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Emma & Sadie’s VERY SERIOUS Cooking Show

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While I was cooking dinner tonight Emma and Sadie were playing with Playdoh at the kitchen counter and decided to make a pretend cooking show. Hilarity and hijinks ensued. Emma is a little foodie, she is only seven but she is a lot of help in the kitchen. I’ve been naming and letting her smell spices for as long as she could stand on a stool and hold a wooden spoon, so if she ever tells you your chili needs more cumin… it does. This actual video was over forty minutes long. I watched the whole thing about four times to edit it down the the funniest nuggets, cuz I love you like that.

During a large portion of the video I’m cooking and I only got involved when they screamed loud enough to get my attention, so I missed a couple of elbow jabs while dinner was being prepared, but whatevs– they worked it out. And you may hear Aubrey getting really excited in the background because I finally agreed to let her buy the real version of Minecraft and apparently I am THE BEST MOTHER EVER!!  And that’s obvious. (If you aren’t following Chris D’Elia on Vine it’s going to become increasingly difficult for you to understand what I’m saying because I’ve started speaking in D’Eliaisms and I love it. And that’s obvious. See what I did there?)

Anyway, here is the video and ’tis not short but there was too much funny to cut it down to one liners!

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Best. Day. EVER.

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This morning I dropped the girls off at school, came home and went for a run. (I KNOW.) I started kicking my own butt back in May, working really hard to lose weight and exercise which led to a downward spiral in my mastery of Netflix, but an accompanying decline in the number on my scales.

So today, I ran. I ran faster and longer than I have in over five years. When the little voice in my iPhone said, “THREE MILES,” I was on the busiest street in Greenwood, Mississippi and I ran a good fifty feet with my arms over my head a la Rocky Balboa. I cried the last quarter of a mile home because I kept thinking, “I can’t believe I did this! I can’t believe I’ve made it this far!”

I felt SO good that when I got home, I made this vlog. I look like crap but I love you this much:

 

Right after I made the vlog, I got a phone call from my agent, Jenny Bent. She told me to sit down, and since I would literally jump off a bridge if she told me to, I did.

“You are #3 on the New York Times’ Bestseller list!!”

Ketchup is a NYTs Bestseller!

Ketchup is a NYTs Bestseller!

 

Y’ALL!!!!! I lost my everloving chit! I screamed and sobbed while she talked and said things like, “I just ran 3.7 miles and I’ve lost 30 pounds this summer and I EFFING RULE AT LIFE TODAY, JENNY!!!!”

I called my family first and they are all as amazed and overwhelmed as I am. But do you want to know what I keep thinking?

What if I never started?

What if I never sat down to write? What if I never made up my mind to get off the couch? What if I had been too embarrassed to submit my little manuscript to the agent of my dreams? What if I’d been so humiliated by the number on the scales that I hadn’t gone to see a nutritionist and asked for help?

What if?

I am so excited about this day. About my run. About my weight loss. About my life. But the day I started wasn’t exciting. It was ordinary.

The day I decided it was time to take my body back, I couldn’t have run to the end of my driveway and I weighed more than I had my entire life.

The day I started writing, the New York Times’ list was a dream, and an impossible one at that.

Today may not be the day your dream comes true, but it could definitely be the day you start. So, do it– kick life’s ass.

Now I gotta go buy some posterboard and clean my kitchen. I love all you Chicks to pieces, thank YOU for making so many of my dreams come true. It wouldn’t have happened without you! I’ll post links to the list when it goes live tomorrow!

xo
Robin

How I Fell In Love With A Honda Odyssey

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This is a sponsored post. Honda was AWESOME enough to let me borrow an Odyssey from their Alabama plant to lug around all my extra kids last week. I was not paid for this post but recieved the use of the van at no charge to myself. Which obviously– was awesome.

It’s time for a new car. I have loved, loved, LOVED my Toyota Highlander. So much so, that I was planning on getting a newer one with a third row of seats so I could haul all of my kids, run carpool, go to the grocery store and all that other glamorous stuff that I normally do.

That was my plan– before I met Honda’s Social Media Director, Alicia, at Mom 2.0. I missed the session she was teaching because my session ran simultaneously but I introduced myself to her later and mentioned that I was looking for a new car. She said if I was ever in a large city and wanted to test drive an Odyssey or a Pilot to let her know.

Only a few weeks later, I found myself in Birmingham, surrounded by my nieces and nephews and I realized that my mother and I were going to have to take two cars everywhere we went, so I emailed Alicia. There wasn’t a fleet of cars nearby but the Honda Odyssey plant just happens to be located in Lincoln, AL, only 40 minutes away. Ted, Manager of Corporate Affairs, brought me an Odyssey a few days later and spent about 20 minutes with me showing me all the bells and whistles: all FIFTEEN cupholders(!!!), how to fold the third row into the floor (you can do it with one hand and a baby on your hip, by simply pulling on a strap),the navigation system, the FOUR different ways to open and close the doors. I was impressed.

But I didn’t fall in love with the Odyssey until I loaded five kids into the car. They were all comfortable and magically– not touching each other, AND everybody’s sippy cup or water bottle had its own little home. The girls in the way back could easily flip the second row seat forward to get in and out. I was twitterpated.

How I Fell In Love With a Honda Odyssey

How I Fell In Love With a Honda Odyssey

REAL TALK

When I initially got the van I knew it would be a great car, but I wanted to stick with what I knew. I loved my Highlander, it just wasn’t big enough anymore, and also… (confession time) I DIDN’T WANT TO DRIVE A MINIVAN!!

Why??

1) Um. Well… When I was teenager, ya know– back before I HAD kids? I swore I would never drive a minivan. So there’s that.

2) Also? Uhhhhh, it was a minivan and obviously I am so much cooler than that. (It is sad to say that this really is the breakdown of my thought process.)

3) IN ADDITION, it was a MINIVAN and I am Robin O’Bryant and I don’t “DO” minivans because apparently my teenager street cred was more important to me than my mommy street cred.

WHAT I REALIZED

It’s sort of like my yoga pants… (Am I about to make a yoga pants/life/minivan analogy?? Yes. Yes,I am.)

I want to wear my yoga pants all of the time. They are comfortable, versatile and get the job done. If I see you at the girls’ school and you are dressed up all cute, I’ll notice. I may even say, “Hey! Lookin’ good Momma!”

But don’t you think, for ONE FLIPPING SECOND, that I wish I was wearing underwire and makeup– ‘cuz that took some work and I know you aren’t as comfortable as I am.

In fact, I know that as soon as you get home, the first thing you are going to do is slide your bra out the sleeve of your shirt then go put on your yoga pants– but here’s the thing: I’M ALREADY WEARING MINE!

I want to wear my yoga pants all the time.
Physically and metaphysically.

And in the same manner, I want to drive a Honda Odyssey. It is the perfect car, and I may have cried a little when I drove away from it.

Then I may have put some pics in a music montage…

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How do you feel about “minivans”? Why? What’s your perfect “Mommy Ride”?