When Mommies and Daddies Finally Lose There Minds...

Not that I had forgotten about the incident in question mind you

....I mean...seriously...who could forget a full on Baking Assault on ones person?

What I had thought...was that any evidence of the event would have been conviently forgotten within the hundreds of pictures of Pooh.....Pooh eating Cake....Pooh opening gifts....Pooh just being his Pooh-ey Self....(I know I tend to forget anything else when he is around)

I can see though that my lovely husband's....even more lovely parents.....have sent the proof of our momentary loss of sanity....to EVERYONE they could think of.....

and just to make sure they didn't leave anyone out....I am in turn posting it for the General Public's Viewing....

now...don't go thinking this is purely for entertainment value....it is a Warning....not to let your husband around baking ingredients....while in an amazingly Awnry Mood....

especially when Awnry Husband has had too much Buttercream Frosting.....

I mean seriously....I HAD to defend myself...and my culinary creations....

And I think I heard a little bird tell me once....to keep a happy marriage...keep it fun....

Heck...ya know I had fun....

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Gone Etsy.....Open For Business....

My Inner Crafty Diva is rubbing her hands together....for she is so extremely excited to say that we've...(okay she) has reopened our Etsy Shop

Baby Noah Boutique....

I'm so excited....to now combine the fact that I have Baby on the Brain 24/7.....and my obsession with anything Vintage....especially Vintage Baby.....(couldn't see that one coming could ya....)


I am extremely proud of both of the items I have available right now....and I'm anxious to get down to Bid-ness....and crank out more....




My Crafty Diva can't contain herself...she has so many ideas floating around in her head....


But with my GRAND reopening....and my excitement over hopefully making a cute little business as well as my Project Mommyhood Mark.....

So Come by....I always love feedback.....and here's to Becoming an ETSY diva......

Have you Seen.....

My sexiness......? I can't seem to find it anywhere....I know it was right here about 2 years ago....It was here long enough to help facilitate a Pooh invasion......but as soon as he showed up.....

Sexiness just left.....

I've tried asking nicely for it to come back.....demanding.....pleading.....with no response...not even a letter or phone call.....

I've bought enough Victoria's Secret Underwear to host my own fashion show on TV....strutted around my full length mirror in booty shorts....(much to Juice's enjoyment)...trying to see if I can see my sexiness returning......

This should be evident by the "oh Yeah" I tell myself....but all I emit is a "um no way"....and change into non-sexy relevant attire....(sweats)

I think I have to resort to some drastic measures at this point.....namely the TAPS Ghost hunting Crew, Big Foot Investigators...and those who swear they have found the Loch Ness Monster....Cause I have a feeling finding my sexiness will be just as elusive....

I've even printed out Reward Posters...for anyone who can safely return my sexiness to me....Juice says he's on that one...and that he's the only one who's gonna get anywhere near my rewards....(flattery gets you everywhere)....and, just to prove his point...and help flush Sexy out, he bought me a new swim suit to wear to the shore this summer....and hopefully put my reclaimed sexy out on display....

I feel I am still optimistic about my sexiness coming back...even with the return of adolescent Acne...that I had forgotten about for 12 years....and that I still can't seem to get more than my big toe in my pre-Pooh Jeans....

When my elusive Sexiness does finally give up the fight...and come home where it belongs....we will sit down and have a nice little chat over on why Motherhood and Sexy can Co-exist quite happily.....(preferably over martinis)

heck....Motherhood couldn't even happen without The Sexy right?.....now all together now....rrriiiggghhttt. Very Good.....

Now if only....I could just find it......harumph....

Yummy....

Just to make sure I wasn't imagining it...I had to watch it again....

and it's true....Adam Lambert's voice can make my toes curl....

In Case you missed it....

Handmade....Handpicked

**** A Duplicate of yesterday's Post over at my other home: Project Mommyhood Reviews ****
****I am aplogizing now....I am still mentally recovering from the past weekend's revalry...which in my esteemed opinion....rivaled any college party I've ever thrown....either that...or I really can't hack it like I used too....Completely original, non filched material will return soon...even if said filched material is from moi....*****




Browsing around Etsy this week...I'm noticing that Spring has Sprung.....and I've tracked down a few of my faves this week to share.....Bring on the Spring....

Anny and Me Petite Market Bag...perfect to grab for shopping at those Spring farmers Markets

Yummy....In Bloom Designs Fruit Blossom Jade Bracelet....a great addition to your spring wardrobe. How cute with a light spring dress...

Imagination Kids - One Dozen Natural Wooden eggs....Add to an Easter Basket. Organic, and safe...for hours of imaginative fun.

Welcome Spring...and Green into your home with this small Moss Terrarium from Wee Gardens. It looks beautiful on a table top....It's earthy....and green....a color many of haven't seen in many, many months.

***And oh by the way....if you happen to dig this post...it will be a repeat weekly section over at Project Mommyhood Reviews. Check it out Tuesdays.....

A Year in the Life of Pooh....

I should have posted this last week...on his actual birthday.....but the procrastinator that I am....decided to wait until today....and that was after much prodding....and whining about how slow I am....





Better Late than Never.....(whoever said that....you have made me who I am today...and I'm not sure I should thank you for it.)




To You Pooh....



Yet another small note from me....the president of your fan club....



I truly can't believe a year has gone by already.....365 days full of nothing but joy and happiness....and coffee....lots and lots of coffee.....



this last week....I really wanted to go and have a chat with father time...and tell him to just slow it down a bit....not let the next year go by as fast as the last...how even now...I sometimes forget exactly the way you smelled when you first came home from the hospital....



Or just how long I would sit and watch you sleep....or how excited I was the first time you smiled...or tried to lift your head....



Those thousands of little...minisucle milestones....that seem so large when they happen....get smaller and smaller as the days go on.....



It's so hard....to look so forward to the fabulous.......exciting things that you will continue to learn and do.....yet so yearn so hard for you to stay little....and just the way you are now....



I don't think I could ever spend enough time....or take enough pictures....to quench my thirst of you....



You have and will continue to be the light of my life.....and you have proven....to be that...as you have made a difficult time....so much easier to bare....



I wanted nothing more this last week....than to truly celebrate you....for the wonderful baby you have been....and the amazing...beautiful little person you are growing into everyday....



and know your daddy and I will celebrate you not just on your birthday...but everyday....



you deserve nothing less....



Love

Your mommy

Pooh's Grand Celebration

Whew.....It Came....It Happened....It Was Conquered.....The Biggest, Baddest First Birthday Celebration this Side of Evesham Road.....


It reminded me somewhat of a wedding.......the months and months of planning....and replanning.....the anticipation....and excitement leading up to the big day....then...somewhere there is a party that ends up lasting a whole nano-second.....and then the always famous last words...



"What the heck just happend?"




I have to say....Pooh's Party was a major success....with everyone thoroughly enjoying themselves...especially the Birthday Boy.....hey...your first sugar high is a good reason to be excited right?



Family and Friends....celebrating....both present....and far away......



Even our little Beanie had it's moment....with moi eating a second cupcake in it's honor......



I think I'll need 6 months to recover.....and 6 months to plan next years......


Now I present....in all it's visual Splendor.....



Pooh Party 2009

Saying Goodbye....

I've written and rewritten this post a billion and one times....not sure of the right way I want to express myself....which is usually never a hard thing for me to do....



I guess...never in my life....have I had a harder time saying goodbye to someone....than I did this week to my little Bean Sprout....

I have run the gammet with every emotion I think you can have.....it reminded me a lot of the emotional rollercoaster I had with my Cancer....and my Divorce....it's funny really, how different life situations....really aren't that different when it deals with your heart.....

First the shock...then the overwhelming saddness.....then throw in some anger.....and I think now....when I'm done with all of those....the healing truly begins....

I completely understand....the adage..."it happens for a reason".....hell, I've told myself the phrase enough times...I think it has become my mantra.....this time....I really just wanted to know what that reason was.....as futile as I know it is....I just wanted to know...why this time....it wasn't right.....

and I completely understand....that I will be blessed by another wonderful little miracle baby....and that having gone through this will make our next Beanie.....perhaps even a little bit more special.....(I hope though that I don't get overly compensated by being the next Nadya Suleman).....

I have seen the love and compassion of so many of my friends and family.....Juice has been the empitomy of a loving and supportive husband...who even through his own saddness....has made sure that everyday is a good day....(and even made me laugh some by putting that annoying McDonalds Filet o Fish song as my ringtone...Thanks)

It has helped me in my faith....though I don't speak of it often....Because I know that there is a bigger purpose....and Beanie had a bigger purpose.....

Beanie brought a lot of happiness....and joy.....(even through the morning sickness...that lasted most of the day....) in it's short life.....I was blessed to be it's mother.....and will forever call it mine....

The night before my DNC I had my dream...where I feel Beanie came to say goodbye....I don't remember much about it....except for watching a little toddler riding away down the street on a red tricycle.....they never turned around....just kept peddling....and I woke up knowing...it was Beanies little way of saying it's okay....

This week....as I celebrate the day my little Pooh was born...We also will Celebrate Beanie...by planting a rosebush right next to Pooh's.....

It's truly amazing....I couldn't get through this without crying....but yet I know....it will turn out okay.....because on Saturday...there will be a piece of cake with Beanie's name on it....

"Words To Live By" Worthy of Pondering....

Says the old Spiral Notebook I found amongst the things I have acquired from my Grandmother.....

hmmmm.....A collection of ponderings.....an insight into insight......or just an interesting way to spend a few nights full of preganancy induced insomnia....(uh huh...I know that's right).....

Pages upon pages of old yellowed newspaper clippings....some underlined....some with her always recognizable scribble.....all....profoundly entertaining.....and strangely enough...still relevent....even though some were written....even before beehives and horned rims...were considered good form....beehives relevent....(well if you are Amy Winehouse....okay...well maybe not....but you get the drift)

One Such little tid bit of knowledge that had me laughing in my empty container of Ben and Jerry's Half Baked, and actually had me turn off the midnight showing of High School Reunion (Because I cannot find anything else as captivating at 12:00 A.M. as old high schoold Du-ra-mah rearing it's ugly head amongst 40 year olds) .... was written in 1958...

It's kind of a June Cleaver meets the Modern Day Working Wife......

"It Takes A Lot Of Living To Make A Woman A Wife".....(the modern woman in me wanted to say what the hell is that supposed to mean?)....but patience....(a virtue I am learning)

Any woman has lived quite a while before she learns-

That the easiest way to sell a man on an idea is to make him think it was his idea in the first place.

That what she wears to a party isn't nearly as important as having something to say to people once she gets there.

That the most successful spur of the moment parties are given by women who plan for such emergencies carefully in advance.

That some kinds of news should never be given to a husband until after a good dinner.

That other women's houses don't always look as perfect as they do at party time.

That a woman who can't train her family to be neat hasn't a ghost of a chance at being a good housekeeper.

That a man really can be too tired to play bridge with another couple, but not too tired to play poker with the boys.

That nothing irritates a man more than having his wife tell hime "I told you so"

That the surest way of getting a good looking dress is to take her husband, rather than her best friend along when she goes shopping.

That when a man starts talking about how much oil the old car is using, he already has a new car picked out.

That if she treats her husband lika a VIP, she will never have to worry about other women.

That a man's idea of good natured woman is one who never brings up an old grievance, never points out his faults and never blames him when things go wrong.

That it's foolish to envy another woman's possessions.

I have to laugh....except for I don't know too many couples who play bridge.....and usually a good dinner for my husband does NOT involve me cooking.....

I guess the old adage is still true.....If it ain't broke....don't fix it....

Wonder if that's what my Grandma had in mind......

A Pregnancy Life Crisis....

Oh yes....you have read correctly.....and I know that it has to be pregnancy induced....because lord knows I am not this neurotic when I am sans baby......

With Pooh....I had my moments of OCD....ADD....ADHD.....PMS.....(Pregnancy Mental Syndrome).....but I also had longs stretches of clarity and peace....maybe it was having to focus on making a profit that helped me not need a date with Dr Phil.....

I can honestly say though that this time.....I have jumped the precipise....and landed smack in I don't have a freaking clue....

Now...before you all start thinking I am in need of some serious psychological help....I have not reached Britney Spears level by shaving my head, wearing awful pink wigs...driving around aimlessly for hours with my starbucks and a member of the Papparrazi.....(I don't have the time or the money....)

But here are some great examples as to why I feel I am definitely in the midst of some sort of Pregnancy Life Crisis

1. I have decided that in the next few years I want to become a teacher, go to real estate school, open my own childrens boutique, become a wedding coordinator, become an antique appraiser and possibly a hair dresser.....and it's only Wednesday

2. While Watching the Season Finale of the Bachelor... Men = Dung Beetles.....and even though Juice was so self sacrificing by watching the whole 3 hours with me.....I still threw him under the bus and lumped him in there too.....Jerk wads....(sorry honey)

3. Have had numerous arguments with myself over trivial things....and even went so far as to use hand gestures to illustrate a point....to myself.....strangely enough....I always won.

4. My normally talkative self....has had an almost phobia of anything phone related.....I don't answer calls....I don't call back....I don't want to talk more than a couple of minutes....I am anti phone....(even Juice thinks this is strange)

5. My domestic Diva.....has left me a note saying she is going to Aruba for a vacation.....for I don't know how long.....not sure if it's me...or the weather...but since her departure....my house is in absolute chaos...okay maybe not that bad...but it's not up to snuff.....

6. now if that ain't what you call strange....how bout my super lovey dovey....extra sweet husband....knowing that D.D has flown the coup....comes home from work everyday and proceeds to do the chores that I have so lazily not done.....and instead of being endearing and grateful....I bring out my inner Joan Crawford because it makes me feel like he doesn't think I'm doing a good job....(I'm sure that is a run on sentence.....but what the hell)

Now I'm not sure if there is a support group for ladies like myself....but I think i might add that to my list of new career moves...and create one....right in between wedding coordinator....and hair dresser....

Since I"m not cleaning....I have all this extra time.....

help?!?

Ahem....Mother Nature

Dear Mother Nature....

Um....you do realize it is March right?....Yes, yes I understand that Spring will not officially be here for another 18 days....but really I think we get the picture.....I know Old Man Winter is entirely too happy crashing at your pad....and I know he is no way ready to vacate his craft matic to leave way for Miss Spring to redecorate with sunshine and flowers....




But do you think...maybe....just perhaps it's time for him to take a rascal and move to whiter pastures....preferably a senior center up in Siberia......

I am tired of being homesick for a Brown Desert....where I was so Happy (dripping with Sarcasm) to see that it would be a Balmy 89 degrees.....where Pooh and I could be hanging by the pool...getting plenty of Vitamin D....and my legs hopefully looking less like the Title of a Moody Blues Song......

I totally get....that I should fully embrace every season.....trust me....growing up in the mountains of Colorado....you have no choice but to embrace.....and there you have 5 seasons...with Mudd Season falling nicely between Winter and Spring.....

Mother Nature.....I'm hoping this is a last hoorah for winter......a last...get your skis out and enjoy the white stuff.....cause I don't know about anyone else....but I am so ready for shorts and flip flops....heck...I'll take a light jacket......

and I really do think it's time to juice up the rascal......