I had decided to stop posting for a while since it mainly consisted of bitching and feeling sorry for myself. Reality check? The bottom line, “life is tough – deal with it”. PUT ON THOSE BIG GIRL PANTIES! I signed up for this, so I better go make lemonade!

I’ve been super busy between trying to keep up with the boys, the house, and avid coupon shopping (read: saving my family buttloads of money). Somehow, through the lack of sleep, perpetual PMS, and Gavin prematurely hitting the “Terrible Two’s”, I’ve also managed to squeeze in a few large craft projects for others. A few of these included deadlines, so I had to call in for reinforcements (Hi Mom!). Whew! Take a look at what I’ve been up to…

In addition to the Dr. Seuss baby shower invitations I made for my girl Mary, I also made her these adorable cupcake toppers for the shower…

Cupcake Toppers for a Dr. Seuss themed baby shower

The photo above is just the start, the “prototypes”. I had to make 32 of these babies! It took me 4+ hours to complete it all, not including designing them on the computer. Did you know a craft punch could make your arms feel like Jell-O? Yeah, especially for a wimp like me!

Dr. Seuss Cupcake Toppers, made 32 of them!

I also made 32 (girly but mature) invitations for a surprise party. This package included the matching address labels, return address labels, envelope seals, and some other note cards that were requested. It took 3 hours just to cut, glue, and assemble the invitations themselves (and that was with my Mom and I steadily working together). Here’s a sneak peak. I had to blur out the details and can’t post any other items, since the party is a SURPRISE…

Floral Suprise Invitation

Lastly, I created an invite for a Pinkalicious themed party for a friend’s soon-to-be 4-year-old. BTW, this is the cutest book with a really nice message. My friend Mary is spearheading this party too, so I know it will be adorably pink and fabulous!…

Please note: The emails I’ve received regarding this invite have been overwhelming! For those in search of a Pinkalicious themed invite, please know upfront that I’m not “sharing”, selling, or doing trade-out work for this invite at this time. Thank you!

Pinkalicious Party Invitation

I’ve yet to print or cut these since the party details are still in the works. But as you can see, I’ve been BUSY. And there’s also other projects I don’t have pictures of. I do, however, have a freebie that I will post very soon!

Actual email I sent to my friend this afternoon…

Mary,
Thank you so much for watching the boys today! I was able to get a lot of shopping done. I would NEVER have been able to do that WITH them. A prime example… right after we left your house this afternoon, we went to Fry’s to get some butter and my vitamins. I stopped at that Tully’s coffee stand to get us some drinks because we were all parched and slightly irritable. For some unknown reason, Gavin COMPLETELY LOST HIS SHIT. He started crying, no SCREAMING, non-stop and people were staring at us and giving us dirty looks! I tried everything to calm him down. He was absolutely hysterical! He was sweating, bright red, bucking, kicking, thrashing! I still have NO IDEA what triggered it. He would not stop. I thought maybe he was hungry, so I saw some Goldfish on sale for $1 a bag (awesome price BTW) and I opened it right there in the store to give him some. Quentin was beside himself too, because he didn’t want to hold the smoothie I had gotten him because it was “too cold”, but he still wanted to drink it. He wanted me to stand there and hold it for him, all the while Gavin was screaming his head off. The whole experience was a nightmare! Gavin would not stop screaming. Even with a mouth full of slobber and goldfish, he kept screaming. It was all falling out of his mouth. I tried to hold him, rock him, give him a drink. Nothing calmed him down. Eventually the store manager came over to see what was going on. He pretty much asked us to leave, but not in so many words. It was beyond humiliating! I had already opened the Goldfish, so I had to go through the self-checkout lane with Gavin screaming the entire time. People were stopping to stare and see what was going on. He was screaming like someone was stabbing him! I got them to the car and he screamed/sobbed the entire way home. I changed him (he wasn’t even wet) and put him right to bed. He got a bottle too. I still don’t know what was wrong with him. I also put Quentin down. Philip and I had a blow up fight in the 10 minutes we actually saw each other before he left because I thought Gavin had lost a shoe in the parking lot during that whole fiasco and I had asked Philip to drive by Fry’s to see if it was still in the parking lot on his way to work. He refused. He was like “cut your losses and get over it”. That’s super easy for him to say because he NEVER EVER tries to take the boys anywhere by himself. He has NO CLUE how miserable of an experience it can be! I was so angry and just steaming about what had happened, I told him that if he didn’t get that shoe, I would divorce him!!! LOL! I seriously said that! He said “Oh well! Divorce me then!”.

I was having a good day until all that bullshit at the grocery store!!! :/

But guess what? I FOUND THE F*CKING SHOE!!!!

The writing is a bit rough, but I’m way too exhausted to rewrite all that crap to make it pretty for blogland. So yeah- that was my day, in a large, wordy, sweaty & stressed out nutshell. FYI, I don’t plan to divorce my husband because of a shoe. It was the hormones/frustration speaking. It makes me say crazy stuff that I often later regret. The kids are completely asleep for the night and I still have no idea why Gav nanomorphed into Kidzilla like that. Also, I think I need a beer.

In other news, today some random guy at Office Max grinned at me and said “Nice tits!”. He kept on walking without missing a beat. O_o. I had to stop for a minute and think to myself, Ok dude, you so did not just say that to my face, did you?. He sure as heck did! And he looked sober too! As crass as it was, kinda makes a girl feel special, no? LOL!

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