The Mom Crowd

As you can tell I didn’t get my post up about financial goals today. I have them written (really I do), but I just couldn’t make a cohesive post last night or even tonight for that matter. My mom broke her hip and had surgery to place a pin in it yesterday.

On Sunday my 56-year-old mom got stuck in the hallway and couldn’t move while we were making the four hour drive home to San Antonio from visiting my parents for Christmas. Apparently she had fallen about 2 weeks ago and didn’t tell anyone and she was finally in severe pain. Luckily my brother and sister cajoled her to go to the Emergency Room Sunday night. Turns out that it was broken and she had surgery. We drove back to Houston the next day.

Before I even knew about the hip stuff I had planned on coming back to Houston to clean my parent’s house before I gave birth. I just didn’t know it would be so soon. Today is the only day that my Super Duper Cleaner Sister-in-law was able to help clean the house. My mother is a pack rat and her ability to adequately clean after three inside dogs, three cats, four fish tanks, and one bird cage has waned over the years. We attacked today. I threw out tons of garbage and stuff I hope my mom doesn’t miss. She is also diabetic and I had at least one garbage bag full of sweets. She may buy them again, but at least it will be fresh sweet stuff.

My mom is doing well. She refused therapy this morning, but did get up for physical therapy this afternoon. It will still be a while before she is home and walking. She thinks she is going to be home in a couple of days. I am not looking forward to the fight about going into the inpatient rehab facility. But that is for another day.

One more thing, did I mention that my family has lots of family drama and I am the only one that everyone is speaking to? I get to be a peacemaker and go-between in all of this. Oh, and I am 30 weeks pregnant and I have a toddler with me. Needless to say, I am exhausted.

Thanks for letting me whine a little here at The Mom Crowd. I am sure I am not the only child to have to start caring for a parent or has to do their own version of Clean Sweep on their parents house.

I am taking a break from visiting and cleaning tomorrow afternoon and I am looking forward to finishing up my goals series. Please come back soon and check them out!

My post about sex while pregnant has been published over at BettyConfidential.com. So far everyone is giving it a rating of 5 stars. When I looked it up and showed it to my husband this morning, he noticed that my face was bright red. I am writing about s-e-x on the web. So maybe I am like the Carrie Bradshaw of motherhood like the Fox News reporter said. Except my Carrie is married and has only had sex with one guy, but like her, sex can be like a fairytale (except when I am pregnant!) Check out the article here.

The Mom Crowd is taking the rest of the week off to be with our families. In the mean time you should check out Betty Confidential, a website chocked full of interesting articles for women. They just recently published McKenna’s post about Living Within Your Means. You will also see other The Mom Crowd posts on Betty too! So go check out Betty Confidential!

Enjoy your weekend and remember to be thankful. Even when your family is driving you nuts or your favorite football is losing. (Although,  the Texas Longhorns have no reason to lose to the Aggies tomorrow night!)

I know I am thankful for my Preggy Card which entitles me to seconds thirds of everything!

Dawn and I (Amanda) are participating in National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo) this month over at our personal blogs. All this means is that we will be posting every day in November. We both participated last year and had a lot of fun.

Check out Dawn’s blog here and my family’s blog here.

Are you NaBloPoMo’ing it? Drop us a link to your blog in the comments!

I am taking Monday off from blogging, because I am still recovering from spending four days with my mother. My parents were in town this weekend for a Vietnam reunion that my dad attended. After every visit it makes me glad that I live four hours away from them. They seem to suck all my energy from me with their Eeyore attitudes and constant bickering. It is hard work to stay out their fights when they try to pull my husband and I into them to take sides.

I am glad that my mom got to see her granddaughter even though she questioned my parenting skills. She really didn’t see why I don’t want my 17 month old to have diet coke.  So after wearing my hard shell and letting comments roll off my back all weekend, I am pooped. I am taking the day off and driving a total of 6 hours roundtrip to go see my oldest friend’s new baby.