Here's a snippet of a conversation I had with my four year old earlier.
"Mom, can we go out and play with my skateboard?"
"Not right now, it's six in the morning, the sun is still sleeping."
"When the sun wakes up?"
"Not exactly, but we'll go sometime today."
"OK."
A few minutes pass, as I lie in bed trying to be comatose.
"Mom, I've been waiting three hours."
Not.
Apparently time flies when your Mom pretends to sleep.
You know you're a Mommy to a newborn when, a 30 minute nap on your couch leaves you wanting a longer nap completely refreshed. A 30 minute nap which should have been a longer one because your newborn took a three hour nap, while which you were:
when you should have been trying to get more than a thirty minute "cat" nap.
Multitasking should be considered an art form.
As a new Mom (I’ve actually had the whole Mommy gig for 4 ½ years now) I really enjoy tips from other Mom’s that have helped simplify their lives. So I’ve decided to start a weekly Mommy Tip here at The Mommy Vine.
Today’s tip concerns a great way to warm baby’s bottle.
As a new Mom again, I recently went from breastfeeding to formula feeding and hated the thought of my little guy getting room temperature formula all the time. I wanted a fast and convenient way to warm up the water for his formula without having to go out and purchase a bottle warmer (especially for those middle of the night feedings). With my first baby I had a bottle warmer that I received off of my registry and it worked great eventually however because the water was “hard” it became corroded. This time around I didn’t want to repeat history and was thinking of a way to keep his water warm when my husband came up with this ingenious solution. A thermos. Yep. So each night I fill my Thermos that I got at Target with warm water and I have perfectly temperate water for my little one’s formula. Bonus, the thermos keeps the water warm for well over twelve hours!
Score!!
The Secret is in the Sauce is giving away a Cricut! YES YOU READ RIGHT!!!
Here are the details straight from their site!!!
September is SAUCY- Cricut Expressions!
Hello Lover.
So you want a one? Who doesn't?
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This thing does it all.
Scrapbooking
Vinyl Lettering
School Projects
The list goes on and on!
The Cricut Expressions is the craft fanatics must-have!
And, here is YOUR chance to win one. Yep.
Click here!! 
This evening was out of the ordinary. It was weird, and that's kind of nice.
At about a quarter till 9:00 p.m. the power went out in my neighborhood (I'm still not sure about the surrounding area). The lights flickered on and off twice, and then everything went dark. Well, almost everything, my living room was nicely illuminated by both my laptops which happened to be turned on. I was in the middle of working on my new website http://www.mommy-vine.com/ and I switched over to the newer laptop because besides being shiny and pretty it has a bigger and better screen. Anyway, I digress.
My sons and I sat in our living room for about ten minutes once I realized that the lights weren't going to come back on immediately I started the process of lighting every candle I owned, so my living room was nicely lit and "cozy" as my neighbor put it.
So while my son played with his flashlight and I fed the baby we sat in our softly lit living room snuggled under a blanket, I was trying desperately to get my older boy to fall asleep - it didn't work, as illuminating different objects in the room and calling them by their name out loud was much more fun.
"Look Mommy, I found my Wii!"
"Look, Mommy, Mommy LOOOOOK, I found my train set."
Then my son said the funniest thing. "Mommy, Daddy be here soon. He needs to fix the lights."
As I began to explain to him that although Daddy is great at fixing most anything, I didn't think he'd be able to fix this. I told him that the Electric Company would need to do that. At which point he very matter-of-factly and in no uncertain terms told me that his "Daddy can fix anything!!!" Well! When you put it that way...
The rest of our time was spent pretty much the same way as we waited for the Daddy who could fix anything to get home.
You know what? Within five minutes of his arrival, our power magically came back on.
Perhaps my son knows something I don't.
This is a bit tardy however September is National Library Card month. If you don't have one (gasp!) you should sign up and get one at your local library. What else costs absolutely nothing and yet enables you to travel the world, learn new languages, and immerse yourself in total fantasy? Plus, if you have a student who doesn't have one sign them up! Reading and the love of reading is one of the most valuable gifts you can give your child!
