I'm proud to announce that both the Bertie and the Owyn are being sold on his online shop, Mahar Dry Goods, as of today!
5/30/08
Mahar Dry Goods Selling Bertie and Owyn!
I'm proud to announce that both the Bertie and the Owyn are being sold on his online shop, Mahar Dry Goods, as of today!
5/28/08
Coffee Talk
5/27/08
Modern Nursery
Adventures in New Table Saw Shopping...and much more!
SO much has happened in the past few days I'm not even sure where to start! So this post will serve as a catch up post and will most likely make little sense and have no cohesion and MANY run-on sentences because I haven't slept much in a week. And here's why...
- Pneumonia! Grace was showing signs of pneumonia last Monday so we, as good parents who didn't take the other son to the doctor until he had full-blown pneumonia, decided to take her in right away on Tuesday. The doc told us she didn't hear anything and that we probably brought her in too early and that it was probably a virus. Cut to Friday when we haven't slept all week and she's worse so we headed to an Urgent Care. The Urgent Care doc couldn't hear anything in her chest either but did listen to us when we said we'd just been through pneumonia with our son. He ordered an x-ray and sure enough, FULL BLOWN PNEUMONIA. She's getting better but sadly, is not sleeping well. So sadly, neither are we.
- Table Saw Shopping! I'm in the market for a new table saw so I've been researching like crazy. Yesterday, I marched into three different stores to hopefully take home a saw. Apparently, having boobs and wearing a dress make it difficult for anyone to answer your questions about table saws with smart answers. The condescension in the air was palpable. More later on this one, I'm sure....
- Check out the cool site I just joined -- http://www.lumberjocks.com/! It's a great place to get advice on woodworking. I'm now a LUMBERJOCK!
- Nikki from Ohio wrote a very kind post on her blog "And Audrey Makes Three" on Friday. http://hudsonnews.typepad.com/baby/2008/05/friday-feature---mod-mom.html
- Confession. I cut wood yesterday on my old, falling apart, table saw in the same dress I wore to shop for saws. I just couldn't be bothered to change clothes. No heels, though.
Whew! Ok, gotta run Noah to school. I'll be back with another post because I'm waiting for the world to wake up before I crank up the table saw again. This time, not in a dress.
5/23/08
New Website Design!
Check out the the Mod Mom Furniture website for the new design!!
Thanks so much to Lisa Sommer at Venturesom for the fantastic web design!! She's an amazing web design guru who also manages to run several other companies all while taking care of two little Sommers. Check out these links for chic baby gear and so much more!
www.chicshopsbaby.com
www.chicshopsconnect.com
www.pulpfactorycalendars.com
5/22/08
Happy Friday!
Wish me luck! I'm off to bed so I can get some rest. I need to get my strength up so I can be witty and charming for my son's friends (and their mothers who have gone on field trips before and will undoubtedly call attention to my lack of involvement.) I really just want to be the cool mom but will go to sleep tonight knowing that I'll probably be the mom who loses a kid.
5/20/08
Procrastination Station
I came across these today (thanks, sis) and hadn't really looked at them since January. My carpentry mentor known as Dad, is featured in two of these.
Two woodworking geeks getting ready to ride the tube down a hill that doesn't have a conveyor belt to get you back up the hill.
If I had gotten my act together in the Christmas card department, this would've been the card photo.
Ok, now I'm done procrastinating. Back to my office I go. It's time to make the furniture.
5/18/08
Workplace Dress Code
flip flops
bikini top under white Hanes halter
cut-off shorts that used to be thin sweatpants
two pencils in hair (one for marking, one to keep the hair up) - bun type updo
Back out to sweat to some country song about drinking in Mexico....
Sunset Blvd and Heels
1. The three-inch heels spiky heels hurt like HELL. And they make me 6'1". So I end up looking like a giant on wobbly feet. When did I lose the ability to wear those heels? Either my feet have changed or my tolerance for pain or both.
2. If we stay in LA, there's a chance my kids, when in high school, will want to walk up and down Sunset Blvd with their friends trying to get into bars with their fake IDs. We saw so many teens/twenty-somethings parading past us as we waited for our car to be pulled up by the valet. Here's what strikes me about that. I used to cruise downtown Defiance, Ohio with my friends and eventually we'd end up at the seedy, debaucherous, Burger King parking lot. That's not much different than Sunset Blvd, right? Yep, we'll be moving.
5/15/08
Design Mom
Gabrielle, a designer/art director and mother of five, at Design Mom said some really nice things this morning on her blog! It was a nice surprise to see a message from her in my inbox this morning because I'm actually DREADING working today. It's supposed to be close to 100 degrees and shockingly, my "workshop" built in the 1940s doesn't have air conditioning. I'm trying to look at it from another angle. It'll be like a sauna and surely I'll lose at least five pounds, right?
Here's the link to the article....
http://www.designmom.com/2008/05/mod-mom-furniture.html
5/13/08
Chicago Noah
Why is it that I can't really remember what my kids looked like when they were little unless find a picture? Like the one above, for instance. I think Noah was three here. I was thinking about how different his life was then. Scott and I both worked full-time in downtown Chicago so he spent his days, from 8:00am until 6:00pm, at daycare/preschool. I would sometimes have to go get him from daycare around 4:30pm and bring him back with me to the office until 11pm or so during the busy season (thankfully, my wonderful boss allowed this). He would sit on the floor of my office and play with a pitiful looking box of toys. I wonder if he remembers any of that? It's almost as if he had a completely different mom.
I know I am different -- some good different and some bad different. It'll be interesting to find out what his Mom is like when he's 13. For sure, I'll be the Mom who embarrasses the hell out of him while trying to not embarrass him. But maybe by that time, I'll be back into regular showers and sawdust and glue-free clothing.
5/11/08
Happy Mother's Day!
Noah gave me a card that was so damn cute. It read...
Marvelous is the word that describes my modern mom when she constructs toy boxes.
Outstanding is the word that describes her hard work.
Magnificent ist he word that describes my merry mom when she makes dinner.
Gracie's quote for me, when asked by her teachers, was....
"I mostly cook with my Mom. We mostly cook Fettucine Alfred all the time"
5/8/08
Keeping Me Grounded
"Um, I don't think so. Now if this were a day where we were talking about what our parents do, then that would be appropriate."
5/7/08
The LA Times Article Online
Thanks to Lisa Boone for a great article! It's up online and will be running in tomorrow's Home section of the LA Times Thursday Edition.
http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-scoutmom8-2008may08,0,2679062.story.
Hot Mess!
I was a "Mom Jean" offender. I just found this photo that was probably taken in 1999, given Noah's age. I don't know what else to write except I promise to never do it again.
Although, they do tempt me a bit because when I bend down to work on a toy box, they would cover everything without me having to hike up my jeans. And, ....
OH STOP IT KIERSTEN. There's no way I'm going back over to the dark side. Stay strong, ladies!
And if you need more incentive to stay on the low-rise jean path, check out SNL's Mom Jeans video. HILARIOUS!
5/6/08
Mod Mom Gyerekbutorok
After trying every language I could come up with to translate this blog post, FINALLY, I figured out it was Hungarian. Had I noticed the link address had "hu" at the end of it, this might have proved a less time consuming task. But remember, I only had a few hours sleep last night so.... Oh hell, who am I kidding, even with sleep I would've been a tiny bit stumped.
Here's what the Hungarian to English Online Translator said...
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Thanks to whomever runs this Hungarian blog! And to the people who created the online translator!
Awake
Ok, now I'm getting tired again. More tomorrow...er, later this morning.
5/2/08
How'd it go?
It was great! Both the photographer, Annie, and the writer, Lisa, were so easy going and supportive and seemed to enjoy being in my little garage world for an hour. On a vanity note, I tried so very hard to suck my stomach in (wearing Spanx) while pushing wood through the table saw while being photographed. Scott pointed out to me that I didn't have my safety glasses on after the fact. "Oh, yeah, the safety glasses. I have no freakin' clue where those are hiding." But you know damn well that this little wood geek would not have put those on even if I could've found them. It would have covered up the eye makeup that I spent a half an hour putting on that I haven't had on since.
You will be proud of me because I did have the safety guard over the spinning saw blade on the table saw. Really, all I could think while I was being photographed was am I showing the appropriate amount of cleavage whilst bending over this saw? And then I realized I don't really have the appropriate amount of cleavage but can thank Victoria Secret for what I do have!
I'll be sure to post the link (I think it'll be online too) to the article next Thursday. :)