Wednesday, June 28
Another year older ~
Today is my birthday.
Another year older.
Seems like I should still be 27 and feeling young and impetuous.  Now instead I feel my age and not so daring.  A bit more cautious about things in general.  Especially where the kids are concerned.
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The boys. Ha, little evil monsters that they are.  Gotta love em.  They are growing and getting older as fast as I feel older.
Potty training, how to dress themselves, how to write, maybe just maybe for Once color IN the lines...
Little one is walking now, he's going longer distances in just days.  He tried to chase his older brother down the hall the other night.  Giggling all way.  Losing his balance from the excitement of the catch to end up falling into crawling the rest of the way to the doorway.  Then setting himself upright on two feet to finish the chase.
The older of the two laughing and hiding  under his blanket.  Then popping out from under and out of the bed rushing to the living room looking behind him and laughing as his little brother sees and starts to laugh at the action in front and now down the hall from him. The little guys gets distracted though at all his brothers toys scattered in their room and starts to play.  But too many of the toys have small parts that could be harmful so he gets yanked and brought to the living room to play with some of his toys and his brother.  I don't remember having as much energy as these boys have, but I'm sure I did my share of running around at that age.
Well, another year older.  That's ok, that's what Clairol is for isn't it.


Sunday, June 25
~ Another One of those nights ~

Besides the boys and I being sick. Connor (16 months) decides that last night is going to be another night where he doesn't feel good no matter what and will cry till he throws up.
Poor kid. I ran the gamut with trying to figure out what to do for him. In the end it was to simply let him cry a bit, sooth him when I could, until he would get tired enough to pass out. And I thought that was working. But then he started up again. I had to get some sleep, cuz I'm still sick and downed a rather large amount of night time meds so that I could freakin breath! So my hubby took over and took the kid out to the living room to try to calm down. I eventually fell asleep and so did they. I don't know when he came back to bed. But when I woke this morning it was him calling me over to the boys room. The baby had gotten sick and the hubby was ready to head out to his class. So I got stuck with messy baby and baby sheets, while I was
still wiping the sleep from my eyes.
Got the little one cleaned up and brought him out to the living room with his brother and asked hubby if I could at least pee before he went and for him to watch the kids (they were running loose in the living room, although baby proof, it's never baby proof enough!!). He did and I did. Great wake up call.
It's near noon. Finally finished one cup of coffee. Nasty baby sheet/blankets in the washer. Little baby cleaned and in playpen. Bigger baby is sitting on the toilet taking forever to go potty, which figures cuz now I GOTTA GO! Typical. We need a place with 2 bathrooms, this is murder.
Then I'll finally be able to shower! NOON and I haven't had a chance to shower yet!
Well, Connor is crying and probably needs some Tylenol. Glen is whining, but he's on the toilet so he's just gonna have to let nature take it's course. And I gotta blow my nose like a fog horn and direct the boats home.
Later.
C

:)



Friday, June 23
A/C cold
A/c colds suck butt!!
I can't believe for the past two weeks I've had a cold cuz of the A/C being on at night. I can't stand the heat, but at the same time, my nose is clogged up, my throat is sore, coughing, and I sound like Harvey Fierstein. Have you ever seen him doing a little stint on Sesame Street singing a song "everything coming up noses". My life with kids, this is what I think of first instead of the fact that he was on Broadway doin "Fiddler on the Roof"
Well it's supposed to storm today, so I'm gonna shut down the a/c and see if I can survive the hot 87 degrees and humidity from hell in order to try to not be sick anymore.
Joy.


Thursday, June 22
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Friday, June 16
~ No Kids!
Wow... tonight my brother and sister in law are going to babysit the boys for us and take them overnight!!!
We asked them to babysit for us for Saturday cuz we have a baby shower to go to. And they offered to take the boys from Friday night through Saturday. We said YES!
Connor is old enough now that I won't feel to bad or too worried about him being without us.
I would worry before cuz he was good with making himself sick with crying. But these days he's doing better with putting himself to sleep and sleeping for most of the night. He still cries like a mad kid when I'm not around, but after about an hour of that, he gives up and deals with the fact that I'm not. So they will have to listen to him screaming for a bit tonight when we leave, and then again when he wants to go to sleep and he knows it's not his crib that he's in to sleep. But that's ok... They offered to take them overnight.. we've warned them! So they can't say we didn't.
Glen will probably be a little upset, but once they get him playing, he won't notice too much that we are gone. I'm getting their bag together with their clothes and extra clothes, swim trunks, DVD's that calms the savage beast (a.k.a. Connor/ "Curious Buddies" and "Little Einstein"), bottles, diapers, wipes, blankies, some toys. I know I'll forget something. Oh yeah, some snacks they like, FOOD. lol.
We figure we drop the kids off, then head over to Applebee's for dinner. Maybe hit the bookstore, then come home to an apartment without children to disturb our bedroom dancing!! YeeHaaa!! (TMI? tough noogie, hehehee), Oh wait, that's if we aren't too exhausted from the long week of kids throwing up in the night, having high fevers early in the week, and coughing all freakin night longgggg. *sigh*
Who am I kidding. With toddlers you take the chance when you can get it!


Wednesday, June 14
Changed my mind

Changed my mind. Don't miss work all that much anymore.
One of the things that go along with the gossip and the yakking amongst
coworkers, is the fact that everyone is absolutely in everyone else's
business. Especially the ones you don't want in your business.
I remembered this because this morning I went and picked up some
fiberfill and batting from a friend at her job and 3 different people
had to ask me who I was looking for. The first 2 came around twice, I
gave her name, extension and said that I got her voice mail and will
wait for her for a few minutes. They looked eager to ask what it was
regarding, but I looked down at Connor in his stroller and started to
play peek a boo with him. So they knew I wasn't going to be too
forthcoming.
The first one came back to say that she was in, but he didn't see her at
her desk. I said I'd wait a couple of minutes.
The second went in and another woman came out and asked if I was waiting
from "Sara".
I said I was and that I left a voice message, she said ok but she's in a
meeting can I help you with anything.
I know that in a meeting line, have used it many MANY times myself.
I told her I was there to pick up some batting and fiberfill from her,
that I was supposed to pick it up earlier in the week but was unable
too. She knew what I was talking about and said she'd be right back. I
thought she'd be coming out with the stuff.
But here comes "Sara" with the stuff and apologizing all over the
place. I told her it was no problem and apologized myself for not being
able to pick up originally two days ago.
All was fine.
But now I remember one of the things I didn't like about work. And at
the same time, it's the thing that I mentioned the other day that I
miss. Go figure.
Watching the people trudge into the office with their briefcases looking
all grumpy and sad. Thank goodness that's not me right now.
Will be again soon enough when I want to put Connor in day car for
better social skills, but for now.. thank God it's not me, I'll stick
with the dirty diapers and baby puke for now.



Monday, June 12
Things I miss about working

One thing I miss about working is the friends that I made there.
We would always have time to chit chat about our personal lives and give
each other encouragement, support, or comfort.
I keep in touch with some of them. But not to the degree that I'd like
too.
No one's fault on that line, just that we all have our lives that keep
us busy and when we aren't linked by that workplace to catch up or talk
daily, we just kinda only email or talk every couple of months.
I used to love the gossip and the office battles between so and so. I
used to be one of the so and so's on more than one occasion. Lord knows
I was not easy to deal with in my position, but I tried to stick to the
rules and at the same time others would bend them. So this causes
office conflict and gossip and so and so's.

An ex-coworker and a good friend for the 8 years that I worked there,
got married recently. They are pregnant and due in August. I was
invited to the baby shower and my husband and I are looking forward to
going this Saturday.
I found out that my ex supervisor wasn't invited by the person making
the arrangements and she's got no idea why. I would have thought that
if anyone had a grudge to hold against her would be me, since I'm no
longer working. But alas, office politics, battles, and gossip continue
without me and I have no idea what's going on that she wasn't invited.
And she doesn't either.
I tried to sneak some information from the person that is helping
engineer the baby shower, but so far I haven't gotten a response to my
last fained innocent email about why my ex-supervisor's not coming when
I haven't seen anyone in almost a year.....
I figured if I played stupid cuz I haven't been in contact with anyone
and don't have a good idea about what's going on, that she'd blab. She
used to blab to me once in a while.
But so far, she hasn't emailed back.. hmmmm..

I should say I miss the office gossip when I'm not part of it. I miss
talking to adults other than my husband for an hour out of the entire
day. When you add it all up together, we don't get to talk much between
his working and the kids.
I miss going out with my husband on occasion and feeling like it's only
us to worry about. Even if we do get to go out, which hasn't happened
in a long while. Somehow we end up talking about the little monsters
that rule our lives.
My brother in law agreed to babysit the boys for the baby shower and in
fact, they are willing to take the boys overnight from Friday night into
Saturday. So we can have a date night and the next day go to the baby
shower with ease. Connor is old enough now to be a little easier to
deal with, but they are gonna have a hard time getting him to sleep.
It'll be good practice for them. They aren't with child anytime soon,
but they are getting older and I hope they realize that you can have a
kid late in life, but as you get older there are more risks and less
time for you to enjoy them.

Yeah.. office gossip... date nights... conversation over dinner that
doesn't include how a child threw up and what was in it to make him
throw up... miss the thinner me that didn't gain all the weight from
both kids... miss adult conversation... but with all that I miss, I
have some fun times with the boys and looking at their faces, listening
to their laughs, I know all is worth it.





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