My First Blog Award

I got my very first blog award today! Thank you so much to Julie over at The Reason for my Insanity I am so excited about it. Make sure you go on over and check out her blog!

Now this award is special and I am to choose 15 blogs that I think deserve this award also! Here is how it works.

1. Accept the award. Post it on your blog with the name of the person who has granted the award and his or her blog link.

2. Pay it forward to 15 other bloggers that you have newly discovered.

3. Contact those blog owners and let them know that they've been chosen.

Thats it! Easy peasy right! So get to it my friends, here are the lovely ladies I chose, in no particular order:

1.) Falling for Baby

2.) Mrs. Southern Belle

3.) The Power of Pink Lines

4.) My Life as Mama

5.) O My Family

6.) The Mommy Diaries

7.) Peace B.E.G.A.N

8.) My Amazing Life

9.) Hormonal Imbalances

10.) My Side of the Mountain

11.) Spilled Milk (and other atrocities)

12.) 365 Days: 30 + Mommy hood

13.) A Baby? Maybe...

14.) MannLand5

15.) All Because

Make sure you visit each of these awesome blogs!

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Monday Already

I know I haven't posted since last Wednesday and while I really meant to and have had a few ideas, I just never got on and wrote them. I also haven't written a McFatty post in a couple of weeks but that is mostly because I've been feeling super huge and am to afraid to get on the scale. I am so worried that I'll be disappointed with the number that I'll just give up all together. I have my good days and my bad days and maybe today was just a bad day.

I especially feel bad whenever I go into a store to buy new clothes. I went into Ann Taylor Loft this weekend and immediately felt like I was wasting my time. I didn't even really look because I was so stuck on how bad I thought everything would look on me. It's getting cold out and while I am so excited for the change, I need some new sweaters and long sleeved shirts, I just have no idea what to get to make myself feel comfortable.

I can't say that I've been eating healthy because I haven't. I have been to Houston two weekends in a row and when I go down there I tend to eat junk. We go out to eat and get fast food so I know I'm not doing any good there. We're staying home this weekend and I am getting back on track this week. I'm also looking forward to getting some exercise, Callie and I are planning to start walking twice a week now that it is cooler out! I hope this helps me feel better, gives me more energy and boost my self esteem. I don't think I am going to be truly happy until I can see a difference.

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Wordless Wednesday

I'm ready to get a pumpkin or 2

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Fall? I Think So!

Before I ramble on and on obnoxiously about my favorite season, I am going to let you know what Parker and I were up to this weekend! Michael was out of town for a bachelor party so I have no idea, nor do I want to know, what he was up to. So here is an update on our weekend and then we’ll talk fall!

This weekend Parker and I went to visit my mom. I needed it really badly and I am so glad we went, every one needs their Momma…even when you’re grown up and are a Momma yourself!

We got there Friday evening and got to go out for dinner with both my mom and Mark (Mi-Mi and Papa Mark) it seems that every weekend we go down for a visit, Mark is working so it was nice that we got to spend some time with him. We also saw my brother Robert (Uncle Awesome), Parker was pretty happy to see his uncle and they had fun playing with his phone. If you have an I-Phone, there is an App you can get for free, it’s a cat that records your voice and then copies what you said in a high pitched helium sounding voice…it is hilarious.

On Saturday we got Parker’s Halloween costume, he is going to be a pirate! I wasn’t going in that direction at all but when I saw it I thought he would make an adorable little pirate! Anyway I am going to be channeling my creative side over the weekends leading to Halloween to transform Parker’s Radio Flyer car into a pirate ship! Cute right? I’ll let you know how it goes ha-ha.

After looking at costumes and getting Parker down for a nap after lunch, my mom, Parker and I headed to my Aunt Donna’s house to help Destiny (Nene) get ready for her Homecoming dance. She looked so pretty! Parker was trying to get into that bathroom the entire time and was into EVERYTHING…We had planned on going to dinner with Aunt Donna after she dropped Destiny and Trevor off but the weather was looking bad so we decided to take a rain check.

Even though the weather looked bad my mom, Parker and I decided to go visit my grandpa who is in a nursing home right now. When we got there he was lying in bed watching a football game, he looked so small. I haven’t seen him since last Christmas and I couldn’t believe how skinny and frail he looked. He sat up when we got in there and said hello to us before he looked at Parker and said “Benjamin! How are you?” He had three pictures on his wall by his bed, 2 of Parker last Christmas and 1 picture of me and him on my wedding day. He looked at the picture and told Parker “I say good morning to you every day! I say, Good morning Benjamin and you never answer, but now you can!” Parker was smiling the whole time, it was sweet. We stayed there for about 30 minutes and then had to go because it was late but it was nice to see him.

On Sunday we didn’t do a whole lot, I was dreading the drive home but at 4 I knew I needed to go so it wouldn’t be too late when we got home. I had fun and I wanted to stay longer but that’s how it is every time I visit.

When I got home and got out of the car I almost screamed…it felt SOOOO good!!! I was so excited about the fact that it wasn’t 100 degrees at 6:00 that I asked Michael if we could eat dinner outside ha-ha, he said no of course because we don’t have any outside furniture. We decided to open all of the windows to let the fall air in. It was great!

This morning I was even more excited. I watched the news and knew it would be cool enough for Parker to wear jeans ::eek!:: so he wore blue jeans and a t-shirt and I brought a light weight jacket he got for his birthday to daycare. When I got there I was shocked to see that Parker was the only one in jeans in his class…Oh well I know my kiddo was warm! I can’t wait for it to be cool enough through out the day for him to wear long sleeves because he got a ton of cute clothes for his birthday! I on the other hand…could not find my green long sleeved shirt! I have no clue where it is…it probably got lost in the move back home or is packed with maternity clothes…hell it could be in a laundry basket that has clothes we don’t wear anymore. I have no idea…Obviously I need to use my weekend to clean the house.

I REALLY want to try to get my flower beds cleaned up because OMG weeds have taken over! If the weather stays this nice all weekend I will be setting Parker up in the yard with some toys in baby jail so that we can enjoy the outside air and make my yard look pretty again. Michael mowed yesterday so I need to keep up my part of the yard! I am hoping to get some mums planted where my poor butterfly flowers were…they didn’t stand up to the heat like all of my other flowers did. My Vinca grew and grew! I love them, they are so pretty.

I am so ready for this cool weather to last all day; I can already feel the chill on my nose and ears. I can smell the crisp cool air and hear the crunch of the falling leaves. Just thinking about it makes my heart warm up! I absolutely love fall, it is my favorite season. While I was in Brookshire Brothers this afternoon I stopped to look at their pumpkins, they had some really nice ones, perfect for carving but I know it’s way too soon.

Has anyone ever bought small pumpkins and painted them for their desk? Is that totally corny? I want to decorate my desk but I am on a tight budget that does not include a weekend run to Hobby Lobby, I don’t have any fall décor so at home either so I have to try to be creative. I’ll be perusing some of the craftier blogs and looking for ideas from Country Living Magazine and Martha ha-ha.

Soon it will be Christmas…don’t even get me started on my favorite Holiday season. Holy Cow lets pray that there will be NO TORNADOS this year.

Well friends, I am going to get out of here and go get my little man! Happy Fall!!

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Friday Five

This Weeks Friday Fives is...

5 Random Question Friday

1. What's your "comfort food"?

Ice Cream

2.One thing thats on your mind right now?

Money

3.what's the best advice you've ever received?

Choose Your Battles

4.If you found $10 today, what would you do with it?

Buy Diapers

5. What is your least favorite thing to clean in your house?

Laundry, although if my laundry room was inside my house and looked like this I might be more inclined to do it!

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Love

I love this little guy. 

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Another $25 Down the Toilet

It's Wednesday night, Michael is asleep, Parker is asleep and the dogs are barking in the backyard which is driving me crazy. Why must they bark at night?! I mean seriously, there is nothing going on and no reason for them to be constantly barking! They've been known to wake Parker up because of it...I can't wait to have money and buy double pane windows for the bedrooms.

So anyway, enough about the loud annoying dogs...My day was eventful, not in a good way either. It seems like I am always blogging about the same thing lately, Parker is sick. I am tired of saying that. Does it ever stop? Will we get to go longer than a few weeks, a month at most without saying that Parker is sick. I mean for real y'all! I know we're not the only parents who go through this but it feels like we're at the doctor's office at least once a month. He catches this or that from daycare and brings it home and then it cycles through me and Michael and usually back to Parker.

Parker is awake and crying. I'll be right back. Well after a bottle and a lot of rocking and rubbing on his back he is still awake and crying. Tonight is going to be a cry it out night I guess...

Back to what I was saying, Parker got tubes and after having them for about 4 months now he got an ear infection last week. I can't complain about the tubes because they have been wonderful and he's been ear infection free since May, but I hate that my baby is in pain. Since the beginning of the year he has been to the doctor for RSV, Bronchiolitis, over 5 ear infections (Jan-May) fever caused by a virus multiple times, walking pneumonia, stomach viruses...and now that cold weather is around the corner I know we'll be dealing with more. I'm planning on us all getting the flu vaccine with the H1N1 vaccine so we can hopefully be flu free this season. No mother wants to see her child in pain or feeling bad, we want them to be happy and healthy!

I was told today that his ear looked better but not completely healed. I brought him in because of fever, he has been on an antibiotic for almost 10 days and thought it was unusual that he would have fever while on it. Of course it is a virus. I was told to give him the antibiotic until it's gone and we'll go back next week for another check up and hopefully his 1 year shots.

Sorry for this whiny post, I just want my baby to feel better.

In other news, I've been thinking about Halloween and what Parker might be this year! Last year he was only a month and a few weeks old and he was the most adorable little monkey ever. This year we were thinking Batman but that idea may be wishful thinking. For those of you who don't know, Parker doesn't like things on his head. I can get a beanie hat on him or at least I could last year, but anything else gets ripped off and thrown down. This Batman costume requires a mask...I doubt he'll leave it on. My only super hero option is Super Man because he doesn't wear a mask. If I go in another direction my options are limited to an animal of some kind, a cowboy (minus the hat) or some kind of food.

OMG I just had the best idea ever...I can get some glittery powder, gel for his hair and a super cute outfit and he can be Baby Edward Cullen! How cute would that be? No hat necessary! Ok so yeah I bet Michael wouldn't let me get away with that one but it was worth a shot. We could always do Dracula ha!

OK bloggy friends, enough is enough. I am off to bed and I hope to be at work tomorrow because that will mean my kiddo is fever free!

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