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is on hold.  For another week or two.  We are still waiting for the dumbbells we ordered to get here.   They are the key to the program I will be doing since muscle burns fat!  Oh yeah! In the meantime, I am strictly following the Weight Watchers points plan which always works for me,  and I’m doing cardio for exercise.  So far so good.  Today is my last day of week one and I have lost four pounds!  Whooo hoooo!  My hope is to lose another two pounds per week.  However, I know that once I start seriously working out (especially with weights) I will actually gain weight.   It sucks but I’m prepared for it because it ALWAYS happens to me when I first start.  Apparently, it happens to a lot if not most people too.  Here is the reason why.  So, knowing in advance that the weight gain will be temporary, I’ll just have to push through it for a couple of weeks until my muscles adjust and stop retaining fluid.  Unfortunately, most people don’t know this... [Read more]

I know I have been MIA for a while but I was on vacation so I took a vacation from everything…if you know what I mean.  I went down to Florida to visit my parents for a couple of weeks.  It was a great time and we packed in a lot of fun stuff for the kids to do but still not enough time for me to do what I wanted.  I didn’t get to see half of my friends while I was there which stinks but I know I’ll be back again next summer at least so I hope to try and make up for it then. It’s amazing how fast two weeks goes.  But I had some nice quality time with the P’s and so did the boys.   More importantly, I got to spend some much needed time ALONE!  I guess that’s why I wasn’t too upset not seeing a bunch of my friends.  As much as I would have liked to, I wanted to just veg out and do my own thing.   Alone time is non-existent in my world so when I have someone to watch my kids, I take full advantage of it.  I did a lot of shopping…without... [Read more]

It’s no secret that lately I have been a little depressed about getting older.  I went shopping again this weekend and after trying on a bunch of clothes I decided that well…nothing has changed and I am STILL depressed. So, I have decided to take action.  Soon I will transform my body into the lean machine that has lived inside of it for the past 30 some odd years.  The body that has been yearning to be set free from the “full hips” or “loose”  jeans and into a pair of “skinny” ones.  However, you will have to stay tuned and wait for me to return from my vacation.  Give me a good week or two before I start my 90 day fitness challenge.  I plan to blog it to let you know what I am doing and my progress and results of course. In the meantime, I will no longer be as hard on myself as I have been the last couple of months.   Why?  Because I have realized that my situation could be A LOT worse.  Take for example this guy.  All I can... [Read more]

This photo is pretty much self-explanatory.   We took a trip to the NC mountains this past weekend and drove past this crane somewhere between Boone and Blowing Rock.  Notice the tag line: “The we get it up people.”   Sooo….if you are in the market for an “ERECTION”…these “specialists” are your guys!  Pretty um…cough…HARD to forget their name huh?  Read More →

If you have read my About page, you have seen that I’ve dubbed my boys Alex (as in Alex P. Keaton from the classic 80’s show Family Ties) and Dennis (as in the Menace-because well, God love him but he IS a menace). Well, I have to say that my pseudonyms couldn’t be more appropriate. This past weekend I took Alex back to school shopping.  Just the two of us.  No crazy 3 year old Dennis scaring me half to death because he is hiding in the clothes racks and not answering when I call him.  Or me being forced to play his little game of “chase me” where he takes off ahead of me so fast I have to run to catch up to him.  Oh no.  No thank you.  I left his little butt home with daddy because shopping with Dennis is sure to reward me with nothing more than a suite at the Rubber Ramada. Alex on the other hand, is a pleasure to shop with.   He actually loves to shop.  Maybe because when he was a baby, in between his baby music and gym classes, I was constantly... [Read more]

Everyone knows that sleep is important.  If I don’t get a good night sleep, I am a total grumpy witch.  My husband is even worse.   Thankfully, Alex has pretty good sleep habits.  He could sleep through an explosion.  Dennis on the other hand has a serious  problem with sleep.  You may have read about the Indigo Dreams Sleep CD we use to try to help him fall asleep.  I think maybe I have finally realized his sleep issues started at birth. We used to live in Florida by the beach.  When I was ready to give birth to my first son Alex,  the hospital my husband and I chose in which to deliver him had a nice birthing suite that had a view of the ocean.  We thought that would be a wonderful, calming atmosphere for our child to be when he first entered this world.  And it was. When it was time for Dennis to bless us with his presence we tried to get the same birthing suite.  However, it was being remodeled due to the damage it had sustained when we got blasted by three hurricanes... [Read more]

This is an EXTREMELY rare photo which seemed unlikely to ever be captured on film.  Is it Bigfoot?  The Loch Ness Monster?  Rosie O’ Donnell with her trap shut? NO!  It’s my husband actually putting his dish in the dishwasher… Halle freakin’ lujah!!!!!  Read More →

So since it is ridiculously hot this summer, I had to go out this past weekend and update my summer wardrobe.  Not because I have nothing to wear.  No, I wish that was the case.  I had to go shopping because nothing freakin fits me! Apparently, this past winter I was storing fat like a bear. I am so depressed. I swear I have the Delta Burke collection in my closet.  The sizes go from 4 to 10.  Right now I am in the middle.  I have gained only eight pounds since last summer but still…that is at least a size, if not two.  Ugh! The kicker is I have been working out all summer and doing the Weight Watcher’s point thing (my favorite diet that I’ve been on 700 times and always works).   But it seems to be taking longer to lose these days.  Why?  Because I am getting…gulp…old!   That dreaded excuse that I used to hear my elderly counterparts say is now becoming my own reality.  I’m getting older so “my metabolism is slowing down.”  ... [Read more]

My kids have a real issue with food.  Since they are still pretty young, the problem is not what I’m sure to face when they are teenagers (eating me out of house and home) it’s just the opposite.  They DON’T eat. While my six year old IS getting better and FINALLY starting to try different foods other than macaroni and cheese, hot dogs and chicken nuggets, my three year old is the absolute WORST.   He will take a drink over food any day, any time of the week.  I am so over trying to get him to eat. Well, I have finally figured out that everything comes down to a battle of wills.  Dennis is constantly testing me and trying my patience (of which I have very little left to begin with).  He will ask for juice over and over and will not stop until I cave in and give it to him.  Unfortunately, I usually do too because it’s just easier and I don’t want to hear it anymore. Well those days are over.  Today, I have decided to FINALLY stop letting him work me... [Read more]

Okay so this isn’t exactly “wordless” but I’m not saying anything so doesn’t that count? You may have read one of my previous posts about my six year old son Alex having recently had his tonsils removed.   One night after he had his pain medication, I noticed how dramatically his mood changed and that he was most definitely “feeling good”.   I posted a status update about it on my Facebook page and a friend of mine replied with this video by asking if my son was THIS bad.  My answer?  Umm…not even close.  Thank God!   This video has been around a while so you may have already seen it but it’s still always good for a chuckle.  Happy Wordless Wednesday all!  Read More →

Hope everyone had a nice Forth of July weekend!  We had a great time with the standard July fourth festivities but what I want to know is if any of you happened to catch the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating competition on television? It is held every year on the forth of July at Coney Island Amusement Park in New York.  If you have never seen one you have to check it out on You Tube. But prepare yourself.  Watching people shove hot dogs and buns down their throats one after the other is not a pretty sight. OMG!  How utterly disgusting!  The winner, Joey Chestnut ate 68 hot dogs AND buns in 10 minutes!   Think about that.  He averaged almost 7 hot dogs and buns a minute. I still cannot believe that there are people who actually choose to do this.  The winner gets a “Mustard Belt” and $20,000.   Are you kidding me?  You could not pay me enough to do that.  In fact, after watching that contest, I myself, have no interest in eating a hot dog any time soon. Oh... [Read more]

A Mom Is A Job is proud to be a part of the first MckLinky Introduce Your Blog blog hop! When someone asks me what I do for a living or if I work, I always answer yes.  When they ask me what I do I tell them I’m a Mom.  I may not bring home a paycheck every week for my kind of work but I can assure you that being a Mom is in fact, a job. My children are my employer and taking care of them in addition to everything else I do IS my job. I am a thirty-something stay-at-home mother of two boys ages 6 and 3 and they are polar opposites. My 6 year old has the personality of Alex P. Keaton (you remember- Michael J. Fox’s character on the classic ’80’s sitcom Family Ties). Then there’s my 3 year old whom I should have named Dennis -as in the Menace.  Ahh yes. It’s never a dull moment in my house!  Alex and Dennis consistently keep me on my toes but hey…if nothing else, at least while they’re testing my patience and sanity, they are giving me tons of material to post about. A... [Read more]

This Wordless Wednesday comes courtesy of my friend Kelle who saw this in her grocery store.  I’m hoping to score a case of it because I’ve been bad…very bad!  Read More →

Do you ever think back to how far you’ve come as a Mom?  Remember the FIRST time you were pregnant?  I remember vividly. I was a neurotic mess. “Can I eat this?  Wait, it’s soft cheese.  I’m not supposed to eat that.  Oh I can have tuna fish.  Oh yeah.  Can’t have that either.” “I really want a cup of coffee.  Wait.  Caffeine isn’t good for the baby.” “Maybe I’ll ride my bike so I don’t think about what I can’t eat.  Oh right.  The doctor advised me not to do that in case I lose my balance and fall off of it.” “Okay then I’ll just go and get those things down from the attic that I’ve been meaning to go through and organize.  Crap.  Can’t do that either.  I might fall down the stairs or lift something too heavy.” “Man an ice cold beer sounds really good to me right now.  Damn!  No alcohol allowed when you’re pregnant.” (which is too bad... [Read more]

Yesterday I mentioned that my son Alex had a tonsillectomy last week.   His recovery has been unpleasant (to say the least) for ALL of us.  The first few days he did great so I was hopeful the whole process would go rather smooth. His doctor told us not to be surprised if by day five, Alex gets very cranky and irritable.   He said that for some unknown reason, kids always get really moody and cranky around the fifth day and that no one seems to know why this happens but it does. Well apparently my son was no exception.  WOW!  It was like a switch was flipped and he completely freaked out.  This episode happened when I tried to give him his pain medicine.  Up until that point, Alex would whine and complain that he didn’t want to take it because it tasted “disgusting”.   It has been a full on battle to get him to take it every single time.  But on day five it was more like a nightmare.  I don’t know what happened but as I was trying to give him his medicine,... [Read more]

Little boys love their mommies.  If I didn’t know it before, I definitely know it now. My six year old son had his tonsils out last week and I think if he could crawl up my ass he would.   Sorry.  I know that is a blunt way to say it but it’s the truth. Alex is very very affectionate to begin with but since his tonsillectomy he has been reeeally mushy.  All he wants is me.  Don’t get me wrong.  I LOVE that he wants me.  But it’s really hard to give him 100% of my attention when I also have a super needy three year old.    Alex is constantly wanting to sit next to me, asks me to watch him play his Nintendo DS, wants me to watch endless hours of Phineas and Ferb with him, and he complains when I don’t do any or all of the above for a long time.  I will do all of these things with him for a little while but I also have other things I need to do.  Dishes and laundry don’t wash themselves.  Plus in all honesty, I’m not the kind of mom that... [Read more]

Today is Father’s Day and already I know I’m going to have to have a Father’s Day Do-Over. My poor hubby. I had a nice relaxing day planned for the Boss but it all went downhill at about 7:15 a.m. So much for him sleeping in. Alex woke up screaming in pain from his still healing tonsillectomy.  Dennis woke up shortly after screaming for juice.   And hard as I tried to refrain, I soon found myself screaming at the two of them for screaming. Hey…if you can’t beat em, join em right? UGH! All I wanted was for both of them to be quiet so daddy could sleep in today.   Well THAT obviously wasn’t going to happen.  It was not long before the Boss dragged his tired ass down the stairs and into the family room where the three screaming banshees were to find out what in the hell was going on. “Sorry Honey.” Surprisingly, he took it pretty well anyway and remained calm.   I made him a nice breakfast of pancakes topped with fresh strawberries and... [Read more]

Doctors suck.  Sorry but that’s how I feel.  I cannot tell you how incredibly sick I am of doctors.  It’s bad enough when they screw up something having to do with me, but I’m a whole other animal when it involves my kids.  This last experience I had is the icing on the cake.  First I need to give you a little back story. My son Alex has had a chronic cough for the past two years.  Not your average cough though.  I’m talking about the kind of cough that was so bad that it would keep not only him awake, but all of us - for hours on end in the middle of the night.  It started shortly after his fourth birthday and a bout of coughing would last for weeks at a time. We started with his pediatrician thinking it was just a cold.  He was treated with cough medicine and sent on his way.  Well the cough never went away.  So then we were given antibiotics.  The cough did go away for a while.  But a few weeks later he got sick again.  So after several trips back... [Read more]

I am a wholesale whore.  There.  I said it.  It’s true.  I LOVE wholesale clubs.  I am a huge fan of Costco, BJ’s and Sam’s Club and I would have all three memberships too if I could afford it.  Okay, well I DID have all three memberships once.  But when I realized that I couldn’t go into one of these warehouses without spending at least $100 (usually much more), I decided that I was out of control and spending way too much money so I gave up one of my memberships.  Oh and believe me…that was a sad sad day. Why do I love them so much you ask?  Sure Sams, Costco and BJ’s are great places to buy things in bulk and I do.  But besides food, I love to buy books, music, DVDs, toys and clothes there.  I have found so many great items at these places and around the holidays…forget it.  They are the first place I go to do my Christmas shopping.  The only other store that I love to shop in more than a wholesale club is Target.  I frequent... [Read more]

Today was the first official day of Camp Mommy.  Since it is so freakin hot outside, I decided (against my better judgement) to take my boys to an indoor kids gym which is full of inflatable slides and bounce houses. Let me be clear.  I am not a fan of these types of places and consider them nothing more than virus pits.  And I have good reason.  When Alex was 15 months old, I took him to a mall where they have one of those little play areas in the middle of it.  It was a decent sized area/pit with padded walls and floors and a bunch of little foam faux fruits and veggies that toddlers could climb on, under or through.  Fun right?  Sure it was fun.  Alex loved it.  No one seemed to care or even notice that it reeked of poopie diapers.  Except me.  Oh well.  You have to expect Eau de Poop in a place like that anyway right?  Besides, he was having a good time and I was having a much needed break while he played.  I did however make sure to thoroughly wash his hands when he... [Read more]

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