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2008: A Year in Review

2008 was a great year for Emily and I and Mommin’ It Up! Em had a baby, I got my eyebrows waxed, and we launched our review blog! In case you missed any of it, I picked out a favorite post from each month of 2008…I hope you’ll join my trip down memory lane and read them all. Happy New Year everyone! We love and appreciate all of you!

January: I scare the meter reader and deal with mystery turd #1

February: Emily has a good laugh at my expense. Or lack of expense.

March: Emily and I hit the brand-new IKEA store in our area. And ALMOST buy the correct items!

April: Emily pops out baby Sammy, and more importantly, I don’t have to wait any longer to know if it’s a boy or a girl. GEEZ.

May: A kid on Kate’s t-ball team makes the best blog fodder. EVAH.

June: Emily smokes crack, and is therefore a much more fun mommy than I am.

July: Mystery Turd 2: Electric Boogaloo! Nancy Drew tries to solve the case.

August: An old lady pisses Emily off. Watch out, Grandma!

September: We got a hurricane in Ohio. It was WEIRD. And windy.

October: I FINALLY wean Sophie at 23 months. Oy.

November: Emily and Oprah are like twinsies. And also 83-year-old ladies are smart.

December: My lady business is perfect. (According to my OB-GYN. I’m just sayin’.)

I had way too much fun putting this together. I must say Emily and I crack me up! So…at least that’s one of us…I hope you all reminisce with me and have a laugh too!

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Let’s make 2009 a great one!

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No Dew, Day 2

Yesterday I did surprisingly well in my quest to give up the sauce (which for me is Mountain Dew). I got my hair cut, my brows waxed (again, I am now an eyebrow whore), had coffee and water, and was generally ok.

Today, however has been a different story. I started off my day by weighing myself for motivation. I haven’t weighed myself in like, well, forever. It’s been a long time. At least six months, I’d say, but probably more than that. I was not surprised, but I was disappointed to see that I’ve gained six pounds since the last time I weighed in. So…that was good motivation for me to keep going. I did Pilates this morning for the first time in over a year (I know, I am TERRIBLE!) and I was humbled by not being able to properly do exercises that used to be quite simple for me. Let’s just say I am feeling my core! I was reminded that I really actually like Pilates (as much as it is possible for me to like exercise) so that was good.

So, anyhoo, I was doing fine, until after lunch when Joshua announced, “MOM! Sophie smells like POOP!” I chased her down and laid her on the floor to change her…and when I pulled off her pants, somehow my right leg became COVERED in poop from knee to ankle. It. was. SO. GROSS. Needless to say, Soph was also a huge mess. It took me like 27 wipes to clean her up. And Joshua kept asking me questions about his train track the entire time until I had to SCREAM at him, which I love doing, to get him to stop. I promise you I asked him nicely at least twice to shut it until I was done de-turding his sister. You’ll just have to believe me.

Anyways, after disposing of the mound of diaper/wipes/poop, putting my clothes and Soph’s in the washer, running around my house pantsless, and getting new clothes for both of us, I REALLY wanted a Mountain Dew.

I had to settle for a Diet Sunkist. Didn’t *quite* do the trick. So I’m jonesing…but I wasn’t about to put the kids in the car to go get a Dew, so I guess I am not too desperate…yet.

(Oh! PS! I posted a new giveaway on Reviewin’ It Up! today. It’s a small one but very fun! Go check it out! And keep checking back because we will have giveaways there almost every week!)

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My Uphill, er, UpMountain Battle

Mama Loves Dew

I am out of Mountain Dew. Usually, thanks to CVS, I keep my kitchen stocked with Dew. We have a fridge pack in the fridge at all times and usually three or four waiting in the wings. But tonight, I drank my last one, and I have no more.

And I’m scared, because I am seriously addicted to the stuff. I start to twitch for it when I get out of the shower in the morning. As soon as I’m dressed, I run to the fridge and pop one open. The green, sugary, cold goodness makes me happy and soothes my nerves.

Then around 5 or so, I’m itching for another, if I haven’t gotten stressed out and had one in the afternoon. I try to limit myself to two a day, but a lot of times, I drink three a day.

But now that I’ve weaned Sophie, I’m not burning those good ol’ nursing calories anymore, and all that sugary, calorie-rich Dew is going straight to my love handles. I’ve got to appear at BlissDom in 5 weeks and I don’t want to look all jiggly. So, I’m hitting Pilates and giving up Dew.

But can I DO (and not Dew) it!? I don’t know! I’ve never had a lot of willpower. And…I don’t really WANT to quit. I want to drink it all day long and have it be good for me. But it’s not.

Crap. Its after midnight, so today is my first Dew-less day. I feel very sorry for my poor children and my husband. I am afraid this is gonna get ugly…but hopefully my body will get prettier!

As I write this, I am getting the shakes just thinking about it going without mah DEW. Gotta go program the coffee maker so I can at least have some caffeine…even if it’s not cold, green and sugary. *Sigh*.

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