Mommy and Me Mondays

I just realized that I haven't even touched my camera for weeks. No cute pictures of Brody to share. Which means, I also have no "new" pictures of me and Brody either. I'd take one now, but I just out of the shower.

I didn't participate the last two weeks because I hadn't taken any pictures. Now we are at week 4 of Mommy and Me Mondays. So I am sharing an old picture. Not too old - it was taken on Halloween last year.

Here's my picture of me and IronMan.

Hosted by Krystyn

Goal for next week: Use my camera. Take a new picture with Brody.

Or IronMan. Whoever.

Sunday Stealing

What were you doing 10 years ago?

I was 19, finishing my first year in college. Living in the dorms. Probably working at the deli since it's a Sunday morning.

Five snacks that you enjoy in a perfect, non weight-gaining world:

Pizza

Nachos

Brownies

Krispie Kreme donuts

Starbucks

Five things you would do if you were a billionaire:

Build my dream house

Have an awesome art studio - and actually have the time to use it!

Build my parents a house, and give them everything they've ever wanted.

Charities. Specifically: anything children or cancer.

Travel.

Three of your habits:

I can not sit still. Even watching tv, I have to be multi tasking at all times. My hands have to be busy.

Biting my nails.

I'm a facebook junkie.

Five jobs that you've had:

egg packer at a chicken farm

Deli - serve, cook, slice, etc.

Graphic designer for sign shop

Graphic designer for print.vinyl shop

Office Manager/Designer for a Manufacturing Company

Five places that you've lived:

Emerson, Wayne, Emerson, Sioux Falls, Emerson.

Five things that you did yesterday:

Bought groceries

Went to the car wash

Played Wii with Brody

Watched Precious

Drank a few glasses of wine

Five people you would want to get to know more about:

??????

Abortion: for or against it?

I am not for it. But I do understand that sometimes, it may be the right choice for that person. Just not the right choice for me.

Do you think the world would fail with a female president?

Absolutely not.

Do you believe in the death penalty?

Hmm. No, but I am also not for leaving people to rot in a cell for the rest of their lives living off tax payers either. Glad it's not my decision .

Do you wish marijuana would be legalized already?

No. I don't believe it's needed in life. If you want to prescribe it to people, sure. But I don't believe it should be legalized for recreational purposes.

Are you for or against premarital sex?

Obviously. I am not married. I have a child.

Do you think same sex marriage should be legalized?

Yes.

Do you think it's wrong that so many Hispanics are illegally moving to the USA?

One of my biggest pet peeves is illegal immigrants. hispanic or not.

Should the alcohol age be lowered to eighteen?

No.

Should the war in Iraq be called off?

Yes.

Assisted suicide is illegal: do you agree?

Yes.

Do you believe in spanking your children?

Spanking as in a few pops on the butt, okay. Not slamming them over and over. What does that teach? I don't spank. He may get a slap on the butt once in awhile or an ear pulled, but nothing more than once. I grew up the same.

Do you worry that others will judge you from reading some of your answers?

I don't care. Everyone has their own opinions to these questions.

Okay, so my skin is amazing lately.

Seriously. It's the dead of winter here, so normally my skin would be dry and well, just tired looking. But it's not. It's amazing.

I have THE softest skin right now. I haven't had any sort of blemish in I can't even remember when, and it just looks alive and fresh. I barely have to put any foundation on in the morning, (which is awesome.) and I haven't used coverup or concealer in forever either.

I have it narrowed down to 2 things: Both of which I have been using religiously for the past month and a half.

Amazing Grass smoothies and Wexler Regenerating Serum.


I always jump on board the Fit Train this time of year. Or at least add to what I'm already doing. I already eat pretty good, and excercise pretty regular. I tried to do the whole "green smoothie" thing awhile back, and didn't really care for it. I had heard about Amazing Grass, which is essentially your green nutrients in a scooopable form, that you add to your smoothies, or even just water.


I am back to drinking a smoothie a day. I usually go for a 1/3 cup yogurt, a handful of blueberries, maybe a strawberry or two, a scoop of Amazing Grass, water and 3 ice cubes. It's delicious. I don't even taste the AG at all, just a yummy blueberry smoothie.


I have great energy since I've started, and of course my skin!!! It's seriously never looked better. Check this company out.


Next: the Regenerating Serum.


I got a sample of this in the Black Friday goodie bag from Bath and Body works. I finally got around to trying it, and it is straight from heaven. Has anyone else tried this stuff? It is so amazing. You barely have to use anything, and it keeps your skin so soft and smooth. I love.


Unfortunatley, it is not cheap. I stopped in the store yesterday, to see about getting some more since my free sample is nearly out. Of course, the store was out. The sales lady talked me into getting another Wexler product, a 3-in-1 that is a best seller, and also a much cheaper price. I used it this morning, so I'll let you know if it works as well (or better!). I did see that the serum is on a huge sale online though. Still a bit pricey for me, though.


Anyways, whatever I am doing is obviously working. I've also noticed that I've dropped a few pounds in the last month. I'm going to say it's more the nutrition I'm getting than anything else. I haven't been eating less or working out more than usual, and still I can tell things are definately going on with my body.

I'm actually pretty bummed today. I haven't had a smoothie. I ran out of AG yesterday, and my new shipment hasn't come yet. I'm hoping I'll have a package when I get home.

I may be addicted!!

Mommy and Me Monday

Me and my goofball. Smiling for pictures is overrated.

head on over to Really, are you serious and join in on the fun!

Perdy Things...

Hello beautiful blog world. What have you been up to? Well, at my house, we are up to this:

I bought Brody this game for Valentine's Day. The theme song for Indiana Jones has been playing non stop at my house for 4 days now! Seriously, though, it's a really fun game (the little that I've been allowed to play anyways.) It's better for Brody than Mario is, even though he loves Mario, because there is no time limit, and you don't really die.

If anyone wants to know how to get your child to ignore you all day - just buy him a new Wii game. It'll do the trick!

Speaking of VDay, I spent it with my true Valentine, Brody. Adam is, again, out of the picture. He just can't handle big words like relationship. So I need to take myself out of the equation. I deserve better than this. So does Brody. The hard part so far has been following through. Not texting/calling. But I intend to stay strong. Maybe he'll see what he is missing, maybe he won't. Maybe I'll still be here, maybe I won't. But I'm tired of the same old game with him all the time.

Recently I received this sunshine award from Orions Mom. Since the sun hasn't shown itself around these parts in MONTHS, I gladly accept. We had another storm this weekend, causing all highways to be closed, and another day of work/school missed. Ugh. Spring better be awesome this year!

I am passing it on to: Alexis, Kekibird, and Roxanne.

Now onto some pretty things. Look at my gorgeous new scarf!! I love it. It is so colorful and bright. and soft. and light. I haven't even had it a week and I've already worn it twice!

P.S. - yes, it is a mark. scarf. If you love it, let me know. I can sell you one.



I recently won two giveaways - both of adorable things!!!
The first I won during SITSMAS -


Flower Pins from Joy's Hope. These are really great. I don't have a picture of me wearing them, but you can see them below on my new jewelry display. I have worn both the green one and the brown/turqouise one so far. I did receive another, but I gave it to my little sister.
Check her out at her etsy shop.





Next up I won this apron from one of my favorite bloggers, Angie at Seven Clown Circus.

How CUTE is this apron?? It's also reversible. I feel cute wearing it. :)

We're artsy round here.

As I mentioned, we've had lots of snow days. We have spent our days in the house baking, playing, cleaning, playing Mario, organizing and painting.

One day I was getting a little irritable (it was on day 3 or 4 of the 2nd big storm). Brody was really pushing his limits. I was yelling at him for something, and he got sent to his room for a bit. I was in my room doing some things, and went downstairs to the basement to switch the laundry.

When I came back up, I found these sweet flower drawings on my pillows.




:) As you can imagine, I wasn't so irritated anymore! I want to keep them forever because everytime I see them they make me smile. They are now on display on the green dresser in my dining room so I can see them always.

We paint a lot around here. Whether its the walls, furniture, on paper or canvas, rarely a month can go by without me getting out all the paints. I rearranged my furniture after Christmas this year, and was met with a huge blank wall in my living room. I originally wanted to make a huge 4x4 canvas for it, but haven't found a prestretched one that big yet. I haven't stretched my own for years, but I may get it done this summer. Instead of staring at the blank wall for another 6 months, I whipped these 3 up one afternoon.

It's not perfect, and not what I want to hang there forever, but at least it's something to look at! I think I spent 45 minutes on all 3. (I really should have taken a better picture. It was dark already.) They are cool though, layers of the colors in my room. It looks more pink in the pic (bad lighting) but it's actually more of a gold color.

Next project: Jewelry organization.

I should have taken a before picture. I used to just lay out all my necklaces on the dresser, and kept the earrings and rings and bracelets in containers on top. It was a mess, really. Now, my necklaces all hang, my earrings, rings and bracelets are all on display. and you can actually see the top of my dresser!!

This was Brody's latest painting. I let him paint on real canvases and use my good paints. We use a process that I've talked about here to keep his paintings interesting. They always turn out good. This one I just let him do whatever he wanted to. It's hanging in his room right now.

I'll end up using this same canvas again later on, just repainting over what's already there. But for now, it's perfect hanging in his room, and he is very proud of it.

As you can see!!

Jimmy Choo!!

I'm a bag lady. I have a CLOSET of purses, bags, clutches... I have special purses just for shopping, day outings, work, dates. I love me a good bag.

I found a new blog. and just in time - she is GIVING AWAY this Jimmy Choo Ramona Bag.


I want it. Bad.

head on over and enter if you must.... But just remember I saw it first.