Thirtysomething

Does anyone remember this TV show. I know most of you wont. It debuted in 1987. But I believe my mom watched it. Anyways, while I was browsing through our instant netflix selections this came up and caught my eye. I am not completely 30-something, yet. I still have one and a half years to go, but my hubby is, and we have a baby, so by the look of the photo, I thought it was a show I could relate to.
And my gosh, was I right. It is incredible how similar the story-line is to our life right now. It deals with the new feelings of a marriage while having a new baby, friends that don't understand what it is like to have a a child at all and don't acknowledge them, loosing the ability to breastfeed your infant, fights about the husband coming home from work to toys all over the place and saying "what did you do all day" (my favorite was her reply, a line that I believe most mommies have used in some form or another: "I have cleaned up today 4 times, I just haven't gotten around to cleaning up everything the 5th time yet!". It's not all bad, it's also heartwarming and genuinely good show that I fell in love with instantly.
They say its a "dramedy" I don't know about that. The humor is very dry and the clothes are very 80's (along with the hair and make-up) - but I guess no matter what generation, the trials and tribulations of having a new baby in the home, are truly ones that stand the test of time!
I highly recommend this guilty pleasure to all of my new mommy friends!



On a side note, my blog is all sorts of messed up. The sidebar stuff is appearing below all the posts, but when I go into my layout, its still on the side. Anyone know how to fix that? TIA!

Enjoying the ride.

Rolling hills in West Virginia.

Asleep on the hotel bed!

Meeting Fellow Blogger: Jessie(Visit her @ http://babypooface.blogspot.com) in NC!


Finally arrived in Wilmington!


The Bridge from OTH!



Our OTH day, including going to 1829, Studio tour, and the rivercourt!





The Beach and Corey's BD! Brody ate sand, played with Daddy, played with Mommy, and we took lots of beach pictures! I love the ocean!

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Our NC Trip- Day 5 & Day 6

Wow, I can't believe it's been over a week since I updated. Get ready for a bunch of Blog posts today, including trip photos, some random thoughts, and new old TV show I just discovered via Instant Netflix!

OK, so to start. Day 5 was fun. It was raining in the morning a ton, so our plans to go to the Arlisle Gardens had to be changed. We went to the Fort Fisher Aquarium instead. Brody LOVED the fish. He would sit on the ledge in front of the glass and just stare at them (and try to catch one every once in a while, hehe).
After the Aquarium it turned out to be a great day. The weather cleared up and we headed downtown to search for Clothes over Bros, and to get some lunch.
We ate at Slice, which will totally be our new pizza place WHEN we move down there. We had an artichoke pizza and it was soooooo good! Then we walked all over town and had dessert at Coastal Cupcakes. YUM! I had a red velvet cupcake and Corey had a cookies and cream one. Brody shared both with us.

Then we went home, packed our suitcases, at a late meal of Wendy's and got ready to leave in the morning. We loved NC. And would recommend Wilmington to anyone looking for a nice vacation spot.

Day 6 - The drive home
We decided to do it in one straight shot, no staying overnight. I drove the first 8.5 hours and Corey took over for the last 9. One shut-down freeway (because of a truck that looked like it had a bite eaten out of it by Godzilla), and 3 detours because of construction later, we arrived home at 2am.

Maybe I already did this on my post about driving out, but here are some tips for long car trips with a baby (our is 10 months old):

- Plan some time for the passenger to sit in back to entertain the little one, but don't forget about your significant other that has the boring task of driving. Each need attention. We did both in front for the first leg of the drive before we had to stop for gas, because Brody always slept that entire time, then we would do one of us in back to feed and entertain Brody while he was awake.

- Bring plenty of interesting car friendly toys. Babies get bored VERY fast when they have to sit in the same spot for hours on end.

- When you stop make sure you take said baby out of the car and get some active time in. Sure it cost us 30+ minutes per each stop, but a happy baby and a baby that gets to stretch and get the blood flowing through their little body, is totally worth it!

- Bring puffs and biter biscuits along for the ride - Brody loves these things and is a good distraction while you are preparing food on the road.

- Water bottles (if you are bottle feeding) and travel sized container of formula. Just enough formula for our trip and in a less bulk container than the normal ones we buy. We would make bottles on the road for when he got hungry to avoid any unnecessary stops.

- Disposable Spoons - Take and Toss is the brand name. Awesome. No cleaning up spoons on vacation! Now if they only made bottles as well!

- And last but not least, THE ONLY TIME we had a fussy baby in the car was when he needed to be changed. So if he got fussy we stopped regardless if we got gas 30 minutes before hand. And always lathered his tush up with tons of butt paste. These two things will help you avoid nasty diaper rash from sitting all day long!!

Our NC trip - Day 4

Corey's BD/ Wrightsville Beach/ More real-estate/ Sushi!

Well Brody and I got up early and got doughnut holes, coffee, and balloons for Corey. We woke him up and sang happy birthday. Well, I sang. Brody said "Mobbbb Glaaab Bobbbb Mommmm Mommmmmmm" Really loud. I think he woke up the entire hotel!

Then we packed up and got ready for the beach. SPF 100 for the Brodster - SPF 25 for me (and 30 for the face - trying to undo damage from tanning beds, by not getting any sun on my face now!) Wrightsville Beach is GORGEOUS! The stuff of Nicholas Sparks novels. I have never been anywhere in the continental US that looks as pretty as this area.

Brody ate sand and then cried. I took pictures. Then we washed his mouth out with water. Poor baby!!!

After the beach, we went and looked at more houses in the Wrightsville Beach area. Beautiful! And still reasonably priced.

We went home and napped and got ready for Corey's birthday dinner at Nikkis Sushi Bar. YUM!

Our NC trip with Brody - Day 3

What an amazing day! Brody is finally getting used to hotel life. The first few days were a bit rough on him, with all the travel and sleeping in hotel rooms (be warned - traveling totally messes with your baby's schedule, both eating and sleeping, and that can make for a fussy baby. (We got lucky, he was only fussy at night, where it would take us 2 hours to get him to sleep - but only for 2 days).
Today we went to Screen Gems Studios and got to go on the set(s) of OTH.
We also went to 1829 Wrightsville Ave (Lucas Scotts "house") - it's for sale by the way.
230K - It is very very run down though and in a run down neighborhood.
Then we went to the Rivercourt. We loved the rivercourt. Except the baskets were taken down off the poles!!

After lunch we went looking for housed. HOLY FREAKING COW! We can get so much more house here than we have now, for so much less! We actually found a house 1000 ft from the Intracostal waterway for 179K! Wow. Once we got away from the downtown area and Market St. we fell in love with the neighborhoods!

Step 1 - Get house sold
Step 2 - Find a Job
Step 3 - Move to Wilmington (?) It's very possible!

Our recipe for eating out {daily} with an almost 10 month old.

One Stick -to -the- table fun toy that he loves.
One serving of puffs (any flavor your baby likes).
One biter biscuit.

Begin with toy. When that gets old, switch to puffs - one at a time - to make them last longer. When your meal comes give the biter buscuit. This will keep him occupied, while letting you enjoy a nice meal. (This sounds like a lot of carbs for a baby, but we only end up giving him about 10 puffs, and the biter biscuit + milk = a full meal).


Day 3 to come...
No CMM or Sophia Bush sightings yet.

NC - Day 2

Day two started off at 8am. We had hotel breakfast snd hit the road.
Drove through the rest of WV, and V, and finally made it to NC!
We stopped along the way to have lunch with my fellow PD, Blogger, and GPM lovely - Jessiecow! We got to meet A - her adorable little girl and enjoy at tasty meal at Red Robin :)
Then at 3pm we made it to Wilmington.
Yay!!! We checked into our hotel - The Wingate by Whyndam - pretty, nice, clean, comfy beds! A big step up from the hotel we found in WV to crash at for one night. Corey and I a most def. 4-5 start accomidations kind of people.
The we went to the riverwalk. So cute!
Now if you know me at all you know I LOVE LOVE LOVE One Tree Hill. So does my hubby. So this is like as good as it gets for us (well, ok, the Disney Cruise through the carribean tops it....but only by a little!). So not only is this vacay for us to see if NC is a place we could move too, but it's also a little One Tree Hill fancation as well!!!

More to come on our second day. And I have taken, um, about 400 pictures so far, so those will be posted as soon as we get home. I promise!

Traveling with the Brodster - Our trip to NC, Day 1

We started off our road trip at 7am on Thursday morning, March 25th. Packed the car and hit the road. Brody ate right before we left and we had changed his diaper (I highly reccomend lathering on the butt paste - or any other diaper rash cream- at each diaper change when you are on the road for long periods of time, regardless if they actually have diaper rash. It protects their little tushies from getting it when there is a possibility of sitting in a wet diaper for a stretch of time). We drove until 11:00 am where we stopped somewhere in IN for lunch for us, to change Brody, and fill up on gas. Most of his meals were given on the road, as well as his bottles. We had bottled water to make bottles and disposable infant spoons that made all of that easy as pie!
We drove till we got to Ohio, some city, don't ask me what, but it did have a prime outlets, so of course we stopped and shopped. I got an awesome under armour coat. Corey got shoes!
We drove through rain the entire first day. Finally after 11 hours, rain, big mountains (scary when it has been raining all day long and you hydroplane!) we finally made it to Princeton, WV. We ate a meal and went to bed. It was a long day.
Unfortunately Brody, who slept all day long in the car, had other plans for the night! haha

Oh and I forgot to mention: Through most of WV the freeway is not finished yet, so you go through back roads THE ENTIRE WAY - for like 60 miles. Anyone ever see: Wrong Turn. Yeah, think of that + Deliverance and you will totally have what we drove through.

And PS it did not help that the movie was filmed there.
At one point, there was a house cut in half and Corey said: "Um Excuse me, your house is broken" (he said this to me, not an actual person living there, in a joking voice, that had us cracking up for miles).

But we also got to drive through Frazier's Bottom, WV as well, where Win A Date With Tad Hamilton "takes place"!

Ahhh, now that is a much better image!

Well off to go see the sights in Wilmington, day two update to come soon!
Pictures will be up after I get home :)

Godmother and Brody

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Originally uploaded by LGEyecandy

Brody's Godmother Aunt Jackie came yesterday, all the way from CO to spend the day with Brody! We had such nice weather, so much fun eating oreo bon bons, playing at the park with Brody, and helping her register for her upcoming baby shower!

... and so I cried.

This month has been nuts, with vacation planning, spring cleaning, classes, work, and planning Brody's first Birthday party. Wait... did I just say "planning Brody's first Birthday Party!?". Yes, I did.
Automobiles is the theme.
Catered chicken, potato salad, baked mostacholi, rolls, salad, and coleslaw. Ice cream cake for the guests, a small homemade cake for the birthday boy, and a tasty summer spiked punch is the menu.
June 6th is the date. (Hoping for a nice sunny day, just like it was a year prior.)
But really, is my little boy, my baby, my teeny tiny little preemie that was born about 2.5 months shy of a year ago, already going to be a year old?
My gosh. This is going too fast. That is what I was thinking as he snuggled with me on my chest while he napped today. How much longer will we be able to do this? How much longer will he want to snuggle with me at all?
And in that moment, laying on the floor, with my baby on my chest, I cried.
I am so proud of all of his accomplishments, and I cannot wait to see what the next few months (or even years for that matter) have in store for us, but he will never be a baby again.
Not that I just realized this today, but in the craziness that is our world right now, I just have not taken the time to stop and realize how close to his first birthday we are, and how fast it is going, and how I would do anything to freeze that moment today on the floor with him on my chest. Freeze it and put it in a box, where in 10 years I can take it out and re-live it again, because they really do grow up so fast.