Kathy said during cocktail hour on May 30, 2008

I was bumming out about Reilly being sick (cold and cough!) so Joelle tried to cheer me up:

Joelle: Here, enjoy this
Joelle: no?
Joelle: meatloaf cupcakes don’t illicit a response?
Joelle: ok, how about a giant chocolate penis pop?

Kathy said during cocktail hour

This is what happens when a married couple IM to each other from different areas of the house:

Me: What are you doing?
Him: Watching tv…
Him: They showed a wild boar that was 1100 lbs
Him: They shot it in Fayetteville, GA
Me: ew
Him: I didn’t know wild hogs were here too
Me: Didn’t you know? They’re indigenous to Peachtree City.
Him: I guess, they’re just giant pigs
Him: Got loose and became wild
Me: mmmm
Me: giant pigs are tasty

We seriously need to get a life.

Kathy said during early afternoon on May 22, 2008

Maybe this is catty of me but… can someone please explain to me, the appeal of Natasha Bedingfield?  What’s with this woman.  I cannot escape her music, her corny videos no matter what I do.  She is everywhere I go.  Ok, so some people like her, I guess.  Fine.  I just don’t get it.  She is so “ho-hum” to me, I just can’t understand why she is so damn popular that I hear her voice every time I turn on the radio, satellite radio, MTV, VH1, etc, etc.

I also don’t understand pistachio ice cream but, what the hell do I know.  Maybe that explains my lack of tolerance for Miss Bedingfield.  Is she pistachio ice cream? 

Kathy said during early afternoon on May 15, 2008

Holy cow people, our redesign is done! We finally got around to relaunching our website and if we do say so ourselves, it looks delicious.  We already miss our Air Moxie design, we grew so attached to it but, it was time for something new.  We wanted to reorganize our portfolio, open the blog up for commenting and clean up the FAQ and various other things.  And if you have patience you’ll enjoy the lava lamp action.

In honor of finally getting our site redone, we thought we’d give away presents to the people who come visit our blogs, our business, and who support all things Moxie Girls. Enter the Summer Cocktail Contest.  “Contest” meaning random drawing....ehhh, yeah.  That. Check it out on our fancy new blog, but here are the details in case you’re a lazy bastard:

Grand Prize Winner will receive:

• A Cosmo Caddy, which includes a cocktail shaker, 4 cosmo glasses and a retro-esque carrier valued at $55.00 courtesy of LiquidPlanet.com
• A signed copy of The IT Girls Guide to Blogging with Moxie!
• A tube of Jaqua Hand Creme (flavor may vary!)

Two Runners-Up Winners will receive:

• A signed copy of The IT Girls Guide to Blogging with Moxie!
• A tube of Jaqua Hand Creme (flavor may vary!)

Here’s how to enter:

• Send us your favorite Summer cocktail recipe… your tried-and-true, your awesome party punch, your blended fruit favorites… whatever!  Send us your favorite Summer-themed cocktail recipes.  Drink recipes must include at least three (3) main ingredients (Garnish doesn’t count!  No rum and coke with limes you sneaks!) For extra credit, include a recipe for a “pairing”, or a tasty snack to go with your cocktail.
• Then, send an email with the subject “Moxie Girls Summer Cocktail Contest!” in the subject line to .  Please include your full name (and nickname for announcement purposes if you would like to remain private) and a full address where your prizes will be sent.
• One entry per person.  You can get an extra entry into the contest to up your chances if you include the aforementioned complementary snack recipe to go along with the drink you’ve submitted.  Like a 2-fer!  Make it a 3-fer by posting your recipe on your blog and linking back to our entry here. If you blog it, be sure to include the link to your entry in your submission so we know to give you an extra chance.  Winners will be drawn at random.

The winner(s) will receive full credit in our blog postings and mad kudos for their win, but any and all submissions become property of The Moxie Girls™ and we reserve the right to reprint, rename, or modify original recipes at our discretion for future use.  Trademarked and/or copywritten recipes submitted must contain the source of the recipe in order for it to be considered. Multiple entries, or entries missing information will be disqualified so make sure you include your recipe, name and address!

Contest will end at midnight EST June 6, 2008, so please have all entries in by then and we’ll announce the winners on our blog on Monday, June 9, 2008.

Worrrrrd… send in your recipes!  Mama needs some new drinks to test. 

Kathy said during cocktail hour on May 14, 2008

Eariler this evening, my son threw a fit because I wouldn’t let him “honk” my boob. 

Kathy said during cocktail hour on May 13, 2008

Holy uninspired to write here-ness.  In case anyone, anywhere is wondering… we are still Binkie Free here.  Project Binkie Removal was a success, but not without its brief trials.  There was a little crying.  The kind of crying that I could easily fix by giving in, the kind that makes your heart explode… but for his well-being I didn’t give in.  Not even during a trip away from home where he asked for it.  So bye bye binkie.  Last hurdle, potty training.  Can I just curl into a ball and pretend it doesn’t exist? 

In other news, I have no life.  I entertain myself by putting tape on the dogs head and watching him try to get it off.  Help me.

Kathy said during lunch time

Deltus: Blog something, would ya?
Kathy: seriously…
Kathy: I’m not even trying
Kathy: I did but on safe mama
Kathy: I was spent after that
Deltus: I’m neither motherly nor safe.
Deltus: So…
Deltus: Just blog the word “poop”.
Deltus: Do *something*.
Kathy:  ok
Deltus: You’re going to actually blog the word poop, aren’t you.
Deltus: *SIGH*

Poop.

Kathy said during breakfast time on April 22, 2008

There is one thing I really dislike about parenting.  Tough love.  I can take the sleepless nights (ask me that again one day), the crying, the scraped knees, the splinter removals, the tantrums… I can even take my fair share of poop under the fingernail.  But this part, the part that requires me admitting I know what’s best for him even if it means my heart breaks into a tiny million pieces.  Of course, this is nothing on the grand scale.  As Joelle put it “Wait until he is 16 and screaming YOU RUINED MY LIIIIIFE!!!! because you took away his Wii privileges”.  And she is totally right.  There are worse things about parenting to come.

But at 10pm when your 2 year old is crying pitifully in his bed for his binkie and you can’t give it back because if you do, you’ll make things worse rather than better, you just feel like the worse Mom on the planet.  That’s right, we’ve begun Project Binkie Removal™. I never intended for my kid to get hooked on a binkie.  I never gave him once since I breastfed but one day he just took one and never looked back. He loved it since then and I thought he’d get bored of it just like he got bored of bottles.  But he didn’t.  It was never allowed outside his crib, so it’s not an issue impeding speech (he never stops talking....ever....) or blocking any social interaction.  He had it for naps and bedtime.  But he’s 2 years old an then some and I have had this sinking feeling it was just time to start the process seeing just how attached he’s become to it.

Night 1: Cried, in waves...especially when he couldn’t find it (because it wasn’t there)… then stayed up until 10 reciting colors, the alphabet, counting and singing songs.  Was restless through the night but didn’t get up.  Got up a little earlier than usual but was cheery and bouncing up and down in his usual mood.  If that’s the worst of it, we’re in good shape.

Now if I can still get his usual 3 hour nap without a binkie I’m golden.  I think my luck might run out on that one but we’ll see how it goes today.  If I blog again later drunk you’ll know the outcome.