Spanx, but NO Spanx

This is something that I have been thinking about since Saturday night and since I am trying to be good with this blog, I decided to write about it.  I have an ongoing love/hate affair with Spanx.  While they seem to smooth and do a pretty decent job of hiding a post baby muffin top, they hurt like heck.  Or maybe mine is too small, but I think the point of this thing is to be VERY TIGHT.  Plus it seems to squeeze/push your extra "skin", aka chubs, either out of the top or the bottom of the lycra contraption.  In the name of fashion, I decided to grin & bear it and wore mine to a wedding on Saturday night.  Well it was terrible.  Maybe I ate & drank too much, which is entirely possible because they were serving YUMMY raspberry bellinis (and this girl loves her cocktails).  I was having fun but almost wishing the night to be over so I could take that thing OFF.  I even considered taking it off in the ladies room but I was carrying a super itsy-bitsy clutch, very cute but there was no way it would accommodate it.  So we hurried out at the end after a fun-filled last dance to "Good bye to you", which, btw, was a GREAT last dance song.  I shimmied outta that thing in the car, much to hubs delight.  I think he thought he was getting lucky.  No way mister.  This girl got home, went immediately to bed and is swearing off Spanx.  Good Night!

Lunch Date!

mac&cheese muscle car!

N & I managed to make it out of the house on time this morning and headed to the park for Stroller Strides.  After a nice workout from Kate and a romp on the playground, a few of us decided to head to Stone Mill Bakery for lunch (the term lunch should be used loosely, as we headed there around 10:45am!).  We found a great spot in the back, with a boat load of toys for the kiddos, and settled in for some meal time fun!  N took a major liking to this lime green, muscle-hooptie car that was there and I let him have it on the table next to him while he ate.  Now N has never been a great eater.  He is pretty picky and pretty much rejects anything unless there is cheese on it.  So you can imagine my surprise when I saw him calmly sit in his high-chair, taking bites of mac & cheese and a pb&j.  He was doing so well that I actually had time to inhale my own lunch.  I have found that ever since I had N, I tend to eat every meal at a lightning pace.  I think it stems back to when he was a newborn and, undoubtedly, every time we sat down for dinner, N would wake up to be fed!  So I trained myself to scarf down my meals whenever I had the chance. 
After a few minutes, I noticed N had finished all his food!  I even checked the ground for fly-aways and it was clear.  Fantastic, I thought!!  So I let him get down from the table, the whole time telling him what a great lunch he had.  But then I saw the toy car on the table.  He had managed to stuff the car with mac & cheese shells!  I showed it to my gfs and we all started laughing hysterically!  The picture above does not do it justice-yes, those orange things inside the car are mac&cheese shells!  Maybe another mom would have been mad but my ornery little stink bug just cracks me up when he does stuff like that!  As he gets older, I find myself more and more amused with his hijincks.  Granted I was NOT amused that he decided to squirt his ella's broccoli/peas/pears (baby food in a squeeze pouch-the only way he eats veggies) all over the walls and the dog at dinner tonight.  I guess toddlers are always keeping us on our toes!  All in all, today was a great lunch date with good friends, a nice break from the ordinary for the moms & kids!  Especially since the ordinary for this mom seems to involve cleaning green baby food off walls :p

Trying this out...

Welcome to my blog!  I am a semi-stay at home mom hoping to write about my life- the fun, craziness & lemons of marriage, starting a family and keeping up with it all.  I suppose this is like keeping a journal, although I was honestly never very good at that.  I will try very hard to be better at this!
Let me introduce you to my cast of characters, my loves who make every day better.
Hubs/Daddy-O: My wonderful husband.  Of the MANY things that I love about him is his ability to make me laugh at anything & help me take life less seriously.  Plus he's a pretty decent dancer too.
Nater Tot: Our adorable son who seems to have us cracking up more & more every day.
Ally Girl: Our lab mix- a very spolied, sweet dog who came along before baby & doesn't let us forget it.
Oh and by lemons I mean things that happen in life that seem bitter but end up changing you for the better.  That is definitely Hubs rubbing off on me!