False Advertising

You know, companies should start putting pictures of only their product on the packaging. My son gets disappointed everytime he goes to eat the cereal with "raspberries in it", only to find out there are no raspberries. And the waffles with strawberries... A three-year old just doesn't understand why they're in the picture but not in the box! No matter how many times I tell him or the different days he keeps checking, he always thinks the picture is true. One time we had fresh raspberries, and he had me put six of them into his bowl of cereal -- because there were six raspberries shown in the bowl of cereal on the box. Too cute...

I also realized that my kids think I don't need to eat. Everytime I make myself something, Carter thinks it's for him. He wanted waffles this morning, but ended up getting cereal instead (he changed his mind). So when I made my waffles, he tried to steal them but put some more in the toaster instead. I pour a glass of orange juice -- he wants it. And Lauren begs like a dog! She's so funny... she stares at your food! She seriously will walk up to you (around the coffee table) and beg for whatever snack you have! She loves when Daddy eats rice chex. :) I swear she eats more than Carter too! I get food scarfed down sometime though...

Playing Catch-Up...

... is about all I ever do anymore! Strange thing is, I don't ever seem to get minutely caught up with anything! A couple weeks ago I made a list of things I needed to get done around the house. I got so much done! Then Lauren had her infection and only the basics got done. Well, now it seems that whatever I did get done needs redone already! So... now starting the list over. And as I check one thing off, a couple more get added! Ugh... this is so frustating. Anyone want to come take my kids and give me peace for at least a day to get things done? :)

OH YEAH!!

So... I'm totally addicted to Guitar Hero III for our Wii (although I haven't "fed" that addiction much lately). Matt just told me that there is a new version coming out this summer. Guitar Hero -- get this -- AEROSMITH!!! There will be 30 Aerosmith songs and others from bands that have opened for them. I'm stoked... Oh, and in case you didn't know or couldn't tell, Aerosmith is my favorite band. Add it to my wishlist. :D

Before I was a mom...

I didn't write this, but read it on my preschooler moms' message board:

Before I was a mom........ I never tripped over toys or forgot words to a lullaby. I didn't worry whether or not my plants were poisonous.I never thought about immunizations. Before I was a mom........ I had never been puked on. Pooped on. Chewed on. Peed on. I had complete control of my mind and my thoughts. I slept all night. Before I was a mom....... I never held down a screaming child so doctors could do tests. Or give shots. I never looked into teary eyes and cried. I never got gloriously happy over a simple grin. I never sat up late hours at night watching a baby sleep. Before I was a mom....... I never held a sleeping baby just because I didn't want to put him down. I never felt my heart break into a million pieces when I couldn't stop the hurt. I never knew that something so small could affect my life so much. I never knew that I could love someone so much. I never knew I would love being a mom. Before I was a mom....... I didn't know the feeling of having my heart outside my body. I didn't know how special it could feel to feed a hungry baby. I didn't know that bond between a mother and her child. I didn't know that something so small could make me feel so important and happy. Before I was a mom....... I had never gotten up in the middle of the night every 10 minutes to make sure everything was okay. I had never known the warmth, the joy, the love, the heartache, the wonderment or the satisfaction of being a mom. I didn't know I was capable of feeling so much, before I was a mom.

Stupid Dog...

So, I have this dog -- his name is Orion and he's a 5-yr old, 130-lb Bullmastiff. Great dog, really, but he's stupid. I love my dog like a child, but lately he's driving me insane! It's a Saturday, and I really wanted to relax and get things done today. Hmm... no such luck. I put Lauren down for her nap this morning and hear her about an hour later. Not entirely out of the ordinary, as sometimes she really does only sleep for an hour. But the crying sounded a little louder than just coming through the monitor. I go into the hallway and look down -- the door is open and Orion is lying on her floor. I go ahead and get Lauren up and scold Orion for going into her room. Now it's time for afternoon nap and Lauren is super cranky. I put her down (and she's upset because she bit me while nursing and I screamed and tapped her cheek-- it hurt with her seven teeth!). She finally calms down and goes to sleep. It's less than an hour later and I hear her awake... Hmm... odd. If she only sleeps an hour in the morning, afternoon naps are usually pretty good. I start listening, and it sounds oddly familiar. Into the hallway -- door open and dog on floor licking his leg. Now, I know if I got into trouble for something and didn't really enjoy it, I don't think I'd be doing it again. Especially only three hours later!!! I try my best to get him out and the door shut without Lauren seeing me, but she was watching the door. Ahhh... ten minutes later and she finally quiets down. We'll see if she goes back to sleep and gets the nap she so desperately needs (and the time I so desperately want!).

On another note, Orion also has this thing for getting himself shut inside our master closet (walk-in). If I went into a small room, got shut in and couldn't get out, I don't think that I'd go in there again. But, alas... seems almost everyday I catch stupid-dog in there. Even in trying to remember to latch the door every time after being in there, sometimes it just doesn't get done. Is this his revenge for latching the door? Waking Lauren up? We don't call him stupid-dog to be mean... it's just the stupid things he does. He's also fathead because he has a monster-size head. Most the time he's Woo -- our affectionate "pet" name for him. He's a great dog, he's just driving me insane! Excuse me... I have to get the crying baby now...

The First Post

As I nurse Lauren, do laundry, take a shower, or lie in bed at night, I find myself having long, elaborate thoughts that could be blogs, e-mails to someone, small articles written, or even conversations -- all of which hardly make it out of my head. So I created a blogsite where I wanted to just write these random thoughts. Then my husband decided that he would point our website (www.iuwolf.com) to the new blogsite (www.iuwolfden.blogspot.com), so now they are one in the same. I was going to post things about the family and life in general as well, making it a blog where I could just put whatever (my husband was also an author for the site). Now I think that my thoughts deem a blog of their own. There's still no guarantee that they'll make it in "writing", but at least they'll have somewhere to go if they do. I ask that no one take offense to some of the things that may be written -- some of them may be about you, but they're not directed at you. That's my disclaimer. So you've been warned if you're a reader. You can ask my mom what happens if some of these things don't come out -- I'll have a meltdown when too many of the bad ones stay inside for too long, then they will be directed at you. So enjoy, comment, and let me know you read my mind. :)