Goal: Be anywhere near as happy as Dan…That’d be great! As I wrote in a previous post, my goal for 2014 is to chill. I want to calm down, enjoy my children, and not get all worked up about a bunch of stuff that doesn’t even matter all that much! I was doing pretty great on day one, but then January 2nd hit, and Alan went back to work. I don’t think ‘calm’ or ‘happy’ would be the […]
» Read moreThis was SO EXCITING, ya’ll. Now that JD can sit and play with toys, Daniel is beginning to view him as a buddy. : ) They played in Dan’s room together (as in close by, simultaneously playing) for 30 minutes today. Daniel was having a ball putting Lightning McQueen in and out of the Mac trucks while JD LOVED the shape sorter. He kept grabbing it, shaking it, and throwing it. Dan has three months left of being […]
» Read moreHappy New Year!!! So is 2014 off to a good start for ya? Our day wasn’t too bad. For starters, I slept until after 9am this morning. Whoot!! That kind of made me feel behind from the get-go, though. Isn’t that ridiculous? Remember when you could sleep in with no guilt whatsoever??? Nope. No, I actually don’t. Even when I was a kid, if I slept later than my dad felt was appropriate, I would be teased mercilessly […]
» Read moreDon’t you just love the whole “New Year” thing? I do. I’ve loved the idea of a clean slate for as long as I can remember. 2013 was one of our harder years, just adjusting to the new baby, and I just wasn’t well for a while there. The baby fog is lifting, though, and I’m feeling down right normal now! I’m actually enjoying talking to people again, laughing when appropriate, and even getting stuff done! Having a […]
» Read moreLet me tell you a story about the time we had our own real life nightmare before Christmas. There are times when things just don’t go the way that you had hoped. Embarking on a looong car trip with four children is a foolish brave thing to do. It all began around 10pm the night before we left. I walked into Dan’s room to get something, and I noticed he had a very wet sounding snore. “Oh no,” I thought. Around […]
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I love Christmas. Nothing makes me more happy than arranging Christmas decorations, baking cookies, taking road trips with the kids, and shopping in crowded malls! Wait. That’s not true. No, I don’t. No, I really really don’t. Not once this year have I said any of those things. Okay, so yeah, I’m a bit of a Scrooge. I hate the pressure of Christmas. –Crowded malls make me hot, like literally sweaty. I get overwhelmed and confused by […]
» Read moreWe just love our 19 pound 4 month old. He is just a great big ball of kissable goodness. Unfortunately, our kissable bundle suddenly decided to stop sleeping through the night two weeks ago. He also caught a cold two weeks ago, a cold that isn’t getting any better. His nose is still runny, runny, runny. He’s been to the doc twice. They can’t do anything for him. Yes, I got a big bulb sucker, and I use […]
» Read moreno make-up, no nice clothes, no contacts…..no problem. Saturday. Don’t you love Saturday? Here in suburbia, Saturdays are kind of stressful for many. That’s the day of kiddo ball games, birthday parties, scout events, just a constant string of commitments. This was another Saturday that we were thankful we skipped sports this fall! The only commitment we had was Cub Scouts. It was a pretty busy cub scout day, but there was plenty of down time too. […]
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This past week was a seriously crazy one. Monday: We drove into the city for Daniel’s “My ears hurt” doc appointment. It turned out his ears were totally fine. If only I knew how to check for ear infections! I could spare myself so many doc appointments! Then we came home, picked up Joshua from half day school, and stayed home until Monday night Yoga class. I squeezed in laundry and household chores where I could. […]
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I have mentioned several times lately that my current life circumstances have been leaving me feeling extremely overwhelmed and highly stressed out. The baby phase is always tough anyway, and when you have a lot of other things going on, plus Alan working late, it just seems even tougher to me. I’d love to stop the world and wait on John David, but of course, that’s just not possible. I keep trying to strategize and find a way to make […]
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