Woo-Hoo!!!

A big thanks to my wonderful hubbie for helping me figure out how to put music on my blog!! Can't help lovin' dat man of mine.......So please go check out the two duets that started it all.  They should be located on my very first blog entry.  Thanks!

They say....

They say that if you put a maxi-pad inside your son's diaper towards the top, like a waistband, it will keep him from peeing out of it at night.  Who is the "they" anyways?  Turns out "they" are WRONG!  He still pees out of the diaper at night.  So I guess I need to go buy those special (meaning lots of money)  nighttime diapers and see if they work....It was worth a shot.  My poor son.  :)  At least he is sleeping through the night, even if it is in pee-soaked sheets. 

Also,  what is it about the distance beween your house and the amount of time until your child throws-up?  No matter how close you are, (we were one block away) they still puke all over the car....sigh. 

Cupcakes

My little Diva-in-training and I made Halloween cupcakes this afternoon.  (Thanks mom for the cute cupcake liners!)  Anyways, we made the cupcakes with the world's easiest recipe (see below) and I thought I had Halloween sprinkles to decorate them with.  Turns out I didn't...and a melt down ensued....and so from the throes of my desperation I reached into the darkest corner of my pantry and dusted off the....Christmas sprinkles!!  That's right, these are Nightmare-before-Christmas halloween cupcakes!  And we all lived happily ever after.....

Recipe for the World's Easiest Chocolate Cupcakes:
1 box of chocolate cake mix
1 can of pureed pumkin


Mix together in a bowl with a wooden spoon.  Voila!  Put into cupcake tin and bake as per instructions on cake box.


 How easy is that?!  Also, better for you as you get some vegetables snuck into your day.  They don't even taste like pumpkin, they just come out all moist and fabulous.  No eggs, no oil, just pumpkin.  I made my own frosting with lite cool whip and light whipped cream cheese and its pretty good.  For Eva, I just used regular canned frosting.  Thanks to one of my best friends, Donna Randall, for this fabulous recipe! :)

Things the washed-up Diva has washed today:

It is now 10:50a.m. and La Diva has already had the priviledge of cleaning up the following:
spit-up (lots and lots of spit-up)
poop
pee
play-doh
laundry for a family of 4
the kitchen (last nights dishes and this mornings)
myself
my son
my daughter


I guess I am "washed-up" after all....ok, that was bad, really bad, but I just couldn't help myself :)  Think about my morning and ENJOY your day!!  Love to all~

Why the Washed-up Diva?

So my sister started her own blog, jiandrachel.blogspot.com, and suggested that I start one as well.  She reminded me that there was a time in my life when I actually liked to write.  I think college beat it out of me for a few years, but now I need a therapeutic outlet so you don't see me on the 6 o'clock news.  ;)  So, even if the only followers turn out to be my sister and my mom, I'm ok with it.  (And thanks Rachel and mom, love you!) 


So why the Washed-up Diva?  You see, one of my best friends, Jana and I, were performing together this past spring and we came up with the idea as an act we could take on the road.  (Semi-jokingly of course.) At the time, she was about 2 or 3 months post-partum, having just had the adorable Ashlynn, and I was an ENORMOUS 7 months pregnant with my son, Thomas. (Now 5 months old, can you believe it!?)  It was an hour before the performance and we were back in our dressing room figuring out how to stuff me into a formal outfit that wasn't maternity and she was wearing a dress 5 times too big for her but didn't have time to get anything for herself.  As we were stuffing me into my outfit and pinning her into hers, we started laughing about how far we had "fallen" and that if people only knew....and so we started calling ourselves the washed-up divas.  Still going strong, voices better than ever, even if we do look a little less dapper then years prior...  And all our"accoutrements" are broken and old....for example the heel on my "best pair" of heels had broke off and I didn't notice until I was about to hobble out on stage at that very same performance.  After all, mothers rarely spend money on themselves, its always about the children and how cute something would be for them.  Not to mention its not exactly fun to shop for your post-baby body.....


 The performance went great btw, it was with one of my husband's groups, The Fort Bend Symphony, http://www.fbso.org/  we performed Rossini's Cat Duet and wore cat ears and tails.  The audience ate it up.  We also did Sull' aria from Marriage of Figaro by Mozart. (Minus the cat tail and ears.)

Here are the duets that started it all........

Cat Duet by Washed-up Diva

Sull Aria by Washed-up Diva

So I may be washed-up but I'm not washed-out and I must admit, I am perfectly happy with how my life has gone thus far.  I have two beautiful babies and a husband whom I still love even after nearly 10 years of marriage.  (I was 12 when we got married.)