or is it yadda? no clue. yaddah isn't some old yiddish word is it? no clue. if rob were here he'd tell me to wikipedia it.
anyway, yep my morning sucks. cade just had a 20 minute tantrum because i told him to go let the dog out of his kennel. cade wouldn't do it so i turned off the TV. then he went into full tantrum mode. i carried him to his bedroom to cry, but within minutes i was back in there because he was kicking the walls.
after 10 minutes of screaming & crying he finally sat for his 3 minute time out (for kicking the walls). all that just because i asked him to let the dog out.
now he's cleaning random things with a clorox wipe. staying busy by sucking up i guess.
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i have a friend named 'lola'. she takes wonderful pictures, they truly are artwork. she captures the most amazing sides of people. and the best part? she shares her work online with friends and strangers alike. however, some people have 'borrowed' her son's pictures as some sort of internet scavenger hunt. okaaaaaayyyyyy. hm. it seems they don't ruin the pictures, they just collect them and see how many they can collect. sounds weird, most of these kids are in foreign countries...that explains it all, right? they way i understand it, it's like a foreign myspace called orkut.com.
you can see by her website her photog skills are awesome, and her kids are the cutest (well, except for MY kids, haha). so sign this petition to get orkut shut down. the biggest complaint lola has with orkut is that her watermark ("property of" stamp) on the pictures is missing, so it shows no ownership of the pictures.
i signed it b/c lola is a friend, and i hate to see her beautiful pictures misused in any fashion. this might be harmless but the whole 'collection' aspect gives me the creeps.
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why can i not get started on anything?
--laundry
--planning a baby shower, to be held in 2 weeks (haven't sent invites out yet!)
--pick a room and clean it
laundry is really the priority today. cade is out of shorts and i'm out of shorts too. maybe i should just make a target run instead. if it weren't so damn warm down here in FL, then i wouldn't need to wear shorts all the dang time. global warming and all that crap.
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i have several friends on a mommy board that have had babies this month or are about to. dana is due any day, but hopes to hold out til monday so she can have an october baby. i tried to do the same thing dana, but elisha was born on 8/31, 16 hours shy of being a september baby. this is her 5th child, so you'd think she'd just be happy for babygirl to be born, instead of being picky about the dates :) i'd link her blog but like i said she has 4 kids, she doesn't have time to blog. i imagine the last time she posted on it was 3 years ago before baby #3 was born :)
so we're on baby watch for the next few days.
i have another friend who is in my thoughts on an almost constant basis. she is pregnant with her 4th and i wish her all the best baby-vibes i can muster.
and considering rob just got his vasectomy, i have babies on the brain. i'm throwing a baby shower in 2 weeks...our board just had 2 babies born last week...more babies in the future...the grandma & grandpa at walmart yesterday with the 3 month old twin girls...ack! they're everywhere!
9.27.2007
today might suck.
cade was up at 5:30 today, eating breakfast with rob.
usually when he's up that early, he's a real jerk. talking back, whiny, demanding, tired but refusing to sleep...
we're all awake but elisha is still sleeping on the futon, how cute is that? we moved out there about 2am b/c she was restless in our bed. right now she's on her belly and looks so comfy. i wish today was a weekend so i could turn on a movie for the kids and go back to sleep with her. :( one of the drawbacks of kids starting school, i guess. you get rid of them for 8 hours a day but sleeping in and being lazy must wait for saturday and sunday. when is summer vacation???
usually when he's up that early, he's a real jerk. talking back, whiny, demanding, tired but refusing to sleep...
we're all awake but elisha is still sleeping on the futon, how cute is that? we moved out there about 2am b/c she was restless in our bed. right now she's on her belly and looks so comfy. i wish today was a weekend so i could turn on a movie for the kids and go back to sleep with her. :( one of the drawbacks of kids starting school, i guess. you get rid of them for 8 hours a day but sleeping in and being lazy must wait for saturday and sunday. when is summer vacation???
9.26.2007
did i mention...?
that i was doing weight watchers during these last 7 months? i'm not sure i blogged about it, for fear that i would fail. failure is easier to handle when the whole world doesn't know what a flop you are ;)
surprisingly, i haven't failed. from march 1 to date i have lost 76 pounds. 5 pants sizes. over 20 inches on my body have melted away. i can see muscles, abs, and veins where i couldn't before. who knew they were under all that skin? i'm not sure how much more i want to lose, i'm getting to the point mentally where i'm tired of analyzing and counting everything i put in my mouth.
weight watchers is a bit of a family joke for us. my grandmother and a few aunts have been on WW together and their weight really yo-yo'ed whenever they were on plan. i really don't want to be a yo-yo'er. i know i have TONS more energy right now and i love moving around...dancing around the house, bouncing on the kids' trampoline, going for spontaneous walks with the dog (which i'm trying to fit in as often as possible), playing soccer in the backyard...i'm just enjoying life in my body for once.
i'm actually about 20 lbs lighter than i was on my wedding day. rob says my hips/butt are smaller now than then...funny, i didn't think that would be the case after 3 kids! and the part that i really love? my bra size has gone down. i've been a C cup since high school, after babies up to a 40D and now i'm wearing a 36B. some women love their C cup boobies but i really enjoy this smaller size. with the dieting AND elisha nursing less, they've shrunk to a more manageable size. i look at the B size bras and get a kick of how they look like teenager bras, the cups are so little.
anyway, that's me tooting my own horn. toot toot!
surprisingly, i haven't failed. from march 1 to date i have lost 76 pounds. 5 pants sizes. over 20 inches on my body have melted away. i can see muscles, abs, and veins where i couldn't before. who knew they were under all that skin? i'm not sure how much more i want to lose, i'm getting to the point mentally where i'm tired of analyzing and counting everything i put in my mouth.
weight watchers is a bit of a family joke for us. my grandmother and a few aunts have been on WW together and their weight really yo-yo'ed whenever they were on plan. i really don't want to be a yo-yo'er. i know i have TONS more energy right now and i love moving around...dancing around the house, bouncing on the kids' trampoline, going for spontaneous walks with the dog (which i'm trying to fit in as often as possible), playing soccer in the backyard...i'm just enjoying life in my body for once.
i'm actually about 20 lbs lighter than i was on my wedding day. rob says my hips/butt are smaller now than then...funny, i didn't think that would be the case after 3 kids! and the part that i really love? my bra size has gone down. i've been a C cup since high school, after babies up to a 40D and now i'm wearing a 36B. some women love their C cup boobies but i really enjoy this smaller size. with the dieting AND elisha nursing less, they've shrunk to a more manageable size. i look at the B size bras and get a kick of how they look like teenager bras, the cups are so little.
anyway, that's me tooting my own horn. toot toot!
9.24.2007
a bit of bad news
maybe i shouldn't call home too often. i just worry about my aging parents.
i talked to my mom yesterday and found out the results of her latest doctor appointment. she visited an orthopedic something-or-other on friday and was told she'd need back sugery. she's been dealing with a pinched nerve in her lower back for the last few weeks. it's bad enough that she's has some numbness in her legs. her doctor diagnosed her with spinal stenosis and said that back surgery would fix 'er up. however, my mother is at least 80 lbs overweight and that creates some problems. she's going to work on losing about 50 lbs and in the meantime she'll have an epidural pain system put in place on october 10. (yeah, 2 weeks from now. arg. i guess this clinic is up to it's neck in people suffering pain, that was the first available appointment. maybe i should look into a job in anesthesiology...i have to learn how to spell it first, though. thank goodness for spell check.)
so after her weight loss (which may take up to a year? she's not very mobile so she won't be able to exercise it off) and recovery from back surgery, then she can plan on a hip & knee replacement, which is the primary reason she's been in & out of doctor offices for the last 9 months. she took a nasty fall in january and hurt her knee and her limping around on a sore knee was enough to irritate her hip. she's known that she should get a hip replacement, she's been having problems with her hips for the last 15 years. her frame of mind is that you don't go to a doctor unless you're bleeding or in horrible pain, so she's been trying prescription drugs to deal with the pain from her hips. she was able to put it off long enough that everything needed fixed at once. and i'm about 1300 miles away from being able to help her.
i asked mom if she had a plan for losing weight and she said that my dad was going to do it with her (he's also overweight, at least 80 lbs). so at least they have some support from each other. and i plan on calling her daily to harass her. i mean, um, give her diet tips. :)
my mom also told me about my sister-in-law, sharon. she was in the hospital over the weekend. she was visiting a friend and was walking down the stairs at the apartment complex...she missed the last few stairs and ended up hyper-extending her knee. sharon is really overweight, she should probably lose at least 150 lbs and the skin on her knee kind of "burst" with that kind of stress. there was no bone damage though, it was all skin & muscle tears. i believe there were several layers of stitches and a few days' stay in the hospital. she'll be coming home today and then out of work for a few weeks. my brother works 4 day weekends, so he'll be able to take care of her this week without losing out on his paycheck.
and my cousin, mark, is still on the heart transplant list. he had a massive heart attack in 2005 the damage done to his heart required that he have a pacemaker. now his pacemaker cannot keep up with his heart problems, so onto the list he goes. he & his wife have 2 girls, i think about 11 and 9.
i really don't know what i could do for my mom if we went to iowa for a visit. reese is in K 5 days a week, other than that we don't really have any commitments. i could homeschool reese for kindergarten and go to iowa for an extended time. i just don't know how much good i could do, i'd feel better for being there but i don't think having 3 kids around would help my mom much.
so i guess we make plans to go there for christmas? does my mom need the hassle of having house guests at christmas? we invited them down here for christmas, but i doubt my mom can travel that long.
so how's that for a monday morning waker-upper? :) maybe you have some misery of your own to keep mine company?
i talked to my mom yesterday and found out the results of her latest doctor appointment. she visited an orthopedic something-or-other on friday and was told she'd need back sugery. she's been dealing with a pinched nerve in her lower back for the last few weeks. it's bad enough that she's has some numbness in her legs. her doctor diagnosed her with spinal stenosis and said that back surgery would fix 'er up. however, my mother is at least 80 lbs overweight and that creates some problems. she's going to work on losing about 50 lbs and in the meantime she'll have an epidural pain system put in place on october 10. (yeah, 2 weeks from now. arg. i guess this clinic is up to it's neck in people suffering pain, that was the first available appointment. maybe i should look into a job in anesthesiology...i have to learn how to spell it first, though. thank goodness for spell check.)
so after her weight loss (which may take up to a year? she's not very mobile so she won't be able to exercise it off) and recovery from back surgery, then she can plan on a hip & knee replacement, which is the primary reason she's been in & out of doctor offices for the last 9 months. she took a nasty fall in january and hurt her knee and her limping around on a sore knee was enough to irritate her hip. she's known that she should get a hip replacement, she's been having problems with her hips for the last 15 years. her frame of mind is that you don't go to a doctor unless you're bleeding or in horrible pain, so she's been trying prescription drugs to deal with the pain from her hips. she was able to put it off long enough that everything needed fixed at once. and i'm about 1300 miles away from being able to help her.
i asked mom if she had a plan for losing weight and she said that my dad was going to do it with her (he's also overweight, at least 80 lbs). so at least they have some support from each other. and i plan on calling her daily to harass her. i mean, um, give her diet tips. :)
my mom also told me about my sister-in-law, sharon. she was in the hospital over the weekend. she was visiting a friend and was walking down the stairs at the apartment complex...she missed the last few stairs and ended up hyper-extending her knee. sharon is really overweight, she should probably lose at least 150 lbs and the skin on her knee kind of "burst" with that kind of stress. there was no bone damage though, it was all skin & muscle tears. i believe there were several layers of stitches and a few days' stay in the hospital. she'll be coming home today and then out of work for a few weeks. my brother works 4 day weekends, so he'll be able to take care of her this week without losing out on his paycheck.
and my cousin, mark, is still on the heart transplant list. he had a massive heart attack in 2005 the damage done to his heart required that he have a pacemaker. now his pacemaker cannot keep up with his heart problems, so onto the list he goes. he & his wife have 2 girls, i think about 11 and 9.
i really don't know what i could do for my mom if we went to iowa for a visit. reese is in K 5 days a week, other than that we don't really have any commitments. i could homeschool reese for kindergarten and go to iowa for an extended time. i just don't know how much good i could do, i'd feel better for being there but i don't think having 3 kids around would help my mom much.
so i guess we make plans to go there for christmas? does my mom need the hassle of having house guests at christmas? we invited them down here for christmas, but i doubt my mom can travel that long.
so how's that for a monday morning waker-upper? :) maybe you have some misery of your own to keep mine company?
9.22.2007
it's been a while. get over it.
it's been a while.
a long while.
but we're all still alive. we've all survived the move.
we stayed in the apartment in georgia for about a month and then we found a house to rent in northern florida. i think we're all settled in the house, but we have about a dozen boxes in the garage that i don't think will ever be unpacked. rob has conveniently stacked them up against the far wall and then shoved more stuff up against it, so i guess we're all unpacked now. there's still a few things i haven't found yet...like our rugs from the kitchen. those are the only things that come to mind. rob thinks he's lost a few things but those were just victims of me 'organizing' in the days before our move.
reese has started K and she's doing really well. she enjoys school but i have some reservations about her teacher. i think her teacher is doing the minimum and i guess i got used to reese's pre-K teacher who did way more than the minimum. all the K classes at reese's school are way over on teacher-student ratio and they have enough students to create TWO more K classes. (wow. that's a lot of 5 year olds!) so i volunteered reese to move to one of the new classes. i hope that i'm not moving her to someone who is a worse choice than mrs. R.
elisha is now mobile. she's WALKING...even though she doesn't like to broadcast it. if we're going the same direction in the house, she always looks to me for 2 hands to help her. she just started this a few weeks ago and i have to say she's the laziest walking baby i've ever seen. she's still decided that crawling is faster so that's the preferred mode i guess. she's also calling for me, which i'm already tired of. i hear 'ma!' 'ma!' 'ma!' until she sees me. and she does this cute shrug thing with her hands when i ask 'where's daddy?' i'm trying to get video of it and she's resisting me.
cade is still being a shit. it's better since he's turned 3 but he's still a shit. elisha is already learning to stand up for herself. when he takes a toy from her she screeches and smacks him. they really do love each other, i just wish he wasn't so hands on with her. he loves to rub her head or hug her, but i don't think he knows his own strength. i guess it's ok, elisha doesn't have bruises on her, right?
the newest development concerns my husband. yesterday was his appointment for a vasectomy. both of us were a little bummed but we realize that 3 kids is really ALL we need (and then some!). i've told rob that i think the reason i'm a little sad is because we're no longer in 'having babies' mode, we're in 'raising babies' mode. and i'm fine with it b/c i was a miserable pregnant woman and a witch as a new mother (to all but the baby of course ;)). so it's probably safest for all mankind to stop having babies now. so rob is hobbling around a bit, but he's already feeling better. he's feeling good enough to go hang out and play playstation, anyway.
we're starting daisy scouts this morning. so i better go hop in the shower for that. i haven't shaved my legs all week and what kind of mom would i be if i showed up with my legs all stubbly? actually, they'd probably volunteer me for camping with the girls if i showed up all stubbly!
a long while.
but we're all still alive. we've all survived the move.
we stayed in the apartment in georgia for about a month and then we found a house to rent in northern florida. i think we're all settled in the house, but we have about a dozen boxes in the garage that i don't think will ever be unpacked. rob has conveniently stacked them up against the far wall and then shoved more stuff up against it, so i guess we're all unpacked now. there's still a few things i haven't found yet...like our rugs from the kitchen. those are the only things that come to mind. rob thinks he's lost a few things but those were just victims of me 'organizing' in the days before our move.
reese has started K and she's doing really well. she enjoys school but i have some reservations about her teacher. i think her teacher is doing the minimum and i guess i got used to reese's pre-K teacher who did way more than the minimum. all the K classes at reese's school are way over on teacher-student ratio and they have enough students to create TWO more K classes. (wow. that's a lot of 5 year olds!) so i volunteered reese to move to one of the new classes. i hope that i'm not moving her to someone who is a worse choice than mrs. R.
elisha is now mobile. she's WALKING...even though she doesn't like to broadcast it. if we're going the same direction in the house, she always looks to me for 2 hands to help her. she just started this a few weeks ago and i have to say she's the laziest walking baby i've ever seen. she's still decided that crawling is faster so that's the preferred mode i guess. she's also calling for me, which i'm already tired of. i hear 'ma!' 'ma!' 'ma!' until she sees me. and she does this cute shrug thing with her hands when i ask 'where's daddy?' i'm trying to get video of it and she's resisting me.
cade is still being a shit. it's better since he's turned 3 but he's still a shit. elisha is already learning to stand up for herself. when he takes a toy from her she screeches and smacks him. they really do love each other, i just wish he wasn't so hands on with her. he loves to rub her head or hug her, but i don't think he knows his own strength. i guess it's ok, elisha doesn't have bruises on her, right?
the newest development concerns my husband. yesterday was his appointment for a vasectomy. both of us were a little bummed but we realize that 3 kids is really ALL we need (and then some!). i've told rob that i think the reason i'm a little sad is because we're no longer in 'having babies' mode, we're in 'raising babies' mode. and i'm fine with it b/c i was a miserable pregnant woman and a witch as a new mother (to all but the baby of course ;)). so it's probably safest for all mankind to stop having babies now. so rob is hobbling around a bit, but he's already feeling better. he's feeling good enough to go hang out and play playstation, anyway.
we're starting daisy scouts this morning. so i better go hop in the shower for that. i haven't shaved my legs all week and what kind of mom would i be if i showed up with my legs all stubbly? actually, they'd probably volunteer me for camping with the girls if i showed up all stubbly!
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