My First Blog Award!

AWWW! My first award! I feel so special! Kelly awarded it to me! So cool! I love the kind words she said about me too on her blog!
"My Crazy Life with 4 Kids Here you’ll find a lot of humor and love mixed in with good ol parenting. This gal cracks me up a lot and I love her pictures."
It means a lot to me! Thanks Kelly!! You ROCK!

Part of accepting the award is:
*displaying the award
*linking back to the person who gave it to you
*paying it forward & nominating 7 blogs
*adding links to those seven blogs
*leaving comments on their blog telling them you gave them an award
*enjoying the award

Here are my favorite Blogs I read often.

Life as a Mom at 21- Kaycee is an adorable young mom. She just gave birth (YESTERDAY!) to her 2nd daughter. She is talented and crafty girl. We own several of her bows! We met as May 06 BBC Mommies.

London's Calling- She is a fun read. I love the names she has for herself, husband and son. Another May 06 Mommy!

Equilibrium- Yes, another May 06 Mommy. Bridgette has a great eye for photography. She really takes the most gorgeous pictures. You will really enjoy reading her blog.

Life is not Final- I just came across this one from SITS. She is a mom of 4 also. I can't wait to read more about her.

Multislacking Mamalicious- Doesn't the name just crack you up? She is hysterical and very cool. She refers to her husband as Daddylicious and kids LM and LLM. You will get a kick out of the cool momma!

Keeper of the Cheerios- Miranda was a young mom, like me. She now is older and has another child. She is funny and has a great blog FULL of info, recipes, reviews and giveaways.

Wordless Wednesday

MOMMA LOVES GIRLS NIGHT OUT!

HHMMMMM.........

Tommy just said "Mom, I am tired because I was awake the whole time I was sleeping last night."

Is that possible? HAHA!

Do I have "STUPID" Stamped on my Forehead?

Sam thinks I do! Chris and I were trying to "lay down the law" last night. Both girls have been totally slacking on responsibility and thinks they can come and go whenever they want without helping out around the house and expecting us to drive them everywhere. It was getting old.

We sat them down last night and told them what our expectations were. It was all going fine until the discussion of cell phones came up. Our rule was Casey's was off at 8:30 and Sam's off at 9:00. We told them that they needed to be on the kitchen counter at those times. Well, you would have thought Sam's life had ended. She cried, yelled and cried some more.

"I use it for my alarm clock!" ok....use the regular alarm clock then.

"I never use it after 9:00!" Hmmm.....When I go to Verizonwireless.com and look at the bill (THAT I PAY!) it shows that you are texting well after that time.

"You are so mean, why don't you trust me?"

"Everyone else gets to have theirs all the time!"

"I have no life!"

It was bad. Real bad. So bad that I got a call from her Dad this morning asking if everything was ok. She apparently left a sobbing voicemail for him. They NEVER call him and he NEVER gets involved in the 12 years we have been divorced. UGH!

I can't wait for her to come home and see the print out of her text records to prove her wrong! IS that mean?

Help a Girl Out!

I am new to this Blogging thing. How the heck to I post a link with a view of a title, not the URL?
Example: If I wanted to share Kaycee's Blog with you, instead of it looking like this:
http://lifeasamomat21.blogspot.com/
How do I write Life as a mom at 21 with the url "under" it?
Anyone? Anyone?

I Have Been Tagged!

I have been tagged for the VERY FIRST TIME! Thanks Kaycee!

Here are the questions:

1. Do you have the same friends since childhood? I have a few. One since we were in 3rd grade. We talk every so often. We don't keep in touch as much as I would like though.

2. What do you value most about your friends? Friendship, trust and knowing how to have a good time. I have many girlfriends and we have a blast together!

3. Are your friends sounding boards? Does that mean, they are good listeners? If so, TOTALLY! They have listened to many of my rantings over the years!

4. What is your favorite activity to share with friends? We love to have Girls Night Out! We just had one Friday night! I **think** I will have some pictures to post on it soon!

Okay, I tag..
Lisa- Welcone to Our World
Karla- Live well, Laugh Often, Love Much
Stephanie- Living with Us

11 Years Today......

Chris and I had our first date. Awwwwww.......... Want to know where he took me? On a motorcycle ride! He picked my up and we went on a charity bike ride called "Pumpkin Ride". I have no idea what the charity was for, I just knew I was on the back of this hot guy's bike! We were with a bunch of his friends. After we went out to eat to a local pub. I wanted a burger so bad. He ordered a wimpy chicken sandwich. I figured to impress him, not gross him out, I would order the same.

A little back story on how we met:

We met at a gym. He worked out, I worked there (and worked out!). He walked in and I said to my friend "I am going to have him!" **It was a little more vulgar than that, but in case my Mom is reading, I will keep it clean** A few days later he walked over to me and asked me out.

His friends razzed him for going out with a divorcee with 2 small kids (they were 2 and 4). However, as he puts it, he didn't want to date me, he just wanted to get me in the sack **Sorry Mom!** We had some troubled times of him having a hard time being with someone with 2 small kids, totally understandable. We even broke up for a few months. Yes folks, he dumped a few weeks after a fabulous birthday. (He took me to Boston in a limo, we all know what a limo right entails right?) He then realized he couldn't live without me, who could right?

It has been wonderful since then. Marriage, 2 beautiful kids and a wonderful life. It doesn't get any better than that!

How I Get My Baby Fix!

I had the pleasure of watching my good friend, Lauren's, daughter today. Grace is 3 months old. You would have thought the Pope was at my house. She got more attention than anyone I have ever seen walk through my door!

Grace just getting to our house.

Her being here just under an hour

And......a little while later!


As you can see, poor Grace had to stare at their cute faces all day!


Here is Tommy telling her "you're so cute, I want to take care of you forever" in his best "Baby Talk" voice. The "Parrot" Katie is trying to take part in this also. In case Lauren is reading this, Katie did NOT sneeze all over Grace. She did "catch it" with her hands. Which I promptly wiped!

For So Long We Have Waited for Her to Speak

Now she won't stop!

For months now we have worried about Katie and her speech. She is delayed and sees a Speech Therapist once a week, in our home. She has been in th program almost 6 months.

The past 2 weeks she has had an explosion of words. For good and bad.

She likes to tattle now. When a sister or brother is not doing something right0Ii hear "Moooooooooommmmmm!" (in that whining voice)

When you try to get her dressed in the morning- "No Mom, no jammies off!"

When getting jammies on at night- "No Dad! No shirt off!"

When she needs something, she has gone from poking me and saying "yoohoo" to "Come here!" (in a 2 year old demanding voice)

She did sweetly tell my sister the other day "I love you" **awww**

Tonight at dinner she didn't want to eat "No eat dinner, Katie no eat!" But was pissed when Tommy got dessert and she didn't. "No! I eat cookie"

Kiersten, her Speech Therapist,
was working on putting 3-4 words together. Looks like it is working.

WHY DON'T THEY SLEEP?

Katie and Tommy have always been great sleepers, sleeping through the night since they were infants. Tommy has always asked to go to bed when he is tired. We have had parties at our house and he has been known to ask to go to bed in the middle of them! Katie has also never really given us a problem either.

So why at the age of 2 & 5 do they wake up several times in the night? Katie has been waking up at least twice every night for weeks. Tommy has been waking up once several times a week. I don't get it. Aren't they supposed to be out of that stage? Don't they know that Momma needs her sleep? I am a cranky Ogre if I don't get enough sleep. Really, it would benefit all involved to JUST SLEEP ALL NIGHT!

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

Yes, Ms. Nancy was back dancing at the Mall yesterday. =)

I love Fall in New England!

YA YA YA!

I have new Blog design! I am so excited! I just want to thank Anissa over at Beelicious Blog Designs (her button is on the left!). She did such a great job and was SUPER fast. She had it designed, up and running within 24 hours of me emailing her! So, if you need a design, head over to her!

Am I getting to old........

To drink like I did when I was in my 20's?

Chris and I went to a wedding last night. It was fun. I had never been to an Italian wedding before. Lots of music and dancing. What a great crowd of fun people.

We had no kids to come home to so we drank......a lot. We had our usual Stoli Raspberry and Sprite drink. There was one bottle of the Stoli Raspberry left at the bar, our friend paid the bartender $40 to hide it and tell people it was gone.

Poor Chris had to go to work today. I am staying up on the Advil every 4 hours in hopes the major headache I woke up to at 4AM doesn't creep back.

Chef Tommy

Tommy decided he wanted to make dinner for himself and Katie last night. I think it was because he didn't want to eat the Shepard's Pie I made. He wanted to make his fav- English Muffin Pizzas. If my siblings are reading this, it will bring back childhood memories. We used to eat these all the time!

Here is my budding chef!


This is a family talent. Tommy has gotten very good at it! Notice he can now wink and give a thumbs up while doing it! *haha*