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March 17, 2004
Just me moaning
March 17, 2004 - 3:43 PM
Have I written before about how frusterated I get sometimes? I'm sure I have and if you are sick of hearing me bitch and moan, just move along now... I just get so TIRED (!) of doing the same damn things over and over. I pick up everything on the floor in one room and move onto the next. By the time I get done, and go back to the 1st room, its worse than it was to begin with! Aidan is just so destructive. I really don't remember Maddie being this bad. I guess it could be the difference between boys and girls? He wants everything he can get his hands on to be on the floor. I have cleaned up one mess after another today, and the house STILL looks like it hasn't been cleaned. How do I get him to stop being like this? DH said yesterday, maybe its time for a little discipline, but how do you really discipline a child his age? It just seems like they don't have good enough reasoning ability at this age to understand WHY you are holding them for a time out. I guess maybe being sick is just wearing on me. This really can't go on for much longer right?
Cassie and Isabella
March 16, 2004 - 1:48 PM
Cassie and Isabella sleeping
Isabella
Hi There
March 15, 2004 - 2:03 PM
First things first. I'm sorry for my absense. Ok. I'm glad thats out of the way. We are still sick here. Today makes two weeks of this particular nastiness. There have been days that I thought I was going to just have to go jump off a bridge because I felt so rotton. Friday was one of those. My wonderful DH came home early from work so I could get a break. I went to bed pretty much as he walked in the door. He took care of the kids, cooked dinner and worked on the neverending laundry while I slept for two hours. I love that man. We spent the weekend trying really hard not to do too much. We usually run all over the place on the weekends. This weekend we limited that to a trip out to eat lunch on Sat. and a grocery shopping trip on Sunday. We did work on cleaning the house a bit, but thats just a losing battle these days. We can get it looking GREAT (which we did Sunday morning) and 15 minutes later its trashed again. Why bother? We met our next door neighbors last night and got to go see the inside of their house. We both live in manufactured/modular type homes and I was SO curious to see if theirs was like ours inside. They look a lot alike on the outside, but the insides are totally different. There are a couple things about our house I like better, but for the most part I was kind of jealous of theirs! My laundry room is stuck on this little tiny back porch entryway type thing, and she had a whole room just for laundry with cupboards, and counters, and get this...a laundry sink! Man. Green with envy. Anyway, they had a few features that we are missing, we have a couple things that they don't have. It was very interesting. They seem to be very nice people too, about our age and have a baby girl that is just 3 months younger than Aidan. We figured out her and Aidan will go to Kindergarten together in few years. Its so nice to live in a neighborhood with kids now! Lets see. What else have I been saving in my head to write about? I had to run to the "Big City" this morning to take Maddie to the Dr's office. She has an ear infection. Our co-pays went up the 1st of the year and I was dreading paying for the expensive antibiotics she has to have, but our wonderful Nurse Clinician gave us samples for the whole 10 day treatment and threw in some childrens advil samples too. That saved me at least $30. I bought a new computer at Goodwill one day last week. I got a whole Compaq system, that is like new for $16. Yup. $16. Amazing, huh? I brought it home, upgraded the OS, slapped it on a desk we weren't using in the living room and told Maddie it was hers. Right now Maddie and I are sitting side by side at our computers, working away. She loves Noggin.com, so that is her home page. She also has email and her grandmothers send her cards and emails. I also have her Jumpstart games on there and she likes playing MS's pinball game. I swear, that kid is better at running a computer than any of her grandparents are. She picks it up so easy. If you want to drop Maddie an email, let me know at maddiesma1@yahoo.com and I'll email you her address. And, the best thing that happened today? My NETWORK IS WORKING!! I have struggled for almost 3 months trying to get this damn thing working right. I have lost countless hours working on it. I thought it was working last week, but it was a fluke that lasted all of about 12 hours. But now? Oh My! It's working. All three computers and the PS2 can be online at the same time. It was a combination of me not knowing what I was doing (yes, I can admit that), having the wrong cable thrown in the mix, and Alltel's lack of any kind of instructions, as well as them sending out an installation disk that TOTALLY mucks everthing up. Anyhow, its working now. I will try to get back to posting regularly now. I still have a puppy update I want to do, as well as posting some pictures of her. I got the greatest ones last night and I definately want to get them up. I have a house to clean for now though. Blech!
Just so you know
March 09, 2004 - 3:35 PM
I'm still alive... I still have a cold. Today it seems to be more annoying than it has been. Spring is teasing us. Yesterday it was nice enough to walk the kids to the park and play outside for quite a while. I have much to say, but too little ambition to do it. I'll write more soon. I promise.
Yay for Friday
March 05, 2004 - 11:21 AM
So much to say. So little time to say it. The puppy is awesome. She is so good and sweet. She hasn't had any accidents since the 1st day. She isn't going to the door and asking to go out yet, but she is holding it until we take her out. As soon as we set her down outside, she goes. Good dog. :) Water in the basement. Ugh. It just keeps raining and raining. We have a poured concrete basement and there are these seems. Several of the seems are leaking water. I sure hope this is just a drainage problem. In other words, when we get gutters on, the water won't just run right down into the foundation. I'm so glad the weekend is almost here. I have ANOTHER cold. I'm miserable. My right knee has been "out" since last night. I say "out" because it feels like my knee-cap isn't where its supposed to be. I think one good POP and it would be ok, but I can't get it too. Ibuprofen is helping both it and my sore throat. The boy is a terror and doing his level headed best to make sure I don't get to do any one thing for longer than 1 1/2 minutes. Like this for instance. He hates it when I try to type something on the computer. He comes over, pulls on my hands, pushes the keyboard tray in, pulls on me, cries, screams. Which is why I don't write as often as I'd like too. I won't even get into the messes he's created JUST IN THE LAST 3 HOURS. He's a trip. AND NOBODY LISTENS TO ME! Arg. Listen to your mother. If she says, "put the puppy down now" she MEANS, put the puppy down NOW! Not stand and debate with her for an hour about why you shouldn't have to put down the puppy. Ok, gotta run. I have lots of stuff to clean up so that Aidan can destroy it again. Oh, and lots of stuff to ask Madison to do that she's going to refuse to do. I love my job.
religion
March 03, 2004 - 11:49 AM
Ok. The baby is asleep on my shoulder and I have nothing to do but post, post, post! I'm trying to sort through some religion things here lately. Maybe it will help me to actually write them down. I was raised Lutheran. My mother forced me to attend a church from 2nd through 8th grades where I was miserable. The other kids were cruel to me. I had almost no friends there. I was the only girl in a class full of boys. Correction, I was an OVERWEIGHT girl in a class of boys. It sucked & I think I still have emotional scarring from those years. (Yeah, I know, I need to get over it.) Somewhere in there I learned a bit about the bible, and God, and Jesus. Certainly not tons, but I got the gist. We stopped attending church after I was confirmed in 8th grade, though I'm still not sure why. I think my mom fely slighted by something the pastor did or didn't do. Funny, it wasn't enough that the other kids tortured me for years for me to stop going, but let someone look at mom wrong & we stopped going. My folks have not attended church since then. My mother is very proud of the fact that she made sure I was "raised in a church." Since that time I've had a wishy-washy on-again, off-again thing going with God. Sometimes I believe. Other times I'm sure its just a bunch of bunk made up for political reasons & to try to keep people in line. A few months ago when we found this house & things fell into place so easily, I was convinced that God was guiding us & helping us. I even promised to stop doubting & start going to church again. How do I feel right now though? Its tricky. There is part of me that still believes in God, but I am having major conflicting feelings about the bible. Mainly, I don't believe most of it. It's been translated. So much of it isn't applicable today. So much of it is open for interpretation. And then there are all these fundamentalist Christians who I would NEVER want to be lumped together with. In my world, they are giving Christianity a bad name. THEN, throw in the fact that I am increasingly becoming intrigued by Earth-based worship & I end up with a lot of confusion. I really don't know much about the pagan type of worship, but what I do know is appealing. Maybe its the rituals that are appealing to me. Maybe its just being unconventional that I like. Maybe I just want to shock my mother. Anyone know of a non-bible worshipping, Earth-based sect of God believers I can join up with? Maybe I could just start my own church? The saddest thing is, I feel like I really would like to have Maddie in Sunday School. Some part of me feels terribly guilty that she asked me, not too long ago, what a cross is. We haven't talked too much about God. We do not pray regularly. The guilt must come from the fact that I must still believe in God and that I have a duty to be teaching those things to my children. But there are the surface feelings that conflict with all that. The ones that really do NOT believe so much of what's in the bible. Ok, now I feel like I'm rambling again and not getting anywhere. Its just so confusing.
And the rain rain rain came down down down
March 03, 2004 - 10:50 AM
Did I mention the water? In the basement? Leaky water seemst to be a re-occuring theme around here. Since we moved in, it seems the God or Godess of Water (is there one? Who is it? I need to offer something up to them) has been upset with us. I'm not sure what we've done to offend this God or Godess, but whatever it was, it must have been pretty heinous. First, water leaked all over the laundry room when we started up the water the day we moved in. My dad didn't get the hook-up for the washer shut tight and when we got back with the moving truck, there was lots of water out there. Then, the 1st time we drained the sink of dishes in the kitchen water ran out on our feet from under the cupboard. Then we noticed something was leaking water quite badly in the basement. One by one, DH got all of those things sorted out. Sunday it rained. It rained and it rained and it rained. We happened to go down in the basement for something else and WATER! Lovely water. Running accross my basement floor. Getting threateningly close to the boxes of outgrown kids clothes. The dumb-asses that built the house failed to put gutters on this house. Somehow the water main hook-up in the basement failed to get plugged correctly. Put the two together and what do you get? Water! Like a faucet running into the basement. Luckily, my in-laws were here and they helped us move all the stuff around down there and we just kept sweeping the naughty water over to the drain. Because of the no-gutter situation, there are also several cracks in the basement walls were the water is seeping in. Gutters are going to be a number one priority around here, and then we need to put a little extra dirt around the foundation to build back up what 3 1/2 years of no gutters has broken down. And today its raining. And I'm scared to go down there.
Isabella
March 03, 2004 - 10:22 AM
The puppy is coming today. The puppy is coming today!! Hip Hip Horray! Um. I think.
Update
March 01, 2004 - 10:14 PM
Just a quick update. My top tooth is still a bit sore, but I just thank God that it didn't get broken or anything. My lip is sore too, but its not too bad. Its not anywhere as bad as I thought it was going to be. Aidan and I went back to sleep while Maddie watched cartoons for an hour and 1/2 or so. My parents came and spent the afternoon with us and it was nice. Then we all went after supper to go get food and toys for the new puppy. She will be here Wednesday. Ok, I have to go to bed now. :)
Small whine
March 01, 2004 - 7:44 AM
I can tell. This is going to be a good day. First of all, I went to bed way too late, then I couldn't sleep. Then my teething son spent the 3 hours I was in bed nursing, making it impossible for me to get any good rest. Then, DH woke Maddie up at 6:45 when he came in to kiss us goodbye, and she was mad and yelling because Aidan was next to me and she couldn't get there. I yelled at her, which woke Aidan totally up. I was laying there trying to get everyone back to sleep when somehow Aidan managed to hit me in the mouth so hard with his big thick hard head that one of my front teeth is loose and I can see the mark on the outside of my face where I about bit through on the bottom. So now everyone (especially me) is awake, and tired, and super crabby. Does anyone know, would it be wrong for me to lock the kids in the basement and go back to bed?
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