to this post

I am so super excited about this adventure! I had an Etsy shop a long time ago and I only listed a few things, sold them outside of Etsy and took them down. That was it. I decided with the help of some friends to jump back into it. I have my shop up and running although there are only 2 items in there right now. A really cool apron and an awesome set of potholders. I plan on adding a ton more aprons, stitch markers, resin jewelery, other jewelry, Christmas items, kids clothing, and whatever else my hands feel like crafting. Check it out at Mommy is Addicted to Craft.

posted by Mommy the Maid at 1:19 PM 2 comments links to this post

Demonstrated by Sweet Pie and Little Man

posted by Mommy the Maid at 1:48 AM 1 comments links to this post

Before:


After:



I am really loving it. It requires time to style, but now that it has grown out just a bit (I chopped it like 3 weeks ago) I can leave it un-styled and not hate it. I donted my 13 inch pony tail to Locks of Love.

posted by Mommy the Maid at 12:41 AM 1 comments links to this post

Miss Turtle hit a milestone birthday this month. She entered the world of double digits. That is right. My baby is 10 years old. We had a huge party for her at the bowling alley with all of her family (which she has a lot of) and her friends. Silly girl went to blow out her candles and her tooth fell out. It was pretty funny but we were all just glad the tooth stayed in her mouth and didn't land on the cake.

It is hard for me to believe that she is already 10. She has done so much and come so far. Just think of all the things that she will do and become. I know she is destined for something great.

posted by Mommy the Maid at 11:44 PM 1 comments links to this post