way too long

That's what it's been since I've written. My life has just been pretty much non-stop since the last time I wrote. I'm not even sure where to start. I don't think I have the time right now to actually sit and right everything that's been going on. I just want to brag a little before I run. B (my baby) was born almost 9 months ago and in those almost nine months I have lost 78lbs. YEAH ME!!!!! Don't mind me while I pat myself on the back lol. I also just celebrated my birthday and my wonderful husband surprised me by having a few old friends meet us out. These are friends that I've barely spoken to in the last 6 years. I'm thrilled beyond words to have these girls (women now) back in my life. We've known each other since elementary school so you can imagine what a bunch of giddy schoolgirls we were when the reunion occured. We all had no voices for the next 3 days. Ok that's all I've got right now but I promise (putting up my girl scout salute) that I will be back before the weekend is over. Cause I know all my millions of readers are so anxious to hear what's going on in this super exciting life!

Yup that was me

The mom in Target that looked like she might just try and run for it. Last week (yes we are part of the weekly sometimes bi/tri-weekly target run team) my boys were perfect little angels. They were singing nicely with each other and keeping their hands to themselves. We had young sweet (read naive) women smiling at us adoringly, and thinking that's how perfect my family will be when I finally convince the new hubby to donate his sperm, oh sorry I mean make sweet passionate love to me and create life. And we had little old ladies, commenting on how well behaved my boys were and probably thinking back to the days that her now grown children were so good. I'm sure those days are easy to remember because they were so few and far between. (yes you do sense some tension in my voice today). Well today was a COMPLETELY different story. M, the oldest, could not keep his grubby little hands off E. Let me paint the picture (good thing I'm not really painting cause you'd never be able to figure it out I paint even worse than I write). E is 2 and sits up in the seat, B sits in his car seat in the back and M walks beside the carriage holding on like a nice little gentleman(ha). Well today M was attempting to stand on the side of the carriage (usually it keeps us from stopping every 2 seconds) but he decided that it was better for him to keep poking E. And E, who was grumpy to begin with, would scream at the top of his lungs for M to stop. So down M was told to get from the carriage and he needed to hold my hand. Yah that's really easy for me to hold his hand while attempting to push a carriage that won't drive straight even with two hands. So to make a long story even longer, M just refused to walk. He didn't even give me the decency of a noodle leg he just stood still and made it look like I was dragging him along the main aisle of Target. So I just let go of him, I didn't want to end up on youtube in some security video looking like I was abusing my 4 year old. A lady that was following too close behind me (you have no idea how hard it was for me to not turn around and be like back the f*%k up lady) almost ran him over cause he fell in the middle of the floor. Things didn't get any worse after that but they sure didn't get any better. Unfortunately an opportunity for me to just run away never showed itself. Which I guess is a good thing cause I'm sure eventually I'll have at least one more dream trip to Target cause I know I'll be there about 999,999,999,342.1 more times in my lifetime. Note to self tomorrow at Target buy everything on the list we forgot today and some running shoes just in case.
Thanks for reading this has definitely helped reduced the stress of today

I LOVE MONDAYS

I love the sound of a baby playing nicely in his crib after sleeping through the night. That's what happened in my house this morning! Thanks B for making my I LOVE MONDAY post so easy, cause your brothers sure were making me feel quite the opposite this morning. Who knew acknowledging the positive things in your life could actually make you feel a little better? I'll have to keep reminding myself of that throughout the day when the boys make me want to runaway lol!

what happens when the chef doesn't come to work

Last night the chef didn't show up for work in my house. No we don't have a personal chef, well I don't the guys do, but not me. So when my hubby called to let me know he was on his way home I informed him of the chef's night off and that we'd have to go out to eat instead. We tried one place but were told we'd have a 40 minute wait. "Damn you Thirsty Thursday, and all you carefree college kids", I thought with jealousy and a longing for just one of those days back again. Needless to say we did not wait the 40 minutes for a table. So we ventured over a town and tried this pub that lots of our friends had told us about. We walked in and found a table and got our own popcorn. The boys love going out to eat because we let them choose their own meals, you can imagine the excitement M had when he realized they had PB&J(which came with fries)! E ordered his normal hot dog and fries and fell in love with our waitress. It was the cutest thing to watch he would talk about her and laugh about her whenever she walked by, but anytime she would talk to him he would button up and was unable to get 2 words out of his mouth. B caught the attention of the "regular" an older gentleman decked out in his Sox gear that couldn't help himself from patting B's head. And M LOVED having the ability to walk and refill the popcorn. All in all I had a really nice date with my four handsome guys. I'm happy the local college watering hole had a long wait because we would've never found our new place. Oh wait I almost forgot the most extraordinary part of our meal, the part that I just can't stop shaking my head over. That moment came when the bill came $19.95 yup that's right my young family of five ate a delicious dinner for $19.95. We haven't gone out for a breakfast that cheap in god knows how long never mind a dinner. Something tells me our chef will be taking more days off in the near future since the family can eat so cheap. Better yet maybe she'll send just the guys and she can head over to the 40 minute wait place with a few girlfriends and have a liquid dinner, well maybe just once!

Wordless Wednesday (perfect since I'm still at a loss for them)

at a loss

for words I am today, but I'm trying to keep my blog active. Throughout the day I write little blogs in my head but things only stay in my head for about 5 seconds before I'm thinking about changing diapers, wiping hands and faces, picking up M from preschool, attempting naptime, or any of the other 1,000,000,000 thoughts racing around in there (there's plenty of room for all those thoughts). So I'm just going to tell you quickly one of the many things I love. Maybe I'll start doing this ever monday, maybe I'll call it I Love Monday just for the pure irony.

I love the feeling of any of my sons' heads resting in the crook of my neck when I'm holding them.


oh and p.s. while I was writing this I got a call from M's preschool he had somehow got his leg stuck under the heater during reading time. He's FINE, but it made me think about all the call's from school I'll be getting in the future. BOYS I love em.

slowly but surely

I'm starting to figure out what I'm doing with this blog. Now if only I wasn't just talking to myself lol. I guess in all honesty I feel more comfortable thinking that it's just me reading this.

Right now (shhh I have to say this quietly) all my boys are napping at the same time! I should be taking advantage of this time and folding some of that laundry still sitting in the basement. Or I could venture into the kids playroom to find the mouse that our cat may or may have not killed last night, but let's face it I'm a big wimp and am too afraid to even think about the possibility of a mouse being in there, dead or alive. I know I'm a mom of 3 boys I need to stop being so "girly" but I'm a city girl I grew up literally playing in the streets. The only wildlife there was us rowdy kids. I saw the rats in the subway and in the backalleys of Boston but learned to just ignore them. It's a little bit of a different story when there's a (teeny tiny) mouse running rampant inside my domain. Don't even get me started on my fear of frogs it's seriously debilitating. We have a small river that runs through our backyard and before much longer the frogs will have made their way up to my backdoor and I won't be able to step outside without my boys going out before me yelling frogs go away. I'm not really sure where I'm heading with all this I guess I just needed to get it out lol. I guess that's it for my ramblings I do need to get to some work. If anyone actually does read this I hope you enjoyed this glimpse into how random the thoughts in my head can be!