Peek-A-SKU

I found this new site courtesy of a Janie and Jack employee and I had to share it with you.  Upon my shirt for the perfect outfits for our family pictures, I was curious what some of the major stores holiday lines were going to look like.  Peekasku.com is the perfect place to find out.  Right now they just have a few stores on there, but a great little hint for those of us that realize these things sell out early!  I’m excited about my kids’ outfits (I know total dork) So I have to share them with you!

For Avery: (from chasing fireflies)

For The Boys: (from Crewcuts)

The inspiration for our shoot can be found here.  And the lovely blonde, Anna Crane, in those photos will be our photographer.  Her work here.

Can you tell I’m excited? To earn $ toward the shoot I’m doing a photo party!!!  There are 3 slots left if you are interested facebook or email me.  It is Saturday the 26th.

Life in General

Nothing much new and exciting to write. I have been doing a lot of getting ready to leave for Market in ATL for The Bomb Mom on Wednesday night. I’m praying hard to have lots of needed energy. Also praying people “get it”, what The Bomb Mom is about. I hope we are in the right place, where we need to be at Market. I have never done this before so I’m thankful to be going with someone that seems to know the Market ropes. We need lots of favor to get this thing off the ground.

Rodan+Fields is going good so far. I’m really excited about the brand and LOVING how my face feels. Jeff is starting his regimen today. I also have a neighbor doing an experiment on the Unblemish for me and another friend using the Soothe for her sensitivity. I will have both before and after pictures for those in the next month or so.

The kids… are just so fun. That is when the boys aren’t killing each other. Yesterday Owen was just wailing on Lukas because apparently Lukas pinched him. Owen was on top of him just punching. As a mom I was horrified. I wish I knew how nip that in the bud. I guess we just have to be consistent in disciplining for them. Too bad it doesn’t work overnight.

Jeff is doing great. He has one of his bands, Seabird, in town recording now. As always the guys are sweet house guests.

Update on Aiden- he has his follow up Neurology appointment tomorrow. He looks great! He seems great! But he has had some headaches. Tomorrow they should find out whether or not that is something to be concerned with.

I really have no Avery update except that to me it seems that she is growing. She seems to need a larger diaper too, which I take as proof I’m waiting for a good window of time between her vaccinations and her blood test so that they don’t throw off the results.

That’s it for now!

My Moving Addiction

I think I have a moving addiction.  I have had an obsession on this house about to be built in my neighborhood lately.  Along with moving usually comes babies for me… steering clear of that one

Pictures From the Beach

Graduation Day

I can’t believe he’s actually graduating Preschool.  After much thinking and praying we have decided to send him to Kindergarten at our church’s new school.  The classes are small and the school is small.  If it were between the public school and pre-k 2 I would probably put him through another year of Preschool.  Not because I have a problem with the public schools, but his is SO crowded and I know it would just overwhelm him right now.  We have so much peace with this decision.  It is crazy though how the time has flown.  My little boy will be in school 5 days a week next year.  Crazy.  

I wonder if I will cry on his first day?  I wonder what it will be like.  Moms describe some pretty crazy emotions associated with the first day of Kindergarten.  I just don’t know if I’m more excited about the school he is going to be going to, or sad that he is growing up too fast.  I guess I will know in a few months.

Makin’ Changes

Well.  Things have gotten crazy around here.  I have discovered I have taken on too much and had to make hard decisions.  One of those is to stop reviewing at Does Mommy Love It?  Caroline is going to be the girl in charge instead of us being a team as much.  Mommy Loves Does Mommy Love It? so it will always be close to my heart and from time to time I’ll be in there behind the scenes  Last night I did a re-design of it that is still in the works.  I’m really excited for some of the changes Caroline has planned though.  She has a team of really great reviewers that will each be posting once a week.  I know that Does Mommy Love It? is going to be better for it.

My focus is going to be on continuing to get The Bomb Mom off the ground.  Right now in order to save as much as possible I’m wearing every hat from design, to website management, to fulfillment and onward.  I love it, but it is a lot right now.  

Obviously I have done some re-arranging of Mommy Zabs.  I have some plans for this site as well.  The design is not quite complete so expect some changes over the next week or so.  It’s so funny because there have been times I have thought of shutting down this site all together.  But I have been doing it since 2004 and I just can’t bring myself to do it.  At times I have created controversy, friction between my friends for voicing my honest opinions… something we are supposedly able to do on blogs… but I have hated that friction and don’t all together understand it.  Those nights I lay in bed and have had to stop myself from wiping out this domain all together.  BUT I just can’t do it.  So for now, if your still reading, I’m still here, writing.  I MAY try to be less overtly opinionated on the politics…  I don’t know.  That’s hard because it is a large part of who I am and what I care about.  But now more than ever the people I love are polarized.  So maybe this just isn’t the place for it anymore?  I mean it should be able to be… but I also like not having my friends disown me.  I don’t know, we’ll see how long this lasts…

Okay, I forgot to mention I have a HORRIBLE cold.  Oh and that we had to take Owen to the ER today because we thought he broke his arm (he didn’t).  And also that my sweet little O graduated from Preschool today (sniff).  Time is flying.  I started this blog when he was born… and now he is moving on to Kindergarten.  Wow.  Well, more on that and pictures and video tomorrow.

I admit I admit

Mommyzabs has been lacking quality content lately.  I have been trying to post, but the quality of the posting is well…. not so much.  Am I avoiding controversy?  Yeah probably.  This election really shook me up.  I have never felt so divided with half of my friends.  I absolutely love all my friends and in an ideal world something silly like Politics shouldn’t divide.  That’s what we all say right?  But what about when those things are not merely politics to you but a large part of your ideology?  What if you just can’t comprehend the whole abortion issue and how your friends could not only overlook it but rejoice in a candidate that makes huge promises to the pro-abortion special interest groups?  

You see from my point of view, you can as a Christian have voted for Obama under two circumstances. 

1. Naivety- You bought into the whole shallow promises of hope and change and loved the overall positive marketing of the Obama campaign.  You didn’t like the war and bought the media bias against Bush.  Therefore you voted for Obama… but when asked you don’t really have any solid reasons why. 

or

2. Reluctantly- You weren’t naive about it.  You did your research and really many of your ideals line up with Obama.  You didn’t like our existing foriegn reputation and policies.  You (for some reason) believe in socialized medicine and overall wouldn’t mind seeing bigger government.  However you hate abortion (because you love Jesus).  This caused a great tug of war in your heart feeling that there was no candidate that truly represented you.  You in the end decided to overlook the abortion thing and vote Obama because he lined up in other ways. 

If you are person #2 I just can’t even comprehend that you are one of my friends in facebook that sing Obama praises in their facebook status, or have mock up pictures of themselves similiar to the one Shephard from Obey did of Obama.  You can’t possibly be one of those that absolutely rejoiced and thought the world was saved (or at least acted like it) when Obama won right?  If so, check yourself.  

That is what drives me crazy.  I can somewhat overlook when friends that fit in category 1 or 2 voted for Obama.  What I can’t stand is those that sing his praises when he is against the pro-life movement.

Of course there is category 3.

3. You aren’t a christ follower.  You believe abortion is simply a choice.  You totally agree with Obama on this issue. We don’t even have a foundation to debate this issue and I understand why you voted Obama.  I have no bones to pick with you.  Your are being consistent with your beliefs.

If you are 

4. A Christ Follower that is pro-choice.   Then I have nothing to say to you except get in the Word.

So how is that for content?  I’m sure I’m making some people mad and I’m kinda sorry for that.  I mean the people-pleasing side of me feels sorry for that… but the idealistic strong opinionated side of me feels no sympathy for offending you.

How Its Going

Okay so I got some not to thrilled comments about my diet.  But hey, I figure if people can go on long fasts and be okay, then 3 weeks of low calorie is not going to kill me, or even hurt me.  In fact, if I was feeling bad… faint, lightheaded, dizzy, weary… I would alter my plans.  But I have a noticeably greater amount of energy!  Anyway,  so far to date I’m 9.5 lbs down.  My pants fit better and are even loose.  People are noticing and that makes me happy (even when I really want a Cheezit! :))  I find that I’m not hungry for more food.  The food on the diet is healthy and satisfying (though I’m a little sick of asparagus).  What makes it hard is that I WANT to grab a snack here and there and can’t.  I have a little less than 2 weeks to go, Then I have a total of 6 weeks maintenance to reset my weight.  

Now aside from my diet.  Things are good.  The kids make me laugh hard every day.  Sometimes they make me cry too  We have an easter egg hunt in the neighborhood this morning so I’ll have to post pictures of that soon.  Avery just had her 9 month well-check and it went well.  Owen’s 5th birthday is fast approaching and he seems older every day.  

We are really trying to figure out whether or not to send Owen on to Kindergarten.  Originally we were set on holding him back and having do Pre-K 2.  His teachers said intellectually he was ready but developmentally he had focusing trouble and fine motor problems.  We decided to hold him back and then suddenly he started making strides in school.  His cut outs were coming home totally well-done and his teachers said his focus improved 100%.  So now we aren’t sure.  

Then there is the issue of where to school.  We are seriously considering sending him to the school our church is opening this year.  If he can get in, it will be a much smaller class for him than the public school.  Owen is very shy and takes awhile to open up so we think that will be less overwhelming to him.  Especially since he will know a few of the other children already.  It is a lot more expensive then “free” school so we are also praying about that.  Anyway, a lot to consider and we don’t want to make our decision based on what most do or say, but rather what we feel is right for Owen.  So that is our prayer.

Lukas will do his first year of preschool next year which is also crazy to me.  Time flies so much!  I really think we are done having children so I want to savor every moment of all this developing they are doing.  It is really hitting me more than it did before I realized we were done.

The Bomb Mom is going great.  There was a lot to work on this week.  We got some sample prints and it has given us a better idea of where we are going with it.  A couple things came out that we are really excited about. I will be starting a blog for The Bomb Mom soon.

Sweet Girl

Lately

Lately I don’t write because I’m so infuriated at our president that I’m afraid it will turn into one large rant about the things he is doing that doesn’t even make sense because the amount of content would become confusing.  That aside… here are recent pictures of Avery and the boys.

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