One step back.
My Awesome Husband and I are going away this weekend, just the two of us. This means getting the house ready for his parents to stay and getting the nugs ready for their pseudo-parents for the weekend.
Every time I get something done, Nug or Duder has destroyed some other clean object. I am tired.
You know you are a real mom when…
*There is no such thing as a quick trip with kids in car seats.
*You have talked about your children’s dirty diapers with strangers.
*You think your child just did something hilarious and yet no one else is laughing.
I think I just love my kids so much and am in enough of a sleep deprived stupor some days that just about anything would be hilarious. But my kids really are quite funny:-)
You know you have a toddler when…
*Everything is “mine.”
I ran to Sam’s with the nugs this afternoon while my Awesome Husband mowed the lawn. He missed probably the best thing that has ever happened to our kids…
Three couples (not old either and that does make a difference) came up to me and told me how well behaved and friendly my children were! What?!?!?! And we even had someone come up to us and tell me that her and her husband think that we have the cutest kids:-)
It made my heart melt!!!!! Not only did it make me feel like I have done something right – those cute little cheeks and big grins take a lot of work LOL – but made my smile from the inside out. I am sure that it is just a small reassurance from God that parenting is hard but it does pay off, even in fleeting moments at Sam’s Club.
Nug loved it.
So does Duder.
The purple whale.
Friday night my Awesome Husband was out of town. And when he is gone, I just become blah. I don’t know what it is but I just don’t feel like myself without him around. It is hard for me to be motivated to fix anything for dinner and I usually end up in a drive thru (real healthy, I know) and find it hard to get out of my pjs for that matter. Honestly, if I didn’t have any little people to take care of I am positive that I would just sit on the couch and eat popcorn and ice cream and watch sad girly movies and cry and eat lots of cheese and then cry because I ran out of cheese to eat and did nothing all day but stain the couch with my tears.
But this time, I made myself shower and get the nugs ready (I didn’t declare a pajama day) and eat healthy meals but by evening I was just lonely without him there.
So what does any normal person do when they are lonely and tired and just need a hug? Call their dad. That is what I did. I kind of invited myself (and the nugs) over to hang out with him for a little bit and a little bit turned into the rest of the evening. (Is it really inviting yourself over when they are family???? I think not!)
We fed the nugs and my mom came home from working late and decided that we were going to Target. I LOVE Target! I don’t shop there as much I would like but I wish I could! So of course I jumped on the Target bandwagon and went. The nugs got some toys (they did not need them at all but grandma just couldn’t resist). Then my mom said to me, “Because you are MY baby why don’t you pick out something new to wear.” It is in moments like those*, I am reminded that I am someones little girl, someones baby and will always be.
*I should clarify that it wasn’t her buying me something that made me feel like her baby girl, but the fact that she cares enough about me to remind me that I will always be her little girl.
Yum!
I had to run errands this morning without my Awesome Husband and it involved a lot of getting in and out of the car for short trips. The Nugs hate this! I don’t blame them. I hate it too. After our final stop, I was craving lemons. And decided to go to Sonic and get a limeade because I love Sonic ice and I figured I’d give a limeade a try.
I ordered a lime limeade (a little redundant?) and was shocked at how sweet the thing was. So when I got home I opened up a brand new little lemon concentrate thingy (one of those fake lemons with lemon juice inside) and poured the whole thing in. It is now the perfect combination of sweet and tart.
These pregnancy cravings are probably going to kill my gut with the amount of acidity I am consuming!!!!!
We have our anatomy scan July 12th!!! Hopefully Baby Numero Tres cooperates and we get the money shot!
I have no real feeling either way about it being a boy or girl. But here is what I have experienced during my pregnancy so far:
*Nausea (no vomiting thanks to zofran or zofriend as I like to call it)
*Break outs (I seriously feel like I am back in middle school)
*Spreading of the hips (this happened with both but more so with Nug)
*Cravings – fruits, fruity flavors, lemons, lemonade, lemon heads, lemon drops, pizza, mexican, chips, chips, and more chips, and anything someone talks about.
*Weight gain (I know most woman experience weight gain but for some reason I feel fatter this time around)
*No sizzle on the baking soda (I did it. I peed on baking soda to see if I got a reaction and I didn’t – could be that my baking soda in a few months old.)
*Carrying high (actually I just made that up because I have no clue.)
I can’t think of anything else. Who knows!!!!
We now know how much a diaper can really hold.
You know you are a REAL mom when…
*Staying up past 10pm is late for you.
*You have prayed multiple times that your child would just go to sleep.
*You have had to ask for the check before your meal even came to the table.
This has only happened once. And the funniest thing was a bunch of couples surrounding us complimenting Nug on her cuteness and behavior. WHAT?!?!?! How could they not hear the screaming or see the tantruming???
real motherhood 