no wonder i have so many grey hairs. i've never spent this much time with both kids!
rob has been gone for 8 days and last night at bedtime they just about made me cry. cade was screaming at me from the crib (screaming as in nasty, mean-sounding, demanding screams). reese refused to stay in bed. she had her nightlight taken away and almost lost her 2 stuffed animals that she chose for bed. she had 3 drinks, 2 potty trips, 4 songs, and almost a spanking. when i saw her come out of the bedroom that 6th time i almost broke down. i just needed some mommy-time dammit!
she finally crashed and it was only 8:40. good thing i started the process early. i told her that she was taking a nap today b/c i was tired of the attitude. i don't know if that will change her behavior but at least i'll get a break in the middle of the day.
i haven't heard from rob since sunday, but he's been a busy boy. we got a package delivered from nhl.com...i opened it up and there was ANOTHER damn coat that rob bought. i think this is the 5th one since september. this one is for the philly team...not sure what they are, they flyers? he buys these coats and then he doesn't wear them. he bought a satin raiders one off ebay that is older (maybe antique in the sports world?) but does he wear it? no. the man doesn't realize that we DON'T HAVE THE ROOM to just buy crap that we don't use. if he wanted to invest less $$$, then we could afford a bigger home to store his crap. but in the meantime, i wish he'd STOP BUYING CRAP. arg.
i'm thinking about emailing him this: "hi honey! the mailman tried to deliver a package for you from NHL.com but i refused to accept it. i knew that since you were out of the country, there was no way he could have purchased anything online and it must have been a mistake." it'd be a lie. i opened it 3 minutes after the mailman brought it up :)
oh and he's also been busy at the atm. the day before he left he withdrew $120 for travel money. then at the aiport, he withdrew another $100 at a foreign atm (ack! more $$$ down the drain). he'll be in the netherlands for 10 days, what does he need $220 for??? he better stay away from those amsterdam prostitutes! just kidding. although he is a sailor, i hope he values his marriage vows more than that.
the good news is that he should be home on tuesday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thank god. i don't know how i'm going to handle this for 4 months. my parents invited me out to iowa and i'm thinking about taking them up on it. my dad would fly out, help me close up the house & pack, and then we'd all drive (the cat & dog, too...my parents invited them too! wow!) out to iowa, then my dad would help me drive back after the visit, and then fly home. sounds like a good plan, and i think we could drive it in one stretch, we wouldn't have to do a hotel room one night like we did when we went to iowa for xmas.
if i did go out to iowa, it would be for most of april. b/c of spring break & good friday, reese has almost a month off of school. but i'd be worried that i'd feel way too trapped in iowa. i could always visit family when i'm bored though. however, my parents only have dialup. is it sad that that is the downside to this plan? and the fact that my parents house is NOT childproofed. most of it is ok, but they have this wine rack in the living room, full of bottles that i would hate to see cade try to climb. oh, and the fact that they only have satellite on the downstairs tv. the other tvs are antenna and pbs is the only kid-friendly station. i'd have to bring lots of vhs videos with me :) or else put them out in the van to watch a dvd while i take a shower.
but it would break up the time and the kids would have fun. we'd just be sitting around here anyway. maybe i'll check it out. the only thing i'd worry about would be prenatal care. during april i'll be 19-22 weeks...nothing much happens there except for the big ultrasound. my worry would be if this turns into a high risk pregnancy for some unknown reason.
anyway, plenty of time to research and plan. heck, i haven't even scheduled my first doc appt at the ob/gyn yet. oops! :)
1.19.2006
1.16.2006
it has been a while...
time is passing slowly at the bobeara household, yet i still manage to avoid updating the blog. am i good or what?
so here you go, here's the goods...
rob is no longer going to iraq. the detailer worked his mojo and now rob will be in the netherlands for 4 months. this is definitely an improvement...i'll take dutch people in a war free zone any day! rob will be a student in the dutch perisher course. all i can equate it to is like a foreign exchange student program for submariners. he goes over there and is immersed in how they run their subs. they use diesel subs so it should be quite interesting for rob. in fact, he's over there now doing the introduction to the course. i hope to be picking him up at the airport in 8 days. then he'll leave again ON MY BIRTHDAY (! ack! what horrible timing the navy has!) to start the actual course. gradution is set for july 5th so he should be home by our anniversary (july 7th). all i can say is that i better get a damn good anniversary present!
and speaking of horrible timing...we've recently found out we'll be adding another bobeara to our family! this was very unexpected, we were planning on trying for #3 in a year or 18 months. i'm still enjoying sleeping through the night so the knowledge that i'll have to give that up in the next 9 months just hurts. really hurts. and another pain...i still recall how much it hurt to be in labor with cade. so i guess i didn't wait long enough between babies. usually women have forgotten all that pain by the next time they get pregnant.
baby #3 is due 8/31/06 but with my cervix of steel i would expect him on about 9/4/06. i refuse to even try to hold out til my dad's birthday (9/9). i have been thinking about the positives with this baby. this baby will be born when cade is 25-26 months old, which is the same age span btwn reese and cade. so we'll have had a baby every 25 months. and we'll have had a baby in '02, '04, and '06. if this child is born in august, we'll have birthdays in june, july and august. and this will be the last child. so all our kids will be young together and rob & i can move on to being married with children...instead of being married and getting pregnant all the time. (i sound like i hate children. i really don't. what i hate is being pregnant. i hate the nausea i'm going through, the fact that i'm going to have to squeeze into maternity clothes...i'm just going to hate being all uncomfortable and hormonal and short-tempered...especially during july and august.) the best part: rob is getting snipped for his birthday. is that sweet revenge for carrying 3 of his big-headed kids or what?
on another front, we're getting settled in with our new dog. after almost 2 weeks of indecision we've come up with napoleon. he's a small dog but he tries to make up for it with his bark. we call him 'poley'. it was either that or nappy. he's still trying to make friends with the cat, and if he didn't chase the damn cat all over the place he'd make more progress. he's a lab mix but he's only about 30 lbs. i don't know what he's mixed with...i'd think terrier but he's completely black. i would think that some brown from the terrier would have come through. he does have short hair like a rat terrier though. no house training accidents yet, just some vomiting here and there. he wants to play too soon after eating and just urps on the floor. but even that is not so common as the first few days he was here. he's good with the kids, except he gets excited and uses them as footstools to jump off of. he's pushed cade down 3 or 4 times. cade's just going to have to either fight back or turn his back.
here he is 'eating' breakfast with the kids this morning. this was after he had gotten the rest of cade's mini-bagel.
as i type poley is trying to share the kitchen chair with me. he has his head on my leg and since cade is on my other leg, the dog is leaning on my back. he keeps on collapsing b/c he's falling asleep but he won't just go sleep on the floor. in fact, the dog has just succeeded in pushing cade off my lap. cade is not happy about the turn of events. since i suppose cade is 'of my loins' i should give him priority to my lap.
anyway, that's the update around here for now. it's taken a while to get it, but i'm sure it was worth the wait!
so here you go, here's the goods...
rob is no longer going to iraq. the detailer worked his mojo and now rob will be in the netherlands for 4 months. this is definitely an improvement...i'll take dutch people in a war free zone any day! rob will be a student in the dutch perisher course. all i can equate it to is like a foreign exchange student program for submariners. he goes over there and is immersed in how they run their subs. they use diesel subs so it should be quite interesting for rob. in fact, he's over there now doing the introduction to the course. i hope to be picking him up at the airport in 8 days. then he'll leave again ON MY BIRTHDAY (! ack! what horrible timing the navy has!) to start the actual course. gradution is set for july 5th so he should be home by our anniversary (july 7th). all i can say is that i better get a damn good anniversary present!
and speaking of horrible timing...we've recently found out we'll be adding another bobeara to our family! this was very unexpected, we were planning on trying for #3 in a year or 18 months. i'm still enjoying sleeping through the night so the knowledge that i'll have to give that up in the next 9 months just hurts. really hurts. and another pain...i still recall how much it hurt to be in labor with cade. so i guess i didn't wait long enough between babies. usually women have forgotten all that pain by the next time they get pregnant.
baby #3 is due 8/31/06 but with my cervix of steel i would expect him on about 9/4/06. i refuse to even try to hold out til my dad's birthday (9/9). i have been thinking about the positives with this baby. this baby will be born when cade is 25-26 months old, which is the same age span btwn reese and cade. so we'll have had a baby every 25 months. and we'll have had a baby in '02, '04, and '06. if this child is born in august, we'll have birthdays in june, july and august. and this will be the last child. so all our kids will be young together and rob & i can move on to being married with children...instead of being married and getting pregnant all the time. (i sound like i hate children. i really don't. what i hate is being pregnant. i hate the nausea i'm going through, the fact that i'm going to have to squeeze into maternity clothes...i'm just going to hate being all uncomfortable and hormonal and short-tempered...especially during july and august.) the best part: rob is getting snipped for his birthday. is that sweet revenge for carrying 3 of his big-headed kids or what?
on another front, we're getting settled in with our new dog. after almost 2 weeks of indecision we've come up with napoleon. he's a small dog but he tries to make up for it with his bark. we call him 'poley'. it was either that or nappy. he's still trying to make friends with the cat, and if he didn't chase the damn cat all over the place he'd make more progress. he's a lab mix but he's only about 30 lbs. i don't know what he's mixed with...i'd think terrier but he's completely black. i would think that some brown from the terrier would have come through. he does have short hair like a rat terrier though. no house training accidents yet, just some vomiting here and there. he wants to play too soon after eating and just urps on the floor. but even that is not so common as the first few days he was here. he's good with the kids, except he gets excited and uses them as footstools to jump off of. he's pushed cade down 3 or 4 times. cade's just going to have to either fight back or turn his back.
here he is 'eating' breakfast with the kids this morning. this was after he had gotten the rest of cade's mini-bagel.
as i type poley is trying to share the kitchen chair with me. he has his head on my leg and since cade is on my other leg, the dog is leaning on my back. he keeps on collapsing b/c he's falling asleep but he won't just go sleep on the floor. in fact, the dog has just succeeded in pushing cade off my lap. cade is not happy about the turn of events. since i suppose cade is 'of my loins' i should give him priority to my lap.
anyway, that's the update around here for now. it's taken a while to get it, but i'm sure it was worth the wait!
1.06.2006
woohoo! i got tagged!
funny thing to be excited about, but hey, i'm a stay-at-home mom. the next exciting thing on my list is when the mail comes.
Four jobs you've had in your life:
1. grocery store clerk/cashier
2. teacher at sylvan learning center
3. test center administrator at what used to be a sylvan testing center (they give GRE, GMAT, etc.)
4. worked retail at a younkers in omaha. like the midwest version of dillards/macy's.
Four movies you would watch over and over:
1. Grease
2. Sound of Music
3. Titanic
4. Cousins
Four places you have lived:
1. Iowa
2. Nebraska
3. Connecticut
4. New Hampshire
Four TV shows you love to watch:
1. Amazing Race
2. American Idol
3. Commander-in-Chief
4. Ghost Hunters (on scifi)
Four places you have been on vacation:
1. Mexico City
2. Cedar Point in Sandusky OH
3. Tahiti
4. Sweden
Four websites you visit daily:
1. my email (yahoo)
2. sheknows message boards
3. local newspaper online
4. mis tit's blog...and other assorted blogs too :)
Four of your favorite foods:
1. mexican (does taco bell qualify as mexican? hope so!)
2. ice cream
3. potatoes
4. grilled salmon
Four places you would rather be right now:
1. in bed
2. somewhere sunny & warm where fat people aren't stared at on the beach
3. anywhere with child care
4. a closet where i can lock myself in with my laptop
Four jobs you've had in your life:
1. grocery store clerk/cashier
2. teacher at sylvan learning center
3. test center administrator at what used to be a sylvan testing center (they give GRE, GMAT, etc.)
4. worked retail at a younkers in omaha. like the midwest version of dillards/macy's.
Four movies you would watch over and over:
1. Grease
2. Sound of Music
3. Titanic
4. Cousins
Four places you have lived:
1. Iowa
2. Nebraska
3. Connecticut
4. New Hampshire
Four TV shows you love to watch:
1. Amazing Race
2. American Idol
3. Commander-in-Chief
4. Ghost Hunters (on scifi)
Four places you have been on vacation:
1. Mexico City
2. Cedar Point in Sandusky OH
3. Tahiti
4. Sweden
Four websites you visit daily:
1. my email (yahoo)
2. sheknows message boards
3. local newspaper online
4. mis tit's blog...and other assorted blogs too :)
Four of your favorite foods:
1. mexican (does taco bell qualify as mexican? hope so!)
2. ice cream
3. potatoes
4. grilled salmon
Four places you would rather be right now:
1. in bed
2. somewhere sunny & warm where fat people aren't stared at on the beach
3. anywhere with child care
4. a closet where i can lock myself in with my laptop
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