I know. It has been forever since I commented/blogged. Even though it is a generic reason, it is still the only reason I have: I have been so busy.

Not just your average busy, I mean the kind of busy where you forget to eat sometimes.

I am happy to report that my baby, who is four months old on July 19^th has not been deprived of eating. He is now 17 pounds.

Seriously.

I am pretty positive that my breast milk has superpowers because the same thing happened to my other child. Well, he was also 9 pounds when he was born. That may have had something to do with him being 20 pounds by the time he was 6 months old.

He was a rather chunky baby, but he stayed 20 pounds until he was about a year and half old. Once he developed his escaping skills, he stopped gaining weight. I guess when all you can do is slobber and “goo”, your whole life is eating.

Anyway, back to the whole busy thing. In addition to my kids keeping me on the crazy side, my family has been sick for what seems like eons. It started with a little bug and turned into weeks. I made it through without getting anything that my kids and husband were passing around to each other. I am breastfeeding though, and well you already know about the superpowers that stuff contains.

After all of that, I am starting to feel like the woman on the Suave commercial. She is all nice looking and then she has kids and she gets all frazzled and run down looking. Then in the end she used Suave and she is a super model again. Well, that part hasn’t happened to me yet. I suspect it won’t until I actually buy that shampoo.

Of course that would mean I would have to actually have time to go to the store and to that section of Wal-Mart. When I get a chance to go to the store, I do not go in the “left” side of Wal-Mart. Why can’t they put toys on the other side? Or Shampoo on the food side?

For some reason my son (the 3 year old) has decided that he must own every single superhero that they sell in Wal-Mart. I cannot even begin to explain the fascination he has with Spiderman. He fell down one day and came to me crying, telling me that his webshooter was broken.

Seriously.

Then he got on a Power Ranger crusade and ran around shooting red and blue magic all over the house with his “swords” (swords = anything long and straight … spoons… sticks… toothbrushes…).

It is even more exciting when the two are combined. You haven’t seen it all until your son is running around shooting webs from one hand and throwing red magic from his Spiderman toothbrush sword with the other hand.

It is even better when he “plays” with his baby brother. Baby is sitting in the Bumbo seat, with some sort of makeshift sword, and Brother is in front of him throwing webs and magic. It is all too much excitement for me. Maybe I should being my blow dryer and makeup into the living room and make myself into the Suave supermodel while they are playing.

So – that is how busy I have been. I promise that in the coming months, probably after summer, I will start posting more often. I just never realized how busy I would be with a baby and a superhero.

It isn’t all that bad though, I recently got Direct TV DVR (for free ::gasp::).

I have been asking DVR for a while now, and even with all of my nagging – ahem – I mean asking, my husband still didn’t see a “need” for it. I tried to explain that it was an absolute necessity but he wasn’t budging. It would cost us upwards of $150 and an extra $10 a month added to the monthly bill after all was said and done. He finally said that Dish Network was offering some kind of promo where you get free DVR and told me to check it out.

Well Dish Network does not have the Oxygen Channel or the PBS Kids Sprout Channel. You don’t know hell until you don’t have “Prout” on your TV. So, I was faced with a dilemma. I could get DVR, but I would have to listen to endless crying about not having “Prout,” and I would not get to see “Fight Girls,” “The Bad Girls Club,” or replays of “The Tyra Banks Show.”

In the end, I decided it just wasn’t worth it. During all of that thinking though, I got to wondering why wasn’t there any kind of special promotion for being a loyal customer to Direct TV. Or… is there?

::light bulb moment::

I called Direct TV and politely explained that we have been loyal customers for nearly 8 years and were never late (that automatic bill pay). I told them that Dish Network has been sending me a lot of appealing offers, and I wanted to switch, but decided to call Direct TV and see if they could offer me something to stay, since Dish Network was so appealing (NOT).

The man put me on hold for a few minutes and came back offering me free (read: FREE) DVR and $10 off of my monthly programming package (total plus 250 or something) for an entire year.

Of course when I my husband came home I told him that I had saved us about $270 and threw him the latest Zale’s flyer.

Ahh… the trials and tribulations of being a housewife….

Until next time, don’t forget that even Twizzlers can be swords (my son LOVES Twizzlers.)