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Jen Gets World’s Worst Mom Award

July 9, 2008 by Jennifer 9 Comments

I’m so bummed and I can’t quit thinking about the what-ifs :(. Tonight we took our nightly walk like we do every night, but this night I decided to do something different. I was missing my super fab friend Cindy and called her up to see if we could walk down to her house. She said sure, so we went on down. Plus you know hubbs is out of town and I don’t really get to much adult interaction these days LOL.

Anywho, instead of the girls doing the ole boring walk, we thought we would liven it up a little bit and let them ride their bikes. Who cares about the steep hill we would be going down and then back up, who cares about the dark tunnel we have to walk through. Yep :(. Here goes the mommy’s world’s worst mom moment. I am trying to make sure Lyndsee doesn’t go too fast down the hill, but in the mean time Madisyn doesn’t realize how fast she would be going down and just totally froze and didn’t use her breaks. She starts going so fast, and I am running at the same time yelling Madisyn Madisyn Madisyn…. there she goes down into the ditch and shoots across her handle bars and lands face first into a bunch of weeds in the grass. UGGGGH. I immediately jump down into the ditch to get her. She looks up at me with these big crocodile tears and says “Mommy I didn’t mean to”. Oh no Madisyn sweetie it isn’t your fault at all. Mommy should have warned you more and been there to hold and guide you. Mommy is sooooo sorry. We are just standing there hugging. What if she would have landed on her head?, What if she broke a bone?, What if she would have got seriously injured? She only ended up with 4 scratches on her leg we seen tonight while giving her a bath, THANK GOD who was watching over her! I’m so darn stupid, why did I not hold my daughter?… why did I let her go down that hill by herself?…Please forgive me Madisyn.

Mommy loves you with all her heart and I would never intentionally let anything happen to you in the world. I’m you’re protector and suppose to be there every step of the way.

I’m hanging my head in shame tonight :(.

New Info About Pediatric CT Scans

June 27, 2008 by Jennifer 3 Comments

I was contacted about a month ago from an editor at Time Magazine with Time.com for my take on my daughter having so many CT Scans. She made me aware that on the new machines that there is a pediatric setting that hospitals should be using for all kids. I sure wish I would have known this. I’m so glad they are getting the word out about this.

Click here to read the article that was written and you will see our story in the article. Let me know what your thoughts are.

Also don’t forget to Join In On our Giveaways. I will be drawing for the Snacker Monday and then the Recycline Toothbrushes Wednesday.

Moms I Need Your Help

June 16, 2008 by Jennifer 7 Comments

Ok.. moms I need your wonderful ideas. I got a call tonight to ask if I would sponsor a bible school snack next week. I of course agreed. Now… here is where the help comes into play.

I will need to feed 80 little kids and I want it to be healthy of course and not too expensive. HAHAHA… Is there such a thing? Now the lady who called, God Bless her but she said oh you can just bring bunch of boxes of little debbies. UMMM… No I don’t think so ;).

So come on moms help me. I know I have several moms that read here everyday and do not comment, so please come out of lurkedom and comment. I promise I will not bite you ;). I would just like to hear from all that is reading and plus I neeeeeeeeeeeed your ideas 🙂

OMG Look at that Kick

June 13, 2008 by Jennifer 8 Comments

I always knew my Madisyn was going to really be into sports since she was around a year old. She is finally old enough to begin sports and so I signed her up for soccer camp since she would start playing on a team in August. She has been on cloud nine all day long. Every few minutes I kept hearing… “Mom is it time to go yet?”

We got her dressed and she had the biggest cheesiest grin ever!

Then we walk over and they give her very own soccer ball to her. Of course this made her day even brighter!

I of course was the mommy out there taking ten million picts of her every move. Hey my daughter was a superstar in my eyes ;). She has never played soccer before, but I think she did very good with her moves.

Check them out:

All the while Madisyn was having fun on the field though… Little sister Lyndsee was not too happy. These girls are really joined at the hip. Lyndsee did not like that her sister was out there playing with other kids and not her. We got in the van to go grab a bite to eat while they were doing the soccer camp and Lyndsee kept saying “Mommy I miss Madisyn” over and over. It broke my heart. They truly are super close.

Tomorrow they will play their actual game and I am super excited to see how well Madisyn does :). Can I say I am a soccer mom now? hehe

Hey Kids Lets Make Eating Healthy Fun

June 11, 2008 by Jennifer 12 Comments

Let’s go ahead and lay it on the table…. My kids are some kind of picky eaters. I have to be creative with their foods and make eating fun.

Imagine the smile on my face, when I received the Snacker Tracker in the mail a couple weeks ago to review. I actually screamed yippee… because I couldn’t believe it. I actually had something that could help spark more creativity with my girls’ foods.

This neat-o tracker lets you track each day what your child eats and lets them be involved to see what they should be eating each day. We don’t skip meals here, so after every meal now… Madisyn immediately goes to the fridge and sees which block needs to be checked. Then we discuss which blocks are left and where we should put our focus on the food groups for the rest of the day.

Also it is right on the tracker, the healthy snacks that you should eat during the day to make sure you are fulfilling all the food groups. To go along with the tracker, is a cool companion nutrition guide to help you as the parent see what your child should be eating each and every day. As you know.. how we feed our little ones today will shape the foundation of their future for their diets.

You really need to check out the Snacker Tracker and then come back to enter our giveaway for your very own Snacker Tracker and they just introduced a new product as well; the SnackerTracker Pocket Pal. Everything you love about the original, but portable! They are throwing in one of those too!

All you need to do is leave a comment below that you would like to enter. Then for an extra entry, subscribe to our feed :). Let me know if you subscribe in the comments section so I can throw in your bonus entry!

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