Monthly Archives: June 2011

June 19, 2011 · 11:54 am

Happy Father’s Day

It’s six o’clock on Sunday morning and I’ve already given Mike his first Father’s Day gift.  Sleep.  Both kids woke up crying in unison at 6am and I’m the one who got up.  It’s the least I can do for my husband who despite his one-liner about how I’m the one who wanted these kids in the first place is a pretty amazing dad.

I thought about making a list of all the reasons Mike is a great father, but it’s really just that he so clearly loves and is dedicated to his boys (and me).  I should note that he sings great bedtime songs, he builds amazing Lincoln Logs structures, he’s better than anyone I know at playing Kung-Fu Panda (i.e. mock karate) and when we get together with friends, he somehow ends up entertaining all the kids, even the ones that don’t belong to him.  Any guy who’s happy to play with other people’s kids is a darn good dad.

I guess that was a list.

I should also add that he’s a great husband because he totally respects the beast of a job I have as Dylan and Riley’s mother, he always knows when I need a time-out or a refill of my Pino Grigio and he sets up the coffee pot every night so all I have to do in the wee hours of the morning is press a single button.

Yes, he totally deserves to sleep in today…for a few more minutes.

To all the dads in my life and in yours, HAPPY FATHER’S DAY!

 

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June 16, 2011 · 5:23 pm

Spending Habits of an (Almost) Rehabbed Shopaholic

I haven’t written much about my most recent stint in shopaholic rehab.  Technically, I have a few days left of my one month spending freeze, but on Monday I mistakenly thought I was done (oops) and immediately made a list of everything I want to buy (new flip flops, summer bag, white jeans and, of course, more sundresses).  I’ll never be cured, will I?    Maybe not, but I’m learning a lot.

I’m a shifter.  No more anthropologie.com?  No problem.  I just shifted my shopaholic behavior from online clothing shopping to online vacation shopping.  And booking a hotel room isn’t really buying it.  It’s just reserving it, right?  Mike and I having been talking about planning a summer getaway for a while, but my sudden burst of energy toward the project was beyond obsessive.   In the end, I found a great deal and booked it (two kid-free nights in Naples, FL in July!), but I’m not exactly proud of myself.

So, Monday marked my mistaken first day post-rehab and I ended up at Pier 1 buying a $20 doormat for the front door.  It was not a necessary purchase – in fact it was silly – but it scratched an itch and it added some curb appeal to the front of the house.   On Tuesday, I entered a mall but bought nothing.  On Wednesday, my credit card was on fire, but not like you think.  I bought a baby gift for a good friend who just had her second boy, I had the most amazing brownies in the world (Fat Witch Brownies) delivered to a close friend who just finalized her divorce (I may have just ruined that surprise for her) and I donated $25 to Barack Obama’s 2012 Campaign.  The donation entered me for a chance to have dinner with the President…an occasion that would definitely require some shopping!  I bought all this stuff and none of it was for me and that’s a good thing, I think.  But was it the giving or the spending that made me so happy?

I’m not sure what to do now except get back on the wagon until it’s time to pack for Naples…or at least until Saturday when my spending freeze officially ends.  Until then, does anyone need help planning a vacation? 

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