Crap.

I totally forgot this blog existed.

 

I promise to write more.

God knows I need to, at least to keep the shred of sanity left.

 

Having two kids is hard hard work.

Things I Want To Accomplish In 2013

To be fair and honest, I totally copied this entry from my other blog and pasted onto here. You’ll forgice me and read it anyway.

Every year, people make resolutions for the year. Some have surprising will power and actually accomplish most if not all their resolutions. Some only manage to stick it out for a month or so.

Once in high school, I vowed to become a vegetarian after watching a gory video of
how cows were slaughtered. Could not contain the cravings for chicken and went back to my old ways on a month and a half. I did cut down meat from my food by… a LOT and we hardly ever buy meat these days unleas it’s hormone free, pesticide free, grass fed and/or organic.

This year, I have a few goals that I WILL accomplish. Some are silly and ridiculous and some are regarding my health and addressing some personal shit. And some, well some I won’t write down here and keep it in my personal journal.

Just Dance 4 Review {feat. my 5yo daughter}

Thank you to Ubisoft for sponsoring this post. Please click here to learn more about Ubisoft. I was selected for this opportunity as a member of Clever Girls Collective. #UbiChamps

When Just Dance 4 was dropped off at my doorstep, I had just picked up my daughter from Kindergarten and it could not have been a better time for it to be dropped off! As soon as my kindergartener came home, she asked for a snack and told me she was bored.

I have an idea…. I told her.

I popped in Just Dance and let her pick out a song. Well, I will let the video show you how much fun {and cool dance moves} she has but I will tell you there is a song for everyone. The difficult level starts at easy and ends at hard. And trust me when I tell you, it is very very hard for me to get three stars on easy.

(Having technical difficulties uploading video on YouTube. Will edit when fixed)

There are a few songs that you can download with Wii Points but even if you don’t you still have some catchy pop songs like One Direction’s What Makes You Beautiful, On The Floor by Jennifer Lopez which is probably one of the hardest songs for me, and the oh my god get this song out of my head Call Me Maybe to name a few of the featured songs.

Not only can you just have fun with JD4, there is a Just Sweat mode. After trying it for ten minutes, I already needed a shower. But the fun does not stop there., there’s a lot of stuff that you can unlock, I’m guessing when you get three stars on a song or when you build up your mojo.

After Thanksgiving dinner, we gave it a go to put a stop on the oh my god I want to nap forever after this dinner and it definitely worked. To quote my five-year old daughter “This game is totally rad!”

If you would like to buy Just Dance 4 you can click-through and buy it on Amazon! It makes a great gift for the music lovers and dancers in your life but pretty much perfect for anyone, young and the older crowd!

Neville: A Birth Story

brand new

Three weeks late, I know…

Monday the 21st started out like any other day. I got up and went to the restroom to pee… And that’s when I noticed that’s when I started spotting. No big deal, I thought. It’s totally normal at the end of your pregnancy. Didn’t think any of it until I came home after I dropped off the preschooler and having minor discomfort. Ten am rolls around and the contractions are twelve minutes apart.

At eleven after picking up Nattie, I start to panic because OMG I DIDN’T EVEN FINISH PACKING THE DAMN BAGA ND WHAT THE HELL AM I GOING TO DO!? And I still had Natalie’s bag to pack. My husband got home at noon and we dropped off Natalie at my aunt’s house and end up staying there for around five hours timing contractions and such.

My husband decides that it’s time to go to the hospital since the contractions are five minutes apart, even though I tell him it’s not time yet. So we make the almost half hour trip only to find out I’m only two cm dilated. They monitor my contractions for two hours and I only dilate ONE SINGLE CM so I was given the option to go home (eat) or stay, so we leave to go get burgers and head to my aunt’s house to wait out the contractions.

Ten pm rolls by and contractions are painful but I’m not in tears yet. The tears don’t come until two am because SON OF A BASILISK these contractions are breaking my bones apart and SHUT THE FRONT DOOR OF MORDOR is this what the Cruciatus Curse feels like? My husband is trying to be uber supportive by giving me back massages and asking me what he can do and all I picture myself doing is strangling him and blaming rage blackouts. The only place that is comfortable at this point is the cold bare floor and clawing my aunt’s cushions, rocking back and forth on my knees and crying my eyes out.

Right after two am is when my husband is losing his mind because he’s probably a mind reader and saw what I was doing to him in my head.

We get to the hospital at 2:40 or something (I’m not entirely sure because I was no longer tweeting) where I’m told that I’m 8cm dilated and if I had waited a bit more, I would probably have had a home birth and twenty minutes later at 3:03, Neville Andrew is born, 6 pounds and 9 ounces of pure cuteness, but not before MY WATER BREAKS AND IT ALL LANDS ON MY POOR HUSBAND’S FACE, HAIR, AND SHIRT.

And then we went from a family of three to a family of four and my heart swelled two times bigger.

Wordless Wednesday: Heart Happy

Meeting baby brother for the first time

Five.

My dearest Natalie,

Today you are five. It may not seem to be a huge deal to some people but to your daddy and I… it is a very big deal.

We remember the day you came into this world, the day we brought you home from the hospital, and the day your first laugh melted our hearts.

You never cease to amaze us with your kind, generous, loving, activist ways. The way you try and save animals. The way you get sad when you see a dying tree. You astound us with your love for all the things that grow.

There aren’t words to express how much you have changed our lives, the unconditional love we have for you, and how proud we are of each and every one of your accomplishments.

We love you so very much.

Happy birthday, sweet darling.

A @drinkpremama Review + Giveaway

Do you ever feel like puking right after swallowing that gigantic disgusting pink prenatal vitamin? ME TOO. That’s why when I recently discovered Premama, I jumped at the chance of trying it out and let me tell you… I was not disappointed in the least!

I added it to my favorite V8  juice and I drank my daily intake of prenatal vitamins without gagging or running to the restroom to throw up. Not only is Premama nut-free, gluten-free, egg-free, fish-free, shellfish-free, and sulfite-free, it doesn’t taste gross at all and you’re getting the vitamins you need while you’re pregnant or nursing, or even trying to conceive. To look at the list of benefits, click here.

Want a chance to win a 30 day supplement of Premama? In a comment below, tell me one thing you craved the most during your pregnancy. In my first pregnancy, I ate so much watermelon with chili powder for fruit, I’m surprised my daughter wasn’t born as red as a watermelon!

For an extra chance, you can tweet about this giveaway and leave the tweet url in a separate comment. Also, please make sure to use a valid email address as that is how I will be contacting the winner!

One lucky winner will be chosen using random.org and sent a 30 day supply of Premama thanks to MomSelect! Even if you do not win, you can still request a free sample at the bottom of their homepage so be sure to check them out! One winner will be chosen using random.org on May 4th. If winner does not respond in twenty four hours, winner forfeits prize and it will go to the next winner using the same method.

Disclaimer: I was sent a one-week supply of Premama to try from MomSelect

**Random.org chose comment #5! Congrats, Ana! Thank you to everyone who entered! Please go check them out and request a sample, if you haven’t already!**