Dr. for me too!

So I did go to the Dr. today as well. I got the famous Z Pack. I don't have pneumonia but between the ears, nose and swollen nodes she thought I better take something. We had a party tomorrow night I was looking forward to. Looks like I will be staying home. I was going to send Tom alone...but he tells me he thinks he is going down now too. Great the whole house will be sick. Fun! Yuck. I think the antibiotics are already making my stomach funny. Bleech!

This goes down as a very bad week! Not the way I planned on kicking off the holiday season! Oh well what can you do. Maybe next week it will begin to look a lot like Christmas (say like the song. cheesy..yes..I'm trying)

The Mommy Guilt sets in

So I took J to the Dr. today and he has an ear infection and walking pneumonia! Nice. Now I feel horrible that I was so mean to him yesterday. I knew he was sick but the word pneumonia just sounds so much worse! Sorry baby, mommy wasn't herself. The NyQuil made me nuts. I vowed when I woke up today to be more...nice... no matter how crappy I felt; which by the way is pretty crappy. If he has pneumonia and I got sick from him what the heck do I have? My lymph node on the left side of my neck is actually sticking out. Maybe I should go to the Dr too? I'll have to call tomorrow.

Looking for a hole to crawl into

Yes, I know..I wanted kids. But can't they just go away when I am sick? Why can't a mom be sick by themself. When you are sick you just want to be alone and crawl into a hole and rest. But no...I have a sick 3 yr old as well. What does he want to do? Well he wants to be ON his mommy...all day. Ok, so I say lets snuggle. But he doesn't really snuggle...he climbs all over me. On my back, on my head. Usually elbowing me a few times in the head, kicking me in the gut then there is the occasional bump in the nose. This feels great when your nose is already throbbing. He can't sit still. I feel bad for the little guy, I really do...but I feel like crap too! He has literally been climbing me all day and I am so done! I am being more mean that I need to be but I am so crabby. Sorry J.

Sick again!

J is sick and I am sick! YUCK! My boy who never got sick has now been sick 3 times since the beginning of Oct. He of course gave it to me. I did find out that about 16 kids were out sick in preschool today. That is like half of the kids (two classes). Man there must have been some really sick kid last Tuesday that gave it to everyone! Oh no........(15 min later) OK, ewww....So J was running around with his dump truck. Running makes him cough more....he coughed so hard he threw up....his green (watermelon) yogurt he had at dinner...EWWWWW. You have to know that I am not used to this. This is a kid that hasn't gotten that kind of sick yet. I haven't had to clean up the gross puke in the bed or elsewhere. EWWW

So before I started to feel like complete crap I thought I better get my decorations up. Plus my cleaning lady is coming tomorrow and I would want her to vacuum up all the glitter from everything. So while J was napping, I turned on my Christmas music and got busy. It is officially Christmas when I hear Barbara Streisand's "Jingle Bells" song. I know what you are saying.... Barbara Streisand?????? Come on we all grew up with her. My mom LOVED her and actually I always liked her music. But her Christmas album is really good. She sings Jingle Bells like no other. If you haven't hear it before, check it out. I tried to figure out how to put it on here but it was too complicated. I have to go lay on the couch now. I am beat and my nose is running way to much.

Happy Thanksgiving

I just wanted to wish everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving.

I am thankful for my wonderful family and the love and support they give.

I am thankful for my son. Without the miracle of adoption he wouldn't be here today. As much as I get irritated, he is the joy of my life.

I am thankful for my husband. He is loving, caring, supportive, and understanding. I love you!

I am thankful for my health

I am thankful for my beautiful home

I am thankful for all my friends. A woman needs her friends.

I am also thankful for all my cyber friends. Many of you I have had for years and you are big part of my life. I am so lucky to have found you.

Now I need to go finish getting ready!! Don't eat too much!

Wet Wednesday

It has rained now non stop for 2 days, only to follow up with a bunch of snow tonight! Happy Thanksgiving. We didn't finish our yard work yet. What were we thinking? The grass still needs one more cut and there are leaves everywhere. Hopefully it will dry up next week for us to do it. It will be cold though. Dummies!!!

We would have done it on Sun but we went out of town. We took J to Timber Ridge Water park. It is one of those indoor places. My BF came with also. We only went for one night. We had a blast. J loves the water. They even have those big tube slides there. They said J could go down if he went on an adults lap. It was the kind with the big innertubes. OMG! he loved it. The couldn't go on it enough. It also had about 60 stairs to the top and his little legs went up it every time. Of course he thinks we should go back every day now. Silly me forgot my camera so I had to use my BF's. I only got a couple of them coming out of the tube. I will post them when I get them.

I am having Thanksgiving so I was cooking today. My mom makes a few things so it is easier. We are only having 8 for dinner then my BIL and SIL come at dessert time. This year my sister has to go to her inlaws. I wish she was coming here.

T has the whole week off. I feel like I don't know what day it is since we were gone Monday felt like Sunday and since he is home it feel like the weekend. I am all turned around. We don't have anything planned for the weekend. I guess just taking out the Christmas stuff!!

One cute thing. Tom was putting together a metal cart tonight for his business and Jack was helping. Check out how....

Ok how excited am I that I learned how to do that slide show!!!!

Babies Room

OK I had a post a while ago when we couldn't quite make up our minds what kind of adoption we were doing. I had picked out a pattern for the girls room. My mom bought it. Then when we were going to do the domestic adoption I sent it back. Silly me!!! I still love it, so my mom ordered it again. To refresh your memory here it is.

I only got the bumper pads. Didn't need the blanket and didn't like the sheets. I will find some sort of dust ruffle that goes with it. The pottery barn one was striped and didn't like that either. When it gets cooler out I also got these sheets. They are the white ones.

OK and I had to make a little splurge. I follow this review site (which could become potentially bad down the road cause there are so many cute things on there) http://mamaslike.com/ When I saw this I just had to get it...mostly because they were having a veterans day sale for $15.00 It is a hair bow holder. You clip the hair bows on the ribbons on the skirt...how stinkin cute is this!!!! to see a better picture you can go to http://bambinaballerina.com/ I am a sucker for ballerina stuff.

OMG I was at Kohls last night and just walking past the section where they had the girls Christmas dresses..AHHHHHHH I can't take it. I have to buy girls clothes!!! One of my friends that had her 3rd girl about 10 months ago called me yesterday and said OK either you take these clothes or they are going to good will. Ummmm bags of girls clothes...yes please! Oh the fun I will have going thru them and hanging them all on the little hangers. Yes I know..I have a problem.

Uneventful Happenings

Well there really hasn't been much going on around here. I didn't leave the house this weekend. I was outside a bit working on yard clean up, but I didn't go anywhere. Sunday T took J out for quite a while and I SO enjoyed my time in the house just doing things for me. It seems during the week I am either doing business work or things around the house. Sunday I had the laundry done and the house looked fine. So it was me time. I have gotten a little bit of a bug up my butt about working out. I don't enjoy it, but I have gotten on the tread mill a few times. Hopefully I can keep something up. I am just so out of shape from doing nothing. So not flexible. It is really SO sad. So if I can just do a little something a few days a week hopefully I can feel a bit better about myself. We shall see!

J was still whining this morning about not wanting to go to school, but the teachers said he did just fine. I have his conference on thurs. I am so curious to see what they have to say. I know he is well behaved because he comes home with his stamp every week. I just want to see what they have to say about his learning.

Oh tomorrow I am taking J to the eye Dr. One day last week we were in the kitchen. I won't go into the story but what came out of it was he couldn't see the green numbers on the stove clock. Then I did a bit of a test and I think he is nearsighted. (frowning) I want my baby to be able to see, but glasses at 3.5 yrs old??? Poor kid. I called the Dr to talk to her before I made the appt and she said that when she first saw him last Sept. she noticed a bit of farsighted. (scratching head) But then she said it isn't uncommon for it to switch...really? Seems odd. But I guess we will know tomorrow. T just went to the eye Dr. too. Great...spend money on glasses for both of them. We just got done spending hundreds of dollars on new clothes for T. Who does this all at Christmas??? Oh ya and he needs to bring his car in for brakes to. UGGH

Let see...what else...well, ok, how is Thanksgiving next week? I am having it like always. I haven't hardly begun to think about it. I do have my turkey though. We are going to an indoor water park on Sunday for a night with my BF Karen. It should be so fun. We haven't done anything much as a family because of the business. It will fun to be with another couple too!

I can't believe I will be putting out Christmas decorations in two weeks. UGGH! I love it and have gotten excited seeing some of the stuff in the stores. But I am already starting to feel the x-mas stress build up. I am having our large group over for holiday dinner. We usually all go out but this year I came up with the idea to have it at a house (my idea..my house) then cater it and everyone bring what they drink and their share of the catering cost. We will have to see how it goes.

Well I guess I need to get something on the table for dinner!

What's up with him?

Driving into the preschool parking lot today I get:
J: I don't want to go here anymore
M: Why
J: Because there are not enough cars here

Ok, we drop off in front of the school and the teachers come out to get him. Some mornings there is a line and some not. this morning, not. So I pull up in front and unbuckle him by leaning into the back. The teacher opens the door and he jumps out of his seat and goes in the opposite side of the car and balls up on the floor crying he doesn't want to go. HUH? He had to be pulled from the car crying. Nice way to start the day. However when I picked him up the teacher said he had a good day. I said what about this morning. She said he was fine inside. Whatever! He has been acting so strange lately. He was sick the beginning of Oct for a whole week. Since then everything has been different. He has been strange with school, eating (not that this was good in the first place), sleep. I seriously don't understand him one bit. He is like Jeckle and Hyde.

What does this mean? It means this month they did 8 days of LID. Hey this is an improvement from the 4-5 they have been doing. The other part is about the review room. This is where our dossier get reviewed before being able to be matched. Most make it thru review without questions, but sometimes they will contact your agency with question. They are on Sept...so they are almost to us. At least it is is something, right?

Congrats to all those that are getting matched this month!!!!

Happy Day after Halloween

We had a good day. The trick or treaters started around 3:30. They weren't supposed to start until 4 but the kids got out of school early yesterday and some couldn't wait. It ended up being about 60 degrees so it wasn't toooo bad. It was very windy though so it felt colder. Our neighbors had people over for pizza after. Nice that I didn't have to think about dinner! J did really well. He did get tired at the end and T had to carry him for a bit. His little pumpkin got so heavy! So here is my boy.

These pics were actually taken at a party he went to a few weeks ago when it was warm. He had on a shirt and a sweatshirt last night.

Last Sat we went to a fun Halloween party at T's cousin house. They had ponies, and a haunted house and a mechanical bull! It had rained the night before so we put J in last years Bob the Builder costume.

It is going to be hard to take down the Halloween decorations. He just loves them. We have a lot of just nice pumkin around the inside of the house. I told him we can keep those up for Thanksgiving. They are just fall looking. Cute thing he said last night in bed.

Me: Halloween is over sweetie.
J: Why
Me: Cause it is only one day and now it is over.
J: (with a grin on his face) is it Christmas?
Me: No, sweetie, it isn't Christmas yet.
J: Is it Easter
Me: No, we have to have Thanksgiving first, then Christmas
J: I really want Santa to bring me that red train and green train mommy
Me: Well you have to wait to see if santa brings it to you.
J: Oh I will be good and then he will bring it.

It was just too cute. I have a feeling he will be driving me nuts with the "is it Christmas yet" question.