Diary of a Stay at Home Mom

A Dose of Reality

Ok, I had a little too much fun on Mothers Day. When Monday morning came around, I got hit in the face with a dose of reality. I love my boys and I love being a full time mom - most of the time - but I would be lieing if I said it was easy. It certainly isn't the fantasy life that I thought it was before I had children. I just can't seem to get motivated this week for some reason. I feel yucky, icky, blah, and moody today. Gee, maybe it has something to do with good ol' Aunt Flow coming to see me this morning. Tomorrow is a new day. I thank GOD for that.

It's Official I Have Mom Brain!

Well, its official - I have MAJOR MOM BRAIN - pregnancy brain just carries over into mommyhood!!!! The other night I was getting ready to fix spaghetti for dinner and for the life of me I couldnt figure out why the turkey wouldnt come out of the package and why I couldnt put the spatula in it - then it hit me, DUH Kelly - it's still frozen!!!!!!!!!! What makes this even worse is that Kevin had bought some thawed turkey on his way home from work because we had both forgot to set the turkey out that morning! Boy, did I ever feel so stupid! LOL! Actually, looking back it has provided us with some good laughs :):) Isnt it amazing what can happen to our brains once we become moms? LOL! I have a ton of things like this that I have done in the last 2 years but I have somehow forgotten them all - pretty conveinent huh?

My Mothers Day full of eating, drinking cappuccinos, SHOPPING, and reading was SOOOOO much FUN! Hope everyone had a wonderful Mothers Day as well! We all deserve it! You will have to wait until my next iP diary entry for all the juicy and FUN details! I hope to post a new iP entry by the end of this week! We will also have new pics up very soon! Can you believe that Austin is already 5 months old?!?! We sure can't!

Oh yeah, thanks to Cara, I have finally figured out the whole comment thing, I cant post replies on here individually but I can just do it as a whole group -- incase you havent noticed, I have replied back to everyone, except from the very first post on my blog.

Kelly

A Day Just For Me

Well, in a couple hours I will be leaving for the entire day all by myself - no bottles, no straw cups, no diapers, no wipes, no toys, just me, my Clay Aiken cd and my purse. This is a very big deal, rarely do I leave the house without kiddos and stuff in tote. After much discussion, I finally decided to have some "mommy time" today. Originally, we were going to spend the day as a family but after a pretty busy and stressful day yesterday, we decided I needed and deserved :) to get away today (yesterday, we drove to Springfield where I hosted a baby shower for my best friend). I didn't end up sleeping in today like I had planned because the boys slept really good last night and I felt refreshed this morning. As I type this entry, Austin is asleep in his bouncer, Nathan is eating some yogurt in his highchair and Kevin is making me my yummy breakfast! He is making me my favorite - which consists of french toast and chocolate milk! YUM YUM! He is also trying to use up all the meat we still have from when we tried and failed at the Atkins Diet. After my yummy breakfast, I plan to shower and start my fun day! I am actually going to drive today to the same city we drove to yesterday because I am pretty familiar with it and it has all my favorite stores there. I plan to hit the mall at noon, right when it opens up. I plan to go to Lane Bryant to buy me a couple pair of capri pants and buy me a new purse somewhere. After the mall, I plan to go to Barnes and Noble Bookstore, I could literally spend all day in there. I love bookstores and libraries, they really put me in a peaceful place. Of course while I am there, I plan to go to the cafe in there and get me a yummy coffee drink. I am normally not a coffee person but I LOVE cold cappuccino drinks! I am so excited for my day to start!
I hope all you moms out there have a wonderful Mothers Day today, you all deserve it!!!! Before I forget, I got three beautiful and special cards this morning from Kevin and the boys. Of course, they all brought tears to my eyes, I am so blessed to have my three boys! Inside the card from Kevin was a gift certificate for a day at the spa, I got the same thing last year and he knew I loved it so much! Ok, I am off to eat my yummy breakfast now.....................

Kelly

All Good Things Must Come To An End

They say all good things must come to an end and thats exactly what happened last night with the series finale of "Friends". It's really hard to believe "Friends" is over. I am anxious to hear what everyone thought of it. I thought it was pretty good and it felt like good closure to me. They had me worried at first, I thought somehow Rachel and Ross weren't going to end up together, which would have been tragic - ok ok, tragic is a bit strong of a word but you know what I mean. It seems impossible to me that it was on for 10 years, I guess that means I am getting older........ My favorite storyline on "Friends" was of course Ross and Rachel, although my favorite characters were Joey and Phoebe - they are make your stomach hurt kind of funny. I can't wait to start watching, "Joey" in the fall, I hope it does really well for him. Of course Kevin and I carried on the tradition of eating pizza on Thursday nights, so much for getting real huh? Yes, we gorged ourselves on Digornia Thin Crust Pizza (supreme of course!) and had a huge bowl of Rocky Road ice cream. It sometimes feels so good to be bad! I can't live off of water and diet pills, sorry. It will be really weird to not watch "Friends" anymore, it was one of the very few sitcoms that I feel the need to watch every week. Something tells me that we still carry on the tradition of eating pizza every Thursday night.

Is It Mother's Day Yet?

First things first, I have tried atleast 5 different pictures for my blog and I am still not happy. They are all pretty good pictures in real life and then when we have to change it a bit to make it fit for the blog, it screws it up totally - stay tuned for a decent picture of me, one that you can actually tell what I look like, LOL! So far, they have all been either too small or way too big!

Is it Mother's Day yet? I am so ready for it! I think Mother's Day should be a monthly thing not a yearly thing! My plans so far for the day are to sleep in late (my hubby wants me too) - sleeping in for me is 8 or 9 though - and Kevin is making me a yummy breakfast! I am torn on whether to spend the day with my family or have a day all to myself - I am leaning towards running away for the day.

Who knew blogs could be so much fun? Its been a blast setting this thing up! Blogs are definetly the new black as Heather says!

I could really use a Starbucks Capp right now. Last night was horrible! If it wasn't Austin waking us up it was Nathan. Unfortunately, when I get woken up, I have a really hard time going back to sleep, even if I am exhausted. I can't wait to sleep in on Sunday morning!

Thank you to everyone who posted to me from my first blog entry! What a warm welcome! I am still getting used to this whole blog thing, especially the comments, but THANK YOU everyone!

Eventually, I will be able to post to you all individually!

Kelly

It's the Little Things that Make Such a HUGE Difference!

WoW - my very first blog post - talk about pressure! I am in housekeeping heaven right now! Finally, after having a brand new dishwasher in our garage for 4 months (yes, you read that correctly, sad but true) it is now installed and being used! AMEN! You are probably assuming the 4 month wait was my husbands fault but it was actually my dad's fault (its a long story and I will get to that at a later time). Its amazing how much more time I have now without having to stand infront of the kitchen sink for an hour everyday. Now maybe I will clean more often because I am not always doing the dishes by hand. Who knew a dishwasher could make your kitchen smell so good? That is a wonderful smell, knowing your dishes are getting clean without you doing them! I will not miss washing all the bottles, nipples, and playtex straw cups everday. My mom teases us now and tells us we will be so spoiled from our new dishwasher that eventually, even just putting them in the dishwasher will be a pain (that's where she is now with her dishwasher). Somehow I highly doubt that.

I am LOVING this nice weather we are having right now! It's amazing what a difference opening up the windows and getting fresh air can do for a person. Sometimes, you can feel like you live in a bubble when you stay home, its nice to hear other noises out there.