June 28, 2010

Hooray...Award!

I received an award from the fantastic BH at The Very Best Housewife a few days ago. Things have been a little crazy, so I'm just getting around to thanking her properly. Thank you, thank you! Check it...

As with all good things, it comes with rules:

  1. Thank and link back to the person who gave you this award.
  2. Share seven things about yourself.
  3. Pass this award along to fifteen bloggers who you have recently discovered and who you think are fantastic for whatever reason!
  4. Contact the bloggers you’ve picked and let them know about the award.
OK, so I just recently did a list of things about me...it was hard to come up with. So I decided I'd go with an all embarrassment version for your entertainment. Oh the dignity I'm willing to sacrifice for you guys...

  1. When I go to sleep I have to have all body parts on the bed. I have a lingering childhood fear that if I don't whatever lives under my bed with its dustbunny minions will be able to get me.
  2. My middle name, until I got married and took my maiden name instead, was Maureen. I was about 10 before I could spell it. My own name. I could not spell it. Morene just made so much more sense to me.
  3. Not that long ago, Husband and I were checking out at the grocery store. He said, "Oh, you have an eyebrow hair or something on your neck. Let me get it." It was not an eyebrow hair. It was attached. The cashier had the good sense not to make eye contact after that.
  4. A million years ago in college I was walking across campus where lots of construction was going on. I got to the top of a ditch/hill thing. I tripped. And I don't mean a dainty little stumble. I mean I went down flat on my face. And as I started to get back up the momentum caught up to my backpack which proceeded to smack me in the back of the head and knock me back down. Lots of people saw. LOTS of people.
  5. A million and a half years ago at a different college, Middle Sister and her now husband came to celebrate my birthday. We went out and things got rowdy. I ended up on hands and knees behind the big front of the campus college sign puking for all I was worth. Middle Sister decided that was a good time to show me how she could still do the running man. And that's when the vom came out my nose. Good times.
  6. When Husband and I were newly dating he came home with me for the weekend. We were staying in separate rooms at my parents' house. At some point during the weekend, Husband, my mom, my dad and I were in my room rearranging the furniture. As the bed was being dragged across the room a pair of pants popped out from underneath. We all paused to look and someone said, "Those must belong to Big Sister's boyfriend." That's when my mom picked them up. They did not belong to Big Sister's boyfriend, they belonged to Husband which we all discovered quickly because husband was a mechanic at the time and his name was inside the waistband of said pants.
  7. I'm going old school with this one. Growing up we had a trampoline. When I was about 12-13 a boy I liked was over. I dressed up, inexplicably I decide a tube top would be a good choice. I think you all know where this one ended up. Trampoline + tube top = first boobs that kid saw.
And the 15 lovlies I'm passing it onto...

Pamela at 2 much testosterone
Sharon at A Flock of Fitzgeralds
Lindsey at A little Kloep
C’s Mommy at A Mommy’s Dream About Diapers and More
Amber at Amber’s Life
Untypically Jia at Color Me UnTypical
Alexis at Depressions and Confessions
Lady Hill at From Lazy to Lady
Hrtsmakefamily at Hearts Make Families
Danielle at Humes, Party of Three
Brittany Ciara at Life According to Amanda
Tiffany at Mom-Nom.Com
Mommy’s Sippy Cup at Mommy’s Sippy Cup
Nikki at My Fantabulous Wonderful Life
Brandi at My Three Bubs

Congrats one and all...it's well deserved!!

June 24, 2010

24 hours until it's Saturday

1. Friday Follow and Blog Hop...

friday-follow

This week Friday Follow is hosted by Kmama from The Daily Dribble, Elizabeth from The Crafty Charlestonian, and Brittany Ciara from Not Your Average Teen.

Blog Hop Friday is hosted by My New Life As Mom, Chubby Cheeks Thinks, Take A Mom's Word For It, Bree Bee's, This Adventure Our Life and Belly Charms!

2. My In-laws are visiting...send your good thoughts my way. Deep breath. Deep breath. And hypothetically if I hear that anyone doesn't like Pie's outfit, or it's too small, or we need to buy her clothes that fit, or that what ever I'm doing be it feeding, playing with, or trying to put to bed is not what she wants, and/or doesn't she love daddy, follow daddy, want to be with daddy, daddydaddydaddydaddydaddydaddydaddy...oh and you too Sara one more time I'm going to shank someone. And I don't mean the homemade kind, I mean the smuggled in through the prison laundry and traded for a carton of cigs and naked pictures of Tooty from Facts of Life kind.

Man, it's possible I watch too many prison shows. I need some sort of shanking 12 step program...

3. And to end any Friday on a good note...some Pie. She's being a cheeky little monkey...but always a lady with her rolly ankles crossed.

Hope you all have a great weekend. If I can not feel like such a pile of poo with this strep, I'm going to try and get some crafty-ness accomplished!

TA-DA!!!!

Check it peeps! Welcome to Unofficial Mom 2.0!!

As I'm sure you'll notice, the site is COMPLETELY different. It's all because of the lovely and talented Laura Jane at Call Me Laura Jane. She's brilliant!

LJ (yeah I call her LJ cause we're besties now) has packages starting with just a header and button all the way to the mac-daddy deluxe. All are insanely worth ever penny...obviously.

In addition to the amazing design shop, LJ also has a great blog. It's funny and full of adorable picture of her BEYOND GORGEOUS son Mason. And just so all of you know, I'm lobbying hard for an arranged marriage between Pie and Mason. I think they'd make the cutest, chunkiest pair ever!

So what do you think? Good, no?

June 23, 2010

Mostly Wordless Wednesday

These are just some random shots from the last week or so...
DJ Pie - Is available for parties, weddings, bar mitzvahs
Some new beach shoes...

One of Husband's Father's Day presents...
Fat legs...

Sleepy girl....


June 22, 2010

I need your advice

So I've heard recently that Pie's birthmother is spiraling out of control a bit. We've known as long as we've known her, that there are mental health issues. She has, however, attempted with medical help to keep them under control. Apparently not so much anymore.

I have known that there have been problems since Pie's birth, a dismissal of meds, self-medicating, etc. But she has never been anything but even-keeled with Pie. So I have felt like it wasn't my place to say anything. Obviously Pie is my first priority, but how much of birthmother's issues are my responsibility?

Given our unique relationship, I feel like maternal towards Pie's birthparents as well. Like I need to take care of them...make sure they are eating, paying their bills, taking care of each other...

At this point I don't really need to worry about her relationship with Pie, maybe when she gets older, but right now it's cool. But I feel like in the mean time I need to take care of her birthmother. Am I crazy?

June 21, 2010

A pox on my house

All manner of germs have decided to descend upon my house. Husband has a cold and a sinus infection. He's all kinds of sniffy and cough-y. And I inexplicably have managed to pick up strep throat.

Holy craptastic does it hurt. I can't swallow without cringing. And I lost my voice to boot. We've been keeping Pie at arms length, I haven't been near her at all since I'm still contagious. It is insanely hard. Poor love probably thinks she's being punished. We are normally all over her, and she hasn't had a kiss in days!

My family has been awesome, parachuting in to watch her and get her out of the house of germs. We thought being without Pie for a few hours would be relaxing. And while it was nice to nap and melt into the couch without any responsibility, the house felt empty. Without Pie something was missing.

Just typing this I realized I finally had my moment. The moment I've been waiting for when it all felt real. Feeling like my house was incomplete without her, feeling like I couldn't get settled without her near me...excuse me while I go cry a little bit....

June 17, 2010

Friday, Friday, Bo-Biday

1. Friday Follow and Blog Hop...

friday-follow

This week Friday Follow is hosted by Stephanie from Goober Grape Monkeyman, Meg from Just Another Manic Mommy, and Traci from Traci66.

Blog Hop Friday is hosted by My New Life As Mom, Chubby Cheeks Thinks, Take A Mom's Word For It, Bree Bee's, This Adventure Our Life and Belly Charms!

2. The lovely and talented The Mommy at Twenty Little Toes has awarded me the Outstanding Blogger Award. I am honored. Truly. If you aren't familiar with The Momma and her blog you should go check it out. It's full of great pictures and ADORABLE twins! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

I am passing this one on to:
Chelsea Rebecca at Triumphs and Blunders of a Kooky Girl
Molly at The Snyder 5
Salt at Salt Says
Lacey at Our Life: Narrated by Lacey
Sara at Everyday Life With The Nevilles

These are all blogs that I love. Clever, funny, thought-provoking. They are at the top of my to read list everyday. You should go chek them out. Do it, do it.

3. And to lighten up after my heavy week (and for my wonderful husband) here's a classic LOLZ. It gets Husband every time. Sadly it usually makes me laugh too. Ahh...good times...

Hope you all have a great weekend. I'm hoping to get some Pie in the pool pictures for next week!