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This week has been my week from hell. Nothing has gone right at all.

Nothing, nada, zilch.

My hubby has been away in Switzerland since Saturday leaving the girls and me alone to fend for ourselves. Oh lucky us. Like I've written before, the kids go absolutely apeshit when he's gone. He's our rock and keeps the estrogen level in the house balanced. Even our Rottweiler (Molly) is female so we need all the help we can get.

Sierra has gotten in trouble at daycare this week for not listening and calling her friends "stupid". I don't know where she gets that from - when I'm pissed at her I say this is "RIDICULOUS!", not stupid. She has also been having trouble falling asleep - tossing and turning 'til 10 pm most nights. I have a take home FINAL exam for the College course I've been taking and at 10 pm I haven't felt the least bit like working on it after a long day at work followed by fighting with the kids for 5 hours. I have a feeling that tonight I'll be pulling an all nighter to get the thing done. I haven't done that in 9 yrs - well I guess I have but its been because of colicky or teething babies. Not because of a ridiculous assignment.

Tuesday night was by far our best night of the week. Sierra didn't listen to a word I said, was very disrespectful and I got to play a night long game of musical beds.

Here's an example from Tuesday night of a typical night when hubby is away:

8:00 pm - Baths
8:30 pm - Everyone in jammies, Brookie begging to go to bed.
8:45 pm - Brooke asleep, time for Sierra's one-on-one time with mommy, reading books, doing stickers quietly in bed.
10:15 pm - Sierra asleep (FINALLY), I curled up on the couch with my iTouch, a beer and a remote control to relax.
11:15 pm - I was done procrastinating working on my exam, and went to bed.
11:30 pm - Whole house asleep.
12:00 am - Brookie up - I brought her a drink and she rolled over and went back to sleep.
12:30 am - Whole house asleep.
1:00 am - Sierra up and crying because she wet the bed. I changed her, brought her to the potty, removed the sheets and relocated us from the master bedroom to the guest bedroom. (When hubby is away Sierra sleeps with me).
1:30 am - Whole house asleep.
5:00 am - Sierra up and crying because she wet the bed. I changed her, brought her to the potty, removed the sheets and relocated us from the guest bedroom to her bedroom.
5:30 am - Sierra asleep, but Brooke awake - her diaper leaked. Due to lack of beds, I changed her, and changed her sheets and was surprisingly able to get her to fall back asleep.
6:00 am - Whole house asleep
7:30 am - Whole house awake, but we're up 30 min late.
(Thank goodness we have a 4 bedroom house, otherwise Sierra and I would have ended up having a camp out on the floor).

I then rushed around to coax bribe the kids into getting dressed, packed my lunch, prepared chocolate milks for the kids, and brought out the recycling. I then brought the kids to daycare and Brooke missed breakfast, so I stayed with her in Sierra's daycare class while she ate some of Sierra's class's breakfast. When I was back in the car after dropping them off I discovered that in my coffee deprived state I'd left my purse on the front steps of the house while putting out the recycling. Drove back home and got my purse - showed up for work 30 min late (not bad all things considered).

Last night was pretty much just as fun. Sierra only wet the bed once, but cried so much that she woke up Brooke. I let Brooke cry it out for an hour (I was too freaking tired to deal with her). I eventually heard enough of Brooke's crying and climbed right into Brooke's crib to get her to go to sleep. (Yes, you read that right - I climbed INTO her crib). She wrapped her sweet little toddler arm around my neck and was asleep 5 min later - why don't the parenting books ever suggest this? Getting out of her crib was interesting to say the least - I am definitely not near as agile as I used to be, though I am incredibly surprised I was able to fit in the crib in the first place. Maybe that's why the books don't suggest this?

Tomorrow morning my exam is due, so I'll be up mucho late working on it, thankfully we have only 2 nights left until hubby gets home!! Yay! I wonder if I'll make it without having to be placed in a padded room?

PS - were any of you successful in counting the # of sippy cups in my dishwasher?

For those of you sitting on your seats with anticipation.... there were:

14 sippy cups
15 lids (why is there more lids than cups?)
3 bottles
2 ceramic bowls
2 plastic bowls
4 Coffee cups
1 water glass

Mike is so right, I really need to stop drinking my coffee out of sippy cups J

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This post is short and sweet. Wanna know why? Cause it was written and posted with my brand new iPod touch! OMG! I am abso-freaking-lutely in love with my itouch! Austa la vista laptop! There's a new kid in town!

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So I've unexpectedly come into $253.00 that I wasn't expecting.  The money was owed to me, but I never thought in a million years I would get it.  Now its burning a hole in my proverbial pocket - my ass is on fire folks! 

What should I do with this money?

I've REALLY REALLY REALLY been wanting a new iPod - an iPod Touch, yanno to replace my ever freezing, piece of shit IPod Nano (truth be told, it's not the Nano's fault - it's dying a slow chocolate milk induced death).  Did ya know iPods and chocolate milk don't mix?  Take it from me - they don't. 

But you see we have bills - bills, bills, bills.  And we also have been putting off repairing things, upgrading things etc...  Things that the $$ could be better spent on....   I could also actually SAVE the money for my girls....

But I REALLY REALLY REALLY want an iPod Touch!  Yanno - to use with my Nike + to moivate me to get running again, get in shape, be healthy to see my girls grow up...

So I'm turning it over to you dear internet - What should I do with the $250?  What would you do with an "extra" $250?

What would you do with the $250?
( surveys)

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THIS IS A GIVEAWAY POST AND WILL REMAIN AS THE TOP POST UNTIL SUNDAY MARCH 8, 2009

Nothing is better in my books than getting fit without having to pay hefty gym membership fees.  With two kids in full-time daycare, I'm the queen of cheap, inexpensive alternatives and I honestly feel that with a little creativity you can get fit without having to use expensive equipment, hence the reason I run.  That's where Exercise Anywhere Cards from Nuruplanet.com come in.  Now you don't even need creativity to get fit - Exercise Anywhere Cards is a complete whole body exercise routine printed on a palm-sized deck of cards.  The deck has 30 double-sided cards with instructions and illustrations for 4-5 exercises for each major muscle group (ie: reverse fly to work out the shoulders).  The nice part is that all of the exercises on the cards can be done anywhere (as the name implies).  As well, the cards can be brought anywhere because the cards fit in your pocket, on your keychain or in a pocket of your gym bag!  At $8.00/deck the cards fit nicely in my budget too! 

 

My Results:

I tried the sample routine from the Exercise Anywhere Cards for a week and let me say, my entire body was sore afterwards!  I even lost two pounds that week!  Bonus!  On Monday I strength trained my chest, shoulders and tri's, then Tuesday I did some cardio, Wednesday I strength trained my lower body and abs, Thursday I did some cardio, and Friday I strength trained my back and biceps.  I liked the variety of exercises for each muscle group that the cards offered.  Although I have a Kinesiology background, the cards offered exercises that I hadn't even thought of.

WIN IT!

Now you can have your own set of Exercise Anywhere Cards from Nuru too!  I'm giving away 2 sets of the cards.  The contest is open starting today (Monday March 2, 2009) and will close on Sunday March 9, 2009 at midnight.

How to enter:

1) Leave a comment on this post listing one other product available from Nuruplanet.com
OR
2) Subscribe to receive posts from Mom On The Run by email

I will be having 2 draws for the cards: 1 winner will be selected from all of comments on this post, and 1 winner will be selected from all new email subscribers to Mom On The Run.

Originally published at Mom On The Run. You can comment here or there.

THIS IS A GIVEAWAY POST AND WILL REMAIN AS THE TOP POST UNTIL SUNDAY MARCH 8, 2009

Nothing is better in my books than getting fit without having to pay hefty gym membership fees.  With two kids in full-time daycare, I'm the queen of cheap, inexpensive alternatives and I honestly feel that with a little creativity you can get fit without having to use expensive equipment, hence the reason I run.  That's where Exercise Anywhere Cards from Nuruplanet.com come in.  Now you don't even need creativity to get fit - Exercise Anywhere Cards is a complete whole body exercise routine printed on a palm-sized deck of cards.  The deck has 30 double-sided cards with instructions and illustrations for 4-5 exercises for each major muscle group (ie: reverse fly to work out the shoulders).  The nice part is that all of the exercises on the cards can be done anywhere (as the name implies).  As well, the cards can be brought anywhere because the cards fit in your pocket, on your keychain or in a pocket of your gym bag!  At $8.00/deck the cards fit nicely in my budget too! 

 

My Results:

I tried the sample routine from the Exercise Anywhere Cards for a week and let me say, my entire body was sore afterwards!  I even lost two pounds that week!  Bonus!  On Monday I strength trained my chest, shoulders and tri's, then Tuesday I did some cardio, Wednesday I strength trained my lower body and abs, Thursday I did some cardio, and Friday I strength trained my back and biceps.  I liked the variety of exercises for each muscle group that the cards offered.  Although I have a Kinesiology background, the cards offered exercises that I hadn't even thought of.

WIN IT!

Now you can have your own set of Exercise Anywhere Cards from Nuru too!  I'm giving away 2 sets of the cards.  The contest is open starting today (Monday March 2, 2009) and will close on Sunday March 9, 2009 at midnight.

How to enter:

1) Leave a comment on this post listing one other product available from Nuruplanet.com
OR
2) Subscribe to receive posts from Mom On The Run by email

I will be having 2 draws for the cards: 1 winner will be selected from all of comments on this post, and 1 winner will be selected from all new email subscribers to Mom On The Run.