Stay-At-Home Moms 12/15-12/21

supermom1114

ggrrrr lets try this

supermom1114

ugh ok I dont know how to make them show up here so I'm just going to put them on my profile, theyre so cute!!!!

3babybeans

Poop...I can't fix it from here.

copy the "direct link" that photobucket gives you. Then type [i m g], copy the "direct link", then type [/ i m g] (without the spaces) and it should show up.

3babybeans

3babybeans

see if this works...

3babybeans

How cute is that little bean?!!?!? I love baby holiday pics. :happy:

supermom1114

aaaawwww Thanks!!! Theres actually more on my profile, I was only posting a few on here so it wouldnt take up space

Marla64

see if this works...

Sara-- adorable baby! Looks just like Supermom's!!!! Coincidence!!

Hey gang-- hosted some friends tonight for a Christmas party. Homeschooling friend with 8 kids-- she brought 7 of hers over, and I had 8 of my 9 home-- can you say full house? But, the kids blend so well together, it's precious. Her kids are nearly identical in age to mine, so there's somebody for everybody-- should have started work an hour ago, but they just left at 10:30, had to clean up afterwards and get some kidlets to bed-- heading to work.

Thankfully, all basketball for tomorrow has been canceled due to the snow, so Mama gets to sleep in -- no 8am practice-- hip hip HOORAY!!!!

Overate in the sweets department-- friends brought chocolate dipped marshmallows. I don't even like marshmallows, but I love nearly anything dipped in chocolate, so I indulged-- I'd hoped to exercise before bed, and still might if I can get typing-- (so why am I here??? Duhhhhh)

Have a great weekend, ladies--

loreeb18

Supermom - Cute baby!

Marla - You're just on here to warm up your typing fingers so once you start working, you'll be able to type away in no time!

I got the cookies baked and some frosted with a baby screaming part of the time. (I put her in her crib for a nap and she cried until she fell asleep and then again when she woke up.) My aunt and uncle are in so Harley and I went to supper with my family. Mom picked us up so she didn't mind at all holding her when we got back so I could get Harley's bottles washed.

Dave is gone tonight. He had to go to Cleveland and Cincinnati and he'll be working until the early am. This is the first night he's been away from home since Harley's been born. (When he and I first started dating he was gone Monday-Friday and only home on the weekends. He started traveling less last year.)

Anyway, he always puts Harley to bed so I was nervous. For some reason, she falls asleep for me but she won't stay asleep.

Well, my mom gave her a bottle and rocked her til she got drowsy. Then I cuddled with her a little bit. I laid her down and she stayed asleep. (Yea!) I got the rest of the cookies frosted and sprinkled. (I tried to make faces on my snowmen and gingerbread men but it looks like a 3-year-old did it. Oh, well. At least they'll taste good.)

I did really well while working on the cookies at first. So I wouldn't lick my fingers, I had a wet paper towel to wipe my fingers on. I only licked my fingers 3 times. I set aside one cookie to eat too because it was slightly burnt and to make sure they don't suck. Also I just wanted a cookie. :laugh: But at the end when I was finishing up, I took the last 2 spoonsful of icing, dipped them in the leftover sprinkles and ate them. :noway: So yummy but now I feel bad because I feel guilty and because of the sugar rush.

Between the icing/sprinkles and supper, I went over calories today by a L-O-T. I know tomorrow I'll be eating Costco pizza (it's like 800 calories a slice) at the IL's so I better get my butt out of bed and work out in the morning.

Sorry for the long post. Nite Mommies!

supermom1114

ugh so i did a horrible horrible thing..... Ayden wont go to sleep, wants to eat like every hour and Im getting so frustrated and tired... all of my muscles ache like ive worked out really hard but ive barely done anything but take care of Ayden, and my ankles, knees, hips, and back all feel rusty... i feel like im a grandma and my joints are stiff and achy ugh, I feel like im dying and then i go and have a bowl of icecream.... ugh im so ticked i did it but im so stressed and tired and i just wanted comfort... which now im just more tired because im crashing off the sugar high... i just want sleep for Christmas, its getting so frustrating, i just want to scream

Lyn_Matthews

Supermom-stay strong. It's hard I know but it will get better. I heard that when the baby eats every hour or so at night its just cuz they are "loading up" so they can sleep longer. I don't know if this is really true but with that mind set it was easier for me to sit and feed DD for about 3-4 hours (off and on) every night because then she would sleep 5-7 hrs. Use all the help you can get. If baby is happy and just been fed have someone else watch him and take a nap. It does get better. And if he's going thru a growth spurt it will be over in days, just hold on. Feed him as often as he wants, don't resist or try to put him off it will just stress both of you out. Honestly as soon as I changed my mindset about the amount of time I was spending sitting and feeding my DD I felt so much better about it. Don't think about all the things you "should" be doing, think about what you are doing....the best for your son because nothing is better than mommy milk! (getting of soap box)
Your pics are adorable!

Lori-Yea for putting Harley to bed! and getting cookies done AND not eating too much frosting

Marla & Sara-your Sesame Street fight is hilarious. Mr. Noodle...that guy drives me crazy. I'm amazed that lil ones can understand Elmo cuz a lot of the time I don't understand him.

I got an early Christmas present today. My hubby and I have been talking about adding me to his cell phone plan and getting me a new phone cuz mine is about 3 years old. Well today he came home with my new Samsung Rant in red and told me that he switched me to his plan (I have qwest he has sprint) but managed to keep my number!! :smooched: I'm so excited I can't wait to find the time to sit and play with it. But not tonight...it's bedtime. Night Ladies

Marla64

ugh so i did a horrible horrible thing..... Ayden wont go to sleep, wants to eat like every hour and Im getting so frustrated and tired... all of my muscles ache like ive worked out really hard but ive barely done anything but take care of Ayden, and my ankles, knees, hips, and back all feel rusty... i feel like im a grandma and my joints are stiff and achy ugh, I feel like im dying and then i go and have a bowl of icecream.... ugh im so ticked i did it but im so stressed and tired and i just wanted comfort... which now im just more tired because im crashing off the sugar high... i just want sleep for Christmas, its getting so frustrating, i just want to scream

Supermom-- he'll go through little growth spurts, too, where he'll be hungrier, and need his tank filled up more often. They're quite frequent at the beginning if memory serves-- around 3 weeks-- 6 weeks-- 2 months-- it's only for a couple days. Are you nursing? I always had to nurse every hour during those times until my milk supply caught up with his demand, then after about 3-4 days, we were in sync again--

I know it seems overwhelming, but hang in there-- one day you'll look back and realize that in the overall scheme of things it really was a very short time in his sweet life.

But, I'm right there with ya, sister, on the sleep for Christmas part-- oh my-- I'm living on 5-6 nightly-- and I'm dying. I popped in here to try and stay awake from my very boring typing assignment--

Nytol-- back to work. :yawn:

supermom1114

morning ya'll.... well Ayden has slept in two 2 1/2hr intervals since midnight so thats nice but for the second one ive been awake half the time because my right ankle is killing me!!!! I dont know whats wrong with it but I get a sharp pain when I move it or try to put weight on it and I stll havent found a position yet where its fully not in pain, Ive taken 600mg of ibuprofen, walked around the house a bit well i should say limped around and Ive soaked it in hot water, nothing seems to help, ugh I dunno what to do, I cant sleep but Im SO tired!!! ugh this has not been a good past couple of days....

sanifrey

Hang in there! One day at a time!!

mechanicmom

Loree, Yum! Cookies with icing! I had to tell my sister not to make her sugar cookies with buttercream icing this year because they are so good! Reading your post, I was tempted to call her up and say what the hay, make 'em! :laugh: I am trying hard not to get into that mentality: I'm pregnant, so what does it matter? It will matter the 2 years after I have the baby and can't get the fat off! It sure sounds good though. I don't think you did too bad with the cookies and icing eating. I would have done worse!
I hope everyone got sleep last night! I actually slept really well! For the first time in weeks! But I was more sleepy when I got up this morning. I think I was more at peace when I went to bed, so I slept better, plus I was just worn out. I think the spotting is going away. I hope. I still have a couple of issues that will keep me on bed rest for now. I feel so much better though! I did quite a bit yesterday, more than I should, and I wasn't spotting at all when I went to bed! Two weeks ago, or even a week ago, I would have been bleeding after all that. I think getting my progesterone levels up has helped a whole lot. If things continue this way I think I will be going "home" for Christmas. I will probably still be on bed rest though.
I'm going to wrap a few presents today and I think that's it. Well, I need to shower too. I need to rest as much as possible while DH is home. He's so sweet...most of the time. He's a good husband I can't complain.
Off to get ready for the day! Have a good weekend!
MM

loreeb18

Marla64

I'll take two dozen-- how much?

loreeb18

I'll take two dozen-- how much?

Enough that I could go out and buy premade ones because there is NO WAY I am making any more cut-out cookies! I told my mom that for Christmas at her house she will be getting frosted, sprinkled sugar cookies in the shape of circles. :laugh:

mechanicmom

Okay, I'm calling my sister now and telling her to make me some cookies! Those look SO good!

loreeb18

Okay, I'm calling my sister now and telling her to make me some cookies! Those look SO good!

Sorry, I wasn't trying to tempt. :noway: I was just showing off my cookie skills. :laugh:

mechanicmom

Oh I'm not really going to call. It doesn't help that DH has been digging for sweets that we don't have and then he complains that there are never enough sweets in the house now. There's a reason for that honey. :laugh:
MM

Lyn_Matthews

**sitting reading while shoving M&Ms in my face**

I had to go to the mall today....came home stressed and then my son is over hyper about christmas and being out of school for 2 weeks and ... and... and... you name it...he's so excited about it. Broke down and ate some chocolate...now that I got the taste...on to drinking water.

Lori- your cookies look great. Good job.

MM-let her make them and you can have 2...one for you and one for me

I've discovered my daughter loves her dad. I mean I know she loves him but she loves him so much that she wants NOTHING to do with me when he's around. She wont even eat (breast feeding) when he's in the room, she's to busy following him around the room with her eyes. On the weekends, she doesn't nap. If she knows he's in the house she wont sleep. He has just left to go do some last minute shopping and now she's settling in for her nap. Such a silly girl!

mechanicmom

My new saying: Pregnancy hormones are like Texas weather: wait five minutes and it will change.

In the 70's today, high of 36 tomorrow. In the 50's till Wednesday. Christmas day: 80*.
My hormones: happy and confident Saturday morning. Worried and frustrated Saturday evening.

Gotta love it.
MM

mechanicmom

MM-let her make them and you can have 2...one for you and one for me

Oh, I need one for the baby too!:laugh:

supermom1114

My new saying: Pregnancy hormones are like Texas weather: wait five minutes and it will change.

In the 70's today, high of 36 tomorrow. In the 50's till Wednesday. Christmas day: 80*.
My hormones: happy and confident Saturday morning. Worried and frustrated Saturday evening.

Gotta love it.
MM

haha thats hilarious, and so true!!!! ugh Texas weather is CA-RAZY lol a week ago it was snowing, today was great, tomorrow a cold front comes in and Christmas is going to be warm and probably muggy lol


so today the grandparents babysat Ayden and hubby and I went with his motorcycle group to pass out candy canes, so we spent the morning and part of the afternoon just riding, it was nice to just kinda get away and get to spend time with the hubby. I'm hoping Ayden sleeps longer tonight and that my ankle doesnt start killing me again so I can sleep,

OMG those cookies look DELICIOUS!!!! Im making cookies for hubbys work on monday and now I'm tempted to eat some!!

ok well I hope everyone has a wonderful night :bigsmile:

Hannah_Banana

Phew.. okay, I think I have a minute unless someone spots me sitting down. :glasses:

I have been in full fledge Christmas/Masters/Job search mode for the past week and I am soooo ready to just enjoy the Christmas season. I decorated my tree tonight Then DH walks by and casually mentions how he hates gold (75% of our ornaments were gold because we were borrowing them from someone who wasn't putting up a tree so we didn't have to buy our own this year) and how he hates tinsel (I LOVE tinsel). I finally just sat down on the couch and cried. I knew I was being senstive but I was just having such a great time and he had to come and be a huge wet blanket. He immediately went into emergency-cry mode and began apologizing. :laugh:

I've stuck to my calories perfectly this week, despite being uber busy and having a pizza night. I got a cheese pizza mia from pizza hut - 600 cals for three pieces. So, obviously I had three pieces. Exercise is where I have been slacking. I should go do my pilates right now, but I'm trying to make dinner and keep up with ze baby who has been inexplicably whiney this past week. What happened to my sweet happy baby?!?! :huh:

I think I am just not going to worry about exercise until Tuesday when my mom arrives. I made her join MFP with me so I have my own, somewhat less committed and more busy diet buddy. Tomorrow is HARD CORE house cleaning day, so I plan to burn lotsa calories that way. :bigsmile:

I hope you are all doing well, today was a self-absorbed posting day for me. I needed a vent, I will be back to read up on everyone's progress soon! Merry Christmas all! :flowerforyou:

Marla64

I did great all day until walking around with Josh at Walmart-- he saw a can of Pringles. We have a tradition of buying Pringles when we grocery shop at Aldi since they're right inside the door and it keeps a handsy two year old busy-- yeah, rotten mother-- so shoot me.

So, we get the Pringles and I eat 1/3 of the can-- give or take-- now I HAVE to exercise when I was really just going to crash tonight since there isn't much typing that came in. Fooey-- blast those potato crisps!!!!!!

Crazy night Christmas shopping-- Rebekah buys for Abby, who buys for Hope, who buys for Rebekah-- so three shopping carts going around, trying to keep all goodies hidden. Thank God the older 4 do their own shopping and hiding-- it's precious, but exhausting!

Nytol-- !!!!!!

loreeb18

I did great all day until walking around with Josh at Walmart-- he saw a can of Pringles. We have a tradition of buying Pringles when we grocery shop at Aldi since they're right inside the door and it keeps a handsy two year old busy-- yeah, rotten mother-- so shoot me.

Marla - I find nothing wrong with bribing a kid to behave. I already plan to do that when Harley is older!


Tonight we did Christmas at the IL's. Dave's sister and brother each have 1 kid too and everybody just bought for them so it was really cool watching the kids tear into their presents. (Dave opened Harley's.)

They make perogies for Christmas. They don't cook them in butter and onions. They deep fry them and each one is as big as your hand. Luckily I don't like them. They also make pizza for me (and anyone who doesn't get full from the perogies.) I planned ahead. But the Costco pizza on here is for 1/16 of a pizza and the IL's cut theirs into 12 pieces. So instead of 1600 calories (which is bad enough) I ate over 2100 calories, just in pizza! And that's not counting the 6 cookies I ate. I ended up eating 3210 calories - 1780 over my allowed! I pressed the complete button. If everyday where like today (which I guarantee they won't be!) I'll end up GAINING almost 15 pounds in 5 weeks. It just bugs me because I drank water instead of pepsi and I only ate 2 slices of pizza when I really wanted 3 or 4 and I ate "only" 6 cookies when I wanted to sit down and devour both plates.

Oh, well. I need to just suck it up and aim for a maintain instead of a gain over the next week or 2.

Marla64

I did great all day until walking around with Josh at Walmart-- he saw a can of Pringles. We have a tradition of buying Pringles when we grocery shop at Aldi since they're right inside the door and it keeps a handsy two year old busy-- yeah, rotten mother-- so shoot me.

Marla - I find nothing wrong with bribing a kid to behave. I already plan to do that when Harley is older!


Tonight we did Christmas at the IL's. Dave's sister and brother each have 1 kid too and everybody just bought for them so it was really cool watching the kids tear into their presents. (Dave opened Harley's.)

They make perogies for Christmas. They don't cook them in butter and onions. They deep fry them and each one is as big as your hand. Luckily I don't like them. They also make pizza for me (and anyone who doesn't get full from the perogies.) I planned ahead. But the Costco pizza on here is for 1/16 of a pizza and the IL's cut theirs into 12 pieces. So instead of 1600 calories (which is bad enough) I ate over 2100 calories, just in pizza! And that's not counting the 6 cookies I ate. I ended up eating 3210 calories - 1780 over my allowed! I pressed the complete button. If everyday where like today (which I guarantee they won't be!) I'll end up GAINING almost 15 pounds in 5 weeks. It just bugs me because I drank water instead of pepsi and I only ate 2 slices of pizza when I really wanted 3 or 4 and I ate "only" 6 cookies when I wanted to sit down and devour both plates.

Oh, well. I need to just suck it up and aim for a maintain instead of a gain over the next week or 2.

Nice thing to know is-- we'll be here for each other through the holidays and after to keep us on track and/or get each other back on track. I'm cutting myself a bit of slack these next two weeks for any slip ups-- it's some crazy times right now. But, I know I'm going to reach goal by next June, and you all are here to help me-- that's an awesome knowledge.

I love pierogies-- I woud have hit them. My old best friend (who doesn't speak to me anymore-- oh well) is polish-- like "off the boat" polish, and they do the big Christmas eve feast, pierogies, plum pierogies-- all that jazz. She and her mom would spend an entire Saturday a week or so before Christmas hand making all the dough and the pierogies-- oh my-- they were divine. Have never had better-- yummy. Too bad she got in a snit 'cause we left her daughter's wedding "early" and hasn't spoken to me in two years. (it was 8 pm on a Sunday night, two hours away, I had 7 kids with me, pregnant with Josh, and my eldest had school in the morning-- plus we had to stop and get them something to eat since the dinner was crap-- add to that that her pregnant daughter came over and gushed about her pregnancy in front of my "impressionable young children" whom I wasn't going to inform of her 'pregnancy before marriage'-- TMI, for young minds, ya know?-- So, I wasn't thrilled, and had to get my family home-- and it ended a friendship-- sigh-- whaddyagonnado???)

Later!!!

mechanicmom

Alright, everyone's talking about perogies now. I've never had one, seen one or heard of one until about 6 months ago on this site. I guess someone is going to have to make me some so I can try one. I hear they are evil. :devil:
Marla, I lost a friend I had since I was four. She stopped talking to me when we were 16-18 (can't remember exactly). Three years ago I tried to contact her and she wrote back. We aren't best of friends anymore, and we are so different but there are no hard feelings either. Maybe your friend will come around some time. Hopefully it won't take 13 years though.
For 24 hours I have been really struggling with depression. I can usually snap out of it or sleep it off but it's been hanging on. I am blaming hormones. I am not feeling as good as I had hoped and Christmas is coming soon so I am depressed. I was also looking forward to sending Alex to church with daddy, but he's had a runny nose and cough. I think it's just allergies but they won't take him in the nursery. I can't blame them. I wouldn't want a possibly sick child around mine. I'm just weird like that.
I need to get breakfast. Thankfully the morning sickness hasn't been bad first thing in the morning. It's usually after I eat.
You all have a good Sunday! I'll pester you all again later.
MM