But I’m not sure I believe you….

Long weekends make me a bit weird the entire following week. I always feel like I’m a day off. Which I am.

My weekend was exhausting but worth it! Santa Cruz was a lot of fun. Got together with the most hilarious group of girls I know & celebrated all weekend. I’ll tell you one thing, drinking elevates emotions. Friday night I was SO sad about not being with Milo that I cried & went to bed early. I also learned that I am in fact NOT 21 anymore. Drinking two nights in a row seemed to prove impossible for me. I had wild ideas that I’d drink ALL weekend long, ha…HAHAHA. Yeah right. By 11pm Saturday night I was almost falling asleep at one of the bars we were at! Anyways, It was a great trip. The house we stayed at was gorgeous. Literally on the beach, the most amazing view ever! We lucked out with getting it on a holiday weekend. Surprisingly no real dramas between a group of 12 girls either, which I was a bit worried about. I don’t think anyone walked away from the trip hating each-other! And of course the beautiful Bride to be had an AWESOME time. Success!

Our house was over to the left behind us!

Sunday I was beyond ecstatic to get home to my boys, especially Milo. He looked huge like he had grown 2 ft in the two days I was gone! I have no plans of leaving him for days at a time like that  for a real long time. I’m such a family person. I know time apart is probably healthy for us all but I just have zero interest in it really. I’m a Mom & Wife now, & it’s my favorite thing. I only want to go places that all of us can go for a while.

Milo has been extra adorable & extra crazy the past two days, I say it’s a possibility that two year molars are trying to make an appearance, but I could be wrong. He passed the buck last night for the first time every & it was so funny I couldn’t even get mad. I noticed that someone had doodled all over the oven door yesterday with chalk. I asked him if it was him (who else could it be?). Well, I was wrong. According to Milo it was Rocky(our dog) who chalked all over the oven door. It made me laugh so much. So Silly he’s becoming.

I do believe that absence makes the heart grow fonder. I always love & get along with Mercer but it’s been extra nice being home with him the past few days. I missed him too!

Now, today on this supposed Wednesday I’m just starting to get back into my routine. My biggest goal today; healthy eating. For the past 5 days I’ve eaten absolutely anything in sight it seems. Nothing healthy what-so-ever & I don’t feel that good. I just had fruit with greek yogurt for breakfast & plan on a salad for lunch with a huge portion of veggies for dinner! Hopefully squeeze in some exercise this afternoon too!

I hope you all had a nice long weekend!

Teething, snot face McGee. Made me laugh way too much.

image via: weheartit.com

The past few weeks something has became abundantly clear to me.  I’m sort of embarrassed to admit it.

We’ve let our child become a spoiled brat.  I say that with love and concern.  But, he is my kid so I can say it.  Only children often have that quality about them.  Not all, so don’t jump down my throat.  My best friend is an only child and well, she fits the prejudice description of that.  I vowed not to let this happen to MJ.

But it is…

And, it’s my own fault.  My husband tends to take my lead.  We agree a lot on our parenting ideals so I guess it’s not really taking my lead, we just tend to agree on things a lot.  But, this one?  Has spiraled out of control.

MJ can NOT handle “No”.  He wants what he wants, and if he doesn’t get it?  Be prepared for a fit.  A fit is how it all really began.  A fit in public used to mortify me and make me turn every shade of red and pink on the Pantone Color Wheel.  I couldn’t handle the silent judging and awkward stares from strangers.  So, I’d give in.  I’d give him my Marc Jacobs sunglasses to terrorize.  My chap-stick.  My iPhone!  That’s the major issue, the iPhone.  It’s gotten SO out of hand.  He demands ANY phone he sees now.  We were at a birthday party and he walked up to a stranger and took his blackberry out of his hand. GASP. Luckily, that stranger thought it was cute.  I? did not.

I couldn’t even make a phone call today because he flipped out over the phone when he saw it.  I’m so over it. I’m finally at that comfortable point in Motherhood where I simply don’t care about the occassional in public tantrum.

They happen.  To everyone.

It doesn’t make me a bad Mom to tell him “NO”.

So, now we are on the road to teaching him boundaries, to not always give in,  and that No is something he will be hearing from time to time the rest of his life.

It’s not easy.  The tantrums are wearing.  But, consistency has to begin.  Otherwise it just won’t work.

And if you see me at Target with a screaming child in my cart, Please don’t give me the stink eye.  It’s for the eventual greater good of all of our eardrums, and my blood pressure!

A few photos snapped from our life, on the iPhone over the past week.

and, I’m really too lazy to watermark my photos so PLEASE don’t steal them and pretend my family is yours, ’cause that’s just weird and pathetic.

The MJs at lunch this weekend. Our waitress was hilarious and made mine and Mercer’s day with telling us mj was “totally f*&%king cute.”

This kiddo put some of my really old sunglasses on and then passed the heck out on the car ride home from Gigi & Papa’s house.

Tunnel time real quick before bedtime.

We went on a walk to the park this morning and played, played, played.

Some lady at the park this morning told her son that Milo was a girl, like 6 different times.  I didn’t correct her. It amused me.  I mean really….WHAT?! about that nugget says GIRL?