Well it's time for another update. We are offically here in Wisconsin. I have to say a big THANK YOU to all the family members and church members that helped us move out then in our new house. We totally appericated it! We moved out of the house in 1 1/2 hours so YEAH then unloading only took about the same as well. It was really cool. The new house has stairs so the novelty to the girls was REALLY REALLY annoying but it everyday they go up and down them less and less so that is good.
We couldn't get like 8 things in the truck and van so we are going back this weekend to clean and load the items that were left in the van. It is crazy how much we need to do in the old house to make it ready for 'showing' but we are going to get it done and make it look beautiful... LOL well... we'll see.
The move was pretty fast we are still unpacking but things are going well so far. It's kind of strange living in the same house with Tait. The girls are starting to get a routine down. We still don't have cable and we won't get it until Friday so we have watched a TON of DVDs and such and unpacking. I am ready to get some kind of routine down with them. I really want to do some "school" time with them... just so I feel like they are getting something other than just TV. The girls seem to be adjusting well. The weather has been sooooo crappy here. It's like what it was in Indiana like 2 months ago... so we are like 2 months behind. Someone in the grocery store yesterday was saying that they never have a spring it goes straight to Freezing cold to 90 degrees. So that was exciting news. I can always dress the girls warmer but the problem is the rain is CONSTANT so hopefully it will dry up here in the next couple of days and we'll be able to play outside.
We took the girls twice to the indoors Burger Kind play place so they could release some of their energy. We did take them last night to the lake to "feed the gulls" but there were nooooooo birds... I guess they figured it was too cold. We let the girls play on the stuff there for awhile.
So I'm just enjoying my time with the girls right now. But we'll see what happens over the next couple of weeks. Keep your fingers crossed.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Midweek Update!
Okay we are midway people… here we go… its ALLL DOWNHILL NOW BABY! Okay so maybe that’s over the top… but I feel in my heart soooo excited and nervous and anxious and worried, and happy and ALLLLLL of these emotions are ALLLL jumbled together it’s seriously the CRAZIEST feeling in the world! So where are we…?
I’m 99.9% packed… how cool is that? And I have to say thank GOOOOOOODNESS for church members b/c honestly I couldn’t have gotten it all done w/out their help. The YW came over last and really helped get all the “odds and Ins” done which was nice. So I’m done… (Sigh)
I am going to pack the rest of the dishes we used for the past week tonight and I will clean out the freg (since we are taking that with us) I really can’t wait it’s going to be such a relief to be around family and to have a new house and it will be really wonderful. We had a change of plans and we are going to be meeting Tim and Helen on Friday in Merryville so that they can take Lehna and Maya and the seats to our Van and I’ll pick up Tait and bring him back home on Friday evening. I’m glad that we are doing it this way b/c that will make it WAY easier to get packed on Saturday without having to worry about Lehna and Maya getting stepped on, and I think it would be less anxiety for them not to watch the entire contents of our house being packed into a semi truck (well moving truck).
I am still worried about not having a job I am trying to “let it go” but mercy it’s hard. I want to “give the problem” to Heavenly Father but man I’m SUCH a control freak that its TOTALLY hard and the news in the world about how horrible the job market is and etc it’s reallllly worrying… So hopefully it will all work itself out. One thing on the job market is I had a county in WI contact me and invited me actually to a test for a job for the county…so that’s something. We’ll see what happens with that. I mean I think that this is how it’s “supposed” to be for awhile… maybe HF thinks I need a break… I just don’t want to end up in the poor house b/c of my “vacation” but… again… it’s time to “let it go” Just breathe.
So we have packed everything all the girls’ toys are packed and etc… and last night right around bedtime Lehna goes ‘where are my pretty shoes’ and I go “Lehna we packed them up already” and she goes “Already Geeze” LOL I told her that we would unpacked them in a couple of days… she looked around and goes “mommy you packed all of our toys” and I go “Lehna look in you bed you have a baby there to play with” and she goes “oh yeah I forgot about her” LOL I just left ONE baby out… that will probably bite me in the butt… but I’m hoping that by the time the day ends that I will spend the evening with the girls outside and they will not have to worry about the fact that all the toys are packed up… at least I hope!
I will get the bathroom packed tonight. I just need to pack shampoo and odds and ends… but then I’m DONE DONE DONE… Can’t wait! Tait talked to the Priesthood President yesterday and they are going to have some members up in WI to help us unload so that will be nice too… hopefully we can get all the little stuff unpacked then the guys can help us get the bigger stuff placed in the house…
I packed my office today. It’s really sad. I really love my job here so I will really be sad to see myself leave and not return, but it’s time to move onto bigger and better things. I hope anyways! It’s true what they say about always thinking the grass is always greener… and I have ALWAYS been that kind of person when it comes to my job… always searching for something else… I just have felt at home at Express for so long that it will feel like I’m leaving my home how sad is that?
So onto my new adventure, it’s just an exciting time for me right now. This move is going to really improve so many things that it’s really such a good thing. I love new challenges and I do enjoy change every once and awhile. We will all go through a period of adjustment… I know that the girls will be so much happier with their parents living TOGETHER rather then apart… so bring it on. I’m ready.
I’m 99.9% packed… how cool is that? And I have to say thank GOOOOOOODNESS for church members b/c honestly I couldn’t have gotten it all done w/out their help. The YW came over last and really helped get all the “odds and Ins” done which was nice. So I’m done… (Sigh)
I am going to pack the rest of the dishes we used for the past week tonight and I will clean out the freg (since we are taking that with us) I really can’t wait it’s going to be such a relief to be around family and to have a new house and it will be really wonderful. We had a change of plans and we are going to be meeting Tim and Helen on Friday in Merryville so that they can take Lehna and Maya and the seats to our Van and I’ll pick up Tait and bring him back home on Friday evening. I’m glad that we are doing it this way b/c that will make it WAY easier to get packed on Saturday without having to worry about Lehna and Maya getting stepped on, and I think it would be less anxiety for them not to watch the entire contents of our house being packed into a semi truck (well moving truck).
I am still worried about not having a job I am trying to “let it go” but mercy it’s hard. I want to “give the problem” to Heavenly Father but man I’m SUCH a control freak that its TOTALLY hard and the news in the world about how horrible the job market is and etc it’s reallllly worrying… So hopefully it will all work itself out. One thing on the job market is I had a county in WI contact me and invited me actually to a test for a job for the county…so that’s something. We’ll see what happens with that. I mean I think that this is how it’s “supposed” to be for awhile… maybe HF thinks I need a break… I just don’t want to end up in the poor house b/c of my “vacation” but… again… it’s time to “let it go” Just breathe.
So we have packed everything all the girls’ toys are packed and etc… and last night right around bedtime Lehna goes ‘where are my pretty shoes’ and I go “Lehna we packed them up already” and she goes “Already Geeze” LOL I told her that we would unpacked them in a couple of days… she looked around and goes “mommy you packed all of our toys” and I go “Lehna look in you bed you have a baby there to play with” and she goes “oh yeah I forgot about her” LOL I just left ONE baby out… that will probably bite me in the butt… but I’m hoping that by the time the day ends that I will spend the evening with the girls outside and they will not have to worry about the fact that all the toys are packed up… at least I hope!
I will get the bathroom packed tonight. I just need to pack shampoo and odds and ends… but then I’m DONE DONE DONE… Can’t wait! Tait talked to the Priesthood President yesterday and they are going to have some members up in WI to help us unload so that will be nice too… hopefully we can get all the little stuff unpacked then the guys can help us get the bigger stuff placed in the house…
I packed my office today. It’s really sad. I really love my job here so I will really be sad to see myself leave and not return, but it’s time to move onto bigger and better things. I hope anyways! It’s true what they say about always thinking the grass is always greener… and I have ALWAYS been that kind of person when it comes to my job… always searching for something else… I just have felt at home at Express for so long that it will feel like I’m leaving my home how sad is that?
So onto my new adventure, it’s just an exciting time for me right now. This move is going to really improve so many things that it’s really such a good thing. I love new challenges and I do enjoy change every once and awhile. We will all go through a period of adjustment… I know that the girls will be so much happier with their parents living TOGETHER rather then apart… so bring it on. I’m ready.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Weekend Round Up and Weekly Plan! (Look out she’s got a plan)
So this weekend we really did quite a bit round the ol’ homestead and out of the house as well. Tait and I were having a disagreement about what to do this weekend b/c there were some events that both Tait and I wanted to attend and we both had a lot of work to do around the house with us leaving this weekend and all. Soooo I tried something new that someone very wise suggested that I try to see if Tait and my communication could improve. So I tried out her suggestion and there was peace and harmony. So thank you for the advice because it seemed to work. So far at least.
So this weekend I had three main tasks that I wanted completed. The garage needed to be sorted and organized, our closets needed to be packed away also all the pictures in our room and front room needed taken down, and the third thing is the swing set needed taken apart. So I told Tait that if we could get two of the tasks completed on Saturday we could save the third task to Sunday. So on Saturday morning our children woke us up VERY early and we were out working on the house before 7 am. We finished the garage in about 2 hours. We have more stuff to go to the curb still but we had so MUCH the first round that we have to notify the trash people first so they will take all of the trash for next week. But what we took was literally GONE in like an hour after we put it out there… it was the CRAZIEST thing I have ever seen. Then we went into the house and finished packing our closets. We decided to wait until Sunday to take down the swing set. So by 10:30 we were pretty much done with the two tasks. So we went ahead and went to the two events that we both wanted to attend.
The first event was Tait wanted to go to the Purdue Spring game. Which is literally a game in which Purdue plays itself, it is kind of boring to watch to be honest with you b/c most of the players you never see during the regular season (it’s kind of like preseason football) So Tait packed us a picnic lunch and we took the girls to the game. They quarters were seriously 27 minutes long but the clock was continuous so that made it better but still it was LONG. So after about half time the girls were all over the steps and benches we decided to go to the Spring Bug Bowl at Purdue. Lehna kept talking about riding the train b/c as we were coming up upon Purdue we saw the Boilermaker Special and she of course wanted to ride the train. So we told her that we would try to get there to ride the train. Well we walked back to the car and then started walking towards the Bug Bowl when we realized that it was already 2:30 and the next event started at 3 so there was not going to be a way to get all the way to the bug bowl and really have any time to spend there. So we headed back to the car. Lehna was VERY disappointed but we told her we were going to go see Nana and Papa and she said “okay” and we headed back to the car.
The second event was a birthday celebration (of sorts) For Max, our nephew. It is a Chinese tradition in which after the 100th day of birth you celebrate with family and friends. It is a cool tradition. It was really fun to see all the family. Max is soooo adorable. And he was soooooo good I only heard him whine once when he was getting his diaper changed. It was so funny to watch Maya with all the babies. Sarah and Adam had invited a bunch of their friends and a lot of them have children about the age of Evan and Maya was in BABY CITY! This for her is RIGHT up her alley. She would squat next to them and go “Hi baby” and then sit next to them and try to engage them ANYWAY she could. Lehna was VERY shy and didn’t go very far. Lehna doesn’t like dogs and they have a husky that Lehna was VERY leery about and all the new faces she wasn’t at all interested in straying too far. They had a TON of food. Sarah is Chinese and her food is always so very good. Her mom made Sushi and I had real sushi, no like Kroger sushi. It was good. I don’t think I would like a sushi bar/restaurant. Tait LOVED it he kept trying to urge me to eat more. And it was good but one was enough. So it was a fun event.
After that we went and grabbed some ice cream we promised Lehna if she was good we would take her to ice cream and surprisingly enough Maya DIDN’T get it all over the front of her. I guess it pays to sit at the table in the Ice Cream parlor… b/c she was very clean. I had even gotten her vanilla just in case she did get it all over the front of her (I can’t get chocolate out of clothes I totally suck at it) So I didn’t want to ruin her cute pink shirt.
On Sunday we had our last time at the Crawfordsville Ward. It was very sad. I love my ward and my calling actually so it was really sad to sit with the girls one last time. But something good did come out of it. I talked to a couple of the ladies from Church and they volunteered to come and help me pack this week. So I’m VERY grateful for their help. The Young Women are coming on Wednesday night to help me finish pack the odds and ins. Tonight I’m going to get all of the items I’m going to need for the next couple of days out and put aside so I can literally tell the girls that they can pack EVERYTHING that they see. They said afterwards they would even start to clean. So that’s awesome.
Last night the Jensen family came over for the Family Home Evening to help us pack. Also Jessica came over too, it was so great. We got SOOOO much done there would have been NO way I would have gotten it done by myself. So it was wonderful how they helped me out.
I have my kitchen all done except for under the sink, and a few dishes that we are actively using. I have the girls’ room completely done except for the girls hanging cloths and the clothes in their dresser. The front room is expected for the toys in the corner and then there are just odd things that need put in a box. I’m pretty excited that so much of it was done last night.
So tonight I’ll get the rest of the clothes and stuff out for the rest of the week and then on Wednesday it should be done. The playroom is totally packed with boxes as is the garage. I hope we get it all in the truck that will be the next step. We have a people coming from Church and then my family members coming to help us so hopefully loading won’t be too bad. I just hope it all fits! But if push comes to shove then I will be able to come back for boxes over the next couple of weekends… So hopefully we won’t have to do that… I hope!
News on the job front! Well I got a call from one of the staffing companies I have been talking to and we set up a Face to Face meeting for the first week of May. He is located in Kentucky and they are going to be opening an office for a company in Pleasant Prairie (which is where I will live) an on site company. I have been kind of in the loop with this company since like January and he gave me a time line of start date which would be like June… so we’ll see what happens… keep your fingers crossed for me. I have been praying and I hope it continues to be positive vibes… please please… I hope…
I talked to the Racine office… and it doesn’t sound like that is going to go anywhere… so maybe I’m supposed to be for this new company. We’ll see. I hope!
So that’s all I got… pretty exciting times right now. I’m so excited about moving. I can’t wait… Can’t wait! The girls are starting to get anxious too… Lehna keeps asking me every night if we are going to move into our new house tomorrow so I know they are excited. I just can’t wait to get there and all is together again. It was defiantly something that I needed for myself but I’m done… I’m ready to be together again.
So to a new adventure…
So this weekend I had three main tasks that I wanted completed. The garage needed to be sorted and organized, our closets needed to be packed away also all the pictures in our room and front room needed taken down, and the third thing is the swing set needed taken apart. So I told Tait that if we could get two of the tasks completed on Saturday we could save the third task to Sunday. So on Saturday morning our children woke us up VERY early and we were out working on the house before 7 am. We finished the garage in about 2 hours. We have more stuff to go to the curb still but we had so MUCH the first round that we have to notify the trash people first so they will take all of the trash for next week. But what we took was literally GONE in like an hour after we put it out there… it was the CRAZIEST thing I have ever seen. Then we went into the house and finished packing our closets. We decided to wait until Sunday to take down the swing set. So by 10:30 we were pretty much done with the two tasks. So we went ahead and went to the two events that we both wanted to attend.
The first event was Tait wanted to go to the Purdue Spring game. Which is literally a game in which Purdue plays itself, it is kind of boring to watch to be honest with you b/c most of the players you never see during the regular season (it’s kind of like preseason football) So Tait packed us a picnic lunch and we took the girls to the game. They quarters were seriously 27 minutes long but the clock was continuous so that made it better but still it was LONG. So after about half time the girls were all over the steps and benches we decided to go to the Spring Bug Bowl at Purdue. Lehna kept talking about riding the train b/c as we were coming up upon Purdue we saw the Boilermaker Special and she of course wanted to ride the train. So we told her that we would try to get there to ride the train. Well we walked back to the car and then started walking towards the Bug Bowl when we realized that it was already 2:30 and the next event started at 3 so there was not going to be a way to get all the way to the bug bowl and really have any time to spend there. So we headed back to the car. Lehna was VERY disappointed but we told her we were going to go see Nana and Papa and she said “okay” and we headed back to the car.
The second event was a birthday celebration (of sorts) For Max, our nephew. It is a Chinese tradition in which after the 100th day of birth you celebrate with family and friends. It is a cool tradition. It was really fun to see all the family. Max is soooo adorable. And he was soooooo good I only heard him whine once when he was getting his diaper changed. It was so funny to watch Maya with all the babies. Sarah and Adam had invited a bunch of their friends and a lot of them have children about the age of Evan and Maya was in BABY CITY! This for her is RIGHT up her alley. She would squat next to them and go “Hi baby” and then sit next to them and try to engage them ANYWAY she could. Lehna was VERY shy and didn’t go very far. Lehna doesn’t like dogs and they have a husky that Lehna was VERY leery about and all the new faces she wasn’t at all interested in straying too far. They had a TON of food. Sarah is Chinese and her food is always so very good. Her mom made Sushi and I had real sushi, no like Kroger sushi. It was good. I don’t think I would like a sushi bar/restaurant. Tait LOVED it he kept trying to urge me to eat more. And it was good but one was enough. So it was a fun event.
After that we went and grabbed some ice cream we promised Lehna if she was good we would take her to ice cream and surprisingly enough Maya DIDN’T get it all over the front of her. I guess it pays to sit at the table in the Ice Cream parlor… b/c she was very clean. I had even gotten her vanilla just in case she did get it all over the front of her (I can’t get chocolate out of clothes I totally suck at it) So I didn’t want to ruin her cute pink shirt.
On Sunday we had our last time at the Crawfordsville Ward. It was very sad. I love my ward and my calling actually so it was really sad to sit with the girls one last time. But something good did come out of it. I talked to a couple of the ladies from Church and they volunteered to come and help me pack this week. So I’m VERY grateful for their help. The Young Women are coming on Wednesday night to help me finish pack the odds and ins. Tonight I’m going to get all of the items I’m going to need for the next couple of days out and put aside so I can literally tell the girls that they can pack EVERYTHING that they see. They said afterwards they would even start to clean. So that’s awesome.
Last night the Jensen family came over for the Family Home Evening to help us pack. Also Jessica came over too, it was so great. We got SOOOO much done there would have been NO way I would have gotten it done by myself. So it was wonderful how they helped me out.
I have my kitchen all done except for under the sink, and a few dishes that we are actively using. I have the girls’ room completely done except for the girls hanging cloths and the clothes in their dresser. The front room is expected for the toys in the corner and then there are just odd things that need put in a box. I’m pretty excited that so much of it was done last night.
So tonight I’ll get the rest of the clothes and stuff out for the rest of the week and then on Wednesday it should be done. The playroom is totally packed with boxes as is the garage. I hope we get it all in the truck that will be the next step. We have a people coming from Church and then my family members coming to help us so hopefully loading won’t be too bad. I just hope it all fits! But if push comes to shove then I will be able to come back for boxes over the next couple of weekends… So hopefully we won’t have to do that… I hope!
News on the job front! Well I got a call from one of the staffing companies I have been talking to and we set up a Face to Face meeting for the first week of May. He is located in Kentucky and they are going to be opening an office for a company in Pleasant Prairie (which is where I will live) an on site company. I have been kind of in the loop with this company since like January and he gave me a time line of start date which would be like June… so we’ll see what happens… keep your fingers crossed for me. I have been praying and I hope it continues to be positive vibes… please please… I hope…
I talked to the Racine office… and it doesn’t sound like that is going to go anywhere… so maybe I’m supposed to be for this new company. We’ll see. I hope!
So that’s all I got… pretty exciting times right now. I’m so excited about moving. I can’t wait… Can’t wait! The girls are starting to get anxious too… Lehna keeps asking me every night if we are going to move into our new house tomorrow so I know they are excited. I just can’t wait to get there and all is together again. It was defiantly something that I needed for myself but I’m done… I’m ready to be together again.
So to a new adventure…
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Update
Well another day another million boxes down and still a million more to pack. I know I know I exaggerate. Last night Lehna BEGGED me to play with her. And I felt really bad so after about 7:30 I stopped for the night gave them baths and we sat on the couch and played for about 45 minutes. It was a nice evening. I don’t know how much I’m going to get done tonight. But I will work on what I can. I think I’m going to need more boxes. It’s crazy how FAST the freaking fill up.
I still have a number of things to pack so we’ll see what I can get accomplished… One positive thing… We are getting rid of the FUTON! Yeah! I’m so very excited. I HATE that futon… HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT! So I will be glad when it’s gone.
I can’t believe that it’s Thursday… where has the week gone? I hope that things get accomplished this weekend. I hope hope hope. I have been trying to stay positive. Which I am such a negative person, it’s really hard. I get to meet with Marge tonight. I’m really looking forward to it.
Lehna and Maya have been really good this week at daycare. They like to start behavior charts and then after three days they stop doing it. So yesterday I came in and Lehna had 3 stars next to her name and Maya had 3 stars too and I asked them what it was for and Lehna goes “It’s b/c I was really good today” So I was like okay. So that meant that they got to be the teacher’s helper or something… I don’t know. But just last week they had behavior sticks… so I don’t know what happened to them. It’s like they just create these random ideas and then they don’t follow through with them. It’s very strange. I have been keeping up with the treasure box Lehna is VERY consistent about asking when she gets to pick out of the box.
Maya slept the ENTIRE night last night… she woke up at 2 am and whined for like one second and went right back to sleep… she woke up at 4:30 (right before my alarm went off) and I brought her in the bedroom then I hit the snooze like 5 times. I enjoy sleeping. I love my snooze button. It was nice.
I gave Maya a breathing treatment last night b/c everyday when I pick her up from daycare they have been saying how horrible Maya has been coughing and how sick she is… but she isn’t running a fever… So I’m like Okay. So I gave her that treatment hoping that it would help her. She coughed MAYBE three times last night. So that’s a good thing. But the breathing treatment “should” make her cough more b/c it’s supposed to break up her chest nastiness so she can cough it out. So I don’t know maybe she just needs more treatments. She was so good I was able to put the mask around her head and she sat through it. No problems at all. Of course it helped that I put on Max and Ruby… seriously an Atomic Bomb could go off and Maya wouldn’t notice if Max and Ruby was one. She LOVES that show. And I have to admit it is a cute show. I feel bad for the little orphan bunnies and Ruby is quite a bossy bunny but it’s a cute show.
Yesterday in the car we were driving home and Lehna wanted to switch to Kipper the Dog which I like him too, but he makes me tired, and I was telling Lehna that he makes me sleepy. So last night Kipper was on and Lehna was already in the bed and she goes “look Mommy Kippers on now you’ll fall asleep” I was like yep. LOL I think it’s the British accents… it’s b/c I fell asleep for MANY years to the sound of Keeping Up Appearances, Are you being Served?, the Victor of Dibley, and Fawlty Towers… that every time I hear British accents it seriously puts me to sleep.
Well some crazy stuff happened to Tanna yesterday. Tanna is due like literally in 2-3 weeks. Well She went to the doctor yesterday and the doctor had a hard time finding the heart beat and so they hooked her up to a machine and shortly after the doctor came in and said that they needed to get her into ultrasound… he said that “you’re 36 weeks so we may just deliver this baby today” So they put her in the ultrasound and the baby was fine reading in the normal range. They think it was the baby’s position. Well Tanna doesn’t know what she’s having. And I asked if she found out and she goes “no I don’t want to know” LOL and I was like but you didn’t ask being so CLOSE! And she goes “no I want to be surprised" I don’t know about you but it’s KILLING me not knowing… LOL She already has the baby’s name picked out and it’s literally going to be the same name just spelled different… so she doesn’t care… I KNOW that I wouldn’t be able to do it… you know? And she has both a boy and a girl so she has both sets of clothing so whatever she has she’s covered… but I wouldn’t be able to stand it…
Okay that’s all the mindless nonsense I have…
I still have a number of things to pack so we’ll see what I can get accomplished… One positive thing… We are getting rid of the FUTON! Yeah! I’m so very excited. I HATE that futon… HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT! So I will be glad when it’s gone.
I can’t believe that it’s Thursday… where has the week gone? I hope that things get accomplished this weekend. I hope hope hope. I have been trying to stay positive. Which I am such a negative person, it’s really hard. I get to meet with Marge tonight. I’m really looking forward to it.
Lehna and Maya have been really good this week at daycare. They like to start behavior charts and then after three days they stop doing it. So yesterday I came in and Lehna had 3 stars next to her name and Maya had 3 stars too and I asked them what it was for and Lehna goes “It’s b/c I was really good today” So I was like okay. So that meant that they got to be the teacher’s helper or something… I don’t know. But just last week they had behavior sticks… so I don’t know what happened to them. It’s like they just create these random ideas and then they don’t follow through with them. It’s very strange. I have been keeping up with the treasure box Lehna is VERY consistent about asking when she gets to pick out of the box.
Maya slept the ENTIRE night last night… she woke up at 2 am and whined for like one second and went right back to sleep… she woke up at 4:30 (right before my alarm went off) and I brought her in the bedroom then I hit the snooze like 5 times. I enjoy sleeping. I love my snooze button. It was nice.
I gave Maya a breathing treatment last night b/c everyday when I pick her up from daycare they have been saying how horrible Maya has been coughing and how sick she is… but she isn’t running a fever… So I’m like Okay. So I gave her that treatment hoping that it would help her. She coughed MAYBE three times last night. So that’s a good thing. But the breathing treatment “should” make her cough more b/c it’s supposed to break up her chest nastiness so she can cough it out. So I don’t know maybe she just needs more treatments. She was so good I was able to put the mask around her head and she sat through it. No problems at all. Of course it helped that I put on Max and Ruby… seriously an Atomic Bomb could go off and Maya wouldn’t notice if Max and Ruby was one. She LOVES that show. And I have to admit it is a cute show. I feel bad for the little orphan bunnies and Ruby is quite a bossy bunny but it’s a cute show.
Yesterday in the car we were driving home and Lehna wanted to switch to Kipper the Dog which I like him too, but he makes me tired, and I was telling Lehna that he makes me sleepy. So last night Kipper was on and Lehna was already in the bed and she goes “look Mommy Kippers on now you’ll fall asleep” I was like yep. LOL I think it’s the British accents… it’s b/c I fell asleep for MANY years to the sound of Keeping Up Appearances, Are you being Served?, the Victor of Dibley, and Fawlty Towers… that every time I hear British accents it seriously puts me to sleep.
Well some crazy stuff happened to Tanna yesterday. Tanna is due like literally in 2-3 weeks. Well She went to the doctor yesterday and the doctor had a hard time finding the heart beat and so they hooked her up to a machine and shortly after the doctor came in and said that they needed to get her into ultrasound… he said that “you’re 36 weeks so we may just deliver this baby today” So they put her in the ultrasound and the baby was fine reading in the normal range. They think it was the baby’s position. Well Tanna doesn’t know what she’s having. And I asked if she found out and she goes “no I don’t want to know” LOL and I was like but you didn’t ask being so CLOSE! And she goes “no I want to be surprised" I don’t know about you but it’s KILLING me not knowing… LOL She already has the baby’s name picked out and it’s literally going to be the same name just spelled different… so she doesn’t care… I KNOW that I wouldn’t be able to do it… you know? And she has both a boy and a girl so she has both sets of clothing so whatever she has she’s covered… but I wouldn’t be able to stand it…
Okay that’s all the mindless nonsense I have…
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Packing... Packing... Packing
Well Day one of packing. And it is over. Only one more Monday left and we will be loading the truck. YEAH! Well last night I got some stuff done, I wish I could have gotten more done but the girls were so wild that they weren’t going to go to sleep.
Things that I got accomplished.
I packed All of Lehna’s clothes that didn’t fit so all of the 4 & 5 that were in the toy room, her closet, and closet. I packed all of the 3’s that are soon to be moved to Maya’s closet (once we move). I packed the entire toy closet which there is only three things left in the closet but I needed a bigger box and I forgot box tape when I went to the store yesterday so I couldn’t make any bigger boxes… I was able to get all the things hanging in the toy room so pictures, the curtains, and wall items packed. I also got all the pictures down from the hallway and packed and most of the pictures out of my room and kitchen. And I got all the remaining toys and books packed away.
I still have a ton left to pack. It’s amazing just how much that is left to do… it’s kind of depressing to be honest with you.
So tonight my game plan. Go through Maya’s clothes and pack away all of her things that don’t fit anymore, the bathroom, and lien closet, and finish with all the pictures on the wall.
My house is a complete disaster. I didn’t put anything away from our trip so I have like bags and stuff of things that need to be put away from the trip. Lehna and Maya were awesome enough to go through them and remove all items from the bag and put them on the floor so that was great. So now instead of the stuff being in bags piled the stuff is just all over the floor. I have an entire sink full of dishes my kitchen counters are piled… Too many things to do and not enough hours in the day to get it done.
Last night at about 8:30 I put the girls to bed and they were PINKING off the walls. Maya was shaking her crib so badly that I thought that someone was knocking on the front door. Lehna came out of her room every 5 minutes to tell me something unimportant about Maya. Usually “Maya won’t go to sleep and she’s keeping me awake” I told them that if they don’t go to bed that tomorrow they are going to really be tired when I wake them up. Of course you know telling this kind of logic to a 2 & 4 year old really doesn’t make any sense… but you know saying “go to bed” 50 million times wasn’t working either. So I worked for another hour and then I decided that if I don’t go to sleep that they will NEVER go to sleep. So I went to sleep.
This morning the girls were horrible, just like expected. It’s like they were missing 2 hours of sleep or something. So it was nice actually being able to pick our clothes for Lehna without having to push and move the clothes out of the way (her closet was full of clothes that didn’t fit her) So after I got them dressed and they were SLEEPY I told them to get their coats it was seriously like watching two zombies walking through the house saying “coats, coats” They are so tortured. I only had two break downs this morning one from each of them. I told them the more fits they through the earlier their bed time will be at one point I told Lehna that she is going to have to be in bed even before she gets out of the car tonight. So then she stopped. One day at a time and one task at a time. I will make it and if we are lucky the kids may make it too! So as rough as the morning was I have a feeling I’m going to have a HORRIBLE report this afternoon… which I told them when I dropped them off they are tired and cranky… so maybe that will help… I doubt it but MAYBE!
I’m sending an SOS to all of those in my area by the way. We are packing up the house to load the truck on April 25th. We really need some help loading so if there is anyone around that would like to help us… we would really appreciate it. And you only have to help Load just think of it that way… So please let me know if you can help me.
Okay well that’s all that’s going one… I love boxes… I love packing… I love it love it love it.
Things that I got accomplished.
I packed All of Lehna’s clothes that didn’t fit so all of the 4 & 5 that were in the toy room, her closet, and closet. I packed all of the 3’s that are soon to be moved to Maya’s closet (once we move). I packed the entire toy closet which there is only three things left in the closet but I needed a bigger box and I forgot box tape when I went to the store yesterday so I couldn’t make any bigger boxes… I was able to get all the things hanging in the toy room so pictures, the curtains, and wall items packed. I also got all the pictures down from the hallway and packed and most of the pictures out of my room and kitchen. And I got all the remaining toys and books packed away.
I still have a ton left to pack. It’s amazing just how much that is left to do… it’s kind of depressing to be honest with you.
So tonight my game plan. Go through Maya’s clothes and pack away all of her things that don’t fit anymore, the bathroom, and lien closet, and finish with all the pictures on the wall.
My house is a complete disaster. I didn’t put anything away from our trip so I have like bags and stuff of things that need to be put away from the trip. Lehna and Maya were awesome enough to go through them and remove all items from the bag and put them on the floor so that was great. So now instead of the stuff being in bags piled the stuff is just all over the floor. I have an entire sink full of dishes my kitchen counters are piled… Too many things to do and not enough hours in the day to get it done.
Last night at about 8:30 I put the girls to bed and they were PINKING off the walls. Maya was shaking her crib so badly that I thought that someone was knocking on the front door. Lehna came out of her room every 5 minutes to tell me something unimportant about Maya. Usually “Maya won’t go to sleep and she’s keeping me awake” I told them that if they don’t go to bed that tomorrow they are going to really be tired when I wake them up. Of course you know telling this kind of logic to a 2 & 4 year old really doesn’t make any sense… but you know saying “go to bed” 50 million times wasn’t working either. So I worked for another hour and then I decided that if I don’t go to sleep that they will NEVER go to sleep. So I went to sleep.
This morning the girls were horrible, just like expected. It’s like they were missing 2 hours of sleep or something. So it was nice actually being able to pick our clothes for Lehna without having to push and move the clothes out of the way (her closet was full of clothes that didn’t fit her) So after I got them dressed and they were SLEEPY I told them to get their coats it was seriously like watching two zombies walking through the house saying “coats, coats” They are so tortured. I only had two break downs this morning one from each of them. I told them the more fits they through the earlier their bed time will be at one point I told Lehna that she is going to have to be in bed even before she gets out of the car tonight. So then she stopped. One day at a time and one task at a time. I will make it and if we are lucky the kids may make it too! So as rough as the morning was I have a feeling I’m going to have a HORRIBLE report this afternoon… which I told them when I dropped them off they are tired and cranky… so maybe that will help… I doubt it but MAYBE!
I’m sending an SOS to all of those in my area by the way. We are packing up the house to load the truck on April 25th. We really need some help loading so if there is anyone around that would like to help us… we would really appreciate it. And you only have to help Load just think of it that way… So please let me know if you can help me.
Okay well that’s all that’s going one… I love boxes… I love packing… I love it love it love it.
Monday, April 13, 2009
Happy Easter!
Well this weekend was a lot of fun. Since the girls’ daycare was closed on Friday due to Good Friday we headed up to WI on Thursday night to spend some time with the Grandparents. We got there about 7 ish on Thursday and spend the night with Tait’s parents. Lehna had been sick during the day she was running a fever during the day and so I figured it was a UTI b/c she had been acting like that that was the problem. Well I called our Pediatrician on the way up to WI and she said that she should come into her office on Friday, but since we were leaving the state I told her that that wouldn’t be possible. So she suggested that we take her some where on Friday to get checked out. So Friday morning I called the Children’s Hospital (in which Tait works for) and asked them for a list of pediatricians and told them our predicament… so they set us up with a Pediatrician so we went meet with a new patrician. I really liked the doctor he really seemed to know what he was doing. He did three different tests on her to see what the issue was. The problem was that Lehna shouldn’t have had a fever with a UTI so he was concerned that if she still was running a fever that it was actually something much more serious. So he gave us a general antibiotic and told us that he was going to run some “cultures” on her urine and see what happens, and if they came back with something than they would have to see her right away on Monday and possibly put her on IV medication. He said to all the on call doctor on Sunday to see what the test results were. So all weekend we kind of watched her fever. By Saturday it had broke and she was totally acting herself but Friday she was definitely feeling pretty horrible. So at least we now have a doctor in Wisconsin for the girls. So this is good thing.
On Friday we headed up to Hartford to spend the remaining weekend with Mom and Terry. The girls had SUCH a good time. My mom had some cool activities for them that they REALLY enjoyed. They painted pictures of Eggs and decorated their pictures. They had TWO separate Easter egg hunts. They dipped eggs for coloring and decorated them with stickers, played with bubbles and play dough, and went to the park twice. It was a busy weekend for them, but they enjoyed every minute of it. (That goes for both Mom and Terry too!)
The city of Hartford has an annual Easter egg hunt and since it was literally right across the field from their house we went to that egg hunt. It was more of an adult hunt instead of a kid hunt. The parents were picking up their kids and literally running from egg to egg… it was insane… Maya got about 10 eggs so she didn’t do too badly. Lehna I think got around 10 as well.
Later we had another egg hunt in Mom and Terry’s back yard. That was a lot more fun I think. Lehna and Maya were really funny looking for Eggs. They had a good time. When we colored eggs later on that day Lehna kept asking if we were going to hide them for the Easter Bunny to eat. She got the two concepts confused.
It was a fun time. Tait and I went on a date on Saturday evening. We headed to the Mineshaft to play the arcade games and we had some dessert. It was a nice little date nothing too exciting but it was fun. I played “Big Mother Trucker” and let me tell you I was quite Talented at it… I was a big Indian named Iron Claw (or something like that) but that was only b/c I picked the wrong truck. I kicked Tait A$$ in basketball. I beat him by 15 points! He said it was b/c he only had 2 balls and I had 4 but I think he just doesn’t like to own up to my awesome skills. He did however kick my butt in the Air Gun Propeller Game you basically just shot this plastic balls through these holes where they have spinning propellers spinning around them… it was pretty challenging. I totally sucked at it. I think I got maybe 3 points.
After we played some games we went down and had some pretty fabulous dessert. I had this strawberry/orange cheese cake and Tait has some pretty fabulous chocolate ice cream, brownie dessert thing. We of course shared but it was just a nice relaxing date. We were only out for like 2 hours by the time we came home the girls were fast asleep. Mom said that it took them no more then 15 minutes before they conked out. They were tired busy busy day.
I got home last night and looked around and decided that I am going to pack a room/closet a night It’s going to be challenging b/c I’m usually pretty beat after spending all day at work then playing with the kiddos but I figure if I can do one room/closet a day… then by the time April 25th comes around I SHOULD be ready to go. I hope. I want to call the Young Women and see if they want to come and do a service project at my house… have them pack… LOL But I don’t want to do that.
Well I stepped on the scale and much to my disgust I have gained some of my lost weight back. I was pretty bummed this morning. I attribute it to the fact that I’m NOT exercising nor am I watching what I eat… so I’m think THAT’S where the weight is coming from. So I told myself when I’m finally in WI it’s on man. I have worked so hard and in the past couple of weeks I have really let it all go to the way side and it’s kind of depressing. So that’s my game plan… So you hear that body you have two more weeks of this nonsense and that’s it! It’s over! You may ask why I’m waiting for two weeks, but I figured that in the next couple of weeks I’m going to be pretty busy packing that I won’t have time to really focus on my weight loss goals again. I’m trying to keep realistic; of course this doesn’t give me the freedom to eat like a huge piggo either.
So that’s where I stand, pretty exciting stuff. I am starting to get really anxious about not having a job line up. I have to tell you. I have been looking everyday and have been applying to pretty much everything and anything that I possibly qualify for. I think once that gets settled THAT would help tremendously. I know we will have daycare taken care of but Helen is planning on spending several weeks with Tanna once she has her baby so it’s kind of hard to really “plan” anything. I need to find daycare for the girls but I need to see if I’m going to be employed first and see when Tanna has her baby. It’s all very up in the air. It’s pretty hard to plan your life when everything is so up in the air I have to tell you.
So hopefully the world will start to come into line and everything will start showing some options in the next two weeks! I hope!
On Friday we headed up to Hartford to spend the remaining weekend with Mom and Terry. The girls had SUCH a good time. My mom had some cool activities for them that they REALLY enjoyed. They painted pictures of Eggs and decorated their pictures. They had TWO separate Easter egg hunts. They dipped eggs for coloring and decorated them with stickers, played with bubbles and play dough, and went to the park twice. It was a busy weekend for them, but they enjoyed every minute of it. (That goes for both Mom and Terry too!)
The city of Hartford has an annual Easter egg hunt and since it was literally right across the field from their house we went to that egg hunt. It was more of an adult hunt instead of a kid hunt. The parents were picking up their kids and literally running from egg to egg… it was insane… Maya got about 10 eggs so she didn’t do too badly. Lehna I think got around 10 as well.
Later we had another egg hunt in Mom and Terry’s back yard. That was a lot more fun I think. Lehna and Maya were really funny looking for Eggs. They had a good time. When we colored eggs later on that day Lehna kept asking if we were going to hide them for the Easter Bunny to eat. She got the two concepts confused.
It was a fun time. Tait and I went on a date on Saturday evening. We headed to the Mineshaft to play the arcade games and we had some dessert. It was a nice little date nothing too exciting but it was fun. I played “Big Mother Trucker” and let me tell you I was quite Talented at it… I was a big Indian named Iron Claw (or something like that) but that was only b/c I picked the wrong truck. I kicked Tait A$$ in basketball. I beat him by 15 points! He said it was b/c he only had 2 balls and I had 4 but I think he just doesn’t like to own up to my awesome skills. He did however kick my butt in the Air Gun Propeller Game you basically just shot this plastic balls through these holes where they have spinning propellers spinning around them… it was pretty challenging. I totally sucked at it. I think I got maybe 3 points.
After we played some games we went down and had some pretty fabulous dessert. I had this strawberry/orange cheese cake and Tait has some pretty fabulous chocolate ice cream, brownie dessert thing. We of course shared but it was just a nice relaxing date. We were only out for like 2 hours by the time we came home the girls were fast asleep. Mom said that it took them no more then 15 minutes before they conked out. They were tired busy busy day.
I got home last night and looked around and decided that I am going to pack a room/closet a night It’s going to be challenging b/c I’m usually pretty beat after spending all day at work then playing with the kiddos but I figure if I can do one room/closet a day… then by the time April 25th comes around I SHOULD be ready to go. I hope. I want to call the Young Women and see if they want to come and do a service project at my house… have them pack… LOL But I don’t want to do that.
Well I stepped on the scale and much to my disgust I have gained some of my lost weight back. I was pretty bummed this morning. I attribute it to the fact that I’m NOT exercising nor am I watching what I eat… so I’m think THAT’S where the weight is coming from. So I told myself when I’m finally in WI it’s on man. I have worked so hard and in the past couple of weeks I have really let it all go to the way side and it’s kind of depressing. So that’s my game plan… So you hear that body you have two more weeks of this nonsense and that’s it! It’s over! You may ask why I’m waiting for two weeks, but I figured that in the next couple of weeks I’m going to be pretty busy packing that I won’t have time to really focus on my weight loss goals again. I’m trying to keep realistic; of course this doesn’t give me the freedom to eat like a huge piggo either.
So that’s where I stand, pretty exciting stuff. I am starting to get really anxious about not having a job line up. I have to tell you. I have been looking everyday and have been applying to pretty much everything and anything that I possibly qualify for. I think once that gets settled THAT would help tremendously. I know we will have daycare taken care of but Helen is planning on spending several weeks with Tanna once she has her baby so it’s kind of hard to really “plan” anything. I need to find daycare for the girls but I need to see if I’m going to be employed first and see when Tanna has her baby. It’s all very up in the air. It’s pretty hard to plan your life when everything is so up in the air I have to tell you.
So hopefully the world will start to come into line and everything will start showing some options in the next two weeks! I hope!
Monday, April 06, 2009
Weekend
Happy Spring Everyone! Can’t you tell its spring I mean the blistering cold the snow falling from the sky? I just love the spring time it just makes me so happy! Well maybe if I lived some where there was a spring then I would enjoy it more. We are seriously going to go straight from winter to summer… I hate that. That usually means that the summer will drag on. (Sigh) This will be good if we get season passes to GREAT AMERICA! I mean we will live 20 miles away from the place!!! LOL We’ll see what happens though.
Well this weekend it was very spring like on Saturday day it was beautiful outside so much that I got sunburned! Darn pasty white skin! We took the girls for an Easter Egg Hunt in Darlington at the park. It was really nice. The girls I think had a good time… we were there for literally 20 minutes! LOL The started each “age group” off at the same time so we couldn’t watch the girls together but it was fun to have them do it. Maya got to have “help” so Tait held her hand as she grabbed candy and put it in the bag… it was literally just candy thrown all over the ground and some eggs scattered all over the ground. For Lehna the parents couldn’t “help” so I stood along the sidelines trying to encourage Lehna to go out and get the candy. She didn’t want me to leave her side but I kept telling her that she has to go out by herself b/c I wasn’t allowed… so finally she went out there to get one piece and promptly brought it back to me… then I told her to go get another piece… then ran back to me… she did this a couple of times until she finally just stayed out there to pick up candy. Of course by then a lot of it was gone… she probably got like maybe 15 pieces total which is fine by me that’s the last thing I wanted was her hopped up on sugar… Maya however was the queen of candy. Tait said that they dropped like a big handful of suckers in a big pile and she stood there picking all of them up. Which out of all the candy out there she really enjoys suckers.
After we took the girls to the “hunt” we went to Wal-Mart to select birthday gifts from some birthday money that they got late. Well Lehna selected a bathroom set for her Barbie a little strange and I tried to get her to select something else but she totally wanted it. Nothing like a toilet for Barbie to use… Well Maya with Tait’s help picked out to “phones” which are really walkie-talkies and she seemed to like those… she didn’t quite understand to push the button to talk but she liked being able to here mom and dad talk to her through the phone.
On Sunday we didn’t really do anything we had general conference so we didn’t have church. We taped both sessions on Sunday we didn’t watch them but I will this week once the girlies go to bed. I enjoy watching them later so I can fast forward through the songs… you know…
We did grill out on Sunday and that was WONDERFUL. I enjoyed that very much. We had steaks and baked potatoes. It was fabulous.
Tait and I got to have a date on Saturday night. We went bowling and my first game I actually broke 100 so I was excited about that the second game I didn’t break 100 I got up to like 92 so I was close… BUT didn’t break… oh well. We talked about going to a movie but seriously there was nothing out that even looked sort of good you know? So after that we went to BW3’s and that was a ton of fun. We sat at this table that had this game thing on the table and we played that. It cost money which sucked but they all of these trivia games and stuff like that Tait and I played as a team and just had a nice time.
I got the laundry done in record time this weekend. I started working on it through out the week and man let me tell you I even had time to do the extra things like the bathroom rugs… now usually when I do this Lehna inadvertently pees on them (on accident of course) so hopefully that won’t happen.
I’m getting really excited about moving to Wisconsin. I need boxes pretty badly. I am trying to talk Tait into just buying them b/c I need to start packing!!! So we’ll see what happens… If anyone has any boxes please please please let me know.
I don’t know what date we are going to move… to be honest with you we talked about both April 24th and then also May 2nd. Personally I would like to Move April 25th b/c then I will have the entire next week to clean the place up… we have a person interested in renting the place and I would like to rip up the carpet and paint… I mean even if we don’t rent I still am looking into someone buying our house and seriously those two things have to be done… so we’ll see what happens… keep your fingers crossed for me I hope it all works out. But any help to load would be much appreciated.
Okay that’s all I got for now. Here’s hoping for a good week!
Well this weekend it was very spring like on Saturday day it was beautiful outside so much that I got sunburned! Darn pasty white skin! We took the girls for an Easter Egg Hunt in Darlington at the park. It was really nice. The girls I think had a good time… we were there for literally 20 minutes! LOL The started each “age group” off at the same time so we couldn’t watch the girls together but it was fun to have them do it. Maya got to have “help” so Tait held her hand as she grabbed candy and put it in the bag… it was literally just candy thrown all over the ground and some eggs scattered all over the ground. For Lehna the parents couldn’t “help” so I stood along the sidelines trying to encourage Lehna to go out and get the candy. She didn’t want me to leave her side but I kept telling her that she has to go out by herself b/c I wasn’t allowed… so finally she went out there to get one piece and promptly brought it back to me… then I told her to go get another piece… then ran back to me… she did this a couple of times until she finally just stayed out there to pick up candy. Of course by then a lot of it was gone… she probably got like maybe 15 pieces total which is fine by me that’s the last thing I wanted was her hopped up on sugar… Maya however was the queen of candy. Tait said that they dropped like a big handful of suckers in a big pile and she stood there picking all of them up. Which out of all the candy out there she really enjoys suckers.
After we took the girls to the “hunt” we went to Wal-Mart to select birthday gifts from some birthday money that they got late. Well Lehna selected a bathroom set for her Barbie a little strange and I tried to get her to select something else but she totally wanted it. Nothing like a toilet for Barbie to use… Well Maya with Tait’s help picked out to “phones” which are really walkie-talkies and she seemed to like those… she didn’t quite understand to push the button to talk but she liked being able to here mom and dad talk to her through the phone.
On Sunday we didn’t really do anything we had general conference so we didn’t have church. We taped both sessions on Sunday we didn’t watch them but I will this week once the girlies go to bed. I enjoy watching them later so I can fast forward through the songs… you know…
We did grill out on Sunday and that was WONDERFUL. I enjoyed that very much. We had steaks and baked potatoes. It was fabulous.
Tait and I got to have a date on Saturday night. We went bowling and my first game I actually broke 100 so I was excited about that the second game I didn’t break 100 I got up to like 92 so I was close… BUT didn’t break… oh well. We talked about going to a movie but seriously there was nothing out that even looked sort of good you know? So after that we went to BW3’s and that was a ton of fun. We sat at this table that had this game thing on the table and we played that. It cost money which sucked but they all of these trivia games and stuff like that Tait and I played as a team and just had a nice time.
I got the laundry done in record time this weekend. I started working on it through out the week and man let me tell you I even had time to do the extra things like the bathroom rugs… now usually when I do this Lehna inadvertently pees on them (on accident of course) so hopefully that won’t happen.
I’m getting really excited about moving to Wisconsin. I need boxes pretty badly. I am trying to talk Tait into just buying them b/c I need to start packing!!! So we’ll see what happens… If anyone has any boxes please please please let me know.
I don’t know what date we are going to move… to be honest with you we talked about both April 24th and then also May 2nd. Personally I would like to Move April 25th b/c then I will have the entire next week to clean the place up… we have a person interested in renting the place and I would like to rip up the carpet and paint… I mean even if we don’t rent I still am looking into someone buying our house and seriously those two things have to be done… so we’ll see what happens… keep your fingers crossed for me I hope it all works out. But any help to load would be much appreciated.
Okay that’s all I got for now. Here’s hoping for a good week!
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Two Birthdays, a Trip to Wisconsin, and a ton of sleepless nights.
Well It has been so busy around here I have been neglecting my blog something awful. So I will update probably just once this week. So this weekend we headed up to Wisconsin. We were able to bring Helen back to her apartment b/c she is returning from her knee surgery. She is doing better, she still walks slowly but better I don’t think she gives herself enough credit. I mean two knee cap replacements and she’s up and walking around with out a walker… I think that is pretty amazing in less then 2 months. I mean wow! So we brought her up with us on Friday when we went up. We made pretty good time, I was totally worried about hitting traffic in Chicago since we left so late but we were stalled on 65 b/c it went down to one lane right before the Merriville exit (it looks like they are getting ready to do some major changes on the road so they are building up the median to move the traffic over). So it took us about 11 minutes to go 2 miles so that sucked. But once we were through it, it was smooth sailing until about 30 miles from Kenosha were we hit another “patch” it didn’t last very long but it was a pretty easy trip. The girls were good I rented Lady and the Tramp and Ratatitue for them to watch. They LOVED Lady and the Tramp or as Lehna refers to is as ‘the dog movie’ but the other… didn’t have any interest in they kept requesting the other movie. Just goes to show you the girls love their classic Disney.
So we got there and decided to crash there for the night b/c the next day we were going to head up to Hartford for the girls’ birthday and to hit a job fair. So I went to the job fair and well it was only for case management positions so I do have “some” experience doing that, it’s older experience, but some anyways and basically I was told that I have the wrong degree. So she introduced me to an HR recruiter for the company and I was telling her about my HR recruiting experience and then she cut me off and goes “we don’t have any open positions at this time” and I said well I have other skills, it kind of felt like the entire WIND was SUCKED out of my sail it was a very odd feeling. So I thanked them for meeting with me and moved on. So it wasn’t a total waste of time b/c I was able to meet with someone from HR and I got her “personal” email so I got a contact out of it… I don’t think it will go anywhere but who knows.
So when we got to Hartford we pretty much didn’t do much on Saturday. We had the girls open their birthday gifts and we sang and ate birthday cake which was fun for them. Maya got two new babies and Lehna got make up, a baby, and a game (I think that’s it). So they were pretty happy. They played with them pretty much all day. They started to get a little cabin fever but overall were good for most of the day.
On Sunday we went out for lunch at a place called “The Mineshaft” which is right there in Hartford it was a nice little pub restaurant and the girls ate and then upstairs they have this HUGE arcade area, very similar to Chuck E Cheese but NO mouse! So that was fun for the girls. Lehna kept going back over to the “rollercoaster ride” and we took Maya to this game in which you have to throw these balls into these big holes they seemed to really enjoy themselves. Tait wasn’t to go back there without kids. LOL so we’ll see.
The on Sunday afternoon we loaded the van and went back to Kenosha so we could have another birthday celebration with Helen and Tim. Maya got a new tricycle and Lehna got a baby Cinderella so again they were happy. We went to see the house we are looking at renting and it was really nice. So we are supposed to hear back this week as to if we can rent the house the guy was supposedly checking with his broker and he was waiting to hear if they got any offers on the walk through last week. So it was pretty exciting. I hope we find out soon b/c if not then we need to find another place to live. Tait is looking at another house today so we’ll see what happens. I keep trying to tell Tait that if we don’t end up getting this house then we should rent a CHEAP little 1 bedroom apartment with a month to month lease and look for something else… so we’ll see what happens.
On the Job front this week I got some good news from both companies actually. The one company in which I have never worked with before they just sent off the staffing agreement and are now OFFICIALLY waiting for the move in date… which means the date for me to start… YEAH! The second company the was VERY impressed with my testing scores and said that the put in a bid for an Onsite company in Kenosha and if they get that company they are going to put me in that company for a staffing supervisor for that specific company but if they don’t get that bid then they are going to assign me to a temporary assignment that will start on April 27th until they can pull me into their office. So either way it looks like I’ll have a job. Fingers Crossed Still of course.
So my last day at my current company is going to be April 24th. I was planning on moving/packing the week of April 27th just taking my time and packing and moving things through out the week and etc but it looks like with the “temporary” job starts on the 27th that may not be a possibility. So if we get the house on April 15th we will take loads up for the next couple of weekends then on May 2nd we will rent an uhal and move everything up there in a big push… I really want time to move b/c I want to be able to work on the house after it’s empty. I have a couple of ideas on what we are going to do about the house. So I need TIME to work on them. I don’t want to tell the temporary job that I can’t work that week (good lord can’t turn down work in this economy) but I am hoping that one of the other jobs comes in. So I’m still in limbo for the most part… but improving. Again nothing solid yet… but it’s in the works. If anyone knows where I can get boxes please let me know… I still have the contents of the items we are still USING in the house that need to be boxed.
It’s hard to believe the girls are now 2 & 4 I’m glad that Lehna is FINALLY out of the horrible stage I hear that age 4 is wonderful… but I’m just entering the horrible stage with Maya… LOL I hope that Maya isn’t as bad but who knows. She is more patient child. Lehna definitely enjoys her birthday now which is kind of fun. She likes it so much she didn’t want Maya to have her birthday she told me that Maya doesn’t deserve a birthday and so she was going to take her’s. I hate it when people try to take my Birthday away.
So my sleeping has really been sad this week. I have been falling asleep but staying asleep has really been a challenge. I know that I’m just stressed right now and it’s just affecting me but you’d think that I would at LEAST be able to sleep… yeah not so true. I have been having dreams about old ghosts and that type of thing… it truly sucks. So I figure if I keep this up then I will finally sleep through the night b/c I’m just sooooo exhausted. So let’s all hope that happens soon. I have to hit the coffee every morning just to make it through the first half of the day.
So that’s life right now… I’m just tired.
So we got there and decided to crash there for the night b/c the next day we were going to head up to Hartford for the girls’ birthday and to hit a job fair. So I went to the job fair and well it was only for case management positions so I do have “some” experience doing that, it’s older experience, but some anyways and basically I was told that I have the wrong degree. So she introduced me to an HR recruiter for the company and I was telling her about my HR recruiting experience and then she cut me off and goes “we don’t have any open positions at this time” and I said well I have other skills, it kind of felt like the entire WIND was SUCKED out of my sail it was a very odd feeling. So I thanked them for meeting with me and moved on. So it wasn’t a total waste of time b/c I was able to meet with someone from HR and I got her “personal” email so I got a contact out of it… I don’t think it will go anywhere but who knows.
So when we got to Hartford we pretty much didn’t do much on Saturday. We had the girls open their birthday gifts and we sang and ate birthday cake which was fun for them. Maya got two new babies and Lehna got make up, a baby, and a game (I think that’s it). So they were pretty happy. They played with them pretty much all day. They started to get a little cabin fever but overall were good for most of the day.
On Sunday we went out for lunch at a place called “The Mineshaft” which is right there in Hartford it was a nice little pub restaurant and the girls ate and then upstairs they have this HUGE arcade area, very similar to Chuck E Cheese but NO mouse! So that was fun for the girls. Lehna kept going back over to the “rollercoaster ride” and we took Maya to this game in which you have to throw these balls into these big holes they seemed to really enjoy themselves. Tait wasn’t to go back there without kids. LOL so we’ll see.
The on Sunday afternoon we loaded the van and went back to Kenosha so we could have another birthday celebration with Helen and Tim. Maya got a new tricycle and Lehna got a baby Cinderella so again they were happy. We went to see the house we are looking at renting and it was really nice. So we are supposed to hear back this week as to if we can rent the house the guy was supposedly checking with his broker and he was waiting to hear if they got any offers on the walk through last week. So it was pretty exciting. I hope we find out soon b/c if not then we need to find another place to live. Tait is looking at another house today so we’ll see what happens. I keep trying to tell Tait that if we don’t end up getting this house then we should rent a CHEAP little 1 bedroom apartment with a month to month lease and look for something else… so we’ll see what happens.
On the Job front this week I got some good news from both companies actually. The one company in which I have never worked with before they just sent off the staffing agreement and are now OFFICIALLY waiting for the move in date… which means the date for me to start… YEAH! The second company the was VERY impressed with my testing scores and said that the put in a bid for an Onsite company in Kenosha and if they get that company they are going to put me in that company for a staffing supervisor for that specific company but if they don’t get that bid then they are going to assign me to a temporary assignment that will start on April 27th until they can pull me into their office. So either way it looks like I’ll have a job. Fingers Crossed Still of course.
So my last day at my current company is going to be April 24th. I was planning on moving/packing the week of April 27th just taking my time and packing and moving things through out the week and etc but it looks like with the “temporary” job starts on the 27th that may not be a possibility. So if we get the house on April 15th we will take loads up for the next couple of weekends then on May 2nd we will rent an uhal and move everything up there in a big push… I really want time to move b/c I want to be able to work on the house after it’s empty. I have a couple of ideas on what we are going to do about the house. So I need TIME to work on them. I don’t want to tell the temporary job that I can’t work that week (good lord can’t turn down work in this economy) but I am hoping that one of the other jobs comes in. So I’m still in limbo for the most part… but improving. Again nothing solid yet… but it’s in the works. If anyone knows where I can get boxes please let me know… I still have the contents of the items we are still USING in the house that need to be boxed.
It’s hard to believe the girls are now 2 & 4 I’m glad that Lehna is FINALLY out of the horrible stage I hear that age 4 is wonderful… but I’m just entering the horrible stage with Maya… LOL I hope that Maya isn’t as bad but who knows. She is more patient child. Lehna definitely enjoys her birthday now which is kind of fun. She likes it so much she didn’t want Maya to have her birthday she told me that Maya doesn’t deserve a birthday and so she was going to take her’s. I hate it when people try to take my Birthday away.
So my sleeping has really been sad this week. I have been falling asleep but staying asleep has really been a challenge. I know that I’m just stressed right now and it’s just affecting me but you’d think that I would at LEAST be able to sleep… yeah not so true. I have been having dreams about old ghosts and that type of thing… it truly sucks. So I figure if I keep this up then I will finally sleep through the night b/c I’m just sooooo exhausted. So let’s all hope that happens soon. I have to hit the coffee every morning just to make it through the first half of the day.
So that’s life right now… I’m just tired.
Two Birthdays, a Trip to Wisconsin, and a ton of sleepless nights.
Well It has been so busy around here I have been neglecting my blog something awful. So I will update probably just once this week. So this weekend we headed up to Wisconsin. We were able to bring Helen back to her apartment b/c she is returning from her knee surgery. She is doing better, she still walks slowly but better I don’t think she gives herself enough credit. I mean two knee cap replacements and she’s up and walking around with out a walker… I think that is pretty amazing in less then 2 months. I mean wow! So we brought her up with us on Friday when we went up. We made pretty good time, I was totally worried about hitting traffic in Chicago since we left so late but we were stalled on 65 b/c it went down to one lane right before the Merriville exit (it looks like they are getting ready to do some major changes on the road so they are building up the median to move the traffic over). So it took us about 11 minutes to go 2 miles so that sucked. But once we were through it, it was smooth sailing until about 30 miles from Kenosha were we hit another “patch” it didn’t last very long but it was a pretty easy trip. The girls were good I rented Lady and the Tramp and Ratatitue for them to watch. They LOVED Lady and the Tramp or as Lehna refers to is as ‘the dog movie’ but the other… didn’t have any interest in they kept requesting the other movie. Just goes to show you the girls love their classic Disney.
So we got there and decided to crash there for the night b/c the next day we were going to head up to Hartford for the girls’ birthday and to hit a job fair. So I went to the job fair and well it was only for case management positions so I do have “some” experience doing that, it’s older experience, but some anyways and basically I was told that I have the wrong degree. So she introduced me to an HR recruiter for the company and I was telling her about my HR recruiting experience and then she cut me off and goes “we don’t have any open positions at this time” and I said well I have other skills, it kind of felt like the entire WIND was SUCKED out of my sail it was a very odd feeling. So I thanked them for meeting with me and moved on. So it wasn’t a total waste of time b/c I was able to meet with someone from HR and I got her “personal” email so I got a contact out of it… I don’t think it will go anywhere but who knows.
So when we got to Hartford we pretty much didn’t do much on Saturday. We had the girls open their birthday gifts and we sang and ate birthday cake which was fun for them. Maya got two new babies and Lehna got make up, a baby, and a game (I think that’s it). So they were pretty happy. They played with them pretty much all day. They started to get a little cabin fever but overall were good for most of the day.
On Sunday we went out for lunch at a place called “The Mineshaft” which is right there in Hartford it was a nice little pub restaurant and the girls ate and then upstairs they have this HUGE arcade area, very similar to Chuck E Cheese but NO mouse! So that was fun for the girls. Lehna kept going back over to the “rollercoaster ride” and we took Maya to this game in which you have to throw these balls into these big holes they seemed to really enjoy themselves. Tait wasn’t to go back there without kids. LOL so we’ll see.
The on Sunday afternoon we loaded the van and went back to Kenosha so we could have another birthday celebration with Helen and Tim. Maya got a new tricycle and Lehna got a baby Cinderella so again they were happy. We went to see the house we are looking at renting and it was really nice. So we are supposed to hear back this week as to if we can rent the house the guy was supposedly checking with his broker and he was waiting to hear if they got any offers on the walk through last week. So it was pretty exciting. I hope we find out soon b/c if not then we need to find another place to live. Tait is looking at another house today so we’ll see what happens. I keep trying to tell Tait that if we don’t end up getting this house then we should rent a CHEAP little 1 bedroom apartment with a month to month lease and look for something else… so we’ll see what happens.
On the Job front this week I got some good news from both companies actually. The one company in which I have never worked with before they just sent off the staffing agreement and are now OFFICIALLY waiting for the move in date… which means the date for me to start… YEAH! The second company the was VERY impressed with my testing scores and said that the put in a bid for an Onsite company in Kenosha and if they get that company they are going to put me in that company for a staffing supervisor for that specific company but if they don’t get that bid then they are going to assign me to a temporary assignment that will start on April 27th until they can pull me into their office. So either way it looks like I’ll have a job. Fingers Crossed Still of course.
So my last day at my current company is going to be April 24th. I was planning on moving/packing the week of April 27th just taking my time and packing and moving things through out the week and etc but it looks like with the “temporary” job starts on the 27th that may not be a possibility. So if we get the house on April 15th we will take loads up for the next couple of weekends then on May 2nd we will rent an uhal and move everything up there in a big push… I really want time to move b/c I want to be able to work on the house after it’s empty. I have a couple of ideas on what we are going to do about the house. So I need TIME to work on them. I don’t want to tell the temporary job that I can’t work that week (good lord can’t turn down work in this economy) but I am hoping that one of the other jobs comes in. So I’m still in limbo for the most part… but improving. Again nothing solid yet… but it’s in the works. If anyone knows where I can get boxes please let me know… I still have the contents of the items we are still USING in the house that need to be boxed.
It’s hard to believe the girls are now 2 & 4 I’m glad that Lehna is FINALLY out of the horrible stage I hear that age 4 is wonderful… but I’m just entering the horrible stage with Maya… LOL I hope that Maya isn’t as bad but who knows. She is more patient child. Lehna definitely enjoys her birthday now which is kind of fun. She likes it so much she didn’t want Maya to have her birthday she told me that Maya doesn’t deserve a birthday and so she was going to take her’s. I hate it when people try to take my Birthday away.
So my sleeping has really been sad this week. I have been falling asleep but staying asleep has really been a challenge. I know that I’m just stressed right now and it’s just affecting me but you’d think that I would at LEAST be able to sleep… yeah not so true. I have been having dreams about old ghosts and that type of thing… it truly sucks. So I figure if I keep this up then I will finally sleep through the night b/c I’m just sooooo exhausted. So let’s all hope that happens soon. I have to hit the coffee every morning just to make it through the first half of the day.
So that’s life right now… I’m just tired.
So we got there and decided to crash there for the night b/c the next day we were going to head up to Hartford for the girls’ birthday and to hit a job fair. So I went to the job fair and well it was only for case management positions so I do have “some” experience doing that, it’s older experience, but some anyways and basically I was told that I have the wrong degree. So she introduced me to an HR recruiter for the company and I was telling her about my HR recruiting experience and then she cut me off and goes “we don’t have any open positions at this time” and I said well I have other skills, it kind of felt like the entire WIND was SUCKED out of my sail it was a very odd feeling. So I thanked them for meeting with me and moved on. So it wasn’t a total waste of time b/c I was able to meet with someone from HR and I got her “personal” email so I got a contact out of it… I don’t think it will go anywhere but who knows.
So when we got to Hartford we pretty much didn’t do much on Saturday. We had the girls open their birthday gifts and we sang and ate birthday cake which was fun for them. Maya got two new babies and Lehna got make up, a baby, and a game (I think that’s it). So they were pretty happy. They played with them pretty much all day. They started to get a little cabin fever but overall were good for most of the day.
On Sunday we went out for lunch at a place called “The Mineshaft” which is right there in Hartford it was a nice little pub restaurant and the girls ate and then upstairs they have this HUGE arcade area, very similar to Chuck E Cheese but NO mouse! So that was fun for the girls. Lehna kept going back over to the “rollercoaster ride” and we took Maya to this game in which you have to throw these balls into these big holes they seemed to really enjoy themselves. Tait wasn’t to go back there without kids. LOL so we’ll see.
The on Sunday afternoon we loaded the van and went back to Kenosha so we could have another birthday celebration with Helen and Tim. Maya got a new tricycle and Lehna got a baby Cinderella so again they were happy. We went to see the house we are looking at renting and it was really nice. So we are supposed to hear back this week as to if we can rent the house the guy was supposedly checking with his broker and he was waiting to hear if they got any offers on the walk through last week. So it was pretty exciting. I hope we find out soon b/c if not then we need to find another place to live. Tait is looking at another house today so we’ll see what happens. I keep trying to tell Tait that if we don’t end up getting this house then we should rent a CHEAP little 1 bedroom apartment with a month to month lease and look for something else… so we’ll see what happens.
On the Job front this week I got some good news from both companies actually. The one company in which I have never worked with before they just sent off the staffing agreement and are now OFFICIALLY waiting for the move in date… which means the date for me to start… YEAH! The second company the was VERY impressed with my testing scores and said that the put in a bid for an Onsite company in Kenosha and if they get that company they are going to put me in that company for a staffing supervisor for that specific company but if they don’t get that bid then they are going to assign me to a temporary assignment that will start on April 27th until they can pull me into their office. So either way it looks like I’ll have a job. Fingers Crossed Still of course.
So my last day at my current company is going to be April 24th. I was planning on moving/packing the week of April 27th just taking my time and packing and moving things through out the week and etc but it looks like with the “temporary” job starts on the 27th that may not be a possibility. So if we get the house on April 15th we will take loads up for the next couple of weekends then on May 2nd we will rent an uhal and move everything up there in a big push… I really want time to move b/c I want to be able to work on the house after it’s empty. I have a couple of ideas on what we are going to do about the house. So I need TIME to work on them. I don’t want to tell the temporary job that I can’t work that week (good lord can’t turn down work in this economy) but I am hoping that one of the other jobs comes in. So I’m still in limbo for the most part… but improving. Again nothing solid yet… but it’s in the works. If anyone knows where I can get boxes please let me know… I still have the contents of the items we are still USING in the house that need to be boxed.
It’s hard to believe the girls are now 2 & 4 I’m glad that Lehna is FINALLY out of the horrible stage I hear that age 4 is wonderful… but I’m just entering the horrible stage with Maya… LOL I hope that Maya isn’t as bad but who knows. She is more patient child. Lehna definitely enjoys her birthday now which is kind of fun. She likes it so much she didn’t want Maya to have her birthday she told me that Maya doesn’t deserve a birthday and so she was going to take her’s. I hate it when people try to take my Birthday away.
So my sleeping has really been sad this week. I have been falling asleep but staying asleep has really been a challenge. I know that I’m just stressed right now and it’s just affecting me but you’d think that I would at LEAST be able to sleep… yeah not so true. I have been having dreams about old ghosts and that type of thing… it truly sucks. So I figure if I keep this up then I will finally sleep through the night b/c I’m just sooooo exhausted. So let’s all hope that happens soon. I have to hit the coffee every morning just to make it through the first half of the day.
So that’s life right now… I’m just tired.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Stress a little here Stress a little there
Update
It’s time for the weekend wrap up and its Tuesday already! I hope the week continues to go fast.
Well the weekend was pretty nice actually. Tait and I went on our date on Saturday and the girls had a new babysitter. I recruited one of the young ladies from church and she came over and watched the girlies. She was great! Lehna wouldn’t stop talking about her. Lehna said they played picnic outside, they played beauty shop, hide and seek, and also horsy… LOL it was really good. I was so glad that Lehna was “okay” with her. I think it totally helped that she went with Tait to pick up her up b/c they could talk in the car. So then at church on Sunday she kept waving and her it was SOOO very cute! So we will have to invite her back b/c Lehna really enjoyed her. I think Maya did too but Maya didn’t really say much about her… LOL
Our date consisted of going to Monster Mini Golf which was a pretty “hooky” place but the black light made it a different challenge. Tait and bet on how many strokes we could get ball in the holes. We kind of played it like Name that tune so I would ‘wager’ that I could get the ball in 3 strokes and Tait could either go lower OR he would want me to prove it too him. Then if I did it… then I got points… If I didn’t but Tait was able to get it in 3 or less then he got a point. It added another “level” of challenge to it. We also had another “game” in which we weren’t allowed to say each others names instead we had to say terms of endearment. Which I personally thought it was unfair b/c I say Tait’s name WAY more then Tait says my name… and sure enough I lost. It was just another thing that we did just trying to enjoy each other more. We are both just so competitive so it was fun.
Then on Sunday we headed out to church and church was ROUGH for Maya mercy we had to take her out like 3 times it was HORRIBLE! She just would cry and loudly yell (not really crying but that annoying can’t hear anything around us sound) Lehna has figured out how to get out of church by telling us that she has to go potty and personally… as long as she’s quiet she can go there 50 times… Well she decided that today was the day she needed US to go with her… so she would whine AND on top of Maya not wanting to sit still it was rough. I think that the week prior to when we let the girls “run around” set a new percent for the girls… which was bad bad bad that we allowed it to happen but live and learn I guess. So next Sunday we are going to be in WI so we’ll have another new ward to drive them crazy.
Well time for update on the job front. Well the news is not quite what I wanted but not horrible either. I talked to the company that I was expecting an offer from. And she called me personally and told me that b/c the office is so low with hours right now they are actually doing shorter work weeks and claiming unemployment for days during the week since their hours are low and they can NOT bring on another person on their staff until after they have gotten past this low time. Which you know could be soon. They said that their hours are better this week then last week and better from two weeks ago but they aren’t where they really should be but the want ME! She said we totally want you and wanted me to know that. So I talked to her a little bit more about maybe doing some temp assignments for them while I’m “waiting” for a position with them to open. So that’s what the plan is. She said that they may even be able to put me in a perm position and if that happens she isn’t going to “hold” me for the spot there either which I think is nice. I am going to be up there at the end of April. Tait and I talked and seriously this living apart stuff is HORRIBLE. It’s one of the worst things that I have ever had to do it’s just so difficult it makes me so unhappy.
The other good news is well it’s “okay” news is the OTHER staffing company I talked to that is opening the office in Pleasant Prairie is still in the works and it’s in Legal now awaiting final approval. Apparently the home office which is located in Louisville, KY is expanding their warehouse for the new business from the contract they have in Pleasant Prairie and is going to need a new office manager/staffing supervisor for that satiate office. When I talked to him on Friday he said that the company is NOTORIOUS for delaying and then needing things to happen IMMEDIATELY. So he said that it could happen next week that they need the office ready. But he said that still very interested in me for the office and would continue to update me on the progress. So I informed him of when I was going to be up there so he knew and who knows maybe it will be before when I’m planning.
So the plans are that my employment will end here at the end of April I have a week of packing and moving and then I’ll be ready to go to work. I hope that I will find something before that time and I’ll keep my schedule as open as possible to get interviews and such and I HOPE that I won’t have to be a stay at home mom for long, but I am planning on enjoying it for as long as possible.
So that’s the news… I feel so much lighter now that the decisions have been made and that the plans are starting to take into affect. I need boxes bad so if anyone has any let me know OR if you can tell me where to get some… let me know and I’ll be on it.
That’s life in a small town though. I hope that things start picking up on the economy as a whole and we are able to move forward.
It’s time for the weekend wrap up and its Tuesday already! I hope the week continues to go fast.
Well the weekend was pretty nice actually. Tait and I went on our date on Saturday and the girls had a new babysitter. I recruited one of the young ladies from church and she came over and watched the girlies. She was great! Lehna wouldn’t stop talking about her. Lehna said they played picnic outside, they played beauty shop, hide and seek, and also horsy… LOL it was really good. I was so glad that Lehna was “okay” with her. I think it totally helped that she went with Tait to pick up her up b/c they could talk in the car. So then at church on Sunday she kept waving and her it was SOOO very cute! So we will have to invite her back b/c Lehna really enjoyed her. I think Maya did too but Maya didn’t really say much about her… LOL
Our date consisted of going to Monster Mini Golf which was a pretty “hooky” place but the black light made it a different challenge. Tait and bet on how many strokes we could get ball in the holes. We kind of played it like Name that tune so I would ‘wager’ that I could get the ball in 3 strokes and Tait could either go lower OR he would want me to prove it too him. Then if I did it… then I got points… If I didn’t but Tait was able to get it in 3 or less then he got a point. It added another “level” of challenge to it. We also had another “game” in which we weren’t allowed to say each others names instead we had to say terms of endearment. Which I personally thought it was unfair b/c I say Tait’s name WAY more then Tait says my name… and sure enough I lost. It was just another thing that we did just trying to enjoy each other more. We are both just so competitive so it was fun.
Then on Sunday we headed out to church and church was ROUGH for Maya mercy we had to take her out like 3 times it was HORRIBLE! She just would cry and loudly yell (not really crying but that annoying can’t hear anything around us sound) Lehna has figured out how to get out of church by telling us that she has to go potty and personally… as long as she’s quiet she can go there 50 times… Well she decided that today was the day she needed US to go with her… so she would whine AND on top of Maya not wanting to sit still it was rough. I think that the week prior to when we let the girls “run around” set a new percent for the girls… which was bad bad bad that we allowed it to happen but live and learn I guess. So next Sunday we are going to be in WI so we’ll have another new ward to drive them crazy.
Well time for update on the job front. Well the news is not quite what I wanted but not horrible either. I talked to the company that I was expecting an offer from. And she called me personally and told me that b/c the office is so low with hours right now they are actually doing shorter work weeks and claiming unemployment for days during the week since their hours are low and they can NOT bring on another person on their staff until after they have gotten past this low time. Which you know could be soon. They said that their hours are better this week then last week and better from two weeks ago but they aren’t where they really should be but the want ME! She said we totally want you and wanted me to know that. So I talked to her a little bit more about maybe doing some temp assignments for them while I’m “waiting” for a position with them to open. So that’s what the plan is. She said that they may even be able to put me in a perm position and if that happens she isn’t going to “hold” me for the spot there either which I think is nice. I am going to be up there at the end of April. Tait and I talked and seriously this living apart stuff is HORRIBLE. It’s one of the worst things that I have ever had to do it’s just so difficult it makes me so unhappy.
The other good news is well it’s “okay” news is the OTHER staffing company I talked to that is opening the office in Pleasant Prairie is still in the works and it’s in Legal now awaiting final approval. Apparently the home office which is located in Louisville, KY is expanding their warehouse for the new business from the contract they have in Pleasant Prairie and is going to need a new office manager/staffing supervisor for that satiate office. When I talked to him on Friday he said that the company is NOTORIOUS for delaying and then needing things to happen IMMEDIATELY. So he said that it could happen next week that they need the office ready. But he said that still very interested in me for the office and would continue to update me on the progress. So I informed him of when I was going to be up there so he knew and who knows maybe it will be before when I’m planning.
So the plans are that my employment will end here at the end of April I have a week of packing and moving and then I’ll be ready to go to work. I hope that I will find something before that time and I’ll keep my schedule as open as possible to get interviews and such and I HOPE that I won’t have to be a stay at home mom for long, but I am planning on enjoying it for as long as possible.
So that’s the news… I feel so much lighter now that the decisions have been made and that the plans are starting to take into affect. I need boxes bad so if anyone has any let me know OR if you can tell me where to get some… let me know and I’ll be on it.
That’s life in a small town though. I hope that things start picking up on the economy as a whole and we are able to move forward.
Friday, March 20, 2009
The Week is almost over...
Well I’m terribly excited that the week is almost over and the weekend is soon to begin. It has been a fairly fast week but I will be excited when I don’t have to worry about getting myself and my children ready for ANYTHING. So far everyday this week the girls were good at daycare. We did have a minor issue yesterday Maya came home with a slightly black and blue eye. She apparently ran into the corner of the table. It was just a little red yesterday but this morning it’s like defiantly black and blue. She seems to be okay with it, if you touch it, it seems to hurt her so I haven’t been messing with it nor has she.
Last night wasn’t very exciting. I had my visiting teacher come over I have a new one. And we sat and talked then she delivered the message and was out the door. It was kind of strange. She wasn’t there more then 20 minutes. I guess I’m just used to the Missionaries staying for an hour at a time. But it was a nice little time to share. She has 5 children (she has triplets) so we talked about our kids quite a bit and then shortly after that the girls went to bed. It was a pretty uneventful evening to say the least.
So this weekend I have a date planned and a babysitter all arranged. I’m very excited. We are going to go to Lafayette and play Monster Mini Golf. I think it sounds like fun it’s basically miniature golf just in black lights… so it should be a good time. Then after that we are going to dinner. So it should be a good date. We talked about playing real golf but I don’t want to spend the entire 4 hours of our “date time” on the golf course I want to be able to sit and talk to. So it should be fun.
We don’t have any other major plans this weekend. I need to kind of inventory my cabinets and start coming up with meals to get rid of things. So I will need to see what I have in there to see what else I need at the store to add to them to create meals. So that will be fun.
I have been keeping up on laundry this week so I don’t have much left to do. I have had to wash bed sheets TWICE for both kids this week. Maya’s bottle and pee was all over the her sheets and then Lehna Peed the bed on Monday night and I didn’t discover it until Tuesday morning… and then she left her slippy cup on the bed on Wednesday Day on her bed so it was soaking wet. Lehna has this BIG white teddy bear and I don’t know if she sat in the thing and peed on it but it was soaking wet. So I washed it and such but it still smells… is there a “trick” anyone knows to get rid of the pee smell out of a stuffed animal. It’s not discolored or anything like that but it still smells. I asked her if she sat on it and peed and she said yes… but she’ll agree sometimes to get a rise out of me… which I don’t think she did that… but mercy it still stinks. I washed it on hot too… so I don’t know… if I need to put lemon juice in the water or something… I don’t know… any suggestions… I’m willing to try. I told her that we may have to throw bear away if I can’t get it out and she goes “okay” LOL so she’s not very attached to it…
So that’s my life right now.
Last night wasn’t very exciting. I had my visiting teacher come over I have a new one. And we sat and talked then she delivered the message and was out the door. It was kind of strange. She wasn’t there more then 20 minutes. I guess I’m just used to the Missionaries staying for an hour at a time. But it was a nice little time to share. She has 5 children (she has triplets) so we talked about our kids quite a bit and then shortly after that the girls went to bed. It was a pretty uneventful evening to say the least.
So this weekend I have a date planned and a babysitter all arranged. I’m very excited. We are going to go to Lafayette and play Monster Mini Golf. I think it sounds like fun it’s basically miniature golf just in black lights… so it should be a good time. Then after that we are going to dinner. So it should be a good date. We talked about playing real golf but I don’t want to spend the entire 4 hours of our “date time” on the golf course I want to be able to sit and talk to. So it should be fun.
We don’t have any other major plans this weekend. I need to kind of inventory my cabinets and start coming up with meals to get rid of things. So I will need to see what I have in there to see what else I need at the store to add to them to create meals. So that will be fun.
I have been keeping up on laundry this week so I don’t have much left to do. I have had to wash bed sheets TWICE for both kids this week. Maya’s bottle and pee was all over the her sheets and then Lehna Peed the bed on Monday night and I didn’t discover it until Tuesday morning… and then she left her slippy cup on the bed on Wednesday Day on her bed so it was soaking wet. Lehna has this BIG white teddy bear and I don’t know if she sat in the thing and peed on it but it was soaking wet. So I washed it and such but it still smells… is there a “trick” anyone knows to get rid of the pee smell out of a stuffed animal. It’s not discolored or anything like that but it still smells. I asked her if she sat on it and peed and she said yes… but she’ll agree sometimes to get a rise out of me… which I don’t think she did that… but mercy it still stinks. I washed it on hot too… so I don’t know… if I need to put lemon juice in the water or something… I don’t know… any suggestions… I’m willing to try. I told her that we may have to throw bear away if I can’t get it out and she goes “okay” LOL so she’s not very attached to it…
So that’s my life right now.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Another update
Well we got another good report from the kiddos at daycare this week. So I’m sooooo happy! I hope it’s not a fluke and this is going to be smooth sailing from here on out… but who knows it’s too early to tell. I don’t have the ‘stress’ of that this week hanging over me so that makes it better.
Last night I was able to actually read my book. I didn’t get very many pages read but that is the first time I have even been able to crack a book open in awhile. I also was able to get on the Wii Fit last night. I hadn’t worked out in like 10 days on it. And I lost a pound (according to its numbers) I don’t use that as my “scale” so I will have to weigh myself tomorrow and hopefully it wasn’t a fluke. I did the advance Hula Hoop and man my hips and thighs were BURNING… so after some step aerobics I was done. LOL I know it wasn’t very much but I was tired. I really need to find some time for palates again… I really enjoyed that and it was “easy” it only takes like 30 minutes to do… just where I put in that time. Maybe I will try to do it after I get the girls to bed tonight… If I’m not too exhausted.
So the birthday plans… LOL still don’t have a clue. I think we will be in WI, which I think will be fun. I asked Lehna what she wanted for her Birthday and good lord the kid wants like 50 things… and I had to stop her at one point and I go “Lehna this is your birthday NOT Christmas” and she got mad at me… LOL so says she wants: Hannah Montana dresses up clothes and toys, Princess Shoes, Princess Barbie, A big Dora, and those fairy things that you see on TV. She went into detail about what princesses and etc but I didn’t catch all of it. I asked Maya what she wants for her birthday and she goes “babies” LOL She’s so easy. You could get her a baby every holiday and she would be very happy. So it’s only 2 weeks away so I still have time to decide what to do. LOL
This is what’s going on right now. I know short and sweet.
Last night I was able to actually read my book. I didn’t get very many pages read but that is the first time I have even been able to crack a book open in awhile. I also was able to get on the Wii Fit last night. I hadn’t worked out in like 10 days on it. And I lost a pound (according to its numbers) I don’t use that as my “scale” so I will have to weigh myself tomorrow and hopefully it wasn’t a fluke. I did the advance Hula Hoop and man my hips and thighs were BURNING… so after some step aerobics I was done. LOL I know it wasn’t very much but I was tired. I really need to find some time for palates again… I really enjoyed that and it was “easy” it only takes like 30 minutes to do… just where I put in that time. Maybe I will try to do it after I get the girls to bed tonight… If I’m not too exhausted.
So the birthday plans… LOL still don’t have a clue. I think we will be in WI, which I think will be fun. I asked Lehna what she wanted for her Birthday and good lord the kid wants like 50 things… and I had to stop her at one point and I go “Lehna this is your birthday NOT Christmas” and she got mad at me… LOL so says she wants: Hannah Montana dresses up clothes and toys, Princess Shoes, Princess Barbie, A big Dora, and those fairy things that you see on TV. She went into detail about what princesses and etc but I didn’t catch all of it. I asked Maya what she wants for her birthday and she goes “babies” LOL She’s so easy. You could get her a baby every holiday and she would be very happy. So it’s only 2 weeks away so I still have time to decide what to do. LOL
This is what’s going on right now. I know short and sweet.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Dreams
I haven’t been dreaming very much right now and whenever I do have a dream that I remember it usually always gives me so insight as to how I’m doing “inside” Well last night I had a dream, and I wanted to share.
So I dreamed last night that I discovered I was pregnant. It was pretty much the entire theme of the dream. I dreamt that I was feeling kind of ill and I started smelling everything and it was starting to become a nuisance and then it HIT me. Like literally I was like ‘hum this only happens when I’m pregnant’ well then I started getting worried b/c we don’t have insurance right now b/c Tait’s new job insurance hasn’t started it yet… so I didn’t want to go to the doctor to confirm it so I bought a test and sure enough… two lines. So then I wanted to make DOUBLE sure. So I stocked out the doctor at the hospital and he was coming out of the hospital and the hospital looked like a big workshop (like a wood work shop) and I asked him to “examine me” by feeling my belly… LOL so he said that he would… and so he said “well I can’t say 100% but I think you are pregnant” Then I was like GREAT that’s just what I need! So that was pretty much all of it… I mean the rest I was just kind of freaking out and afraid to tell anyone… didn’t want anyone mad at me… LOL I know CRAZY!
So I looked up the dream… and well I think it’s kind of right on w/ what’s going on in my life.
Pregnant
To dream that you are pregnant, symbolizes an aspect of yourself or some aspect of your personal life that is growing and developing. You may not be ready to talk about it or act on it. This may also represent the birth of a new idea, direction, project or goal.
Pregnancy Test
To dream that you are taking a pregnancy test, may be a metaphor for a new phase you are entering in your life (a new job, relationship, etc.) You may feel that you are being put to the test as to whether you are prepared or ready for these changes.
Workshop
To see a workshop in you dream, represents the development of your skills. You are trying to understand your Self and find out who you are.
Abdomen
To see your abdomen in a dream refers to your natural instincts and repressed emotions. There is something in your real life that you "cannot stomach" or have difficulties accepting. You need to get it out of your system.
To dream that you abdomen is exposed, signifies trust and vulnerability. You may be expressing a desire to express your primal emotions/instincts.
To dream that your abdomen is swollen, indicates that some new project is in the works
So I thought it was pretty interesting. It defiantly shows that I have some anxiety about what’s going on with the job search and waiting for “the call” Dreams are crazy like that… at least they are for me… there is always something about them that seems to jive with what’s going on in my real life. I kind of think that’s what dreams are just a reminder of what’s going on and brings about the “anxieties and worries” that you really can’t wrap your brain around ‘YET’
So I also had a spiritual message come to me last night (early this morning)… this was right before I woke up and I can remember it plain as day and the spirit whispered “Stephanie you are not putting your faith in God, why is that?” I mean I can remember the question PLAIN as DAY! So when I woke up I pondered the question again. It’s something that I am struggling with right now, not just b/c of the job search and moving and etc but about other things too. So I guess that all my anxieties, stresses, worries, and all the unhappiness that comes with not putting the faith in the right places is what’s making me so crazy. It’s been a hard couple of days mainly b/c I have a problem with internalizing EVERYTHING so when things don’t go my way I normally blame myself. I don’t think I’m the only person in the world who does this but man it makes me unhappy when I do it. I’m working on trying to be happier. I try to look out for everyone’s happiness and I tend to ignore myself. I’m a working progress. I definitely don’t have all the answers I’m like an incomplete picture I kind of vision of it on an etch-n-sketch… and as I draw the lines I mess up and have to shake it and start alllll over. Frustrating but that happens.
On the up side of things. Lehna has gotten WONDERFUL reports from daycare EVERYDAY… So much that yesterday after I picked them up I took them to Arnie’s then to the park. It was SUPER PACKED and watching two kids when the park is PACKED is HARD work! So we didn’t stay long but we did pick up ice cream on the way home… then it was STRAIGHT in the bath… Maya was COVERED it was cute… but MESSY. So then after I got them cleaned up… Lehna asked for something out of the treasure box and I let them (I know I spoil them but they were SOOOOOO GOOD!) And so they got suckers… well then the sugar HIT they were bouncing… which I expected them to do… and so then after awhile they slowly dropped off… and they were in bed by 7:30. It was a great evening. So I was glad.
So after a couple of emails to the company that I interviewed with last week the news is they haven’t forgotten about me. They are doing a big marketing campaign right now and it takes off on Thursday so they have been swamped with that (which I kind of thought they might have problems getting my references done in 2 days) so the word is I should know something by Thursday/Friday so hopefully it will be big smiles not frowns. I am fairly certain that I got the position if I didn’t then I will be like SUPER surprised. So hopefully that anxiety will be laid to rest and I’ll do better in putting my faith in the right places. I saw a falling star this morning and I made a wish. You know I can put faith in Stars but struggle with Faith in God… doesn’t make sense does it. I know I’m complicated.
Well that’s all for now…
So I dreamed last night that I discovered I was pregnant. It was pretty much the entire theme of the dream. I dreamt that I was feeling kind of ill and I started smelling everything and it was starting to become a nuisance and then it HIT me. Like literally I was like ‘hum this only happens when I’m pregnant’ well then I started getting worried b/c we don’t have insurance right now b/c Tait’s new job insurance hasn’t started it yet… so I didn’t want to go to the doctor to confirm it so I bought a test and sure enough… two lines. So then I wanted to make DOUBLE sure. So I stocked out the doctor at the hospital and he was coming out of the hospital and the hospital looked like a big workshop (like a wood work shop) and I asked him to “examine me” by feeling my belly… LOL so he said that he would… and so he said “well I can’t say 100% but I think you are pregnant” Then I was like GREAT that’s just what I need! So that was pretty much all of it… I mean the rest I was just kind of freaking out and afraid to tell anyone… didn’t want anyone mad at me… LOL I know CRAZY!
So I looked up the dream… and well I think it’s kind of right on w/ what’s going on in my life.
Pregnant
To dream that you are pregnant, symbolizes an aspect of yourself or some aspect of your personal life that is growing and developing. You may not be ready to talk about it or act on it. This may also represent the birth of a new idea, direction, project or goal.
Pregnancy Test
To dream that you are taking a pregnancy test, may be a metaphor for a new phase you are entering in your life (a new job, relationship, etc.) You may feel that you are being put to the test as to whether you are prepared or ready for these changes.
Workshop
To see a workshop in you dream, represents the development of your skills. You are trying to understand your Self and find out who you are.
Abdomen
To see your abdomen in a dream refers to your natural instincts and repressed emotions. There is something in your real life that you "cannot stomach" or have difficulties accepting. You need to get it out of your system.
To dream that you abdomen is exposed, signifies trust and vulnerability. You may be expressing a desire to express your primal emotions/instincts.
To dream that your abdomen is swollen, indicates that some new project is in the works
So I thought it was pretty interesting. It defiantly shows that I have some anxiety about what’s going on with the job search and waiting for “the call” Dreams are crazy like that… at least they are for me… there is always something about them that seems to jive with what’s going on in my real life. I kind of think that’s what dreams are just a reminder of what’s going on and brings about the “anxieties and worries” that you really can’t wrap your brain around ‘YET’
So I also had a spiritual message come to me last night (early this morning)… this was right before I woke up and I can remember it plain as day and the spirit whispered “Stephanie you are not putting your faith in God, why is that?” I mean I can remember the question PLAIN as DAY! So when I woke up I pondered the question again. It’s something that I am struggling with right now, not just b/c of the job search and moving and etc but about other things too. So I guess that all my anxieties, stresses, worries, and all the unhappiness that comes with not putting the faith in the right places is what’s making me so crazy. It’s been a hard couple of days mainly b/c I have a problem with internalizing EVERYTHING so when things don’t go my way I normally blame myself. I don’t think I’m the only person in the world who does this but man it makes me unhappy when I do it. I’m working on trying to be happier. I try to look out for everyone’s happiness and I tend to ignore myself. I’m a working progress. I definitely don’t have all the answers I’m like an incomplete picture I kind of vision of it on an etch-n-sketch… and as I draw the lines I mess up and have to shake it and start alllll over. Frustrating but that happens.
On the up side of things. Lehna has gotten WONDERFUL reports from daycare EVERYDAY… So much that yesterday after I picked them up I took them to Arnie’s then to the park. It was SUPER PACKED and watching two kids when the park is PACKED is HARD work! So we didn’t stay long but we did pick up ice cream on the way home… then it was STRAIGHT in the bath… Maya was COVERED it was cute… but MESSY. So then after I got them cleaned up… Lehna asked for something out of the treasure box and I let them (I know I spoil them but they were SOOOOOO GOOD!) And so they got suckers… well then the sugar HIT they were bouncing… which I expected them to do… and so then after awhile they slowly dropped off… and they were in bed by 7:30. It was a great evening. So I was glad.
So after a couple of emails to the company that I interviewed with last week the news is they haven’t forgotten about me. They are doing a big marketing campaign right now and it takes off on Thursday so they have been swamped with that (which I kind of thought they might have problems getting my references done in 2 days) so the word is I should know something by Thursday/Friday so hopefully it will be big smiles not frowns. I am fairly certain that I got the position if I didn’t then I will be like SUPER surprised. So hopefully that anxiety will be laid to rest and I’ll do better in putting my faith in the right places. I saw a falling star this morning and I made a wish. You know I can put faith in Stars but struggle with Faith in God… doesn’t make sense does it. I know I’m complicated.
Well that’s all for now…
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
A Weekend in Review
Well this weekend was pretty good we went up to Wisconsin on Thursday night and we made pretty good time we only had traffic up at the tail end of our journey and it could have been b/c it was about 5-6 so it was their rush hour so that’s probably why we had just a little traffic, it was moving just had lots of pausing and then going… So then coming back the traffic was great… got home in a little over 3 ½ hours. So that was wonderful.
The weekend itself was really good too. I had an interview on Friday that I thought went pretty well. They said they would call me either Monday or latest by Tuesday, I’m still waiting. So hopefully that will move along a bit more quickly today. I hope. I know that they haven’t contact my owner or any of my references so that DOES have me concerned.
So we went to the Children’s Museum on Saturday and that was a lot of fun. Maya ran from exhibit to exhibit and it was fun to watch her climb on it then get off and jump on the next thing. It was really cute. Lehna was good she wanted to spend more time looking at things. She stayed with the post office area for quite some time while Maya went from bank to grocery store to auto repair… I guess she was just running her errands… The museum opened their new “forest park” exhibit… so they had Smokey the Bear and Woody thee Owl there… well Lehna DID NOT like them. She cried and around every corner we would make sure he wasn’t there b/c she just cried and cried… It was really cute. I was sad that they got rid of the “ball exhibit” for this thing… which I liked that exhibit b/c you used a golf ball and watched it roll around, I know doesn’t sound very exciting but it was…
After that we headed by Tait office it’s in the middle of the ghetto in Milwaukee so it kind of looks like a fortress. After that we took the girls to the park because it was such a nice day. Tait’s parents have a park just down the street from their apartment complex and there is a HUGE lake right next to it. So we went there to check it out and the girls played for about an hour or so. It started getting chilly b/c of the wind coming off the lake but it was fun overall.
After that I went shopping. I had really wanted to go to the outlet store and every time we go there we are always too busy so I wanted to pop by and see what kind of sales they had. I was in luck they had this really cute dress and I NEVER by dresses that I picked up. It looks cute on me. I also got a couple outfits for the girls and then headed back to Tait’s parent’s apartment. You know really exciting stuff.
Tait and didn’t get a date this weekend but we had a good time none the less. On Sunday we looked at different places to rent. Tait got the numbers of them and he is going to set up appointments to look at the properties and see what happens with those. They are all houses nice size so we’ll see what happens. We also visited our new ward that we will be going to when we move to WI. It was a pretty big ward unfortunately they didn’t have WARMTH as our current ward does. We got there a ½ hour late b/c they apparently start at 8:30 instead of 9… they have a Spanish group that meet at 11:30… so that’s why they start earlier. So maybe that’s why we didn’t get the warmth b/c they started earlier, even the missionaries weren’t very warm. I asked the one where our class meets and he said that it was down the hall and he was wrong… So that was fun. The Relief Society kept asking what my contact information was as far as where I live and I told them that I didn’t know yet… I mean seriously… I don’t know, but they asked me 3 times then kind of got snippy the third time and go “well do you have any leads” crappy I might add. So that was pretty interesting.
The girls had an “okay” day on Friday so I had stopped at Target for stuff for the drive up and both were rewarded. They had the Disney Princess Barbie’s for 6 bucks… they were on close out so I get Lehna and Maya one. Yesterday Lehna had a GREAT day. I got a call from the pastor after I had picked Lehna up and he said that they kept her and the “other” girl away from one another today as much as possible and that seemed to help Lehna quite a bit so that makes me happy. And Lehna even slept for Nap time! So hopefully we will continue with a good trend the rest of the week… if not then we will deal with it as it comes. I hope that it will be a good week.
So that’s what’s going on. I forgot my camera of COURSE so I don’t have any pictures from the weekend.
The weekend itself was really good too. I had an interview on Friday that I thought went pretty well. They said they would call me either Monday or latest by Tuesday, I’m still waiting. So hopefully that will move along a bit more quickly today. I hope. I know that they haven’t contact my owner or any of my references so that DOES have me concerned.
So we went to the Children’s Museum on Saturday and that was a lot of fun. Maya ran from exhibit to exhibit and it was fun to watch her climb on it then get off and jump on the next thing. It was really cute. Lehna was good she wanted to spend more time looking at things. She stayed with the post office area for quite some time while Maya went from bank to grocery store to auto repair… I guess she was just running her errands… The museum opened their new “forest park” exhibit… so they had Smokey the Bear and Woody thee Owl there… well Lehna DID NOT like them. She cried and around every corner we would make sure he wasn’t there b/c she just cried and cried… It was really cute. I was sad that they got rid of the “ball exhibit” for this thing… which I liked that exhibit b/c you used a golf ball and watched it roll around, I know doesn’t sound very exciting but it was…
After that we headed by Tait office it’s in the middle of the ghetto in Milwaukee so it kind of looks like a fortress. After that we took the girls to the park because it was such a nice day. Tait’s parents have a park just down the street from their apartment complex and there is a HUGE lake right next to it. So we went there to check it out and the girls played for about an hour or so. It started getting chilly b/c of the wind coming off the lake but it was fun overall.
After that I went shopping. I had really wanted to go to the outlet store and every time we go there we are always too busy so I wanted to pop by and see what kind of sales they had. I was in luck they had this really cute dress and I NEVER by dresses that I picked up. It looks cute on me. I also got a couple outfits for the girls and then headed back to Tait’s parent’s apartment. You know really exciting stuff.
Tait and didn’t get a date this weekend but we had a good time none the less. On Sunday we looked at different places to rent. Tait got the numbers of them and he is going to set up appointments to look at the properties and see what happens with those. They are all houses nice size so we’ll see what happens. We also visited our new ward that we will be going to when we move to WI. It was a pretty big ward unfortunately they didn’t have WARMTH as our current ward does. We got there a ½ hour late b/c they apparently start at 8:30 instead of 9… they have a Spanish group that meet at 11:30… so that’s why they start earlier. So maybe that’s why we didn’t get the warmth b/c they started earlier, even the missionaries weren’t very warm. I asked the one where our class meets and he said that it was down the hall and he was wrong… So that was fun. The Relief Society kept asking what my contact information was as far as where I live and I told them that I didn’t know yet… I mean seriously… I don’t know, but they asked me 3 times then kind of got snippy the third time and go “well do you have any leads” crappy I might add. So that was pretty interesting.
The girls had an “okay” day on Friday so I had stopped at Target for stuff for the drive up and both were rewarded. They had the Disney Princess Barbie’s for 6 bucks… they were on close out so I get Lehna and Maya one. Yesterday Lehna had a GREAT day. I got a call from the pastor after I had picked Lehna up and he said that they kept her and the “other” girl away from one another today as much as possible and that seemed to help Lehna quite a bit so that makes me happy. And Lehna even slept for Nap time! So hopefully we will continue with a good trend the rest of the week… if not then we will deal with it as it comes. I hope that it will be a good week.
So that’s what’s going on. I forgot my camera of COURSE so I don’t have any pictures from the weekend.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Wacky Wednesday
So I think the world has slipped off its axis well maybe just my side of the world… LOL so yesterday when I was at work… I got a call from the Pastor telling me the Lehna REFUSED to take a nap… and that she was waking up everyone and he wanted me to talk to her to get her to behave. The FIRST words out of her mouth were “mommy I want to you to come pick me up” and I told her NO I’m at work and she has to behave… I told her that all the other kids were watching her and were misbehaving b/c she isn’t listening… I told her that I was disappointed that she was behaving so badly. Sooooo then after giving her my “behave speech,” which incidentally I’m getting tired of saying every 15 minutes, I talked to the Pastor again and he just goes “well thank you for talking to her and we are just trying to get this under control and we are really trying to get the parents as involved as possible” And I said “you know that I’m trying everything I CAN with her to get her to behave, and nothing is working” and he said “well I appreciate that you are trying and he apologized for calling me at work and said that he hopes that me talking to her works” Well first of all… what did he accomplish… she wanted to talk to me… she wanted to tell me that she wanted to come home… so he rewards her by letting her talk to me… so now she understands… Hey if I’m REALLY bad then I’ll get to talk to mommy. Idiots!!!!
Then when I picked her up… she and her friend, the same friend that convinced her to poop her panties, pushed Keyton and Maya into the Nursery and slammed the doors on them and THEN held them against the wall and wouldn’t let them out. Yeah AWSOME! So when she got there I talked to Elizabeth again and just was so upset I don’t know what to do.
So no what to do, I mean this CAN’T continue… it just can’t… So I talked to Tait and well… this is my new plan. I feel that there are only a couple of options… I either takes them back to the old daycare in Crawfordsville, Talk to Elizabeth about her doing home daycare, or look for another daycare someone that is capable of handling them. Well my problems with the “solutions” getting her to Crawfordsville every morning would mean we have to leave our house no LATER then 5:30… right now I’m getting them up at 5:30 so that would make EVERYONE more tired, on top of that THAT would mean they would spend 11 hours at daycare in ONE day. The problem with a Elizabeth watching her… first of all she doesn’t have a car so if they get hurt they would have to call an ambulance… and I won’t be able to control who comes in and out of her house… so I am not comfortable with it… so the only VIABLE option is going to be looking for another daycare. I don’t know if more change is going to make the situation worse or if it’s going to make it worse… it’s horrible and I totally don’t know what to do. But I just don’t think that this daycare is the solution. I mean if we have to pay more… we might just have to pay more I mean I don’t know what else to do. She needs more structure and better discipline. I mean part of the problem is there are only 2 staff members to 15 kids… which that means 7 per teacher… that’s quite a bit to handle no matter who you are… and I know for a FACT that most of the people watching them are high schools students in the afternoon (who don’t really care) and the older ladies which I don’t know how much experience they not enough to handle 7 children.
So that’s where I am with it. I’m so worried about it its making me crazy. I have tried bribing… that’s not working… even though she gets upset that she doesn’t get anything but it’s not enough of an incentive for her to behave. I realize that I think her “friend” is somewhat to blame to b/c I think that child is a little wild too and the pair probably is REALLY hard to deal with. I mean Lehna can be a bully but I have NEVER had these problems before both so far she’s had a ton more structure then what’s she’s getting now… So I hope that is the problem but shaking out this old behavior from Lehna is getting tiring… I mean she has a total attitude with me she has a mouth on her… yesterday at church she was getting in the bathroom and I was getting Maya out of the bathroom and Lehna promptly tells me to “shut the darn door” and it wasn’t darn… (Sigh) seriously she is turning into a version of ME! Lord help us ALL! I just don’t know what to do…
So that’s where I am… I am just really stressed about it and I feel like I’m coming unglued. I can’t get the kid to behave. If anyone has any suggestions please suggest away b/c I’m running out of strength to get this under control
Then when I picked her up… she and her friend, the same friend that convinced her to poop her panties, pushed Keyton and Maya into the Nursery and slammed the doors on them and THEN held them against the wall and wouldn’t let them out. Yeah AWSOME! So when she got there I talked to Elizabeth again and just was so upset I don’t know what to do.
So no what to do, I mean this CAN’T continue… it just can’t… So I talked to Tait and well… this is my new plan. I feel that there are only a couple of options… I either takes them back to the old daycare in Crawfordsville, Talk to Elizabeth about her doing home daycare, or look for another daycare someone that is capable of handling them. Well my problems with the “solutions” getting her to Crawfordsville every morning would mean we have to leave our house no LATER then 5:30… right now I’m getting them up at 5:30 so that would make EVERYONE more tired, on top of that THAT would mean they would spend 11 hours at daycare in ONE day. The problem with a Elizabeth watching her… first of all she doesn’t have a car so if they get hurt they would have to call an ambulance… and I won’t be able to control who comes in and out of her house… so I am not comfortable with it… so the only VIABLE option is going to be looking for another daycare. I don’t know if more change is going to make the situation worse or if it’s going to make it worse… it’s horrible and I totally don’t know what to do. But I just don’t think that this daycare is the solution. I mean if we have to pay more… we might just have to pay more I mean I don’t know what else to do. She needs more structure and better discipline. I mean part of the problem is there are only 2 staff members to 15 kids… which that means 7 per teacher… that’s quite a bit to handle no matter who you are… and I know for a FACT that most of the people watching them are high schools students in the afternoon (who don’t really care) and the older ladies which I don’t know how much experience they not enough to handle 7 children.
So that’s where I am with it. I’m so worried about it its making me crazy. I have tried bribing… that’s not working… even though she gets upset that she doesn’t get anything but it’s not enough of an incentive for her to behave. I realize that I think her “friend” is somewhat to blame to b/c I think that child is a little wild too and the pair probably is REALLY hard to deal with. I mean Lehna can be a bully but I have NEVER had these problems before both so far she’s had a ton more structure then what’s she’s getting now… So I hope that is the problem but shaking out this old behavior from Lehna is getting tiring… I mean she has a total attitude with me she has a mouth on her… yesterday at church she was getting in the bathroom and I was getting Maya out of the bathroom and Lehna promptly tells me to “shut the darn door” and it wasn’t darn… (Sigh) seriously she is turning into a version of ME! Lord help us ALL! I just don’t know what to do…
So that’s where I am… I am just really stressed about it and I feel like I’m coming unglued. I can’t get the kid to behave. If anyone has any suggestions please suggest away b/c I’m running out of strength to get this under control
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Tuesday’s Turning Point (I realize it’s Wednesday but this is in Reflection)
Okay so I’m at a turning point. I have decided it’s a turning point b/c I am so miserable right now that I think that the ONLY way it’s going to get better is if I turn my thoughts on to happier things and really get a better outlook on it. I know the week that I was positive it seemed that I had a much happier week so I’m going to try to get back in that mood of things. Things just really suck right now and I’m ready for them to get brighter, but those are of things that I can’t control. I have a problem with letting go of things that I can’t control. I don’t think that I would describe myself as a control FREAK but maybe I am. I like to feel like I have the power to make things happen and feel sad and miserable when I can’t control the outcomes of things. So maybe by definition I am a control freak.
I guess I don’t want life to be easy because where would the challenge be I just wish that I got a few more breaks. I feel like this past year I haven’t really gotten many breaks and the sad part is I don’t see any lights at the end of the tunnel either. But I am done feeling sorry for myself. Again most of the things that have happened to me are things that I can’t control and it’s time to move forward. It’s time to slap on the happy face because my girls are watching and just tread through this gnomons pile of dung and hope that at the end I get a shower. I have many things in my life that I have to be thankful for and that’s what I need to focus on. You know even superhero’s have weaknesses and I have decided I’m not going to let mine hold me under. So here’s to the turning point.
Yesterday when I picked up the girls from daycare I heard that both kids were bad. Lehna decided to take her “friends” advice and poop her panties and then she deliberately bit the teacher so she could go to Time out. THEN Maya refused to listen to anything the teachers said and when I got there she wouldn’t come over to put her shoes on… I had to threaten her with leaving her behind 3 times before she would come over. So needless to say they both got black X and neither got stuff out of the treasure chest. They then said that they don’t enforce naps and neither girl decided that they wanted one… I was like REALLY you mean a 3 & 1 year old didn’t say “yeah I’m tired I think I need a nap?” WOW WHAT A NEWS FLASH!!! I mean what you mean you don’t enforce naps… I mean the KIDS don’t know them NEED naps… I mean why are they letting the KIDS run the daycare instead of the TEACHERS run the daycare… so the kids cry a little at first… so what they are kids they will eventually get over it… good lord… So you know now that I KNOW that they aren’t enforcing naps… I don’t really feel THAT bad that they are acting up and acting bad I mean they are TIRED and grouchy… THAT’S why they are acting bad…. It doesn’t take a genius to figure that out. I mean give me a BREAK!
So when we got home Lehna asked the entire way out of the daycare if she was going to get a toy… and I waited until we were about home and she asked me again… and I said “Lehna is it GOOD behavior to bit people” and she goes “no” and I go “Lehna is it GOOD behavior to poop in your panties on purpose” and she goes “no” and I go so why would I reward your BAD behavior with a toy… and then the fit started… I was totally anticipating it so that’s why I waited until the car. And she cried for about 2 minutes then PROMPTLY fell asleep. So we got home both her AND Maya asked about a toy and I told them both no… So the fit was kind of ongoing last night… So needless to say it wasn’t very happy in my house last night. There was a lot of “Lehna stop, Maya get down, STOP FIGHTING!, so on and so forth” I gave them baths and they were in their beds by 6:45… no they didn’t fall asleep until 7:15 but that was a ½ hour earlier then what they have been going and every day that they are bad at daycare they are going to go to bed early that night… in hopes that the NEXT day will be better.
So I feel bad b/c tonight I am teaching YW and I have to take the girls with me… so they won’t get to bed tonight until like 8:30 which will totally SUCK for tomorrow morning… AND tomorrow we are heading up to WI b/c I won a ½ day off at work so I get to use that on Friday and I’m just using the entire day to go north to WI! YEAH! So that should be the trip interesting if they are tired and grouchy… but I’m HOPING that they sleep! Then it won’t be so bad… I hope. But that is another thing all together. There are many things that have to happen before now and then. I didn’t pack yesterday and I SHOULD have… so when we get home tonight before YW we are going to have to pack the girls so I won’t have to do that tonight, I’ll save and pack myself tonight. I need to get the dog area ready to go as well you know fun stuff like that. I’m excited about going north for the weekend there’s just some tasks that need to be completed before we can go.
Well that’s all I have for now. I’m staying positive and hope that my happy smile will help the girls behave b/c I know that me being sad and miserable isn’t going to help them and will only make things worse.
I guess I don’t want life to be easy because where would the challenge be I just wish that I got a few more breaks. I feel like this past year I haven’t really gotten many breaks and the sad part is I don’t see any lights at the end of the tunnel either. But I am done feeling sorry for myself. Again most of the things that have happened to me are things that I can’t control and it’s time to move forward. It’s time to slap on the happy face because my girls are watching and just tread through this gnomons pile of dung and hope that at the end I get a shower. I have many things in my life that I have to be thankful for and that’s what I need to focus on. You know even superhero’s have weaknesses and I have decided I’m not going to let mine hold me under. So here’s to the turning point.
Yesterday when I picked up the girls from daycare I heard that both kids were bad. Lehna decided to take her “friends” advice and poop her panties and then she deliberately bit the teacher so she could go to Time out. THEN Maya refused to listen to anything the teachers said and when I got there she wouldn’t come over to put her shoes on… I had to threaten her with leaving her behind 3 times before she would come over. So needless to say they both got black X and neither got stuff out of the treasure chest. They then said that they don’t enforce naps and neither girl decided that they wanted one… I was like REALLY you mean a 3 & 1 year old didn’t say “yeah I’m tired I think I need a nap?” WOW WHAT A NEWS FLASH!!! I mean what you mean you don’t enforce naps… I mean the KIDS don’t know them NEED naps… I mean why are they letting the KIDS run the daycare instead of the TEACHERS run the daycare… so the kids cry a little at first… so what they are kids they will eventually get over it… good lord… So you know now that I KNOW that they aren’t enforcing naps… I don’t really feel THAT bad that they are acting up and acting bad I mean they are TIRED and grouchy… THAT’S why they are acting bad…. It doesn’t take a genius to figure that out. I mean give me a BREAK!
So when we got home Lehna asked the entire way out of the daycare if she was going to get a toy… and I waited until we were about home and she asked me again… and I said “Lehna is it GOOD behavior to bit people” and she goes “no” and I go “Lehna is it GOOD behavior to poop in your panties on purpose” and she goes “no” and I go so why would I reward your BAD behavior with a toy… and then the fit started… I was totally anticipating it so that’s why I waited until the car. And she cried for about 2 minutes then PROMPTLY fell asleep. So we got home both her AND Maya asked about a toy and I told them both no… So the fit was kind of ongoing last night… So needless to say it wasn’t very happy in my house last night. There was a lot of “Lehna stop, Maya get down, STOP FIGHTING!, so on and so forth” I gave them baths and they were in their beds by 6:45… no they didn’t fall asleep until 7:15 but that was a ½ hour earlier then what they have been going and every day that they are bad at daycare they are going to go to bed early that night… in hopes that the NEXT day will be better.
So I feel bad b/c tonight I am teaching YW and I have to take the girls with me… so they won’t get to bed tonight until like 8:30 which will totally SUCK for tomorrow morning… AND tomorrow we are heading up to WI b/c I won a ½ day off at work so I get to use that on Friday and I’m just using the entire day to go north to WI! YEAH! So that should be the trip interesting if they are tired and grouchy… but I’m HOPING that they sleep! Then it won’t be so bad… I hope. But that is another thing all together. There are many things that have to happen before now and then. I didn’t pack yesterday and I SHOULD have… so when we get home tonight before YW we are going to have to pack the girls so I won’t have to do that tonight, I’ll save and pack myself tonight. I need to get the dog area ready to go as well you know fun stuff like that. I’m excited about going north for the weekend there’s just some tasks that need to be completed before we can go.
Well that’s all I have for now. I’m staying positive and hope that my happy smile will help the girls behave b/c I know that me being sad and miserable isn’t going to help them and will only make things worse.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Monday Madness
Okay so it wasn’t quite madness. Lehna had a GREAT day! She got up on her own on Monday and was excited to get dressed (she wore a dress to school so she was excited about putting it on) then we got her to school and she went right in no worries no chasing me down the hallway or anything like that. Maya was a little rough though. She woke up crying to Tait and I told her we could call her and she really wasn’t interested in doing that. So it was really sad I got her dressed and out the door. Both girls since they were corporative in getting them out of the door went and going straight in, I had enough time to get Starbucks Yummmmmmy.
When I picked them up they said that Lehna did great she had a really great day. Lehna was happy and smiling. Then they gave me Maya’s Story. She had a bad day. She pinched, scratched, and knocked another little kid down. (sigh) So my children have changed places. So when I picked her up we had a talk about how it wasn’t nice to pinch and hit and etc etc. And when we got home I let Lehna pick out of the treasure chest and Maya didn’t get anything. Then later on that night I asked Lehna to pick up the room and told BOTH girls that who ever picks up the most gets to pick out of the treasure chest I have NEVER seen Lehna move so QUICK! Maya on the other hand was more interested in watching Dora and so she didn’t help… she would pretend she was going to then just turn her head and ignore us. Man why didn’t I try the treasure chest BEFORE! So I’m hoping that we can keep the trend up with Lehna. I think that Maya is just jealous of all the attention that Lehna is getting so I think that I will work with Maya on getting her behavior where it should be. I know a lot of the problem is Maya is only two and doesn’t really understand but she does understand enough pick up at the old daycare they said she was the best toy cleaner… so I know she KNOWS how to she just is doing it on purpose.
I feel bad for the girls. I know that they really miss their daddy during the week and it is really hard for them. I hope that we can really give each girl their own “special” time with Tait on the weekend to try and smooth out some of the roughness during the week. I hope that I will be there in WI soon I truly do but until that point we have to keep pressing on.
I started watching DWS last night but I was so tired that I didn’t watch all of it. I didn’t come into it until 8:30 so I missed the first groups then I watched for about an hour and then promptly fell asleep. So I didn’t catch the end. I DVRd it so I will be able to watch it tonight but from what I saw I think its’ going to be a good Season. I really think that the Jewel’s husband that cowboy did a good job… he has a LONG way to go but he did a good job from what I saw. He is just so uncomfortable it kind of amusing to watch.
Last night after putting the girls to bed I was coming out of their room and I saw the missionaries coming up to the door. Since Tait isn’t home they couldn’t come in but I talked to them on the porch for a good 30 minutes. I think that HF sent them too me b/c I was really feeling low. So it was a nice pick me upper. I really like both missionaries so it was nice to be able to talk to adults.
I have been trying to come up with some sort of game plan for the girls’ birthday at the end of this month but haven’t really found anything yet. We are going to be in WI so I just don’t know if we should do something with the grandparents or if we should plan an activity like the zoo or bowling alley… I just don’t know yet. Tait and I are going to think about it. I don’t even know what to get them… I have a few “ideas” but nothing that is OVER THE TOP… Lehna said she wants her BDay cake to be Hannah Montana… which I fully expected but since the girls have a JOINT cake… I don’t know if I should go that route… I don’t know… again it’s all in the early stages of planning. I mean its’ just 2 & 4 so I don’t know… we’ll have to think about it a little more.
Well that’s the summary of how yesterday went. I didn’t work out yesterday but I’m definitely going to be doing that today… I mean I teach palliates on Wednesday and I haven’t even done them 8 weeks!!! So that’s what my plan is for tomorrow… luckily I’m not going to have to fill up the entire 2 hours… so THAT’S a blessing… probably just 30-40 minutes and we can SURLY do it in that long. (Yeah!)
When I picked them up they said that Lehna did great she had a really great day. Lehna was happy and smiling. Then they gave me Maya’s Story. She had a bad day. She pinched, scratched, and knocked another little kid down. (sigh) So my children have changed places. So when I picked her up we had a talk about how it wasn’t nice to pinch and hit and etc etc. And when we got home I let Lehna pick out of the treasure chest and Maya didn’t get anything. Then later on that night I asked Lehna to pick up the room and told BOTH girls that who ever picks up the most gets to pick out of the treasure chest I have NEVER seen Lehna move so QUICK! Maya on the other hand was more interested in watching Dora and so she didn’t help… she would pretend she was going to then just turn her head and ignore us. Man why didn’t I try the treasure chest BEFORE! So I’m hoping that we can keep the trend up with Lehna. I think that Maya is just jealous of all the attention that Lehna is getting so I think that I will work with Maya on getting her behavior where it should be. I know a lot of the problem is Maya is only two and doesn’t really understand but she does understand enough pick up at the old daycare they said she was the best toy cleaner… so I know she KNOWS how to she just is doing it on purpose.
I feel bad for the girls. I know that they really miss their daddy during the week and it is really hard for them. I hope that we can really give each girl their own “special” time with Tait on the weekend to try and smooth out some of the roughness during the week. I hope that I will be there in WI soon I truly do but until that point we have to keep pressing on.
I started watching DWS last night but I was so tired that I didn’t watch all of it. I didn’t come into it until 8:30 so I missed the first groups then I watched for about an hour and then promptly fell asleep. So I didn’t catch the end. I DVRd it so I will be able to watch it tonight but from what I saw I think its’ going to be a good Season. I really think that the Jewel’s husband that cowboy did a good job… he has a LONG way to go but he did a good job from what I saw. He is just so uncomfortable it kind of amusing to watch.
Last night after putting the girls to bed I was coming out of their room and I saw the missionaries coming up to the door. Since Tait isn’t home they couldn’t come in but I talked to them on the porch for a good 30 minutes. I think that HF sent them too me b/c I was really feeling low. So it was a nice pick me upper. I really like both missionaries so it was nice to be able to talk to adults.
I have been trying to come up with some sort of game plan for the girls’ birthday at the end of this month but haven’t really found anything yet. We are going to be in WI so I just don’t know if we should do something with the grandparents or if we should plan an activity like the zoo or bowling alley… I just don’t know yet. Tait and I are going to think about it. I don’t even know what to get them… I have a few “ideas” but nothing that is OVER THE TOP… Lehna said she wants her BDay cake to be Hannah Montana… which I fully expected but since the girls have a JOINT cake… I don’t know if I should go that route… I don’t know… again it’s all in the early stages of planning. I mean its’ just 2 & 4 so I don’t know… we’ll have to think about it a little more.
Well that’s the summary of how yesterday went. I didn’t work out yesterday but I’m definitely going to be doing that today… I mean I teach palliates on Wednesday and I haven’t even done them 8 weeks!!! So that’s what my plan is for tomorrow… luckily I’m not going to have to fill up the entire 2 hours… so THAT’S a blessing… probably just 30-40 minutes and we can SURLY do it in that long. (Yeah!)
Monday, March 09, 2009
A weekend in Review.
Quick note for Friday. Lehna was GREAT. She did well enough that the director came over and said what awesome day she had. So that’s great news… So she got her toy on Friday instead of Saturday.
This weekend was REALLY GREAT! I had the best weekend I can’t even begin to describe how awesome it was. Tait came home on Friday night and I was so tired the poor guy barley got a “hello” it was a really rough week this week with Lehna being bad and just emotionally tough for me. I was being haunted by old ghosts this past week. So on Saturday Tait and I took the girls to Marcus and Jackie and they played their little hearts out there. I hear that they were REALLY good… which I’m glad b/c my children have MULITIPLE personalities so I’m glad that the ‘good one’s’ were out.
So with the girls being watch Tait and I went to a movie. Tait REALLY wanted to see the movie “The Watchmen” Wow let me tell you it was something… DEFINTELY NOT a girl movie. It was full of gore and sex… well to be honest there wasn’t “that” much sex… but what was there… was ENOUGH. The gore was seriously horrible… I mean they cut people’s arms off and that kind of junk. Yeah not exactly my cup of tea… LOL Tait kept telling me that he was glad that I came and that he was sorry that it wasn’t something I enjoyed… I really know he wanted to see it but I think I get TWO girl movies out of this one… wow. It was just really graphic which I realize that it followed a comic book and comic books are notorious for being graphic b/c they are books… and well… this followed to that script. I mean the story was long too. It took 1 ½ hours just to set the dumb movie up… LOL OH well at least I get two chick flicks out of it. Of course I haven’t seen a good chick flick that I WANTED to see since… hum… oh I don’t know… it’s a be a REALLY long time.
After the movie we went for a lunch at Logan’s. It was really nice date. We picked up the kids both were dressed in different clothes… they had ice cream and played REALLY hard at the park. It was really nice being able to have a date with Tait, I didn’t get one last week so it was a nice catch up date.
On Sunday we went to church and the girls were difficult, not super horrible but Maya is REALLY struggling holding still for the entire length of sacrament… it was the same with Lehna at this age so we will grind through it… She really wants to crawl underneath the benches… you know. That’s what she wants to do… it’s so annoying… b/c you kind of grab her and then you have to pull her back and then she cries… (sigh) Kids.
After dinner Tait took Lehna to the arcade at the bowling alley to have some alone time with her. I think this helped Lehna quite a bit. She told Tait that she had a really fun time. Lehna and Tait played at the arcade for about an hour and then Lehna told Tait that there were too many mean kids there and asked to go for a walk. So Tait and Lehna went for a walk.
At the same time, I was at the dollar store with Maya getting rewards for the treasure chest. I bought all kinds of kid make up, lip gloss, hair toys, Easter eggs with candy, bubbles, crayons, Hannah Montana toys, Princess toys, etc. I mean I got a TON of things for Lehna to “reward” her when she has good behavior. I told her on Saturday that it was full of toys… (but I didn’t get anything until Sunday) then on Sunday I told her it was filled with toys… which it is… but she begged for me to let her look in and I told her no… I am trying to keep the anticipation up… of course after this week she will know what’s in there… but I figured this would maybe help this week. But since we are going to WI on Friday I told her that we will let her get her reward on Thursday. She is going to be at daycare for ½ a day on Friday so I figured it was okay… You know always giving her the benefit of the doubt.
So then after that we meet them at culvers and we had Ice cream together as a family. It was another nice day… nice family time. Maya totally RUINED her pants and shirt however… I have never seen a kid get so messy it was HORRIBLE. I took her pants and shirt off and took her out in jacket and diaper… I couldn’t believe it… it was so nice outside it wasn’t that big of a deal. When we came back home… we tired to do a nice family nap… yeah that wasn’t very successful. Lehna was WIDE awake so we told her she didn’t have to lie down but we put her in the play room and she had to stay in there. Maya was “kind of tired” and I put her in her crib and she cried a little… and I fell asleep for about 15 minutes and then she was calling for us… and it was b/c the power had gone out… so, so much for family nap time. We took the girls in the front room and we played out there for a little bit. I called the Sheriff so they could get someone out to put our power back on… Tait was like “don’t call the sheriff call the town marshal” but I know from experience that the sheriff is the way to go… b/c they call the power company directly… and with in 45 minutes we had power.
It was really a nice weekend. We are going north for the weekend and hope that we don’t run into traffic on Friday. That would not be very fun… but we’ll have to see what happens. Tait said on the north side of Chicago they are doing some major construction where it’s going down to two lanes… so HOPEFULLY I will be going at time that that won’t matter… but we’ll see. I’m just glad that Tait won’t have to make the journey south… it will be a nice break for him. I am planning on meeting with the Racine Office on Friday afternoon then on Saturday there is ANOTHER test that I have to take for a position so… I’ll be doing that Saturday morning… yeah fun! I hope that it is better then the test I took for the general clerical test but I have a feeling it’s going to be harder that will suck… but maybe just maybe it won’t be too bad…
Well that’s what going on around here… I hope that Lehna has a good week. I think the one on one time with Tait REALLY helped her… this morning she was GREAT… and My mom sent some special things for her to work on at daycare so hopefully those will be successful and we will be able to keep a trend of good behavior up for you know three, fours. I know that soon I’ll be up in WI… I can feel it… I hope it happens sooner rather than later… but I have faith that it will happen.
This weekend was REALLY GREAT! I had the best weekend I can’t even begin to describe how awesome it was. Tait came home on Friday night and I was so tired the poor guy barley got a “hello” it was a really rough week this week with Lehna being bad and just emotionally tough for me. I was being haunted by old ghosts this past week. So on Saturday Tait and I took the girls to Marcus and Jackie and they played their little hearts out there. I hear that they were REALLY good… which I’m glad b/c my children have MULITIPLE personalities so I’m glad that the ‘good one’s’ were out.
So with the girls being watch Tait and I went to a movie. Tait REALLY wanted to see the movie “The Watchmen” Wow let me tell you it was something… DEFINTELY NOT a girl movie. It was full of gore and sex… well to be honest there wasn’t “that” much sex… but what was there… was ENOUGH. The gore was seriously horrible… I mean they cut people’s arms off and that kind of junk. Yeah not exactly my cup of tea… LOL Tait kept telling me that he was glad that I came and that he was sorry that it wasn’t something I enjoyed… I really know he wanted to see it but I think I get TWO girl movies out of this one… wow. It was just really graphic which I realize that it followed a comic book and comic books are notorious for being graphic b/c they are books… and well… this followed to that script. I mean the story was long too. It took 1 ½ hours just to set the dumb movie up… LOL OH well at least I get two chick flicks out of it. Of course I haven’t seen a good chick flick that I WANTED to see since… hum… oh I don’t know… it’s a be a REALLY long time.
After the movie we went for a lunch at Logan’s. It was really nice date. We picked up the kids both were dressed in different clothes… they had ice cream and played REALLY hard at the park. It was really nice being able to have a date with Tait, I didn’t get one last week so it was a nice catch up date.
On Sunday we went to church and the girls were difficult, not super horrible but Maya is REALLY struggling holding still for the entire length of sacrament… it was the same with Lehna at this age so we will grind through it… She really wants to crawl underneath the benches… you know. That’s what she wants to do… it’s so annoying… b/c you kind of grab her and then you have to pull her back and then she cries… (sigh) Kids.
After dinner Tait took Lehna to the arcade at the bowling alley to have some alone time with her. I think this helped Lehna quite a bit. She told Tait that she had a really fun time. Lehna and Tait played at the arcade for about an hour and then Lehna told Tait that there were too many mean kids there and asked to go for a walk. So Tait and Lehna went for a walk.
At the same time, I was at the dollar store with Maya getting rewards for the treasure chest. I bought all kinds of kid make up, lip gloss, hair toys, Easter eggs with candy, bubbles, crayons, Hannah Montana toys, Princess toys, etc. I mean I got a TON of things for Lehna to “reward” her when she has good behavior. I told her on Saturday that it was full of toys… (but I didn’t get anything until Sunday) then on Sunday I told her it was filled with toys… which it is… but she begged for me to let her look in and I told her no… I am trying to keep the anticipation up… of course after this week she will know what’s in there… but I figured this would maybe help this week. But since we are going to WI on Friday I told her that we will let her get her reward on Thursday. She is going to be at daycare for ½ a day on Friday so I figured it was okay… You know always giving her the benefit of the doubt.
So then after that we meet them at culvers and we had Ice cream together as a family. It was another nice day… nice family time. Maya totally RUINED her pants and shirt however… I have never seen a kid get so messy it was HORRIBLE. I took her pants and shirt off and took her out in jacket and diaper… I couldn’t believe it… it was so nice outside it wasn’t that big of a deal. When we came back home… we tired to do a nice family nap… yeah that wasn’t very successful. Lehna was WIDE awake so we told her she didn’t have to lie down but we put her in the play room and she had to stay in there. Maya was “kind of tired” and I put her in her crib and she cried a little… and I fell asleep for about 15 minutes and then she was calling for us… and it was b/c the power had gone out… so, so much for family nap time. We took the girls in the front room and we played out there for a little bit. I called the Sheriff so they could get someone out to put our power back on… Tait was like “don’t call the sheriff call the town marshal” but I know from experience that the sheriff is the way to go… b/c they call the power company directly… and with in 45 minutes we had power.
It was really a nice weekend. We are going north for the weekend and hope that we don’t run into traffic on Friday. That would not be very fun… but we’ll have to see what happens. Tait said on the north side of Chicago they are doing some major construction where it’s going down to two lanes… so HOPEFULLY I will be going at time that that won’t matter… but we’ll see. I’m just glad that Tait won’t have to make the journey south… it will be a nice break for him. I am planning on meeting with the Racine Office on Friday afternoon then on Saturday there is ANOTHER test that I have to take for a position so… I’ll be doing that Saturday morning… yeah fun! I hope that it is better then the test I took for the general clerical test but I have a feeling it’s going to be harder that will suck… but maybe just maybe it won’t be too bad…
Well that’s what going on around here… I hope that Lehna has a good week. I think the one on one time with Tait REALLY helped her… this morning she was GREAT… and My mom sent some special things for her to work on at daycare so hopefully those will be successful and we will be able to keep a trend of good behavior up for you know three, fours. I know that soon I’ll be up in WI… I can feel it… I hope it happens sooner rather than later… but I have faith that it will happen.
Friday, March 06, 2009
Thursday Update.
Well yesterday when I picked up Lehna I got seriously mixed reviews… so I gave Lehna the benefit of the doubt. LOL
I heard from Elizabeth that she was “about as good as Wednesday” and then from the Director he said “she was really much better today then she was yesterday” He also added that the “new incentive program I started with her really seems to be helping her” LOL He has only known about it for a DAY and she’s been on it for 3 days… and one out of those days she was in TO (Timeout) for biting…
But she didn’t get put in TO at all yesterday they threatened her once but she behaved and wasn’t put in TO but I figured that it was good enough for a sticker but NOT good enough to move her reward day to Friday… and Lehna was in agreement with that… So I told her that today if she is EXTRA good… you know, lays down for nap (they haven’t been making her nap), listens the FIRST time to the teacher, and helps out during clean up time and school time that I would give her the toy today. So hopefully that will be enough for her to behave I hope!
So this week I worked out on the Wii Fit again, yesterday I had unlocked a new boxing game so I wanted to try that again. So I tired it again last night and I put it up a little on the advance part and MAN it was HARD! It goes so fast they give you the pattern and then make you do it at fast speed… so I didn’t do too well. I can tell you however that my upper back and arms are KILLLLLLING ME! So at least I know its working. I also like the step aerobics on it. I have unlocked all but one balancing game and I have one aerobic game let but it looks like some kind of running game… not exactly my cup of tea. It said that I had gained LBS but that was seriously RIGHT AFTER I ate AND it was at the end of the day but I am down one lbs from last week so I’m getting there… I don’t think I’ll be at my 50 lbs goal, by Easter, but I should be pretty close hopefully with me getting back on the exercise train that will make it come off easier.
This week has been pretty tough emotionally and physically, I think it’s just in the air this week. I haven’t been trying to keep the positive outlook so that’s been weighing me down. I do have faith that things will get easier. I wish that I could just snap my fingers and all the things that I want changed will be changed you know… so forth and so on… but unfortunately that isn’t in the cards right now which is just a real pisser… but what can I do, besides just keep pressing forward.
Well Tait comes home this evening. This morning I woke up and thought YEAH IT’S SATURDAY! Then I started to Panic b/c Tait hadn’t come in yet… and Lehna was in the bed… I thought that it was strange that he didn’t come wake me up to let me know he was home… so I waited and waited… and then I was like… WAIT it’s FRIDAY MORNING… not Saturday… hate that! So I’m so glad that Tait is coming home I have missed him terribly this week. We have a date planned for Saturday and it should be tons of fun. Movie and dinner can’t go wrong with that combination.
So I think that next week is going to be a busy week so that should make the week fly by… at least I HOPE IT DOES! We are going UP to WI tomorrow… it should be fun. I have to meet with the Racine Office Friday Afternoon and then I am going to take another State test for the HR position on Saturday. It should be fun. LOL and hopefully we are going to start looking for a place to rent. I know it’s kind of premature but I want to see what’s out there… hopefully we will find something fun. I know Tait is excited b/c he doesn’t have to make the journey down. Then the following weekend Tait comes to us… then the LAST weekend in March we are going BACK up… There is a BIG job fair that Tait’s company is going to be at and a bunch of other companies… and I’m hoping to make some contacts for SOMETHING… I hope… so I probably won’t be up in WI by the end of March like I said earlier this week… but it’s pretty early in the month yet… we never know…
So that’s life right now… pretty exciting right?
I’ll post to let you all know how Lehna did today… please let her do well… please!
I heard from Elizabeth that she was “about as good as Wednesday” and then from the Director he said “she was really much better today then she was yesterday” He also added that the “new incentive program I started with her really seems to be helping her” LOL He has only known about it for a DAY and she’s been on it for 3 days… and one out of those days she was in TO (Timeout) for biting…
But she didn’t get put in TO at all yesterday they threatened her once but she behaved and wasn’t put in TO but I figured that it was good enough for a sticker but NOT good enough to move her reward day to Friday… and Lehna was in agreement with that… So I told her that today if she is EXTRA good… you know, lays down for nap (they haven’t been making her nap), listens the FIRST time to the teacher, and helps out during clean up time and school time that I would give her the toy today. So hopefully that will be enough for her to behave I hope!
So this week I worked out on the Wii Fit again, yesterday I had unlocked a new boxing game so I wanted to try that again. So I tired it again last night and I put it up a little on the advance part and MAN it was HARD! It goes so fast they give you the pattern and then make you do it at fast speed… so I didn’t do too well. I can tell you however that my upper back and arms are KILLLLLLING ME! So at least I know its working. I also like the step aerobics on it. I have unlocked all but one balancing game and I have one aerobic game let but it looks like some kind of running game… not exactly my cup of tea. It said that I had gained LBS but that was seriously RIGHT AFTER I ate AND it was at the end of the day but I am down one lbs from last week so I’m getting there… I don’t think I’ll be at my 50 lbs goal, by Easter, but I should be pretty close hopefully with me getting back on the exercise train that will make it come off easier.
This week has been pretty tough emotionally and physically, I think it’s just in the air this week. I haven’t been trying to keep the positive outlook so that’s been weighing me down. I do have faith that things will get easier. I wish that I could just snap my fingers and all the things that I want changed will be changed you know… so forth and so on… but unfortunately that isn’t in the cards right now which is just a real pisser… but what can I do, besides just keep pressing forward.
Well Tait comes home this evening. This morning I woke up and thought YEAH IT’S SATURDAY! Then I started to Panic b/c Tait hadn’t come in yet… and Lehna was in the bed… I thought that it was strange that he didn’t come wake me up to let me know he was home… so I waited and waited… and then I was like… WAIT it’s FRIDAY MORNING… not Saturday… hate that! So I’m so glad that Tait is coming home I have missed him terribly this week. We have a date planned for Saturday and it should be tons of fun. Movie and dinner can’t go wrong with that combination.
So I think that next week is going to be a busy week so that should make the week fly by… at least I HOPE IT DOES! We are going UP to WI tomorrow… it should be fun. I have to meet with the Racine Office Friday Afternoon and then I am going to take another State test for the HR position on Saturday. It should be fun. LOL and hopefully we are going to start looking for a place to rent. I know it’s kind of premature but I want to see what’s out there… hopefully we will find something fun. I know Tait is excited b/c he doesn’t have to make the journey down. Then the following weekend Tait comes to us… then the LAST weekend in March we are going BACK up… There is a BIG job fair that Tait’s company is going to be at and a bunch of other companies… and I’m hoping to make some contacts for SOMETHING… I hope… so I probably won’t be up in WI by the end of March like I said earlier this week… but it’s pretty early in the month yet… we never know…
So that’s life right now… pretty exciting right?
I’ll post to let you all know how Lehna did today… please let her do well… please!
Thursday, March 05, 2009
Wednesday Review… really quick
Yeah the report was bad on Lehna… when I got there she was sitting in time out for bitting another child… I thought we curbed the bitting a LONG time ago!!! So we are back to square one… after a nice 2 hour fit for me (she cried the entire drive home and then extra once we got home) we moved her reward day back AND gave her a black X… So we are trying again today. She said she was going to be extra good today. So I hope… I hope hope hope… I’m going to just stay as strict as I can… it’s hard to do that b/c she’s such a good negotiator… And I feel badly b/c she is ONLY 3 but I hoping that she’s better today… no deals just good… I hope. So I’ll let you know what happens.