May 22

David Cook wins American Idol

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Wooo!!! My A.I. boyfriend David Cook won American Idol by TWELVE MILLION votes! Over on the MamaPopTalk forums where I chat live with a bunch of crazy betches every Tuesday, we had a special Wednesday open thread so that we could snark on just how booooooring the first 1 hour and 57 minutes of the show really were.

Although, the bit with Ben Stiller, Jack Black, and Robert Downey Jr. dancing as the Pips along with Gladys Knight was pretty freaking funny. It makes me so very happy that Robert Downey Jr. has cleaned himself up and didn’t, you know, die of a drug overdose.

But ANYwho, when Ryan Seacrest read the name of the winner and said David….COOK, I actually screamed. AAHHHHH!!!! Because even though I was hoping he would win, you have to admit, David Archuleta was much more commercial-sounding. Plus he had that whole super-teen thing going for him, so I really expected him to get the text-message voters.

But it wasn’t David A. who won, it was MY David, David Cook!!! I made him this to show him just swoon-worthy I think he is:

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*sigh* COUGARS FOR COOK!!!!!!

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May 21

Wordless Wednesday- LOLCooking

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You’ve heard of LOLCats, right? Well, yesterday while thinking about what photo I wanted to post today, I remembered this tortilla photo and an “I Can Has Cheezburger?” style caption just popped into my head. You are invited to take photos of your own kitchen mishaps and send them to me to use in a future LOLCooking post on my food blog MomCooks!

Like the photo? Please leave a comment, and please sign the linky if you are playing along with Wordless Wednesday today!

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May 12

Remembering Why I’m a Mommyblogger

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I’ve come to the realization that I need a reality check of sorts. That I’m veering off in a direction that while not bad in and of itself, is further away from where I intended to stay when I first started blogging. Tonight I had this Write Post screen open and I found myself just staring at the screen. Little fragments of post possibilities were jumping around in my head, but no fully formed ideas. Usually I can start with one thought and pour it all right out onto the screen, but not tonight. I’m blocked.

I have MommyBlogger’s Writers Block, and it’s not making me happy. So, I’m going to post some photos to look at that will help me remember just who it is that I started this blog FOR. My Children.

I feel a little better now.

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May 10

Win a $25 Kroger Gift Card!

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This contest is closed. Congratulations to the winner, Noreen from Silly Mommy of 2 Silly Girls!

Beginning April 11 and running through May 23, Kroger is inviting customers to visit www.kroger.com/green where they can enter the Kroger Reusable Shopping Bag Contest by designing their own reusable grocery bag with Kroger.com’s easy-to-use design tool.

Upon submitting their entry, designers will receive a confirmation email allowing them view their final design and send to family and friends for votes.

Voting will be open throughout April and May and the 10 top-voted designs will be featured on www.Kroger.com June 2, 2008.

A panel of judges will review the 10 top-voted designs and will award one lucky designer a $500 Kroger gift card. Judges will also select four finalists who will receive $250 Kroger gift cards and five runners-up who will receive $100 Kroger gift cards. The winning designer might even end up seeing their design on a bag in his or her local Kroger store.

Everyone who enters a design that has a valid Kroger Plus card will also receive a digital coupon good for a free reusable bag of their own.

To enter to win a $25 Kroger Gift Card, leave a comment on this post. The only requirements are that you leave a real name or blog alias, not keywords, and that you leave a valid email address.
Open to U.S. entrants only. The gift card can be used at any of the stores in the Kroger family, including Ralph’s and Fred Meyer’s, as well as online where you can use it to purchase flowers, or other gift items.
Contest ends Saturday May 24th at 9:00 AM EST. And don’t forget to enter the Kroger Reusable Shopping Bag Contest, too!

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May 05

If only I’d been a blogger back then

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One of the honored guests at the Virtual Baby Shower that I participated in, Mrs. Chicken, just wrote a post about how exhausted she is with this second pregnancy, how some days she feels disconnected, wonders what the heck she got herself into. I was reading through her comments and then started leaving one of my own, only it got so long that I came here to turn it into a blog post instead.

Ryan was 17 months old when I got pregnant with Nathan. I was working full-time at the Credit Union, we had a terrific caregiver who’s house was across the street and five houses down from ours, and Chris was working for a company whose offices were less than a mile from our house.

On a beautiful Spring weekend in April, 1998, Chris, Ryan and I participated in a 5K walk for the March of Dimes. We got home and Ryan went down for a nap, and I stretched out on the couch. And slept for four hours. When I woke up I said to Chris, “wow, I don’t feel good. My stomach feels queasy.”

Dun dun DUN. I made a doctor appointment, peed into a cup, and sure enough. But here’s what’s weird-I have almost no specific memories of being pregnant with Nathan. I see photos from that time with my belly round and I just get no memory sense at all. I know it was a relatively good pregnancy, no high blood pressure or diabetes, no bedrest. In fact, I went into labor naturally, which I hadn’t even done with Ryan.

But why can’t I remember? I can’t nod my head along with Mrs. Chicken and say “oh yes, I remember that feeling”, or “no, that didn’t happen to me” because I just don’t remember it. I was growing a person inside my body, you’d think I would have some memories of that. I do remember that labor started on Sunday, December 20th at Chris’ Aunt and Uncle’s Christmas party, and that I kept feeling my belly tighten. I also played the piano while everyone sang Christmas Carols, and can I just say that oh my GAH, what was I thinking with this hairdo:

(I’m the one in the middle with the curling iron curls on the top of my head. And the festive red nails, which went with me to the hospital and were red for a long time because I was too tired to remember to take the polish off. On my left is Chris’ Mother, on my right, his Aunt). The HAIR.

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