Today was a pretty good day. Perhaps it was because I only went to work for 2 hours because Ainslea had a half day, despite the nonsensical reason for driving all the way to hyannis to check my work email and then turn around and race back to catch the bus Or maybe it was because Ainslea and I were able to enjoy quality time together at the FREE scarecrow story hike at Oakcrest Cove. It was cute, she could read the story page at each marker as we walked through a wooded trail by one of the local ponds. Each stop had a body part to a scarecrow that was later put together and colored and used to torment her sister when we got home. Her new best friend is the daughter of the Rec Dept Director so Olivia was there to go through the trail with us and made it fun for Ainslea too. FOrtunately Im not so naive in thinking that my daughter needs to be alone with me 1-1 in order to have fun. It was just nice for her to be the center of attention, and that is important to me to make sure we have that every once in a while with Lorelei still at daycare. I suppose we will make it a habit on half days!!
But then everything in our normal routine was pushed up earlier so all 3 of us were bathed and in our pajamas by 730 which was nice. Although I still cant bring myself to turn the heat on downstairs for me, so I'm freezing while they are all warm and toasty upstairs. But thats what sweatshirts and socks were created for. I have an electric blanket that does the trick now that I don't have a personal bed warmer lying next to me (hogging the blankets). THe quarantined cat has been medicated, and has given up on head butting the basement door for the evening i hope. I've contacted all our creditors about the Servicemen Credit Relief Act (Funny that they've changed that from SOldiers and Sailors Act from only 5 years ago)
Also in the news is that one of my close friends has just discovered that she is pregnant which is good news for her, but bad news for me as I'm now out a drinking buddy!! Where is the support I ask you???? Poor girl wasn't planning to be pregnant again so soon, and there is talks about her husbands job moving them before the baby will be born (although, maybe I can sell her on becoming a geographic bachelorette before then)hmmmmmm. I'm happy for them as they are already good parents. It will be another person I can lend my helping hand to take my mind off of other things.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Day 4
I'm just sitting back at 10:30pm looking at all the destruction and needing a break, despite how late i've been going to bed every night. Today was just another usual day of trying to get too much done after school. I've tried to just go to the dump and the library on tuesdays, but I was waiting for someone to stop by the house at 4pm and then i had to go and pick something up from another mom's house and I couldn't find the house. Meanwhile Lorelei is screaming and its getting late. So we ordered pizza and salad from pizzas by evan and watched Survivor recorded in the tv room.
I'll admit I've had a few meltdowns with Ainslea not listening and time going faster than i need to get things done. And clearly spending 45 minutes looking for a library movie that was due today was not the best use of our time, but at $1/day in late fees its sort of necessary.
The normal pre-bedtime hassle was just a segway for trying to give Mittens his antibiotics...fun fun fun!!! But nothing was as fun as my Harry Potter cake!! Another mom needs another birthday cake so its late night of decorating in mystical orange and wizardry. It turned out ok, i'll post a picture later.
Travis called to say he had arrived in Washington state ok, it was a long day of travelling and living in 65 year old barracks for the next couple of weeks. ANd listening to the wind howl outside the windows makes me want to curl up in bed. So enough of my rambling fo rtoday. I just hope i get better at planning out my time and having more quality time with the kids. I know i shouldn't keep myself so busy, but thats the only way to make the days pass faster. But I'm sure thats not what the kids think...
I'll admit I've had a few meltdowns with Ainslea not listening and time going faster than i need to get things done. And clearly spending 45 minutes looking for a library movie that was due today was not the best use of our time, but at $1/day in late fees its sort of necessary.
The normal pre-bedtime hassle was just a segway for trying to give Mittens his antibiotics...fun fun fun!!! But nothing was as fun as my Harry Potter cake!! Another mom needs another birthday cake so its late night of decorating in mystical orange and wizardry. It turned out ok, i'll post a picture later.
Travis called to say he had arrived in Washington state ok, it was a long day of travelling and living in 65 year old barracks for the next couple of weeks. ANd listening to the wind howl outside the windows makes me want to curl up in bed. So enough of my rambling fo rtoday. I just hope i get better at planning out my time and having more quality time with the kids. I know i shouldn't keep myself so busy, but thats the only way to make the days pass faster. But I'm sure thats not what the kids think...
Monday, October 27, 2008
Day 3
Well this was certainly the overbooked day from hell!! It started out with the regular routine of getting up and getting to the bus stop and going to work usual scene, but after school was a mish mash of chaos. Ainslea had dance class, and it was bring a friend week, so we had planned a playdate to go to dance class and come over afterwards, but her friend's brother got pink eye, so the playdate at home was out (phew, didn't sweep the floor anyway, new guests you know how that is) so while they were at dance class, I had to take Mittens to the vet. Let me just pause right here and mention how much I will not ever have cats again. i've got the one who wants to roam the free world and the other one who is quite content with sitting on my bed and sleeping the day away.
So mittens came in yesterday with what looked liek a bloody ear, and it was twitching him, so I called the vet and scheduled a visit.......$100 later i have to give him pills 2x a day and he was actually attacked and scratched from ear to ear across the throat, but i could nt see it because of all his fur. So now he's shaved by his ears and down his neck so the vet could clean out the wounds and pump him full of pain killers....and the best part...wait for it.....the damn cat has to be on a rabies QUARANTINE for 45 freaking days!!! Fortunately our routine is to keep him in the lower level suite (aka basement) when he's not outside, but now i can't even let him outside when he gets annoying AWESOME!!! The good news in that is that because his rabies was up to date, its ONLY until December 10 and not for 6 months!!! Grrrrreeeeattt!!!!
Oh and before you think my beloved indoor cat is the cats meow, the "darn" thing puked in my bed last night!!! I woke up to the hurling noise and went to push her off my bed but i was too late and pushed my foot right into the puke.....damn animals.....why do people do this to themselves??? As if i don't have enough to deal with watching two kids, now i have to baby two cats who can't even be in the same room together?? I can hear travis now saying "you wanted cats"....and i still stand behind that decision. It was an easy distraction from when we had to put Jake down, and i can quite literally lock one in the basement when it is bad. I can leave them at home and just have to do the once or twice a week cleaning of litter box and adding food and water to the automatic dispensers.....but when i have to do this all over again, there will be NO ANIMALS for me.
Yes I know Travis is set on having a dog, and ainslea thinks she has to wait until she's 10, but I am done with this pet business!!!!
So mittens came in yesterday with what looked liek a bloody ear, and it was twitching him, so I called the vet and scheduled a visit.......$100 later i have to give him pills 2x a day and he was actually attacked and scratched from ear to ear across the throat, but i could nt see it because of all his fur. So now he's shaved by his ears and down his neck so the vet could clean out the wounds and pump him full of pain killers....and the best part...wait for it.....the damn cat has to be on a rabies QUARANTINE for 45 freaking days!!! Fortunately our routine is to keep him in the lower level suite (aka basement) when he's not outside, but now i can't even let him outside when he gets annoying AWESOME!!! The good news in that is that because his rabies was up to date, its ONLY until December 10 and not for 6 months!!! Grrrrreeeeattt!!!!
Oh and before you think my beloved indoor cat is the cats meow, the "darn" thing puked in my bed last night!!! I woke up to the hurling noise and went to push her off my bed but i was too late and pushed my foot right into the puke.....damn animals.....why do people do this to themselves??? As if i don't have enough to deal with watching two kids, now i have to baby two cats who can't even be in the same room together?? I can hear travis now saying "you wanted cats"....and i still stand behind that decision. It was an easy distraction from when we had to put Jake down, and i can quite literally lock one in the basement when it is bad. I can leave them at home and just have to do the once or twice a week cleaning of litter box and adding food and water to the automatic dispensers.....but when i have to do this all over again, there will be NO ANIMALS for me.
Yes I know Travis is set on having a dog, and ainslea thinks she has to wait until she's 10, but I am done with this pet business!!!!
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Day 2
So today was definitely more productive. Sundays usually are. No plans and Ainslea actually stayed in her pajamas all day long. It was the usual day of cleaning at the end of the week that makes me exhausted. But then added to that was the outside cleaning too.
Travis obliged me one final wish of removing the beautiful big blue truck with no seats and dented windshield from our back yard...and i found a salvage company to come and haul it away and still pay me for it!! SO it dawned on me that even though it won't add to my financial gain, they get paid by scrap metal and want parts from the vehicle, so i went through the garage and yard to retrieve all the remnants of a project that wasn't and threw them all in the back of the truck WOOOHOOOO no more bumpers, no more fallen down carport in the back yard, no more wires and scrap metal that mice will find a home in this winter YIPPEE. I took a sledgehammer to the tv stand to break it down so i could get it in the car to go to the dump and cleaned up the side of the garage to make my pathway to the backyard (or at least it get ready for another motivational day)
The girls are doing well and played relatively well together all day. Lorelei is getting very frustrated that she can't communicate with us. Her shrieking is quite loud, but i'm actually very proud of her for picking up a few signs in sign language to add to the basic words she has mastered already.
All done
All gone
Mommy
Daddy
and something related to Sissy
kitty
ack ack (the sound a duck makes)
Ainslea kept herself busy with crafts and tv with her sister, which is something im very proud of her for. She would rather watch PBS with Lorelei than her nickelodeon channel. She was also very helpful and caring towards me today. Which is a complete 180 from when she and Travis would gang up on me. She is somewhat aware of the difficulties that lie ahead, but on the flip side when she made a halloween craft she said, "we can hang it in the mud room so when Daddy gets home he will walk right into it." Its those things that are indicating that she doesn't really get the details of this term. But talking about it and keeping our routine seems to be ok for now.
AS for me, my feet hurt from being up all day long and I'm realising that there's no one to rub my feet anymore. But otherwise its a good day.
Travis obliged me one final wish of removing the beautiful big blue truck with no seats and dented windshield from our back yard...and i found a salvage company to come and haul it away and still pay me for it!! SO it dawned on me that even though it won't add to my financial gain, they get paid by scrap metal and want parts from the vehicle, so i went through the garage and yard to retrieve all the remnants of a project that wasn't and threw them all in the back of the truck WOOOHOOOO no more bumpers, no more fallen down carport in the back yard, no more wires and scrap metal that mice will find a home in this winter YIPPEE. I took a sledgehammer to the tv stand to break it down so i could get it in the car to go to the dump and cleaned up the side of the garage to make my pathway to the backyard (or at least it get ready for another motivational day)
The girls are doing well and played relatively well together all day. Lorelei is getting very frustrated that she can't communicate with us. Her shrieking is quite loud, but i'm actually very proud of her for picking up a few signs in sign language to add to the basic words she has mastered already.
All done
All gone
Mommy
Daddy
and something related to Sissy
kitty
ack ack (the sound a duck makes)
Ainslea kept herself busy with crafts and tv with her sister, which is something im very proud of her for. She would rather watch PBS with Lorelei than her nickelodeon channel. She was also very helpful and caring towards me today. Which is a complete 180 from when she and Travis would gang up on me. She is somewhat aware of the difficulties that lie ahead, but on the flip side when she made a halloween craft she said, "we can hang it in the mud room so when Daddy gets home he will walk right into it." Its those things that are indicating that she doesn't really get the details of this term. But talking about it and keeping our routine seems to be ok for now.
AS for me, my feet hurt from being up all day long and I'm realising that there's no one to rub my feet anymore. But otherwise its a good day.
Day 1
October 25, 2008
8:45am we said our goodbyes an hour earlier than expected, darn hotel for being so close by!!! Nothing left to do but pick up a few supplies in tax free NH and head home in time for Ainslea to have soccer
11:30am get home and no sooner am I unloading the car trying to start fresh with a new clean car and walk in to a HUGE puddle of spilt milk!!! Half of the nearly full gallon of milk was now making its way through my kitchen floor.....so much for cleaning the bloody car...time to mop the kitchen floor. Only this was no ordinary mopping...under the fridge and under the stove it went in every possible crevice possible. So instead of putting away everything from the car, it was time to do my fall cleaning of the kitchen apparently!!Pulled out the fridge from the wall, and the stove out of the nook and cleaned all the walls and backsplash behind the stove!!! AWESOME!
Ainslea scored a goal during the game. Her friend Olivia from school is also on our team and we met her dad after the game. Turns out he is the new director of the Rec Dept and he told us our Scarecrow won Honorable Mention in the Sandwich Scarecrow Contest. Cool. I'll post a picture later. Turns out we won a gift certificate for breakfast at Marshland Too so I will finally get to try them out.
6:00pm we got our Halloween costumes all put together and headed up to the base for a costume contest and haunted house. Not all that exciting, Lorelei fell asleep between our house and the base. By the time we got home, I was spent emotionally and physically! COuldn't even finish one beer!!!
8:45am we said our goodbyes an hour earlier than expected, darn hotel for being so close by!!! Nothing left to do but pick up a few supplies in tax free NH and head home in time for Ainslea to have soccer
11:30am get home and no sooner am I unloading the car trying to start fresh with a new clean car and walk in to a HUGE puddle of spilt milk!!! Half of the nearly full gallon of milk was now making its way through my kitchen floor.....so much for cleaning the bloody car...time to mop the kitchen floor. Only this was no ordinary mopping...under the fridge and under the stove it went in every possible crevice possible. So instead of putting away everything from the car, it was time to do my fall cleaning of the kitchen apparently!!Pulled out the fridge from the wall, and the stove out of the nook and cleaned all the walls and backsplash behind the stove!!! AWESOME!
Ainslea scored a goal during the game. Her friend Olivia from school is also on our team and we met her dad after the game. Turns out he is the new director of the Rec Dept and he told us our Scarecrow won Honorable Mention in the Sandwich Scarecrow Contest. Cool. I'll post a picture later. Turns out we won a gift certificate for breakfast at Marshland Too so I will finally get to try them out.
6:00pm we got our Halloween costumes all put together and headed up to the base for a costume contest and haunted house. Not all that exciting, Lorelei fell asleep between our house and the base. By the time we got home, I was spent emotionally and physically! COuldn't even finish one beer!!!
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