Venting

OK OK I know it's been ages since I've blogged...life has been CRAZY! Between updating our house and work...yikes.

Random vent here: The car seat board on BBC drives me absolutely flippin' nuts. The majority of the posters are not techs and must sit their fat asses on the computer all day waiting for a question so they can chime in ASAP, act high and mighty and impress the unknowing OPs with their "vast" knowledge. They all have kids so I wonder what their kids are doing all day while these chicks sit around on the computer ready to pounce on a question. And not only can one person answer the question, a whole group of them have to chime in and repeat themselves so as to show off. ITS SO ANNOYING!!!!!! Especially this chick on my birth board. She kinda popped up out of nowhere on our birth board but is on the car seat one all the time. When someone asked a car seat question, I answered, then she answered and advised the person to ask for more info at the car seat board. WTF? Being a certified tech for 4 years isn't good enough? UGH!!!!!!

OK, I feel better now.

Mike thinks he has tendinitis. His right wrist is just killing him and he basically can't use that hand. He's probably going to the dr. tomorrow and his work will put him on light duty which means working crazy hours. Over nights, etc. Great.

I'm finally getting over this damn cold. I've had it for probably 2 weeks and it's a whopper. Sore throat, runny nose, aches, headache etc. I slept until 8:45am Monday morning. It felt wonderful.

Paige's party is in a month. I can't even believe my baby will be 3. She has been acting so grown up lately.

Got a positive OPK on Sunday and Monday nights so Mike and I did the deed then. Hopefully it works. I'm a late ovulater I guess. We've been BDing at the wrong time all these months. I'd be due in January which isn't ideal, but I'll take a healthy baby no matter when it comes.

My sister's bridal shower is June 2nd and I'm stressing about that. I'm waiting for one of the bridesmaids to finish making the bachelorette party invite and then I'm getting them printed and sending them out. I'm tempted to ask if another bridesmaid can get them printed and sent out. I really do not have the time to stuff and address 20 or so invitations.

My house is a mess. I don't know how in the hell we are going to get it cleaned up by Paige's party on May 12th. Just the basement alone will take one weekend.

OK off to relax a bit and then to bed.

Oh one more random vent...wtf is up with Sanjaya on AI? I just have a bad feeling he's going to win. He's such a pussbag.

Can you tell I forgot to take my Lexapro today?

OK, now I'm off to relax!!!

Really Cool Movie

Check this out if you get a chance. It's beautiful!!!

http://www.spiritheart.org/flash/inspirational/love_is_the_way.html

New Kitchen Pictures

OK, so we painted the cabinets this weekend, spray painted the hinges and put on new knobs from Friday night-Sunday night. We were really hauling ass!








I'm off tomorrow since I had to work on Friday. Thinking about heading down to Green Bay for a meetup with my mom's group but it's at 9am and that's awfully early for us to get going and out of the house. We shall see. Off to workout!

Window Treatments

Here is what we are putting up in the living room in merlot:
http://www4.jcpenney.com/jcp/ProductsHOM.aspx?DeptID=25437&CatID=41761&CatTyp=DEP&ItemTyp=G&GrpTyp=SIZ&ItemID=114a19f&ProdSeq=1&Cat=cordless&Dep=Window&PCat=Shades&PCatID=28537&RefPage=ProductList&Sale=&ProdCount=9&RecPtr=&ShowMenu=&TTYP=&ShopBy=0&RefPageName=CategoryAll.aspx&RefCatID=28537&RefDeptID=25437&Page=1&CmCatId=25437|28537|41761

This is the scarf hanging in the living room, it's not the exact one, but it's pretty close. Mushroom color:
http://www4.jcpenney.com/jcp/ProductsHOM.aspx?DeptID=25437&CatID=28619&CatTyp=DEP&ItemTyp=G&GrpTyp=PRD&ItemID=11046c8&ProdSeq=5&Cat=scarves&Dep=Window&PCat=Top+Treatments&PCatID=28418&RefPage=ProductList&Sale=&ProdCount=17&RecPtr=&ShowMenu=&TTYP=&ShopBy=0&RefPageName=CategoryAll.aspx&RefCatID=28418&RefDeptID=25437&Page=99&CmCatId=25437|28418|28619

I can't find the rod online that we are hanging the scarf from but it's very simple, it's muted dark metal.

So picture those window treatments in this room with a wood floor (instead of those horrible vertical blinds):


We also got 2 new pillows in that red color in the couch because Duke took it upon himself to chew a huge hole in one of our pillows the other night while we were sleeping. WTF?

I also need 2 new floor lamps in there.
Kitchen:
These shades in goldust:
http://www4.jcpenney.com/jcp/ProductsHOM.aspx?DeptID=25437&CatID=28538&CatTyp=DEP&ItemTyp=G&GrpTyp=SIZ&ItemID=117fbbb&ProdSeq=1&Cat=roman&Dep=Window&PCat=Shades&PCatID=28537&RefPage=ProductList&Sale=&ProdCount=24&RecPtr=&ShowMenu=&TTYP=&ShopBy=0&RefPageName=CategoryAll.aspx&RefCatID=28537&RefDeptID=25437&Page=1&CmCatId=25437|28537|28538

I don't think I'm going to do fabric valances in the kitchen...I want SIMPLE!!!!

YAHOO!!!!!

Painted Kitchen Pictures

It's late and I must get to bed, but here are a few pictures of the finished painted kitchen. Keep in mind, we are going to paint the cabinets off white and put in tan roman shades on the window. I'll also be putting up a few of my apple wall hangings for a little pop of color (do I sound like I should be on Trading Spaces? jeez louise)

When I walk in my back door I see this:


Sink wall:






Paige helping:


Movie of Paige helping:


It was a PROJECT!!!! Painting a kitchen is a huge pain in the ass, but I love it and I'm glad it's done!!!!

Progress

We have paint on the walls! WHO HOO!!!! Most of our kitchen is sage green. Paige and I painted for about 2 hours this afternoon and Mike and I worked in stages tonight. Painting a kitchen is a huge pain in the ass. Mike did most of the taping, the sweet man. He really is a keeper. It looks so different in there now, I can't even believe it! We're going to JCP tomorrow to pick out window treatments. I think we are going with a dark beige roman shade. I was thinking red, but the paint is a little darker than I thought and red would be too much. Hopefully by this weekend, the walls will be finished and the cabinets primed. I can't wait to paint over that cheesy wood grain and get those cool knobs on there!!!!!

Thursday

Again, i know I must post more often but life is just crazy right now!!!!

Mike and I decided to update our house so we dropped $1100 at Menard's last weekend on new living room and hallway floor, kitchen wall and cabinet paint, new cabinet hardware, kitchen ceiling fan, bathroom paint and bathroom floor. We opened up a no interest CC for 1 year so we have that long to pay it off and WE WILL!!!!! We got sage green for the kitchen, off white for the cabinets and really cool simple black muted knobs. We have laminate wood floor in there so I think it will look really cool. I'm going to keep a few of my apple things up in there, I think the red touches will look nice. The bathroom will be light yellow on the walls. The floor is hard to describe, it looks like beige stone, will take lots of pix. The floor in the living room and hallway is laminate that looks like hardwood. Our carpet is so ugly and in such bad shape, plus with a constantly shedding dog it's so hard to keep clean. I'm going to JCP this weekend to pick out new window treatments for the LR and kitchen. I'm thinking roman shades for the kitchen in red maybe, and vertical blinds for the LR. I really don't like vertical blinds, but our window is pretty wide and that's really the only option that I can come up with. This is all so wild but I can't wait to get it done. Our deadline is Paige's bday party on May 12th, so we'll be busy bees. As Paige would say "I'm so exciting!"

Work is nuts and my co workers are so annoying. I could fill up a whole blog on that but I won't. My boss has been mysteriously gone all week which is so annoying and all of us are wasting time gossiping by wondering where she is or what is going on with her. Her personal life is kind of rough. She'll call in in the morning and say she may try to come in the afternoon and then never shows or calls/emails. Grrr..... As a manager, she has a responsibility to us to let us know if/when she'll be back.

Paige is still waking us up at the butt crack of dawn, usually around 5:30am. It's getting old. This AM she peed by herself which was awesome but when she woke us up at 5:30 am to talk about it, it kind of defeats the purpose! I'm hoping she can wake up, pee, then go back to bed, like I do!!!!!!

We are going to start painting the kitchen this weekend, so I'm really excited to see how it turns out. Picking paint colors is kind of stressful. Poor Mike kept showing me some and I kept turning them down, finally he got frustrated and went off to a different part of the store. Paige is excited to paint so we're going to give her a little area to work on.

I got into chat today from work!!! YAHOO!!!!!

I Know I Know

I must update more often, but I have been so busy at work and really don't have the time to. I could at home, but I'm busy there too! How do people with more than 1 child keep up? I feel like there is ALWAYS something to do at home. We still haven't taken down our Christmas village which is really starting to chap my ass. One of these nights, we're just going to do it. My house looks clean on the surface, but there is always crap and clutter lurking, especially on top of the fridge and under my bed. And don't even get me started on our basement. It's a disaster area. It's just one big room, so you can't even put your crap in a room and shut the door. Drives me nuts.

WHEW!!!

A few shout outs to my peeps:
Meredith: CONGRATS!!!! I can't wait to see baby Zavier!
Koren: I think we're going to get a flower girl dress off of ebay, but thanks for your offer!

Snowstorm Danielle (our weathermen name snowstorms, it's so corny) ripped through here over the weekend. I don't know how much we got, I'd say about 10 inches. We took Paige out to play in it yesterday and she had a ball. I hate watching the weather when we are expecting a snowstorm or some other bad weather. The weathermen are downright giddy and full of glee. I swear they are popping a woody underneath their suits.

Paige keeps growing like a weed. We took her to the doctor for an earache last week and she weighed in at a whopping 38.6 pounds and 41 inches!!!! YIKES!!! She has outgrown most of her 4T tops and 3T bottoms and is moving into 5T tops and dresses. I made a haul at TCP over the weekend for spring, their clothes are so cute! BTW, she just had fluid in her ears, not an infection.

I'm starting to get a little frustrated with WW. I've gained weight the past 2 weeks even though I've really been sticking with it. I worked out 4 days last week but still gained weight this week. It's not muscle either because I'm only doing cardio workouts. I do feel skinnier though. It's just so frustrating to step on that damn scale.

I'm also frustrated with my body. I bought a BBT for TTC but haven't used it. Just isn't my thing. I've been reading up on fertility and your cervical fluid (TMI warning here) and according to BBC calculator I should have been fertile last weekend, but I wasn't based on my cervical fluid and a negative OPK. But I used the average of my last 3 cycles, 2 were short and 1 was quite long. So I don't know if exercising has made them longer or what, but I know I'm not fertile right now. And Mike, bless his heart, decides that midnight on Saturday night is a good time to bring up the fact that I'm fertile this weekend and we should do something about it. I was too tired to hardly talk, so I told him we'd talk about it the next day. Good thing too because about 5 minutes later Duke puked on our bed. Nice.

The puke was caused by the fact that he chewed our spare bedroom door apart in the hour we went to church on Saturday. He chewed it all to hell, pushed his way in there and then couldn't get back out. Dumbass. At least they are cheap doors and on sale at Menards. Mike is picking one up tonight after work. So after that little incident and the fact that he is eating any food we leave out while we are gone, he's staying in the kennel while we are gone. I can't even trust him in the kitchen because he might chew up the cupboards in there. I felt bad about locking him in his kennel this AM, but he'll survive.

Paige is pretty much night potty trained now too! She wakes up early around (5-6am) to pee and announces "I stayed dry!!!" It's exciting, but not at 5am. Saturday night she woke Mike up at 12:30 am, 2:30 am, 5 and 6 am to pee. I must have been in a coma because I didn't hear any of it. Kinda worries me a little that I sleep so heavily.

We need to get a bed for Paige. She's in her crib with one side rail taken off and has been refusing to sleep in there, and is sleeping on the floor. Not a big deal, but her room is so small, that you can hardly walk in it with all her blankets, pillows and stuffed animals on the floor. We have 2 twin beds in our spare room and are debating if we should just pull one of them into her room, or buy her a double bed. We're thinking about buying a futon for the basement so company can sleep down there. I'd really like to decorate her room something cute and funky, but I don't know how. I like pink and brown together and want something that will last her a while. Any ideas ya yas?

OK, must get back to work. Hugs and kisses!!!!

I'm Grateful List

Inspired by Elisa, here goes:
1. Paige
2. Mike
3. Duke
4. my parents
5. my sister
6. my friends
7. my cozy little house
8. my ya yas
9. Weight Watchers
10. Tax refund
11. Coffee
12. My wonderful daycare provider

Off to pick up #1 from #12!

Four Things

A) Four jobs I have had in my life:
1. Fitness Supervisor 2. Health Educator (current) 3. Babysitter 4. Cashier at a store

B) Four movies I would watch over and over:

1. Top Gun
2. Pretty Woman
3. Old School
4. Remember the Titans

C) Four places I have lived:
1. Oconto Falls
2. Hortonville
3. Clintonville
4. Racine

D) Four TV shows I love to watch:
1. Desperate Housewives
2. Friends
4. Amazing Race
5. Any MTV "reality" show

E) Four places I have been on vacation
1. Panama City Beach
2. Door County, WI
3. Jamaica
4. Caymen Islands

F) Four of my favorite foods:
1. Chocolate
2. Cereal
3. Chocolate
4. Cereal

H) Four places I would like to be right now:
1. Home vegging out
2. Somewhere warm
3. Somewhere with yummy chocolate!
4. Shopping with someone else's Credit Card :)

I) Four friends I think will respond:
My choices have all done it already :)

Monday

So AF came over the weekend which chapped my ass. Almost a week late...grrr. I started charting with fertilityfriend.com on Saturday. I'm using Paige's digital thermometer for the time being, I'll buy a BBT one off of ebay soon.

I ended up emailing my mom's group organizer the other night expressing my concerns, and she emailed back right away. She was very nice about it and agreed that it is a group for all moms and that the question was not meant to single out SAHM. So they changed it to some question about why did you choose the path you did (working, staying home, etc.) I was the only one that responded, but oh well! I did what I thought was best.

We had a really fun weekend. 2 of the movie theatres in Green Bay have kids movies playing every Saturday morning from mid-January to mid-March for only $2.50 per person so we met some friends there who have a dd 6 weeks younger than Paige to see Open Season. Paige LOVED it! It was her first time in a movie theatre and she was glued to the screen! She didn't fuss or squirm at all, she laughed and giggled the whole time, it was so cute. So we are definitely going back! This weekend is Flushed Away. I'm going to try to find a preview of it online to see if it's appropriate for a 2 year old.

On Sunday there was a free day at the Building for Kids in Appleton, about an hour away from me, but close to my parent's house. We met them for church and lunch, then to the museum. We got there right during Paige's normal nap time so she was kinda cranky at first, but then ended up having a great time. It was an absolute nuthouse there though since it was a free day. She ended up crashing about 30 seconds after we strapped her in the car. We stopped at Walmart on the way home; I ran in and Mike stayed in the car with her. Then we ate at her favorite restaurant on the way home. Got home in time for bath and bedtime and we watched Desperate Housewives. That show has gotten a little strange for me. Not a fan of the Zack Young story line, we just want Gabby and Carlos to get back together!

As I was walking out of Walmart I ran into my old college roomate, her hubby and Ds. I hadn't seen her in probably 9 or 10 years, it was CRAZY!!!! They live in Green Bay and their DS is only a month older than Paige and she's preggo with #2. We exchanged email addresses, so hopefully we'll get together soon so Paige can have another playmate.

I want to be pregnant so bad! We were at a potluck dinner with my mom's group on Thursday night and Paige was just loving on one of the mom's 8 month old baby girl, Ava. It made me ache watching her. I want to give her a sibling so much and I'm just kicking myself wondering why we didn't start sooner. I almost cried looking at her baby pictures this weekend with her.

Well I better get some work done here. I slept in until 9am, so I got in very late and haven't done a thing yet!

My Mom's Group

I'm seriously pissed right now and tempted to email our organizer about this.

So on the message board there is a thread that has a question of the week. This week's question is why did you decide to be a SAHM? WTF???? I thought this was a group for all moms, not just SAHMs. Basically the responses range from I couldn't imagine leaving them with someone else, I love being there for every milestone that I couldn't see if I worked FT, I couldn't imagine leaving my kids with someone else all day, etc. But this one takes the cake: I think MOST people respect me for staying home with my kids, and SOME people are jealous, because they send their children to day care.

I LOVE my daycare provider and feel blessed that we were able to find her, she takes such good care of Paige. I trust her completely.

Would you be mad? Any advice ya yas? This is supposed to be a group for all moms, even though the majority are SAHMs. Should I post that not all of us are SAHMs? I just think this is almost a slap in the face. There is NOTHING wrong with being a proud working mama and sending my daughter to daycare! I could just cry right now.

Hormones aren't helping. AF was due on Sunday, and every HPT I've taken has been BFN, and there have been a lot, and a few taken right away in the morning. It's like come on already, shit or get off the pot. I don't feel pregnant, but I don't have ANY AF symptoms.

I'm tired. Off to bed.

Recent Pictures

My baby is getting so grown up looking! I got a wild hair up my ass this weekend to start taking some pictures as I realized we've been slacking in that department lately. So here goes....

Her favorite purple outfit ($5 clearance at Walmart!)





Paige and Mama:




Playing Dress Up at a Friend's House:



Paige and Daddy before church on Sunday:


"Hugging" Duke:






My family:


CHEEEEESE!:


Dancing with Daddy:


Wearing her Halloween costume YESTERDAY:

Brrrrr

We headed for a major cold spell here. Highs around 0-5 for the next week. Damn I hate this cold weather. We have some snow so I'd love to take Paige out to play in it, but not when it's 0 degrees.

Weight Watchers is going pretty well. I've lost 9 pounds since I started back up in late November. I've been eating the Smart Ones or Lean Cuisine meals for lunch and still having my fruit smoothies for breakfast. Trying to find the energy to exercise at night is the hard part. I will not exercise in the morning, that's just not me.

Paige has been waking up around 5:45 am this week which is starting to get old. Luckily I can still sleep until around 6:20 am or so while Mike gets ready and Paige watches cartoons. Then I dress her, put her hair up and Mike takes her to the sitter's. It's WONDERFUL getting ready in a quiet house! She's starting to eat a little better. She'll actually try the food I make for supper now, it takes ALOT of prodding, but she'll at least try it. Most of the time she actually likes it and eats more of it.

Work is very busy, I'm spread so thin throughout so many different programs I'm wondering how I'm going to actually accomplish anything. Job security, like Mike says.

Random bitch here: on my mom's group message board there is a thread asking what our husbands or significant others do for a living. Most of them are SAHMs and have responded about how hard their husbands work so that they can stay home. That has really rubbed me the wrong way because Mike works SO HARD at his job, but it just doesn't pay enough for me to SAH, not that I'd really want to anyway. I mean, how many of those guys bust their butts in freezing cold weather and horrible snowstorms, and then 90 degree heat to make deliveries? Not many. If he worked for UPS I could stay home, but he makes about half of what an UPS guy makes. Just because I work outside of the home doesn't mean my husband isn't a good provider or hard worker; I'm making the choice to work to benefit my entire family. OK, will get off of my soapbox.

I can't believe it's February already! Easter will be here before we know it. I've been searching ebay for an Easter dress but haven't found any I like. I'm being really picky this year. I've gotten her Easter dresses from ebay and they've always been cute, but I don't absolutely LOVE them. Trying to find the perfect one this year.

OK off to work. Have a good day ya yas!!!

I'll Play I'll Play

1. FIRST NAME. Sara

2. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? Not that I know of

3. WHEN DID YOU LAST CRY? A few weekends ago at Ma and Pa's...had a big family discussion. Nothing bad just got some stuff out

4. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING? it's ok

5. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCHMEAT? turkey

6. KIDS? Princess Paige will be 3 in May

7. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU? Yea Im a cool cat I think (me too Susan!)

8. DO YOU HAVE A JOURNAL? Just this blog

9. DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT? probably too much

10. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS? Nope

11. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP? Hell no !

12. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL? Cinnamon Toast Crunch...YUM, but not WW friendly

13. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF? Nope, I'm lazy

14. DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG? Hell yeah, I survived childbirth!!! Yes, emotionally and physically fairly strong

15. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM? Chocolate chocolate and more chocolate

16. SHOE SIZE? 11 (Hey, I'm 5'10"!)

17. RED OR PINK? Depends

18. WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF? my post-baby belly

19. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST? Probably my grandpa, wish he could've been around to see Paige

20. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO SEND THIS BACK TO YOU? Don't matter I love these no matter what

. WHAT COLOR PANTS AND SHOES ARE YOU WEARING? Light tan cords, brown shoes, maroon t-shirt, and chocolate brown hoodie.

22.WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ATE? a Smart Ones meal, yogurt and baked chips

23. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW? My fan cooling me off because it's about 80 degrees in my office

24. IF YOU WERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE? Blue or pink

25. What is your FAVORITE SMELL? Coffee, Paige with lotion on right after a bath

26. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE? Someone who made a car seat appointment

27. THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE YOU ARE ATTRACTED TO? Height

28. DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU? Yes :)

29. Favorite drink? COFFEE

30. FAVORITE SPORT? College basketball...Go Wisconsin Badgers!!

31. EYE COLOR? Blue

32 DO YOU EMBRACE THE NEW TECHNOLOGY? Sort of

33. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS? Yes, I'm blind without them

34. FAVORITE FOOD? Junk food

35. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDING? Happy

36. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED? I don't even know..isn't that depressing?

37. WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING? Maroon shirt, brown hoodie

38. SUMMER OR WINTER? Summer if it's not too hot

39. HUGS OR KISSES? Either

40. FAVORITE DESSERT? Any kind

41. WHO IS MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND? All yaya's likely will do this, we're freaks.

42. Least LIKELY TO RESPOND? Susan cause I already read hers.

43. WHAT BOOKS ARE YOU READING? Just started up with my Catholicism for Dummies again

44. WHAT IS ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? a black one with some message about mammography

45. WHAT DID YOU WATCH LAST NIGHT ON TV? part of a rerun of Desperate Housewives...was VERY upset that it was a re-run

46. FAVORITE SOUNDS? Silence

47. ROLLING STONES OR BEATLES? Either

48. THE FURTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME? Panama City Beach for Spring Break 10 years ago!!!!

49. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT? Yes, I'm super cool

50. WHEN AND WHERE WERE YOU BORN? 1976 in Appleton Wisconsin

Tuesday Blahs

Ugh, I have a nice shirt on today and I just looked down and realized I spilled coffee on it. A great way to start my Tuesday! Damn cheap travel mug.

Well we are all feeling much better which is great. It took Mike a long time to kick it, but he still went pheasant hunting with some buddies this weekend. I took Paige to my parents and it was a long weekend. My sister was there too and we fought all weekend. It's extremely frustrating that I'm 30 years old, have a successful career, a wonderful husband and child, and my sister makes me feel like I'm a kid again, and we fight like we always did growing up. I love her a lot, but jeez louise that girl drives me nuts.

I escaped Saturday to shop and make a bunch of returns. I had to return stuff to Walmart, Target, Kohls, and Joann Fabrics. Of course I ended up spending money at each place except Joann's. I got Paige a couple of pairs of 4T pants THAT FIT HER!!! I can't believe how fast she keeps growing. I hit the jackpot at Old Navy for Mike. They had a bunch of men's pants on clearance and then 50% off the clearance price, so I got hime 6 pairs of pants! One pair was $5.74 and the rest were $9.99. WHO HOO!!! He needed pants really badly so I hope they all fit him. He seemed to like them all, he just hasn't tried them on yet. I also got him (well and me too) 4 long sleeved t-shirts at this outlet store near my parents house, buy one for $5, and the 2nd is half off. SCORE!! I also got myself this hoodie that I might end up returning: http://www.oldnavy.com/browse/product.do?cid=26196&pid=480441
I might exchange it for the dark chocolate brown one. Knowing me, I'll spill food all over the white one and stain it.

I also got the official "mom of a toddler uniform": the velour tracksuit. Here it is: http://www.oldnavy.com/browse/product.do?cid=26198&pid=400799
http://www.oldnavy.com/browse/product.do?cid=26198&pid=400830

I got them in the bead blue color. I really like the pink one too. And get this, I got them specificially for my mom's group get-togethers! They are so comfortable.

Our other big news is that Paige picked out four packages of big girl underwear on Friday! She had so much fun. I laid out like 8 different packages and told her she could pick 4 and she was so good about it. She got Dora, Little Mermaid, Little Pony and Disney Princesses. We of course had to make a big deal about it and she loved showing them off to my parents and to Mike. She's such a big girl! She is doing so good with the potty. I'm so proud of her!

Alright, time to start getting some work done. Hugs and kisses ya yas!

Videos

Wanted to share a few of these with you girls.

Shoveling (yes that's me talking in the background, and yes I sound nasal-y, that's how Wisconsinites talk!)



Eating chili:


Christmas Eve:


Hope you can view these!

Update on the Yuckies

Thanks to all my ya yas who made my day by posting 6 comments on my yuckie blog. You girls really cheered me up!

Anyway, I'm back at work and just got done meeting with my boss so my to do list is as long as my arm. Not cool.

We are both feeling better. Mike is still not 100%, but I'm just fine now. Stubborn old mule never did take Immodium and he's feeling it. I'm still a little PO'd that he told me he did, but whatever, if he wants to poop every 5 minutes instead of chewing up 2 tablets, it's his problem, not mine.

I have a mom's night out with my playgroup tonight at an Atlanta Bread Company so that should be fun. It's called "Ask Anything Over Coffee" and we're going to write down questions anonymously about any subject and we'll answer them. Should be a lot of fun. Tomorrow is a lunch at one of the mom's houses so I have to figure out something to bring and make it tonight.

Paige is still in full-on drama queen mode but I'm feeling better that we are not alone. Susan, I told Mike that Jenna tells you that you hurt her feelings and we both got a good chuckle out of that, but in a nice way. It was more like thank God Paige doesn't do that!

I'm going to my parent's house for the weekend after the mom's lunch tomorrow. Paige will have to miss her nap, but Grandma and Grandpa should be able to handle her just fine. I'm sure she'll be her usual angelic self at their house; she's a total angel for them and a hellion for me. Drives me nuts. We're going to stop somewhere on the way and let her pick out some of her own big girl underwears as she calls them. I would love it if they made Cars underwear for little girls, but I doubt it.

I ate leftover soup that I made last night and a banana for lunch with a Diet Mountain Dew. Aren't I healthy? I think I've already gotten my fruit intake for the day with my raspberry-banana smoothie and a banana for lunch. The soup had veggies in it too.

Off to tackle my to-do list. An hour and a half and I'm outta here for the weekend. WHO HOO!!!!

Yuckies

So the stomach bug has hit our house yet again. I started with it around 10pm last night. I puked once, and had the runs about 100 times. Luckily the Immodium finally kicked in and I haven't pooped all day. TMI, I know, but tough! I took Paige to the sitters and stayed home from work. I slept most of the day, and am feeling much better. Unfortunately, Mike called around 4:45pm on his way home from work and said he has the same thing I have. Great. I was still feeling pretty weak and out of it when we called so I was wondering how I was going to take care of Paige and bathe her since it's her bath night. But I started to slowly feel better and toughed it out. Poor guy had the poops for a while and then passed out a few hours ago. He has the chills really bad and looks terrible. I hate it when he's sick.

Paige has been very difficult to handle lately. This sounds terrible but she has turned into such a crybaby. Today I grabbed her hat and mittens out of her cubby at the sitter's, turn around to put them on her and she's bawling her head off because she wanted to get them. UGH!!!!! So she cried the whole time I got her jacket and stuff on, the way out to the car and the whole way home. She asks for something, I say no, she asks for it again like she didn't even hear me say no, I say no a little (OK, a lot) more firmly and she busts out crying. It's constant and it's starting to get really really really old.

On a happier note, we finally joined the rest of the world and have high speed internet!!! WHO HOO!!! We got it installed on Friday and are LOVING it! I can actually upload pictures and send them out from home instead of putting them on a CD and sending from work. Ah, the little things.

AF came with a vengence over the weekend which really chapped my ass. Old bitch came like 3-4 days early which is super annoying when we're ttc and my cycles are getting shorter and shorter. AF when not on birth control really sucks the big one.

OK, off to check on my sick hubby and then hit the hay. Hugs and kisses to my ya yas!