Saint Sara

Yep, that's my new name. I feel that it's well deserved after putting up with annoying FIL since MONDAY NIGHT!!!!!!

FIL and MIL have been divorced for about 5 years now and both are remarried. FIL is remarried to a woman we'll call "B" and she has 2 daughters, one already in college and one starting college next week. She's (Sara) going to school in Green Bay and is moving in today. So FIL drives Sara's car over here on Monday night to make sure it runs good. Tuesday, Mike has off from work because it's his birthday so they go fishing all day. Wednesday, we both had to work so FIL stayed at our house all day, and I took Paige to daycare. There's no way, I'd leave her with him, he's so useless. So I get home and he's got the TV cranked up to about 50 because he must be going deaf or something and he immediately wants to love and kiss on Paige and she wants no part of it. Well long story short, it was an extremely frustrating night until Mike got home from work because the TV was super loud, he kept falling asleep and snoring, Paige was whiny and I was trying to get supper ready and have everything done at the same time; not easy for me when I'm alone and we're cooking brats, potatoes, baked beans and corn on the cob. FIL is diabetic and when Mike asked him what he had during the day, he said a couple pieces of zucchini bread for breakfast and pudding for lunch. Pudding for lunch. Yeah, that's a healthy meal, especially for an overweight diabetic. He had to take 4 ibuprofen and 2 Vicadin just to go fishing with Mike on Tuesday because he has so many aches and pains. He kept calling Paige "my little girl" which really irritated me. I'm like, did you carry her for nine months? Did you puke several times a day for 3 months? Did you push her out of your vagina? No? Then she's NOT YOUR LITTLE GIRL!!!!!!!!

Aaahhhh, much better. Long day at work today, I'm working until about 7pm tonight at one of our school's orientation nights, encouraging people to sign up for our walking program. I WILL be in chat tomorrow!

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Back to Work

Well, OK, I've been back to work for almost the whole day already, but I'm finally just now getting around to blogging.

Madison was good. The conference was kinda boring, but it was nice to get away for a few days and be alone. I went shopping and spent too much money, as usual.

Weekend update:
Friday: went to my mom and dad's for the morning and Paige's nap, then to Oshkosh to visit a friend and her little one for a few hours. It was fun, but a lot of driving. Of course, Paige didn't nap at my parent's house, and fell asleep in the car on our way back home around 5:30pm. I knew I had at least an hour to probably 1.5 hour drive ahead of me, so I didn't know if I should let her sleep until we got home, then put her to bed right away, or stop in Green Bay and wake her up. I called Mike with my dilemma and we remembered that DUH she'd have to eat supper, so we decided I'd stop in Green Bay at her favorite restaurant to eat. She was so good, I decided to brave Joann Fabrics with her, against my better judgement at 7:10pm that night. But she was SO GOOD!!! I couldn't believe it! I was picking out fabric to make pj's for my mom for her birthday next month and couldn't find any I liked. Paige kept saying "how 'bout pink, Mama? how 'bout blue?" She kept telling the fabric cutting lady that those were "gramma's jammies" so I'm hoping she doesn't let the cat out of the bag in front of my mom!

Saturday: Mike went fishing in the AM, got home right before Paige's nap. Him and I had a very nice :) afternoon, then met some friends at the zoo and went out for pizza afterwards.

Sunday: I slept in thanks to my wonderful hubby, then had pancakes for breakfast. Spent the day playing with Paige. Lots of fun! She was in such a good mood, especially when we played outside.

I can't believe how much she is talking! She is just a little chatterbox!

Quick Update

Didn't want to leave you all thinking I was ready to jump off a cliff after last night's depressing post.
1. I got the checkbook balanced! WHO HOO!!! And we actually have money! Double WHO HOO!!!! We'll see how long the money lasts.
2. Paige woke up at the respectable time of 7am today and was in a good mood. We had a nice morning.
3. Just got done meeting with my boss and bitched about the idiots I work with. Hopefully something will get done about it.

I miss my ya yas big time! I'm blocked at work and can't chat here. Not sure if I'll be able to make it in this Friday either. Is there another site that we could try? Hugs and kisses!

Allow Me For a Moment...

to bitch, piss and moan about the following: (and in no particular order of importance, just as they come to me)
1. Rascall Flatts "What Hurts the Most" playing on POP radio. Huge pet peeve of mine. If you're a country artist, release country songs. Don't get greedy and cover it up by saying your music appeals to all.
2. Paige waking up at 6:15 am yesterday and ME HAVING TO WAKE HER UP AT 8:45 AM THIS MORNING. What's up with that? We put her to bed and down for naps at the same time every day.
3. Paige's lack of interest in the potty. I think she'll be going to kindergarden in diapers.
4. The fact that our house has been on the market for 1.5 years and I am starting to seriously wonder if it will ever sell.
5. The fact that I get a small twinge of longing when I see a baby, but I know we're not ready yet. I want a baby, but I'm not ready for a second child.
6. Paige asking Mike for something after I've already said no.
7. Paige totally ignorning me and not listening.
8. Paige shushing me, telling me to stop talking, or telling me to leave her alone when she doesn't like something I say.
9. How I've been depressed the past few weeks and wonder if I need to up my happy pill dosage. I'm just exhausted at the end of the day and have no energy.
10. How Paige is so well behaved for everyone except me and turns into a monster when I'm around.
11. The fact that I can't get my checkbook to stay balanced.
12. Everyone and everything at work is irritating me. I work in the cradle of idiocy.

OK, I think that's about it. Wow, that feels good.

Quick weekend update:
Friday: my sister came up to spend the day with Paige and watch her while Mike and I went to a concert with another couple. The concert was just Ok, I had more fun talking to the wife who is due with baby #1 in October. My sister seriously irritated me with her digs about how much TV we let Paige watch.

Saturday: Paige was a total monster in the morning, so I decided to hit some rummage sales. Was a little afraid of leaving her with Mike in the mood she was in, but he said she was really good. She just needed to be left alone, which is something that doesn't happen when anyone from my family visits, especially my sister. Highlight of my weekend was when I found a sandbox for Paige at a rummage sale. Marked at $15, asked the lady if she'd take $10 for it and she did. SCORE!!!! Actually the highlight was fitting it into the trunk of my Taurus. It just barely fit. Stopped to get sand at the hardware store and waited anxiously for her to wake up from her nap so she could see it and play with it. She LOVES it! I'm so excited! Got a shirt, a few dresses, books and a Big Bird movie at the sales.

Sunday: Slept in thanks to my wonderful hubby. Laid around like a bum around the house, put Paige down for a nap, had a little afternoon fun with the hubby =), and took Paige to the fair to see the animals. She really liked them, except for the chickens, roosters and turkeys who scared her with their loud clucking and gobbling.

Going to Madison tomorrow for a conference and am staying 2 nights. I'm kinda looking forward to getting away for a few days, but I know I'll miss Paige like crazy. My grandma lives about an hour away from Madison so I'm meeting her for supper tomorrow night. She'll be 80 soon, but you'd never know it. She's so sharp.

Aaaaahhhhh....I feel so much better now. Off to catch CSI Miami and see my boyfriend, David Caruso!

The Crankies

The crankies seem to have taken over our house for the following reasons:
One of Mike's ears has been sore for a few days, I insisted it was infected, we ran to Green Bay to a FastCare Clinic, and it turns out it wasn't infected, but he did have a Duke hair in there. Yuck. So no infection, no meds. Plus he has a mouth full of canker sores, and is crabby from those.

Paige was generally miserable all weekend and we finally figured out why today.....the 2 year molars seem to be making an appearance. YAHOO.

I worked at a car seat check on Saturday and it sucked the big one. The instructors are so nit picky and anal, and rather than telling us this new rule about the angle of infant seats over email BEFORE the event, they wait until we've installed the seat tight, and belittle us in front of the parents and make us re-install the seat, and then hem and haw over the recline. BTW, in the past to make sure the seat is at a 45 degree angle, we make sure the base of the car seat is parallel to the vehicle frame. Now the manufacturers of the car seats are saying to rely on their angle indicator alone. Well if we rely on that, the seats are too upright and baby's heads are going to be flopping forward. I finally told one instructor I don't care about the manufacturer's rules, I care about the baby's safety and I'm not sending these parents home in a seat that upright. GRRRRRRR.....

I got fucked on ebay. My Gap Jeans only sold for $15, 2 pairs of shorts for $10 and the real kicker a pair of Old Navy pants in size TALL ONLY SOLD FOR .99!!!!!! I'm so pissed. I looked at the listing and it looked good to me. I gave the measurements, had two pictures and clearly labled them as tall, and I have 79 feed back comments and they're 100% positive!!!! AGH!!!!

My parents and sister are coming tomorrow so Mike and I have been cleaning tonight. It's a Holy Day of Obligation and I forgot to call my church to find out when Mass is tomorrow and I'm sure I'll get the not going to church lecture. I just don't feel like dealing with them.

Paige whined, fussed, threw tantrums and clung to me all weekend. Mike spanked her last night after she sassed me over and over (not too happy about the spanking BTW because she kept saying "Dad spank Paige" and tonight we finally put her in time out for the first time. It seemed to work pretty well. She sat on the kitchen chair for 2 minutes. It all started when she insisted on taking 2 cups of water to bed, we said no pick either the green one or the purple one, she picked the purple one, we put the green one away and all hell broke loose. She screamed and would not calm down, and would not sit on my lap to read books before bed. We said come and sit on mom's lap before I count to 3, or you're sitting in time out. Well she sat in time out.

PHEW. I feel much better.

Paige Brag

Paige is talking up a storm, it's so darn cute! Her new word is "yeah". So we are having conversations back and forth, and she'll answer Dora when she asks questions. I love it! This morning when I went into her room to get her, the first thing she does is rub her eye and say "booger in my eye." I said "you have a booger in your eye?" (while trying not to laugh) and she goes "yeah." Her and Mike have really bonded a lot the past few weeks, so that's a relief for me.

Our weekend was quite boring, but relaxing. I worked Saturday morning, and then we all hung out at home the rest of the day. Mike was going to go fishing Saturday afternoon and evening, but I convinced him not to. Paige started saying "my go wif? my go fishing?" and pretending to reel and it was breaking my heart. So Mike decided not to go.

Our living room TV pooped out on Saturday so we headed to Green Bay to buy a new one. We debated back and forth of whether to get the nice HDTV, flat screen blah blah blah TV now, or wait on that one and get a cheapie $120 one. We got the cheapie $120 one. We are stretched so thin right now there's just no way we could take on another monthly payment. We ended up getting a 24 inch RCA that's actually really nice.

We were quite productive in Green Bay. Made a couple of returns at JCPenney's and bought a bunch of towels as a wedding gift for some friends getting married next month. Returned a bunch of stuff at Kohl's, and picked up a skirt (hopefully) in my size for this same wedding. Paige was in a mood and I wasn't able to try it on. Next headed to Old Navy to make even more returns and picked up a shirt and capris for Paige and shorts for Mike all for $17 on clearance AND on a gift card. WHO HOO! Then to the play area where I yelled at a boy who was way too old to be in there to be careful around Paige, and then to Moe's one of our favorite restaurants for supper. Paige was tuckered out and actually fell asleep while I rocked her. That NEVER happens.

I listed some workout tapes and DVD's on ebay over the weekend and some clothes today. Two of the tapes sold already, and I'm hoping everything else does, especially the clothes. They don't fit me right and are too nice to give away. One is a pair of Gap long and lean jeans so they should sell. WE NEED MONEY BAD!!!! Gas is $3.05 and rising.

I think I might work at a car seat check on Saturday morning and then we're thinking about taking Paige to the zoo on Sunday.

It's Freaking Hot

I feel so bad for Mike and anyone else working outside today. It's 95, feels like 103 and is suppposed to get up to 100 today. That's just way too hot. The dew point is 75 and our humidity is 59%. UGH. I actually feel even worse for Mike because he has to go in and out of air conditioned buildings all day. Going from 100 outside to 70 inside is just not good for you. And the sad part is it's about 65 in my office and I'm wearing a sweater.

We had to take Paige to the doctor on Friday. Thursday after her nap, my sitter called my cell phone and said Paige was limping and wanting to walk as little as possible. So Mike picked her up and he said putting her in the car seat was a nightmare. I got home and she sat on my lap all night. It was so sad. She refused to straighten her right leg, put weight on it and absolutely didn't walk all night. We gave her ibuprofen for the pain. Friday she seemed better, walking on it and not screaming when we changed her diaper, but we took her in anyway. After doing a bunch of tests on her legs and right hip, the doc. thinks she may have pinched a nerve. Makes sense because she kept saying "Paige cold" on Thursday night which was so weird because she was actually quite hot from sitting on my lap all night. She knows what cold means so we couldn't figure it out at the time, but it makes sense now. We figure that her leg was tingling and numb and she thought it was cold. Poor girl. But she's back to 100% now and not limping; thank goodness, I was a nervous nellie mom.

Saturday we were a bunch of bums. We didn't feel like doing anything so we all just hung out at home and actually napped while Paige napped. Sunday morning Mike went fishing and then we went to a friends house after her nap.

Is writing thank you notes a thing of the past now? We ALWAYS wrote prompt, personal thank you notes after receiving any kind of present when I was growing up and I still do today. A family member graduated from high school this past May and we gave her $10. We got a TYPED thank you note from her at least 6 weeks later. LAME. Even worse, was the thank you note I got on Saturday from a friend for the money we gave her at her wedding IN FEBRUARY!!!! I felt bad about writing thank you notes 3 weeks after my birthday because I thought that was too late. As I'm writing this, I'm remembering that I never wrote Terri a thank you note for the Jack's Music Show DVD's, so I'm eating crow. BUT, I do have a few things to send her as a thank you in return.

OK, back to work. I'm so bored at work and I do have things to do, I'm just not motivated at all.

Recovery Day

Well what was supposed to be a nice relaxing day to recover from our crazy "vacation" turned out to be a chaotic one. Mike is on vacation all this week so he went fishing early this morning and got home around noon.

Paige decided today was not a good day to catch up on her sleep and was up at 5:50 am. Luckily my dad was here so he got up with her. I slept until about 8am, only because I could occasionally hear Paige screeching for me and my dad shushing her. She was in fine form again today, refusing to have anything to do with my dad and only wanting me.

I laid her down around noon right before Mike got home. He ran up to the grocery store, got home, put some stuff in the chest freezer and proclaimed that it was broken. ACK!!!! So we managed to get all the meat in the upstairs freezer and decided to scrap the rest. Mike hustled down to Green Bay (a 40 minute ride) to buy a new one, and called me when he got there to have me check the electrical outlet. Turns out it is probably the outlet and not the freezer so that's good. But we'll have to call an electrician, and the freezer is kind of touchy.

Paige also decided today was a good day to only nap for an hour so she was super cranky this afternoon, which made for a LONG day. Luckily she was happy playing outside in her pool for a while this afternoon. She also played with Mike and my dad for a while tonight after supper which was nice since she avoided him so much earlier in the day. We had a lot of tantrums today since she was such a crank and I literally collapsed on my recliner after I laid her down.

I'm really hoping that she sleeps late tomorrow morning. Mike is taking her to daycare and then down to a friend's cabin to fish tomorrow and Thursday. Hopefully she'll get back on track soon.

Thank God We're Home Part 2

What a crazy couple of days. We left Friday to go up north for Mike's mom's wedding reception party. Mike got done with work about 4 hours earlier than normal, so we left around 3:15pm and got there between 7:30-8pm. Mike's brother, SIL and 2 daughters got there right after we did so with all the commotion, Paige didn't go down until about 9pm, but she went down without a peep so I was happy. We were staying at a B&B across the lake from Mike's mom's house.

Paige slept fairly well Friday night, woke up cranky, but the wheels quickly came off on Saturday morning. Got to Mike's mom's house around 11am, tried to get Paige to play in the lake or the sand around it and she screamed the entire time. She was totally clingy and whiny and Mike and I quickly reached the ends of our ropes. Mike's SIL and I went back to the B&B so our daughters could nap. Paige took a good 2.5 hour nap so I was hoping she'd be in a better mood, but my hopes were quickly dashed. We tried the lake/sand thing again, but she screamed the whole time again. We gave up and just carried her around until she was ready to run around. We got the kids back to the B&B and Paige was in bed around 9:30pm.

Unfortunately, Paige woke up kinda early Sunday morning and was pretty cranky on Sunday. Sunday we all went up to Hayward to spend the day with Mike's dad. Unfortunately, I woke up late Saturday night/early Sunday morning with the runs from some bad food I ate at the party. The stomach cramps and runs got worse all day and peaked around 5pm and Paige was extremely clingy and whiney and poor Mike had to take care of her and I both at his dad's house. We went to this zoo for a couple of hours around lunch time and nap time, so Paige missed her nap and really started to fall apart late that afternoon. We ended up leaving around 5:30 pm, and had Paige in bed by 6:30 pm. She slept like crap, was up every hour, except when her and Mike slept in a recliner from 2am-5am. She slept for another hour after that maybe so this morning was a real treat.

We went back to Mike's mom's to fish and Paige actually had a pretty decent time. She caught a few fish all by herself and really seemed to enjoy it. Finally around 11:30am we were all at the end of our ropes so we left. The car ride home was the car ride from hell. Paige fell asleep about 10 minutes into the 4.5 hour ride so we thought we were doing well, but NOOOOO...., she wakes up about a half hour later, and ends up crying, screaming and whining the rest of the trip. It was just awful. She was so tired and just totally beside herself. We got home and snuggled for a few minutes, then she picked at her supper, threw a couple of tantrums and we got her to bed around 6:30pm. I wanted to get her down sooner, but my dad came up tonight and Paige was pretty excited about that so I couldn't put her down then.

She's been sleeping for about an hour and we've heard her cry out a few times already. I hope she sleeps well and sleeps late.

The weekend had some really good things and bad things. I've described the bad things already. The B&B that we stayed at was so nice and the owners were so sweet and friendly. It was nice to hang out with Mike's brother and SIL after the girls went to bed. We had the perfect set up. We were staying in the lower level of the B&B and there was a living with our two bedrooms off of it. So we'd put the girls down in each of our rooms, then hang out in the living room and watch movies. Paige and one of her little cousins instantly bonded and were best buddies the whole weekend. Her cousin is 5 months older than her and where she went, Paige went. It was so darn cute! And I know Mike's mom and dad really enjoyed having us around, even though they have no clue what it's like to have little kids around.

Phew!!!! Better head back upstairs and to bed. Good sleeping vibes for my little girl tonight!!!!!

Not Quite Unscathed

I hate the stomach bug!!!!

Mike called me on his way home last night and says he's not feeling good and thinks he has the same thing Paige and I had. Does it ever end? I think not. Luckily, he didn't seem to have it as bad as Paige and I. He laid on the couch most of the night, but managed to take out the garbage, make his lunch, and work on a fishing rod. I felt a little bad for him, but walking from our bedroom to the living room was exhausting for me, so I figured he'd be ok. He ended up going to work today even though he looked really tired. Stubborn mule.

I get home last night, and listen to a message from our realtor. Another agent in her company is going to drive by our house and if they like it, they'll want to see it the next day (today) around 5pm. I hate this house selling BS. Now with it being summer, we have to get the inside and outside of the house ready to show. So I'm thinking we'll have to spend all night getting the house clean and ready to show, and Mike calls to tell me he's sick. So I called our realtor back and said, even if they do want to look at it, tomorrow night is not going to work. Luckily she was ok with it and said she'll schedule them for next week. I'm so sick of all this crap. Monday she called and said she set up an appointment for a showing on Tuesday, called the client back to confirm, called me back about 10 minutes later and said the client cancelled already. UGH!!!! Shit or get off the pot, people.

At least we have Paige, she's such a blessing and full of life. We played outside for quite a bit last night. She'd rather dump water out of the pool and use the pool water to water flowers than actually play in the pool. It's pretty darn cute.

Sickness Update

Paige was sick Thursday night-Saturday night. Sunday morning around 3am I woke up with stomach cramps and spent the next 6 hours puking and pooping. I have never had stomach cramps that bad. I was breathing and moaning through them like I was in labor. Ugh, just awful. After that all ended, I spent the rest of the day either laying in bed or on my favorite recliner in the living room sleeping or watching TV. Poor Paige knew I was sick, and kept trying to come by and would say "mama sick" or "mama sad." Then if I seemed to be doing better she'd say "mama sick all done!" I had to tell her, no mama's still sick, but she disagreed. Poor girl, she's had a rough few days.

So I kept her home with me until about 9:30am yesterday watching this new Elmo DVD 3 times in a row! At least it was on the DVD player so I could watch TV. Finally she started asking for her little friends at Sandi's, so I dropped her off and spent the rest of the day lounging and watching WAY too much TV. I watched Animal Precinct, Dog the Bounty Hunter, and about 4 episodes of Baby Story. I got a burst of energy in the afternoon and vacuumed, swept my kitchen floor, washed and hung 2 loads of laundry outside. After I picked up Paige, she played in her pool while I watched her for about an hour. Finally I couldn't stand the heat so I brought her back in.

I had been craving mac and cheese all day so I made some for supper and inhaled it! It tasted so good!!!!! Paige had her peanut butter bread; now she's off of jelly. Silly girl.

I'm just amazed at the things she's putting together. We were downstairs looking at pictures on the computer and Mike was complaining that the TV remote wasn't working. I'm like, put batteries in it. So he did and lo and behold the remote started working. Eventually our Kodak software program on our crappy computer quit working so I told Paige we couldn't look at pictures anymore because the computer wasn't working. She started saying something over and over that I couldn't understand and I eventually figured out that it was "batteries in it, batteries in it". I was like, no we can't put batteries in it! Smart girl!!!!

Poor Baby Girl

What a sense of timing toddlers have. At 11:30pm I hear Paige crying and it doesn't sound like she's settling back down, so I go out in the living room ask Mike to get her up, I go pee, and I hear "hey honey? she puked." I'm like, great. So I stumble back to our room get my glasses and head into Paige's room to assess the damage. Mike is already stripping her bed and seeing what has been hit by the puke. Paige has it in her hair and all over her jammies. So I comfort her while attempting to get out the puke with a washcloth. Poor girl was so upset and shivering that I just didn't have the heart to stick her in the tub. She didn't want anything to do with Mike so I held her in the recliner until about 2am while sleeping on and off and then finally laid her down. She went down without a peep and slept until 9am this morning. WHO HOO!!!!

She has some sort of sickness, because she was rather lethargic and clingy today and only ate a half a bowl of oatmeal this morning. She took almost a 2 hour nap, then slept on my lap for another hour. She seemed to perk up after the second nap so I drove about 20 minutes to a rummage sale a co worker was having. We were there for about 10 minutes when Paige started throwing up all over herself in my co workers garage. It was horrible and so embarrasing. She threw up EVERYWHERE, including my hands when my co worker ran inside to get paper towels. The saving grace was that I got a pair of jeans shorts, an outfit, a bunch of puzzles and books for $2.50. She's just trying to get rid of the stuff; love those kind of rummage sales!!!

So we got home, I cleaned her up, we played for a bit because she seemed to perk up again, and put her down around 7:45pm. She went down without a peep and Mike went over to a friends house tonight. I told him that if Paige throws up again tonight, I'm calling him and he needs to be in the car on his way home before he even picks up his phone! I cannot comfort her and clean up puke alone.

I hope she feels better soon. It's like she wants to feel better because she'll want to play like her normal self and then the next minute she's crawling in my lap for some cuddling.

Nothing Exciting

Ok, I really have nothing to blog about, but I know I'll get yelled at by a certain pregnant ya ya who works in a school, has three daughters and a hot hubby.

Paige slept until almost 8am today so once again, I didn't get to work until 9:30am. I'm so lucky that my boss is so cool about that kind of stuff. Every once in a while, we get the lecture about being at work from 8a-4p, but public health work just doesn't really fit in those hours and she knows it, but she has to give us the speech just so she looks good to her boss. Anyway, I'll make up the time when I work this Saturday at the car seat check.

Nothing too exciting happened today. It was SO HOT!!! Paige played in her pool and watered a bunch of my flowers for me. It's supposed to be 95 this weekend. That's just way too hot.

Duke has been peeing on our sedums so some of the branches are dying off and I cut them tonight. Well I ended up butchering most of them and they are quite sparse now. Oh well, I know they'll grow back. While I was in the process of butchering them, my sister called me to tell me that one of our favorite Friends episodes was on. The one where Ross, Rachel and Chandler are trying to haul Ross's new couch upstairs and Ross keeps yelling "PE-VOT PE-VOT PE-VOT!!!!!" I can hear it in my head and am cracking up. Thank goodness Mike is working dilligently on a fishing rod and isn't watching me crack up to myself in front of the computer. He'd really think I was wacko then.

Mike and I will be married 5 years in October already. I can't believe it, it's gone so fast.

Raise Up Your Hands

OK I'm currently jamming out to Rascall Flatt's "Me and My Gang" in my office and it reminded me of a cute thing Paige did last night.

I was jamming out to this same song last night on the way home from picking her up and said "Dance with Mama Paigie!" And the line "raise up your hands" comes on and I look in the backseat and there's Paige with both of her hands up in the air!!! I just about died laughing!

My stupid palm pilot is still giving me a hard time. I tried to get some Word documents to sync onto it yesterday and now it won't even sync Adobe documents. It keeps telling me there's one unresolved file that won't sync and I've deleted every document! I don't know what it's trying to sync, but it's really getting on my nerves. I shut down my computer and logged back in about 5 times yesterday afternoon because that seems to be the computer fix it solution around here.

It might get up to 100 degrees this weekend so I might die from heat exhaustion. I'm supposed to work on Saturday at a car seat check in Green Bay and if we're outside, I'll leave. There's no way I'm cramming my 5'10" body in a 2 door vehicle and pushing and pulling on a car seat and it's straps to get a good install in 100 degree heat.

I did Pilates again last night. First I got sucked into an episode of Dog the Bounty Hunter at 8pm and another came on at 8:30 but I forced myself off my ass and did the Pilates. It's pretty fun. A good workout, but you feel refreshed afterwards, not ready to pass out.

Paige woke up at 5:30am this morning-what's up with that? Doesn't she realize her mom is not a morning person?!?!?!

Are We Ready?

I've been thinking alot about if/when #2 will come along. Mike and I had decided a few months ago that we were going to wait a long time. I keep thinking about the pros and cons of it lately and people keep asking when we're going to have another one. Well last night we got to talking and decided we're going to start ttc in the fall. It was weird!!!! I couldn't believe we were actually talking about having another baby! Then I laid awake for the longest time wondering if I was truly ready. All I could think about was how hard it would be. Like now, it's fairly easy to run errands with Paige; I plop her in the front of the shopping cart and sing or talk to her in the grocery store and she's a happy camper for a good 20 minutes or so. With a baby, what do I do? Put Paige in the front part and the baby carrier in the cart and only buy as much that will fit in the cart? What about unloading my car with the groceries and then putting them away? That's quite the adventure now, I can't imagine it with two. And getting two ready in the mornings and bring 2 to daycare? And paying for 2 in daycare? And when Paige goes to bed, I'm ready to crash from the long day, not take care of a baby! And how am I going to get up in the mornings with her if I've been up all night with a baby?!?!!???

Aaahhh so many questions, but I know I don't want to wait too much longer. I don't want a huge age gap between Paige and her sibling, and I don't want to get too out of the baby loop. I know Paige would be a great helper though. She's so sweet with the babies at her sitter's house. She loves to be helpful! And once the newborn part is over, I'd love to have another baby in the house!!!

So, anyway, we shall see.

Our other big news is that Paige ate peas tonight!!!!! Our neighbor has a ton of them in his garden so we picked them and Paige ate some raw ones! We were so proud of her! She kept asking "eat peas?" when we got in the house, but we had to cut her off so her body wouldn't go into shock at digesting a vegetable. So we said "eat peas tomorrow" and she seemed ok with that.

Just got done with 25 minutes on the treadmill and I think I'm going to bed soon. I slept like crap last night and am so tired. But we have so much to do. I need to balance the checkbook, fold and put away 3 loads of laundry, read yesterday's paper, and call a couple of friends. UGH. There's always something!!!!!

Mama What Are You Doing?

The sentence of the day. Actually it was more like this:
Paige: "Mama what are you doing?"
Me: "I'm (fill in the blank)"
Paige: "Mama what are you doing?"
Me: repeat
Paige: "Mama what are you doing?"
Me: "Paigie I just told you what I'm doing. What are you doing?"
Paige: "Mama what are you doing?"

AGH!!!!!

Today was all about sentences.
"What's that noise?"
"Where's Dad go?" (my personal favorite!)
"Mama what are you doing?"

We played in the pool for a while, went to the pharmacy and grocery store, and then back outside for more water fun.

I hate our pharmacy and would love to report them for a huge HIPPA violation. I was there to pick up my Lexapro and there was at least 5 other people around and the lady working looks at her computer and says "you want your lexapro refilled?" I'm like "uh yeah." And the chick standing next to me looks at me like I'm whacko or something. I was SO EMBARRASSED and PISSED OFF.

Mike is up north for a wedding for a friend from high school so it's just Paige and I. We're going to a friends house tomorrow. They have a little girl whose about 18 months and they have a nice swingset so it should be fun.

10 Things About My Day

OK, I'm on kind of a 10 things theme, but I came up with this brainstorm earlier tonight. Here's 10 things about my day:
1. I didn't get into work until 9:30am this morning, 1.5 hours late.
2. Paige slept until 8:10am, hence #1.
3. I got my palm pilot to sort of work today, thank goodness. I thought I fried the thing by leaving it in my hot car all weekend. Now it will only sync documents in Adobe, not Word, but at least it turns on!
4. Our 2pm car seat appointment was a no show so I wasted an hour picking up seats, loading them, waiting for her, and coming back to the office.
5. We are going to be switching insurance from Mike's to mine so I emailed our "administrative coordinator" back and forth a bunch of times today to get more info on it.
6. I started our charcoal grill and actually cooked on it a little bit! I started the potatoes and Mike finished them along with the marinated chicken breasts. YUM!
7. I let Paige play with the hose and get soaking wet so I could putz around outside.
8. I'll be doing a Pilates DVD as soon as I'm done blogging.
9. I changed one of the blinkies on my signature since I flipped Paige around in her car seat over the weekend.
10. Paige and I watched Sesame Street for a few minutes this morning while she ate a waffle. I would have let her sit there all day on my lap, but we had to get going.

OK, off to do some Pilates!

10 Things

Stolen from a few of my ya ya's blogs. List up to ten things you want to say to ten different people. Do not state who these people are. Do not confirm or deny any comment speculation.
1. You are my precious angel and I would die if anything happened to you.
2. I'm sorry I've been such a bitch lately. I love you so much.
3. I can't believe you're expecting another one! WOW!!!
4. I think you are a total hypocrite.
5. What crawled up your ass and died this past weekend?
6. I'm so glad we are friends; I had so much fun a few weekends ago!!!!
7. I'm sorry we've drifted apart, but I guess it happens. Our lives are so different.
8. Thank you for being such a good friend to me and my family during this horrible time.
9. You are a horrible and hateful person and fate will bite you in the ass someday.
10. You are a huge thorn in my side and I cringe when I hear you coming down the hall.

PHEW that felt good!!!!

Paige slept until about 8am this morning! Thank goodness. She seemed to be caught up on sleep when she woke up. Other big news: she pooped on the potty last night!!!!! It's slightly gross how it happened, but here goes. She wasn't wearing a diaper last night because she has this recurring diaper rash that refuses to go away. Mike suggested that we put a diaper on her and said no, not yet. Well doesn't she start to poop on the carpet about 5 minutes later. Oops. So Mike asks her if she wants to poop on the potty and she goes "OK" and takes off for the potty, sits on it, pushes a little and poop came out!!!! It was totally gross and disgusting and I made Mike clean it out. I still don't know what he did with it.

OK, off to see if I can get a hold of my friend who is expecting #2 in January! Her dd will turn 2 in August. Can you say, YIKES?!?!

Thank God I'm Home

What a crazy weekend. Saturday I drove 3.5 hours round trip for a bridal shower for an old college roomate, who is actually marrying a good friend of Mike's that stood up in our wedding. It was pretty fun, and nice to be with the girls!

Sunday I had every intention of going to church, but when the alarm when off at 7:15am and the house was quiet, I decided to not mess with it and fell back asleep until 10am!!!! That afternoon we went to a birthday party for a little girl who turned 2 a few days ago. We ended up staying until around 7pm and Paige even played in their sandbox!!!! She had a total panic attack when her sitter put her in theirs a few weeks ago. She loved it so much on Sunday, I'm tempted to go get one.

Yesterday I ended up taking Paige up to Eagle River (almost 3 hours away) to my sister's boyfriends cabin on a lake. My parents, sister and her boyfriend were there, and the weather was beautiful so I should have had fun, but I didn't. Paige didn't nap, and went to bed late. The sleeping arrangements were really goofy and when they got back from a friends house at midnight rather intoxicated, they woke Paige up. She was sleeping in the pack n play in the bedroom I was sharing with my mom. My sister tried to rock her back to sleep, but Paige wasn't interested. I finally kicked my dad out of the twin bunk bed in the other bedroom and brought Paige in bed with me there. That room was too small for a pack n play. Never again will she and I sleep in the same bed. It was a nightmare. She was awake for a good hour afterwards, so I was too. Then we woke up around 5am and were up for the rest of the day. She took a short nap in the morning, then we went to a parade, and came home. She did surprisingly well at the parade in spite of the loud noise and tons of people. We stopped at Subway on the way home and she ate a little bit. She did pretty well on the way home, just got ancey the last half hour or so. I almost fell over with relief when we walked in the door.

We really should not have gone. My sister was a total bitch to me, and my mom was a huge crank too. The ride there and back got really long and it was just a lot of packing and running around for the little amount of time we were there.

Poor Paige was so tired and hungry tonight that she inhaled her pizza and actually fell asleep while eating at 5:30! We let her finish eating because she was so hungry and screamed when we took the pizza away, then put her in bed by about 6:15pm. I had planned to give her a bath tonight, but I'll do it tomorrow.

Hopefully she gets a good night sleep and will get back on track the rest of the week. At least I only work tomorrow and Thursday.