Kids say the darndest things

wearing my hat that Nathan made

Last week Nathan's class had a Mother's Day party. It was so cute, they made us funny hats to wear, frosted sugar cookies, and planted seeds for us. To my horror, the next thing the kids were to do was to stand in front of the class and show us a picture that they had drawn of their mom and what she likes to do. My heart started pounding as soon as the first kid went. What was Nathan going to say his mommy liked to do?! Go on the computer?! Drink wine?! Play with knives???! The first boy said his mommy liked to draw, and the next girl said her mommy liked to drink soda. Another girl's mommy 'liked daddy' and another boy's mom liked to clean. Then, it was Nathan's turn. He shyly gets up in front of us all and points to a picture of me (all colored lines with two eyes) and says....

"My Mommy likes to vacuum!"

Whew!! I thought all my secrets were going to be divulged to his little preschool friends and their moms, but alas.... my one true enjoyable chore was let out of the bag. Yes, it was revealed that I love to vacuum, and I let out a relieved sigh and teared up right then and there. My little boy is growing up and is the most observant, honest little guy. Oh, how I love my Nathan.... and of course, my Dyson vacuum.

OCD .. I'm just O

Ok, now that my life has settled down as much as it could possibly could, I can try and focus on blogging once again. I have had a certain habit throughout my life and it has once again bit me in the ass. When I stumble on something new and exciting, I take the reigns and become obsessively passionate about it.... for about 5 minutes. After I exhaust the hell out of it and it starts to lose the initial appeal, I am on to the next obsession. I can't tell you how many times I have went to Michael's, dropped a small fortune on supposed crafty projects I was all gung-ho about and then find these unfinished crafts in plastic shopping bags months or years later. Even better, one of the boys will find them and either scatter the pieces all over the floor or start playing with them like toys. I think my friends can vouch for me when I say I literally have a new obsession as often as the season change. (which is every other day, with the crazy weather we've been having lately!)

As you all know, my latest passion has been getting fit, and now that I can finally check Broad Street Run off my bucket list, I need a new hobby.... not that getting fit is a hobby, it's become a lifestyle now, and it actually pains me to eat a damn french fry without a moment of guilt. Don't get me wrong, I still have dessert and an occasional (aka often) glass of wine, so I haven't completely lost my mind just yet. But, for me, I need something new to strive for. I've always been a busy kind of person, and if I don't have a new goal in mind, I start to go a little stir crazy. Maybe I need to take up something entirely different, like glass fusing! Yes, that's it... glass fusing! I'll Google it when I am done.

Now, onto more interesting things that have been happening. Yesterday, the Swanky Babblers (the playgroup I've been helping organize) were invited by the Food Network to dine in a restaurant that Chef Robert Irvine was trying to re-vamp. If you have watched Kitchen Nightmares with Gordon Ramsay, it was something like that. A group of about 24 of us went to dinner at Villari's in Palmyra. Ben used to go to the restaurant as a kid and he remembers it being very dark inside. The inside was redone very nicely and was open and bright. Our waitress was pleasant and took our drink and dinner order right away. Our apps, salads, and drinks were delivered right away and were pretty delicious, especially the Crab soup. Then the chaos started to ensue... 2 hours later, we still hadn't gotten our dinner. The only thing we had going was a buzz after ordering like 5 rounds of drinks before dinner finally came! Ben's seared tuna was awful, but at least my seafood fra diavlo was good. I coerced Ben to send his tuna back and he ordered lasagna in it's place, which was pretty good, but come on.... who can mess up that?! Basically, the wait staff was totally overwhelmed (some of them had just been hired and it was their first night!) the kitchen was definitely not ready for a crowd of that caliber (they probably hadn't seen it that busy in a loooong time) but I will definitely go back and try it again when there isn't a major TV station filming a pilot.

The company we were with really made the food aspect seem less disastrous, and Ben and I really had a great time talking and laughing with new friends. Even though it seemed more like everyone was laughing at us (for the record, Ben was not sunbathing with a fanny pack on lmao) but I guess we can't help it if we're funny people, haha. Overall, it was a very memorable experience and I am so glad we were able to be a part of it. Now, we just have to wait till the fall to see if any of us even made the cut to be on TV! The show is going to be called Restaurant:Impossible and it is going to air sometime in the early fall!

Sick & Tired

Sickness has infected the Goldwasser household. I think it's impossible for family members not to pass their cooties to each other and even harder to get rid of it once it strikes. I mean, I can't stop obsessively kissing my boys and they can't help but to smother me with their own snotty kisses. Yummo! Yes, we have all been under the weather, and I haven't felt so unmotivated and sluggish since the 18 snow storms we had just 3 months ago. Of course, since the Broad Street Run has come and gone, I need something new to keep me motivated to keep running as much as I was. Being sick hasn't helped that cause, so I have to give myself another pep talk. I did check the results of the first 5K Ben and I ran in April and I placed 2nd in our age group and 39th out of 150, so I felt pretty happy about that. :) I will have to find a new goal for myself now.

I am going to go "watch" the Flyers game with the hubs and our friends now, and stop being anti-social on the computer!

Why hello there!

Nathan after his first roller coaster... so happy!

Wow, almost 1 whole month since I posted last! How I missed my adoring blog reader fans! :) Now that life has returned to as "normal" as it can get post tax season, I'll try to update more often, but I can't guarantee anything because as you all know, my day is filled with busy and sometimes random goings on, & I don't always have the energy or time to post, but maybe once I get my new phone next month, I will start blogging via that instead.

Where to start?! Well, I guess the number one thing on my mind recently is that BROAD STREET RUN!! I can't stop thinking about how absolutely amazing it was! There are few things in life I have experienced so far that have made me feel "invincible" and those have been:

• skydiving
• giving birth without pain medicine (!!)
• completing that 10 mile race in the sweltering 80 degree weather

What I mean by invincible is that after doing all the above mentioned, I literally feel like I could do anything, and by anything I mean just about anything. I'm not going to go all crazy on you and tell you I am going to run a marathon anytime soon, but I am feeling very confidant about a half marathon in the very least. After I sky-dived (is that even a word?) I remember that I instantly wanted to do it again. It was so exhilarating and such a random thing I did, that it made it that much more exciting for me. Nathan actually went on his first roller coaster this past weekend, and when the ride was over, he wanted to do it again, because he was so excited and I compare his experience to my skydiving one.

After I gave birth to Ollie without pain meds, I figured, hell, I can do anything, I just pushed a watermelon out of... well you know the rest. Again, there is so much adrenaline and emotion pumping through you when you are giving birth, it's amazing that babies don't come literally flying out from being pushed so hard. Or maybe they do... I will have to consult with Ben on that one.

Running for 1 hour and 46 minutes is something I honestly never thought I was going to be able to do. I'm not sure why, it was almost like a mental block. 12 weeks ago, when I blogged about wanting to get back into shape, I knew something had ignited inside of me, as well as on the outside of me, namely my muffin top and double chin. I felt sad and unhappy about myself, it didn't help that it was the beginning of tax season and we had about 458 inches of snow on the ground. Now, I feel back and better than ever, as cheesy and cliche as that sounds. I feel like I should be an after photo of a Jenny Craig for Moms commercial. Alright, maybe not that far, but soon enough! I feel confidant and happy about my body, which is something every mom wants to feel after pushing out a 7.7 lb bowling ball twice in 21 months!

Well, of course, I am out of time and I have to go get Nathan from school. I will update about my experience during the run, hopefully tonight. Till then...