So annoying! Does this ever happen to you?
Sunday, March 3, 2013
Why are these things so hard to change
I finally get it together with the screwdriver and the batteries all on the floor I need them on WITH the toy - only to find out I don't need the screwdriver I need a coin. Really? A coin - it's been weeks (actually months, let's be honest) for me to make the effort and now I need a coin to put new batteries in the Talking Turtle?
So annoying! Does this ever happen to you?
So annoying! Does this ever happen to you?
Friday, March 1, 2013
Monday, January 14, 2013
Tired
Man oh man, I am tired. It was a busy weekend painting - well my husband and Dad painting, me ladder supporting and keep kids occupied, busy and away from the painting. My respite was the grocery store last night! Ha!
Then about 11:30, the boy wakes up crying. Hubby thinks he sounds funny (I didn't, great mothering!) and lo & behold, he had thrown up on himself. We got him taken care of medicated, laundry going and back to sleep. About two hours later, the girl has a bad dream - got her resettled in her bed after a snack - they had a very light dinner at 5:30 and got some sleep.
Hubby up at 6:30 - but it was not going to be a normal Monday - the boy had to stay home so I had to miss my Mom's group meeting too. Such a bummer. But the boy did sleep from 10:15 to 1pm. I should have been working and getting a million things done, but I'm so tired I didn't. But I did finish a good book - Diary of a Stage Mother's Daughter by Melissa Francis.
Here's hoping for better days though hubby is busy at work and has a work meeting late tonight so I'm on my own. Wish me luck!
Then about 11:30, the boy wakes up crying. Hubby thinks he sounds funny (I didn't, great mothering!) and lo & behold, he had thrown up on himself. We got him taken care of medicated, laundry going and back to sleep. About two hours later, the girl has a bad dream - got her resettled in her bed after a snack - they had a very light dinner at 5:30 and got some sleep.
Hubby up at 6:30 - but it was not going to be a normal Monday - the boy had to stay home so I had to miss my Mom's group meeting too. Such a bummer. But the boy did sleep from 10:15 to 1pm. I should have been working and getting a million things done, but I'm so tired I didn't. But I did finish a good book - Diary of a Stage Mother's Daughter by Melissa Francis.
Here's hoping for better days though hubby is busy at work and has a work meeting late tonight so I'm on my own. Wish me luck!
Friday, January 11, 2013
Fun Friday!
Well the little one woke up Wednesday from his nap with a fierce fever. It took four doses of alternating meds to bring it down. Since then, he's been fine - I have no idea unless it's his molars as he is chewing on his fingers back there.
So, Thursday exercise plans out the window - as you need to be fever free for 24 hours before going to the childcare at the Y. But we made it today!!
I did get a really cool weekly planner printable created - I'm going to test it out this week and then I will share!
Also I did make healthy lunches and dinners all week which I am very excited about. I got some great ideas from Wendolonia's blog - I love her posts on facebook too!
And I have a blog post swirling in my head based on a post from a Mom who just had her first baby after many, many years and attempts. I think she's being a bit hard on herself and I want to get some of those thoughts out. But for now, baby is going down for his nap and this sweaty Mama is gonna get a shower in before late pick up at my daughter's school! Then playdate with the neighbor, meet hubby to pick up a ladder and finish taking down outside lights and then Daddy/daughter one-on-one time. He 'gets' to take her to Chuck E Cheese.
So, Thursday exercise plans out the window - as you need to be fever free for 24 hours before going to the childcare at the Y. But we made it today!!
I did get a really cool weekly planner printable created - I'm going to test it out this week and then I will share!
Also I did make healthy lunches and dinners all week which I am very excited about. I got some great ideas from Wendolonia's blog - I love her posts on facebook too!
And I have a blog post swirling in my head based on a post from a Mom who just had her first baby after many, many years and attempts. I think she's being a bit hard on herself and I want to get some of those thoughts out. But for now, baby is going down for his nap and this sweaty Mama is gonna get a shower in before late pick up at my daughter's school! Then playdate with the neighbor, meet hubby to pick up a ladder and finish taking down outside lights and then Daddy/daughter one-on-one time. He 'gets' to take her to Chuck E Cheese.
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Blog setup
Now I'm into the nitty gritty of blog setup land. I had a blog and website for my design business - I had this for a number of years and did a lot of technical things with it. Now, I'm back into it with a little bit of a different twist for my blog and I'm post fertility treatments and two kids - and I find I'm brain dead!
Seriously, things I did all the time before - I'm having to look up each little task just to get things set up the way I want. Of course, how dare they, but Blogger has changed as well and so I'm learning those new updates too!
Oh well, these are champagne problems as 'they' like to say. I've got both kids in preschool today and I've already managed to pick up forms from the doctors that I needed, do a grocery run and tidy the kitchen.
Other goals for today - redo my weekly planning page. (That's going to be a whole separate post, for sure!) Vacuum and mop the kitchen floor, make the lunches so life is easier when I pick up the kids from school and hopefully do a short review of my photo editing class from Jessica Sprague (whom I LOVE!).
Have a 'wacky Wednesday' like they say at preschool!
Seriously, things I did all the time before - I'm having to look up each little task just to get things set up the way I want. Of course, how dare they, but Blogger has changed as well and so I'm learning those new updates too!
Oh well, these are champagne problems as 'they' like to say. I've got both kids in preschool today and I've already managed to pick up forms from the doctors that I needed, do a grocery run and tidy the kitchen.
Other goals for today - redo my weekly planning page. (That's going to be a whole separate post, for sure!) Vacuum and mop the kitchen floor, make the lunches so life is easier when I pick up the kids from school and hopefully do a short review of my photo editing class from Jessica Sprague (whom I LOVE!).
Have a 'wacky Wednesday' like they say at preschool!
Monday, January 7, 2013
A New Week
It's Monday!!! Back to a new week - feeling good today as I made it to the Strength class at the Y. It was hard, but I feel like at least I'm on my way towards getting in 3-4 workouts each week. I'm getting stronger and finally feel like most of the cold/virus/infections I've been fighting off for over 3 weeks are gone!
Kids go back to school this week. I can't believe it but this is the last semester of preschool for my daughter. She started another new school this time to finish out pre-K. We decided to change as they had a much stronger curriculum as well as putting my son in school too. This way they are both in one place and it is just 5 minutes down the road from our new house. Making mornings MUCH easier on Mama - this is a good thing. Our family has been under a lot of stress with all the moving and changes to our family with my parents and then brother moving in. Not necessarily all bad, but just stress. And all that stress has been accumulating over the years from infertility and miscarriages to fertility treatments and successful pregnancies. Throw moving and relocating into the mix with a seventh month old and a three and a half year old, and that's a recipe for depression and anxiety.
Well now that we are done building our family and we are done moving, I am going to focus on getting myself physically and mentally healthier. I believe as I do those things, I will better be able to spin all the plates of my life.
So far, so good!
Kids go back to school this week. I can't believe it but this is the last semester of preschool for my daughter. She started another new school this time to finish out pre-K. We decided to change as they had a much stronger curriculum as well as putting my son in school too. This way they are both in one place and it is just 5 minutes down the road from our new house. Making mornings MUCH easier on Mama - this is a good thing. Our family has been under a lot of stress with all the moving and changes to our family with my parents and then brother moving in. Not necessarily all bad, but just stress. And all that stress has been accumulating over the years from infertility and miscarriages to fertility treatments and successful pregnancies. Throw moving and relocating into the mix with a seventh month old and a three and a half year old, and that's a recipe for depression and anxiety.
Well now that we are done building our family and we are done moving, I am going to focus on getting myself physically and mentally healthier. I believe as I do those things, I will better be able to spin all the plates of my life.
So far, so good!
Friday, January 4, 2013
Working out
Well I made it to the Y for a strength class. It was hard but I need to build back my strength. I caught a cold that turned into a very serious sinus and double ear infection over the holidays. I was so sick - bedridden for days including Christmas. I love my kids so much and I just couldn't miss their Christmas so I some how made it down stairs to watch them - and it was pure joy to see them so happy! I lasted about an hour and crawled back upstairs to bed never leaving it the rest of the day.
I spent nearly six years doing infertility treatments, getting pregnant, miscarrying and trying again. During that time I had my daughter and all was well. She and I went to a stroller fitness class and made friends for both of us. I was in really good shape - running, strength training and lots of fun singing and playing with the kids. We attended class three days a week. Then we decided after the last miscarriage of getting pregnant on my own, perhaps we should try treatments again.
We went back and forth on it because things were good with Lila and once I did get pregnant from fertility treatments, it worked. It was the getting pg on my own that seemed to be an issue. Also we were surrounded by people in the stroller fitness class that were getting pregnant with their second child and I think I (again felt pressure, competitive maybe???) but that I wanted to give this my all. I did think a sibling would be a good thing for my daughter. I was sort of in the place of feeling so grateful to have my daughter but also a little bitter about why it was so hard for us to keep another pregnancy and easy for others (who in my opinion, seemed to take it so for granted). Then I would feel mad that it wasn't so outrageous for us to want another child, lots of people want two kids - you can see it was just a vicious cycle.
Anyway - long story, short - our very last fertility treatment actually worked! Everything that could go wrong seemed to be doing so in this cycle, but somehow it worked and my son is here. But the pregnancy was very difficult and he was very BIG - like measuring 3-4 weeks ahead in size. My abs were shredded, I had severe morning sickness - and most of the time the meds just took the edge off, they didn't actually take the nausea away. I was not able to work out and so I was in pretty bad shape by the time he was born.
I started running at 6 weeks postpartum - I am not a running fan but I knew I had to do something. I was able to lose all the baby weight very quickly.
Then life started up again with will we move, won't we move drama from my husband's job. Things were tough for my parents and there was a lot of uncertainty while trying to take care of a newborn and 3 1/2 year old. So my exercising has been very spotty for the last year.
But it's a new day and even a new year and so I made it to the gym. I am going once a week for a couple weeks, then adding a second day in moving to four days a week. My daughter is in school five days and my son goes two - so the three days he's not at school we will go to the Y. I just have to build up to it so I don't get sick again!
I spent nearly six years doing infertility treatments, getting pregnant, miscarrying and trying again. During that time I had my daughter and all was well. She and I went to a stroller fitness class and made friends for both of us. I was in really good shape - running, strength training and lots of fun singing and playing with the kids. We attended class three days a week. Then we decided after the last miscarriage of getting pregnant on my own, perhaps we should try treatments again.
We went back and forth on it because things were good with Lila and once I did get pregnant from fertility treatments, it worked. It was the getting pg on my own that seemed to be an issue. Also we were surrounded by people in the stroller fitness class that were getting pregnant with their second child and I think I (again felt pressure, competitive maybe???) but that I wanted to give this my all. I did think a sibling would be a good thing for my daughter. I was sort of in the place of feeling so grateful to have my daughter but also a little bitter about why it was so hard for us to keep another pregnancy and easy for others (who in my opinion, seemed to take it so for granted). Then I would feel mad that it wasn't so outrageous for us to want another child, lots of people want two kids - you can see it was just a vicious cycle.
Anyway - long story, short - our very last fertility treatment actually worked! Everything that could go wrong seemed to be doing so in this cycle, but somehow it worked and my son is here. But the pregnancy was very difficult and he was very BIG - like measuring 3-4 weeks ahead in size. My abs were shredded, I had severe morning sickness - and most of the time the meds just took the edge off, they didn't actually take the nausea away. I was not able to work out and so I was in pretty bad shape by the time he was born.
I started running at 6 weeks postpartum - I am not a running fan but I knew I had to do something. I was able to lose all the baby weight very quickly.
Then life started up again with will we move, won't we move drama from my husband's job. Things were tough for my parents and there was a lot of uncertainty while trying to take care of a newborn and 3 1/2 year old. So my exercising has been very spotty for the last year.
But it's a new day and even a new year and so I made it to the gym. I am going once a week for a couple weeks, then adding a second day in moving to four days a week. My daughter is in school five days and my son goes two - so the three days he's not at school we will go to the Y. I just have to build up to it so I don't get sick again!
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Day One
It's a new year - and I already feel like I'm spinning plates!
That's how my clever blog came to be.
It's been a crazy few years with so much going on and so many changes happening - started a new business, went through infertility, miscarriages and finally on to two healthy children. In the meanwhile, the economy collapsed, my parents lost everything and live with us now, we moved to a new state and rented, then bought a house that needs work. And my brother lost everything and his dog died and he lives with us too!
That's the short version but I just need a place to start sorting out my life. I am an organizer and planner by nature and there are so many things I'm still interested in and would like to do. I also feel something - pressure, expectations by society, or competitive comparing pressure??? - I'm not sure what to call it but there are things I feel like I should do and things that I want to do, and I need some way to start laying out these different threads and figure out what I can do and what can/should/must wait and what can't.
How do I figure out how to accomplish all these different things - from scanning in my old family recipes to scrapbooking our lives to eating healthy to exercising to making extra money - do I start my design business again, do I teach school to keep the same schedule as the kids - to paying attention to my marriage and the needs of my aging parents. All, of course, while cooking, meal planning, shopping, laundry and cleaning - feeding the dog twice a day! Really, does she need to eat twice a day every day???
And so it is I begin with a favorite phrase in mind - how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time! First bite taken - start a blog. Here we go!
That's how my clever blog came to be.
It's been a crazy few years with so much going on and so many changes happening - started a new business, went through infertility, miscarriages and finally on to two healthy children. In the meanwhile, the economy collapsed, my parents lost everything and live with us now, we moved to a new state and rented, then bought a house that needs work. And my brother lost everything and his dog died and he lives with us too!
That's the short version but I just need a place to start sorting out my life. I am an organizer and planner by nature and there are so many things I'm still interested in and would like to do. I also feel something - pressure, expectations by society, or competitive comparing pressure??? - I'm not sure what to call it but there are things I feel like I should do and things that I want to do, and I need some way to start laying out these different threads and figure out what I can do and what can/should/must wait and what can't.
How do I figure out how to accomplish all these different things - from scanning in my old family recipes to scrapbooking our lives to eating healthy to exercising to making extra money - do I start my design business again, do I teach school to keep the same schedule as the kids - to paying attention to my marriage and the needs of my aging parents. All, of course, while cooking, meal planning, shopping, laundry and cleaning - feeding the dog twice a day! Really, does she need to eat twice a day every day???
And so it is I begin with a favorite phrase in mind - how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time! First bite taken - start a blog. Here we go!
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