Eva has started this new super cute thing, because you know everything your own kid does is super cute and when a different kid does the exact same thing it’s just annoying, anyways she does this thing where if she is trying to get my attention she waves her arms at me and says “WooHoo!”.  My face is beaming with pride just telling you about it that’s how darn cute it is.  But I realize she’s not your kid so you probably find it annoying.  Oh well, you’re just jealous.

The title of this post was inspired by my dear Eva because lately I feel like I have became that person, that parent who just isn’t all there.  You know what I mean?  Maybe it’s school, maybe it’s my health, maybe it’s this debt diet, maybe it’s the holidays just around the corner, or maybe it’s motherhood finally infecting my brain.  Wow, that’s a lot of maybes.  Maybe it is all the maybes?  Ha!

School is great, but the only thing is that every since I have started back I have not worked out, once.  Not once have I gone to the gym, gone for a run, done yoga, or popped in Jillian Michaels DVD.  I think it is starting to affect my health.  I just don’t have the energy I used to have, I’m not taking care of Eva the way I used to (she ate candy corn for breakfast for goodness sake!), and this week I got infected with some sort of upper-respiratory nastiness.  Which is why my 2 year old now knows how to hack a lugi.  You’re Welcome.

The debt diet is getting stressful.  The stores have already been flooded with Christmas presents and I feel like if I don’t buy them all now they will sell out and I won’t be able to get them later.  Ridiculous, I know.  Plus it’s like, FALL.  And there is all this wonderful fally stuff to do around here.  But it gets expensive.  There are high school football games, elementary school festivals, apple picking, pumpkin farms, long drives that require lot’s of gas, and Cracker Barrel because you need to eat after watching the football game, going to the festival, picking apples, carving pumpkins and taking that long drive you know?

The Holidays could very well be to blame for the clouding of my mind.  I have soooo been looking forward to this Christmas ever since last Christmas.  Eva will be older and more into it.  She already knows half the Christmas songs.  I am beyond excited for Halloween, trick or treating, and hanging out with family and friends, eating lots of candy, dressing Eva up for what may be the last year I have the final say on her Halloween costume.  The Holidays are just so much fun when you are a parent!  100 times funner even then when you are a kid.  It must be that whole “It’s better to give then to receive thing” or something.

So, I apologize if I just haven’t “been there” as much as I used to be.  Just wave your arms at me and yell “WooHoo!” every once in a while.   Even if I don’t answer you I’ll still laugh at you and tell you how cute you are.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

tags: Debt Diet, fall, halloween, holidays, mommy brain, school