Well i think I've given up on my beloved Sean T of Insanity... at least for now.

My job's new space has a pretty sweet gym that cost only $10 a month to join... it's got all the equipment you could want and well it's in the basement! The thing is there was no accountability with Sean... At the gym (if you go often enough at the same relative time, you'll make gym friends that will ask you where you've been if you miss a few days... Sean isn't as good at holding me accountable! Mostly it was me making it a week or two then quiting and coming back and giving Sean a big F-U buddy for it still be so hard.

NOT that I'm taking it easy on myself in the gym! I'm sweating to the point where i WILL shower before heading back to the office AND it hurts. Stairs hurt, picking up my kids hurts, standing up hurts. I mean when the hell did I turn 80 and need a cain?

So the fat friend will be shrinking. It may not be quick and it won't be pretty but in the end... I'll be someone I'm proud of!

BAM!

despite it all...

Despite all of my complaining we do have some good nights at my house and well, my kids are flipping adorable! I'm just saying...

First guarantee of a good night? Spaghetti night. While my husband does not share my obsession love for spaghetti, luckily i think it passed it on to the littles while they were in utero. THANK GOD something makes them happy... I mean how can carby comfort food NOT make you happy?

I love seeing a face covered in sauce with two cute little blue gray eyes sticking out!

Second way to guarantee .. allow littles to demolish kitchen... See this face below? This is the face of sneaky enjoyment. This is how he looks at me when he's about to do something that he shouldn't be doing. What is he about to do? Take out all of my bowls and bang them on the floor so that they can be covered in dog hair so when i need something I have to take the time to wash it before i can use it... Thanks little man... well played.

Third way to makes sure the kids are happy? Boxes. Yeah lets buy the kids some awesome expensive gift that causes you and the hubs to fight over the fact that you're trying to show your kids love with over priced plastic wear made in China! Or just order diapers from Diapers.com and let them get pulled around in the box it came in... either works fine... one will not hurt your marriage.

So while I do complain a lot, when i have the energy, i know exactly how to make my kids happy... and really, how can you not try when you see this little crazies looking at you?

OMG they are eating my soul!

Hey girl!

I'm participating in a link up today at View Along the Way! Know those great photo's on Pintrest of celebrities that say "Hey girl!..." Well we're doing our hubbies!

 Enter Chris:

 

And because I couldn't help myself and was having so much fun... here's Parker man!

Oh my dear f'ing children

I love them, i do! They are fun, silly, sweet little humans, but for real... GO THE F TO SLEEP

have you seen/heard this?

It's an amazing little ditty and SOOO true. My kids apparently LOVE seeing me in the middle of the night and i really just DON'T want to see them then.

I know with Parker it's my fault... kid still wakes up for a bottle in the middle of the night. We are just going to have let that shit go and let him cry until the cows DO NOT come home!

Kinsley she's entering the nightmare phase, yea~ Most of the time she sleeps fine... but sometimes she'll wake up and WILL NOT go back to sleep unless she's in my room... then I get to snuggle with a heater that smells like old pee thanks to her pull up and get a foot to the vagina whenever she rolls over. Awesome.

So really I just want to tell me kids to read the above book... for some reason though I doubt it would make a difference.

Names...

So there's a link up going on at My Very Own Modern Family and I thought I would join in!

First up... me

Erin Martin... Parents just liked Erin and Martin is my Mom's maiden name... yea I was SOOO cool in middle school when the show "Martin" came out... NOT

 

Kinsley Grace... It was simply because the hubs and I liked the name. We liked that Kinsley was different, spelled like it sounds and a little southern sounding. Grace because it's pretty and goes nicely with Kinsley and I didn't think she would get made fun of with it as a name.

Chunky Monkey, I mean Parker Thomas. Parker is because we loved it and thought it would work well as an adult name and Thomas is after Chris, his middle name is also Thomas.

So there you have it... what's in your name?

 

I'm losing it...

First of all, I MIGHT have lost my ever loving mind... I signed up for a half marathon! Now, it's in October, so it's not like I've completely gone off the rocker, I've got time but still... LIKE WHOA!

 

This past weekend we celebrated my Mother-in-laws birthday and how awesome she is. At the restaurant Kinsley got this...

It's pretty awesome, she loves it and even wore it while helping  me cook grilled cheese last night~

 

Oh and she's a good sharer and let her brother play with it too!

 

Seriously, we were at this restaurant for 3 hours!!!! And my kids were good the whole time! I know, Holy Shit! God was smiling down on me... or he thought I deserved it since we've been dealing with this...

Yup little man is on twice a day breathing treatments and can have them more if we think he needs them. He's been rocking a fever off and on for over a month and throw in chest wheezing and an ear infection for good measure, it's been a very trying time...

 

BUT he's getting much better at taking naps!

HA

 

Kinsley has been growing up way too fast. Despite her well put together sentences of defiance we've been having fun too! Here she is getting her hair cut at my salon... I mean is there anything cuter than a three year old getting a shampoo?

 

And this happened... in case you can't read through the blur of my stellar phone camera skills, she finally started full time in the 3 year old room at daycare. She's doing SO much better at school with her behavior now that she's being challenged again... but OMG she's two years away from Kindergarten!

 

So yea, life is happening here and we're moving right along. The hubs and I are looking at doing some work to the house... nothing exciting just a roof and windows, etc. Necessities. Lets just hope my life moves a long with me actually training for this half! It's the Baltimore 1/2 marathon in October if anyone wants to do it with me!!!

FINALLY a good night!

We finally had a night where i didn't want to dig my eyes out with a spoon! I almost felt like dancing or cleaning... but lets be real... I wasn't going to clean.

I picked the cuties up from school where they were both in good spirits. The Little's room didn't give him dinner yet so I was bracing myself for a long horrible night. (He gets fed dinner at school because if he waits to have it at home, but the time its ready, etc then he's screaming and spitting at me) We got home and spider monkey actually let me put him down and DO stuff! So I got him and his sister a nice healthy dinner of boxed mac and cheese made (generic of course!)! I also threw in a few green beans so that I felt like a rock star Mom.

The kid ate it and didn't spit on me so I kept rolling with this abnormally good mood of his! I worked on the main meal for Northern Cowboy and myself (pork loin that was actually flank steak so we had fajitas... long story, not interesting). Then I threw the kids in a diaper.com box and it was a straight giggle fest! Boxes... who knew (oh yeah every parent in the universe).

Next I threw him in a bath and then we started his breathing treatment while big girl shit her pants... for the second time that day... what was happening I don't know but she would get a look of terror on her face run for the bathroom and I guess not make it and BAM turd in pants. She hasn't done that in months! oh well.. bath for too anyway

So now kids are clean, Parker is all meded up with his nebulizer and in walks the hubs. We put the son to bed and head downstairs with Sassy pants to watch some Care Bears. Then she goes to bed, WITHOUT A PROBLEM and I go downstairs to mark this day on the calender so that I'm reminded it happened!

I mean after the weeks we've been having, that shit blew my mind!

Then this morning at 5am Sassy Pants wakes up crying so i go into her room to see what Monster needs an ass whooping and she says through tears "I'm having a hard time, I want to lay in your bed"... OMG yes my sweet angel child come with Momma!

On the way to school we were having a random blizzard that dumped over an inch of snow on us in like 30mins and I asked her where all this snow came from "It's from Santa Momma! I think he thinks we miss it!"

:)