How To Advice Needed/Not Me Monday

Hey all i hope you are having a wonderful Monday! As you can see from the title this blog will contain 2 things this time around. I will be getting to Not Me Monday in a minute but first i need some how to advice.

This is actually my 150th post and i am quickly approaching 200. For my 200th post i would really like to do a giveaway but i am at a loss as to how to do it. I know the basics like write a post and use a random number generator to pick a winner but other than that i just don't know. What should i give away? What would you be interested in receiving? I cant do anything extravagant or really expensive but i need some suggestions here.

Also how long do you usually leave a giveaway open? How quickly should i get the winner's stuff shipped out? Do you usually just do US or do you also do Canada? How do you draw in more people for participation? I have been wanting to do a giveaway for awhile now and i think my 200th post will be perfect. Hopefully you all can give me a leg up and point me in a good direction.

Anyways on with the rest of my post...

MckMama over at My Charming Kids invites us all to share our not so bright and shinning moments in her very fun meme Not Me Monday! When you are done reading mine you can zoom on over (or crawl depending on what time it is in your zone) and read more hilarious renditions of Not Me Monday. So off we go!

I did not eat a half of slab of ribs and a half a container of Buffalo Chicken Dip yesterday while watching the pregame and Super Bowl. That would have been way too much food for any one person and who could do that anyways. Certainly not me, that's for sure!

I did not also eat a salad in my delusional way of telling myself that it would balance out the fat in the other foods i ate. Who could possibly think that one bowl of salad could balance out a 1/2 slab of ribs slathered in BBQ sauce and a 1/2 container of spicey cheesy chicken? Not me and that's the truth!

I did not take a picture of MJ sitting on the toilet yesterday! Nor would i ever hold those pictures ransom as he gets older threatening to show his future girlfriends if he doesn't take out the trash/clean his room/wash the car/ect. What kind of mom would ever do such a thing, not me!

I did not once again give the kids gummies for breakfast because they say they are made of juice and how bad could they possibly be? I would never do that because i highly enjoy hearing my 2 year old scream at the top of his lungs for his Nemo gummies while the 3 year old tells me he hates me. Nope i would never do that.

I have not, nor would I ever, be wearing the same clothes for the 4th day in a row! What disgusting person would not change clothes on a daily basis! I personally change clothes twice a day!

I did not bite into a poptart that was left laying on the floor to figure out if it was fresh or old. That is nasty and i don't know anyone who would ever do that.

I also did not allow MJ to watch Cars 4 times in a row the other day because i wanted to lay down and that was the only way to get him to lay with me. Nope not me, never would i stoop so low to get a nap.

I am not currently bribing MJ with a new Lighten McQueen car and underwear to get him potty trained. No self respecting mama would ever bribe there kid into using the potty! We all know you just let them learn on their own sweet time right! Right!

Lastly i did not break down and take a pregnancy test yesterday knowing it had only been 2 1/2 weeks since we started TTC and that even if i was knocked up it wouldn't show up on the test! I am not that anxious about it! I am completely calm and know that blessings come with time and are worth the wait!

So if you enjoyed reading my Not Me Monday please head over to My Charming Kids and read away!

Back To Routine...Not Me Monday

So today Christmas is officially over. We head back to early mornings and drop off and pick up days. In case i have never mentioned before i am not a morning person! I am not the mom who enjoys waking before the kids to have a nice hot breakfast on the table before they rush out the door. I am not the mom who gets up before the kids to exercise. I am not the mom who warmly welcomes the kids with a bright shinny "good morning" as they roll their cranky butts out of bed at 6:30am. I am NOT a morning person.

I am the mom who gets up 5 minutes before the alarm goes off so i can turn the alarm off and wait for the kids to wake me up. I am the mom who blurry eyed and yawning drinks her coffee as her kids watch TV and eat a bowl of cereal. I am the mom who waits till the last possible moment to get them dressed and then rushes out the door to get them to school before they are late. I am the mom who is grouchy cause she didn't go to bed until way too late and got up way too early. I am THAT mom.

As the joy of the holidays pass by and we get back to normal life i dread it. My kids had been sleeping later than ever (which for me is 9am when they use to be up every morning at 7am). I had been enjoying the laziness of my days sleeping till 9 and staying in my Pj's all day unless i really had to go somewhere. I miss those days. Oh how sometimes i long to home school my kids so we could avoid the 6 am wake ups and getting dressed to rush out the door.

Now on to something way more fun.

MckMama over at My Charming Kids invites us all to share our not so bright and shinning moments in her very fun meme Not Me Monday! When you are done reading mine you can zoom on over (or crawl depending on what time it is in your zone) and read more hilarious renditions of Not Me Monday. So off we go!

I most certainly did not put the phone on silent last night causing the alarm to not go off and wake my husband up. He most certainly did not end up being 30 minutes late for work because of this. He most defiantly didn't give me the look of death as he told me he loved me and went to work. Nope wasn't me!

I did not contemplate calling the school and telling them Phabian was sick because i didn't wanna get up, how awful would that have been! I did not give my kids chocolate milk and a candy bar for breakfast cause i was so tired i mistook it for a cereal bar but by the time i realized my mistake they were praising me and it was too late to take it back...no not me...that was some other bad mom!

I did not sit on the computer staring at a blank screen for way too long this morning inevitably making us way late getting out the door. I did not drag MJ a quarter of a mile back and forth because he didn't want to ride in the stroller and i refuse to carry him. Why would any logical person do that kind of torcher.

I will not and did not come home plop myself on the couch and ignore MJ as he talked about Cars for 15 minutes. What kind of mom would do that and the blog about it...humph! I did not just turn Cars on and give MJ his blanket praying that he would go back to sleep so i could take a nap for the next 2 hours until i have to go get Phabian from school! Nope not me!

I would never plan to do nothing for the rest of the day but sit on my lazy but and read blogs, twitter, and watch endless stupid TV shows about women who's lives are far more glamorous than mine. Nope that would be a horrible plan!

Lastly i did not just write this and pray that you laugh and say omg that sounds like me. I did not pray that i don't get endless comments on my horrible parenting skills. I did not rethink this post 20 times before finally pressing the Publish Post button. Nope not me...never!