Whine and wine

7 years ago today my world changed for the better and I became a mom. I laugh at myself now on how I was just soooo tired, even though my lovely son slept through the night after 12 weeks. I hardly had time to get my bi- weekly mani/pedi, and usually had to have the nanny that came to my house, stay a little later sometimes so I could get to the stores and do some shopping. I had a clean home and took my very calm and quiet baby EVERYWHERE...even to restaurants, where my husband and I would eat at, at least 3-4 times a week. Oh how the times have changed!

Now I truly only get 2 hours a day when I have some alone time, although if I'm not racing to the grocery store, I'm rushing home so I can change the sheets on the bed, clean the bathrooms, do the things that I can't get done when my little ones are home. Lately I, like most parents, have been racing to the toy store to get the latest Bey Blade necessity, or Princess bicycle.

Now when I'm asked what I want for Christmas, it's not David Yurman jewelry...this year it's a new electronic toothbrush and the annual dust buster purchase. This year, however, I'm upping the anty and asking for a Dyson dust buster. I need heavy duty hitters over here in this mess of a hizzo. No more playing around!! I'd like to also come out of the dinosaur age with my phone thats only capability is to take grainy pictures, videos and text. I'd love the Smartphone, but that might have to wait after Santa finishes shopping for the 4 little elves in the house.

Speaking of elves. Damn Doctor. He is our elf on the shelf. And he apparently is a lazy little elf. I've upped the anty and started doing crazier things, but since he has been out since before Thanksgiving (Santa NEEDED to know what was going on in this house), they are kind of losing interest...which is a great thing since I'm kinda losing interest on being the super fun mom who does cool elf things for the kids. Especially since they don't even know it's me, right? I've gotta stop somewhere and if I'm not getting credit, it's Doctor that's the dull one!

Anyway, I love this time of year...I really do. Alex's birthday and the Christmas season. Lots of parties and lots to do. I am trying to remember to enjoy it more, and do a little less, but that's hard to do sometimes. So I'll just whine a bit on my blog and wine a bit more at my house. But now that I've done that tonight, here is something fun and easy (and not sugary!) which went over well tonight. There is a blog called Kitchen Fun With My 3 Sons

It's awesome and I made the Candy Cane fruit dish...although not as nicely as hers. Here is my picture using raspberries and bananas. Enjoy!!!