Momma Drama

ARGH!!!
My head hurts. It's been hurting for days now. Sinus issues, weather/migraine issues. All of the above issues. Crap I wish it would stop. It's not going to today though, it's wet outside and windy as hell........it's making the house creak on the inside.

Yesterday was supposed to be a productive day. Not so much. Maiya stayed home instead of going to daycare, and Dave spent just about all day on the phone with recruiters and phone interviews. He goes to Indiana next Tuesday for an interview. This would be at a big city hospital, with cutting edge technogology which he is really missing. Country living is great and all, but he's feeling stagnant now. Not challenged. Tired of driving an hour home in a blizzard after working a 13 hour shift. Feeling taken advantage of since he took the new position last spring for no pay increase "at that time", and yet still no pay increase with this last yearly evaluation. IN isn't what I had in mind, but I'm not the working person am I? ;) I'm pretty sure that can be any more snow in Elkhart, IN than there is here anyways. The good thing about IN is that we could still live in Michigan, and that way I wouldn't have to take another nursing exam or nail exam for licensure. Or go back to school, if IN's requirements are more than MI's in both nursing and nails. Not that school is bad, just not my idea of fun right now. Of course we still hope to hear back from the TN people too. Arizona was mentioned in passing yesterday also....

This house is a total and complete wreck, with the exception of the living room. Wonder if I can stay in there all day today. Yesterday's work in the attic was slow going between phone calls, and being side tracked. We ended up bringing down all the garage sale stuff, pricing it and toting it to the basement. My legs are so sore. Too much stair action yesterday. The drywall and insulation is all down from the rafters now though, so the roof can 'breathe'.....I need to get back in there and get all the drywall off to the side than re-clean the whole room. Complete with washing any clothing/bedding/coats that are there because my dear husband didn't want to take the time to lay the tarp over top of the target areas. So now the whole room is full of nails and shingle shit....tiny pieces and dust from the roof tear off. Joy. That project is not happening today. Instead, I need to take the dining room table leg off, and troubleshoot why the fricking thing is so loose that the whole table is wobbling........Ashley furniture is some overpriced shitty stuff I tell ya!! Also need to do some serious cleaning up around here, the Christmas decorations and tree are down so that is good. Think I'm going to have to limit myself to an allotted amount of cleaning time today...otherwise I'd go all day and where's the fun in that?

Not doing very well with the healthy eating so far.......but have managed to lose a 1/2#.

Shit and hellfire......I do not have a good feeling about today. Devin has been up all of 10 minutes and I've had to holler three times about whining already.......gawd help me. And her.

Need to make out the checks for the Village people today too. I've already spent a good hour and a half doing piddly Village stuff, catch up paperwork and making copies of things that the VI requested.

Well, let the games begin...........

I need to make out the bills today and get them mailed. Late, late, late. What happened?!?!

The kids are going to Miss Pam's today at 9 a.m. Dave is off and we are going to pull the drywall off the rafters in the attic. Something that should have been done this summer after we re-did the roof. What a mess that will be, as each piece of drywall comes down, then the insulation behind it there will be a shower of nails and shingle bits from the roofing job. Good thing we have a huge tarp to lay down up there. Then the attic can be swept up, and I can de-clutter my Christmas things and box up what I'm keeping and get it put away.

I'm feeling really behind due to the holidays and company and such. I hate that feeling, my anal, obsessive self starts to kick in making it much worse than it has to be.........every room in this house needs some serious attention right now, not even sure where to start. And I need to get the Council checks made out. Plus the Village Asshole has me on another wild goose chase........meeting minutes for Jan/Feb/March/April/May of 1999 (!??!?!?), and copies of the budgets from 99/00/01/02, and "The meeting minutes where the Council approved the improvements to Hope's house, and the minutes where they approved the bill for those improvements...." I asked if she could narrow down a time frame for me on those.........."Summer, 2001 or 2002" SUPERFREAKINFANTASTIC!!!!!!!! (Hope is the old Clerk who had work done in her house at the Village's expense, which was not right, but the Council approved it so..........) The good news is that I technically do not have to go on a wild goose chase for those according to the Deputy Clerk......she has to know what she wants me to look for as far as dates.......I'm sure that won't fly with the Village Idiot though. Anywhoo, I've got all that going on........I need about 4 days to get on top of things, and I've got more company coming tomorrow. Is it wrong to just want to re-claim my house?

Dave brought home Trent's CT report yesterday........septal deviation and what appears to be a nose full of polyps. I need to call the ped today and see where we go from here, other than the allergy testing on the 16th. My poor guy!!! I really thought that they wasn't going to be anything that came of the cat scan..........

Dave has a phone interview with the TN folks today. YAY!!! I hate to really get my hopes up, but damn I want to move south!!!!!!

Getting ready to start the whole low fat, healthy, try to exercise deal in a few days. Gawd, how I hate doing it!!!!!!!!! Need to though..........

Off to get more coffee for the big day ahead...........

Ahhhhhhhhh. My baby is one. How did she get to be so big and old??? My sister, BIL and my nephews were here yesterday to share her birthday. I feel like I've cheated her though.......the other kids had big shin-digs down state with a bunch of people invited to their parties. Not so easy to travel anymore though......the car seems to have gotten smaller since the family has gotten bigger. :) Plus, her birthday is just too close to Christmas, there would have been no way in hell we would have been able to pack presents to transport down for Christmas, then repack gifts we received plus her birthday presents. It was a nice day though.....she loved eating cake and ice cream, even though she gave herself one heck of a brain freeze with the ice cream. LOL! We got her two outfits, a sweater and two pairs of jammies. My sister knitted her a very cute pink sweater with matching hat, and got her a pair of jeans to go with them. When my mom was here at Christmas she bought her a 'Hello Kitty' fleece blanket, and a stuffed dog. She has been such a blessing, even though she was the "ohshit.......whereismyperiodsoIcanstartthesebirthcontrolpillsalready?MygodImightbepregnant' baby.........She hardly ever has a bad day....life is good for her, she is warm and loving and always happy. She is thinking about walking......surfing the furniture, and standing without help on occasion. She waves backwards, it is the cutest thing. Waving with her fingers toward herself. She is learning to blow kisses this last two weeks......loves to shove her whole hand in her mouth to do it, or grab my hand and smack it toward my mouth to make me blow them instead. :) She loves to shake her head no at Daddy, and throw her head backwards too. Loves to rough house with Daddy and her brother and sister, goes right to them and puts herself in the middle of the action. She still takes her naps and bedtime pretty seriously.......lays right down, no fuss. Still doesn't want to be rocked......how horrible is that?!?! She has been the best surprise I've ever received. :)

I want to undecorate today.............glad the holidays are over. The handyman will be returning soon, yay!! Get on with this house. I'm looking forward to scrapbooking and sewing, and just doing some fun things now...........maybe if I concentrate on these types of things winter won't 'get' to me like it usually does.

The 'diet' or healthy living starts soon.....probably today. Need to drop some pounds and start exercising.......walking Trent to school everyday should be helpful in that department. I'm not overweight by much, but I think it's all a comfort thing. I'm not comfortable at this weight.

Want to head out to Joanns today with coupon and cash in hand. I did end up with an eyelet setter out of the sewing notions, except the hole puncher is a bit tore up..........need a new one of those and of course some eyelets. :) I probably need some patterns too, I've got sewing fever! Hopefully I can find a sewing machine belt without too much difficulty, the belt on this machine is going to snap very soon. I have two rolls of film to drop off also for developing. I'm thinking a digital camera is going to be in order for next Christmas......

Off to shower before the natives get up at 8............they are all awake up there.

My baby is 1 today.......oh heavens. I can hardly stand it.................

Oh...and thank you to whoever posted a Merry Christmas to me with no name......and to Paula and Sarah too.

UGH!!
Lost the last post............

Christmas is over.....yay! I'm not sure why I'm so gung ho on being done with it this year......maybe I'm trying to hustle winter along. I really want to un-decorate, but my sister and family are coming up today to do the Christmas gig.

Christmas itself was lovely. My mom and brother were here, and the kids had a blast opening gifts. Seems like all the gifts were a hit. Dave and I had bought the TV a few weeks ago as our big gift, that way the kids can go upstairs to watch a movie for quiet time. Is there a better present than that? I also got slippers from Dave and a new fleece robe from my mom. I got Dave a new 'manly' coffee mug and a deer antler Christmas ornament. Dave's mom sent me hideous clothes as usual, and a shirt for him. She also sent the usual $100 for us to split. I'm thinking of using my half on scrapbooking supplies. I need my sister to identify some items that came in my grandma's sewing boxes first though. Grandma has been moved into a 'retirement/senior' apartment so I'm ending up with the table sewing machine and 60 years worth of notions........(in addition to two extra sewing machines that my aunt and cousin are unloading on me) Anywhoo..........there are some tools in the sewing boxes that look to me to be an eyelet setter and such........
My brother had to leave on Christmas day so he could get back to work, and my mom left yesterday. Yesterday was pretty much a wash out due to the second migraine in a week. :(

We are all going shopping in a little bit, the kids got money from the neighbors for Christmas. I need to go order a cake for my little birthday girl, and buy her some pajamas and clothes for her present. Hope I can find some clearance Christmas wrapping paper for next year.

Merry Christmas all!!! :)

Hmmmmmm.........Monday, don't remember what else happened for the continuation. That is terrible.

Yesterday~ Puttered around the house in the a.m., then left at 1:30 p.m. to pick up the loaves of bread, and flowers for the daycare ladies. Then I went down to the shop, worked a little....did a manicure and pedicure on a client, then did Cheri's nails and she did mine. Got home late......and was so tired. This cold (sinus infection?) is trying to kick my hiney. I shall not let it darn it!!

Today I've been doing damage control from Dave and the kids yesterday......lots of laundry.....dishes. Ran cookies to a few neighbors, took the daycare gals their stuff.
Waiting on my mom and brother to get here. Dave should be home around 4 pm. Ahhh, the joy of working in the medical field, nary a holiday off.

Dave called a recruiter back yesterday that had called here on Monday. I had to pester him to call him back, since the guy said he was from Colorado. "Nobody wants to move there." he says...........yes, that is true, but the guy actually wanted to talk to him about a Bristol, TN job. YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's an afternoon position and a small pay cut...except there is shift differential which makes up and over for the paycut, and heaven knows sometimes you have to take the less than desirable shift to get your foot in a door.............I really want to move.................maybe this will be it. :)

Merry Christmas all!!!!!!

Pwhew!
Migraine day. Need I say more? I think not.................
Made Trent's cat scan appointment for tomorrow at 8:45 a.m. Dave will love that. ;) Dropped the biggies off at daycare for two hours while Maiya and I: Dropped off the Imitrex prescription at Rite-Aid, picked up the pictures, hit the Hallmark store for her "Baby's First Christmas" ornament, an ornament and coffee mug for Dave, went to the library, went grocery shopping, picked up the prescription, hit McDonalds for a salad, then picked up the kids.

Came home, had lunch. Did twenty minutes of Village work with the Deputy Clerk. Wrapped Christmas gifts and boxed them up for mailing.

To be continued.............;)

Yay for me...........meeting minutes are done, just need to double check them, run copies and address to drop in the mail tomorrow. The kids and I made some mint bark candy, colored some Christmas pictures, made some Santa masks, I made Trents apron, did some extra sewing, and I have decided that I'm not going to attempt to 'fix' the peach jam.

I should hop in the shower while they watch a Christmas movie......then I'm going to make a caramel cake and kick all these cobwebs out of the house before company comes in a few days. Then (god help me...) the kids are going to help me make pizza (from a kit, I cheated) for dinner. I need to fold two loads of clothes, load the diswasher then punch out I do believe. I may even be able to start on Maiya's blanket tonight....or scrapbooking organization, or read, oh my!! I am so excited.

Trent was so excited this morning at 6 a.m., running downstairs with his $2 from the tooth fairy. He wanted to wake up his sisters to show them.....it damn near killed him to have to wait. :)

The time is way wrong on this post...it's 4:12 pm....

Okay.....I'm semi-motivated today, but need to be more so. I talked Dave into taking the truck today even though he would have to stop and gas it up. Then I rounded up my kidlets and got us all to the grocery store by 8:45 for cat food, litter and dishwasher soap. Yay! Hit the McDonalds on the way home, and got screwed out of my sandwich once we got back here. Trent is so sweet, he gave me his sausage. :) I have a load of clothes that needs to go in the dryer, then I'll wash another load. I think I'll do meeting minutes now and get those out of the way while the baby sleeps and the biggies watch TV. I'll worry about the apron and jam later today.........

Okay........catching up once again. I hate feeling behind all the time. Seems like I feel that way about everything lately. Although, I know this will pass when the holidays are over. Whoo Hoo!!

Thursday~Pretty much a blur for me now........I do know that I was so tired that I couldn't even stay up to watch ER, went to bed before it ever started so hopefully it was a rerun. More bullshit that day with the Village PITA, from now on known as the Village Idiot, or VI.........

Friday~More bullshit with the VI..............rumor has it that she is "off her meds" at present.....
Dropped off film for developing..........went to the bakery and ordered 24 loaves of bread....I just cannot put that much pressure on myself at this point to get those all made myself.....I still need to make some jam.
Went to Trent's school in the afternoon to help the kids make gingerbread houses. What a riot....I love kids. Wish I would have started having them sooner so I could have had more. :) Trent showed me right away when I got there how very loose his tooth had become that day......darn near dangling there. We left school early to get to his Dr.'s appointment..........he had finished his antibiotic that day for the sinus infection and we knew it wasn't gone. Sure enough, he has a (the same) bad one. More antibiotics....this time for 16 days, and a cat scan to be scheduled to check for polyps. He also needs to take 40 days of Singular...........asthma/allergy medication. Daddy will take him probably Tuesday for the cat scan....this is his department, seeing as he is the x-ray/cat scan/MRI tech.
Went to Meijers and re-stocked the medicine cabinet and bought a cool mist humidifier. $125 worth of stuff....that is a whole mess of meds. (Oh, and diapers, wipes, toilet paper and Kleenex...)
Went to the Mexican place for dinner afterwards.

Today~Whole lot of nothing it seems like.............that mass of congestion that was sitting in my throat the other day up and moved...........to my head finally. I'm in super-slow-mo today. My day with the kids started with their beautiful little voices singing "The cat pooped on the bed....." Lovely. Trent lost his tooth during breakfast...right into his peanut butter toast. :) He was pretty excited..........the speech impediment is killing me though, it is too funny. He got his first dose of Singulair and although it isn't mentioned as one of the side effects, he absolutely bounced off the walls all day today.........more than just 'my tooth fell out' excitement. Matter of fact both big kids were hellions today. At one point they were both banished to their rooms for quiet times. Didn't help.
We stopped at the General Store today to pick up some things........no dishwasher soap. UGH!!!!! I'm not going anywhere until Tuesday. That's a lot of dishes to be hand washing..........
Oh, I did manage to get the coat hooks back up in the laundry room........some wise ass hung one too many things up on them and ripped them out of the wall. Hopefully they will stay this time, since I nailed the sucker in with the sledgehammer. :)
I should be making Trent an apron right now.
I'm starving..........waiting to eat dinner with my husband who said he would be home one hour and 7 minutes ago.
I should also be doing my meeting minutes..........just another thing to add to the big list for tomorrow.
I did do a bunch of laundry today...and even got it all folded, unusual for me all in the same day.
And now.....I really must eat. I'll add everything I forgot to the Blog tomorrow. ;)

Lots to blog. Must have caffeine and shower first.

OH. MY. GOD.
I hate living here. A 4 door car=4 frozen door handles. Two wipers=2 wipers that aren't worth a broke penis and don't even hit the window because they are so frozen. Roads covered in snow. Winter weather advisory in effect untill noon, expecting about 5" of snow. School parking lot is an ice slick, nearly fell on my ass. Three kids in car seats with their safety compromised because they are all in snowsuits.

IwannamoveIwannamoveIwannamoveIwannamoveIwannamoveIwannamoveIwannamove!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Devin is off to daycare, Maiya needs to finish breakfast, have a breathing treatment and hit the hay. Guess I better slip on my 'moto-vated' attire. :/

Thanks for the comment Dave..........;) I love you too.

Tired. I am just so very tired. Yesterday turned out to be a real cluster f**k.................The Village meeting had gone smooth and quickly up until the last 15 minutes of it, when the Village PITA wanted to stir up shit. The President ended up banging the gavel hard enough to startle me and adjourned the meeting. The PITA ended up cussing and yelling on her way out the door. So yesterday she calls me, and wants a boatload of copies of things. The 1996 audit, meeting minutes from 1999, etc. Okay fine, I have 5 days to get them to her under The Freedom of Informationm Act. Do you think I can find half of the things she's requesting? If you answered no...you are correct. The last Clerk was asked to resign and did so, since there were some dubious Clerking activity taking place. Rumor has it the Clerk before her wasn't much better. Anywhoo.......the filing, and the records I have here are a mess. Mis-filed, missing, incomplete. It had been so bad that the State Department of Treasurery stepped in a few years ago to investigate the Village. So needless to say, I have had to chase all over to try and track down the things she is asking for, and then run a zillion copies. Everyone and their brother from the Council either called or stopped by............because don't you know folks love to talk in a small town, especially when you have that type of excitement at the meeting. (Which in and of itself is funny as hell, since nobody talked to us for the first 6 years we were here, prior to them asking me to be the Clerk. Whole other beef there...)

I ended up having to go to the Town Hall, the post office, the General Store, and a council members house all on my way to pick up Trent from school. It was snowing/raining while I did all that. I hadn't wanted to run Maiya out and about that much either, but even if I had taken the car then I would have had to drag her and Devin in and out at each stop. So we walked/strollered. This winter is really going to suck ass for taking Trent to school. I did find a one rider, high back, safety strapped baby sled though. I will have to attach the other sled to it, because Devin is already whining about walking in the cold....There is a fresh inch or two of snow out there this morning. I hate snow.

I am going to call Miss Sue this morning and she if she can take Devin for a few hours. I still have so much to do today........and God love that child of mine....she is intense. Working days and Devin don't usually mix well.

I have to finish making these copies and get them out (I'm allowed 5 days on those.), finish the meeting minutes (I'm allowed 8 days on these.), fax an ordinance to the paper for publication (10 days here.), call Sears and order some tools for the Village, make out some checks, get the Christmas cards done, clean out the toybox (it isn't even safe at this point since Maiya is able to get around so well), do Maiya's breathing treatments every 4 hours, make dinner (oh what I wouldn't give to have any leftovers in the fridge..), give both girls a bath, and watch a movie that is due back tonight. I'd love to throw a nap in there somewhere....but that won't happen. :(

Dave had a work meeting to go to today..............it should be over early. Hopefully he will be home in time to take Trent to hockey tonight, otherwise I take three kiddies and go.

My throat is hurting.......feels like I have a wad of congestion in it, resting for a bit, until it works it's way into my chest.

I'm hitting Meijers tomorrow to replenish my wiped out medicine cabinet, and buy a cool mist humidifier. I will start overmedicating tomorrow in hopes of kicking/heading this off.

I can't wait for 2 pm tomorrow. Trent's first school program. The Christmas Program. I'll probably cry. I suck like that...........I'm already crying because Maiya's bithday is coming up. :(

Sunday..........kind of a blow off day there. Nothing I planned on doing got done. Did some Village things in preparation for Monday's meeting. Straightened up the house a bit. Stripped and changed beds, then did oodles of laundry.

Monday..........took Maiya to the Dr.'s for her cough and wheeze. She has croup and an ear infection. She ended up with a steroid shot, and a breathing treatment while we were there. Luckily she sounded better after the first treatment. We are doing the breathing tretments every 4-6 hours here at home until Thursday or Friday, if she doesn't sound better by Friday she'll have to go back in. She slept better last night, no coughing. My poor bunny...:( She has a return appointment that is also her 1 year well child on 1-5-04. Dave is sick, gawd what a pain...........Devin wants to be sick so bad..lol!! But she isn't, it's just about killing her. Trent has a few more days of antibiotic for his sinus infection....he doesn't seem to have bounced back as well as normal. He isn't out of the sick woods yet I don't think. Last night I started with a sore throat that is still here today, and a funky head thing going on. Joy. Pure and utter joy............

I must be getting better, or at least used to this Village Clerk job. The monthly meeting was last night and I didn't have to bust my butt the whole week before it. Or maybe it was just an easy month. :) We have a new Village President as of last night, and the meeting went so much smoother, and faster. I have a very good feeling about getting my meeting minutes done today without too much difficulty.

Dave is back to work today. More joy. Pure and utter joy. And this time I mean it. The kids love it when he's home, but damn!!! Those days are like free-for-alls, and by Dave's last day he is tired of the free-for-alls too, and then he's regular cuss-o-matic!

Well...............off to get the kiddies up so we can get Trent off to school.

Done!! These nails are done............it is such a PITA to paint tiny holly leaves on all 10 nails!!! I should transport myself to Sarah's now to do her nails..........;)

Yesterday.....Devin and I went running. Library, bank, drugstore, pre-school to say hello to her old teacher she keeps yakking about, video store, Wendy's, Meijers, general store, post office. Whew!! Watched Pirates of the Carriben...love, love, love it!

We all went to see Santa at the Bulk Food Store this morning........went to Ben Franklin for some felt to make the kids silhouette's.....(they go up the stairway and you hang a paper chain garland between them then.) Stopped at the bakery, had coffee and snacks. Did some bread baking today..........and packaged up all the cookies that are going as gifts. Big pot of split pea soup is on the stove...too bad it won't be ready for tonight. :( Tonight's feature presentaion is ..........drum roll please............Barbi/Swan Lake. ACK!!

Mmmmmm.....Pirates of the Carribean time. :P~~
See ya'll tomorrow.

HELP!!! They are just trying to kill me know..................I realize that they are all slightly sick and don't feel well, but DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Come on!!! Baby Maiya is such a PITA to try to wipe that old snotty nose. She did not take a good morning nap today, usually she lays right down no problem (Won't let me rock her even, but that's a whole other rant...) I went back up there 3 times this morning. Crabby baby today.......doesn't stop her from getting into EVERY thing under the sun. I swear to God.......she WILL live in that exersaucer until she is 3!!! Devin is of the age........the wine and cheese age. Plus she doesn't feel well either. Please pass me the wine. Trent..........sick boy there. Hacking and huffing and puffing. Still on antibiotic for the sinus infection. If he sounds this bad tomorrow, he gets a return trip to the Dr.'s. I'm way too old for all this some days.

Today was supposed to be a blow off day.......seems sort of like it was, except I had hoped to get more blow off stuff accomplished. Tomorrow, tomorrow.....Dave has the next 4 days off. Whoo Hoo. We can tag team these little snappers. I need to start in on the holiday bread baking this weekend too. And catch a movie somewhere, dinner too I think. Some sort of grown up activity.....

Getting ready to watch Survivor while multi-tasking some paper organization. Hopefully between 9-10pm I'll figure out how to add comments to this Blog........and then again, maybe not. ;)

Off to get my apple cider with Goldschlager. Cheers!!

Tired. So very tired..............too many late nights and early mornings. Wish my body knew how to sleep in anymore! It's verra cold outside.........I'm ready to move just outside the Village limits just so that Trent would have to be picked up by the bus. It is 24*, windy and snowy. :( I have dubbed today a fu** off day.............just doing stuff I want to do, after I do about 45 minutes of Village stuff. Guess that makes me one of the Village People........haha. Not. I will catch up on all these magazines and other assorted reading material that seem to multiply around here. I will do some holly nail art. I SHALL call Paula. I shall putter with the computer and both scanners. I shall try to add comments to this blog. I shall, I shall, I shall.
Have a beautiful day all!

Missed a day!

Yesterday.......got the Village stuff done in the am, went to the nail appointment...got a fill and a (hair) color. Need to do my own nail art tomorrow maybe. Took the computer in after the appointment, got that squared around...dropped off film for developing and picked up pizza for dinner. Got home, had dinner then we decorated the tree. It's so cute to watch Maiya and the cat try to disassemble the whole thing piece by piece. I'm sure after a few more days it won't be funny anymore...

Today.....a little laundry, then Village stuff. That turned out to be more than I thought it was going to be. :( Some general cleaning up happened today also. Vacuuming, cleaned up the stove for the next round, closet and medicine cabinet straightening. The girls got baths today...........except little Miss decided to crap up the water.......big Miss was NOT impressed!!! LOL! Double baths for all!! Took the kids across the street for dinner at the restraurant that reopened the other day. Kids watched Little Drummer Boy and then hit the hay. I hope they are over their sinus/allergy/funkiness very soon......Devin is trying to kill me slowly with the non stop whining.

Tomorrow....I think I shall do all fun stuff. Yeah, right. ;)

Anyone got milk?

Because if you do, come on over........Dave and I made 37 dozen cookies this past Sunday. That is a lot of cookies I tell ya!! I got the rest of the house decorated that day too....as much as I'm doing anyways. Dave took Trent & Devin to cut down a tree. A big old monster of a tree. It needed a serious trim from the bottom, but it is a beauty. We will decorate it tomorrow night.

Made Trent an appointment today for allergy testing. He goes 1-16-04. Poor guy, he is still getting his tail kicked by the sinus infection. He was pretty tired today after school. He forgot his tennis shoes for gym today, Devin and I were pretty tired after walking back to school a second time. Needless to say, there is now a 'reminder picture' hanging up in the storage room. It has pictures of money, a lunch bag, papers (homework), a scarf, mittens, and tennis shoes on it. Right smack dab where we can all see it on the way out the door....

Got all my swaps out today, and some other various packages to boot. Bought a roll of stamps also. Nearly had a heart attack when she gave me my total. $91!!! Yikes!!

Tomorrows plan for the day.......Village stuff in the morning. Nail appointment in the afternoon. Computer/scanner in to the shop in the early evening. Pizza Hut for dinner and tree decorating. Yay!! So far neither Maiya or Clyde have really messed with tree. That is a good thing I'm thinking.

Santa came to our house Sunday night.......what fun. Darn my kids for knowing right away who it was though. Can't wait to get those pictures developed tomorrow.

Broke the news to the family that we aren't planning on coming down for any type of Christmas get together this year. Dave only has 2 days off at a crack closer to Christmas. He does have 4 days off this coming weekend, but there's no way in hell I'll have everything ready by Thursday night/Friday morning in preparation to hit the road!! Beisdes that, the Village meeting is Monday, and I'll be doing stuff all weekend in preparation for that. I'm too new in this position to be able to have my poop in a group by Thursday. Plus it would mean pulling Trent out of school. Anyways....my brother already planned on coming up, and my mom said she was going to invite herself. That just leaves my sister, and if she really wants to, she could find the time. Dave says we aren't out of the woods yet, because there is his sister to consider. Ah, yeah...........she is a teacher who has a 2 week Christmas break, the BIL is a law student, again...2 week break. And the nephew is ..you guessed it, getting a 2 week break. I'm not going any damn where. I refuse to try to cram in 5-6 get togethers with people in a 2 day time frame.......plus try to pull off baby Maiya's first birthday down there. Please people....I'm "working on my line.." (That stress line that runs down the center of my forehead.....IT MUST GO!!) I will not work that hard, and be that stressed. Merry Christmas!! :)

All for now...........happy snoozing to all! :)

Hmmmmmmmm.........

Thursday~ We went to Grand Rapids, hit the mall for the nail job and The Coffee Beanery coffee. YUMMY!! Went to Joanns after that, no coffee mugs darn it. Targets was next....got half of the shopping done. Then we went to Arbys for lunch...that was no Macaroni Grill!! :( Bad thing about living in the country.........errand running isn't what it used to be. It takes so long to drive back and forth to the "Big City"......we had to get back home to pick the kids up.

Friday we all took Trent to the Dr.'s......sinus infection just like I thought. Poor guy, he's never had them back to back like this. I'll be making him an appoointment soon, for allergy testing. Dave and I got the last of the Christmas shopping this day too, and had Ruby Tuesdays for lunch. Found a scrapbooking store half hour away from me this day. Good news there. We picked up a new TV for the living room finally. YAY!!!! Now the smaller TV is back upstairs..........can you say "quiet time upstairs with a movie for the kids'? Knew ya could.......:)

Today Dave and I baked our hineys off...........one cake, 2 types of bar cookies and a slew of muffins. Tomorrow is cookie baking day. I've got chocolate chip, peanut butter, and oatmeal scotchie doughs thawing out right now. I hope to get the rest of the decorating done tomorrow too. We shall see.....Dave wants to get the tree tomorrow too. If he does, we will probably decorate it Tuesday. I need to take the computer/scanner in still, maybe Tuesday. I really need to sit down and save all my favorites before I take the damn thing anywhere.......

I want this month to be over.........baking for gifts isn't all it's cracked up to be. Next year, we are going back to buying real presents.....that way I can start early and be done by December!

Must go to bed.....I am old and tired. :)

So, I think my New Years resolution is going to be to Blog every day.........

Because I cannot remember what happened on Monday.......
Tuesday~ Trent went to school and I took the girls to daycare. Whoo Hoo!! Between Monday and Tuesday I kicked some tail on Village stuff. A bunch of little things that I kept putting off, because there were bigger things to do. I'm just about caught up with all of it now. Yay!

Wasted a slew of time messing around cooking and freezing pumpkin, and making turkey broth those days also. Wish I wasn't so frugal sometimes. Been working on Christmas stuff here and there. The best thing I did the other night was go through my recipe books and PITCH stuff!!! Gawd...what a mess those were. I threw out every recipe that I haven't tried yet. My throw away stack was double the size of my keep stack. Yes I know.......I have too much time on my hands, or I'm obsessive, something. Those recipe books were making me crazy!! Now, just need to put them back together.

Yesterday Devin and I tried to make a cake for the new neighbors........it flopped. :( My best pound cake too, don't know what happened. Guess we will have to eat it. So we tried again, with a chocolate cake. When it was done, I left it in the oven with the heat off....duh. Two flops in one day, what gives?!?

Dave came home early from his hunting vacation yesterday. No deer. :(

The girls are scheduled to go to daycare today again. With Dave home now, we are going to Grand Rapids to do some Christmas shopping. Not too much to do really....we need to hit Toys R Us for gift certificates and gifts for our kiddies, Target for regular household stuff, and boxes so I can mail my swaps, Joanns for Christmas coffee mugs, and we are going to Macaroni Grill for lunch. Yay! I'm going to stop at one of the little foreign nail places and have them do my nails too. Big no-no for me really........I can do my own, they are overdue from missing last weeks appointment with my girlfriend. I just hate doing my own. That's whay I do the gf's and she does mine, and it costs me nothing. So today I'll be paying for someone to use illegal product on me......but it will be fast, about 40 minutes. And they won't lift for about 6-8 weeks.....that's why their product isn't supposed to be used in the US. I'll hand file in the car on the way down, that way they won't need to put their electric file on my natural nail. Yikes!!

The kids are looking forward to Christmas.......I need to finish decorating in here. Maybe this weekend. Trent has another sinus infection...:( He goes to the Dr.'s tomorrow. He doesn't have school tomorrow for some reson. Devin is right as rain now after her sinus/ear infections. And baby Maiya? Well she just makes me crazy anymore!! She is into EVERYTHING!!!! All the time...........the Village papers, the library books, the toilet, the scrapbooking stuff, the dog food, the cat food, the Play-Doh, the trash. She is going to find herself living in the exersaucer pretty soon. And she climbs out of the highchair the little shit! I have caught her twice on the table. The seatbelt couldn't be any tighter around her middle, I have to push her belly in to snap it and yet she still manages to wiggle out. UGH! She is funny though........she can think and listen and respond now. She is so cute to watch...........she'll be chewing some form of garbage and I'll say "Give it here......." and you can see the wheels turning in her head....'should I swallow it? Or give it to her?' then she'll stick her tongue out so I can retrieve the item. Or when I tell her to 'sit down' at the table, she will look at me.......arch her eyebrows up into an upside down "V", clench her fists and thrust her arms down all pissy and say "Enh."

DAMNIT!!!!!! I just lost a whole paragraph!! Ugh..........not doing it again right now. Need more coffee before I wake up the household to get everyone ready to go. Maybe I'll update tonight........

Happy day all!!