I need all help and advice. NOW!

(notice the stink eye look...)

Save me dear god. I have now realized that potty training a 27 month old is absolutely the worst job ever. I am about 2 hours into it and I can't handle it.



I have a potty chair.

It is in the t.v. room with her toys.

We went through the whole routine, of ripping off diaper and sitting.

She will not go naked (meltdown included)

I tried the big girl pants, she doesn't want them.



Now when I pulled out the small pretty jar with mnm's in them, that got her attention (thanks Sara!)

She took off her diaper. Sat. And of coarse said "pleeease mommy" with those little cute eyes batting, and pretty girl voice.

So I said if you potty, you get 1 mnm. Let's pretend once.

She dropped diaper, sat, I gave mnm.

Now she is having a meltdown and wants more.

Thank god I am a mean mommy. And I won't bend. I took the small jar of mnm's and put them up on top of the t.v. where she can see them for motivation and the potty chair is in front of the t.v.



(now that I have typed this she has calmed down...never mind, temporary distraction from Mickey Mouse...she is back into full whine... that is a whole nuther task we are tackling. "The I don't understand whining, talk normal please")



So any advice would be great. I know it's just day one, or just the first few hours. But I really think she is ready, she HATES being dirty, wants to be changed, and is very interested in the potty chair, toilet, and big girl pants too.



help me....

I won a muffin!

Yeah! My dear friend over at Maternal Mirth gave me this awesome "Mirth-y Muffin Award" thank you!! Welcome visitors. Make yourselves at home, leave me comments. They make me happy! Enjoy the weekend!

Shhhh.

There all sleeping.

Ed. Asleep in our room.
Alex. Just went down for his nap.
Mia. Just went down for her nap.
Cats. Asleep in the chair.
Dogs. Asleep in the media room.

LOVE. IT. Let's drink like RockStars, and get something done...

Shy, slightly reserved mail.

This is too effing funny, and even funnier is being on the phone with me this morning, when I got the joke. Then about 2 minutes later, I bust out laughing because then I really got the joke!

Anywho, my dear friend is walking through the office at work, and notices a mail bin labeled "Outgoing Mail" sure everyone has that, but then next to it is another mail bin labeled "Shy, slightly reserved mail"

Get it? Yeah it took me a minute, but that was so funny! Thanks for making our day random office person!

Friday's Feature Blogger!

Again my apologies for not posting on the correct days, sometimes I am just a wee busy for posting that day. Anywho, nuff rambling here is the newest genius idea, I will be posting on Fridays, enjoy the blogs I love to read.

Maternal Mirth

Who doesn't love a caring mother's blog, with more sarcasm and daily humor then one can handle? The way she blogs makes reading it a breeze. Not sure if it's the spacing, the font, the way she tells a story? Maybe it's all of it.

And if you must know that is how Sara is in real life. She is an amazing story teller. (I personally have about 10 zillion phone hours logged with Sara)

I have to say I may be just a tad bit biased that this is the best mom blogger eva! Since we were bestest friends in grade school and Jr. High. Sara and me have about 25 years of friendship and I know it will be forever. She is one of those people when I invested my $8 at Claires into the Best Friend heart necklace it was a smart purchase. (you know the cheesy broken heart, and you each got half)

Read Maternal Mirth once, and you will have it on your blogroll halfway through your first post! I enjoy her wit, and wisdom. With 3 kids and Dummy to boot. (I didn't forget about Gracie and Punkin the furballs!)

Rules of reading my featured blogger are easy.

Go to Maternal Mirth, leave her a comment. Showing love to another blogger is always appreciated. Be sure to let her know who told her she was amazing.

Leave me a comment, and let me know what you think.

That is all... now go read... I will wait here....

MnM's and a bell...

Thanks Sara I will be going out to get myself a shiny and noisy new bell, and a nice big bag of MnM's... I will tell you all later what this is for... I don't want to jinx myself!

The Blogosphere I call home.

My dear friend Sara over at Maternal Mirth wants to know my views on this blogosphere that I have very comfortably moved into. You too can play along, it is very interesting questions. And I too like Sara have a tendency to control or overtake most conversations, even ones I'm not in (sorry!) I feel everyone should know what my opinion is, whether they want it or not.





Here's what inquiring minds want to know:


1) How did you start blogging?

I started blogging in February of 2007 when I read this by Maternal Mirth. Sara deiced to share with friends and family that she had a blog. I jumped on the bandwagon so fast, why didn't I think of this? AMAZING!


2) Were you always a writer or is blogging less about writing and more about YOU?
Ha ok first off Blogging is ALL about me. It is me. My friend Jayme inspired me to make it a legacy for my kids and grandkids to go back to. So they can learn all about Jacki and her bizarre ways. And yes I always love to write, kinda goes along with all the doodling I have always done. But I have always said that I can't write as fast as my brain thinks it out. So any journals I have kept have been hard to read because I would write SO damn fast. But in the blogging world. Give me a good cup of coffee, and my fingers GO WILD!!



3) What blogger really inspires you? Makes you laugh? Makes you cry?

I am not kissing butt in any means. But again Sara is my inspiration. From the "True Mom Confessions" to the "Secrets in the Sauce" girls (see Links you need to visit) Sara always have one up on great blogs to visit. Not to mention Sara's writing skills are mad crazy! The way she describes and tells a story. Well that is Sara in real life too. No wonder I am drawn to her like a moth to a flame. (ok, cheesy last line, but I do love to read your blog, and can we even count as high as the hours we have been on the phone?) So Sara makes me laugh too.



But enough about Sara and her fabulous blog. Jayme also inspires me to remember the everyday things to blog on. And I love that she shares her feelings on so much. Good or bad. I probably wouldn't have blogged so much about my pregnancy but Jayme shared it all. Good idea, someday when my kids are having kids, they too can read back on what I went through.



I am the blogger to make myself cry. Sounds conceited I know. But I am a very emotional person and I don't hold back on my blogs, even though EVERYONE reads it.



I have to say I wish that Jen would open up more on her blog. I know there has to be a TON of emotions and thoughts going through her head, constantly. She does blog from time to time. But I have found it an amazing release from the real world. Maybe she's worried what people will think or say? Bah who cares? As I said in the beginning. "Opinions are like assholes. Everyone has one and everyone thinks everyone elses stinks" so be it, but I have a right to my blog and I love being able to get it out!



4) Can you ever see yourself giving up your blog?
Nope. Not even a question. Where would I go everyday to empty out my head? I mean Ed can only take in so much. Mia is dishing it out faster they I am, and Weaky Man, well he listens best he can between eating, sleeping, pooping and cooing. Even after Blogger just had the Spam Friday issue (see your blogger Dashboard news) I am worried that all could be lost one day. But now they have blogger in draft, and I want to look into that. Maybe I can print our a hard copy... that would be ALOT of paper...





5) What is (in your mind) your BEST post? (Be sure to copy and paste the URL)
This was tough. I mean I post about 50 to 70 times a month! So I skimmed through ALL of my blogs, and came up with two that I think are great. P.S. I Love you again, a blog on the movie, P.S. I Love You but how it made me feel afterwards (there is also a blog P.S. I Love You when I felt the need to blog 1/2 way through a movie) and Cheaper then Therapy, which is on the subject of why I blog. I also found some good ones on just me, go WAY back to Feb. of 07 in my archives and you can learn alot about me and my family.

Thanks for the post subject Sara. I really did enjoy this one. Hope others participate as well! Long live the Blogosphere!!