Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

3 more days....

We leave for Florida on Thursday. I am so excited. I really can't believe that it's here. Seemed like we planned this trip a long time ago, and now, at the end of this week we will be soaking up the rays in Florida. I can't wait.

I have lots to finish up this week. I need to finish the packing and cleaning, I need to put a hold on our mail, and I need to try to come up with things that will keep my son occupied on a 3 hour plane ride.

I cannot wait to go. All of us are looking forward to a much needed vacation. It will be an odd feeling to have a "warm" Christmas. Living here in western NY we usually have a white Christmas....actually the white tends to fall once or twice as early as October!!!

Last time we went to Florida (7 yrs ago) we came home with a little surprise (Emma). It will be interesting to see if that happens again!! If it does, it will probably be another 7 yrs before we get back there!

I don't know, I guess I really don't have a whole lot to blog about. I am just really happy, and that's new for me. I haven't been happy or excited about anything in quite a few months. I am so blessed and grateful that we are able to do this. Emma is very excited and that just brings lots of joy for us. She is one that doesn't show her emotions (unless it's anger) very often and she was truly excited and overjoyed about this trip. We haven't had a family vacation in a while so this will be great.

Well it seems as if I keep repeating myself so I guess I will go. I just want to touch base with you all before we head out. I am not sure if I will be blogging before or during our vacation so I thought I would take advantage of this time this morning.

And if I don't check in...I hope that everyone has a great Christmas!!!

Wax on, wax off

I am not sure who cares about this but I just wanted to say that there is truth to the time of the month and how much pain you feel, theory. I have waxed in the past and things were peachy. Not that is wasn't painful, but it wasn't unbearable. Today I had to do it again, since we are leaving in a week and I resemble an ape. The difference...I am 4 days into my new cycle. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! OUCH! But since I had started, I needed to finish...and again the whole ape thing. So I did.....YOWZA! Just head this warning. If you can put it off a few days then do so...you'll thank me for it.

What are the odds?

I'm a little bummed. When I discovered I was pregnant last time I had ordered a subscription to Fit Pregnancy Magazine. Well as we all know the baby is gone, but the magazine keeps on coming. At this point it doesn't bother me that I get them, I actually enjoy reading them. I think it is because I know now that it's all over with and I can try again if I want to.
Anyway, there was an article in there about miscarriage. It said that the average women has a 2% chance of having a miscarriage. I somehow, find this hard to believe. How is that possible when so many women I know have had them? It also gave stats on your chances of having one if you had one before. Me, having lost 2 children has a 28% chance of miscarrying the next time around. I don't like those odds at all. Not that this will deter my efforts but it doesn't give me warm fuzzies!

So really if the odds are that slim, I am either really lucky or really unlucky. If it's lucky then I should go buy myself a lottery ticket.

I know many of us could use this right now.

Matthew 7:24-25, “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.” (NIV)

I stole this from a someone I know

61 words

Typingtest

I beat my score! Woo Hoo!

66 words

Speed test

Breaking the rules

I know it's wordless Wednesday and all but I feel like talking....so...forgive me :)

I have been feeling pretty crappy since Monday. I have a head cold and it's making me feel tired and overall pretty gross. I guess that if I had to get this, now is a good time since we leave next week for Disney.

Yesterday I had to go food shopping. Normally if I don't feel good, I don't go food shopping. However, I have not bee food shopping since before Thanksgiving so it was time.
Ethan and I bundled up and headed out to super Wal-mart. Ethan is well trained now and he knows that at the bakery and deli they give nice little treats. He asks (and when I say ask, I mean grunts) to go over to that section to get him a snack. Generally we do this last so that he will be occupied while I am checking out. Yesterday was no different. The deli was last. Ethan saw yummy little samples of cheese so I decided to give him a piece as I finished my deli order. UNTIL.....Ethan decided to shove the whole chunk of cheese in his mouth. Little children can not do this. Cheddar cheese is thick.....very thick. So thick he began to gag. Thinking I had things under control I placed the little cup it came in under his chin and said "spit it out" all while he is dry heaving. And then it happened.....my cute little boy listened.....boy did he spit it out....along with some milk, and whatever else he ate before we left the house. Let me tell ya, the little cup I had runneth over! It runneth down his coat, on the cart, on the floor. You name it, it runneth. How embarrassing! How disgusting! There is nothing worse then cleaning up puke when you don't feel well. To top it off I don't handle puke well. Generally if there is puke there will be more if I see it. I was actually excited about the notion of not having to clean it. Hey, that's what they have the janitors for right? WRONG! Not only did I clean the baby up, I had to get on my hands and knees and clean the floor. GROSS! Fortunately, the nice deli lady brought me paper towels and a bucket of warm water to take care of the situation. Now that I think about that it's quite humorous. She brings me a bucket, and paper towels but doesn't call anyone to help clean it. Hmmm. Well anyway I am glad she did that much. After all that we headed off to pay and me and pukey boy headed home. It was quite the adventure.

Also today Phil and I were discussing how much Ethan talks already. Not perfectly, but he does say a lot of words. The new ones today were when he woke up from his nap and pointed to his clothing and named the animal "bear". He then picked up his little blanket and said "pane" meaning plane. So cool. I wanted to list all that he can say here just for my personal reference.

He just turned 20 months last week, and he says:
daddy
mama
Emma
Nonnie (Emma)
doggie
Gracie(my dog)
Haley (my dog)
Lanna(my SIL)
baby
plane
bear
uh oh
no
stinky
dirty
milk
banana
please
thanks
come (means welcome)
kitty
ear
eye
nose
belly
night
bye
hi
hello
pee pee
truck
car
pat pat (from the little einsteins show)
beep beep
go
more
up
mine (he just learned this one)
ball
bubble
pumpkin
....that's all I can think of now. That's 41 words. That amazes me. So he is says somewhere between 41 and 50 words. I don't know how many words Emma said at this age. This will be a good reference to look back on if/when we add to our family!

Now I am exhausted and need to get some sleep. Hopefully I will kill this head cold while I am at it. ;)

Wordless Wednesday

Santa Baby

Insomnia

I can't sleep today. We went to bed at 9:30 last night because Phil had to get up at 4am to leave for the airport. The only problem is I couldn't go back to sleep like I usually do. My mind is racing today. I have a lot to do today, and my mind is beginning to mentally "pack" for our trip next week. To top it all off I have major cramping this cycle. It is starting to subside now but it didn't help my sleeping situation. I totally understand why AF is called "the curse". UGH! I am also getting some sort of cold and that really pisses me off. Better now then next week, but it is just making me feel even more tired....and again I can't sleep. Hopefully I will be able to go to bed early tonight.

My dad called yesterday and asked us to finish up some work in the house he bought in Florida. He is paying us to do it which is very kind. We will try to get as much done in one day as possible because we do want to be able to enjoy our time there as well.

The list includes:

1.Grouting a 10x10 room, and filling in any grout that is missing throughout the house.

2. Installing a closet door.

3. Repairing a whole in the bathroom ceiling (the patch is already cut it just needs to be hung, taped, and mudded.)and then installing the vent fan.

4. Painting the kitchen---only problem....there is already wallpaper up.

5. Installing door stops

6. Putting all the caps on the outdoor drainage spouts.

Hopefully we will be able to do all of it for him. Also I would be lying if I said that it wouldn't be nice to have the extra $$$.

I got a great deal on some suitcases for the kids. We don't have suitcases and I was hoping to get each child their very own Disney suitcase to bring with them. BUT, they were so expensive. The cheapest ones I could find were $34.50 each and they were at the Disney store. Well yesterday I was looking around and decided I would check out the Disney store one last time. When I clicked on the site, I saw that the luggage had gone on sale. They were also offering a promotional code for 1/2 off the lowest retail of their luggage! AWESOME! I got both kids their very own suitcase for less than the price of one! I was so happy!!! So Emma is getting a tinkerbell suitcase and Ethan is getting one that looks just like Lightning McQueen. So cute! Now hopefully they arrive before next Wednesday.

I am supposed to go to MOPS today, but I really don't feel like I want to go. It's just the Christmas party so I am not missing much. Part of me wants to go, but the other part is just so overwhelmed with what I have to do....plus I don't feel good.

Oh yah, and I have to drive Emma to school today because they are having breakfast with Santa and she really wants to go. It's from 7:45-8:10 which is really dumb because if you take the bus, you don't arrive until 8:10! Don't get me wrong, I don't mind doing this at all. It's just that these events always seem to fall on the most inconvenient days.

WOAH! I have the weather on in the background and they said 50 degrees for Saturday and 57 for Sunday......woo hoo. A little taste of Florida before we go :)

So enough rambling from me for now. I have killed 45 mins typing all of this. I need to go make my food shopping list now!

New Cycle

I was all messed up this time. It had my head playing tricks on me.

Make an ovulation ticker

Prayer for the man in your life

Dear Lord, I pray for Wisdom to understand my man; Love to forgive him; And Patience for his moods. Because, Lord, if I pray for Strength, I'll beat him to death. AMEN

Captured forever.

I feel good today. I woke up and all of life seemed right today. Things went smoothly this morning, no one was grouchy, everybody listened...over all the day got off to a good start.

Ethan and I just read some books. We have a lift the flap book and behind the flap it says "peekaboo". I read the page, opened the flap and said "peekaboo." Much to my surprise Ethan repeated me in his sweet baby voice "peekaboo." I didn't know he could say peekaboo.
I was all nostalgic last night when I was looking at baby pics of my daughter. It wasn't that long ago where she was the one trying to put words together. I decided to pull out my video camera and capture Ethan's little words forever. It's funny how we forget the little things. Things we swear we will never forget. Then I look back at some pic, or some video and realize....wow...I have forgotten some of this stuff. I am thankful for the days I decide to pull out the video camera with no goal. You can capture the sweetest memories from something that seems so mundane in your day to day life. I know how quickly these years go by. It seems like just yesterday that Emma was saying "pane" for plane. Now she is reading the word plane!
So, on Ethan's 20 month birthday I have captured sweet little words from his chubby little baby face. Words like "bye, hi, nonnie(this is what he calls emma), and peekaboo." I captured him showing me all his little body parts...."Ethan where's your ear, nose, mouth, head, belly and legs?" Pretty soon he will take for granted where each of these things are placed.
I don't know why I am so emotional today. Each day can seem like an eternity sometimes, but when you sit and look back you wonder where time has gone.
So I urge you to take pictures of your children today. Break out the video camera and capture any old thing that they are doing right now. You will be so happy you did 5 years from now.

Ok enough emotion. I have to go rescue the dog as Ethan is tormenting her right now!

Moody momma

Today has been a moody day. It all started last night at 2:30 am. I was dreaming that the baby was crying and needed me, and just as I was dreaming that my lab; Haley; started barking uncontrollably over something she heard outside. Needless to say it wasn't a very pleasant awakening. I flew out of bed my heart racing, feeling like I needed to rescue my children.....it was very odd and very scary. I never saw anything in the house or outside, so I am guessing we got all worked up over a rabbit or a deer!

I did not want to get up this morning. But I had to....I am the mom afterall. I was pleasantly surprised when Emma woke up a half hour before the alarm and came down dressed for school. This was a very good thing. But then I did not act so good towards her afterwards. I was cranky, had lack of sleep and it doesn't excuse me being bitchy but those are the facts. I was short, and snappy with her and I feel really bad about it now. Hopefully I will be able to make it up to her once she gets home.

Ethan was overtired all day. He has been clingy and whiny all morning. He went down for his nap 1/2 hour early....which means my time alone is nearing an end. Why is it that the 3 hours that they sleep goes by so quickly? I never understood that.

I am lazy this whole week. I worked my tail off last week for Thanksgiving and I don't feel like lifting a finger. I know this isn't right though and if I don't get on the ball I will be causing myself more stress tomorrow when I am scrambling around trying to get things done before Phil gets home.

Also I have major issues with Ethan and brushing his teeth...it's bordering on ridiculous. We had no problems a few months back. He let me shine up those pearly white. But these days, those pearly whites have turned to scummy yellow. If I let him brush his own teeth he doesn't do a good job at all. If I try he screams at the top of his lungs, locks his mouth shut, and fights with all he has. I don't understand it at all. In order for me to brush them I literally have to hold him down, pry his mouth open and brush as much as I can in 5 seconds before he gets loose. I am loosing my mind, but I can't let his teeth go to hell. So what do I do? I don't want this to be an unpleasant thing for him, but it is a necessary evil. I am sure it's just a power struggle, he wants to be in control and do it himself.
So if anyone as any suggestions I am SO open for advice.

Snowball?

Here is a picture of Gracie after coming in from outside this morning.
We keep her fur long in the winter so she doesn't get too cold...but then we have to deal with cling on snow balls. I could not get her to defrost, so I ended up giving her a bath!

If you don't notice the snow...look closely at her legs.

Wordless Wednesday