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Question of the Day

What's the cutest thing your child has said lately?

Mine. My 21 month old was holding Band-Aids (she now wants to put them on all the time).

She said to her dad, "Band-Aid please."

He said, "No," half joking.

So she gave him a look and said, "Ask mom," turned around and came upstairs to have me open one for her. She already has an attitude and she's not even two yet. I think we're in trouble!

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Question of the Day?

What is the funniest country music song title?

You're the Reason Our Kids Are So Ugly.
My Wife Ran Off With My Best Friend and I Sure Do Miss Him.
I'm So Miserable Without You; It's Like Having You Here.
Get Your Tongue Outta My Mouth Cause I'm Kissing You Good-bye.
I Don't Know Whether To Kill Myself or Go Bowling.
If The Phone Don't Ring, You'll Know It's Me.

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Hip Mama Here...

What’s a girl gotta do to be hip? Be yourself. Be confident. Have big goals and dreams and know you can do anything. Have your own sense of style and love your body what ever size you are. Strive to be a great role model for your kids and know how to say sorry.

I am on a constant journey to be more of the Hip Mama I know I can be. I’ve finally decided I’m going to lose the weight, I need to. I’ve ripped a few pictures from fitness magazines and placed them on my fridge. In the past I’ve looked at them admiringly while I ate a whole bag of chocolate chips. Hopefully, this time it will do the trick.

Today so far, even though it’s only 6am, I’ve started out well. Now I’ve just got to keep it going the rest of the day and work moment by moment and before I know it I will be a better roll model for my girls and be able to go out and buy a cute pair of new jeans and an adorable pair of sexy heels (and maybe even a matching purse, I'm such a purse girl)!

I’ve signed up at a weight loss web site but I spend so much time on the computer writing that I don’t have any time left to set up all of my daily food lists. There seems to be lots of support and I’ll see what happens and keep you posted, so if you’re trying to lose weight, let me be your guinea pig first. No, I don’t want to be a guinea pig. I don’t think it’s a slimming body type or name. How about I’ll be your slim athletic Greyhound? After all, I do love to run.

And let’s not call it; ‘losing weight,’ because as I heard in Weight Watchers, you don’t lose weight because you can always find what you lose, you get rid of it. Or maybe a better word I’ll donate it, but who would take my donation of extra weight? That’s like when someone says, “I don’t need that cookie.” My response is, “Who really does?” Not many of us anyway. Good luck with all of your goals. I’m right here with you to offer support and to be your Grey Hound (at least until I can think of a better animal, I guess I’m more of a Mare or female horse, they love to run too and are cute)!

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After the Storm

Well, hip mamas I’ve been off line for a few days now. We lost our electricity here in the Buckeye State (Ohio) after being hit by 70 mile an hour winds. I was even scared for a second when the winds started. I’ve never actually seen a tornado before but I went outside and felt like I was going to be blown away (and no I haven’t lost that much weight that I could get blown away, but I have lost weight thought and I’ll get to that later).

We lost power and at first I didn’t think much of it. I mean usually it comes on right away but after it had been off all afternoon, evening and into the next day, I thought I’d better get ice for all of the things in the fridge and the freezer (I'd just bought light meals for losing weight). So off I went in search of ice.

I was up early and in the store by 7AM but they had no ice. I thought it was no big deal and I’d just go to the next huge store. So my daughter and I sat down and enjoyed a Starbucks (me: a nonfat no whipped and she had a hot chocolate) before heading out. She was thrilled that they had a TV showing a morning cartoon as she was dangerously close to TV withdraw while I was getting my caffeine fix (at the sight of the line so was everyone else).

The next store had no ice and the story continued as we went from store to store. I got the tiniest glimpse of what it must be like to try and find anything after a huge storm or hurricane. Searching for ice became an obsession the more stores that didn’t have it the more I needed ice. I finally found it in a drive through across the river, not far from me. I bought 8 big bags (for two houses) totaling $34.00. Now I’m thinking why did I pay that much for ice? I ended up throwing all of the frozen food a few days later after a big puddle of water appeared under the fridge and the food was probably not safe anyway. Now it’s been a few more days and some people still don’t have power. At my parents house they lost both gorgeous Weeping Willows and a few other trees. Part of the problem was AEP sent many of their workers down to help with the hurricane so no one was left to deal with our storm. It’s great to help but you want to make sure you leave a few people to help at home too. I hope everyone dealing with the after math from bad storms gets all the help they need and more.