When you blog ...

Do you prepare your blog entry before you sit down to type it out? Do you have a special notebook? Or do you jot down some ideas on napkins and random slips of paper around your house? Or do you simply sit down at the keys and start typing?

That's more my style. For me, my blog is like a journal, I sit down, and I write. It's a little different than journaling, because I don't have the same privacy as when I hole up in my room and sit there with a pen (when I can find one that works!) and my pretty journals. But it makes sense that I'd need less privacy, since I open this up to the entire world to peruse at their leisure. Not that this is what happens, but I digress ...

Instead I sit on my exercise ball and lean on the table in front of me with my laptop on it. These days we have a MacBook Pro. What do you use? We used to have a Dell until I dropped it. Smashed the hard drive into smithereens. Even my techhie husband couldn't fix that mess. Ah, the tragedy. External hard drives, everyone. Seriously. Get one. USE IT.

Anyway, as for me, I type until my daughter asks to "A, B, C, D." Which pretty much means she wants to have a go at the computer, and I get the boot. Which is why some of my entries are done later in the day or at night, so she's not around and I get free reign!

So, tell me how the blogging experience works for you. I'd love to be able to imagine us spread across the world typing away at the keys, notes in hand, or not, at a nice pretty desk in an upstairs office looking out the window, or in your living room, like me, with Moose A. Moose of Noggin talking in the background. Either way, we're all in this together!

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Cookies in the morning?

Come on, tell me I'm not alone?

Yes, it's after noon now, but this morning, at about 10:30, I made it my business to enjoy several Chips A'Hoy chocolate chip cookies. You know, the regular, crunchy ones (there should not be any other kind!)

So yeah, I'm still trying to eat healthy. I'm still trying to lose weight. But I'm also still trying to not lose my mind before the end of the day.

So, how about you? What's your sneaky way of making it through another day?

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Chinese food for breakfast?

Oh, come on. Don't tell me you haven't done it.

Yes, we had Chinese food for dinner last night. It was actually my idea. I just didn't feel like dealing with crowds, a 2-year-old in the midst of the crowds, and even the concept of getting the three of us (mainly her) in the car, it was just not something I wanted to do.

Anyway, this morning I'm just not feeling it for anything breakfast-y. Maybe it's the weather? Maybe it's my small grade headache I've had for a day or so? Maybe it's that today would have been my grandmother's birthday and I miss her? And I miss my own Momma, who is home in NY, but not here with me!

Either way, I'm doing it. Slowly. But I'm munching on finger food leftovers from last night. FOR BREAKFAST! So there! Go on. TRY to judge me. I don't care. I'm still doing it.

Oh, and I'll also be sipping my sweet (caffeinated) tea throughout the day. Aren't you jealous?

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The easy way out?

Sometimes I feel like I'm taking the easy way out. Not often, but for a moment today, I felt it. I made my daughter lunch, and with the lack of exciting grocery items in my pantry and fridge, I opted for a Gerber Graduates meal. You know the kind. The ones that you microwave for 30 seconds? This one was chicken, vegetables and rice. It's one of the newer, healthier versions, and she loves it, so why do I feel like I cheated her out of something? It didn't take long to make, and I knew she needed to eat. It's past lunchtime, after all, but we have a pretty flexible schedule during the day. It all depends on what time she wakes up, but that's a whole other post!

Anyway, it's after 1PM, it's time for lunch, so I heat up a piece of leftover pizza for myself (eh) and pop this baby in the microwave for her. She literally just ate the whole thing, with my help, and sits slurping the sauce as I type this, so I guess it was a hit. I should thank Gerber for helping me give her a nutritious meal once in a while, but instead I kind of feel like they're smirking at me. Ah, well. I saved $ on your products using coupons, so take that! 

And now, on to figuring out what's for dinner. I'm so not feeling domestic this week. I should have thrown something in the crock*pot already, but I skipped it. I think I'll be calling on Mr. Perdue for tonight's meal, and he can't smirk at me, because we're already in a BFF relationship with one another!

Mangia! Eat and enjoy!

**Andrea

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Is it too early?

Is it too early for a drink? 

How many stay-at-home moms do you think ask that very question around the world? I won't say that I think it daily, as honestly, I'm not much of a drinker. I do like the occasional glass of wine, though. [Wow, I can't believe I spelled that right on the first try! Occasional, I mean.] Anyway, there are moments in these days, when I do ask the question, where I feel like my daughter can't make a move without me. Where I want to turn on the television and plop her in front of it so I can pee by myself! And sometimes, like a few moments ago, we were playing nicely on the laptop. Taking pictures of ourselves with the MAC Photo Booth. She got a little too heavy to hold the way I was holding her, and I kept trying to put her down with no luck. Finally I went to shut the laptop and she lost it. I kept trying to soothe her, but she wasn't having it. Now, it wasn't nearly as bad as it might sound, but for a split second I thought to myself, is it too early for a drink? And yes, it is, as I would never drink in the middle of the day when I'm the only one home with my daughter! Heck, I barely drink as it is, I'm certainly not going to do it now. But it's nice to think that later, when she's asleep in her crib, and I'm sitting on the couch, I can pick up a glass of my 'Mommy's Time Out' wine (yes, it really is named that!) and sit back for a few moments of silence. Funny thing is, I probably won't even do it ... but it sounds like a good idea right now!

So, if you happen to be raising a glass out there while you read this, have a sip for me! Salud! Le'chaim! To your health!

Oh, and here's one of our shots, she's so cute, isn't she?

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