Vacation 2/7-2/11

Taking a little blog hiatus to work on my book. This is my second vacation week this year.

Therefore I consider myself "out of days"!

Model $161

Click, click, click, flash, flash, flash.

It's actually quite annoying to smile, looks slightly askew, and pose all in 6 inch heels. I mean it's worth it because I love the heels but it's still really hard.

Not hard enough that supermodels should get paid their ridiculous salaries, but you know, like hard enough that I would feel the need to complain mildly to my fellow model friends over our shared plate of spinach, Evian and Marlboro Light.

Today I did a little photo shoot with my aunt for our upcoming book. Had to have something to put next to our biographies on the "About Us" page.

Bellerina was super confused when I came home and was showing her like 200 pictures of me that looked exactly the same saying "Which one of Mama do you like better?" to which she of course replied, "Want to type an email to Minnie Mouse".

So I picked this one:

Pharmacist $400

At this point, it is basically good news to find out that Bellerina has an earache, at least now we can start the antibiotics and get her back to her normal self STAT!

Now, I am all for medicine tasting good enough for your kid to actually take it.

But do they really have to make it SO good?

She's screaming her head off every time the dose is done.

Perhaps this is partially my fault, since she only get ice cream like once a week, and basically all her other sugars come from fruit... This twice a day treat o' amoxicillin is like Christmas for her.

Motivational Speaker $250

Motivational speakers have to be by far the strangest breed of human being in the world.

They're super high energy, always cheery, and it seems that most of them list "Whole Milk" as their worst vice.

You know that deep down they're either total psychopaths, or closet cocaine addicts.

Of course I mean those mega watt smile, super perky, fill a Texas mega church motivational speakers.

Today I tried to be one of those for my husband, he's on an awesome blogging journey to lose weight (check it out here) and I'm trying to be there every step of the way with super motivation and what not.

However, I cracked. Halfway through Cardio X (with that satanic monkeybutt trainer) I totally gave up and headed over here to blog.

Lame Excuse: Last night I had to go in to the guest bed with a very sick Bellerina to get her to sleep, from midnight-6am I was woken up about every 15-20 minutes by her stirring, at one point I'm pretty sure I had a toe up the nose.

Reality: There is no excuse and I should have pushed out those last 15 minutes with my husbando!

Physician's Assistant $332

If I take one more temperature I may have to administer CPR to myself.

The numbers eventually start swimming in your head, was her last one 101.7 or 100.9?

Did I leave that thermometer under her arm long enough?

Do her eyes look glassy?

What time did I give tylenol last?

Did that cough sound phlegmy or dry?

Is she lethargic or just in the mood to read?

It literally distracts you all day and makes you pretty much a total crazy person when your child is sick. You spend the majority of your days thinking that you are a sane and rational parent who deals with everything in a calm logical way and then a temperature hits three digits and all sanity goes out the window!

But I'm taking her to the doctor tomorrow morning, so after one more sleepless night worrying about her and checking on her every 17 minutes I will have official confirmation that she has a cold and all I can do is continue on the path of tylenol and obsessive temperature taking.

Blue Hills Weather Observatory Staff $80

From about 6 am onward I was obsessively checking the radar and about 6 news stations every 5 minutes. Mostly the radar, because those little bands of color truly do not lie.

They also don't hype themselves for ratings which is nice, they just are what they are man.

Do I try to sneak in to work early to avoid the majority of the snow?

Is there no point because snow is just going to bombard us all day?

Someone tell me what to do!!

Oh, not you meteorologist because your answer is to PANIC!

I will not panic!

I won't I tell you!

Ok, maybe I will just a little, when I'm driving through the three inches of snow to drop Bellerina at my cousin's house, pretending that I'm 210 years old and can't go above 15 mph.

Just a small panic though, not like a channel 7 level panic or anything.

Military Sergeant $89

I don't necessarily regiment Bellerina's day.

We kind of go with the flow and most of the time stuff just happens at around the same time every day.

We were very fortunate to be able to go away on Saturday night (I highly recommend The Beechtree Inn in Newport, RI), and Bellerina spent a night with Grampy, Jen-Jen and Lukie, and they happen to enjoy structured instructions.

It took me way longer then I should have to write out times for milk, what to give her for lunch and dinner, when to put her to bed, read a story, or give a bath.

I never realized what a laissez-faire parent I am until I tried to actually tell someone what she does in a day and when she does it.