Casey on the Case AKA Mommy Extraordinaire
Full Name:
Profile: My name's Casey, I'm thirty six years old (AHHHHHH!), I'm a former prosecutor turned stay-at-home mom of three, and I still have no social life (at least not with anyone older than the ages of four or five). I've been happily married to Chester, my husband of five years and we live in a tidy little suburb in the Bronx with our three incredible kids Samantha (4), Adam (3), and Matthew (1).
Interests: My kids, books, sewing, knitting, cooking, Virginia, beauty, music, hiking, biking, running,
marriage
Favorite Websites:
Archives:
April 2012
-- Just in Case You're Still Interested in My Life…
-- Meet Mini-Me, Drama King, and Hand-to-Mouth AKA My Husband's Three Offspring
-- Dinner With My Dad and EB #3
O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O
Just in Case You're Still Interested in My Life… Monday, April 2
Wow, this site has changed a lot since I've last been on it. I actually forgot my screen name and my password and I had to actually email the moderators for this blog site to get my old stuff back. Of course, it took them like three days to get back to me, but when they finally did, I was so excited because I had forgotten what a stress reliever blogging is!
I can't believe it's been five years since I've seen my other blog. I actually laughed out loud and Chester looked at me like 'what the hell?' and I told him that back when I was ADA I actually found the time to blog. I don't see how I'm going to find the time now, but I'll try.
So, just to catch up anyone who even might be remotely interested in my life (not to say that my life is boring. I totally love it) here's a little rundown of what's been happening over the last five years:
Chester and I dated for eight months.
We got married at St. Jerome's Catholic Church June 10, 2008.
We bought our house together about three months later.
A year later, we found out that I was pregnant with Samantha.
My dad and EB #3 decided to move to New York and make mine and Chester's life a living hell.
Elliot transferred out of Manhattan SVU and joined Queens Homicide.
Olivia got pregnant and had a baby girl named Serena Grace, who is now three years old.
Fin is still Chester's partner.
Munch finally retired and moved to where else? Sunny Baltimore.
Cragen also retired and he moved to New Hampshire with his new wife, Geneva.
Then came Adam.
Then came Matty.
Phew! So, that's the last five years in a nutshell and hwoutoiehvdjkhtuerwqyhio19348932yut942qnfgkelw'qjgk'ut94hqghjtgju4hty4t
'gg
r
Sorry about that. Matthew is supposed to be taking a nap, but he's being stubborn today…one of his less endearing qualities that he inherited from me.
Well, I guess I just pick up where I left off huh? Only this time I have a husband and three kids in tow. Ha!
Posted by: SweetieMama 1:34 PM EDT 7 Comments Submit Report Of this Post
O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-
Meet Mini-Me, Drama King, and Hand-to-Mouth AKA My Husband's Three Offspring Wednesday, April 4
(Yawning)
I'm writing a little early because I have a busy day ahead of me. Samantha has a doctor's appointment because she's been coughing a lot lately and I'm getting worried, then I have to go shopping for both Sam and Adam because for some odd reason, none of their shoes seem to fit right, then I have to go to the dentist, and then of course, I have to do the dreaded grocery shopping because it's my turn this time.
Chester and I switch off on who's going to do the grocery shopping on what day.
I'm just grateful that even though my kids are a handful, they're good kids. A lot of people say that they're very well disciplined and polite.
Yeah…when they want to be. At home, they're little wild children.
My little ones are so adorable and this is the first of probably many posts about them because they are just my heart and joy.
So here's the skinny on my little beans:
Mini-Me: Amanda is four years old and it's scary how much like me she is. She's got my red hair, but she looks just like her daddy. Even though she looks just like him, she acts exactly like me. She's stubborn, outspoken, spunky, and she's bossy. She takes charge over her little brothers and sometimes she can be a bit confrontational. I have no idea how to reign her in, but I'm learning as we go along. She is certainly more attached to Chester than to me, which is good because girls need their fathers.
Drama King: Adam is three and a very smart little boy. He loves to read and think, and he loves to build things. Of course, he and his sister only manage to get along when they're being mischievous. Not only is he smart, but he's so funny and animated, especially when he's trying to get his way or get out of trouble. But when he gets mad…he whines, he cries, he pokes out his lower lip and crosses his arms over his chest. If it weren't so cute and dramatic, I would be more stern with him, but all me and Chester do is laugh.
Hand-to-Mouth: At one year old, Matthew is a walking, crawling, running ball of energy, and everything he picks up along his way, goes straight into his mouth and I am freaked. Out. The other day, I saw his little chompers working over time and I wondered what the heck he was gnawing on. I picked him up and scooped in his mouth with my finger and it was a dead moth. I literally shivered as I threw out the moth and then I called our pediatrician. I thought my baby was going to get some kind of infection or disease, but my fears were unfounded. Dr. Maynard said that Matty would be fine. A little dirt can't hurt.
So, those are our little beans. I have tons of pictures of them, but I never get around to downloading them onto the computer so that I can show the world just how cute and beautiful they are. I have to say though that my hubby is quite the shutter bug. He takes pictures almost everyday, and the kids love it, but I don't because he's always catching me while I'm cooking, or when I'm folding laundry, or when I'm like in my pajamas not looking my best with two out of three kids hanging off me.
Gotta go. Hubby just got out of the shower. I better seize the moment. (wink wink)
Posted by: SweetieMama 6:15 AM EDT 10 Comments Submit Report Of This Post
O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-
Dinner With My Dad and EB #3 Saturday, April 7
I love my dad.
I love my brothers.
I love my husband.
I love our children.
So you see, I'm not a bad person. I have a lot of love to give. There are people in my life that I hold in the utmost regard. There are people that I respect and look to for guidance. I am a good, loving person, and those are two redeeming qualities because…
I HATE my step-mother, the EB #3.
What worse situation could there be than to have to share yet another meal with her? I hope she didn't like freakin' poison my plate or something.
My dad always says that I'm being childish, and maybe I am, but I keep telling him that he could do so much better. I mean, where does he find these women?
Hell, I despise my step-mother so much, it makes me wish my dad had stayed with Winona. Of course, I'm willing to admit that I was no angel when she came around, but she wasn't daddy's type. She wasn't interested in him, or us kids. I honestly don't know what she wanted. It wasn't his money because she was a very tight fisted woman. But I'd prefer her to Delilah.
Ah, Delilah Swiddle. More like Swindle. She spends my dad's money like it's going out of style, and she has no respect for him at all.
I guess the thing that pisses me off most is that my dad's marital track record makes our family so cliché and it's quite embarrassing. I wish that he'd find a woman that really truly loves him for who he is, not his money. I want him to be with a woman that will truly be a wife to him, and a good step-mother to his children. Of course, no woman will ever take the place of my mom, but he could at least get close to her, right?
In the long run Chester helped me realize that it's not up to me and that I shouldn't place my expectations on my dad or my step-mother. It's my dad's prerogative to marry whomever he chooses and that I don't have a right to interfere.
He is absolutely right, but that doesn't stop me from hating her.
So anyway, my dad called and invited us over for dinner.
My dad and Delilah live in a condo in the Upper East Side of New York City. It's a nice condo, big enough for the two of them and when the kids come to spend the night. Although I still have mixed feelings about my dad selling the house…I loved that house.
My brothers didn't like the idea, but they rolled with the punches too, so I know I have to.
To mine and Chester's relief, Delilah finally found the good sense to hire a fulltime chef because neither she nor my dad can cook very well. The chef served up the most delicious chicken rollups and the rice was so good…the meal was great, the conversation wasn't.
My dad and Chester get on just fine. They watch sports together, throw back a few beers, play chess, and discuss the latest in the news. They get on like long lost best buddies. Usually when we have dinners together, they retreat somewhere else, and I hate that Chester and dad leave me and Delilah in the same room alone with each other.
So while we ate dinner, I joined in conversation with Chester and my dad, completely ignoring Delilah. Anything she had to say, I would just dismiss.
That is until she tried to make Samantha eat something she didn't want to eat. Samantha is a very picky eater, and she's not like the typical kid her age. She doesn't like sweets, she doesn't like to drink anything else except apple juice, milk, and water, she loves any kind of vegetable you give her, and fruit but she's not much of a meat eater. So it came as no surprise that when the chef gave her a pepperoni pizza that she didn't really want it.
I told her to go ahead and eat her vegetables and have some salad. But Delilah insisted on making her eat that damn pizza. So EB and I started arguing about that and Chester was trying to get me to calm down.
Well Samantha thought she was being slick, but I saw her trying to feed my dad's dog Bupkis the pizza and unfortunately, she dropped the whole greasy thing onto the three thousand dollar rug.
Delilah was furious, and she yelled at Samantha for it and made my baby cry, which broke my heart because it's very rare that Samantha actually cries. She gets mad, but she doesn't cry, so to see her shed tears just…killed me.
Delilah has a temper, and so I never let my kids stay over or spend the night unless my dad is there with her because Delilah doesn't have any other children beside her underachieving son, and it's obvious that she never really took an interest in him except only to punish him, which she can't do the right way.
I told Delilah to never yell at any of my kids and then she told me that my kids were out of control. I thought, Is she kidding? Then she said that I should pay for the rug, and I said that we'll pay to have it cleaned. That didn't satisfy her and then she started the waterworks and complained how we never got along, that she always wanted a daughter…
In response I said, "Delilah, you're so full of shit."
She turned beet red, and told us to leave and informed me that with the exception of Chester and my children, I was no longer welcome in her home, which was fine with me.
I felt like a tribal warrior and I felt like going up to the rooftops and shouting my victory. But the high didn't last long because Chester was furious with me.
He reminded me that I'm a thirty six year old woman (a fact of which I'm painfully aware) and that I shouldn't be acting like a child and I shouldn't disrespect EB or my dad in their house, no matter what she does to aggravate me.
I decided that he was right. I didn't care about disrespecting Delilah, but I did disrespect my dad, and I love my dad to pieces, so I felt bad.
So now tomorrow, I have the task of calling Delilah and apologizing on behalf of Samantha and for my behavior and tell her that we will pay to get the rug cleaned, much as it will pain me to do.
I'm not a bad person. I'm capable of eating some humble pie.
Yep…just another lovely family dinner.
I freakin' wish.
Posted by: SweetieMama 11:15 PM EDT 11 Comments Submit a Report Of This Post