Momma Drama

My poor aching head. Two Imitrex nasal sprays yesterday, and the damn thing is back today. Must be sinus related.

Dinner last night was yummy. Bob Evans....the place to be if you are a kid, since the straws are so cool.

All this talk about W-2's and 1099's.....guess what I didn't do yesterday. How in the hell do you forget about doing them? Nothing last waiting until the last second. I never used to put things off this long, what happened? Need to get my poop in a group.....

Sink shopping today. We need to take two cars and all the kidlets. Didn't give myself enough wiggle room in budget with the handyman hours to use daycare this time. Oops.

Off to medicate and caffeinate............

Have a great weekend people. :)

Oh my poor head.......should have taken some Imitrex yesterday, it's not letting go.........

No sink shopping today, we'll save that for tomorrow. Need to see if the kidlets can go to daycare since we all don't fit into the truck. And then Dave and I can talk to each other for a change. ;)

I'm in the last stages of the W-2's and 1099's. YAY! They should be in the mail today.

Think I have a home for the dog.

Tonight we go out for dinner to celebrate Trent's report card from yesterday.

I really need to do laundry.

I spent the morning organizing my scrapbooking bookmarks. Good grief girl...and you know who you are! I am entertaining the idea of making small scale scrapbooks for Christmas gifts this year. Someone just kill me now.....I said I wasn't making homemade stuff. I was going to the mall. Damn it!

I'm starting to feel better. Good thing too, because when I take the Indocin I feel remotely like I could hurl for about an hour afterwards. I do think I need to get out of the house tomorrow though. Dave will be home, maybe we'll go get the bathroom sink and pedestal. Oh the excitement.......

Is there anything sweeter than a one year old helping to unload the dishwasher......licking every fork and spoon in the process, and taking an imaginary drink from every cup?

Here's a little something I never thought I'd hear myself say:
"Yes Trent, I do want you to be a good helper, but not when it comes to wiping her butt.....Devin, wipe your own butt!!"

"Village Clerk...
Please do not aggitate the animal, nor stick your hands or fingers into her cage.
Thank you,
Management"

Can a person just lay down and rest without 4 stupid freaking interruptions from people. Let's just say that if you call me because you need information to get your taxes done that day.....and you don't even realize that I have called you back and left you a messgae directing you to the apppropriate person you need to talk to, and you then call me back and get shitty with me, I will forever think of you as a total fucknut. Get your shit together and get you sorry dumb ass organized before the day of your tax appointment. Fuckhead.

Meal time around here would be comical if I could locate my sense of humor, and if they weren't so fucking annoying.

Head is just a thumping today. :(

Three kids, up and dressed. One off to school thanks to the neighbors. Doing good this morning. Shhhhhh....don't tell anyone that Devin is only dressed because she had to sleep in clothes last night since I'm so far behind on the laundry. ;)

Why:
Are there live ladybugs in my house?
Can't I give the kids a bath, run the dishwasher and do a load of clothes at the same time?
Is this little voice in my head screaming "Shut Up!!" and what should I do about that?
Is it snowing again? Is 21" not enough?
Is it so dark in here?
Is Trent's saliva test results so low?
Is it almost 6 pm already?
Does spinach have to come out in the diaper looking exactly the same as when it went it?

I only know the answer to one question. Bunny did it. Bunny made it verra, verra dark in here. Two weeks ago she grabbed hold of the playroom floor lamp to see what would happen. Five foot tall lamps do not fare well when tipped over from ankle biter height. So today she decided to do the same thing to the living room floor lamp. That one didn't fare much better than the last one, except we had blue flames this time. Which were better than the black flames I was responsible for two days ago. OY! Village chair too close to the antiquated desk lamp. Scary shit there.

So anyways.....now the only light source in the playroom is the antiquated desk lamp. The only two sources in the living room are one small clip on light and the stairway light. Dim, dark, romantic. Ha!

Between the lamps and the salt eating, you'd think I never watch her.................

Need to call the Dr.'s back tomorrow on Trent. I guess his saliva test results aren't where they should be. Every tried to make a 40# boy spit up 10 cc's of saliva on command? Ugh. Not fun, and yet we'll get to do it again.

My chest x-ray showed nothing funky except for the funky stuff I already have.

I feel the need to change this font....anyone else find it a tad hard to read?

Snow day today. Please let the day go smoothly.

So, we think it's the DVD player that is wonky. No second half of the movie. "Once Upon A Time In Mexico" was hard to follow last night. Not sure if it was me or the movie.

Today's plan: W-2's and 1099's. Shocking huh?

Found out yesterday at the Dr.'s that I've got viral pneumonia and pleurisy right now. Now that was shocking! Dave should be able to snag the chest x-ray results today at work. Little nervous about it all.....it's a little 'waiting for the other shoe to fall since life is so good'-ish. I tend to obsess like that........Feel like a bad nurse too. I've had pleurisy before, when I was pregnant with Trent. Should have recognized it this time. In my defense, I had an upper respiratory infection prior to the first episode of pleurisy. No sickness this time around. I was fooled, stumped. Oh well, I'm not a Dr. after all. Maiya only has a cold though, so that was good. Hopefully I won't share this viral crap with the kids. I am actually feeling better this morning so far, and slept just about all night instead of waking up in pain. A little sleep goes a long way sometimes. Hope this continues today, because I'm really going to need to shovel. Ha! Looking into my Magic 8 Ball............"Highly unlikely".

So Trent needs snacks for tomorrow, the plan was to make cookies. I tend to worry about infection control an awful lot. Who wants to knowingly give a kid a cookie (or a Pig a Pancake) when they have breathed while making them, and are sick? Oh, what to do.........

So the movie petered out halfway through. What gives there? DVD player on the fritz? Overheated? Who knows. So we saw half of "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" so far. Attempt #2 in a little while when Dave gets home. "Once Upon A Time In Mexico" is tomorrows matinee. VCR tape luckily.
It is verra cold and verra windy today. I know it isn't proper but I really do love the word 'verra'........Outlander stuff there. ;)
The W-2's and 1099's really are going to be the death of me. This is probably the biggest hurdle I've had so far with learning this stuff. Nothing like having a hell of a time with the crap that has a deadline.
Paula called today. It's all so verra exciting. :) Congrats to you pumpkin!
Whine and melt down central here today this evening........bedtime was at 7:15 pm if that gives you any indication. Tomorrow is another day.
Not verra skinny this week, regained all the weight (all....sheesh... it was 4 odd pounds) I had lost. Too much birthday celebration eating, and no exercise.
Off to the Dr.'s tomorrow to see about this pain of unknown etiology. Disk problems? Pinched nerve? Fibromylegia? Pulled muscle? Wussy-itis? Dunno.
Bunny sees the ped. tomorrow too. She is red-cheeked, runny nosed and a tad wheezy. Her and I sound like two new dwarfs. Wussy and Wheezy. Hmmmm.

The house is a wreck. Bah. It has turned into a pizza and movie night. Off to watch one now..........now that we are done with Scooby.

Friday, the girls went to daycare and Trent had school. Dave and I went to breakfast, and once again talked about moving. My energies are better served else where I tell you. This week's plan is to stay put. Dave is making top dollar where we are, I'm not having to work at all outside the house (Made $11.53 last year at the nursing home. LOLOL!!) We aren't going to be able to find a house this size in the same price range we got this one for. Winter is almost over, this goes along way with me. (Although it was -20 this morning.) We are starting to grow some roots here. Blah, blah, blah. I grow weary......

Yesterday, hung out here at home. Dave took Trent to hockey and Devin watched. I worked on village W-2's. We moved the playroom into the old guest room. Looks pretty good in there. Pretty much pissed the day away and ended it early.

Today, more of the same so far. Still need to finish the W-2's.
Dave is taking the biggies ice skating in a little while and doing some errand running for me. I think he feels sorry for me because I'm falling apart lately. I need to make a Dr.'s appointment tomorrow. I either have some disk problems going on right now, or a pinched nerve. I've got some serious pain running through my neck and upper shoulder/back area that radiates around to up and under my left rib cage. I can't even take a full breath. Oy! Tylenol and Motrin aren't touching it. :(
Hopefully I'll hear from the gal who may take the dog today.
I wanted to take a nice long hot bath this morning, but we need to thaw the pipes under the bathroom first. No cold water in the tub right now. I wanted hot, but not that damn hot. Oh the joy....the water softener is frozen too. Crap water to take a bath/shower. Crap water to brush your teeth with. Crap water to drink. Crap water to cook with. Crap. Crap. Crap.
The house next door is for sale........it'll be nice not to have to deal with the crack momma this summer. Anyone wanna move to the great white north and keep me company? No? I don't blame you..........

Okay then..........enough Imitrex, colby cheese and Mt. Dew will put a person back in business. Of course said person will be hopped up all night on the mixture. Yay, I'll be sorting some serious pictures tonight. :)

Maiya decided to sample the rock salt I had put in the house earlier. It was frozen outside, needed to thaw. No more peeing for me......baby eats crap and I call poison control. Yikes.

Just caught up with the blog comments, need to get better about those. I have actually been staying away from the computer a bit, it was getting to be too much time on here. Think I'm back now though. ;)

The girls are going to daycare tomorrow...mainly for Dave's sake. Poor guy, he never gets a day at home without the constant whining and chatter either. We are rearranging the rooms, shouldn't take too long. The old guest room is going to be the playroom, since the toys don't stay in the playroom anyways. They are forever in the living room.....need to move them farther from the living room. That way the kids can have all their little bits and pieces and parts in there with the door closed when Maiya is up. I'm tired of retrieving shit out of her mouth. Of course I wouldn't have to if people would use their God given brain and not buy the bigger kids toys that have 50 million microscopic parts. But that is a whole other rant isn't it? Besides it's too soon for those toys and pieces to 'disappear' without the kids noticing. Give me another month or so. Anyways....I feel like a bad momma for pushing the kids further away from the living room, but I think it's going to be reserved for quiet activities.....TV watching, reading, puzzles, etc. It's getting really annoying to have the TV on full blast on the rare occasion I have it on, just so I can hear over the din.

(Interesting.......the spell check wants me to change the word 'peeing' to penis. Is this some sort of hint.......?)

Anywhoo..........if Trent doesn't have school, he'll be going to daycare also.

Finally took pictures outside today of the kids and all the snow. I damn near shoveled my hiney off today, even after I had 'the guy' come and plow out the driveway.

Handy guy is coming tomorrow to finish up Trent's closet. All the plaster had to come down, so tomorrow he drywalls and puts some built in shelves in there. Moving right along.

I not done here, but the kids really should eat since they missed lunch. Imagine their surprise when they realized that. I'm tired of repeating myself over and over. Guess next time they will pick up the toys. (Of course they had a mid-morning and afternoon snack so they aren't wasting away.......)

The never ending day continues..........

One call placed to poison control.

One attempt at a nap complete with my head under a pillow to let the Imitrex work its magic. Too bad Maiya thought that pillow was there for us to play peek-a-boo.

Two kiddies done with the movie upstairs just about the time Maiya decided to lay down with me and actually hold still.

Back into the winter gear right now to truck on over to the general store.

Four hours and 15 minutes to go.....

Why does the house automatically launch into sty zone if you take one damn day off from it?

Why does the headache never go away without Imitrex?

Why does the Imitrex always have to knock you on your ass?

Why do cherry tomatoes taste like crap, and grape tomatoes taste so good you could eat the whole 2# package by yourself?

Why do you bother to make pea soup when you know that the other 3 family members who it will be served to, will just bitch about it?

Why does laundry multiply when left to their own devices in the laundry room?

Why do you feel the need to shovel an area for the dog to pee without freezing his pecker off because the snow is as high as his pecker?

Why does your period never come when you expect it to?

Why can't the coffee ever come out of the pot HOT?

Why does it begin snowing again about 15 minutes after you stop shoveling?

God help me with this headache.

God help me, I'm about to take the biggies outside. God help me, I'm about to shovel.

God help me, I really haven't done shit yet today. Made pancakes and put some split pea soup on.

God help me, Devin is so annoying. She spends so much time yelling questions to me to the point that she never hears my answer since she is yelling another question to me.

God help me, Maiya is tearing wallpaper off the stairway.

God help me, I need to find the dog a new home.

God help me is all I can say.

Maybe a fresh cup of coffee will turn things around. Maybe not....the biggies are beating the crap out of each other upstairs as I type,instead of getting dressed.

God help me. God help us all. Everyone.

It is 14* below zero right now. Need I say more.........?

It is starting to stay lighter longer now though.................come on spring. Please.

This winter has been pretty easy so far all things considered.

Meeting went well tonight, no VI.
Oh yeah, almost forgot...happy birthday to me today. ;)
Bwhahahahahaha!!!

Here is the most sacrilegious thing you'll ever want to hear......."I can do all things through Scooby who strengthens me.."
Like my nails. They are done. They aren't perfect but they are done. In the time it took the kids to watch a Scooby movie. :) They were 13 days overdue, so I'm pretty pleased that the planets all aligned correctly for the acrylic to flow evenly and for them to be done.

I thought for sure there was a "While You Were Out" marathon on today, not sure how I flubbed that up.

Need to put Bunny down for a nap, then go sort pictures.

I could twist Dave's head off for singing the following two things to the kids: "Bargains and bargains and bargains and bargains and bargains...etc. Catch my drift? This one is sung in an Irish accent. The other one; "You got the voodoo on you..........." The kids hear "You got the doodoo on you......" Go figure.

Mexican-ish for dinner tonight, and it's already cooked. Yay for me.

I'd rather scrap than sort......

Must sort first. Argh!

Guess I'll blog, since there is nothing new to read in the blogs I have bookmarked. ;)

Yesterday continued to be a bad day...........needed to do constant verbal hammering on the kidlets. Today is pretty much the same. Oh the cabin fever kills me......

Last night and this morning has been spent doing village stuff in preparation for tonight's meeting. The meeting itself should go smoothly, not to much business to tend to. Hopefully the VI will forget, or not show, etc. I'm really not in the mood.

Tomorrow the whole family is loading into the car early, and spending the day on the go. Driving down to GR for Trent's ENT appointment, Hobby Lobby, Sams Club, Sears for pictures, Macaroni Grill for dinner. Hoping for no blizzard tomorrow.........

Didn't lose any weight this last week, gained a bit actually. It's no wonder with all the crap I've eaten. Haven't exercised at all lately either. Oy. Wednesday is another day. I'm sure not going to try to eat healthy at Macaroni Grill!

Okay...you know it's really not going to be a good day when folks have a bloody nose by 7:15 a.m. In an effort to "work on my line" I have let things get a little hairy upstairs in the morning. The kids aren't supposed to be down here before 8 a.m., so they end up playing in each others rooms when they get up. Except Trent has been getting up around 6 a.m., then he goes a wakes Devin and Maiya up, both of whom would be more than happy to sleep later than that. (We won't even discuss the meltdown Devin has around 5 p.m., since she doesn't take a nap, even though she goes down for a quiet time during the day.......)
So anyways, tomorrow is a new day that will bring new rules. Off to shower and caffeinate so I can bring my foul mood around before they even get up. :(

So yesterday's allergy testing for Trent went okay as far as how he did. He was so nervous though. He opted to drive with me instead of dad. (We drove two cars so Dave could go to an interview) He ended up with 66 sticks, and checked them all off one at a time on his paper like a little trooper. He has quite a few allergies it seems. A few trees, a few grasses, a slew of weeds, a slew of indoor and outdoor molds, and dust mites. :( Not very good news for someone who lives in the country. He is on a nasal spray and an oral med right now, no shots just yet.
Afterwards, I took him to Bob Evans for lunch. From there we went to the LSS, the sewing machine shop, Glick's (momma got some new clothes out of the deal), Bath & Body Works, Joanns, Payless Shoe Source, then drove home and hit the post office and the general store. It was a nice day. We picked up the girls from next door and weren't home for very long before Dave got home.

Today has been a very, very lazy day. I've messed with this blog an awful lot today......did do some house cleaning and straightening this morning. I'm going to have so much to do tomorrow..........Dave has been home, Mr. Cussamatic 2004. He is bugging the crap outta me today. Trent woke up on the "I'm going to be a little weasel today and see who's buttons I can push" side of the bed today, and he is really doing a number on his dad. Ahhhhhhhhh, Dave is back to work tomorrow and the next day.

Off to sort pictures. Or read.

Poo-Poo on the format you saw. This is so much nicer.

I can't stop playing with it...I'm obsessed. Help!

The right sized eyelet setter, a new pair of scisssors, and photo mounting squares.

Long day............

Allergy testing. Lunch out with my best boy. Sewing machine shop. LSS. Glick's. Joanns. Payless shoes. Post office. General store. Then to pick up the girlies.

Dinner is cooking.

More blogging later. :)

Wow. Haloscan is taking over the blogspeak comments. Cool. Nice work on figuring them out Sarah.

Tuesday, Tuesday...what happened on Tuesday? This is pitiful...I can't really remember. Handyguy was here for a few hours, seems like I may have done some laundry. Pitiful.....

Yesterday I was supposed to take Trent to GR for his ENT appointment. We even attempted it, but just couldn't pull it off, had to turn around. There was a blizzard going on........we ended up with 9" of snow. He is rescheduled for next Tuesday. The girls had been dropped off at daycare so Trent and I were going to hang out and have some lunch at the restaurant, except I called the school on a whim. Those crazy bastards hadn't cancelled school, they didn't even have a delay. Poor guy got carted off to school, glad I hadn't mentioned eating out to him. That all gave me a few hours to clean up and straighten the house. Folded some laundry too, and did a little village stuff.

Today Dave was home and kind enough to hold down the fort while I worked on more village stuff. Starting to get on my nerves all this 'village stuff'..........busy month though. Balancing the accounts, transferring the balances over to the 2004 accounts, W-2's, preparing for the audit, paying state withholding tax, on and on, and on. I FINALLY got the general fund balanced....it was a mistake from May. Not my mistake thank goodness!

Dave took the kids sledding this afternoon, great day for it. He still hasn't talked to the IN gal, they keep missing each other. She is supposed to call back tomorrow. He also has an interview in GR tomorrow, but that wouldn't require moving. He is making me crazy with all of this......

Tomorrow we are taking Trent in for his allergy testing......I can't wait until it's over. I'm sure he feels the same way.

Cancelled today's picture appointment for Trent and Maiya since we are all going to GR next Tuesday for the ENT. Rescheduled it for then.

Not doing to well on the diet/healthy eating......need to just go get that Dunkin Donut I'm pining for and be done with it so I can get back on track. Must drink more water too.

Feel like I'm coming down with a cold....must have caught it from the blogs. ;)

That's all folks..........

Really need to blog.
Tomorrow. *Yawn*

Is there anything sweeter than baby toes? I'm thinking not. Or a baby who does that cute backwards wave and says "Di" every time the phone rings? Again, thinking not.

I begged for Dave to leave me the car last night so I could drive Trent to school today. Felt like a first class wussy this morning when I stepped outside. Thirty degrees it was, a regular heat wave.

The TN recruiter called today, can't tell from the message if he has good news or bad news. Dave is at work so he'll have to call him back tomorrow afternoon.

Piddley village work going on today, just keep working, just keep working.........working, working. Little bit of sewing went on too.

Nothing like having the handyguy here to really make you love your house again.

What's for dinner? Some sort of chicken, guess I need to figure it out soon.

Only lost 1/4# this last week, not bad considering what I ate...........just keep dieting, just keep dieting...........dieting, dieting.

Need to go call my mom back....she called early then her phone is busy all afternoon.

No comments really stinks.....:(

I love Fear Factor...I'll admit it. I look forward to 8 p.m.

Lots of new obnoxious loud toys were received yesterday....really need to do my tape trick tonight.

Wonder if Netflix would be a good deal for us...?

Need to start chugging today's water, also need some coffee.

(Baby emergency break there.....she fell and split her lip as we all knew she would since picture day is Thursday. And here I thought clipping her nails this morning guaranteed me no facial wounds for her 1 year pictures....She hates to see the washcloth coming at her for regular facewash, let alone an ice cold one to clot up her lip.)

I'm tired today...Dave is a Baron in training. Tell me why a grown man needs to (after he has come in the bedroom and flipped the overhead light on) put his foot up on the bed in order to put his socks on.........which there is a most annoying technique for. It's a tug to the left, tug to the right, tug to the left, tug to the right kind of move. Do they make socks in 'wides'? I have never had to shimmy my socks up and onto my foot. I angle my foot down, aim the sock over and everything just comes together perfectly. What gives with my man? Dork. It was kind of like when the cat used to bathe herself on the waterbed. Wave, wave, wave......used to drive Dave nutty. You would think he wouldn't want to recreate that sensation for anyone else...........guess I was wrong.

One child down for a nap at present, or hooting upstairs in her crib if you will (probably because I snipped the binkie today..:(, and two more to entertain....Cocktail? Appetizer? Where is my little black dress anyways?

Think I need to get that coffee now.

Good day.

Yesterday............Dave worked for overtime. He took the car again..........all this exercise is going to kill me. Especially since I got on the exercise bike again. I was supposed to take Trent to hockey, kind of hard to do when the car and three carseats are MIA. So we all bundled up and hauled on over to the post office to mail off some packages. Then back home to warm up. A little while later we all bundled up (with the exception of Miss Sassyass, who refused to get ready in time and went without snowpants...) and walked Trent a few blocks over to drop him off at a kiddie birthday party. Came home and changed sheets on the beds, had lunch and put about 3 weeks worth of laundry away. Yikes!! Bundled up again, and this time Miss Sassyass paid heed, and we walked back over to get Trent. I've got muscles screaming at me from my abdomen that I forgot I even had. Too much hard work pulling that wagon through the snow. Not enough snow to use the sled full time yet though.
Miss Maiya is a queen pooper anymore. She has crapped more times in the tub in the last two weeks than the other two combined did in 5.5 years.........she had the audacity to do it yesterday while in the tub with Trent. And then she had the nerve to finish, after the tub had been drained, cleaned and refilled. How annoying is that?!?!
Managed to get all the Thank you notes done finally for Christmas and Maiya's birthday. Did a little photo organizing. Stayed up to late.........

Today the daddy was home...the kids woke up at 6 a.m., I am so very sick of getting up at 5 freaking a.m. to get some morning peace and quiet. I am really looking forward to the time they all sleep in till noon as teens. I am not a morning person by nature or choice and it's starting to get on my last nerve. It's the water......damn water!! The more water I drink, the better I feel. I have more energy, and I don't get to bed until late because I'm not feeling sluggish. To bed at midnight, up at 5-6 a.m. ARGH!!!!! Water is bad. Very bad. My dad came up to do Christmas gift exchange and Maiya's birthday. These visits are okay, short and sweet, no sense pushing it. We all had lunch at Pizza Hut. Ruh Roh on the diet......especially when following that up with a pancake, eggs and sausage dinner. Weigh in is not going to be pretty tomorrow. :( We stopped at the grocery store after lunch (Dad and Rose left from PH to drive home). Trent and I did the shopping, and the lame hineys stayed in the car and napped. More healthy food in the house...yipee. I know and you know that all I really want is a Dunkin Donut....lemon filled/powdered sugar frosted.
I hired a new handyman of sorts today. The last one shoved us to the back burner when he got a bigger job which is fine, but then I had to ask him if he was coming back when that job was over. He said yes, after Christmas if that was okay, I say fine. Now I realize that it's not that far after Christmas but I haven't seen hide nor hair of him as far as our house is concerned. I have seen him here at my house for village stuff since he is also the village maintenance man. This combined with the fact that the village idiot is getting ready to put together a case to take to the state just doesn't 'feel' right roundabout now. The former clerk had renovations done in her home by this same maintenance man and the village approved the bills that included these renovations...........not really on the up and up there, since the annual budget that is allotted to the clerk doesn't include home improvements. I do not want to have to be dealing with this crazy woman 5 years from now when she thinks she is going to accuse me of some sort of misuse of village funds, or something as equally nutty. So anyways, I have asked the neighbor/general contractor to do it instead. He's $3 more an hour, but I can rationalize that away easy.....doesn't matter if I'm saving that 3 dollars if the other guy doesn't show up now does it? Jim starts tomorrow. And I can leave him in my house unattended while we go get Trent from school. That is something I would not do with the other guy. I need this stuff done, so Dave and I can get going on the other, easy stuff; repainting the kitchen, finishing the kitchen floor, repainting he bathroom, etc. I do not want to be working on these types of projects this summer. Trent only has so much time off from school....I'm not pissing it away. Besides that, Dave says we need to get the house "sell ready.." Hmmm, I do believe he might actually mean it this time.

Okay....need to go work on pictures. Scrapbooking bug is biting me arse ;)

Here is a little math.....

One 6 y/o with a peckerhead attitude
One 3.5 y/o who never naps and is whine central
One 1 y/o who has a meltdown every time her momma is outta sight
Equals a 7 p.m. bedtime for all. All except me that is.
One hour and 49 minutes to go.

Tip of the day: Always say what you mean...i e; If you tell your husband that he can take the car to work, don't be surprised when he does. Good exercise that was. Walking Trent to school....0 degrees, -8 windchill, pulling 60 lbs. in the wagon through a few inches of snow. Feel the burn people........

The neighbor/deputy clerk asked if Devin could come over to play with her granddaughter. Yay......3 hours of time that coincides with Maiya's nap time. Too bad it is going to all be used doing village work. ;) I will be completely caught up though, so that will be nice. Dinner is about done, I'll need to make Aubra's buns later.

Hi Ho, Hi Ho, it's off to work I go............

Wednesday..............so long ago....what happened? Probably just the usual around here. A little laundry, cooked a great dinner, fell off the healthy eating after dinner, made myself sick as a dog this morning as a result.

Pretty laid back day today. Did some village work, hung out with Dave and the girls. We all picked Trent up from school and took the kids to McD's.....lots of playing took place in that playscape. Wonder why we don't go there more often.....it was all good, except for the food of course. To bad we can't pack a picnic to take in there.....

Need to buckle down on village work tomorrow, lots left to do.

Need to do my own nails, cancelled out last week.

Getting a bit nervous about Trent's appointments next week, wish he didn't have to go through the allergy testing.

Next Thursday is picture day for Trent and Maiya...hope that all goes well. And then dinner at Macaroni Grill. Yum!! Didn't get to eat there last month like I tried to. Have to go to the big city for pictures...maybe a trip to Hobby Lobby is in order. I need eyelet setters...I have the hole punch and eyelets but not the right size setter. Need to buy a new coffee pot while we are at the mall too. Last one is toast, we are using the 4 cup pot which we all know doesn't hold 4 cups. It hold 2 mugs worth. Nothing like making 5 pots of coffee on the days Dave is home. LOL! I'm getting the Bunn damn it. I'm a coffee freak.......and persnickity about it to boot. Must be piping hot, and these cheap ass pots are barely warm IMO.

No word on either job yet.

Calling it a day. :)

Nine degrees.
It is 9 degrees outside right now. Guess where we just came in from?
I should have been a bear........

Random thoughts:

Devin says "comp-a-bee" instead of company. Cute.
She also says "Pilly-grum" for pilgrim.
Devin has entered the whiny stage. Not cute.
Devin is full of bruises right now. Wouldn't take any help from anyone while trying to roller skate the other night. God, she is so fiercely independent. That trait will serve her well when she's older, if it doesn't kill me in the process of honing itself.
Devin had a middle child mindset before she was even a middle child. She is just 'in your face' enough not to get lost or overlooked between the oldest and youngest. Amazing.
I thought for sure I wasn't going to have enough love for both her and Trent when I was pregnant with her. I'm so glad I was wrong.

Trent thinks Billy Squire's "Stroke Me' song is saying "snow, snow, snow....." Cute. He also thinks "then one foggy Christmas Eve....." is really "then one soggy Christmas Eve...."
I can't believe he actually has some things wrong with him that may require surgery at some point.......how scary is that for us, let alone him??? Granted it's not brain surgery, but still...
He was so excited to go back to school today after Christmas break, and I was so sad to see him go.
Kindergarten is half over. My how time flies........he has learned so much.
Trent is so animated and expressive. He needs to be in drama class, or debate, come to think f it.
He had his first 'at school injury' today. Took a sled to the corner of his eye. Same eye he banged up when he was smaller......:( He looked so small and stoic when I got to school. I almost made him cry (again) by letting him see me upset.
He was so sweet, holding hands with Devin the other night at skating...telling her 'You're doing so good Devin!!"

Maiya is a TV remote hog. She can see the damn thing a half mile away......this has been going on for awhile now.
She can shake her head "no" at you before you even say it, because she knows full well that whatever she is doing is wrong. Cute.
I think she says "Zurg" (the dog), at least it sounds like it to me and the dog.
She is supposed to be off the bottle and the binkie by now if I follow the same procedure as with the other two......what gives?
She still doesn't like to be rocked to sleep. This kills me inside...........not a huge deal in the grand scheme of things, but heartbreaking nonetheless.
She will be walking within the next two weeks.
Maiya is a total pain in the ass at the dinner table for various reasons.

I'm freezing right now.
I may try to have a migraine tomorrow, at least it feels like it. Probably need a drink and some Tylenol.
Dave is a nervous wreck about tomorrow. I hope his drive isn't hampered by snow. No word yet from TN.
I need to mail off some Christmas presents.
And pay the electric bill.
My sister's birthday is Thursday...she will be 44. Wow...seems like yesterday (or maybe the day before yesterday) she was helping me make my bed and teaching me the words to "The Candyman." Wonder if she forgives me yet for the time I rolled out of the trundle bed in the middle of the night and rammed her right in the back with my elbow? Or the time I broke her favorite Coca-Cola glass? She is a wonderful Aunt to my kids.....she got robbed in that department from me. She had my nephews when I was 18/21.....not to interested in anything but myself at those ages.......:( Oh, to have it to do over again....

Back to your regular scheduled program:

Zipped Trent off to school this morning, hated to see him go. Christmas break was great, it was nice having him home for two weeks. He was so wound for sound he could barely contain himself this morning, anxious to get back to school. Took Devin and Maiya to the ped.'s......Maiya is 20# 5 oz (50th percentile) and 30" long (just under the 90th percentile here..long girlie!) She got two shots today, Devin always sings to her during them and she did pretty well with them. Quieted right down and looked at her sister like she was crazy. Devin got to be checked out today too, big thrill for her there. She wants to be sick so bad, but alas...it wasn't meant to be today. Just allergy symptoms today (for both of them actually.) I forgot that they do a CBC/lead test at the one year check up, so Maiya ended up with a bonus stick. I had to snag Dave at the hospital first to get his insurance card, so I had him take her into the lab and do the dirty work. Devin sang to her from the waiting room...loudly. God love her. She has done okay the rest of the day....just a little tired acting, but her naps were all off kilter today so I can't blame her for that. Trent's appointment with the ENT is Wednesday the 14th, then the allergist on the 16th.

This water is trying to kill me today, wants to climb back out when I swallow it down. Really hate the stuff with a passion. Skipped out on any exercise today. Bad!! Yesterday I did 6 minutes on the exercise bike (1 mile), and that damn near killed me, hate that stuff too. I'm not ready to give up yet though. The big bag of peanut butter M & M's are calling me from the kitchen though....I can still hear them, even though I tried to bury them under a mountain of shit. Bastards.

I really need to get off of here and go finish the stack of paperwork that is standing in the way of me and the scrapbooking table. Letters to write from the Christmas cards, Thank you notes for Maiya's birthday gifts, a ton of scrap papers with things written on them that need to be transferred into the baby books. Think I'm whacking it all from the list right now though, in favor of a drink and a few minutes of TV before bed.

Cheers and goodnight!

I am a water drinking fool, oh yes I am. Just ask my bladder. ;)

Today I:
Got the kidlets breakfast.
Tore apart the dishwasher. (Needed to find out why it was leaving more sludge on the dishes than they were put in with. FIXED IT!!! YAY!!)
Worked on the mountain of laundry, got it almost caught up. Just need to do some folding tomorrow.
Finally got the hand washable dishes washed and put away.
Made venison chili and cornbread for dinner.
Made enough salad to get me through the next 3 days hopefully.
Fought with Dave. I swear to gawd if he paid as much attention to what goes on around here and how the house operates as he does to my "sex drive" we would be doing really good. If he acted this clueless and narcoleptic at work he would have been fired years ago........
Got the kidlets lunch.
Left all the other kidlet business up to Dave. Please see above.....
Gave myself a mini pedicure.
Straightened up the house a few times.
Started going through this years Christmas cards to do further correspondence.

It's snowing like a big dog outside right now............hope the roads are good and clear by 9:30 am when I take the girls to the ped.'s.

Lemme see here.........

New Years Eve~ Went to bed before the stroke of midnight. NYE just isn't what it used to be pre-kids. No sense staying up late if it's just going to bite me in the ass the next morning.

New Years Day~ Spent it at home with the whole family unit. My girlfriend and her bf came over later that evening and we did the present exchange. Nice day.

Yesterday~ Did some things around here.....took the kidlets outside and beat the streets for over an hour. I'm calling it my exercise for yesterday.

The low fat gig isn't killing me yet. Give me about two more weeks.....;) Nah, not really. I fell different about it this time. There is too much support going on for me not to succeed. Plus, I feel like if I don't get it off this time, it will never come off. Old age is setting in, no sense letting the pounds settle in also. I've lost 2 3/4 pounds so far.....off to a good start.

I managed to squeak in almost two hours of photo organization this morning. Yay!!

I just swore up one side and down the other that I wasn't making gifts for Christmas next year.....and damn my brain for thinking how cool it would be to make my gf a scrapbook of her and the kids!!! Damn it, damn it, damn it!!!! I wanna go shopping for gifts....the easy way to do it.......

I need to figure out when we can go downstate.......I'm supposed to get all those sewing machines picked up.

It rained (poured) all night last night.........we are expecting 6" of snow tomorrow. No love there...

I do believe Devin has a sinus infection.........we might as well be sinus infection central around here. I have to take Maiya to the ped.'s on Monday for her 1 year well child/ear infection follow up.....guess we'll see about Devin then. Trent is finally looking and feeling better. The allergy testing appointment is the 16th of this month. I'll ask at the ped.'s on Monday if he has an appointment with the ENT yet.

Dave is going to IN on Tuesday for the interview.....he'll be a huge nervous wreck by tomorrow night. No word on the TN job yet, they had a few others to interview according to them.

Taking the kids rollerskating tonight for the first time, then out to dinner. Wish me well on both points! :)

Ruh Roh!!
Slacking on the blog..........:(

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!