A Night Off...

Okay, so my wonderful hubby of three years is giving me the night off from being a Mamma. What a nice guy he is! Unfortunately, all of my friends are busy! WTF?! Oh well, I guess that's what life is like now for most of us. Gone are the days of 'spur of the moment' get togethers, after work drinks, last minute concerts... Everything must be planned in advance so as to work around spouse schedules/commitments and/or to find adequate childcare for our wee ones... How boring is that?

I guess I have a little of excitement to be getting out and going to see one of my good friends perform in her 80s cover band (I haven't seen her band perform since before I got pregnant! Oh wait - I WAS pregnant last time I saw her band play, but I just didn't know it!).

Unfortunately, I am still nursing so to drink or not to drink? That is the question of the night. And if the answer is to drink - then the next question is 'Drink what?' I have mixed feelings on the drinking and nursing issue. One drink should be ok but one drink of what? A mixed drink? A beer? A glass of wine? And really - how much will this REALLY affect my little one?

Eh! I'm not going to worry about it - as someone once told me "Being a mom is the guiltiest job you will ever have!" Isn't that the truth?

Boy, as I reread what I wrote I realize - this post took a wrong turn at Downer Avenue didn't it? Sheesh!!! Maybe I do need that drink after all!!!

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Chuc Mung Nam Moi!

Happy New Year! Today is the beginning of the Chinese/Vietnamese New Year! Those born this year are of the Earth Ox sign which signifies new beginnings.

Unfortunately, we have fell out of tradition in our family and we no longer celebrate this significant day but we do acknowledge it. You'll find us celebrating with the Westerners on their New Year instead.

I guess this is my short & sweet post - however if you find chinese astrology interesting like I, check out this site: http://chinese.astrology.com/

Wishing you a happy, healthy and prosperous new year!

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The Tale of Two Spoils

Yes, I am! I have to start off by saying how wonderful my husband is. Despite him feeling under the weather, true to his word, he gave me the day off! What does that mean you ask? It means that he stayed home and rested up with our baby boy while I got out of the house to do what I wanted! Woo hoo! Never have I felt so lucky to have this wonderful man in my life, especially knowing that some of you Mommas out there do not ever get a day off from someone needing you and depending on you.

So here I am, a day free to myself and how do I spend it? At the day spa, getting a pedicure? Getting a massage? Nope! I spend my time shopping for my baby boy! Although we did get a lot of clothes for our boy, we are lacking in sleepers in the 3-6 month range. But, before I splurge too much on clothes I head to Best Buy just for kicks.

What do I find? A sale! For some reason, TV sets were going out the door by the dozens it seemed like! Now, I've been on the hunt since after Thanksgiving for a new LCD TV for our game room/play room and the room has become our 'junk' room since I haven't found a good deal yet. Not that we're in any hurry since our boy is still not able to hold a Wii remote. But today I found one! Woo hoo! Not only am I spoiled by my husband, here I am spoiling my little boy! Yep - I did it! I bought my little boy a 40" LCD 1080p, 120hz, 50000:1 Contrast Ratio HDTV! He's going to have quite the game/play room but in all honestly, the game/play room is for me. Hee hee!!

So there it is folks. The tale of two spoils - me, by my husband and my boy, spoiled by me!

Oh yah - I did buy him about $80 worth of clothes too... LOL

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The Start of Something New

Okay, so I thought I'd start a blog. It seems to be the rage and sometimes I just have to get IT out! You know what the 'it' is... It's the annoying voices in our own head, the voices that we hold back, shush and smother with that pillow so IT won't make us look bad. The truth is, it's much better to unleash the voices. It's better for our sanity to voice what we are REALLY thinking at times or at least have some outlet for them. Unfortunately, if we let those crazy voices out too much we're viewed as crazy. Fortunately, we all have those 'crazy voices' in our head and that's nothing to be ashamed about! So I say, let those voices out - let them be heard! At least then we will gain at least some of our sanity back, right?

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