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Spreading Some Bloggy Love

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My old swap buddy Meg @ Faith & Gasoline just gave me the Kreativ Blogger award! She’s such a sweetie and today seemed like the perfect day to spread a little bloggy love, so now I’m going to pass it on to some of you, my loyal and faithful readers! But first – the rules:

  1. List seven of the things I love.
  2. Present the Kreativ Blogger award to seven other bloggers.

Seven Things I Looooooove Are:

  1. My Family - this is all inclusive, because, duh obviously I love my husband, my son, my not-yet-born little BB, my parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles – it would get tedious to list them all, but a crime to leave any out – so they’re all getting grouped together right here! Hope they like being all squished together-like!
  2. Getting Great Stuff For Free - like this cool Itzbeen Baby Care Timer that I reviewed @ Momma’s Review today. I can’t wait till little BB is born so I can put this to excellent use! Being a review blogger is pretty much the most awesome thing I’ve ever done and working for my bestie Ange is pretty fantastic. I’ll be reviewing a lot of other great stuff soon, so if you haven’t bookmarked Momma’s Review yet you really should!
  3. The book I’m reading! – I’ve had excellent book luck so far this year and Waiting For Birdy by Catherine Newman is no exception. Get this guys – it’s a memoir by a woman who wrote a column at babycenter.com about finding out she was pregnant with her second child (when her first child, a son, was about 2 1/2) and all those weird second time around, “Do I really want this?” stuff as well as typical mommy worries, potty training, etc. It’s like reading about my life by someone way better at writing than me. Spooky but awesome. You can read some great teasers for this book here.
  4. Breyer’s Double Fudge Brownie Fat Free Ice Cream - this stuff is delicious – like swoon worthy and only has 110 calories in a one cup serving. It’s unreal. We switched to frozen yogurt for awhile to cut down on calories and were pretty happy with that decision – then in walked this ice cream and BAM are we hooked. It’s like guilt free heaven.
  5. Cuddling With MM – he’s growing up so fast, learning new things every day and gaining independence by leaps and bounds. He annoys the heck out of me (especially when he strips down naked and pees all over his bed) but man I love just sitting down and cuddling with him – and I love it when he asks me to cuddle – he really is the best!
  6. Whole Foods – I had never been to a Whole Foods before and wasn’t really sure what the hype was. I mean, isn’t Trader Joe’s good enough? And while I love me some TJ, now that I’ve been to a Whole Foods, I get the hype. They are nice – it’s kind of like going to the Gourmet Grocery Store except stuff is still very reasonably priced. I just wish our closest location were a little bit closer and not quite in quite so ghetto a neighborhood. Our location does story time with milk and cookies on Tuesdays and seriously if they weren’t where they are, I’d be loving the idea of taking MM there for that!
  7. Yogi Chai Tea - I’ve been a pretty huge Tazo fan for awhile and still love their teas (especially the frappucino style you can get at Starbucks) but I recently tried Yogi Tea’s chai for the first time (I found it at our Whole Foods) and oh my lord, it is heavenly. It has a little bit lighter of a flavor but still so delicious and the aroma is just out of this world. By far the best cuppa tea I’ve ever had.

Wasn’t that fun? I think even managed to sneak in some blogging about things I’ve been doing lately, etc. that would have been too ittle for a blog post of their own – it’s like a “random stuff” post with a purpose – not to mention how nice it is to think about all the awesome stuff in our lives, instead of just our gripes and complaints (sore back, sprained foot, my car’s check enginge light is on, my son strips down naked and pees all over his bed…) so it seems fititng that I end this with something else that makes me superly happy and filled to tbe brim with love – YOU! Here’s a special little shout out to seven of my readers who make me smile constantly:

  1. Krystyn @ Really Are You Serious
  2. Scrap Girl @ Serendipity
  3. Sue @ My Musings
  4. Ange @ Red Knows How
  5. Jen @ Stuff Jen Says
  6. Nancy @ Life With My Boys
  7. Jean @ Working Momma 247

Aloha Friday: Cake & Ice Cream

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It’s time for another Aloha Friday, the day that you take it easy and look forward to the weekend, in Hawaii and blogland anyway. As you should know by now, over at An Island Life, Kailani decided that on Fridays she would take it easy on posting and ask a simple question for you to answer. Nothing that requires a lengthy response.

If you’d like to participate, just post your own question on your blog and leave your link at An Island Life’s blog. Don’t forget to visit the other participants! It’s a great way to make new bloggy friends!

Today is my husband’s birthday (::waves:: Happy Birthday Sweetie!) so I thought for today’s Aloha Friday we could all share some cyber birthday cake and ice cream and celebrate his big day together! But since this is cyber space and not my kitchen of limited possibilities, I want to make sure everyone gets their favorite kind of cake and ice cream – ever – nothing but the best for all my bloggy friends (and you know, the dh who will be getting chocolate fudge cake with cream cheese frosting AND my homemade chocolate chip cookies – aka jackpot). So what I want to know is…

What’s your favorite kind of cake AND ice cream?

Summertime Sunday Was Soooo Nice

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Yesterday I mentioned we took my little monkey (or son, whose acronym might be changing, more on that later though…) to the beach. One of those state parks with a huge lake and sandy awesomeness and sun and ahhh it was gorgeous. It was relaxing. Yesterday was in many ways the perfect summer day.

There were less than perfect moments – mother nature has not yet let me out of her clutches and I never made it all the way in the water, but really just a few moments knee deep were pretty stellar and I’m telling myself the water was too cold to go further anyway. The sand felt ahhh oh so good – the air was warm but with a slight breeze and just watching everyone and their brothers having a good old fashioned summertime good time was so relaxing. I read all of two pages of Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich (a really GOOD two pages though) while the boys did some wading in the water but (my little monkey) never quite warmed up to the whole experience before the nap time mood flip occurred.

He didn’t seem to want to swim, after a 2 second ego crushing flip he took in the water (we decided to replace his life vest as it did nothing useful whatsoever and is likely way way too old now (it was a hand me down) but dh was right there and promptly flipped the monkey back over, but the poor kid just never quite got his mojo back after that and wanted out of the water. And never would get back in.

So we decided sand castles were in order, but he didn’t seem to have a lot of interest in getting down and dirty with his bare hands (doh! beach toys!) – he was totally interested in all the toys the other kids there had brought, which really drilled home the need to pick up some good digging tools for next time – found later that day at Babies ‘R’ Us for $2.50 – not bad! So anyway, after about an hour of the monkey humming and hawing over what he did want to do, we decided to hit the road and grab some lunch. Wouldn’t you know suddenly he wanted to stay? hehe

Anyhoo, after a lunch at home and some good old naptime, we headed over to our favorite shopping center and got a new life vest, some new beach towels because I’ve had ours since I was like fifteen, and said beach toys stellar find. Before we went home for dinner we decided to do something hugely unparent-like but so summer fabulous – we stopped at Coldstone Creamery and split a dish of ice cream between the three of ourselves.

My long standing favorite flavor, the Black Forest Dream, seems to have been discontinued – it was really rather yummy, with chocolate ice cream, brownie chunks, chocolate syrup and cherry pie filling, it was decadent to say the least – but it seems I’m the only person who thinks cherry pie filling is superior to real cherries because not only has the Black Forest Dream been removed from the menu, but there are no other mixes that include said cherry pie filling – and really without the cherry pie, the Black Forest Dream is just a Black Forest Overrunneth by Chocolate, which it may surprise you to know is not something I care to get behind – I need a little variety in my ice cream.

So instead I ordered something which was a bit of a surprise to myself – their Birthday Cake Remix – I’ve had those birthday cake ice creams by Edys and the like, and sorry, they are pretty gross – something about the whole experience just felt overly sweet and artificial and way too vanilla – what good is cake without chocolate?

Well Coldstone seems to agree with me – cake batter ice cream, brownie chunks, rainbow jimmies and fudge – and oh lord am I in heaven. We did it up and got the chocolate dipped waffle bowl and apart from being disgusted that one bowl of ice cream could cost $SEVEN DOLLARS$ we were nonetheless in heaven – I hope Coldstone is open at Christmas, because I want that stuff for my birthday – forget the cake, just give me a bowl!

Pizza and a movie (Shrek) for dinner and we ended the night on cloud nine, laughing our arses off, still smelling of sand and sunscreen, still drooling internally over ice cream heaven… We put the monkey down for bed at nine at night – possibly the latest we’ve ever let him stay up – and we were all very terribly happy campers.