Ok, now that I know how to embed youtube videos here y’all are in trouble. Yeah, that’s right. So I really like this song, and forgot about it until I happened to hear it on the radio Thursday night as I was running late for class. The scene: a cold winter night in the dark heart of Lowell with me in a giant SUV driving around the enclosed parking lots of UMASS’s administrative buildings, desperately searching for a phantom opening. And of course, getting later and later by the second. I already knew I would have to walk in while…
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Last Holiday – I love this movie, I LOVE it. It just came on tv again tonight and that makes me so happy. If you are a female then go out and watch this movie, it is fun, uplifting, sweet, funny and how can you not love Queen Latifah? So its cheesy and the plot line isn’t deep and literary, but it’s entertaining and just makes me want to go out and live life. Do something exciting, get out of the house, you know. It’s elevating. Not to mention I adore ‘travel’ movies, ones that are like taking a mini-vacation…
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Well, the day has finally come… Yes, I went THERE. I accidentally ripped the tab off Arin’s Pampers, which pretty much hasn’t happened since he was 3 days old (at which time I just threw away the offending diaper, since I changed about 15 a day anyway). This time though, I decided to bring out the duct tape as I had read in many ‘baby advice’ articles back when I was still pregnant. No need to waste a good diaper, right? Especially since I had to change FOUR poopie diapers so far today. Uck.
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Julie and/or Lauren, I’m not exactly sure who is responsible, got Arin into Shaun the Sheep. Well, the theme song to it. He LOVES to watch it on YouTube over and over! It’s alright to hear once or twice, the lyrics aren’t bad but after the third time you kind of want to strangle Shaun the Sheep. And here is the X-Factor version that he originally got hooked on, its a spin off of the UK’s American Idol auditions I guess. You can’t compete with Shaun the Sheep!
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Today it occurred to me… Arin is the firstborn son of a firstborn son and a firstborn daughter. Doesn’t that sound like the start of a great prophecy? Here’s the little son of prophecy during his very first nap.
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I don’t know how this keeps happening… my Bobosaur is a NINJA. A chocolate ninja. I was in the kitchen washing dishes earlier, and when I finished I realized Arin hadn’t eaten anything (he wasn’t hungry for breakfast), and I felt like a bad mommy so I grabbed a nutri-grain bar figuring at least he would have something in his stomach. I walk into the living room to give him the tasty snack and was shocked to discover that my sweet boy, who had been playing so nice and quietly so I could clean up, had somehow snuck into the…
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Arin had a nice little football shirt for the Superbowl, not that he watched much of it, he was busy making messes.
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Homemade Oreo Truffles Instead of buying people chocolates this year I made some Oreo truffles, after seeing them on Bakerella’s website. They looked SO good I had to make them. I kind of winged the recipe, and since I was crushing the cookies by hand ended up adding some heavy cream to make them easier to crush – which I wouldn’t do again, they came out kind of mushy. Here is what I came up with after mushing up about 3/4 a package of Oreos, a big pour of heavy cream, and four ounces of cream cheese with a potato…
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We got some pretty flowers for Valentine’s Day (and a balloon for Arin). They smell even better than they look, the whole house smells like sweet roses. Almost like having spring in the here after all! I’ve decided I really love mixed bouquets. The Gerber daisies are so fresh looking! And here’s Arin with his ‘boon’, momentarily distracted from trying to get more chocolate…
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Everyone in my family had a nice Valentine’s Day planned. Mom and Carl went down to the Cape, Julie and Lauren went down to stay in Provincetown, Arin ate a TON of chocolate, and me… well, this about sums it up: I got to spend the day cleaning toilets, doing laundry, dusting icky stuff and finally, cooking a big dinner. And I had a monster pile of pots and pans waiting for me bright and early this morning. Oh well, at least there are tons of yummy treats hanging around the house for me to feel better with! I did…
