I signed Ben and I up for a dance class! We have been talking about doing it since before we got married and we are totally going to do it now! Hooray for finaling forcing yourself to have fun :)
Brighton weighs 14lbs 50z which puts him in the 97 percentile, 23 1/4inches long which puts him in the 75 percentile and his head was in the 50th percentile. It certainly wasn't my imagination he is way bigger than Bailey at this age. He is totally going to play football someday ;) Hopefully because I hate watching every other sport lol. He smiles and coos now and his dimples make him look so much like Ben. Not to brag but I have so much to be proud of :)
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Sunday, January 10, 2010
I have no idea
As I was thinking that I should probably update my blog. I started thinking about what I could possibly write about. Then I realized that the last time I posted was November 1st. Which was a very very long time ago and I hardly know where to begin. The biggest thing of course that happened was the birth of our 2nd child.
Brighton James Paul was born on November 13th at 8:14 p.m. He weighed 8lbs 8 oz and 21 1/2 inches long. We are extremelly lucky and proud parents. Naming him was an impossible process. He wasn't named until he was almost 24 hours old. I really wanted to name him Liam but Ben didn't like it and while I liked the name Brighton I didn't think it was the right choice. So it ended up coming down to a coin toss and drawing the name out of a hat, both of them came out "Brighton" soooo.... I guess fate named him. He is a very different baby from Bailey. He is a little more "high maintence" but just as sweet. It is amazing how babies are born with a personality all their own.
I'm pretty sure I am finally used to being a mom of two. But I've yet to brave the whole leaving the house by myself with both of them. We'll just wait and see when that one happens. If it wasn't freezing outside with tons of nasty snow on the ground it probably would have happened already but weather certainly is a deciding factor.
I feel very different about leaving him in a very good way. It is nice to know that he always has Bailey as support. Even though she is a baby herself they will always have each other to lean on. I know that my relationship with Zachary has always been very important to me and I am glad that my kids have that now. I feel like we are a more complete family. Sometimes I feel a little guilty that it almost feels like I am wishing for him to grow up. I forgot how hard having an infant can actually be. I don't see us having another baby at this point in time but who knows feelings can change a lot over a span of time.
On a way different topic...
Classes start again tom. my overall GPA is still 3.0 which makes me very happy. Ethics killed me a little but a C for a class I didn't think I would pass is good enough for me. Since the last 2 semsesters I had cut my schedule down to only 3 classes it is taking a little longer to be done than I had originally anticipated but I should be done by December of next year. If I decide to transfer to another school at that time is something I have contiplated briefly but that is to far away to decide. I am working on my 5 year plan in my head. I guess I'll see how many years it takes me to figure it out :).
We have been in the house for a year now. We still like it but holly cow do I wish the kitchen was bigger. It is to small for someone who cooks as much as I do. But otherwise we really love it. I still miss our old house because we had done so much work to make it special and we are working on this house much more slowly mostly because of financing but we have a few projects in mind we would like to complete.
I do miss going out! We haven't done much in that way in a long time but we plan to do a little more soon. We don't want to be hermits forever :) that just wouldn't be any fun.
Uggh I have more I would write but good night!
Brighton James Paul was born on November 13th at 8:14 p.m. He weighed 8lbs 8 oz and 21 1/2 inches long. We are extremelly lucky and proud parents. Naming him was an impossible process. He wasn't named until he was almost 24 hours old. I really wanted to name him Liam but Ben didn't like it and while I liked the name Brighton I didn't think it was the right choice. So it ended up coming down to a coin toss and drawing the name out of a hat, both of them came out "Brighton" soooo.... I guess fate named him. He is a very different baby from Bailey. He is a little more "high maintence" but just as sweet. It is amazing how babies are born with a personality all their own.
I'm pretty sure I am finally used to being a mom of two. But I've yet to brave the whole leaving the house by myself with both of them. We'll just wait and see when that one happens. If it wasn't freezing outside with tons of nasty snow on the ground it probably would have happened already but weather certainly is a deciding factor.
I feel very different about leaving him in a very good way. It is nice to know that he always has Bailey as support. Even though she is a baby herself they will always have each other to lean on. I know that my relationship with Zachary has always been very important to me and I am glad that my kids have that now. I feel like we are a more complete family. Sometimes I feel a little guilty that it almost feels like I am wishing for him to grow up. I forgot how hard having an infant can actually be. I don't see us having another baby at this point in time but who knows feelings can change a lot over a span of time.
On a way different topic...
Classes start again tom. my overall GPA is still 3.0 which makes me very happy. Ethics killed me a little but a C for a class I didn't think I would pass is good enough for me. Since the last 2 semsesters I had cut my schedule down to only 3 classes it is taking a little longer to be done than I had originally anticipated but I should be done by December of next year. If I decide to transfer to another school at that time is something I have contiplated briefly but that is to far away to decide. I am working on my 5 year plan in my head. I guess I'll see how many years it takes me to figure it out :).
We have been in the house for a year now. We still like it but holly cow do I wish the kitchen was bigger. It is to small for someone who cooks as much as I do. But otherwise we really love it. I still miss our old house because we had done so much work to make it special and we are working on this house much more slowly mostly because of financing but we have a few projects in mind we would like to complete.
I do miss going out! We haven't done much in that way in a long time but we plan to do a little more soon. We don't want to be hermits forever :) that just wouldn't be any fun.
Uggh I have more I would write but good night!
Sunday, November 01, 2009
What a fun weekend.
There have been many things that made this weekend well just fun. I suppose Halloween mostly has to do with it. I love getting to see the kids so excited. It was funny when Bailey's feet were still running in the air when Ben was lifting her off of steps at some of the houses. She wanted "more candy" and she was extatic and still was today when she got to eat a sucker.
Ben and I spent almost 20 min playing a game with Bailey that exhasted all 3 of us. Bailey would run into the kitchen after saying " I be right back" and then Ben and I would run and hide around the living room and then jump out when she came running in the room. Bailey got tons and tons of exercise running in and out of the room, but mommy and daddy got really tired too. But it was really fun, Daddy had Bailey wound up like a top for most of the evening so she very much enjoyed herself.
I had a show today which was really fun and enjoyable, I seem to be on a roll with shows were there isn't one of those really negative people that sit in the corner and bad mouth you so I am sooooooo enjoying this last couple of weeks and lets hope the trend continues..... I have one more scheduled this week and that is my last one before the baby is born. Maybe people are just more nice to the pregnant lady...... I may need to invest in one of those pillows that make you look pregnant lol. But I think people would catch on eventually :)
Bailey and Daddy went to Rilyn's Birthday party today. I had to miss it because of my show but I guess they had a pretty good time even though Bailey refused to sing "Happy Birthday" which is really funny considering we have been singing that song a minimum of 8 times a day since Isabella's Birthday party. We now sing it to Ren, Tilly and Fuzzybutt (For Aiden) everyday. Hmmmmm children.
Ben and I spent almost 20 min playing a game with Bailey that exhasted all 3 of us. Bailey would run into the kitchen after saying " I be right back" and then Ben and I would run and hide around the living room and then jump out when she came running in the room. Bailey got tons and tons of exercise running in and out of the room, but mommy and daddy got really tired too. But it was really fun, Daddy had Bailey wound up like a top for most of the evening so she very much enjoyed herself.
I had a show today which was really fun and enjoyable, I seem to be on a roll with shows were there isn't one of those really negative people that sit in the corner and bad mouth you so I am sooooooo enjoying this last couple of weeks and lets hope the trend continues..... I have one more scheduled this week and that is my last one before the baby is born. Maybe people are just more nice to the pregnant lady...... I may need to invest in one of those pillows that make you look pregnant lol. But I think people would catch on eventually :)
Bailey and Daddy went to Rilyn's Birthday party today. I had to miss it because of my show but I guess they had a pretty good time even though Bailey refused to sing "Happy Birthday" which is really funny considering we have been singing that song a minimum of 8 times a day since Isabella's Birthday party. We now sing it to Ren, Tilly and Fuzzybutt (For Aiden) everyday. Hmmmmm children.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Waiterrant.net
I have been getting tired of his posts somtimes since he quite waiting on tables but this.... article I loved, just like so many of the old ones that got me hooked in the first place.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Totally Annoyed with facebook and complaining about other things :)
Yea, so I am going on my blog to complain that I am annoyed with facebook. I haven't been able to get in due to "site maintenence" what a bunch of crap the last time this happened I couldn't get in for 2 days. And I actually do use facebook for work sometimes so...... it is annoying. Needless to speak of all the useless junk information I'm missing that I am addicted to. :)
As of last Friday I am now 37 weeks pregnant. Uggggh I am wishing away my weeks because I soooooo would rather not b`e 8 and any months pregnant. I am getting to the point I would like to have my body back, thank you very much my beautiful son. But it feels like I am a 6 ton whale everytime I have to swing myself out of bed in the morning or stand up from a sitting position. Through a lot of the day I don't bother to sit down it takes more energy to get up then it does to stay standing lol.
Bailey is learning a lot about dressing herself. Today when I laid her down for her nap she was wearing no socks. When I went in to check on her and found her sleeping she was wearing 2 different socks from the clean laundry basket in her room. Yup she is adorable. She also thinks because Aiden is sitting on the potty, so should she. So I have put on and taken off more pants today then in my entire lifetime. But oh well, maybe they will train each other (here is hoping ;).
We finally have most of the babies room done, the clothing is washed and put away, the couple decorations we bought are hung, and the crib sheets are on the crib basically as a decoration. Ben and I are both wishing we had painted the babies room a rich cream color instead of the green but.... hindsight.
And I'm thinking something is wrong with the dryer. It smelled really really bad earlier so I shut it off and haven't used it since. When Ben comes home I'll make him look at it and smell. Sigh I really really hope it was a fluke smell because I don't want to pay a repair man to fix it nor do I want to deal with having a stranger in my house. Nothing against repair men, most of them are really nice but I hate hate hate having my routine of the day interrupted by people waltzing in and out of my house with this or that part and (dare I say it) talking to me. Which sounds like I'm being terrible but it really is only to do with the "I don't want to be distracted" thing. Plus, I do not think strangers in your home is ever a terribly comfortable situation.
The planning for the One Stop Shop is not going terribly well this year. Nothing can ever be simple.......
Enough complaining for one day. Ben will be home soon (crossing my fingers) and I need to change Bailey's diaper that I can only deduce is poopy since she has been sitting under the kitchen table grunting the entire time I have been typing. I asked her if that is what she was doing and of course she denied it but...... Mommy Noses know these things (plus it is one of those diapers where a half smelling impared person would know it was poop).
As of last Friday I am now 37 weeks pregnant. Uggggh I am wishing away my weeks because I soooooo would rather not b`e 8 and any months pregnant. I am getting to the point I would like to have my body back, thank you very much my beautiful son. But it feels like I am a 6 ton whale everytime I have to swing myself out of bed in the morning or stand up from a sitting position. Through a lot of the day I don't bother to sit down it takes more energy to get up then it does to stay standing lol.
Bailey is learning a lot about dressing herself. Today when I laid her down for her nap she was wearing no socks. When I went in to check on her and found her sleeping she was wearing 2 different socks from the clean laundry basket in her room. Yup she is adorable. She also thinks because Aiden is sitting on the potty, so should she. So I have put on and taken off more pants today then in my entire lifetime. But oh well, maybe they will train each other (here is hoping ;).
We finally have most of the babies room done, the clothing is washed and put away, the couple decorations we bought are hung, and the crib sheets are on the crib basically as a decoration. Ben and I are both wishing we had painted the babies room a rich cream color instead of the green but.... hindsight.
And I'm thinking something is wrong with the dryer. It smelled really really bad earlier so I shut it off and haven't used it since. When Ben comes home I'll make him look at it and smell. Sigh I really really hope it was a fluke smell because I don't want to pay a repair man to fix it nor do I want to deal with having a stranger in my house. Nothing against repair men, most of them are really nice but I hate hate hate having my routine of the day interrupted by people waltzing in and out of my house with this or that part and (dare I say it) talking to me. Which sounds like I'm being terrible but it really is only to do with the "I don't want to be distracted" thing. Plus, I do not think strangers in your home is ever a terribly comfortable situation.
The planning for the One Stop Shop is not going terribly well this year. Nothing can ever be simple.......
Enough complaining for one day. Ben will be home soon (crossing my fingers) and I need to change Bailey's diaper that I can only deduce is poopy since she has been sitting under the kitchen table grunting the entire time I have been typing. I asked her if that is what she was doing and of course she denied it but...... Mommy Noses know these things (plus it is one of those diapers where a half smelling impared person would know it was poop).
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Visits, Prenatal Pics and useless information
My Grandma and Her husband came and stayed with us on Friday night. We had a really nice visit and Bailey looooved having them here. She always thinks it is tons of fun when people come and play with her. We went out for supper at Blue Moose which was delicious and then sat and visited until they went to bed.
This morning she sat on Grandma's lap and cuddled for what had to have been at least a half an hour. Then played with the balloons from her birthday party with Sanford (Grandma's husband) until they left for Fargo to go to a wedding.
April took some prenatal pics of me tonight, which was fun. I have to say it was more fun last time. Aparently I feel a lot less attractive being pregnant the second time around :) But Bailey and Aiden had a really good time running around together.
I have been working on Spanish a lot this weekend, mostly because of technical difficulites with the website that I have to do the practice activities on, so now that I am again allowed in it I have a lot a lot of catch up to do (as does the rest of the class). So uggggh and I do not understand how I can feel like I have no a flipping clue what I am doing and I don't get any of the questions wrong on the workbook assignments, it makes no sense. Shouldn't I know why I want to answer a question a certain way before I, by the stroke of luck get it right?
I also have to start writting another paper for my Ethics class, this time based on a book by Aristotle. Sigh...... the only suggestion the instructor gave me when I asked for help was to read cliff notes before reading the book so that I will know what to look for. I have this feeling it is not going to help a whole lot but I guess I'm willing to give it a shot. After all, I am way way to cheap to waste money and flunking my classes would be wasting a lot of money. :)
And hopefully our little baby doesn't come to early. I have Pampered Chef shows scheduled for that first week in November. I know it is cutting it close but...... you have to take what you can get sometimes.
And for the useless information: Did you know that Estelle Getty who played Sophia (Dorothy's Mother) on the Golden Girls was actually a year younger than Bea Arthur who played Dorothy. Interesting huh? I looooove the Golden Girls and I guess always have but when I was little I didn't get a lot of the humor so it is amazing what I pick up on now. Sometimes I can't believe I watched it growing up.
This morning she sat on Grandma's lap and cuddled for what had to have been at least a half an hour. Then played with the balloons from her birthday party with Sanford (Grandma's husband) until they left for Fargo to go to a wedding.
April took some prenatal pics of me tonight, which was fun. I have to say it was more fun last time. Aparently I feel a lot less attractive being pregnant the second time around :) But Bailey and Aiden had a really good time running around together.
I have been working on Spanish a lot this weekend, mostly because of technical difficulites with the website that I have to do the practice activities on, so now that I am again allowed in it I have a lot a lot of catch up to do (as does the rest of the class). So uggggh and I do not understand how I can feel like I have no a flipping clue what I am doing and I don't get any of the questions wrong on the workbook assignments, it makes no sense. Shouldn't I know why I want to answer a question a certain way before I, by the stroke of luck get it right?
I also have to start writting another paper for my Ethics class, this time based on a book by Aristotle. Sigh...... the only suggestion the instructor gave me when I asked for help was to read cliff notes before reading the book so that I will know what to look for. I have this feeling it is not going to help a whole lot but I guess I'm willing to give it a shot. After all, I am way way to cheap to waste money and flunking my classes would be wasting a lot of money. :)
And hopefully our little baby doesn't come to early. I have Pampered Chef shows scheduled for that first week in November. I know it is cutting it close but...... you have to take what you can get sometimes.
And for the useless information: Did you know that Estelle Getty who played Sophia (Dorothy's Mother) on the Golden Girls was actually a year younger than Bea Arthur who played Dorothy. Interesting huh? I looooove the Golden Girls and I guess always have but when I was little I didn't get a lot of the humor so it is amazing what I pick up on now. Sometimes I can't believe I watched it growing up.
Thursday, October 01, 2009
Sometimes I just know I'm crazy...
Planning a Holiday One Stop Shop like the one I organized last year. Yikes.... Only this year the date is one week before my due date. Am I stupid? I guess we'll see. But Ben's mom is going to keep the date free in case I need someone...... :) Ben thinks I'm a little crazy I think.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Busy weekend
It was a busy weekend. Friday we spent what seemed like hours in Lowe's getting the supplies we needed for the big weekend projects. But it really wasn't very long at all in reality and time seemed to go much quicker after Bailey and I found the "house" out front of the store for her to play in. Really it was just one of the lawn sheds on display but she looooooved it. Whatever makes her happy. :)
Saturday was the Women's showcase at the Alerus. It was a bit of a disappointment from last year it wasn't near as big or as busy but I still made a lot of contacts and got some leads to help my PC business grow.
Saturday night Jake and Dixie came to stay with us so they could help with the big weekend projects which included but are not limited to painting the babies room, installing overhead lights in the living room and pumping insulation into the attic so hopefully our house will not feel like the arctic all winter again. :) Poor Jake got so full of insulation when he tried to dust himself off a cloud of dust went off in the wind that was so dark you almost could not see through it, with all of the insulation caught in his eyebrows he sort of looked like old man winter :)
I did not acomplish a whole lot today considering I felt absolutely like crap. My cold refuses to go away and I'm getting pretty sick of it. Ugggh But I did make a yummy fall meal tonight. Chicken rollups, mashed potatoes, corn and for dessert Apple crisp w/ Ice cream and carmel mmmmmmmm
Saturday was the Women's showcase at the Alerus. It was a bit of a disappointment from last year it wasn't near as big or as busy but I still made a lot of contacts and got some leads to help my PC business grow.
Saturday night Jake and Dixie came to stay with us so they could help with the big weekend projects which included but are not limited to painting the babies room, installing overhead lights in the living room and pumping insulation into the attic so hopefully our house will not feel like the arctic all winter again. :) Poor Jake got so full of insulation when he tried to dust himself off a cloud of dust went off in the wind that was so dark you almost could not see through it, with all of the insulation caught in his eyebrows he sort of looked like old man winter :)
I did not acomplish a whole lot today considering I felt absolutely like crap. My cold refuses to go away and I'm getting pretty sick of it. Ugggh But I did make a yummy fall meal tonight. Chicken rollups, mashed potatoes, corn and for dessert Apple crisp w/ Ice cream and carmel mmmmmmmm
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Pfffff
Sometimes..... bad news irritates me. Of course I guess the name "bad news" doesn't really make for good news or I wouldn't be irritated and it wouldn't be "bad" news. Whatever. I guess if I end up 9 months pregnant and delivering news papers (if they'll even take me) thats just fucking fine. Yup just fucking fine. I hate the fact that my life depends so much on others not being morons. Seriously. Seriously!!!!!!
Yup angry and not wanting to/being able to say much and without really having much to say. Makes lots of sense pfffffff. Thats the final sentiment pfffffff
Yup angry and not wanting to/being able to say much and without really having much to say. Makes lots of sense pfffffff. Thats the final sentiment pfffffff
Friday, September 18, 2009
Friday Night!
I love Friday nights! I was feeling incredibly antsy tonight so I dragged the whole family into the car and we just left the house with really not much of a plan on where to go. We ended up deciding that we were hungry, which brought us to Texas Roadhouse. Mmmmmm, we hadn't been there in forever so we very much enjoyed our dinner. Bailey really enjoyed the evening and acted as entertainment for Ben and I. (What a nice change that was from this afternoon after her nap... ;)
After dinner we stopped in at Sertoma Park to check out Ali's boundless playground. Bailey ran around from place to place a ton, she looooved it! There was a lot of different stuff from other playgrounds so it really ads to the variety. We almost thought we were going to have a problem leaving the park, but she eventually agreed to come quietly and we "raced" to the car.
I'm sure it doesn't sound very exciting but it was sooooooo nice.
After dinner we stopped in at Sertoma Park to check out Ali's boundless playground. Bailey ran around from place to place a ton, she looooved it! There was a lot of different stuff from other playgrounds so it really ads to the variety. We almost thought we were going to have a problem leaving the park, but she eventually agreed to come quietly and we "raced" to the car.
I'm sure it doesn't sound very exciting but it was sooooooo nice.
Monday, September 14, 2009
The Weekend
This weekend was unusually eventful but really nice. Ben's mom and sister came and stayed with us on Friday night so Ben and I got to go for a little date night, which we don't do very often and it was nice to be alone together. Our night started by attempting to go to the Toasted Frog downtown but...... we decided we were going to be stubborn and not wait.... big mistake! As we ended up at Guisseppe's Italian Resteraunt instead. Which we did not like. The marianara sauce that was flooding all of the food was not good. It was like the consitency of Paradiso's salsa and tasted like extreme garlic extreme garlic. Like we could still taste it the next day garlic. Yuck. When you can't taste the cheese at all through the marinara sauce that is a not good situation. Uggh. Plus the decor, plates, flatware ect were ordiary lunchroom issue which did not make it feel like you were in a nice resteraunt at all. We could have gone to Pizza Hut and gotten more Italian flare and class. Sigh....
Then we went to the movie "Whiteout" at River City Cinema ( I love that theater!) The movie was alright. It was a kind of murder mystery that takes place in Antartica. Ben and I laughed a little at a seen where a cup of coffee falls of a bench and instantly freezes to the floor.... but it is apparently still warm enough where the actors need no facial protection whatsoever other than ski goggles. Yup thats how cold weather works..... it affects your coffee, your whole body but not your face....nope that stays warm and toasty. The lady lost her fingers to frost bite but her face stayed uncovered the whole time.... yup I'll try that here in 60 below... not.
Saturday we went out with April and Kevin to Toasted Frog and had a yummy fun dinner, the food and atmosphere is always good there. I guess we also waited for our table at the Bella Wine Bar which is a really cool little place we totally need to go back to when I can drink something.... anything lol other than water.
Sunday morning we went and watched a soccer game at a Special Olympics tournament that was in town because my Uncle's girlfriend volunteers and actually gets to play with the athletes. So we got to see the game and visit with my Uncle for awhile which was nice. Sometimes it seems to be so long in between times that we actually get to see them.
Then Bailey and I had a wonderfully cranky afternoon, struggling for one of us to take a nap. She seems to think she does not need naps anymore and mommy seriously begs to differ. So.... after awhile I finally just let her get up so we could get ready to go to Isabella's Birthday Party.
I thought it would be fun for her to see me wrap Isabella's present. Yup I'm smart REALLY. I laughed because Bailey jumped and danced on the wrapping paper the second I put it on the floor (big mistake) then I spent the better part of a half and hour trying to fight to keep her from standing on top of the wrapping paper and present. Uggh
But we had fun at the party, aside from the wonderfully entertaining balloon incident. Yup could have died. :)
Then after I put Bailey to bed I realized I had 2 tests to do and a paper to write. It was a very fun and packed weekend. To bad more weekends weren't so entertaining. :)
Then we went to the movie "Whiteout" at River City Cinema ( I love that theater!) The movie was alright. It was a kind of murder mystery that takes place in Antartica. Ben and I laughed a little at a seen where a cup of coffee falls of a bench and instantly freezes to the floor.... but it is apparently still warm enough where the actors need no facial protection whatsoever other than ski goggles. Yup thats how cold weather works..... it affects your coffee, your whole body but not your face....nope that stays warm and toasty. The lady lost her fingers to frost bite but her face stayed uncovered the whole time.... yup I'll try that here in 60 below... not.
Saturday we went out with April and Kevin to Toasted Frog and had a yummy fun dinner, the food and atmosphere is always good there. I guess we also waited for our table at the Bella Wine Bar which is a really cool little place we totally need to go back to when I can drink something.... anything lol other than water.
Sunday morning we went and watched a soccer game at a Special Olympics tournament that was in town because my Uncle's girlfriend volunteers and actually gets to play with the athletes. So we got to see the game and visit with my Uncle for awhile which was nice. Sometimes it seems to be so long in between times that we actually get to see them.
Then Bailey and I had a wonderfully cranky afternoon, struggling for one of us to take a nap. She seems to think she does not need naps anymore and mommy seriously begs to differ. So.... after awhile I finally just let her get up so we could get ready to go to Isabella's Birthday Party.
I thought it would be fun for her to see me wrap Isabella's present. Yup I'm smart REALLY. I laughed because Bailey jumped and danced on the wrapping paper the second I put it on the floor (big mistake) then I spent the better part of a half and hour trying to fight to keep her from standing on top of the wrapping paper and present. Uggh
But we had fun at the party, aside from the wonderfully entertaining balloon incident. Yup could have died. :)
Then after I put Bailey to bed I realized I had 2 tests to do and a paper to write. It was a very fun and packed weekend. To bad more weekends weren't so entertaining. :)
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Blog Anniversary!
I just realized I have has this blog since September of 2004. Holly Crap! Thats 5 years! Talk about a lot of stuff thats happened in 5 years. I invite you all to go back and look at old posts. Most of them are a lot more entertaining than the recent activity :)
Corn
Yup nothing better than a cute man in your kitchen making you pork chops and corn on the cob :)
This is a really busy week, I have a Pampered Chef show, I need to write a paper for my Ethics class and my other normal course work for school, not to mention my day job :) but it has been fun. I think short weeks that screw up my routine make me feel more stressed. I normally grocery shop before the start of a new week and didn't get to it until last night, which drove me crazy! I know it seems silly to be driven crazy by that but it does. And I still have never practiced the recipe for the show that I have tom. night so I have to get all of the stuff prepped and make the recipe. I hate the procrastinator in me. Really Really Really.
The Womens show case is coming up as well at the end of this month which is super exciting and very stressful as I need to prep a thousand things that I'm sure I'll wait until the last minute to do and just thinking about myself procrastinating is stressing me out, lol.
Labor Day weekend was really fun. Bailey and I went to my mom's house and got to see a bunch of family which always makes for a fun/intersting time. And we even drove back to GF on Saturday night for a wedding dance for one of Ben's friends from college. We let Bailey stay up ridiculously to late but she loved watching the people dance on the dance floor and were still home by a pretty respectable time for her to go to bed if you consider the bed times of some people's children :) And I was starving and we finally found another resteraunt in GF that has Hot Turkey Sandwhiches (this makes me very very happy, I was about to buy a turkey).
Hows that for a post about nothing? A pointless waste of time, but oh well it makes me happy :)
This is a really busy week, I have a Pampered Chef show, I need to write a paper for my Ethics class and my other normal course work for school, not to mention my day job :) but it has been fun. I think short weeks that screw up my routine make me feel more stressed. I normally grocery shop before the start of a new week and didn't get to it until last night, which drove me crazy! I know it seems silly to be driven crazy by that but it does. And I still have never practiced the recipe for the show that I have tom. night so I have to get all of the stuff prepped and make the recipe. I hate the procrastinator in me. Really Really Really.
The Womens show case is coming up as well at the end of this month which is super exciting and very stressful as I need to prep a thousand things that I'm sure I'll wait until the last minute to do and just thinking about myself procrastinating is stressing me out, lol.
Labor Day weekend was really fun. Bailey and I went to my mom's house and got to see a bunch of family which always makes for a fun/intersting time. And we even drove back to GF on Saturday night for a wedding dance for one of Ben's friends from college. We let Bailey stay up ridiculously to late but she loved watching the people dance on the dance floor and were still home by a pretty respectable time for her to go to bed if you consider the bed times of some people's children :) And I was starving and we finally found another resteraunt in GF that has Hot Turkey Sandwhiches (this makes me very very happy, I was about to buy a turkey).
Hows that for a post about nothing? A pointless waste of time, but oh well it makes me happy :)
Monday, August 31, 2009
Hello
So yup I feel fantastic now compared to yesterday. Pretty much as good as new! So we will cross our fingers to make sure it stays that way. I guess I have to call and schedule an appointment to see my doctor at some point this week just so she can make sure there isn't anything wrong, just to be on the safe side. But I'm great for now :).
Bailey and her "I refuse to take a nap for mommy" thing is getting very old. Even though she stays in her room she still needs her sleep so it annoys mommy when she doesn't sleep. She started throwing a fit and fell dead asleep tonight after supper, and Ben and I tried to wake her up to no avail. So then we decided that we were going to just lay her down and let her sleep, but I needed to change her diaper.... Yup when I changed it she woke up which prompted a screaming fit. All 3 of us eventually ended up watching Sesame Street in the basement on one of the most beautiful nights of the year. Grrrrrr
Bailey and her "I refuse to take a nap for mommy" thing is getting very old. Even though she stays in her room she still needs her sleep so it annoys mommy when she doesn't sleep. She started throwing a fit and fell dead asleep tonight after supper, and Ben and I tried to wake her up to no avail. So then we decided that we were going to just lay her down and let her sleep, but I needed to change her diaper.... Yup when I changed it she woke up which prompted a screaming fit. All 3 of us eventually ended up watching Sesame Street in the basement on one of the most beautiful nights of the year. Grrrrrr
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Braxton Hicks
The Dr that named/discovered Braxton Hicks should not have put his name to them. I have been miserable before i.e. gual bladder (which is fun) but the fact that I ended up in the Emergency Room because I was having contractions every 6 min. and then ended up having to get 2 shots and an extrodinarilly painful exam, plus I feel miserable today because it feels like my uterus ran several marathons back to back without any training.
I was terrified when the doctor and nurse actually seemed worried that I may be going into labor. I am only 29 weeks. That baby is supposed to stay tucked away in there for another 11 weeks and he better!
Did you know: The nurse told me that the definition of Braxton Hicks contractions are just contractions that do not open your cervix, so these contractions can be just as painful if not more painful than labor contractions. (Someone might have told me that before I started having babies, especially since I have read a billion books on pregnancy and never never read that).
I told Ben tonight that if I ever ever think of having another baby he is supposed to remind me of the past 2 days. My abdominal/uterus area was not this sore after acually giving birth to Bailey. Seriously. I could hardly roll over in bed this morning after I got home at 3a.m.
There is my rant. I could have expanded, but I'm sure thats plenty of information ;)
I was terrified when the doctor and nurse actually seemed worried that I may be going into labor. I am only 29 weeks. That baby is supposed to stay tucked away in there for another 11 weeks and he better!
Did you know: The nurse told me that the definition of Braxton Hicks contractions are just contractions that do not open your cervix, so these contractions can be just as painful if not more painful than labor contractions. (Someone might have told me that before I started having babies, especially since I have read a billion books on pregnancy and never never read that).
I told Ben tonight that if I ever ever think of having another baby he is supposed to remind me of the past 2 days. My abdominal/uterus area was not this sore after acually giving birth to Bailey. Seriously. I could hardly roll over in bed this morning after I got home at 3a.m.
There is my rant. I could have expanded, but I'm sure thats plenty of information ;)
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Our First Urgent Care visit for Bailey and more
Last night Bailey had Ben and I worried. She has had a cold of some sorts since Thursday night that has totally taken away her ability to sleep through the night, cough, runny nose, chocking on her mucus until she almost threw up, eyes watering all down her face, red rimmed eyes and a strange rash behind one of her ears. But that was not the worst of it when Saturday night she fell asleep in her high chair during super. She then slept in her bed for 45 min or so until she woke up screaming and did not stop. So after not to long we decided her behavior was to strange for her and we brought her in. She has been sick plenty of times before but never acted as strangely as she did this time.
As we checked into the Emergency/Urgent care waiting room, she continued to act so sick she hardly moved. And cried and screamed when the very nice nurse tried to take her oxygen level on her toe, she didn't like having her temp taken either and all but cried everytime someone looked at her.
By the time we get into the Urgent Care room to wait for the doctor however.... she is bouncing around like she feels totally fine and making Ben and I feel like morons. We left with a perscription for Amoxicillin (sp?) for the rash behind her ear and a slight "buldging" of her ear drum and a suggestion that the bad cough/gagging was caused by some croup (sp?) so basically she was totally fine. While I feel that the doctor was very nice and what in the world do you do when the kid appears totally fine. But we were kind of shoved of as crazy paranoid parents.
Now today her eye is super red but we are pretty sure at this point it is just the cold showing in her eye as there is not nasty goop that would be present with pink eye.
Super Saver deal of the year! We got two changing tables on unbelieveable clearance at target tonight. They were only 33 bucks a peice so we got one for daycare and one for the baby. Wow just wow. Sometimes I love Target. And Ben and his super sleuth eyes, I would have walked right by. If you want a deal on clothing or a handbag come to me but household stuff Ben is unbelieveable at spotting deals. We already got the dresser on clearance for 50 bucks. Exciting!!!!!!!
My classes start tom. which is exciting. And my books won't be here until Thursday, which is not exciting and my fault for procrastinating until I had not choice but to order them. Dumb Dumb Dumb. But I can't beat myself up to much we have had a lot of stuff going on lately.
I still need to get Bailey registered for gymnastics that start this week and look into the whole dance class thing just in case I think I have lost my mind so much that she needs two activities but at the sametime, they teach her stuff, she loves seeing other kids who are pretty much exactly her age and they wear her out like crazy. :) (The last one may be the best part).
Ohhh and the dude with the flat bed cart at target wheeled it really really hard into the back of my heel (on accident) which hurt so bad I almost started bawling. It was a total accident and he was really nice but it still hurts how many hours later so lets hope hope hope it feels better by tom.
Grocery shopping and the misc crap that we needed was extremelly stressful today. Last day of the weekend before practically the whole country starts school what were we thinking? Oh yea it is Sunday and we can't do it any other day unless I want to shop at Walmart at 2 a.m. in my sleep which doesn't sound like fun and the people in walmart at that time of night are ridiculously scarey individuals that crawled out of a sewer system somewhere. :)
As we checked into the Emergency/Urgent care waiting room, she continued to act so sick she hardly moved. And cried and screamed when the very nice nurse tried to take her oxygen level on her toe, she didn't like having her temp taken either and all but cried everytime someone looked at her.
By the time we get into the Urgent Care room to wait for the doctor however.... she is bouncing around like she feels totally fine and making Ben and I feel like morons. We left with a perscription for Amoxicillin (sp?) for the rash behind her ear and a slight "buldging" of her ear drum and a suggestion that the bad cough/gagging was caused by some croup (sp?) so basically she was totally fine. While I feel that the doctor was very nice and what in the world do you do when the kid appears totally fine. But we were kind of shoved of as crazy paranoid parents.
Now today her eye is super red but we are pretty sure at this point it is just the cold showing in her eye as there is not nasty goop that would be present with pink eye.
Super Saver deal of the year! We got two changing tables on unbelieveable clearance at target tonight. They were only 33 bucks a peice so we got one for daycare and one for the baby. Wow just wow. Sometimes I love Target. And Ben and his super sleuth eyes, I would have walked right by. If you want a deal on clothing or a handbag come to me but household stuff Ben is unbelieveable at spotting deals. We already got the dresser on clearance for 50 bucks. Exciting!!!!!!!
My classes start tom. which is exciting. And my books won't be here until Thursday, which is not exciting and my fault for procrastinating until I had not choice but to order them. Dumb Dumb Dumb. But I can't beat myself up to much we have had a lot of stuff going on lately.
I still need to get Bailey registered for gymnastics that start this week and look into the whole dance class thing just in case I think I have lost my mind so much that she needs two activities but at the sametime, they teach her stuff, she loves seeing other kids who are pretty much exactly her age and they wear her out like crazy. :) (The last one may be the best part).
Ohhh and the dude with the flat bed cart at target wheeled it really really hard into the back of my heel (on accident) which hurt so bad I almost started bawling. It was a total accident and he was really nice but it still hurts how many hours later so lets hope hope hope it feels better by tom.
Grocery shopping and the misc crap that we needed was extremelly stressful today. Last day of the weekend before practically the whole country starts school what were we thinking? Oh yea it is Sunday and we can't do it any other day unless I want to shop at Walmart at 2 a.m. in my sleep which doesn't sound like fun and the people in walmart at that time of night are ridiculously scarey individuals that crawled out of a sewer system somewhere. :)
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Red Lobster
My mother who is very smart sometimes gave Ben and I a gift ceritficate to Red Lobster for our birthdays. We decided to go and use it last night. You know how most of the time you really don't want to over hear conversations at other tables but you just happen to.....?
Yea, well the lady in the next both (who by the way spoke like someone that was the product of years and years of imbreeding) after she recieved her food and had been eating it for sometime decided to ask the server just what the "stuffing" in her fish contained. The server responded lobster and crab.
"Are you sure there isn't any shrimp in here? Because I'm really allergic"
"I hope your not very allergic because the fish is cooked on all of the same grills as the fish"
"Oh"
Yup dumbass your in a seafood resteruant and if it was a concern for you it probably would have been a good thing to mention before you ordered your seafood stuffed fish, and even by god sat down at the fucking table. Ugggh
It was a pretty good chuckle to overhear anyway. Sort of like the gas station incident. "How do you get in here?" People people people.
Yea, well the lady in the next both (who by the way spoke like someone that was the product of years and years of imbreeding) after she recieved her food and had been eating it for sometime decided to ask the server just what the "stuffing" in her fish contained. The server responded lobster and crab.
"Are you sure there isn't any shrimp in here? Because I'm really allergic"
"I hope your not very allergic because the fish is cooked on all of the same grills as the fish"
"Oh"
Yup dumbass your in a seafood resteruant and if it was a concern for you it probably would have been a good thing to mention before you ordered your seafood stuffed fish, and even by god sat down at the fucking table. Ugggh
It was a pretty good chuckle to overhear anyway. Sort of like the gas station incident. "How do you get in here?" People people people.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Daycare woes ugggh all I will say online. (Don't worry I loooooove having Isabella so nothing to do with her lol)
Bailey and Daddy watched "A bugs life" tonight, so mommy got to work on Pampered Chef and Daycare paperwork and it feels really good to get so much done. Now just to stop procrastinating and order my books for school....
Ben got the whole old "office" cleaned out so we will be able to start decorating the babies room soon. We are going to paint it a baby green color, and have accents of blue and white with a little of green (because we have some green stuff from Bailey that we can reuse). Then there are these adorable monkeys, lions, and giraffe wood cut outs that I'm thinking will be the deocrations for the walls. I cannot wait to get the crib moved out of Bailey's room. Now that she is sleeping in her big girl bed she could use the room to play.
Ren is doing really well after his surgery. He had a recheck today and the pressure is down in his other eye, back to a pretty normal level. However, he will still go blind in that eye in less than a year. I have no idea what bridge we will cross when it gets to that point. Uggh it is so frustrating. Never NEVER when I thought about having pets did it ever occur to me, they could get glaucoma and have to have their eyes removed. Poor thing.
Funny Story. Ben, Bailey and I were at Holiday getting gas, and we hear a woman yell back to the person in the vehicle that she had just gotten out of "how to do you get in here?" She was referring to the gas station. Seriously. How in the world do some people dress themselves?
I guess that was a whole post about nothing. But I told myself I was going to start making the effort to post regularly again. We will see how long it lasts. :)
Bailey and Daddy watched "A bugs life" tonight, so mommy got to work on Pampered Chef and Daycare paperwork and it feels really good to get so much done. Now just to stop procrastinating and order my books for school....
Ben got the whole old "office" cleaned out so we will be able to start decorating the babies room soon. We are going to paint it a baby green color, and have accents of blue and white with a little of green (because we have some green stuff from Bailey that we can reuse). Then there are these adorable monkeys, lions, and giraffe wood cut outs that I'm thinking will be the deocrations for the walls. I cannot wait to get the crib moved out of Bailey's room. Now that she is sleeping in her big girl bed she could use the room to play.
Ren is doing really well after his surgery. He had a recheck today and the pressure is down in his other eye, back to a pretty normal level. However, he will still go blind in that eye in less than a year. I have no idea what bridge we will cross when it gets to that point. Uggh it is so frustrating. Never NEVER when I thought about having pets did it ever occur to me, they could get glaucoma and have to have their eyes removed. Poor thing.
Funny Story. Ben, Bailey and I were at Holiday getting gas, and we hear a woman yell back to the person in the vehicle that she had just gotten out of "how to do you get in here?" She was referring to the gas station. Seriously. How in the world do some people dress themselves?
I guess that was a whole post about nothing. But I told myself I was going to start making the effort to post regularly again. We will see how long it lasts. :)
Saturday, August 08, 2009
Ren's home
I got to bring Ren home today. He was soooo happy to be home. He bounded up the stairs and kept prancing to get me to come faster. Lol,then he got in the house and layed on his back on the carpet and rubbed himself all around on the floor. So much for taking it easy :)
He is on a total of 4 different perscriptions. One of which I have to give hime 3 times a day and 2 others that are twice a day. Hopefully I don't screw it up.
He is on a total of 4 different perscriptions. One of which I have to give hime 3 times a day and 2 others that are twice a day. Hopefully I don't screw it up.
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