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Random Tuesday Thoughts....
I actually wrote "Random Monday Thoughts'...then remembered it was Tuesday.
It was REALLY hard coming back to work after being off since Thursday.... 
I had a chemical peel on Friday and I'm peeling like no other today...totally gross and I'm sure my co-workers think I have some disease. 
My cousin that I posted about a few months back that had the kidney transplant, and then was diagnoised with cancer, found out Friday her lung cancer is in remission!!! So happy for her as it wasn't looking good. Still has to deal with the skin cancer, but at this point, that's pretty minor compared to what she was facing.
My Sister and BIL gifted us with a hotel room for New Years Eve as a Christmas gift...it was the first time DH and I both have been gone away from the little boys at the same time...ever. It was much needed! Had fun, although the Courtyard Marriott downtown has paper thin walls....and when a bunch of 20 year olds are next to you on both sides partying the night away, it makes you feel very old. And keeps you up all night. I could hear EVERY word that was said to my left til about 4 a.m....
Also, some very drunk person ran right through the glass entrance doors to the hotel in the middle of the night and completely took the entire door off it's hinges...LOL.
After at least 2 years of being torn apart, my master bath shower has been tiled!! Yippee! Just needs to be grouted and I can have my bathroom back to myself...no more sharing my shower it with 6 males....gross.
Re: Random Tuesday Thoughts....
I'm so glad it's already Tuesday but sucks knowing that my next holiday off won't be until Memorial Day
A girl I know on fb is putting all these posts about her dog needing surgery and asking for people to give her money. She even put once how she is dissapointed more aren't reaching out. I blocked her. I love my dog to death but I would never beg for money. If I wanted to pay for something I would find a credit card or ask the bank for a loan before asking for a handout.
I'm back on Weight Watchers and craving mountain dew.
I'm hungry from eating and drinking nonstop for 2 weeks. No wonder I gained 4 lbs. I am ashamed of myself!
DH and I have been camper shopping and it makes me ready for spring. This weather is not helping considering it feels like spring is tomorrow. Next snowfall will be a major bummer.
Did I mention I'm hungry?
E's been such a little sassy pants lately. She has such attitude, it's like there is a teenager projecting through our 4-year old. It's ridiculously funny and frusterating at the same time.
D is getting the big ole snip this week. I am a little sad about it being .. .. .. permanent. I already miss the teeny tiny baby stage.
Ian is semi-mobile with his rolling, scooting and the beginning of pushing up to crawl. We left him for a second in his room and came back to him underneath his changing table this weekend. It's just a matter of time before he starts crawling, crazy how fast time is flying.
I have nursed/pumped way longer than I had thought I would. I go back and forth between wanting to quit and keep going. Decisions, decisions.
Curse me, but I want it to snow again. It was so much fun with E this last snow.
My kid has been an absolute nightmare the last few days. I wish I knew why, and I'm praying with all my might that's it's just a phase. I'm concerned that this is only the beginning of the terrible 2's and 3's though. It makes it really hard to ever want another kid knowing that they too will be like this someday.
I'm going to whole foods and trader joe's today to try to find some kind of food that my kid will eat...only to be super pissed later that I spent so much money on healthy crap when he throws it at me and screams "Nooooooo!".
It's my first day back at work since the Friday before Christmas. I just want to cry.
My kids, who eat about three things each, LOVE the dried blueberrys at Trader Joes if you're looking for a healthy snack? Be prepared for a purple mess though, but worth it I guess to get them to eat something healthy!
We bought them at Costco and he ate them for the first few days and now he just throws them on the floor for the dogs. Siiiiiigh. He does love the dried pineapple from Whole Foods though so I was going to see if TJ's had some cheaper.
The issue though is that he will only eat fruit currently, so I'm going to try to find some crap that has some hidden veggies in it or something. Someone told me about some frozen broccoli balls that WF's has, so I was going to see if I could find those.
With the holidays, when I'm at work by 9:30 I am hungry and can't wait for lunch but when I'm at home, I'm perfectly fine. It is destroying my ability to start a new year of watching what I eat.
Today I was supposed to get up and get 30 minutes to work out downstairs....failed. Shooting for tonight but just been invited to dinner at the In-laws so I will start tomorrow morning. After getting ready this morning, I just felt like a big blob.
I miss my little guy. I enjoyed just hanging out with him these long weekends. I may have to take a day off in February to chill out with him.
I am so ready to have this baby! I am starting to swell, and it is not comfortable. If my OB brings up induction tomorrow when I see him, I may take him up on the offer. Two weeks ago he said he thought I had 24-48 hours, and that I'd be in the hospital over Christmas, I guess he was a little off!
My nephew is starting to really get on my nerves. He talks non-stop, and the things that come out of his mouth are so ridiculous. He also does a lot of little things, like puts dishes in the sink instead of the dishwasher, doesn't refill the toilet paper, etc, that are really starting to piss me off. I think he thinks that because he pays us rent, he doesn't have to do anything around the house. It's very likely he's going to be looking for an apartment once the baby gets here because I will have no patience for stupidity at that point.
I still have all my Christmas stuff up and have no motivation to take it all down. If I don't take it down, I don't have to put it back up next year, right?
My brother and SIL leave today to go back to California and it makes me sad. I wish they lived here instead of half way across the country.
Everyone in my extended family has been sick in the last two weeks. I think we all got each other sick on Christmas. I'm kinda glad the family stuff will now be over so that we can get away from all the hacking and coughing.
I'm headed to Olive Garden for lunch, yum!
I am also starving! It's hard to adjust back to regular eating hours after all the holiday food around!
I keep thinking it's spring, all this nice weather is really throwing me off. I'm going to be sad when it's cold for several more months. Sigh.
I'm not looking forward to my busy work season at all this year. Being hugely pregnant and working long hours doesn't really sound very fun, but hopefully it will go by quick.
On paper it looks like we should have plenty of money every month, in reality, we don't. I need to do a major budget overhaul!
These hit home
Charlie is getting to be mobile as well... scooting and got some forward motion this past weekend. My poor animals better watch out.
I too have nursed/pumped way longer than I would too. I make little goals and have been making them. My first goal to my birthday (4 months ago) seems so long ago. I hate not having lunch with my friends at school, but it is saving us money and better for Charlie.
The fact that I have still have been pumping/nursing means that I haven't had a monthly visitor since last August 2010. When it comes back is it going to be bad?
I need to get off of my arse and lose weight. I am down to pre-baby weight but need to lose about 10-30 more before getting knocked up again.
I am concerned about having baby number 2 since I am getting older and my arm is not 100%. My new light therapy has been working well, but there are still concerns with weight and mobility. If we do go ahead with #2, we will be hiring me a helper for the first few weeks. My mother came down last time and she was NO help at all. Lots to think about in the next few months.
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I REALLY need to find a daycare! I've gone through about 1/2 my list and only one meets our needs so far. I need to finish calling around before its tooo late!
Really wished I could just see into the future and know where I was with this whole job thing in 3 months. It would really just make life easier and stress lower!
I could have had 3 days off in a row...sun/mon/tues but instead I picked up Sunday for 4 hrs and today for 4 hrs and I really DO NOT WANT TO GO IN. I now work the next three...BOO!
Mason was STANDING in his crib the other morning when I went to get him. I'm not ready for that.
He also has been pulling himself up on everything lately, including climbing out of his excersaucer by himself yesterday.
It makes me really sad that shortly I'll be planning his first birthday.
I have yet to go back on any birth control. I wanted to start trying again this summer, but now I'm not sure and thinking more about getting the IUD.
And good job to all you ladies that are still nursing or pumping!!!
One more..this one will be long and more of a vent though....
My SIL from the time I met her has "always been allergic to cats". When we invited them over the day after the wedding to watch us open gifts, the first words was.."How long have your cats been rehomed? I just know the girls are allergic to them and so am I". The cats had been gone for almost 4 months and I cleaned like it was going out of style the week before the wedding trying to make sure there was no dander left over. Well, about 1/2 way through the present opening she saw what she thought was hives on my niece (who was sitting on my lap helping us open presents and I didnt notice anything)...she dragged her to the bathroom.....decided yup it was hives and they left right then and there because they didn't have an epi pen. I felt HORRIBLE, thinking maybe I didnt clean enough, etc.
Well now almost 4 yrs later.....both girls got kittens..not outside...but inside kittens. My MIL has been wanting a cat now for quite awhile but my SIL kept telling her that she couldn't due to all their allergies. They are kittens from a farm litter and I know they are not "hypoallergenic". The funny thing is, they look like long haired ones too and mine were short haired.
Its just so hurtful sometimes as one of the several reasons we chose to rehome the cats was that I knew I would never have my nieces if I didnt (which they have only been here once since and that was to bring me a get well gift after my gall bladder surgery and they stayed a whole 5 mins and werent allowed to lay or sit on my floor)....my DH is allergic however, was controlled by just making sure they didnt lay on him and/or that he didnt rub his eyes after petting them. THEN, she turns around and blogs about how people hurt her feelings and it sucks and why are people so hurtful blah blah blah...
Vent over......
I've been BFing/pumping for 6 months now. And now everytime MIL sees me feeding B, she says "when are you going to stop doing that and just give him formula?" The last time she asked, I responded with "Are you going to buy his formula for us?" She says "No. Why?" "Well, it's expensive, and if I'm able to BF, that's what's best for B!" She walked out of the room.
I'm going back to WW. I still need to lose 9 baby pounds, and then another 40 on top of that to be where I want to be. I got my lifetime status before I hurt my knee, so at least it won't cost as much as if I were brand new.
We had the Baby #2 conversation this weekend. As soon as I'm done BFing and get ppaf, we're going back to the RE. We want our kids to be close together, and I miss being pregnant. (I know - crazy!)
Picture courtesy of Heidi Keene Photography
There's a warrant out for dbag and a fine of a little less than a third of his backdue child support to get out of jail, but I doubt they'll arrest him or collect any of last year's payments.
R lost his second tooth this weekend! He's more interested in showing people his tooth in a baggie than putting it under his pillow for money.
I really dig the recipes fb page.
I ran for the first time post C and I got a blister
I'm pretty sure my OB is going to tell me that I need to be done having kids at my 6 week appointment on Thursday. While I am fine with my four kids and super thankful, for some reason, I have a hard time coming to terms with being told I have to be done. Irrational, I know.
My baby is six weeks old today...as a result, he has decided he can go without naps all day long, I hope this means he sleeps lots tonight
Peyton goes back to school tomorrow, it has been kind of nice to not have to have such a routine for two weeks...this may be difficult.
Since being on maternity leave, I get all four kids ready every day. I used to think DH was amazing for getting the three girls showered, dressed, to school and daycare etc in the mornings and now I think--how did he think that was hard..ha.
When I return to work on Valentine's Day, I will have not made the commute to work for 21 weeks...the transition may be tough.
My kid turns 2 in 13 days.... I have no idea where the past two years went.
I had a miscarriage yesterday and today is my 28th birthday - worst birthday ever!
Yes, I'm debbie downer - but my new year isn't off to a great start.
I'm so sorry.
I'm having a craptastic day- Was up most of the night because I was having cramps and just felt crappy. Woke up this morning to AF- Really?? I'm pumping and breastfeeding and was really hoping it would stay away- I know some get it while breastfeeding I was just crossing my fingers it would stay away.
I wish we would find a house. We work and live in a small town and the housing selection is very minimal. Like to the point when someone dies in town DH's boss calls us and tells us to drive by to see if we like the house. The good homes in this town sell before you even know they were for sale. It is always done privately and the homes that are actually listed suck. They are the same homes that have been for sale since we moved here. I know we just need to be patient but it stinks!
**HUGS** I'm sorry
Heather- I'm so sorry for you and poops. Hugs!
Thanks for all of the nice support regarding my granny. I'm just trying to keep my head up about it all
I found her recipe box and all of her handwritten recipes. I cried and cried. I begged to have it, it meant the world to me. I spent an hour flipping through them and crying. I think it was her handwriting on them, and the fact that we lived to cook together. ah, I miss her,
Im saying her eulogy at her funeral, and I'm terrified I won't be able to finish saying it before crying.
Ive gained a lot of weight the last two weeks