Mommin' It Up!

March 11, 2010

Raindrops on Roses & Whiskers on Kittens

When I was in high school, I was in musicals and choir and stuff like that. I haven’t sung a serious note in about one million years, but back when my pipes were in shape, I’d sing “A few of my favorite things” from the Sound of Music for almost every audition. I love that song and I could sing it.

So, last night I was thinking about posting and this song just popped into my head, and I thought, “I’ll do a post and talk about lots of my favorite things!” I’m like Oprah up in here. Oh, the brilliance. It’s stunning sometimes, isn’t it? Plus, it’s Things I Love Thursday over at the Diaper Diaries, so I thought it’d be perfect to play along. Today I’m gonna tell you about some of my favorite products – just for funzies – no reviewing involved.

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Vaseline Sheer Infusion lotion – this stuff is the best EVER. I generally will buy whatever lotion I can get for free at CVS or Walgreens or Rite Aid, which is how I happened upon this stuff. A couple of uses and I was HOOKED! Now I will ALWAYS buy it when it’s on sale and I have a coupon. I’ve never met a lotion that moisturizes so completely. I currently have a nice stockpile of about 5 bottles. 🙂 It’s on ECBs this week at CVS and there are $1.50 off coupons at coupons.com so go GETCHA some.

Venus Embrace razor – Best razor EVAH. Once you go Venus, you’ll never go back. I also have an incredible stockpile of these babies from drugstoring. I get them at every opportunity, because if I run out, I might DIE. (Also on at CVS this week! Was a coupon in this past Sunday’s P&G! Go!!)

exotic passionfruit simplycotton

Mary Kay Eau de Toilette – Exotic Passionfruit and Simply Cotton
– these two are my favorite fragrances. I can’t pick which one I like better! I love them so much, I got the body wash, scrub, and lotion in each fragrance as well. They are both light and wonderful and make me happy! You can get them from your Mary Kay lady or mine (my BFF Luanne) if you don’t have one. Since I like to share the love, I gave Emily and her sister Anna each one of these scents for Christmas!

LE jeans

Lands’ End Ultra Fit boot cut jeans
– I got three pairs of these on clearance at Sears Lands’ End shop a few weeks ago, and I have thrown out (given to Goodwill) all my other boot cut jeans. The fit and style of these are amazing and make all my other pairs unnecessary!!

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Shade Clothing tops – I have a zillion and one Shade Clothing tees and tanks, and it will never be enough! I LOVE, love LOVE them! They are the best basics ever and the prices are always great!

So, those are a few of my favorite things! For more favorites, check out Things I Love Thursday at the Diaper Diaries.

March 10, 2010

Tired

I didn’t sleep all that well last night, and I’m not sure why, the usual problems I guess. It’s not like I was up all night, I did get some sleep, but this morning I am so, so tired. So tired I want to cry. I’ve already showered but I just want to climb back in bed and go back to sleep anyway, feel my heavy comforter weigh me down, maybe press me into sleep.

My eyes are heavy, but the truth is, the sad truth, I can’t even fall asleep without medication anymore. Can’t even take a nap. If I were to go back to bed now, it would just result in frustration. And since I need to parent and all, I probably shouldn’t take an Ambien and hit the sheets at 9 a.m.

I am tired and I am tired of being messed up in this way. I’m so frustrated.

Now, off to the coffee pot.

March 9, 2010March 9, 2010

Top Ten Tuesday: My favorite Google search terms.

Taking a look at what search terms lead people to this site is always amusing. For some reason, most of our traffic doesn’t come from searches like “entertaining mom blog” or “hilarious blogging cousins” (I know, can you believe it?)… it comes more from things like “she looks so natural casket.”

True story.

Anyway, I always like an excuse to link up to Oh Amanda’s Top Ten Tuesday, so here are my top ten favorite search terms that have recently landed people on our little blog. Here we go.

10. “April fool‘s kids fake strawberry cake.” Cake is not a joking matter!

9. “Baby peanut butter poo.” I can’t figure out which post this lead to, but I am 100% sure it was written by Jenny. (edited to add – I just figured it out, and of course it led to this post by the one and only Jenny Rapson.)

8. “Babywearing hemmroids.” Two words – spell check! Also, do you suppose that person meant that a baby was wearing hemorrhoids or that baby-wearing causes hemorrhoids? I recommend Motrin. Heh.

7. “Matching easter dresses for moms and daughters” and “sexy easter dresses.” Frankly, I’m not sure which one is more disturbing.

6. “How to answere the question biblically on how babies get into the mommy;s tummy.” Again, spell check, people! And secondly? Don’t come to us for sex ed.

5. “I accidentally hit my dog and he suddenly pukes.” Sounds like a serious problem. Maybe he was involved in this other search term – “Girls ipecac puke party.”

4. “Figure skating crotch hand,” “female olympic figure skaters crotch photos” and numerous other variations of the same idea drew a lot of people here. Something tells me my post wasn’t what they were hoping to find.

3. “Birth control makes me rage,” “birth control pills anger,” “birth control pills make me crazy,” and “the pill made me fat.” All of the above.

2. The most popular topic of the week – unfriending. “Why are people unfriending me on facebook,” “my child unfriended me on facebook,” “can my sibling unfriend me on facebook,” “should i unfriend relatives on facebook,” “how to handle in-law friend requests on fb,” and “can i unfriend my mother in law from facebook,” which was obviously searched by the same person who later searched for “facebook unfriending repercussions.”

And finally…

1. “Poop pants wii bowling.” Jenny, I’m going to let you take that one.