Okay, so the drama of my house being for sale continues. It's been on the market now for about seven months now. I know in this market that isn't rare. We've had two offers fall through, this first one not doing so until a week or so before the closing date. At this point we were all set to move back to our hometown, I had already worked my last day at my job, DH had his notice in. Deal fell through, we were royally fucked. DS and I packed up and moved across state, DH stayed with job until house sells or finds a job here. It's been over a month that we've been apart.--read more >>

Okay, let me preface this by saying that I am not a political person at all. I'm not registered to vote, I will be registering since I just moved to a different town, but I have not been before. I do not know much about either cadidate. Not something I'm proud of, but there it is. BUT, I can say that I do hate all the smear campaigning that happens in politics, especially with Obama in this race. There is a girl I know who is one of my myspace friends. Went to high school together, have mutual friends, not close friends.--read more >>

I have a Sansa MP3 player that I haven't really used very much. I'm interested in putting some podcasts on it, but I haven't the slightest clue on how to do this. I know that you can get the podcasts on itunes, but since my MP3 player is not an ipod, I'm assuming it won't work with itunes. Is that correct? So how can I get the podcasts downloaded to my computer to sync them to my player? Any tips?

My kid is driving me CRAZY!!! I want my old baby back!! He's 14 months old (12 months adjusted, born early), and he has turned into the biggest whiney babe ever. This is so unlike him, he used to be such a chill, laid back kid. Now, he just whines constantly. If I put him down to play, whine. If I pick him up, whine. Whine, whine, whine. I know it's probably just the age he is right now, just getting clingier in general. But my goodness, I want my happy baby back!!!

So, I'm in charge of the food at my best friend's baby shower next weekend. She is vegan, so all the food will be vegan. I'm not vegan. HELP! I mean, I'm not worried about making vegan things, but I just need some easy, fast ideas. And cheap. It will be a pool party, so think summery, bbq type stuff I guess.

I'm thinking hummus will be a good thing to make, anyone have a favorite recipe for that? I've never made it. And a pasta salad of some sort, that should be easy. What else?

So, the sale of our house has basically fallen through. Buyer did not get his financing, is not working with the new lender to see if they can do it. He's a fucktard and I would kick him square in the junk if he were in front of me. We will be signing the form today to get the binder, though it's not near enough to really feel like it's fair.
The babe and I will be moving back to our hometown next week. DH is staying here for now. He will be able to find a job paying more here than there. And it will be easier to sell the house with him here rather than trying to do it from there. --read more >>

Waiting to hear if this douche of a buyer is going forward with the deal or not. Trying not to freak out, but failing miserably. We're so fucked.

**We won't have an answer from the new lender until after this weekend. They say it's a 50/50 chance. I'm so fucking drained. This was supposed to be a happy time, supposed to be moving in 7 days. Fuck this shit. I just want to go home.

So, I usually dye my hair a deep, maroonish red, just with regular semi-permanant hair dye. But now that I won't be working for the man anymore in a stuffy, boring office, I want to try something a bit more dramatic and fun. I've never used henna before, I'm not familiar with it at all. I was thinking about maybe ordering some from Lush, http://usa.lush.com/cgi-bin/lushdb/00671?expand=Haircare .
Any tips or experiences with it? Where could I buy it without having to order it online?

So, I haven't been able to participate much this week on HM, I've been training my replacement at work. Today is my last day, and I'm super happy about that. But my anxiety about the house sale is overshadowing that excitement. Honestly, I'm freaking out quite a bit about it!!!! So, here's the scoop, so far.--read more >>

Hey mamas! Does anyone have any good, healthy, yummy muffin recipes? My babe's last day at daycare is Friday, and so is my last day of work, so I thought I'd take treats to our friends/co-workers that day. Not too worried about the health factor for my co-workers, we can manage our treats But I'd like them to be decently healthy for DS and his class, don't want to sugar them up too much.

Has anyone ever seen or used this service? I saw it on another forum and it looks pretty neat. This might really help some mamas out here. I checked and there are 2 pick-up areas in the town I'm moving to. I'll have to forward this info on to my family and friends there. Seemed worth sharing here.

http://www.angelfoodministries.org/

So, I think everyone is in agreement that this would be an awesome thing to have for our community. But I don't really know how to go about making it a reality. Basically, as far as I'm looking at it, it would take the community trusting one person to organize and handle the money. Paypal seems like the most logical place to have this account, most of us seem to be familiar with it and have accounts already. How comfortable is everyone with this?--read more >>

So, we had our house inspection Wednesday, and our realtor had the report by the end of the day. It actually went pretty well! She said she was pleasantly surprised with it, woohoo! She went over it with me and it seems that most the stuff is basic repair work, nothing horrible or out the blue that we didn't know about. We're still waiting on the WDO (wood destryoing organisms) report, but she's not expecting it to be anything out of the ordinary either. --read more >>

So, there is a girl at work who is due next month, and her dept. sent out an invite to baby shower lunch for her. They included links to her registries, and this thing was on both of them, http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3039774&fromRegistryN... . Now, I just had a baby a year ago, and I've never seen this thing, so I had no clue what it was. It looks kinda useless to me, thought I'd throw it out there and see what you guys thought.

We've accepted an offer on our house!!!!!! Our closing date is set for July 24th! It wasn't either of the two low-ball offers, this one was an actual decent one. We didn't bother with countering, wasn't worth our time. We just accepted and signed the papers yesterday. So now we're super duper anxious about the inspection, aaarrrgghhh!! Please don't let there be anything horrible wrong with the house, anything we don't already know!!!--read more >>

but here goes. What exactly is hummus (sp?)? I've never eaten it and the look of it scares me! But I'm willing to try maybe. Do you eat it cold, cause I'm not down with cold food (I know, completely weird), can you eat it warm? Why am I the only person on earth who doesn't know what it is?!!? Help me, mamas

Has anyone else read The Other Boelyn Girl and seen the movie too?--read more >>

So, our realtor just called. We had a showing on Sunday, the people liked our house, even went so far as to have thier realtor write up an offer. But they decided against it cause they didn't think our backyard was kid friendly enough. Okay, fine, I can see this (grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr), whatever. So flippin close yet soooo far away. --read more >>

God, I hope my kid isn't thinking this in his head right now. I mean, I want him to want me, but not when I can't be there. The daycare just called and left a message while I was at lunch, they just wanted to "let me know" that DS doesn't seem to be feeling well. That he's been crying (out of norm for him) and cranky and just all around acts sick. I don't have to come pick him up, just thought I should know (read: come pick him up). He's had a runny nose for the last few days, but he's a daycare kid, he's had that for the last 9 months.--read more >>

Hey mamas, thought I'd go ahead and start this one for yesterday. Mine is short, $0!! Today, not so much.

So, we have a group of friends who go camping a few times a year, and we've gone the last 2 or 3 times. They are going again in a couple of weeks. We always have a great time, we just hang out, play football, kickball and freeze tag, and just stay up late and get drunk. Pretty much everyone has kids, all older than mine, but only a few of them come. Most of them use this time as adult fun time and get babysitters. The last time we went my parents came into town to watch the kiddo and we had fun adult time.--read more >>

So, my babe fell off the bed for the first time yesterday He's a year old, so really, I'm quite surprised this is the first time. He's totally fine, I actually calmed him down pretty quickly. But he was a little pathetic for a while afterwards, didn't want to be put down. I put him in the bath with me right after it happened, and that distracted him. He was taking a nap on the bed with DH, and then DH got up and went out to get some lunch.--read more >>

I’ve never created a quiz before, so thought I’d give it a go. Hope you enjoy!

1) If you are a SAHM, do you wish you were working outside the home? If you work outside the home, do you wish you were a SAHM?
2) If you had to choose one t.v. show to watch for the rest of your life, what would it be?
3) What does your username mean?
4) Why do you continue to post on HM? How did you find it?
5) What’s your nickname for your kids?
6) What is to your left right now?
7) What were you doing one year ago?
8) What book are you reading right now?--read more >>

It’s been 10 years since I graduated high school. I feel like practically the same person as I was back then. I’ve grown a great deal in my thoughts on most things, changed my mind completely on others. I’ve learned much, forgot much, gained much, and lost much. I’ve moved away from home, got married, had a child. I’ve changed my hair too many times to count, I’ve gotten a little better fashion sense (well, I like to think), I’ve gained a few pounds. But deep down inside, to my core, I feel like the same Amanda from way back then.--read more >>