Chronicles of an Overtired Mommy

Posted By judy on May 19, 2012

There is this little old man that frequents Walmart. I know that he’s just trying to be helpful, but I tend to try to avoid him because every single time I see him, he stops me and looks through my cart. He then searches through his hundreds (no exaggeration) of coupons to try to help me save a little money. I appreciate his efforts, but he really stops me every single time he sees me, even if we’re in the next aisle over. I try to be polite and thank him for the coupons that he thrusts at me, and politely decline the ones that I cannot use.
I really do try to be polite, even though he’s tried to touch the babies face on more than one occasion, which I don’t tolerate. I try to be polite when he tells me that I need to relax every time I step between him and my young son. I try to be polite even though I’ve been stopped more than 10 times in a single grocery shopping trip. I try to be polite even though I have a baby who is on a limited schedule for “Happy Baby Time” and will quickly jump to “Cranky Screaming Madman Baby Time” if we keep having to stop for cart search and coupon search. (And if I have to keep backtracking to avoid Coupon Man).
I do try to be polite because I know that he’s just trying to be helpful.

Today I had to go to Publix. We were walking down an aisle when a man approached me and said, “Excuse me, ma’am…” It was Coupon Man. I stopped, only to see how far behind me my older two were. He started to hand me some coloring books, and I said, “No, thank you, ” and started to walk away. He snapped and rudely said, “They’re not for YOU!” and handed my older kids the coloring books. I stood there, in shock that this old man had yelled at me. I couldn’t even react! Now, I know it’s not candy, and shouldn’t have been a big deal, but as there mother, I think that I should get a say in things my kids accept from anyone. I know it was just a couple coloring books, but I was uncomfortable with my kids accepting them from a stranger, especially after he was so rude to me. Sure enough, the rest of our visit at Publix, the kids weren’t paying attention to me or their surroundings because they were looking through the coloring books or trying to show them to the baby.

Maybe I’m just being a grump, but I think I’m done with being polite!

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Posted By judy on May 18, 2012

This is the last five of my 100 facts about me! I’m trying to come up with something great, but I’ve got nothing spectacular.

96. I have exceptional hearing. I can currently hear a train that is on tracks that are many many miles from here. The train mostly runs at night, and some nights wakes me, which is weird because our noise machine is set to train sounds.

97. that’s the year I jumped on a bus headed south and ended up in Florida. What a long strange trip it’s been.

98. I do not deal well with stitches. When I see them, I feel dizzy and nauseous. I felt like a horrible mother when Speed had his surgery because I was terrified I’d pass out on top of him. When I had my own surgery, I was a wailing hot mess and had to have my husband take care of the incision site. When he wasn’t home, my stepmother had to drive over to help me.

99. I have a sad addiction to potato chips. It’s really unhealthy. I really just seem to have no self control when I open a bag. I’m working on kicking that habit though. I have two bags in the pantry, and when the urge hits, I go grab one ounce of almonds. So far, so good.

100. I would love to get something published. Kind of hard considering that I haven’t written poetry or worked on any of my stories in… years. I should change that.

There you have it! 100 facts about me! Maybe one day I’ll get really ambitious and consolidate all the entries into one. And now my Fridays are empty. Maybe I need to come up with another different Friday Five or something else.

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Posted By judy on May 17, 2012

Bam had dumped a bowl of Cheerios all over the kitchen floor. As I was cleaning them up, I heard Speed say, “Mommy does a lot for you, baby. You should be nice and do a lot to help her out. That does not include dumping Cheerios all over the floor. Now she has to waste time cleaning up, and she won’t be able to do fun things like write blog posts.”

The baby flat out refuses to say “mama” or any variation of my name (no… I take that back. He has said, “Judy” a few times.) We get into wars where I’ll ask him to say “Mama” and he replies with, “Dada!”, “Dad!” or “Daddy!” This wars last several minutes and he thinks it’s hysterical.
The other day Hubby Man told him he could have a cookie if he said “Mama” or “cookie”. He said, “Cookie!”

The other night at dinner, Speed said, “If I had an award for cutest person ever, I’d give it to the baby. If I had two cutest awards, I’d give one to the baby and I’d give the other to myself.”.

I had gotten a package, and the item was wrapped in a sheet of the large bubble bubble wrap. I placed it on the floor and brought Bam over to walk on in, thinking he’d get a kick out of it. I mean, who doesn’t love bubble wrap? Bam, that’s who. He was terrified. He ran screaming from me. I’ve never seen him that scared of anything before. He’s truly terrified of bubble wrap. We’ve joked that we don’t need to do more childproofing or more baby gates. Put bubble wrap on the kitchen chairs, and he won’t climb on the table. Put it by the stairs, and he’ll steer clear. One of the older kids had dropped it on the floor in the kitchen, and for the first time since Bam became mobile, I was able to unload the dishwasher in peace!

I start out the Starbucks Love young in my kids! Ha! The Barista gave him an empty tiny cup and it was the highlight of his whole entire day.

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Posted By judy on May 16, 2012

Making sad faces really made him sad. He also cried during sad songs!

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Posted By judy on May 15, 2012

Living in Florida can be brutal. It’s hot, it’s humid, and it it’s highly important to me that my deodorant not fail on me. It’s happened and it’s not fun.

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Posted By judy on May 12, 2012

Yes, I missed my Final Friday Five, and will have to post that next week. It’s been a long crazy week.

Last weekend, I kept thinking that I needed to back up everything on my laptop. It was seemingly random, and of course, I didn’t do it. Sunday, I noticed my laptop was super hot. I blew out the dust, and I’m ashamed to admit that it was a lot. It had been awhile. I noticed that it was running more quietly, and cooler.
Then the quiet struck me, it was silent. Panicked, I turned it off, and hubby took it apart, sure enough, my fan wasn’t running. I tried to relax, I had some posts scheduled throughout the week. We ran to Best Buy and Radio Shack, but they couldn’t help. The following day, we went to a few computer repair places, and apparently my computer is “too high end” and they didn’t have the fan and weren’t sure if they could get it and it would cost an arm and a leg. Now I began to panic.

We got a cooling board so I could just get what I needed off my laptop, and would have to work on one of the other computers and my tablets until we figured something out.

We did some research and discovered that apparently the fan in my laptop doesn’t run constantly. It occasionally shuts off. Maybe I’m technologically very slow, but I’d never heard of this before, and neither had my husband.
So maybe my computer was fine all along (and my husband completely dismantled it for nothing! Ha!) and the fan was just in an “off cycle”, or maybe it is broken. I’ve been paranoid about it all week, only using it as needed, and for nothing more. I’ve been writing posts on my nook, and my iphone to be posted. I am on my laptop right now, and I do think I hear the fan, but maybe it’s the cooling board. I’m still very paranoid.
I’ve been online less, and I’m not going to lie, it hasn’t been bad. I’ve kind of enjoyed it. I do have some catching up to do, but I’ve realized that I don’t need to check my email, facebook, twitter and everything every hour or the world will stop. It’s okay to figure out exactly what needs to be done on the computer, do that and then shut it off.
So that has been my week. My elder kids are away for the weekend, and my baby is making elephant noises, so I think I’ll go join him.

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Posted By judy on May 11, 2012

I have not yet read the article in Time magazine, but am really not impressed. Asking moms if they are “Mom Enough” because of choices they make makes me angry. Attachment Parenting isn’t for everyone. Your parenting style has nothing to do with being a good mom.

I do practice Attachment Parenting. I wear my babies, we cosleep. I believe in extended breastfeeding. I only nursed GG for 6 months before she developed a preference for baby food. I nursed Speed for 39 months, yes 39. Over three years. By that point, I didn’t have much support, but we breastfed until he was ready to stop. Bam and I still have a strong nursing bond at 18 months, and we will continue until he’s done.

That being said, I don’t care if another mom breastfeeds, or formula feeds. We all know from Bam’s early days and lack of weight gain that I had to temporarily supplement with formula to help him gain weight until we could straighten out my own health issues. I don’t care if another mom wears her baby or not, or if she cosleeps. All these choices that we make as mothers are just that, choices. We make decisions as mothers in regards to what’s best for us, and for our babies. I know that each of my children are different, therefore choices I’ve made for each have been different.
I believe that as long as we love our children and care for them and help them grow into unique individuals, we are each “Mom Enough” no matter what choices we’ve made to get them there. Follow your own instincts, and don’t let others tell you how to parent. No one knows your children better than you. You are Mom Enough!

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Posted By judy on May 10, 2012

Bam has been afraid of the vacuum for more than a year now. The other night I had to vacuum up a cookie mess he’d made. As I started it, he flipped out and ran for his Daddy. I vacuumed the living room, and when I turned it off, I just moved it out of the way. I hadn’t even had a chance to unplug it yet, when Bam was down and ran over to the vacuum. He lifted his little foot and placed it on the power button. He jumped about 6 inches off the ground and ran when it started. I felt bad, but I couldn’t help but laugh. I turned it off, and he walked back over. I stood back because surely, he wouldn’t do it again? He did. And again, and again! Apparently, he really likes being scared silly?

Not related to the post, but look who discovered that a finger fits perfectly up his nose!

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Posted By judy on May 9, 2012

Look! Even the Baby gets mail!

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Posted By judy on May 8, 2012

A lot of people think that weight loss, or healthy eating is about denying yourself all of your favorite treats. This really isn’t true. It is possible to lose weight and be able to still enjoy yummy foods. S.A.S.S! Yourself Slim by Cynthia Sass shows you just how to do this. This book is a simple 30 day plan, broken down into two parts. The first part jump starts your body and you can lose up to 8 pounds in the first five days!
The book is loaded with tasty recipes. It has various meals, spreads, pizzas, desserts, and even recipes for chocolate truffles! You know I’ll be trying those out! She encourages you to enjoy your favorite foods without having to count numbers!
There is even a section on how to enjoy chocolate! No joke. A book with a section dedicated to that can’t be wrong in my opinion! The author actually encourages you to eat chocolate everyday.

The book also has many inspirational success stories. The stories and photos of these individuals is motivating.

While I don’t have any weight to lose, I am definitely interested in a lot of the recipes in S.A.S.S! Yourself Slim. I’m going to use this as a loose guide to healthy eating. Changing your eating habits is a hard thing. People fall into bad habits so easily, and this book teaches you step by step how to make changes to a healthier you, a slimmer you!

I was compensated for this post by One2One Network.  This did not affect my opinion at all.

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