Deep Thoughts

Your regularly scheduled blogging has been interrupted for some deep thoughts. Your regular silly mommy blogging stories will resume tomorrow.

I have been thinking for a while about a song I heard recently in church. The words go:

"Be gentle and loving in deed and in thought,
For these are things Jesus taught."

I'm not sure why these particular words stuck out to me the other day. But I thought in my head, how does that work with a 3-year-old who is the tantrum king? As I pondered this week on this song, I came to the conclusion that you can discipline while still being gentle and loving. My favorite example would be my husband.

I am the one who has a quick tempter and while I don't ever hit my children, I am quick to send him to time out because of my temper. Now the hubby on the other hand is always slow to send him to time out and would rather gently and lovingly talk to him. Even after the Babe is in time out, I'm always still stern and make him apologize. The hubby also makes him apologize but just has a gentleness that I can't even come close to.

So next time you guys see me in the store dragging my toddler around (ungently and unlovingly), remind me that I need to be more gentle and loving. I'm not promising that I won't yell at you either though. But apparently, I need to take lessons from the hubby on how to be more gentle and loving.

Wardrobe Wednesday

Today it's raining in Vegas!! So for today's 2 items which I, of course, chose nice spring stuff that I'd freeze in today. Today I also went a little bit more reasonable as far as price. Both of my dream items came from Macy's today.
First up, we have these lovely, lovely shoes. I need a little added height and these pretty things are perfect. The only problem I see is that I hate wearing nylons with open toed heels and my pasty legs need to be covered up. But I'm still lovin' them.

This next one is perfect also and would go well with my pasty legs and open toed shoes. Really, I love Macy's because they have dresses that are cute that have sleeves. You still have to wear a tank under it to help out with the plunging neckline. I will admit that I like these earrings but I think I'd opt for something a little less dangly. And hot dog if I had her skin color I'd be set.

P.S. The photos are hot linked. So if you click on them, it will take you to Macy's where you'll see how bad good a deal I got.

Night on the Town

Isn't it nice to sometimes have a night out? This weekend the hubby and I went for a much needed date. We went this cute place called The Cheesecake Factory. We'd heard about it from friends as being pretty good. So we braved the 30-minute wait to get in on a Saturday night. They had the most enjoyable outdoor eating area with heaters and candles on the tables. It was very romantic. The hubby and I sat and ate great bread and had adult conversation for a while. We ordered and ate. The food wasn't that great but the cheesecake is actually pretty good. We are big New York Cheesecake connisseurs.

Afterwards, we went to Target and did a little shopping. It was weird. We didn't have a cart or a child in tow. We browsed. How cool is that? We really didn't have anything in particular that we were shopping for, just browsing. It was nice.

Anyway we came home and the lovely babysitter had both our kids in bed, the house looked exactly the way I left it, and she was ready to go. It was great! The hubby paid her and took her home. Perhaps we should do that more often honey! hint hint

Anyone Need a 3-6 month old girly dress?

I had a sewing mishap last weekend. I made a dress for the Little Lady and sure enough it's too small. That girl is growing too fast. It would probably fit a 3-6 month old sized girl. Anyone need it? It's homemade (read: not machine washable or it will fall apart). Here's the picture of my masterpiece (that I'm trying to give away) modeled by my lovely Little Lady (the one time she wore it...don't be deceived it is too small).

Bowling Bliss

Today we took the kid(s) bowling. Well one of them bowled the other just sat there. But the Babe had a great time! He has no idea that the object of bowling is to knock down the pins. He thought it was to roll the ball down the lane then see it magically appear back up behind you. Then he thought it was really cool that there was a picture of the pins on the screen after you rolled the ball down. He also thought the fun thing that you put the ball on to help it roll down was a slide for him to play on too. It was fun! 2 games was a bit much for our budding bowler.

Grey's Anatomy

I'm very upset at one of my good friends here. She is a Grey's Anatomy addict and let me in on the secret that you can watch it on Abc.com free the next day, commercial-free. Of course, I am now addicted thanks. Today we almost had mommy meltdown because when I had 10 minutes left the site crashed. I then wasted an hour and a half seeing if it was back up. What is wrong with me? I hate t.v. especially soap-operas. I guess I've needed a little cheesy addiction.

Wardrobe Wednesday

I wanted to do this new thing. It's called Wardrobe Wednesday. I find something that I would be wearing if: money, children, season, or the real shape of my body didn't matter. So today I wanted to start out with 2 outfits (not to be worn together).

First off I love this coat. It looks slimming and very cute. If you click on it, you can go to Nordstrom.com where I found this gem and see the price. But whatever you do don't look at the back view. I'd have to cut that off if I wore it today. But big buttons and light colors aren't so good for grabby babies and sweet potato spit up stains.

The 2nd gem I found was also from Nordstrom.com. This lovely black dress would be perfect for all the wonderful parties I attend. It would work oh so well with my body and accent my nice white pasty legs. While clearly out of my price range, it's still oh so nice to look at. Of course those shoes would have to go though. And obviously if I was wearing it, you would find a huge smile on my face.

Preschool Sucess

The Babe came home from preschool today thrilled and excited about going to school. I think he cares more about the social part of it than the learning. He told me about the "fancy slides," how his friend from church is in his class and how he got to play with trucks. When I ask about the letter "O" he colored, he said that he didn't know about it. Later, he admitted that they learned about a big "O" and a tiny baby "o". I think he'll go back! I can handle it if he likes it. So that's great!

The Babe starts Preschool

Today the Babe started preschool. I promised him that when he was potty trained he could "go to school." We have an elementary school behind our house and he sees the kids playing on the playground a lot and wants to go to school. So I told him I'd put him in preschool when he was potty trained. Well he's been potty trained for a while now but we're moving soon. So I thought I'd just wait until after the move and things settled down a bit. But he's been asking me every time he's goes potty, "Mom? Can I go to school now?" (Like right now) So I found a preschool and signed him up for 6 weeks worth of classes until the move. I thought this would be great for me to get some time to pack and play with the Little Lady as well as good for him to get some exposure to school for a short time.

I went and signed him up and left him for his first day of preschool. How sad! I'm sad. My little boy is growing up. I don't want him to go to school. He's too little. But sure enough kids grow up. Faster than we'd like to imagine.

I broke all the rules. I sent him in sandals without socks, I brought him in the wrong door and I stayed with him a few minutes to make sure he was ok. I'm sure they'll overlook this for me. I'm still sad though. I don't know what to do with my time except worry about him.

Something else changed today too. I couldn't live with the concept of sending my kid off to school without having morning prayer. Because my husband leaves so early in the morning for work, we're never awake to have prayer. So this morning we called the hubby at work to have morning prayer. It was very cute.

I'll write after he gets home to tell how he did and if I survived. Only 1 hour left. In the meantime, here's his first day of school pictures. Terrible pictures...we were late! On the first day!

Internet Safety

About every 6 months, I get freaked out over internet safety. I start to worry that some psycho person is reading my blog and is coming to get me. Today I'm feelin it again. So I pose the questions: How much is too much information? Should I really not put pictures of my family on here? and What are my other options?

I can answer these questions from my perception but I really want your opinions also. I think that too much information is using real names, places and give anyone enough information to come get you. No I don't use real names and while I do say I live in Vegas, it's a big city. I hope that I don't give enough info so someone could come get me.

I think it is ok to put pictures of my family on here. In general, the people who read my blog are family and personal friends. So whenever I get a reader who I don't know, I freak out. I do get readers who are one timers. But it's when I get someone reading daily.

My other options are not blog....out of the question. I could password it but then no one would read. Or I could not write about my life which also seems silly.

So every 6 months, I circle the same questions and come to the same conclusion. I could live in a bubble panicking about every little germ but I choose not to and as long as I'm smart about what I write then I hope and pray (lots of praying here) that my family will be protected. This post is an attempt to scare off any psycho people too. If you're psycho, please stop reading now.