Busy, busy

I have been so busy lately. Now that I have a car to actually go places in, I'm on the go. I have been across two towns to see friends, running errands, ect. Squeeze that between trying to get everything ready for this week (washing clothes for all of us and blankets for D to be packed up and cleaning the house really good because who wants to come home from a relaxing vacation to a dump?) I havn't even really had time to be on the computer at all. It's kind of nice to be busy, it keeps me occupied and away from the fridge!

Well, I'm off to make lunch for D and then off to the store for dinner!

Have a great week!

Rough patch

It has been a rough couple of days here in my house. I think that D is teething again, but I can't be for sure. He's back to drooling all the time and he seems a little more fussy than usual. Yesterday when I put him down for a nap he cried and cried. I tried to flip him over and he still cried. Finally after about a half an hour, I brought him into the kitchen with me while I made him some carrots (I'm so proud of the way they turned out!) and he cried some more. After a while of that I put him back into bed thinking he would cry himself to sleep. No such luck. I let him cry for about another hour while I did housework and got dinner ready. Finally I couldn't take anymore, I got him up, fed him and held him while he fussed.

Usually E will come in an scoop D up and play with him when he gets home, that gives them some bonding time and me a small break. But E's working late for a while and it throws everyone's schedule off. E is cranky from working late and traffic, I'm cranky from being home so long by myself with Mr. Fussy-Pants and I'm sure D is tired of me by then, too. And to top it all off, I have to work tonight and tomorrow night.

Ok, enough bitching!!!

I'm pretty shocked that Dominic may be getting more teeth so soon. He's got all the signs that I didn't notice before, but recognize from last time. I looked in his mouth and can't see any teeth, but isn't that what happened last time, I checked and checked and nothing, and then all of a sudden they were there? Hopefully I'm more prepared this time.

It is looking so beautiful outside. If I didn't know any better I'd think it was full-blown spring. (But it sure is cold when I do get out!) I love to just sit in my front room and look outside. And I have so many ideas for my back patio, I can't wait to go flower shopping, I want to put up lights...

Happy Hump Day!

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Weekend recap

We bought the car we wanted. Yay! It's a totally cute Hond@ Accord, and it is so zippy to drive. I got to drive it all weekend and had a total blast. We didn't pay as much as we thought, although the price was higher than we wanted to pay, but all in all it was a fair in-between and I love our new car. It will be nice to have another family car as I was starting to feel like I was trapped here at home during the week. Now I can get out, meet my friends, go shopping (looking only!) and generally have some freedom. Finally!

I have a little friend who is about 20 weeks pregnant. She suprized me at work to show off her US pictures. But as she was talking she broke out in tears. Her baby has a heart problem. I'm so sad for her! My heart goes out to her and I've been thinking of her constantly. It is so hard when you worry about this tiny life that you don't even know yet, but love with all your heart. I find that I say a quick prayer for her often, I hope her little daughter will be ok.

D's got an appointment in a little bit to recheck his eczema. I'm glad because I have many questions for her regarding the medication. I have a real problem medicating D because he is just a little boy. I don't want to mess him up so early.

( For time's sake I shortened that paragraph. I have strong feelings about children and the medical field, but it will have to wait for another day!)

Happy Valentines! Give your lover a big kiss!

Two teeth! 

Togetherness

E stayed home yesterday and it was very nice. We haven't had a day together since the holidays due to our crazy work schedules. We slept in, made breakfast together (one of our favorite things to do), played with little D and when D finally went down for his nap, we had grown up play time! YAY!

We also went to go look for a new car. Yuck! I hate car shopping. A great car fell into our laps, but they wouldn't go down on the price (this happened last time too!), so we left it at the lot. The problem is that I thought it was a great car-- reliable and excellent price, great mileage, but E is pretty stubborn and wouldn't give in. Well, he won't give in right away, he wants to wait and see if they come around. He razzed me for wanting to fold so easily and give them what they want, which is not bad. I told him that I don't think they are going to call us and confess how wrong they were and beg us for our money. On the contrary, they don't care who buys it, just how much they sell it for. I asked E who would look more foolish-the person who buys a great deal when they see it, or the person who agonizes for days and then ends up paying what they would have in the first place? He did have an answer, he just started snoring.

I told him that I wouldn't be going car shopping with him much longer, maybe two more times, tops. After that he's on his own. I hate the whole process and I don't want to torture myself any longer.

All and all, it was a pretty good day.

* * * * *

D's face is looking so much better. We got his Elidel prescription filled and in just two days his skin is back to what it used to be--soft, smooth and sweet. Before, his skin was literally oozing and raw, just horrible, and he would claw at it all the time, but right after the first dose on Tuesday, he stopped itching immediately and by later that evening, it looked like it was healing up. This morning one of his cheeks looks perfect, the worst one looks slightly pink, but no red, raw patches. It is truly amazing.

I recommend the cream, but beware--my insurance wouldn't cover it and we paid $50 for a 30g (med-small) tube. But was it worth it? Every penny!

Happy Thursday.

what a shame

We got our taxes done last night and we were so disappointed. E was way more disappointed than I was because I am such a pessimist, I always expect the worst. E thought for sure that this would be our way of getting out of debt and starting the year with no credit cards. No such luck. I tried really hard yesterday to let him know that we are fine, better than most and the shabby amount we got back will be ok.

But I am quite flabbergasted! How in the world are these people getting back $5,6,7 thousand dollars? A single friend of E's got back about $5000, he has no children and has owned his house for a lot longer than us. I'm so confused--everyone said that since we had bought this house and had a child that we'd have gobs of money to throw around. I'm about to call my friend that is in the same marital, child and house situation that we are in and ask how much they got back. Or would that be rude?

*sigh*

Our ship didn't come in last night, but I think we will be ok. Lesson learned: Never rely on the IRS, they never come though.

interesting news

Well, the visit with my Dad and his wife went ok. I think it's a little strange that they will drive an hour and a half each way for a half hour visit. In a Yukon, talk about wasting gas!

When they got there Vonnie (dad's wife) was holding little D and whispering in his ear that he has a new cousin. That confused me a bit and I asked who had had a baby? "Rosey" she answered. That's her daughter.

It totally caught me off guard because I had no idea that she was even pregnant. Then she proceeds to tell me that the baby was born at 26 1/2 weeks and Rosey was on bed rest from December 3 until she had the baby on Jan 16. I was so confused with all this information, not only because it was so familiar (having gone thru the exact same thing), and not only because she never bothered to say anything, but because she was talking so nonchalantly about it that at first I thought it was a joke. They had video of them having such a great time, and Rosey being filmed pumping her breasts, saying it was for my dad since he couldn't be there! (How sick is that?) I remember that when D was born no one laughed, it was if everyone was afraid to break him with sound waves. Being born so early was not a laughing matter, it was a frightning one.

Another thing that kind of pissed me off was the stats on this baby compaired with D. "T was a week earlier than D was", "T is a pound lighter than D was." "T's diapers were even tinier than D's were". It was like some horrible nightmare of a compitition. I wanted to scream at her and make her realize that these things arn't a good thing. I've seen first hand at what that one week can mean, and the outcome isn't funny. (There were twins in the NICU with D, one was born at 27 weeks the day before D, her brother was born a week earlier.) It was just so weird, it left my head in a dizzy spell the rest of the night.

E did say that maybe they aren't as worried because they see Dominic as an example. Maybe they're not going to worry and fret because they see that it can turn out just fine and the baby can turn out to be a big, fat, beautiful little blessing. I hope so. I hope they get as blessed as we are. And I'll pray for that everyday.

Pretty rude post!

I'm waiting for my dad and his wife to get here. Geez, I wish they'd hurry up already. My stomach is in knots from worry and even though I still feel crappy (I still feel a little hang over-ish from 2 days ago!) I'm thinking about downing a glass of wine just to unwind. No, I better not, I don't want to visit drunk!

Hurry, hurry, hurry! Then they can go!

Oh yeah, that's why I don't drink anymore...

...because hangovers suck!

Geez, I feel like crap this morning. I grabbed a bottle of wine after work last night so we could sit, have a couple of drinks and talk and the three glasses I had just hit me like a ton of bricks. I stopped drinking about a month ago after I got severely intoxicated and proceeded to fall down and gash my knee open. I didn't even notice until the next morning when my leg, sheets and bathroom were a bloody mess. I realized that not only was it not becoming of a mother to be drinking so much, but what if something happens to D? What if he gets sick one night, or hurt? How am I going to care for my child when I'm too drunk to care for myself?

So I think that not drinking for a while caused me to get drunk faster. Now I feel yucky.

Anyway, we did have some drinks and talk about this new job that E has been offered. Of course he's going to take it. And while he's excited that it's almost $10,000 more a year, there is also tons more responsibilities. He'll have to answer to the higher ups and have the answers right a way. His boss explained that it's an advancement that would otherwise take years to achieve and from here he can only go up. E is nervous. I know he can handle the job and he knows he can too. But it is a big step and that would make anyone nervous. He's also curious of why they picked him, out of all the people in the company. I tried to explain to him last night that they picked him because he's a hard worker, he never complains or bitches about stuff, he never has a crappy attitude, he shows up everyday, he's smart as hell and he's proven all that. He's the perfect employee and sometimes it makes me sick! (but I'm still proud of him!)

So he's going to accept the job on Monday. It will be so nice not to be strapped for money anymore. We can finally get another family car. We can start saving money again. And think of all the cute stuff I can buy little D!!! Yay, shopping! But that's another thing we talked about--how easy it is to live up to the new amount of money coming in and then all of a sudden we're just as strapped as we were before the raise. It's a horrible cycle that a lot of people get into. Hopefully because we realize that we will take it easy on the spending and save, save, save!

But in the back of my mind I'm still trying to figure out what kind of car I want!

Ug! I'm going to go back to bed for a while and try to shake this headache.

Have a great weekend!

Yay!

E just called a little bit ago with some awesome news. He's been offered a new position with his company and A LOT more money!! Yay! I don't know all the details yet, but I'm so proud of him I could just burst. It's not just the money, he's really advanced so much at his work. If he doesn't know something, he'll come home and read up on it, and take what he's learned and apply it. I can't explain it very well, but just know I'm so proud of him!!! I can't wait for him to get home so I can get the scoop!

Tomorrow we are going to get new cell phones and new service as our contract with sucky AT&T is up. Halleluja! I hated them and their crappy service. Every time I talked to them they were rude, horrible people. It was as if they knew they had you by the balls because you had a million year contract with them and they could be as shitty as they wanted. I'll be glad to get rid of them. I wanted to go down in price, but it seems that cell phone service has gotten so expensive. Do you know that you can't get a plan for under $30 for just one phone? Well you can, but they don't offer hardly any minutes (the most I found was 60 minutes per month for $19.99!). Finally I found a plan that for $10 more than we are paying now, we can get two phones and a decent amount of minutes. We are going to go with T-Mobile (please let them be better!!!) and we are need to pick out new phones. I can't decide what I want to get, they are all so cute! I must say, the flip phone I have now has always given me troubles, and all the Nokia's I've had have been great. Maybe that makes my decision right there.

I havn't found a place to stay at the coast yet. About a year and some months ago I found some really great little houses that were priced right in our range. Now, I can't find them anywhere. So, I'll keep looking for something. I keep Googling anything with 'coast' , 'house' and 'rental' in the search hoping that I'll come across those houses, because that's how I found them last time, but so far, nothing.

My dad called today sounding happy and in good spirits (?!). He want's to come over Saturday evening and visit. Of course I said that would be fine, I would never keep him and D apart, my dad may be an jerk most of the time, but he's not a monster that needs to be kept away from his grandchild. I'm nervous though, I havn't seen him for months. The last couple of times he's come over I've been at work. I'm trying to keep positive thoughts and an open mind. I'm not looking forward to seeing his wife, she grates my last nerve!! *Happy thoughts, nice thoughts!*

I've got to work tonight, I hope nobody rushes in at the last minute and we can get out in time.

Happy Thursday!

come on spring

The last two days have been so nice outside. On the cooler side, but the sun has been shining giving it a sense of what is to come. I just want it to hurry up and get here already.

I didn't go back to bed after I finished feeding D this morning and I'm so tired, but yesterday I didn't wake up until after 11:00 and that's just pure laziness. I have to get out of the sleeping-in habit. It seems like I'm getting up later and later, just wasting my day away in bed, and while that idea is nice, I feel so unproductive and loser-ish that I can't stand it any longer. I also need to get my ass on the treadmill because I have been neglecting it and everytime I see the damn thing, I feel guilty as hell. I actually like to walk on it, but I'm just so extremely lazy.

Is laziness a habit that you can change? Or is it a personality trait that will never go away? I don't like to be lazy, and I really don't like being a procrastinator but I'm having a hard time changing my ways. I've been this way for 31 years now and can you really teach an old dog an new trick?

It will be easier to get up and stay up in the summer, when the sun is out early and the air is fresh. Oh, I can't wait.

I need to start to look for coast reservations today as our fifth wedding anniversary is at the end of the month. Every year we go to the coast. You'd think that February would be a horrible time to be at the beach, but actually it's a wonderful time. We find it to be very cozy, the people are always so nice (they aren't sick of the tourists yet), it's not crowded with obnoxous people so we seem to have the whole place to ourselves. The only thing different this year is Dominic. We need to find a place for him to stay. I would love to bring him along, but E has put his foot down and insists that he can't come. I think that E wants me for himself. Actually, I'm sure of that as he has hinted as much. D has stayed over-night with my MIL, but he's not really gone for that long, they usually pick him up in the late afternoon and return him in the late morning. This time will be for a few days and even though I'm sure he'll be fine, will I?

Oh well. I'm sure it will all work out and I hope that I can find us a cute place right on the beach. Oh, I can't wait for that either!