Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Happy New Year!!! 2009!
We have been oh so busy this Christmas season! Allen had quite a few days off and a good many of those days were spent shopping (and more shopping) and then finally reaping the rewards of such hard work by spending time with our families! Okay, I really enjoyed the shopping part as well. We really had a wonderful Christmas and both of the kids got such great stuff. We are so very fortunate and blessed. We have such a wonderful family, extended family included and we always manage to stay afloat. Thats all I could really ever want or ask for. We are very thankful!
Happy New Year!
Monday, December 22, 2008
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Uh Ohs!
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Now that, my friends, is a very nice and sizeable (for a toddler) gash to his eyelid. I was upstairs and I hear BOOM! and then hear Allen shouting out "OH MY GOD!!!" Now, very few things can get a reaction out of Allen like that... So I run down to see what could possibly be the problem and about that time Noah starts screaming hysterically and his entire eye is covered in blood. We had to hold him down and apply pressure to stop the bleeding which proceeded to make him more upset. It didnt turn out half as bad as I thought it would but still pretty darn bad for my
FOUR days left until Christmas, just in case anyone needing reminding!!! Allen and I still have lots of Christmas shopping left to do but he had to work today and when he got home we decided to have a semi-lazy day (Until Noah put an end to that). We were also planning to get Noah and Juliana's pictures taken on Tuesday (after putting it off for several weeks because
of them being sick) but somehow I think our plans have been changed on that one as well. I wonder how well they can edit out a black eye and his little gash . Not too well, huh? I would think they could probably do something about the cut but his eye has continued to swell a bit since taking those pictures and its turning a lovely shade of purple/black. My poor baby!! I do take these types of things with a grain of salt because whether you want them to or not, they tend to happen. It was just an unfortunate event.
Did I mention that my husband has 11 days off starting tomorrow? Did I mention that I am ridiculously happy about that (Although a little nervous about the lack of income). Allen and I have been talking lately about what our plans are for the future and what we are going to do about working, buying a house, daycare for the kids, etc... We've come up with something but I guess I'll share on that later.
Did I also mention that I am half blind? We called for an appointment with the eye doctor to have my eyes examined because the only contacts that I had left were in my eyes and they wouldnt give me anymore since it had been so long since I was last seen. Well I have a very bad habit of leaving my contacts in entirely too long (mostly because Im completely blind without them... my vision is 20/2400... no, thats not a joke) and my contact in my left eye was just killing me... so I took it out and put it in a small container which Noah later on found and emptied out all over the floor and well, I have no more contact for my left eye. Seriously, I am blind and having difficulty adjusting to not being able to see anything with one eye. Oh yeah, and about the appointment- no openings until the end of January. No insurance to pay for an appointment or contacts until I start my new job either. What to do, what to do... I feel like we've been faced with way too many "what to dos" lately.
My grammar can be terrible Im afraid, so as you're reading, please disregard my forgetfulness when it comes to apostraphies and commas, subject/verb agreement, transitions between paragraphs, etc.... I need a refresher course.
And lastly, a few more pictures of the family from yesterday and today for family members (and interested friends):
Noah and his daddy, my handsome men!Last night I was standing in the bathroom putting my makeup on before going out to Olive Garden for a friend's birthday and Noah was standing there observing. I finish up and quickly get dressed and find that Noah has decided to give the makeup a try. Really, its not quite your color Noah.
Noah and Juliana playing together. They make a pretty cute team. And they absolutely love each other.
Goodnight/Goodmorning everyone!!
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Happy Birthday to...
Kayleigh Anne Freeman
Busy, Busy, Busy...
Friday, December 12, 2008
And you know you're a parent when...
"No really Allen, look natural...."
"Okay, forget it!"
But really, it does look a lot better and I think Allen liked it. While Allen was getting his new doo, Juliana decided to get a little fussy because it was getting to be her mealtime, not to mention it was past her bedtime, so I told Allen that I was going to take her out to the car and feed her and see if she would settle down. So he hands me the keys and I stick them in my jacket pocket and walk out to the car, and pull out the keyring as Im approaching the car and then I notice...
And if you're wondering where Noah was this evening- he was home safe, tucked in his crib. He's still feeling a little under the weather so after a few stories, a little bit of The King and I, and a sippy cup of milk he was ready for bed. My poor baby... but I must say, I am loving all these hugs and kisses Ive been getting from him these days. He can really be such a sweet boy.
And I will leave this blog at that, seeing that it is nearing 5:00am... yes, AM not PM... and unlike myself, my kiddos are morning people. Goodnight/Goodmorning all!
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Ho Hum
Allen has the day off today but he ended up having to spend the first half of the day in Orangeburg and the second half at band practice... well, with a good piece of the morning here but I just dont do mornings. I spent the morning with my head covered up with a pillow trying to get just a little more sleep. Its nice to have him home and was really hoping to keep him all day but well, you cant always get what you want. They're practicing for an upcoming show at 5 points pub and I do believe I will be making that one. I need to go shopping though since my sweat pants and maternity shirts, which once served me well during my pregnancy, arent really that fabulous unless u got a little bebe under those clothes. On another note- I found some bows for Juliana. Well, I had contacted a fellow cafemom member (wonderful site for moms) a while back about having some bows made for Juliana and shes sending some for FREE so I'll remain giddy with glee until then. Yipee. And of course, I'll take pictures.
Okay, sorry my life isnt fabulous and interesting but Im happy about it because its mine. It doesnt make for a good blog but it gives me something to do in the evenings when the kids are tucked in their beds with their loveys and their nite nite music, drooling away and smacking in their sleep. I have so many pictures of Noah sleeping. A few of Juliana but the ones I have of Noah are the ones where you sneak into their room way late after they have gone to bed and snap a few. If I did that with Juliana she would wake up. Shes such a light sleeper.
Oh and yes, has anyone seen the Hallmark commercial with the little toddler, perhaps around Noah's age or a little older and the mom is trying to get him to say "Merry Christmas" into the recordable card? I'll never know because I dont have a spot for comments yet but that reminds me so much of Noah. I think I may go buy a few of those cards this year and record Noah's mumbo jumbo. Im really going to miss that in a year when he doesnt have his own little jibberish anymore. His new favorite word is "shoe"... 'Shhheeeeeew. Sheeeeeeeeeeew" as he carries around shoes and socks. His new favorite thing (for the past few days- perhaps stemming from boredum from not getting out the house) is dressing himself. Well, kind of. Today he helped put on his shirt and helped pull his pants up. Then when I wasnt looking he took them off. I told him to put them back on so he sat there on the floor and tried his darndest to put those pants back on. He finally got both feet in, stood up, and fell over. He also found one of Allen's socks in the laundry pile so he sat down on the floor and tried and tried and tried to put it on. He finally brought it to me for assistance so I put a pair of Allen's socks on him that came clear past his knees and he was a happy camper for the moment. I missed getting a picture of that. I think my obsessive compulsive picture taking stems from not having very many pictures of myself from my childhood and also because they grow up so darn fast! I didnt take near enough pictures (in my opinion) of Noah in the beginning because I didnt have my camera until he was a little older (I had another better one thanks to Clay but couldnt figure out how to use it). So I take too many pictures now, who cares, better than taking too few.
Well I'll close for now. The hubs is upstairs snoring away and I too shall join him. Remember- my big happy snoring family. Goodnight.
Update:
Decided to check on the kids before going to sleep: Noah was sound asleep, pacifier hanging out of his mouth, shirt hiked up, blanket kicked off, snoring... Pulled his shirt down, put the blanket back on him, figured he'd correct his pacifier if he wanted to and left.
Checked on Juliana and this is what I found:
Now I can pretty much guess how she peed out of her diaper but her arm was most definitely in that sleeve with her shirt pulled down when I left her. I am still trying to figure this one out. I was going to have to wake her up anyway so I snapped the picture (surprisingly, she didnt wake up).
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Case of cabin fever
I seriously dont know what to do when I go back to work... What do people do when their kids get sick and cant go to daycare for a while?! In a way, it was nice having my husband at home to take care of N when we lived in Summerville, but it was also very hard, financially. Thinking hard about the future... should I go back to work and have Hubby McHubberson stay home with the kids, should we try and make it work with 2 incomes? We're more than ready to buy a house. We're so excited about the idea. The thought of going back to work as a nurse makes my heart sink though. Its a love/hate relationship there. Its not everything that I thought that it would be. You come in for work for the day, the night shift hands you everything that they couldnt finish over night, that HAS to get finished before doctors make rounds, a nurse (or two) calls out and you're assuming a greater patient load which is unsafe, the patients complain when they have to wait 15 minutes for pain medication (when 4 other patients call for it at the same time), you work so hard you dont get a chance to sit down all day long and you dont get a lunch break, you're practically running up and down the halls giving pain medications, dressing changes, doing blood transfusions on 3 patients at once (monitoring them every 15 minutes at first), one has a tranfusion reaction, checking orders, a good bit of the patients are MRSA positive so you have to gown and glove up before going in the room, getting chewed out by some doctor or the other for another nurses mistake, getting brand spanking new patients from Recovery who have come up with their O2 sats in the 70s and low 80s before, some hollering out in pain, not getting home until 9pm... oh dear Jesus. And thats how I feel about being a nurse, in a nutshell. In SC, there are no mandated laws for nurse:patient ratios- you take what you get. Ho Hum. Ah, sorry about the rant there. But even though I loved (Absolutely loved!!) my friends and coworkers, not to mention I had the greatest boss, at the hospital I was working at before having J, I have a bad taste in my mouth about going back. And it makes me so sad to think of leaving my kids, especially J, with someone else. I just have bad visions of someone I dont know taking care of her because shes still a little
So yes, this post ended up being a little longer than I had originally planned. In fact, I was just getting on to briefly say that the kids were still sick. But the hubs is downstairs watching a CSI marathon of some sort and Im left up to my own devices. I dont like CSI. Looks like we're going to miss our playdate tomorrow with my "SC Midlands Mom's" group and the kids at funzone. *Pokes lip out* Well to end, I'll add a few pictures that I took today. Yes, I take pictures everyday...almost. Id love a better camera, and some lessons on how to use it. Im still trying to figure out what ISO means.
My little monkey, sitting up on her very own at 4 months:
My camera was too slow to actually capture the sweetness of this moment. N came over and laid his head on J's tummy and kissed her. Sweet babies:
Little man and daddy reading a book together:
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Life is like a gift, they say; Wrapped up for you everyday.
J, happy as can be:
And my sick little boy, in his cool bath with tons of distractive items:
Friday, December 5, 2008
The First blog... hopefully not the last.
We are getting ready for Christmas this year- Little man's second Christmas and Itty bit's first. This is entirely too exciting and wish we had a home of our own to decorate and start new traditions in. I'll look forward to that. We moved to Lexington after Itty bit was born to start over again (frankly, we were a little tired of Summerville and we werent even there that long. We miss it now... a little. very little. The hubs misses it more but doesnt want to go back.) Right now I'm staying home with the kids, which I know will not last as there are bills to be paid and a house to be bought but I am absolutely loving it for now! I love waking up every day and seeing my family. I worked until I was "38ish" weeks pregnant with J before being put out of work by my OB for a week and honestly, 3-4 (even 5 in the beginning) days out of the week, 13-14 hours a day, I was not there to see my son wake up in the morning and a lot of the time I wasnt there to put him to bed at night. My husband took care of all of this because he was a SAHD... Yes, a stay at home dad (Its surprising how many there are now... and this group continues to grow. I think its pretty cool). So I'd peek in on him when I got home (or if he was awake, I'd give him a bottle and put him to bed) and in the morning before I left for work, I'd cover him back up with the blanket that was then wrapped around his foot or his bear and head off. I feel like I missed a lot.
The hubs is away tonight. He's in TN doing a mini tour with the band- Hannah Miller and the Misadventures (www.myspace.com/HannahMiller). They're fabulous, truly. Unfortunatly, this tour fell right when both kids decided that it had been a while so it was time to get sick. N is getting 5 teeth (yes, 5!) at once. Two of them are sharp "eye" teeth and the other 3 are molars- Apparently, none of them are any fun. Hes also running a little fever along with those teeth but this is actually the norm for him during teeth time but this has been the worst teething experience yet. J is a whole other can of worms- shes coughing, puking, choking, running a fever, crying... Im thinking she may have bronchitis or bronchiolitis (caused by RSV). Since this is mainly caused by a virus (bronchiolitis) I had decided to wait it out a few days (since antibiotics arent effective and treatment is palliative) and Im not a biggie on getting antibiotics at the first sign of a sniffle either. Ive been suctioning, tylenol-ing, rocking, etc. Of course, my judgement is that of a newbie nurse and even though Ive been keeping a close eye on her, I'll probably be taking her to the doctor... possibly tomorrow. Or today rather, being that is nearly 2am. I should go to sleep but Im a night owl.
Sooo, well yes I think I'll try to sleep now. I was hoping to hear from the hubster about how the show went but Im assuming they're still playing. I could probably talk forever about all the mundane things that go on in my life (I love those things) but I think I'll do my blog day by day. If I even get it going at all. Atleast I made one post. Oh and yes, I dont pretend to be a great blogger. Not one bit. Goodnight all.


