Thursday, February 28, 2008

Double Mummy Presents?

It's Mothers Day in England on Sunday (March 2nd), and of course I'm English so should really celebrate it on that day. Mothers Day in America is May 11th and I've lived here 10 years, and Jack is American-English, so maybe I should celebrate it here too? Would I be a spoiled brat if I wanted to celebrate it twice? Last year I celebrated the American holiday and took a day off work to spend with him which I'm going to do again this year. Maybe I'll just ask Craig to spoil me a bit on Sunday - let me lie in?

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When Jack goes to bed or wakes up, he spends a good 30 minutes talking to himself and playing in his crib. I like to lie and listen to him and even though I don't know what he's saying yet you can tell he's trying really hard to form sentences and get his words out. I could listen to this baby-babble all day long and not get bored. This week during one of his bedroom babbling spells the phone rang in the living room and he shouted out "hello?"
This morning the cat, Frank, was doing his usual high-pitched howl as he used his litter tray in the basement and Jack started to mimic him. So it's 7am and I'm lying in bed listening to both my cat and my son meow at the top of their lungs. Sometimes it feels like I live in a mad house.

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WW update: I have lost 1 stone (14 lbs) and I'm so pleased. To giddy things up a bit I bought an exercise DVD, based on dancing. I thought to myself "I love dancing, used to be quite good actually, and I'll enjoy it". Gina told me she hates the dancing DVDs because it's really hard and you can't follow the moves and you realise what a bad dancer you are, but I bought one nevertheless. Anyway, I banished Craig from the basement - even though chances are he might not divorce me after 11 years I can't take the risk of him seeing my wobbly bits move in time to music. I tried really hard to get into the bloody thing only to come to the conclusion that I have the rhythm, balance and finesse of a donkey. At one point I was so mad at the instructor that as she said "come on girls - strike a pose!", I gave her the finger.
Should have listened to Gina.

3 comments:

Jen said...

Congrats on the weightloss! I agree about the dancing exercise dvds. They are impossible to follow.
=)

Swearing Mother said...

Well done on the weight loss, I am full of admiration. I just can't stop eating at the moment, we've still got Christmas chocs in the house. Never mind, it'll soon be Easter.

Fredsueand me said...

Hey pam well done on your stone loss. stuff the dvd it sounds horrid. I have taken up running since new year and it is great. admittedly the first few weeks is hard and you would rather pull your own finger nails off than do it but it becomes fun after that, have i temped you? Take care.