Wow...

...I am SUCH a lazy mom that I haven't even bothered to put a post on here in AGES.....

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! Ours was really nice.
So nice that I gained 5 pounds.
And I was sleep deprived because we drove through the night for 17 hours twice in one week.
And I had two open houses there for Uppercase Living.
(And I gained 5 pounds)
And I was shocked at how amazing my sister looks.
And I finally caught up with an old friend of mine and it was AMAZING to do that.
(And I gained 5 pounds)

How was your Thanksgiving? Anyone else out there gain 5 pounds?

LM1

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Oh My Goodness.

If I wasn't a lazy mom I might try my hand at these...

Okay. Who am I kidding. I'm a lazy mom... so not only would I NOT make these, I wouldn't know HOW to make these, much less how to make them look that amazing! They would never look as perfectly scrumptous and gorgeous as those cupcakes do. But boy aren't those pretty? Almost too pretty to eat. ALMOST.

Check out the rest of the cupcake collection here.

LM1

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I thought this was cute...

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Lazy Mom Tip #11

Since our last Lazy Mom Tip was about food, I thought I'd just go ahead and throw this one out there too...

The other night Lazy Dad 1 (aka. my husband) made some yummy beef stroganoff. Mmm, mmm. Despite it being so good that I could have eaten the whole lot of it, there was leftovers. And that's exactly what this lazy mom tip today is about... what to do with those leftovers.

Instead of throwing them all into a big tupperware container and then having to heat up the same container over and over and over for several days until it's finally all gone, I like to portion my leftovers out into smaller lunch type sizes. Usually I make the portions enough for one person. In this case, the dinner was so yummy, I put at least two portions in one tupperware container for ME to eat for lunch the next day! So according to the picture below I have two big portion sized lunches to consume (because I'm staking claim in these two bad boys before somebody else does). Awww, yeah baby....
Tune in next time when we answer the question, "How much can LM1 really eat!"

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I'm so excited!

Look at what I just won over at Bloggy Giveaways!!!!

And look at these cute ones. Scroll down to see them all.

I think this one is my favorite:

Although this one is stinking cute too:And look at this little cutie... helloooo cutie:Or do I want this one?! Hmmm... it's hard to decide!
I never win anything, so I'm really excited! Won't I look smashing as I walk into church with it?

Stop by her website to order one for yourself!


LM1

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Yet Another Reason To Despise Winter

Is it just me, or does everyone's laundry strangely grow and multiply and spread all through your house in the winter time? That picture could totally be what my basement looks like. If I don't keep up on it then pretty soon my yard will look like that, too.

I normally don't mind doing laundry, but all of these extra layers of clothes are killing me people!

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Advice Gone Wild

Yesterday I sent out an S.O.S. email about an old high school friend of mine that was having a wacky pregnancy issue. This is what she wrote:

"I don't get weird cravings and I don't have morning sickness.

But what I do have is almost worse. At least, psychologically. It is an agonizing, unexplainable, invisible ITCH between all of my fingers. I am entering my third month of itchy fingers. And it is keeping me up at night. Seriously!

I wake up nightly clawing at the skin between my fingers. At NOTHING. Cause there is nothing there! Just invisible itch.

Before you start spouting remedies, lemme tell you what I have tried:

1. plain lotion with socks on my hands to keep myself from scratching
2. Lamisil, some sort of athlete's foot cream in case it was an invisible fungus
3. Preparation H, in case it was a hemorrhoid between my fingers
4. Benedryl cream, in case it was an allergy
5. Aquaphor, in case it was just really dry skin
6. nothing, in case it was an overload of all of the above
7. I only use unscented, plain soap for hand washing
8. no finger jewelry
9. drying hands on paper towels instead of cloth towels
10. drying hands on cloth towels instead of paper towels

NOW.

Do you have any suggestions? For my sanity?"

So another good friend of mine who shall remain anonymous unless she chooses to reveal her own identity wrote me back this:

"I talked to my husband and left suggestions (under comments) on your friend's blog. Please let me know if any of the ideas worked for her.

Now, can you solve my problem -- I keep getting fatter and don't know why? Things I've tried so far:
1. Sitting a lot, especially at night.
2. "Over-the-counter" treatments:
---a. Cheetos and Fritos
---b. Halloween Candy
---c. Hostess cupcakes
3. Drive-thru treatments:
---a. McDonald's
---b. Taco Bell
---c. Wendy's

Nothing seems to work!"

Hahahahaha!
Rolling. with. laughter.
Much laughter.
Uncontrollable laughter!!!

LM1

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Taking the plunge!

So yesterday morning I was waking up my youngest LD and was laying in her bed with her. I was looking around her room at how the four pictures I have hung on her walls look funny where they are located because I originally hung them when she still had her canopy crib in her room. Now that she's in a "big girl bed" I'm sure everyone would wonder why on earth I placed those pictures where they are.

So then I started thinking about my moving-a-child-to-a-big-bed-tactics. I'm not sure why, but I was, okay? Later I went to check my email and I had a dear friend and fellow lazy mom ask me what advice I might have on moving her LD to a big bed. I immediately thought that it must be "divine" that I was just thinking about this topic earlier this morning, so I decided to do this post. So here it goes... my lazy mom moving-a-child-to-a-big-bed-tactics:

• Whenever you move an LD to a big bed you MUST fight the urge to totally rearrange the room. Leave everything exactly where it is. You want everything to look and feel the same as when their crib was in the room. This will help them adjust much better.
• When you buy a mattress don't feel like you HAVE to buy the box spring and bed frames right away. We always started our kids off with a mattress on the floor. You can still put a bed rail under the mattress to keep your LD from rolling out of bed, but if they ever do roll out of bed it doesn't really make any difference because the fall is SO short. When they are adjusted to the new bed then go out and buy them a box spring and bed frame.
• When you put the new bed into their room put it EXACTLY where their crib was and lay them down exactly the same way you did when they were in their crib. This way their view is the same as it always has been.
• To take the worries off of your mind about your child being free to move around the room, take everything out of your LD's room that could hurt them. Make sure everything is re-baby proofed. Just remove it from their rooms until they are old enough to not get out of bed and get into it!
• Instead of shutting their door, put a baby gate in the door jamb. That way you can peek in to make sure they are still in their bed and not risk waking them up by opening and shutting the door several times. Some LD's are good climbers, so if you have to stack another baby gate on top of the first one, do so!

So that's what I've got folks! Anyone else have a great tactic they'd like to share? Leave a comment and tell us.

And just for some fun.  Check out this printable Big Kid Bed Diploma from Simmons.

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A True Lazy Mom Confession...

I got a GREAT confession in from a fellow lazy mom. Check it out...

"I let my kids eat as much candy as they want from Fall Festival. It's gone in just a couple days and no more worrying about if I'm going to eat it or whining from them asking if they can eat their candy! Easy! One year one of my LD's even got sick from eating too much. What a wonderful lesson she taught herself!!

I am a true lazy mom!"

Hahahaha! That's a great confession... any one else willing to fess up?

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Bob

Have you lazy moms out there heard about Bob?


Bob keeps track of how much time your kids are in front of anything that is connected to a screen: the computer, TV, or video games. Each child punches in their password and once the allotted time expires the screen shuts off. It can keep track of up to 6 users.

Being a lazy mom just got easier.

(You can purchase Bob on Amazon.)

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Fess Up!

Any of you lazy moms out there been dipping your hand in your LD's candy bags as badly as I am today???
I don't want the junky stuff.
I want the good chocolate bar stuff.
Mmm, mmm.
Come on now! I know you're doing it too. So fess up! There's NO way I could be the ONLY one. Is there?


LM1

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