I called a friend last night and left her a voice mail that went something like this . . . "Hi. The last time we went this long without talking, I called and you were 3 months pregnant, so I'm just wondering what's new with you?" She called back five minutes later and I answered my phone "Are you pregnant?" She said, "As a matter of fact I am." Just goes to show what your friends know about you! That make it three people pregnant that I know about (not all are family so don't get your hopes up people!) Jeff just got a second interview for a job at work that would put him on the day shift. I can only dream what it might be like to have him at home during the evening. I'm trying not to get my hopes up by planning how to get my shopiing in during the week instead of running errands all day Sunday.
Am I the only one unfortunate enough to go grocery shopping on Sunday evenings? Yikes. When I went this week, they were all out of bananas. Bananas! There are always dozens of bananas! I always expect them to be out of cilantro and low on good onions, but bananas?
And the saddest moment of my entire week was finding out that Once upon a child is moving to the south side of town. No more sneaking down for quick shopping over lunch. It will no longer take 3 minutes to drive there and back, sniff sniff. Oh well.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Monday, February 25, 2008
Coming Soon. . . .
Glad everyone liked the pics! The dolls are 'twin' Precious Moments dolls that mom bought for sis and I back in the day. Alaina carried them around that day for the whole afternoon.
I'm getting my weekend! Jeff and Alaina are heading back next weekend to stay with Grandma and Grandpa. Its unreasonably silly to be excited to be alone, but I think I'm due some time. I just want to turn up the Broadway channel on the radio until I can hear it in every corner of the house and get all those cobwebs in the corners taken care of!
Oops, headed to lunch. Hope everyone had a good weekend!
I'm getting my weekend! Jeff and Alaina are heading back next weekend to stay with Grandma and Grandpa. Its unreasonably silly to be excited to be alone, but I think I'm due some time. I just want to turn up the Broadway channel on the radio until I can hear it in every corner of the house and get all those cobwebs in the corners taken care of!
Oops, headed to lunch. Hope everyone had a good weekend!
Friday, February 22, 2008
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Mommy vacation. . .
My brain is full. I'm losing ground on the home field and its driving me nuts! I need to try and get ahead of the game for meal planning and I spend all the time planning and failing on the execution! How do you do it cousins? How did you do it Mom? I want to try and curb our nasty eating out habit, but I just can't get ahead of the game here. The key to this is the crock pot, I just know it. I find these great recipes, but then I don't get the crock pot thrown together in time and the eating out cycle continues! Alaina is so hungry by the time I get home I end up throwing poor meals together. How often can you feed your child fruit cups, mac and cheese and vienna sausages before she refuses to eat them?
I need a vacation, but not a relax vacation, I need an organizational holiday. I've been wearing knit tops for the last three months because I'm afraid to dust off the iron. I haven't updated Alaina's photo album, or any for that matter, since her birthday last year. I need to go around and clean out the cobwebs from the upstairs corners. My nice clean upstairs has a laundry basket full of stuff that needs to be put in the right spots. And I can't even elaborate on the state of the kitchen. I feel like I'm still moving into my house, things just can't seen to find a home and stay there.
I need a weekend to turn the music up loud, turn off the phones, and just tear into it! I'll eat all the leftovers in the fridge, no dirty dishes this way, and get it all done! The last day needs to be for errands to get the recycling to the center, donate the stuff I have boxed up, and get on top of things! The main question is, when the heck am I going to do this? Someday. And that someday is hopefully coming soon.
Update
Right this very second, the super nanny is at the mall . . . I feel like I should go pick up Alaina and go have her touch the nanny to see if I'll have life long luck with her good behavior! But all I can think is . . .who would let this woman in their house? What kind of state must your family be in to go to such drastic results and let the whole world witness it? Ick, oh and I bet she's loving the weather!! No playing outside for her! I wouldn't let her in my home that's for sure. I'd stand on the porch saying thank you very much and don't let the door smack your tush on the way out!!
I need a vacation, but not a relax vacation, I need an organizational holiday. I've been wearing knit tops for the last three months because I'm afraid to dust off the iron. I haven't updated Alaina's photo album, or any for that matter, since her birthday last year. I need to go around and clean out the cobwebs from the upstairs corners. My nice clean upstairs has a laundry basket full of stuff that needs to be put in the right spots. And I can't even elaborate on the state of the kitchen. I feel like I'm still moving into my house, things just can't seen to find a home and stay there.
I need a weekend to turn the music up loud, turn off the phones, and just tear into it! I'll eat all the leftovers in the fridge, no dirty dishes this way, and get it all done! The last day needs to be for errands to get the recycling to the center, donate the stuff I have boxed up, and get on top of things! The main question is, when the heck am I going to do this? Someday. And that someday is hopefully coming soon.
Update
Right this very second, the super nanny is at the mall . . . I feel like I should go pick up Alaina and go have her touch the nanny to see if I'll have life long luck with her good behavior! But all I can think is . . .who would let this woman in their house? What kind of state must your family be in to go to such drastic results and let the whole world witness it? Ick, oh and I bet she's loving the weather!! No playing outside for her! I wouldn't let her in my home that's for sure. I'd stand on the porch saying thank you very much and don't let the door smack your tush on the way out!!
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Kid's stuff!
Had an interesting talk last night witht he hubs. I have a good friend who is pregnant and I was talking to her on the phone. During the conversation I mentioned that if it came around time for her to have her baby and if she wanted, she could borrow a bunch of little baby stuff from me. I figured, what the heck, if I'm not pregnant by the time she hits about 7-8 months, its no big deal right?
I mentioned this to Jeff when he got home, and he freaked. We haven't talked about having number two for a while, so I figured it was well out of his mind for a while. Oops. Silly of me to try and read his mind.
There are a lot of job openings at his work and he's hoping to get a day shift job, which would be nice, I would really enjoy seeing him more. If he gets one of these jobs he's thinking he'll get a good raise and then we can look into having another baby. Okay, I guess I didn't link a new job with kid number two, but who am I to argue? Anyway I just thought is was ironic that he felt that way, its not like it would be hard to get the stuff back, I know where my friend lives! Ha, ha, ha!
I saw a kid's toy sitting on the side of the street today as I drove to work, and it got me to thinking, does anyone remember the tv commercial where the dad has to drive the car back to pick up the doll the little girl dropped out the window? He hands her the doll through the window and turns to go to the driver's seat and you see the little girl drop the doll out the window behind his back. This is why I have Alaina's car seat in the center of the back seat, and why didn't he have his child locks turned on for his windows anyway? silly man.
I mentioned this to Jeff when he got home, and he freaked. We haven't talked about having number two for a while, so I figured it was well out of his mind for a while. Oops. Silly of me to try and read his mind.
There are a lot of job openings at his work and he's hoping to get a day shift job, which would be nice, I would really enjoy seeing him more. If he gets one of these jobs he's thinking he'll get a good raise and then we can look into having another baby. Okay, I guess I didn't link a new job with kid number two, but who am I to argue? Anyway I just thought is was ironic that he felt that way, its not like it would be hard to get the stuff back, I know where my friend lives! Ha, ha, ha!
I saw a kid's toy sitting on the side of the street today as I drove to work, and it got me to thinking, does anyone remember the tv commercial where the dad has to drive the car back to pick up the doll the little girl dropped out the window? He hands her the doll through the window and turns to go to the driver's seat and you see the little girl drop the doll out the window behind his back. This is why I have Alaina's car seat in the center of the back seat, and why didn't he have his child locks turned on for his windows anyway? silly man.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Its been one week . . .
Funny, I heard that song on the radio this morning. After seeing that I hadn't blogged since last week, I thought I should put a little something out here, or at least ramble for a minute or two.
Alaina was off to daycare in her first pair of hard-soled shoes today. She's having a little trouble getting around because the shoes grab the carpet mroe than her robeez, which is why we stayed with robeez for so long, but we like to go walk the mall and she keeps sliding on the smooth tile and landing on her bottom, so it was time to upgrade. We tried them on last night with only a little bribery, "If you come and try your new shoes on, I'll turn on bear (The jungle book) for a while." THis worked out well because while she watched bear, I clipped her nails with minimal fuss, a rare thing in our world.
She is learning words so quickly, each new one is starting to lose a little magic. The wonder is still there, but I have to clap really hard to make it shine as bright as the first words she said. It makes me a little sad, but the joy has just moved to another area, linking words together for phrases. She likes to wave bye bye to dada and the other day she said "Bye-bye Dada" out loud, It was so precious.
Anyway, my digestion is still a little touch and go, I went in for the ultrasound of my gallbladder, and everything seemed to look normal. So Fatkins here I come, I've started to watch a bit more of what I eat, yogurt with granoal for breakfast, unleaded coffee instead of leaded and salads from the cafeteria, I've eaten at the cafeteria more this last week that I have since I started working here. Yep that's right, I've eaten at my office cafeteria less than 5 times in two years, excluding donuts. When you live a block from work, its nice to go home and sit in the quiet for a while.
And just a little snippet of humor, a few months ago Jeff and I pulled up to an ATM and he was going to get cash. When he entered the mail manu, he was prompted to withdraw a quick $60. I was a bit confused because when I login, I am only prompted to get a quick $40. I got to thinking, well how sexist of the bank to prompt my husband for a larger amount! is it because the account was originally in his name? Does he spend more with his card than I do mine? Really, how could they assume such a foolish thing as to what cash we need! I told Jeff I thought that was silly and he looked at me like I was nuts. Turns out if you pay attention when you login to our online banking, you can set the Quick draw amount that is displayed on you ATM intro screen. Hmmm. And here I thought machines were becoming sexist!
Alaina was off to daycare in her first pair of hard-soled shoes today. She's having a little trouble getting around because the shoes grab the carpet mroe than her robeez, which is why we stayed with robeez for so long, but we like to go walk the mall and she keeps sliding on the smooth tile and landing on her bottom, so it was time to upgrade. We tried them on last night with only a little bribery, "If you come and try your new shoes on, I'll turn on bear (The jungle book) for a while." THis worked out well because while she watched bear, I clipped her nails with minimal fuss, a rare thing in our world.
She is learning words so quickly, each new one is starting to lose a little magic. The wonder is still there, but I have to clap really hard to make it shine as bright as the first words she said. It makes me a little sad, but the joy has just moved to another area, linking words together for phrases. She likes to wave bye bye to dada and the other day she said "Bye-bye Dada" out loud, It was so precious.
Anyway, my digestion is still a little touch and go, I went in for the ultrasound of my gallbladder, and everything seemed to look normal. So Fatkins here I come, I've started to watch a bit more of what I eat, yogurt with granoal for breakfast, unleaded coffee instead of leaded and salads from the cafeteria, I've eaten at the cafeteria more this last week that I have since I started working here. Yep that's right, I've eaten at my office cafeteria less than 5 times in two years, excluding donuts. When you live a block from work, its nice to go home and sit in the quiet for a while.
And just a little snippet of humor, a few months ago Jeff and I pulled up to an ATM and he was going to get cash. When he entered the mail manu, he was prompted to withdraw a quick $60. I was a bit confused because when I login, I am only prompted to get a quick $40. I got to thinking, well how sexist of the bank to prompt my husband for a larger amount! is it because the account was originally in his name? Does he spend more with his card than I do mine? Really, how could they assume such a foolish thing as to what cash we need! I told Jeff I thought that was silly and he looked at me like I was nuts. Turns out if you pay attention when you login to our online banking, you can set the Quick draw amount that is displayed on you ATM intro screen. Hmmm. And here I thought machines were becoming sexist!
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
"Suck it up. . "
I was basically told by the gastrologist that I would have to suck it up and push through. I'm so glad I went to see him, Mom. What an unhelpful diagnosis. He says I probably had a bacteria in Dec that screwed up my system and it will take a while for my system to recover, like maybe a year. A YEAR! I can't live like this for a year! Dang it all! Of course by the time my system recovers, I'll probably have another bacteria or virus that screws me up worse and the cycle will continue. Ick.
And while I'm at it he said I should cut caffeine, fat, and carbs out of my diet, eat small meals throughout the day, and make sure they are bland. Why not just tell me to eat baby food for the rest of my days? Seriously, this is so wrong. And just in case, I'm going to have an ultra sound of my gallbladder, just to make sure that it isn't the problem, of course there's only a 5% chance that it is the problem, but he wants to check it out. Harumph. I just want to feel better, and wish me luck as I embark a journey on the FAtkins diet.
And while I'm at it he said I should cut caffeine, fat, and carbs out of my diet, eat small meals throughout the day, and make sure they are bland. Why not just tell me to eat baby food for the rest of my days? Seriously, this is so wrong. And just in case, I'm going to have an ultra sound of my gallbladder, just to make sure that it isn't the problem, of course there's only a 5% chance that it is the problem, but he wants to check it out. Harumph. I just want to feel better, and wish me luck as I embark a journey on the FAtkins diet.
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