Jennifer

You Know You Are a Mom When

May 21, 2008 by Jennifer 3 Comments

You lose your fruit bowl that you fixed yourself!

Let’s set this whole scenario up. I cut up some grapefruit into a bowl for part of my lunch with my salad. I proceed to sit down and eat the grapefruit and then the phone rings. I go to answer the phone and evidently bring the bowl with me.

After my phone conversation, I go to looking for my fruit bowl. It has disappeared. I am looking all over the kitchen and dining room for the said bowl. Thinking all the while to myself, that how on earth could I misplace a fruit bowl within 10 minutes.

Then that lightbulb moment goes off… the said bowl is in the dish drainer because while I was talking on the phone, I washed the bowl.

Oh my goodness….let’s just chalk it up to mommy brain ;). Anyone else have mommy brain stories to share at your own risk hehe.

Mommy Discovering a Whole Other Culture

May 20, 2008 by Jennifer 7 Comments

We got a surprise call Friday evening and it has kept us busy since and now we have a feeling of sadness since our surprise is gone.

I have been missing in action from the internet world, but my wheels in my brain were just a turning with learning and excitement.

You see my aunt from the Philippines came over to meet us all for the first time. I fell in love with her instantly and we formed a really huge bond while she was here. We would stay up late talking about all the different cultural changes and how life is so different. It really got me thinking that America is one big spoiled country and what all we take for granted.

It’s no wonder how we live over here that we have so many medical problems. She was amazed that I had been wearing glasses since the age of 14. Just small things like that… I don’t even think about. But my uncle said it best when he mentioned… over there medical insurance is a huge luxury, so they live their lives all around being healthy and doing the best things for their body so they will not have to depend on medical insurance so much.

The cooking… oh the cooking. They cook everything from scratch for every meal she said and we were so delighted for her to cook for us. It was amazing and needless to say all the food was ate and I will be doing more of the cooking she did for us. I told her the next time she is over we would have an American Meal of turkey and ham and the fixins… Hope she likes it hahaha.

We started out the day with all this food:

Then Estela starts working her magic with the food. The whole house immediately smelled like a wonderful chef kitchen. We would all just delight in all the different scents from the food.

We were all sure itching to get our tastebuds around all of this food. You could hear all of us just chomping at the bits when she placed the food on the table.

Madisyn and Lyndsee ate everything on their plates and asked for MORE! They were in love just as all us adults were in love eating. Every bite I took… I kept thinking ok how can I make all this food last longer hehe?

It was such a fun time all around and Estela’s cultural is all about family time and that is the same way I feel. Family comes first to me and my girls are indeed my life. Estela had the same love for my girls as well and it just warmed my heart.

You can tell by our smiles of how much we bonded together too.

We shed some tears yesterday when she left but we made sure we have each other’s cell numbers and emails so we can communicate very often. I already miss her love, joy, learning experiences from her culture so much.

It was a very wonderful weekend and a surprise I enjoyed so much as all the family did.

Mostly Sane Ramblings from Mom

May 15, 2008 by Jennifer 4 Comments

It’s Thursday and I am ready Ramble!!! Are you ready? Hope so here we go ;).

Walking up a 1.5 mile hill with the cold blowing in your face and then all of a sudden you realize pushing a 64 pound girlie in the stroller is taking its toll. You can do it, you start telling yourself then you feel that ole so lovely sciatic nerve sending its vibrant pulses down your leg that you spit out so fast… please Madisyn can you just walk up this hill for a little bit. Yes I can mommy… ahhh relief.

Until… uhhh mommy I kinda gotta use the bathroom and I cannot wait anymore. Hmmm well we are .5 mile out from the house, mommy get your brain a thinking what can you do? Oh yea we do have the cell phone, will it pick up on the mountain? Let’s try. I hear that oh music to my ears when hubbs says hello. Ummm hun Madisyn needs to use the bathroom really bad. Ok, I’ll be right down. Phew…………

Her ride comes from daddy and mommy keeps on the walk as we all know my weigh in wasn’t the best news this week. I get to the top of the hill/mountain and ahhhh my feet is craving a warm hot bath. Feels so nice.

This big walk got my mind thinking so much about the half of tank of gas it took to fill my tank yesterday. It wasn’t that long ago that 35.00 would fill the whole van up and now it takes that to fill up a half a tank? Me thinks there is going to be some drastic changes happening soon or this mom will go all ape-crap on someone. Do the billionaires of Exxon and BP not realize who they are messing with? I am a bargain momma you know, and you are throwing my monthly budget all out of whaack. Would you like to come and pay my budget for the rest of the year while you are out vacationing on some big yacht with all the billions of profits you are taking from moms and dads here slaving away to keep food on the table. Just food for thought literally billionaires!

:::rant over::: and this ready to ramble mom is going to get back to work to help pay that gas bill from yesterday 😉

Spring Weight Off – Week 6

May 13, 2008 by Jennifer 10 Comments

Here we are at week 6. I cannot believe I have not lost one pound over the last two weeks. I haven’t gained either, but still. I have been DOING SO GOOD! It just irritates me so bad. I’m not going to let it get me down. I am in this to lose and I will just have to change up some things this week to see what is going on. I mean come on… I didn’t even eat any of my birthday cake HA!

Please leave me some encouragement and let me know this is just normal to go through this weight loss process. I am still doing good right?

How is everyone else doing? We are in this together remember. Hopefully it will be a little warmer tomorrow so the girls and I can do our walks again. It has been really really cold so we haven’t got to get outside much.

The Great Birthday and Mothers Day

May 12, 2008 by Jennifer 11 Comments

Every few years… my birthday happens to be on Mother’s Day. What a wonderful time it is to celebrate such two wonderful days together.

First off… I am so blessed to be a mom and thank God for choosing to bless me with two wonderful miracles. They truly are my life. I also made sure to thank the hubbs for helping bless us with two beautiful girls as well ;).

We started the celebrations early with family and friends on Saturday evening with a delicious dinner. All my family was there including my almost 95 year old grandmother. She is such an amazing lady and I am so proud to be her granddaughter and let her be a great grandmother to my two girls. She also brought me one of her homemade banana breads! Oh so good.

A special friend from highschool came over as well with her family. I just have to say my girls had a blast with her little boy. I don’t think Madisyn ever meets a stranger. Lyndsee was shy at first but as you can see joined in the playing after just a little bit.

We had a really good time just socializing and eating. I enjoyed some wonderful strawberries while some of the others enjoyed some birthday cake for dessert.

You know when you are dieting and all… birthday cake is way out of the question.

The night wrapped up and I was truly blessed to have all of them over celebrating with me.

I woke up Sunday morning and Madisyn couldn’t wait to get ready for church. It was really rainy and cold but we managed ok since a lot of our winter clothes are still in Florida haha.

We got to church and Lyndsee was trying to sing while the preacher was preaching. I got this look when I told her to be quieter.

Madisyn was all smiles the whole time at church.

And after church they each presented me with some beautiful carnations. They were soooo happy. I just look at these pictures and just see the love my girls have for their mommy and it melts my heart.

We ended the day with hubbs taking me on a shopping trip for my birthday/mothers day gifts. Then on over to dinner. Which Lyndsee was so excited to sit like a big girl and order herself.

Overall the whole weekend was a blast and I enjoyed each and every moment with family and friends. Being a mother has changed me in so many ways and I wouldn’t have life any other way right now!!

Hope you all had a wonderful Mother’s Day. I want to wish each and every one of the Moms a very HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!!

Jennifer

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