Mommin' It Up!

January 2, 2009January 2, 2009

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!

December 28, 2008

Weekly Winners Christmas Edition

We had a really fun Christmas Day. We started out with presents at our house and then Bobby made us a pancake breakfast! Mmm Mmm! Then, we went to my paternal grandparents’ house for lunch and then my maternal grandmother’s for dinner. Even though it was the first time I didn’t get to see Emily (loser!) on Christmas Day in pretty much, FOREVER, I still managed to have a jolly time. Here are the highlights!

Sophie lovin’ on her brother

I make double appearance in the ornaments

Joshua crazyface

They were having a ball playing together! It was really cute.

Sophie’s pretty little Christmas Dress

My FAVORITE part of this Christmas was that there was a beautiful RAINBOW (even though there was no rain) in the sky in the late afternoon! We saw it when we were driving from one grandma’s to the other and we stopped to take some pictures. When we got to my maternal Grandma’s, it was still in the sky literally across the street from her house. So I took some MORE pics. I took a ton, but these two were my favorite.

I just felt like this rainbow was a special gift from God, reminding me to remember that Christmas is really all about the birth of His Son, and the promise He made to provide a Savior for His people.

I hope you all had a beautiful Christmas! For more great pics, check out the Weekly Winners HQ at Sarcastic Mom.

December 23, 2008December 22, 2008

As Good a Reason as Any

This past Sunday we celebrated Christmas with my parents, my two brothers, and their families. We will see them again on Christmas day at my grandparents’ house, but we like to have a day at my mom & dad’s with just our immediate family – eight adults and eight kids.

A few of my nephews are crazy about the Narnia movies and toys, and received quite a few of the Prince Caspian battle toys for Christmas. So after the presents were opened and dinner eaten, they set up a battlefield in the living room. Two of them had received catapults and some sort of thing you attach to your wrist that shoots out plastic darts, and soon there were plastic projectiles flying about everywhere. As the battle raged, my two kiddos played with toys they had received, not minding the chaos around them one bit. That is, until a dart came close to hitting Sophie. At that point, Joshua looked up at his older cousins and gave his own battle orders: “Don’t shoot Sophie, because I love her.”

I like the way that kid thinks. I might have said, “Because you’ll put her eye out”, but his reasoning was good too.