Do you know what sucks more than being too busy for words all weekend? Having a snarly headache that wrapped my entire brain in a hellish grip and made my brain feel all mushy and painful and OMG I still freaking have that same headache as I type! That is three days for those of you doing the math...
I planned to accomplish so much this weekend. I laid about and did nothing while my sick husband did EVERYTHING. I suck.
Our poor poor house. Usually when I go on a trip I whip the house into a frenzy of cleaning goodness. This time I did not (before Disney that is.) I have not cleaned since two weeks before Christmas when we had a party and guests. Embarrassing. Kevin vacuumed the whole house this weekend, I managed to swipe a cloth across one little area (okay the front of the TV because it was driving me bonkers that I could see finger marks on it while I sat sucking my thumb in the corner of the couch...) and I cleaned our disease ridden - I mean - disgusting bathroom. That is it. Oh, I did the usual laundry, dishes and groceries. Can I hire someone to do those three things? 'Cause I will. I hate them. They despise me too.
We did manage to go furniture shopping again. Matthew needs a bed. We also ended up walking away with a totally unplanned purchase. A king bed for our room - HOORAY! We know need all new bedding for our room and Matthew needs a duvet/duvet cover (I bought him a blanket at Bed Bath & Beyond this past week and sheets many moons ago from Pottery Barn that have since been discontinued which pissed me off because I cannot buy a matching duvet cover - BASTARDS!) Also, now both of our rooms need headboards but that will come later.
Let's just get through the transition of a big kid bed/room for Matthew... AND holy shit more room in our bed for, well, us. Not that I do not love my dogs but good lord what were we thinking? Santana was 3 lbs when we brought him home and he almost died of Parvo that is what I was thinking. Lucy, well she was just pathetic looking so sad sitting at the end of the bed while we three snuggled up that she just had to be a part of our bed (dog bed).
Kevin & Matthew went for a skate at the ice rink with his friend, Grayson on Sunday. They were there forever to the point where I started thinking 'OMG I should have gone. What if Matthew fell on his head and they are sitting at the ER? I should have made them take his helmet..." Sigh. They were fine and Matthew is getting ever more confident on skates - or so I am told because I was not there to document (YES I know photos from Disney and all that - I have NOT done it... Sorry.) We discussed plans (actually we have done this 2-3 times in the past few months - mostly I want to keep Matthew entertained after Pancake arrives...) for Matthew to take up some real live kiddo activities this coming year!!! Skating classes and what ever else he will be old enough to do! That is exciting! I am looking forward to seeing him have an outlet for all that flippin' energy that I would like to learn how to harness because holy crap think of the money I could make off that kind of energy!
We watched the Super Bowl - well part of it. I indulged in chips and French onion dip (my fav.) The game was boring until the last 6 minutes.
Oh one more thing - people I need you to help me: what are the requirements for a kid to get into a booster seat for the car? OR where can I go to find out. Matthew is around 40 lbs and we measured on the ghetto chart in his room this weekend - that is a triple check - we could not believe it the 1st two times: 38" tall (3 ft 2 inches - I could not believe it...)
Jen: Have you had that baby yet? If not, I am sending 'having baby today' vibes your way!
That is it. Headache - still here. What did you do this weekend?
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Monday, February 4, 2008
Monday, October 15, 2007
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
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!
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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