it’s monday morning and yes, i am going to talk about alcohol.
Posted on April 28, 2008
What possessed me to say that I would write a post about sports and beer is beyond me b/c although Chris follows all sports known to man, I know nothing. And I don’t drink. So I’ve spent some time trying to figure out the best way to do this without making a complete fool out of myself and here you go.
TAGGED.
I was tagged by Amy (7 random things about yourself) a while back and also by Emily (which I will do eventually I swear!) and have been putting them off, so I’m going to combine these two posts since I wasn’t sure what to talk about in either of them!
SPORTS.
1. I played softball from kindergarten until freshman year in high school. I was the pitcher all those years and loved it, but then when they made me a swing player from JV to Varsity as a 9th grader the pressure became too much and I decided I hated it. My parents thought I would go to college on a softball scholarship!
2. I was the head coach for the Gonzaga University Women’s Lacrosse team for one year in Spokane, WA. Our last tournament was about a month before I was due with Bailey and by the end of the weekend I was coaching from a chair and completely brain dead. Thankfully Chris stepped in and coached most of that last game for me.
3. I jogged up until I was 8 months pregnant with Bailey and my last day jogging wasn’t b/c I was ready to turn in my sneakers, it was b/c an older woman stopped me on the street during my run and said, "honey, I don’t think that’s good for the baby!"
4. Chris played 5 varsity sports our senior year in high school and was named "most athletic" which sort of embarrasses him but for some reason makes me incredibly proud.
5. When I was in middle school I played basket ball one year and hated every second of it. During a game I got my first foul and had to do a free throw (do you "do a free throw? I don’t even know the terminology!) I was so scared b/c I knew I would miss (having never made the shot in practice) that I stood there and cried. The ref had to walk over and say, "it’s ok, just shoot the ball!"
6. Bailey can do more Up/Downs than most of the kids on C’s soccer team, and of course he couldn’t be prouder.
7. In high school I was a pretty "good" kid (no drinking, smoking, drugs, sex, or even much cursing) and during one lacrosse game a girl from the other team and I were fighting for a ground ball that she finally won, but in winning the ball accidentally hit my head really hard with her stick. Caught up in the moment I paused for a second before chasing after her and screamed "you checked me in my head you F@#$ing B@#$%!" Not only did I curse big and LOUD, I was standing on the side of the field next to the entire parent section. That year I won the "potty mouth" award. My parents were so proud.
BEER.
1. I’ve never actually tried a sip of beer.
2. I don’t drink normally, but if I do my favorite drink is a Tom Collins.
3. My claim to fame in college, and one of the only nights I drank, I did 12 vodka shots in under an hour. It just happened to coincide with the night I decided to wear a thong for the first time. In the middle of a room full of people I said, "I have had ENOUGH" and proceeded to take OFF the thong in front of everyone. Luckily I had great friends who rescued me from too much embarrassment!
4. Having never drank beer before it was ironic that I worked for a few years at a restaurant that had over 20 beers on tap. Over time I learned to describe those beers like I had personally drank a keg of each of them.
5. My senior year of high school one of my classmates died in a drunk driving accident, him vs. tree. That event only solidified my absolute fear of drunk driving and I will fight people to the death to take their keys.
6. I have never actually been hung over. Even after the 12 vodka shots!
7. At Christmas this past year we were having dinner at my parents and being pregnant, I was drinking sparkling cider instead of wine like everyone else. I asked Chris to get me another glass at one point and after drinking less than half I said, "I know you can’t get drunk off this stuff, but my head is starting to feel fuzzy." Everyone started laughing b/c he had given me half cider/half wine thinking there was no way I would notice and sure enough, I was getting tipsy! (note: it is ok to have a glass of wine when pregnant so he was not trying to injure the baby!)
How’s that for a Beer/Sports post? 
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i’m a mom. i understand.
Posted on April 27, 2008
Every family has one of those days. The ones when the husband is grumpy, the toddler is uncooperative, the baby skipped a nap, the weather isn’t what was predicted, etc. Days like that can be hard to manage under normal circumstances, but add in trying to have the perfect family photo shoot and it just ups the frustration level, especially for the mom. Moms are the ones that have spent countless hours planning and shopping and washing and ironing the perfect outfits. They pack the snacks and blankies and sippy cups and everything else the family might need to get through 2 hours of photos. They spent lots of time convincing the unwilling husband that getting photos taken with their rapidly growing babies was a great idea, and then reminding them of that over and over as the day grew closer.
So when things go wrong the stress falls on the mom’s shoulders. And because I’ve had photos taken of my own family, and because I have a one and two year old, and because my husband hates photos, and because I AM A MOM, I understand.
i. completely. understand.
So therein lies an unpublicized Jodified policy… if nothing is going right and I feel like I’m not going to get the shots that will make you fall in love with your crabby family all over again, then I will reschedule for FREE. And I will of course go through and edit any photos from the original shoot to see if I did in fact get something as well as doing the re-shoot.
This helps take the stress out of photo shoots with young children. And hopefully takes a load off the mom b/c the last thing an exhausted mom needs is more stress!
I am mentioning this b/c this happened for the first time yesterday and although we tried, it just wasn’t happening. Even though the kids were adorable, the clothes choices were beautiful and the sky was bright, it just wasn’t working. So we are rescheduling before Grayson comes and life goes on you know?
Here is one I got… one of a very few that I got!
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