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A Very Blessed MommyWednesday, October 21, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Random Ramblings-Tuesday edition
It is tuesday and I am feeling the need to ramble to get rid of some of these things in my head. It just can't wait until friday
-I am hoping we made a major breakthrough in potty training today. Izzy has been having some serious poop anxiety...she has been holding it and holding it and then refusing to go on the potty and only in her underwear or diaper. Well she hadn't pooped since Thursday and was noticably uncomfortable most of the day yesterday so last night i have her some miralax in her juice with dinner. She did have a bad night and was up a good portion of it and in bed with us the majority of the night but she pooped 3 times today!! The first one was with my mom and was really hard...the second one also with my mom and firm but not hard...both were in diapers. Well this evening at my grandparents house she wanted to go potty(since i put her back in underwear when i picked her up from my moms) and she went...she pooped on the potty!!!!!! YAHOOOOOOOOOO and she was so proud of herself. I am really hoping this continues!!!!! I am kicking myself for not going with the miralax earlier!!!!
--I was so hung over on Sunday I swore I would not drink again for a while...now i am sure i will drink this weekend when we will be up north at my in laws cabin but i will be staying away from red wine for a little while. We had a great wine tasting party at our house Saturday night...but i felt AWFUL sunday morning..i am offically getting old!!
--I am again off teh wagon of working out and eating right...yep i sound like a broken record...i can tell in teh way i feel and the way some of my clothes fit that my body is changing..i better do something soon before it gets out of hand...this after I ate 2 pieces of pizza for dinner and my favorite cake that my grandma makes for dessert............URGH why can'ti just be blessed with a great metabolism naturally!
--Izzy's bed time routine has been getting a little longer and longer the last couple weeks. She has been insisting on rocking longer and then you go to put her in bed and she stands up and wimpers till you pick her up, rock her for 1 more min then she will go to bed just fine......weird!
--As we have been going through the potty training i keep thinking we should maybe get her transitioned into her toddler bed but honestly i don't want to for selfish reasons...i know there will be plenty of time for her to come in our room in the middle of the night and i am in no hurry...she still hasn't climbed out of her crib and she could easily seeing that it is only on the 2nd lowest setting...but she likes her crib and I am leaving her there for now.
--It is now oficially hunting season and I am already a little annoyed. I understand this is a hobby of DH's that he had long before me and I need to respect that but there is a part of me that is little annoyed. He wants to go up north thsi weekend for bow season since next weekend we have his folks dog and the following weekend is halloween...i get that. But first he says he wants to elave thursday night...i have to tak friday off...which my dad is not happy about b/c it leave only one person in the office...then tonight DH says..after i made a commetn to iz about getting her hair trimmed on Thursday...he come out with we are going up north Thursday...i say in the morning? She has her class...he says...well i wanted to get up there to hunt...................please tell me why Thursday night, Friday, Sat, and Sunday aren't enough..urgh like i am supposed to drop everything so he can go hunt...urgh...but the alternative is for me and izzy to stay home and i really don't want to be a single parent all weekend...I love hunting season. And his big almost week long gun season trip is still to come in November....I think i need to plan a girls weekend, then maybe i will feel like things are a bit more equal with all his hobby trips hunting and fishing.
--Okay enough venting. I do love my husband and respect his hobbies...i think part of it is i am tired from the long night last night.
here is hoping for a great nights sleep and a better attitude in the morning!!
-I am hoping we made a major breakthrough in potty training today. Izzy has been having some serious poop anxiety...she has been holding it and holding it and then refusing to go on the potty and only in her underwear or diaper. Well she hadn't pooped since Thursday and was noticably uncomfortable most of the day yesterday so last night i have her some miralax in her juice with dinner. She did have a bad night and was up a good portion of it and in bed with us the majority of the night but she pooped 3 times today!! The first one was with my mom and was really hard...the second one also with my mom and firm but not hard...both were in diapers. Well this evening at my grandparents house she wanted to go potty(since i put her back in underwear when i picked her up from my moms) and she went...she pooped on the potty!!!!!! YAHOOOOOOOOOO and she was so proud of herself. I am really hoping this continues!!!!! I am kicking myself for not going with the miralax earlier!!!!
--I was so hung over on Sunday I swore I would not drink again for a while...now i am sure i will drink this weekend when we will be up north at my in laws cabin but i will be staying away from red wine for a little while. We had a great wine tasting party at our house Saturday night...but i felt AWFUL sunday morning..i am offically getting old!!
--I am again off teh wagon of working out and eating right...yep i sound like a broken record...i can tell in teh way i feel and the way some of my clothes fit that my body is changing..i better do something soon before it gets out of hand...this after I ate 2 pieces of pizza for dinner and my favorite cake that my grandma makes for dessert............URGH why can'ti just be blessed with a great metabolism naturally!
--Izzy's bed time routine has been getting a little longer and longer the last couple weeks. She has been insisting on rocking longer and then you go to put her in bed and she stands up and wimpers till you pick her up, rock her for 1 more min then she will go to bed just fine......weird!
--As we have been going through the potty training i keep thinking we should maybe get her transitioned into her toddler bed but honestly i don't want to for selfish reasons...i know there will be plenty of time for her to come in our room in the middle of the night and i am in no hurry...she still hasn't climbed out of her crib and she could easily seeing that it is only on the 2nd lowest setting...but she likes her crib and I am leaving her there for now.
--It is now oficially hunting season and I am already a little annoyed. I understand this is a hobby of DH's that he had long before me and I need to respect that but there is a part of me that is little annoyed. He wants to go up north thsi weekend for bow season since next weekend we have his folks dog and the following weekend is halloween...i get that. But first he says he wants to elave thursday night...i have to tak friday off...which my dad is not happy about b/c it leave only one person in the office...then tonight DH says..after i made a commetn to iz about getting her hair trimmed on Thursday...he come out with we are going up north Thursday...i say in the morning? She has her class...he says...well i wanted to get up there to hunt...................please tell me why Thursday night, Friday, Sat, and Sunday aren't enough..urgh like i am supposed to drop everything so he can go hunt...urgh...but the alternative is for me and izzy to stay home and i really don't want to be a single parent all weekend...I love hunting season. And his big almost week long gun season trip is still to come in November....I think i need to plan a girls weekend, then maybe i will feel like things are a bit more equal with all his hobby trips hunting and fishing.
--Okay enough venting. I do love my husband and respect his hobbies...i think part of it is i am tired from the long night last night.
here is hoping for a great nights sleep and a better attitude in the morning!!
Friday, October 9, 2009
Flashback Friday
Instead of my usual ramblings i am going to post our annual apple orchard pictures. This is this year and last year. WOW what a difference a year makes...i do think izzy is on her tip toes a little bit but you get the idea. We love going to the apple orchard..i am hoping to make it to one more but the weather has been too cold and wet!!!
Last Year
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Traveling Porta Potty
Well we officially broke in our travel potty the last two days. Yesterday wasn't so bad, we just left the butcher and izzy says...i wanna go potty...do they have a potty in there...meaning the butcher, I said no and thankfully had put the travel potty and bags in my car. Popped open the back of my SUV and she went potty.
Well this morning, izzy woke up dry, and we knew she would have to go pee...we asked her a bunch of times if she had to go before the 30 min drive in traffic to nana's house...she said repeatidly..."I can't want to go potty!!!" so away we went...well sure enough i am in traffic on the highway and she says...i go potty nana's house, i go potty now! I could tell the drive was going to be too long so I pull over ot the shoulder and busted out the potty...and there sat my mostly naked girl(she had on fleece footy pj's that pretty much have to come all the way off to go potty) in the back of my car going potty..........the fun never ends!
Well this morning, izzy woke up dry, and we knew she would have to go pee...we asked her a bunch of times if she had to go before the 30 min drive in traffic to nana's house...she said repeatidly..."I can't want to go potty!!!" so away we went...well sure enough i am in traffic on the highway and she says...i go potty nana's house, i go potty now! I could tell the drive was going to be too long so I pull over ot the shoulder and busted out the potty...and there sat my mostly naked girl(she had on fleece footy pj's that pretty much have to come all the way off to go potty) in the back of my car going potty..........the fun never ends!
Friday, October 2, 2009
Friday Thoughts
It is friday and my head is full...full of randomness in my head that even prevented me from getting a good nights sleep last night, i could not sleep, not sure what the problem is but i better get some of this out.......
--I was thinking this morning while i was driving Iz to my mom's that when did she become a little girl!!! There she is in teh back seat happy as can be (i swear the child wakes up so freaking happy every day!) just chatting away with me. When did this happen??? where did my 15 word, wobbling toddler go??? I just really can't believe how fast my sweet baby girl has grown up!!!
--i have a older sister (step sister, half sister, what ever you want to call her) she is 10 years older than me and a "whoa is me" kind of mentality and a sense of entitlement that never ceases to amaze me. Needless to say we are not close even though she lives about an hour from me. This morning she call my office to talk to our dad(i work for my/our dad) she says "I have to talk to dad....." then proceeds to tell me her sob story about how her lease on her minivan is up and she can't believe she is looking at a $400 car payment and is going on and on.....are you serious! You are 42 years old, and you are calling your dad to see if he will help you with your freaking car payment!!! She is something else. Our family cruise in december will certainly be interesting, i wonder how many different things she is goign to try to milk my parents for (even though they have already paid for the freaking cruise!)
--i have been slacking again in the workout deparrtment...i am beginning to sound like broken record! I worked out for 30 min yesterday for the first time in about 2 weeks. I wonder what it is going to take for me to finally get myself back in check....urgh
--we met with our financial planner this week for our yearly review or whatever and man did i walk out of there with a headache....i know we are in a much better position financially that a large portion of the population but i sure did leave there feelign inadequate....holey crap college is expensive!! we started a 529 for izzy less than a year ago i think and have been putting almost nothing in it..$50 a month...which is better than nothing i guess but when our planner showed us the figure that with inflation it will cost about$200,000 for college i about fell out of my chair!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If we put an extra $100 a month away starting today, it will still only cover 32% of her college...........YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are also going to do some expense exercise over the next couple weeks with him where we look at what we are spending now, assume we want to live about the same and they plug the info into some software and it tell yous what you need to save for retirement....i can only imagine how depressing that figure is going to be...........if only money grew on trees!
--i can't believe it is already 11:30 am and i have gotten almost nothing done and work, i just am too tired to focus on much of anything......i hope i can sleep tonight!
--tomorrow we get a free day/night since the in laws volunteer to watch izzy (i love unsolicited babysitting..nothing better) so we are meeting up wiht our two couples and going to watch the MSU/UofM game at a local bar. Should be fun despite the outcome of the game..nice to hang with friends and know we have the rest of day and following morning off :)
hope everyone has a good weekend. GO TIGERS i hope they can finally clinch the division this weekend....
--I was thinking this morning while i was driving Iz to my mom's that when did she become a little girl!!! There she is in teh back seat happy as can be (i swear the child wakes up so freaking happy every day!) just chatting away with me. When did this happen??? where did my 15 word, wobbling toddler go??? I just really can't believe how fast my sweet baby girl has grown up!!!
--i have a older sister (step sister, half sister, what ever you want to call her) she is 10 years older than me and a "whoa is me" kind of mentality and a sense of entitlement that never ceases to amaze me. Needless to say we are not close even though she lives about an hour from me. This morning she call my office to talk to our dad(i work for my/our dad) she says "I have to talk to dad....." then proceeds to tell me her sob story about how her lease on her minivan is up and she can't believe she is looking at a $400 car payment and is going on and on.....are you serious! You are 42 years old, and you are calling your dad to see if he will help you with your freaking car payment!!! She is something else. Our family cruise in december will certainly be interesting, i wonder how many different things she is goign to try to milk my parents for (even though they have already paid for the freaking cruise!)
--i have been slacking again in the workout deparrtment...i am beginning to sound like broken record! I worked out for 30 min yesterday for the first time in about 2 weeks. I wonder what it is going to take for me to finally get myself back in check....urgh
--we met with our financial planner this week for our yearly review or whatever and man did i walk out of there with a headache....i know we are in a much better position financially that a large portion of the population but i sure did leave there feelign inadequate....holey crap college is expensive!! we started a 529 for izzy less than a year ago i think and have been putting almost nothing in it..$50 a month...which is better than nothing i guess but when our planner showed us the figure that with inflation it will cost about$200,000 for college i about fell out of my chair!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If we put an extra $100 a month away starting today, it will still only cover 32% of her college...........YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are also going to do some expense exercise over the next couple weeks with him where we look at what we are spending now, assume we want to live about the same and they plug the info into some software and it tell yous what you need to save for retirement....i can only imagine how depressing that figure is going to be...........if only money grew on trees!
--i can't believe it is already 11:30 am and i have gotten almost nothing done and work, i just am too tired to focus on much of anything......i hope i can sleep tonight!
--tomorrow we get a free day/night since the in laws volunteer to watch izzy (i love unsolicited babysitting..nothing better) so we are meeting up wiht our two couples and going to watch the MSU/UofM game at a local bar. Should be fun despite the outcome of the game..nice to hang with friends and know we have the rest of day and following morning off :)
hope everyone has a good weekend. GO TIGERS i hope they can finally clinch the division this weekend....
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