Cradle Cap?

No, just cookie crumbs on my babies head from carrying her in a baby carrier while indulging in some sweets. Oops! Ha!

I HATE THAT SONG!

Ya know, I have been able to catch quite a bit of Christmas music in my many hours in the house this holiday season and in my few trips to the store. There is a station here in Chicagoland that plays ALL Christmas music 24 hours a day for what may be more than a month before which I do like to put on from time to time. There are a few Christmas songs that make me really cringe or change the station. In mentioning this to me husband or my sister, I learned that what makes me cringe does not necessarily make them cringe and vice versa. So here it is, my most hated Christmas song, ready? My Grown Up Christmas Wish by Plus One. Agh! So lame, I can hardly stomach all the lyrics just thinking about them. Anyway, my sister hates a song that I love (Dominick The Donkey) and so does my husband (A Wonderful Christmas Time). Anyway, just thought I'd put this out there so anyone else can vent there most hates Christmas song. Sorry by the way if you live that song. You feel free to rip on mine if you like, two of my favorites are Rocking Around The Christmas Tree and The Christmas Song to name a couple. AND I love The Charlie Brown Album by Vince Guaraldi. OR you can mention your most hated non-Christmas song too, mine is Crocodile Rock (and it was number one on the charts when I was born). There, I feel much better. Go ahead, give it to me :) Oh, anyone like that soldier talking song? Is it a song if you're talking? Anyway, anyone?

Big Brother & Little Sister

My Glass Coated Paradise

Lots of rain and barely freezing temps have left a coating of glass everywhere you look. This Christmas is going to be fun to watch Little Buddy open all his gifts. I can hardly wait. This year will be the nice yet quiet year for us. I am kind of sad yet relieved that I am not going to be hauling a newborn and a toddler all over the place with gifts ALONE. In the last 3 weeks sickness has hit our house twice. First it was a throat tickly cough thing. It started with Little Buddy then made it's way through the house with the exception of the baby. Then when everyone was feeling much better, Little Buddy got a bad cold, then Little Munchkin, then Cop Dad too. Not me though, yet . . . .

Now everyone is getting over their colds. Cop Dad has to work today and tomorrow, he was held til 3am last night and has court today on top of it. Blagh! We will see very little of Daddy today. We will have one extra Christmas this year at his moms (not too happy about that, seeing as though we cancelled with everyone else cause it's just way too much). Typically Cop Dad works loads of side jobs in November and December for Christmas money. This year we had Little Munchkin during that moneymaking time so Cop Dad was at home with us and the extra $$ does not exist. Another reason I am so glad we are staying at home this year. How could I have gone out and bought for everyone anyway? Seriously. Maybe if I bottle fed but even then, my job is at home taking care of my toddler and newborn. Next year should be a completely different story.

So this year, we are staying in. Then Cop Dad will not be around. Roads are glass coated so we are staying IN. I got all of Little Buddy's gifts wrapped and ready to go. I am making cookies from store bought dough, GACK!, but that's OK cause we are leaving them for Santa and it makes Little Buddy happy.

I am happy to have a beautiful, healthy, baby daughter. I have my Little Buddy to keep me company through it all. My little pal, my friend. I love this boy. My husband has a good job and LOTS of job security (three chases in 2 days, one was like right out of the COPS show). Thank you criminals and scumbags of the world for giving my husband job security and keeping him from getting bored and providing a paycheck so we can survive. We have a home and food and are warm and relatively healthy.

Just waiting for the stores to quiet down so I can go and get a new garage door opener keypad. Plan to head to Walgreens for diaper rash cream today possibly? Other than that, we will be staying in our glass coated paradise and dreaming of next Christmas, a full nights sleep, and summer fun which is just around the corner. Can I ask for spring for Christmas? HAPPY HOLIDAYS ALL!

Little Munchkin At Five Weeks

Trouble With Gadgets Anyone?

I cannot add any new gadgets on Blogger anymore and every time I try to go in and access them I have no luck. Anyone else able to add or rearrange gadgets? Holler if you hear me. Thanks!

Steal It And Post It!

Feel free to grab and post for yourself all LEOW's out there.

My Favorite Quote Right Now

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. ~Meryl Streep

Today Is THE Day

Today Cop Dad goes back to work. Yikes! I thought the day seemed so far away and alas, it's here. I think I can manage for the most part but what stinks is trying to be able to play with Little Buddy while tending to a newborn. Lots of work and juggling. I can some how think how most things will work out in my mind if times get desperate. I will have some family coming for the next few nights at bedtime to help get Little Buddy ready for bed. That is where I seem to have the most trouble. I can figure how to get Little Buddy ready for bed, either by putting Little Munchkin in her carrier or in her papasan. What mystifies me is how I will be able to read to him and lay with him on occasion when I need to be doing my very silent nursing of Little Munchkin in a dim room at the same time? I was thinking of possibly pushing Little Buddy's bedtime later then asking him to go watch a show for a bit while I take care of her? Like I said, for the next few nights I will have some help but even the other night when Cop Dad worked a side job and my mom came, he wanted mommy even though she is by far one of his very favorites. Last night with daddy home, again he wanted me. I understand the sharing thing but I have not been doing any of the bedtime routine with him and I think we both miss it :( Anyway, just thought I'd keep you all posted and thought perhaps I'd mention my dilemma just in case a mom out there has had to do this and had a suggestion or two. Remember, we have a teeny house with 2 bedrooms and Little Buddy is in one and I room with Little Munchkin right now and Cop Dad is on the couch due to his horrible sleep apnea and snoring and jumping and shouting in the middle of the night. Also, anyone out there ever put a baby in the same room as a toddler? With success? What age? Is it a pipe dream?

Daily Inspiration

THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!!

(I got this as an e-mail but thought it was so good I had to post on my blog. Enjoy!)

If you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!!

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking Twenty-five miles to school every morning..... Uphill... barefoot... BOTH ways Yadda, yadda, yadda

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way I was going to lay a bunch of mess like that on my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!

But now that... I'm over the ripe old age of thirty; I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.

You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in Utopia!

And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how good you've got it!

I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalogue!!

There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter - with a pen!

Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take, like, a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents!

Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to beat us! Nowhere was safe!

There were no MP3' s or Napsters! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself!

Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and mess it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished and the tape would come undone. Cause - that's how we rolled, dig?

We didn't have fancy things like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!

And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either!
When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen... forever!
And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died!

You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your tail and walk over to the TV to change the channel! NO REMOTES!!!

There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled kids!!

And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove! Imagine that!

That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled. You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980 or before!

Regards,
The Over 30 Crowd