Life has been INSANE...but I'm still REVOLTING!

Hope everyone had a terrific Mother's Day!! 

Remember when I said I was going to blog everyday in May?

I was clearly kidding.

I have been CRAZY busy the past couple of weeks!

The shop has been super busy, and I have been working overtime getting ready for Brooks first birthday party.

I can't believe my baby boy will be 1 on Wednesday...where has the time gone?? 

But I'm really looking forward to the party, and can't wait to share all the details of his Yo Gabba Gabba party. And while I've got big plans for all the snacks we will have, I am going to have to try REALLY hard to not eat everything in sight, since I'm still working hard to keep up with the Revolt Fitness program.

Although I haven't lost any weight in the 2 weeks since I started, I can definitely see my body becoming more toned, which was my goal.

I've lost 2.5" off my waist and 2" of my thighs. So that rocks!

And that was even with eating one of these:

Why would someone doing a fitness program decide that they should make caramel apples for her son's teachers on Teachers Appreciation Day? And why would said person make 2 extra (reasoning that should one turn out badly, she needed extras)? You can't just leave 2 extra caramel apples in the fridge. They MUST be eaten. 

And lastly, the winner of the GOYA Foods cookbook and ingredients giveaway is...

Betty Dennis!!

Thanks to everyone who entered!

Spring Breakin'

It's Spring Break for Lincoln's school this week, and I had BIG plans. I spent hours scouring Pinterest for fun activities we could do, so that his days would be filled with something other than tv. There were so many ideas, I couldn't wait to get started! He was going to think I was the best mom ever.

And then shit happened. Literally. 

Last Friday the kid started exploding from both ends. He missed his spring play at school that we had been practicing for for a month. And just now, SIX days later, he's finally starting to feel better. He ate three pieces of toast this morning, so I think his appetites back. And no explosions so far today (I'm knocking on all the wood I can find right now). But now the little one has caught it, and so I'm straight scurred that I'm in for 6 more days of my house smelling like ass. We are in desperate need of fresh air, but it's freezing outside. WTF Spring Break????

This is not the Spring Break I expected....

I suppose this is ok, since they're both sick already...

Thank god for Photo Booth. It's provided is with hours of entertainment. Don't mind my children, they've been in their pajamas for a week, no big deal.

As the kids were laying on the makeshift bed I made on the living room floor, quietly watching Sesame Street, I was reminiscing about the Spring Breaks of my youth.

There were the ones where you were just excited to get to hang with your friends all week. Riding bikes, climbing trees, watching movies, staying up late.

Then there was the WHOOOOOOO, SPRING BREAK!!!!!!!! Spring Breaks.

Those Spring Breaks were filled with booze and boobs and beads and bad decisions. 

Those memories make me terrified to ever have a daughter.

Hope your week is going better than mine! And hey, it's Wednesday! Only a few more days till my Spring Break hell is over:)

I may have made a mistake.

My first week of being a work-from-home mom is quickly coming to and end, and, real talk, it has NOT been what I expected. There is just so much to do! I know that it will take awhile to figure out a routine, and to get Brooks on a regular schedule, so hopefully this week has just been a test and it will (fingers crossed) get better!

A few things I have learned this week:

1. The flu spares no one. Brooks was sent home from daycare last Friday with what they thought was the flu. So my last day of work was cut short (I ain't even mad) so that I could go pick him up. But then he only puked one more time, so I was like psssssshhhhhhh, that's not the flu. Well guess who got the flu? EVERYBODY WHO LIVES IN MY HOUSE. It started Sunday with Lincoln puking in the kitchen trashcan and didn't end until the last shit was taken on Wednesday morning. Not the ideal start to my new lifestyle....

2. Trying to run a business from home while simultaneously being responsible for an 8 month old is a kind of exhausting that I never knew existed. No lie, "What was I thinking?" has been muttered no less than 9,080,476 times this week. I use to spend 6 hours a day just playing on the Internet, and a couple days this week I couldn't even find the time to comb my hair.

I can't get anything done. And my house is disgusting.

The reason I can't get anything done. And why my house is disgusting.

3. Words babies either don't understand, or give zero fucks about:

stop

no

don't

please
seriously

their name

4. Brooks sleeps WAY less than I thought he would, and eats WAY more than I thought he would.

Eating.

Eating.

Eating.

So it's been....intense, to say the least. But there have also been some redeeming moments, such as getting to spend all day with the funniest, happiest baby I've ever met.

And getting to have french toast for lunch. That pretty much cancels out all the bad shit.

A new dawn, a new day, a new year, a new me!

Happy 2013!

But for serious, where did 2012 go?? 

Like I blinked and missed the whole thing.

It was a pretty good year, as far as years go.

We added a new little chunk to our family.

Our biggest little turned 4, and is like a legit person now.

We expanded our online business, and realized that our part time craft business could possibly, maybe, really be a full time business.

Which leads me to why 2013 is going to be the best, weirdest, most stressful but wonderful year.

Because I. Quit. My. Day Job!

Are you excited, because I'm super excited. But nervous. Sometimes when I think about it I want to throw up.

But I did it. I turned in my letter of resignation, and said see ya later, bitches! But not really, because I'm nice. So I told them I'll stay till they find a replacement for me (impossible, I know).

But the feeling of knowing that in a matter of weeks I will be out of the office and home, with my littlest little, focusing on the things that I love, is ah-mah-zing.

So fingers crossed that I

a) actually like/can handle being a work at home mom. I've never cussed out a baby, but then again I've never spent every waking minute with one, so....

b) Can actually pull this off. I mean, what if it was a fluke? What if everyone stops buying our stuff, and then we are poor, and then we have to sell our pets and possibly one (or more) of our children just to pay our bills?

Just kidding. 

I'm dreaming big here people!! And in celebration:

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Hope you have lots to look forward to in 2013, I'll keep you posted on how my new life works out for me♥

Wordless Wednesday

The past week in iphone photos

And some images from the interwebs that are stuck in my head.

Life is like Tetris.

I don't know about you, but when I'm at work (booooooo) I gchat.

All day.

Everyday.

 It gets pretty ridiculous at times.

Like one day recently I had a full days gchat with my sis about starting our own commune where we live off the grid and raise our babies off the land. It was intense. We made some pretty elaborate plans, which is why gchat is amazing.

A precious gift, really.

Mainly because, unlike texting, I can chat with people while giving the illusion that I'm working.

Like I said, amazing.

Recent chat with my sis:

We were bitchin, per the usual, about how fucking hard being a grown up is.

And my genius of a sis (she's a lawyer, you know.) explains it in the most accurate way I've ever heard.

She said:

 "I know I have way way less responsibility than you do right now but it seems like every year, things get harder and i feel sad on more days. life really wears you down and i'm not sure how you go about not feeling that way??!! it's kind of like tetris, where at the beginning (when you are young) everything is easy and fits perfectly and now I'm at the very top of the game where all the pieces keep falling so fast and i'm trying to put them in the right place but i can see the top of the board and i know it's all just piling up and there is nothing i can do!! maybe we are just at that point in our lives - we're adult enough to know we have to keep our shit together all the time but we haven't been doing it long enough to be good at it...like maybe in 5 years or so we'll feel comfortable as adults and it will seem easier?? or not and it all sucks from hear on out :("

She speaks the truth. My life is a bunch of those stupid t shaped pieces right now.

Those suck.

Prepare yourself...

For an INSANE amount of pictures.

We just got new family pictures done, which was way over due. 

On the 30th, Richard and I will have been doing it for 10 years (just kidding, mom, we waited for marriage, duh.), and we have like 2 pictures of us together. 

It's sad, just gross and sad, really.

So here you go, an incredibly long post of pictures of me and my boys.

I'm obsessed with them. Every. Single. One!

Richard's sister's husband's sister-what does that make her to us?? Like sister-in-law twice removed? Or probably just nothing. Just a pal, I guess-whatever. Anyways, she took them and I love them.

That is all, just wanted to share!

♥♥♥