Today, we did a dress rehearsal of Travis taking the kids to school and picking them up. I did a ride along to drop them off and sat in the car while he brought them in. That went great! Glad I didn't have to go in b/c I didn't even really change out of my PJ's...well, I did put a bra on b/c I didn't want to be all national geographic just incase I had to make an appearance!
Then, while I went on lunch date with a friend of mine, Travis did the pick up thing. Olivia was not agreeable with it...at...all. She cried 90% of the time! Travis called me to speak to her and I tried to help, but I don't think it did. She just wanted to see me ASAP!
Once I was home, I put them down for naps and Olivia has YET to go to sleep. Either she's missed the window of napping opportunity OR she is afraid I will leave while she's not looking. Sheesh.
On that note, I'm thinking that Travis needs to pick them up for the rest of the week and all of next week. That way she'll be okay once I'm at work...I hope. I guess I'll be home most of the days, but try to not be for some of them. Maybe I'll just go park my car on the other side of the neighborhood and coach him via text messages.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Monday, September 14, 2009
Travis is such a WHORE!
Not really, but I thought that was a good way to start blogging!
His blog is really cracking me up. I really think he's going to be famous one day. If not for his mad sewing and clothing design skills, then just for his awesome sense of humor.
Don't most comedians come to be b/c of some childhood trama?! See Logan's "abuse" has come in handy! Fo' real, show me a set of bro's who don't wish bodily harm and ill on each other!?! If two straight brothers are mean and cruel to each other, wouldn't you expect even meaner and crueler things from two brothers who are gay?!? They secretly love each other a lot. I know it. They know it. We just can't acknowledge that they know that I know. Love ya, boys!
His blog is really cracking me up. I really think he's going to be famous one day. If not for his mad sewing and clothing design skills, then just for his awesome sense of humor.
Don't most comedians come to be b/c of some childhood trama?! See Logan's "abuse" has come in handy! Fo' real, show me a set of bro's who don't wish bodily harm and ill on each other!?! If two straight brothers are mean and cruel to each other, wouldn't you expect even meaner and crueler things from two brothers who are gay?!? They secretly love each other a lot. I know it. They know it. We just can't acknowledge that they know that I know. Love ya, boys!
Sunday, September 13, 2009
First Official Football Sunday
I love Sundays during football season! Usually (today wasn't normal b/c I felt like C-RAP) I wake up with an extra skip in my step because I know the day will be filled with YUMMY food! Football is just background noise for the day!
Sunday is Darren's day to sleep in while I just move my lazy butt to the couch and keep the kids as quiet as I can while falling in and out of sleep until he FINALLY wakes up. I then go back to bed while he heads to Walmart to buy the ingredients for the YUMMY concoctions he will prepare for the day! It's the second wake up that I start skipping....not the first wake up.
Today we had toasted french bread sandwhiches with melted provolone, swiss, pepporoni, salami, ham and mayo...oh...and olive salad which I DETEST. He forgot that fact, but I enjoyed the sandwhich inspite of that disgusting mess! With a side of chips and a pickle, I was in food heaven!
Dinner wasn't as exciting except for the brined/grilled chicken. BUT DESSERT...oh...DESSERT...how I love thee! Darren made brownies that topped with vanilla mint chocolate chip ice cream.
No wonder I've gained SO much weight since meeting this man! Yea, I know I had two babies too, but the weight gain started WAY before that. That's how he would convince me to see him when I needed to study for classes during my last semester of school. He enticed me with a delicious homemade meal! EVIL...but successful.
Sunday is Darren's day to sleep in while I just move my lazy butt to the couch and keep the kids as quiet as I can while falling in and out of sleep until he FINALLY wakes up. I then go back to bed while he heads to Walmart to buy the ingredients for the YUMMY concoctions he will prepare for the day! It's the second wake up that I start skipping....not the first wake up.
Today we had toasted french bread sandwhiches with melted provolone, swiss, pepporoni, salami, ham and mayo...oh...and olive salad which I DETEST. He forgot that fact, but I enjoyed the sandwhich inspite of that disgusting mess! With a side of chips and a pickle, I was in food heaven!
Dinner wasn't as exciting except for the brined/grilled chicken. BUT DESSERT...oh...DESSERT...how I love thee! Darren made brownies that topped with vanilla mint chocolate chip ice cream.
No wonder I've gained SO much weight since meeting this man! Yea, I know I had two babies too, but the weight gain started WAY before that. That's how he would convince me to see him when I needed to study for classes during my last semester of school. He enticed me with a delicious homemade meal! EVIL...but successful.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Lazy Saturday!
Okay, SO..MAYBE that first post was kind of a downer! I was just setting the stage for what is usually a chaotic mess of WTF's. For example: Poo smeared on Jacob's carpet, Olivia crying for the 100th time b/c she can't find a beloved toy that she just laid on the couch BEHIND HER, my kids breaking and entering into a neighbors house and getting snacks while the said neighbors were at work, and right now, Jacob is running around the backyard with no bottoms on telling me he's going to be Cinderella for Halloween!! Ummm...NO!
But today has been a pretty nice day. It's overcast so we're sitting outside enjoying the non-heat and the lite drizzle. The kids jumped on the trampoline for almost an hour by themselves! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to see them play together. The other day I caught them giving each other "SNACKS" which is a fist bump and the words "SNACKS!" SUPER CUTE! Almost brought tears to my eyes b/c it reminded me of how much I miss the person who started that!! : )
Now, Travis (aka The Manny) and I are playing on the net outside while Darren enjoys a cigar and drinks some unknown adult beverage. Amber (aka The Dog) is picking up sticks and chewing each one into a million pieces. Surely, she'll be puking all over the place later. I'll try arrange to "not notice" when that happens so my hubby can take care of that!
The kids are preparing to watch what Jacob calls "Star Whores" for the third time. Seems to me a movie probably exists called "Star Whores", but I vow to never know for sure!
What a nice day and it's 45 minutes until the kids bedtime! The best time of the day for all moms and dads everywhere and, in our case, Mannies!
But today has been a pretty nice day. It's overcast so we're sitting outside enjoying the non-heat and the lite drizzle. The kids jumped on the trampoline for almost an hour by themselves! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to see them play together. The other day I caught them giving each other "SNACKS" which is a fist bump and the words "SNACKS!" SUPER CUTE! Almost brought tears to my eyes b/c it reminded me of how much I miss the person who started that!! : )
Now, Travis (aka The Manny) and I are playing on the net outside while Darren enjoys a cigar and drinks some unknown adult beverage. Amber (aka The Dog) is picking up sticks and chewing each one into a million pieces. Surely, she'll be puking all over the place later. I'll try arrange to "not notice" when that happens so my hubby can take care of that!
The kids are preparing to watch what Jacob calls "Star Whores" for the third time. Seems to me a movie probably exists called "Star Whores", but I vow to never know for sure!
What a nice day and it's 45 minutes until the kids bedtime! The best time of the day for all moms and dads everywhere and, in our case, Mannies!
First Post
I have no idea where to start with this!!! It's not like I don't have a million thoughts of things I'd like to share with my FB friends every half second! I guess putting my thoughts into paragraphs rather than a few sentences is a little more intimidating! YIKES!
My life up to now has been all kids, all day for almost 5 years! I thought I would last at this jig until Jacob was in Kindergaten, but I've waved the white flag two years early. I guess if I was the typical stay at home mom whose husband came home every day at about 5 pm I would be able to last two more years. BUT my husband is gone all week and comes home for the weekends. SUCKS!
I feel like I complain about this frequently, but seriously, it's a tall order of madness! I wonder if my kids are going to be scarred from the number of times I lose my cool with the constant toddler drama. Or by the fact that I'm always trying to find something other to do to escape the drama (like blogging right now).
It's a lonely job. Even with the awesome friends I have made, it's still SO lonely. Come 5 pm their husbands are usually home and they are wrapped up in their family routines.
My latest and greatest (in theory) solution has been to go back to work 2 years earlier than planned. The second part of this "great" plan was to bribe my 22 year old cousin from PA to move to what his friends call the "Dirty South". I've rationalized it every way I can. He needs money for school in NYC; I'm willing to give almost half of my new salary to him because I know he will love my children, play with my children, keep them in line; AND be company/entertainment for me most evenings. There are other rationalizations, but I can't remember them all right now.
It sounds like the "perfect plan", but I'm sure there is something I'm missing in my logic.
Ultimatley, I'm hoping in a few years I can bring my husband home from the grooling life on the road. It would be nice to be a typical family with both parents home on a weekly basis, but at this point, that's not the case.
I'm starting this blog two weeks before I return to work. It'll be interesting to see how our life changes with me back in the land of getting paid for a hard days work. I'm hoping I'll appreciate my children more and have more positive interactions with them now that I won't be constantly trying to escape them for a loooong moments peace.
My life up to now has been all kids, all day for almost 5 years! I thought I would last at this jig until Jacob was in Kindergaten, but I've waved the white flag two years early. I guess if I was the typical stay at home mom whose husband came home every day at about 5 pm I would be able to last two more years. BUT my husband is gone all week and comes home for the weekends. SUCKS!
I feel like I complain about this frequently, but seriously, it's a tall order of madness! I wonder if my kids are going to be scarred from the number of times I lose my cool with the constant toddler drama. Or by the fact that I'm always trying to find something other to do to escape the drama (like blogging right now).
It's a lonely job. Even with the awesome friends I have made, it's still SO lonely. Come 5 pm their husbands are usually home and they are wrapped up in their family routines.
My latest and greatest (in theory) solution has been to go back to work 2 years earlier than planned. The second part of this "great" plan was to bribe my 22 year old cousin from PA to move to what his friends call the "Dirty South". I've rationalized it every way I can. He needs money for school in NYC; I'm willing to give almost half of my new salary to him because I know he will love my children, play with my children, keep them in line; AND be company/entertainment for me most evenings. There are other rationalizations, but I can't remember them all right now.
It sounds like the "perfect plan", but I'm sure there is something I'm missing in my logic.
Ultimatley, I'm hoping in a few years I can bring my husband home from the grooling life on the road. It would be nice to be a typical family with both parents home on a weekly basis, but at this point, that's not the case.
I'm starting this blog two weeks before I return to work. It'll be interesting to see how our life changes with me back in the land of getting paid for a hard days work. I'm hoping I'll appreciate my children more and have more positive interactions with them now that I won't be constantly trying to escape them for a loooong moments peace.
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