1) We abandoned our four crib system and Ess, Gee and Cue are now all in toddler beds. In the same room. This involved changing the furniture in their room and you all know how I feel about change. (Post(s) I should have written: (1) There is Life and Sleep After Cribs; (2) I Promise They Are All Still Alive.)
2) Nate's car seat has been moved into his crib. In the nursery. (Post I should have written: Why Didn't I Do This Two Months Ago?)
3) We are on our fifth night - our fifth night - of ten hours of sleep. Consecutive sleep. (Post I should have written: There Is a God and She Loves Me.)
4) Cue ate tinfoil. Then, he split his lip open. The two incidents are unrelated unless you count the day (yesterday) or the state of my mind (absent). (Post(s) I should have written: (1) I don't know, but it would have been funny. YES, that's right mean commenter, I find it funny when my kid eats tinfoil. Because it's over and he's all right and life is funny; (2) I Have to Look for the Tinfoil Where Now? (3) Needing to Be Somewhere by 9:00 Practically Guarantees Blood Before 8:00.)
5) Nate held his own bottle and I enjoyed a peaceful (?) dinner with Ess, Gee and Cue. Sob. (Post I Should have written: Sob. Practically Driving. Last Baby. Sobbbbbbb.)
6) Matt initiated a budget system that involves categories and writing shit down and oh I don't know actually being responsible for a budget. (Post I should have written: I Have to Write Down What I Spend Money On and It Is Seriously Killing My Chai Habit.)
7) My face broke out horribly. (Post(s) I should have written: (1) Oh, Hello Hormones I Haven't Seen in Five Years; (2) Honey, Maybe We Should Discuss Birth Control; (3) I Ate Too Much Chocolate over the Holidays; (4) It's Probably Expensive Caffeine Withdrawal; (5) No, Your Nasty Brewed Coffee Is Not "Just the Same.")
8) Matt bought a bottle of tequila and margarita mix. (Post(s) I Should Have Written: (1) See Above Re: Birth Control; (2) Also, Not the Same and Not Really Appropriate at 7:00 A.M.)
9) I had two blissful wine nights with the women I could not live without. One involved my first hangover in five years. (Post(s) I Should Have Written: (1) Zzzzzzzzzzzzz; (2) I May Have Caved on the Chai.)
10) My children had to write their thank you notes. By "write" I mean color the front of the damn cards. (Post(s) I Should Have Written: (1) OMIGOD, Just Color the Front of the Damn Cards!!; (2) My Children Are Never Getting Presents Ever Again; (3) Are the Holidays Over? I Think the Holidays Are Over.
Friday, January 8, 2010
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7) 43 years old, three HUMONGOUS zits. How is that fair?
Happy-Yay-the-Holidays-are-over.
OMIGOD, Just Color the Front of the Damn Cards!- totally get the pitfalls of "art on demand."
And tinfoil, ouch! They really are like puppies, aren't they? At least he doesn't have fillings (yet).
#10: NO JOKE. I hate that part, it was just so much friggin' easier when it was acceptable for me to do it all myself. On a preprinted card. That came from a box with 9 other identical cards. Tomorrow is our day... wish me me. See also "bottle of tequila and margarita mix" because that may improve my outlook! :)
...or "wish me luck." Perhaps the tequila and margarita mix have already been opened here? Why yes, they have!!
love the last one hahaha!!! i'm so there with the JUST COLOR ALREADY
and YES on ten hours sleep. so happy for you!
that was the PERFECT post.
xoxoxox
Thank you notes? I'm sorry but blood before 8 or not - you are supermom! Of course my bar is rather low these days...I just gave the kids cookies for breakfast so they would stop crying.
Sleep! Yes. Big changes at your house, glad you're all surviving them.
Budgets--Boo! No fun. Sorry. Hope a winning lottery ticket's in your future...right after mine. :)
Since he's okay, eating tin foil is funny. Very.
Hmmm, tequilla? 5th child??
You are so funny Stacy! I miss margaritas. Yum. And so good to hear about the sleeping! YEAH for ten consecutive hours!!!
You are getting that much sleep? Wow, I'm so jealous. I would just enjoy it and stay away from my computer, I think!
We're all caught up now, and that's what matters.
You are hilarious! I love that you can take the stress of raising a family and find the humor in it.
If I could, I'd totally buy you a chai.
WHo needs serious with hilarious posts like these? I loved it!
My family is asleep (THANK GOD) and I'm laughing my butt off but trying not to be loud because I don't want they to wake up.
My question: Was Tequila in the budget?
can relate, the stinkin zits, color when I need it done, all too funny, and my kid is a 10 hour the night sleeper and I LOVE it!
I thought of you over the holidays because we had to move the Pixie into Wonderboy's room to accommodate my brother and his family and The Mr. convinced me (since we were taking the crib apart anyway) to make the toddler bed conversion. I wanted to fight it...but I couldn't.
Too funny that you were going through the same thing!
i have so been in the "just color the damn card!" moment.
and we moved the girls in together.
and i have a really good recipe for chai ... at home.
and i don't have zits because i never get them while pregnant. when not pregnant though ... watch out.
and ... i so need a glass of wine with friends. maybe even a hangover kind of night.
missed you lately.
stacey, your kids are totally squishable cute.
with that said, i don't know how you do it with 3 so close in age!
kudos.
and 10 hours of sleep a night?
i'll have what you're having, girlfriend;)
<3andrea
With 10 hours of sleep you won't need any - well maybe as many - Chai.
:-) Yeah for you.
My girls 13,9,8 wrote thank yous for the first time without tears. There is hope.
The twins turn 2 on Monday and I know sometime in the next year we will have to transition to toddler beds in a shared room and it terrifies me. I have grown quite fond of having them penned in.
I hate coloring time...friggin HATE IT! I might be the only parent in the world who punishes the kids from coloring for not doing it correctly, as in, not holding the marker upside down and whining about it on purpose, just to watch my blood boil...
Isnt it amazing the posts we could write, too bad not many people would find them as amusing as we would :O)
Loved this post. You know what's even worse than coloring thank you notes? When they're old enough to sort of kind of WRITE their own thank you notes. Only, not without help spelling most of the words, corrections, telling them what they should write, etc, etc.
We finally, after 3-4 LONG PAINFUL TEAR STAINED sessions finished them all. Then got a late present that arrived in the mail this week.
I almost sent it back.
If you're pregnant as a result of unprotected tequila sex, you should totally name the baby PeeWee.
I'm thinking about keeping a food journal. The Chai's holding me back.
Ten hours of sleep. Ten hours of sleep. I'm just trying grasp the concept of four kids and ten hours of consecutive sleep. You sure you weren't concussed? ;)
Adults should never get zits. It's so unfair.
my dog ate a toothbrush and 2 packs of tic tacs yesterday. i know it's not the same....
so happy to hear about the 10 hours of sleep. wahooooo!
thanks for catching us up on all the happenings!
Wow, look at all the time you saved when the titles just said it all! I'm seriously thinking about blogging in this format from now on...
Sleep = good.
Budgets = bad.
Only 1 crib = very good.
Alcohol fueled, unprotected lovin' = very bad.
I love so many of these and I'm not going to tell you which one is my favorite. Well, maybe for your birthday, but not one second before.
They're all fantastic reasons for not writing a post, slacker.
re: #6, you should join an ad network and DO NOT give Matt your paypal password. (I may or may not be speaking from experience). *sigh*
p.s. 10 hrs?!
I'm 54, am post menopausal, and got a zit the other day. wtf? oh, and awesome that you had your kids write thank you notes. My mother always made us write them for our gifts, we hated hated hated writing them, but I am really glad that she pounded the need for thank you notes into my brain.
Ten hours? That's miraculous and awesome. You count as super mom for sure. Now THAT is a Happy New Year present worth having.
I'm in awe of your ten hours. My guy is 13 mo and STILL DOES NOT SLEEP THRU THE NIGHT. I know, get some balls and let him CIO... I did it with the twins, but for some reason this guys melts all my resolve. Pitiful.
Great post... I like the funny ones better anyway, if you want my humble opinion.
Oh my god, PLEASE tell me how you keep your kids in toddler beds? We're on day six of doing the Super Nanny, walk back to bed thing for bedtime and naps and Graham fights us for over an hour every time. Twice a day. He's lucky to be alive.
I think this is my Favorite. Post. Ever.
I seriously feel like I READ the posts you "should have written" somehow. How does that work??
Seriously funny post. Does that count for serious? :)
I'm sorry but I'm still stuck giggling over the idea of three small children attempting to sleep in one bedroom. It's much better than focusing on my jealousy over the 10 hours of consecutive sleep. MUCH better.
Wait... sorry... but I'm still stuck on... coffee causes ACNE? Seriously??!?!!!! So THAT'S my problem. Ah, well, y'all better start calling me Pizza Face now. I can live with that.
I like to think that tin foil is a healthy way to injest some much needed minerals.
You crack me up... roll with it all (easier said than done as I cried carrying a crib into the attic this evening). Seasons of life, I suppose. Will the rest be as exhilarating? More or less exhausting? We'll see, I suppose, but with all luck, just as joyous. Loved the post. Take care.
Did you cave in and just scribble some random colors on the cards yourself? Heehee!
Did you ever find the tin foil?
I just happened to find your blog via Sprite's Keeper. Love your sense of humor and your mommy advice/tidbits, which will come in handy when our first baby arrives in March. FOLLOW!
The zits...oh, my, the zits! They pop up more now than they did when I was 15 and being in my 40s seemed impossible and old!
Did the tequila and mixer go on the new budget? Maybe this is why we don't have a budget in my house. ;)
Who says you can't have tequila (and margarita mix)at 7:00 a.m.? :)
Even your lists are funny and beautifully written. We have a "budget" too and it took me a long time to get used to it, but it's been years now and it was seriously one of the best things that we ever did for our financial well-being : ).
I totally forgot about thank you notes.
I mean for YEARS now.
Shit.
ps. Great post.
heh. I love this post. So true.
and see? I told you the toddler beds would work out. Your children are just geniuses and you didn't take my word for it.
and, writing all that shit down is too much work. Seriously, I'd just have an envelope every month for coffee and take it out of there and not write it down. Then when you run out, sell some stuff on eBay and stuff more money in there.
I can't believe you were able to do cribs for so long! I wish ;) My kids were escape artists. It was either a toddler bed or surely a trip to the ER. I've been taking a little break too.
Oh, the thank you notes...that goes something like this with my Kindergartener. T. Yes, the line with another line on top. T. Ok, now H. No, right next to the T. Sort of like this. Good. Now A. Like in your name, you know how to write an A. You didn't have to erase that, it looked fine. Are you ready for the next letter? N. No, that's backwards, try again. N. Yup, keep going, you've got it. N. Ok, now K, like in Mommy's name. K, like this. It's ok, just write it on the next line if you don't have room.
You get the idea... Our thank you cards for her October birthday were sent out just last week.
Can I sign Tommy up for your baby sleep bootcamp?
Too funny.
And thanks for reminding me about thank you notes. We still have to do those for Christmas (and Hanaukkah) right in time for Bunny's B-day. Did these all have to fall less than 30 days apart?
I'm just letting my kids grow up to be thankless little bastards because it is easier that way.
Ten hours of sleep at once. You must bounce off the walls all day long.
hou are hilarious!! love it!
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