The Good: This weekend was really lovely. We did most of what I mentioned we would do over the weekend. With the exception of actually buying the trees, shrubs and bulbs and I never actually motivated myself to go pants shopping. The HORROR... I was glad I did not.
The coffee & muffins were yummy, the drive out to the state park was charming and it was beautiful - cool and crisp - at the local state park. We took a bazillion photos and for once we actually hiked and Matthew walked the entire way DOWN the path. Of course, Daddy held him coming back up... hey it wasn't that I did not offer!
We hit the local Target and pulled together some of the Bob costume. We still need overalls and I think I will try to get those one night this week, we shall see...
We made it to the local apple farm. We bought apples and ate crunchy peanut coated caramel covered apples (made by the large red headed man as Annie's husband described him loosely translated of course...) We had piping hot apple cider and ran through the orchard (and only once did I have run Matthew down screaming at him to NOT jump in the pond... ACK!) The big bike race in the area was going on so we watched the biker's ride by in their quest to complete 100 miles over hill and dale - crazy people... Matthew throughly enjoyed visiting with his friend, Alexandra. They ran around like little monkeys and hugged and smiled at each other - it was VERY cute.
We hit Lowe's TWICE. Matthew's eyes wide as saucers at all of the Christmas decorations (which only fueled my desire for Christmas to come SOON!)
We had a "play date" with Grayson whom Matthew almost completely ignored even though we had several melt downs during the previous week when Grayson could not come over - jeez kids! I think they enjoyed it because even after mostly ignoring Grayson Matthew still asked about Grayson, Nate and Kelly after they left. I've decided my kid is just strange some times!
We took a boat load of photos. I will post some later this week likely. That was all of the good.
The bad: I was trying on pants already in my closet in hopes that I had lost more weight than I actually have... While I have been working out here and there and semi sort of minding what I have been eating, I am still no where near where I would like to be in terms of my overall shape or getting into the size of the pants I already have. I also thought 'hmm, let me try out the self portrait photo device on this camera..." EHH GAWD, no I do not look that way!!! And I was showered, had on some make up and thought I looked decent and do I really head out the door looking that way EVERY DAY, why didn't anyone warn me?!?!? HALP. (I reminded myself only to make myself feel better - I am not the most photogenic person on earth - I think I look very different in reality than most photos show me... can we say 'DENIAL' together!)
The ugly: Matthew has been wetting his pants since his grandparents left last week (or at least that is my take on things...) He just pees but he wants to keep on playing and seems to have lost the ability to tell us he has to pee as he was doing before their visit... I guess we need to go back to offering the potty to him every hour or two because over the weekend I was getting a bit tired of cleaning up wet pants, underwear, shoes and socks and even his blanket on Friday... He did have dry diapers again this morning so that is back to the " norm".
Of course, my good out weighed my bad & ugly so I cannot complain! Hope everyone else had a mostly good weekend with very little bad and/or ugly in their description as well!
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Monday, October 15, 2007
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Gone Shopping...
I am pretty excited for the long weekend. I need it.
We have been dealing with the insanity that is my son's sleep patterns. He is not sleeping well at night, period. This has been ramping up and going on for about two, maybe three weeks. At first it was just a mild tantrum right when we put him down for bed but he could be sung to and would usually go to sleep on his own. Then he started waking up 2-3 times a night and wanted to sleep on the floor. Now it is a full blown drama EVERY single night beginning around 7:30p and going till the wee hours of the morning if we do not (a) let him fall asleep in our arms rocking in his chair, (b) fall asleep on the floor, and/or (c) fall asleep in our bed always with one of us. It is driving me batty. I am cranky and unhappy about this. I mean he is almost 2-1/2 years old. I am so over being sleep deprived... I am tired. Plain and simple. And this tired sucks because there is no rhyme nor reason for it.
Yes, we changed his day care which corresponds with his sleep patterns but I am totally at a loss as to how to get him back on track. And this is seriously a train wreck because it just keeps escalating. I am hoping we can get things back on track before heading to Canada. Okay so that may sound TOTALLY lame but I cannot deal with the in laws when I am tired and irritable.
I am hoping for a low key weekend. I just want to nap A LOT and get some things done around the house (ha, clean our nasty bathroom for one...) Do some gardening and do some planning for the home projects we hoping to get done in the next six months or so. We are planning to put in some closet systems in Matthew's room and the future baby's room at least. I really want to paint a couple of rooms and we are planning to get our carpeting redone. Finally, we need to stain/seal our deck and fence and we are going to do some fall landscaping. LOTS to be done! I want to hit up some sales for some of these items. After all, isn't Labor Day all about sales? Isn't that why they invented this holiday?
There is a local arts festival this weekend as well that I am SO geeked about. I mean I LOVE LOVE LOVE these kinds of things. Growing up in CA in the 80s with my artsy fartsy mother meant attending every Art & Wine festival in the greater Bay Area including my fav in Santa Cruz. I loved them. I adored the feeling of all the other artsy people, I liked looking at the bright colored arts and crafts, the music and sounds, freaky drunks in rainbow colored shorts - come in CA in the 80s! It was just my thing as a kid. Sort of a bright spot in a child hood that was marred by frequent family issues. I am hopefully going with my girlfriend whom I have yet to call... I suck, I know. I also plan to buy some stuff. I totally dig pottery and have one piece I got for Christmas a couple of years ago but I am hoping to add some cool stuff to decorate the homestead with.
As a random aside, I am looking forward to fall. It has been very hot and humid here the whole month of August. I am ready for fall - bring it on, baby. Part of the reason I am looking forward to fall is the clothes! I was just checking out the new arrivals at Gap.com and they have such cute stuff. Now that the heat seems to be subsiding - you know down from 110 (with the heat index) to 85. Hey, it is relatively cooler, right?!
Another random aside: has anyone had acupuncture done? I am setting up an appt today. This person comes highly recommended so I am looking forward to it. Any thoughts?
All right ladies and gentlemen (of which I think I have NONE), have a lovely three day weekend (I know tomorrow is Friday but I may not get a chance to post tomorrow so...)! Have a beer or lemonade - enjoy a BBQ with your family - and SHOP the sales!
We have been dealing with the insanity that is my son's sleep patterns. He is not sleeping well at night, period. This has been ramping up and going on for about two, maybe three weeks. At first it was just a mild tantrum right when we put him down for bed but he could be sung to and would usually go to sleep on his own. Then he started waking up 2-3 times a night and wanted to sleep on the floor. Now it is a full blown drama EVERY single night beginning around 7:30p and going till the wee hours of the morning if we do not (a) let him fall asleep in our arms rocking in his chair, (b) fall asleep on the floor, and/or (c) fall asleep in our bed always with one of us. It is driving me batty. I am cranky and unhappy about this. I mean he is almost 2-1/2 years old. I am so over being sleep deprived... I am tired. Plain and simple. And this tired sucks because there is no rhyme nor reason for it.
Yes, we changed his day care which corresponds with his sleep patterns but I am totally at a loss as to how to get him back on track. And this is seriously a train wreck because it just keeps escalating. I am hoping we can get things back on track before heading to Canada. Okay so that may sound TOTALLY lame but I cannot deal with the in laws when I am tired and irritable.
I am hoping for a low key weekend. I just want to nap A LOT and get some things done around the house (ha, clean our nasty bathroom for one...) Do some gardening and do some planning for the home projects we hoping to get done in the next six months or so. We are planning to put in some closet systems in Matthew's room and the future baby's room at least. I really want to paint a couple of rooms and we are planning to get our carpeting redone. Finally, we need to stain/seal our deck and fence and we are going to do some fall landscaping. LOTS to be done! I want to hit up some sales for some of these items. After all, isn't Labor Day all about sales? Isn't that why they invented this holiday?
There is a local arts festival this weekend as well that I am SO geeked about. I mean I LOVE LOVE LOVE these kinds of things. Growing up in CA in the 80s with my artsy fartsy mother meant attending every Art & Wine festival in the greater Bay Area including my fav in Santa Cruz. I loved them. I adored the feeling of all the other artsy people, I liked looking at the bright colored arts and crafts, the music and sounds, freaky drunks in rainbow colored shorts - come in CA in the 80s! It was just my thing as a kid. Sort of a bright spot in a child hood that was marred by frequent family issues. I am hopefully going with my girlfriend whom I have yet to call... I suck, I know. I also plan to buy some stuff. I totally dig pottery and have one piece I got for Christmas a couple of years ago but I am hoping to add some cool stuff to decorate the homestead with.
As a random aside, I am looking forward to fall. It has been very hot and humid here the whole month of August. I am ready for fall - bring it on, baby. Part of the reason I am looking forward to fall is the clothes! I was just checking out the new arrivals at Gap.com and they have such cute stuff. Now that the heat seems to be subsiding - you know down from 110 (with the heat index) to 85. Hey, it is relatively cooler, right?!
Another random aside: has anyone had acupuncture done? I am setting up an appt today. This person comes highly recommended so I am looking forward to it. Any thoughts?
All right ladies and gentlemen (of which I think I have NONE), have a lovely three day weekend (I know tomorrow is Friday but I may not get a chance to post tomorrow so...)! Have a beer or lemonade - enjoy a BBQ with your family - and SHOP the sales!
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