No more pity party

You'll have to excuse my last post. I was having a terrible day. I guess if you can't complain on your own blog, where can ya complain, huh?



So to combat my grouchiness, here is a list of all the things I am grateful for today:



Our new van. Yes, we are officially ready for the baby to get here now that we have a van. I swore I would never drive a van, but it has so much room, has 3 rows of air conditioner vents (a must in this 100 degree+ weather) has electric doors and lots of fun little nooks and crannies to store our stuff. It's a Kia Sedona. It's black with roof racks, that we feel that jazzed it up a bit and makes it look a little more sporty.


Even though my kids didn't sleep very well last night, they both woke up so nice and sweet this morning for school. When Mason, who hadn't opened his eyes yet and was fighting waking up told me that he wanted his mommy and gave me a big hug-well, that's one of my favorite parts of being his mom. Addi and I didn't even get in a fight about her hair this am. I put it in rollers last night so it was curly and pretty. They both had a great day and love school!


I took some sweet newborn baby pictures today. Baby G is 7 weeks old and he and his parents were fabulous! I took over 400 pictures and a ton turned out sooo good. I couldn't help holding and smooching on his sweetness. I CAN'T WAIT for our baby to get here.

While I had the back drop up, I took some really cute pics of my kids. Addi was super tired and grouchy, but even that didn't stop the gorgeousness that is her!! I will post them soon.

Chris came home from work early and let me take a quick nap. He's the BEST!!!

We went to Cracker Barrell for dinner. The pancakes there are just killer!

Good friends with encouraging words!

A nice warm bath to rest my achey body in!


There, now that feels better. It's much better to be grateful then grouchy! Have a great weekend everyone!

Tired??

Do you ever just get tired? Ya, I know you do, we're parents and adults right?

But what I'm talking about is tired of not measuring up? Tired of skipping out on your laundry to take your kids somewehre fun only to find out that you have no clean underwear for tomorrow. Tired of trying to make your family your priority only to find out that your friends are mad that you haven't spent enough time with them. Tired of feeling like crap for the last 8 months-non-stop!!!!!!!!! Tired of having to explain to everyone on the planet that yes, you really are doing your best at life. Tired of having your kids rag on you because they are hungry and the pizza hasn't finished cooking. Tired of not having enough hours in the day to get everything done. Tired of not having the energy to do everything on your to do list. Tired of no matter how hard you try, you just can't make everyone happy.

I'm quite TIRED tonight!!!! Excuse my whining, I'll hopefully be happier tomorrow!

First days of school

Mason's first day of school was on Monday. He was soooo excited. He woke up at 6:00am , got himself dressed and wanted to leave right then. We all took him to school and walked him in. When I picked him up that afternoon he said that he great day and loved school!!!

Addi's first day of school was today. She was really excited too! She was only there for a 1/2 day then I got to go and have lunch with her. After that it was time to leave and she wasn't happy about that. She wanted to stay the entire day. She drew the cutest picture of herself in class with her polka dot shirt on. She is going to have a great year!!!

In other news, it's hotter than heck here! In fact today was a record hot day. Of course it would be when I'm pregnant. Whatever!!!! This is what the thermostat said in my car. 110 degrees is ridiculous! I'm moving to Alaska!

10 things I did today

I really am trying to update more often for all 2 of you that read this. :) But most of the time I don't feel like I have anything interesting enough to say. So I saw this on another blog and thought it was a good idea. Here are 10 things I did today:

-got up (and got my entire family up) before 8:00am for the first time this summer-I am so not a morning person
-took Addi to John Colemon Elementary to meet her Kindergarten teacher, Mr Baker, and be tested by him. He was concerned about her speech, but was ok when I told him that she is already in speech therapy which is actually right across the hall from his classroom. He was really impressed with her penmanship.
-we found out who Mason's first grade teacher is and went to her class to meet her-Mrs. Thomas
-took Chris to the dentist. He had to have a bunch of work done so he had to be sedated. He got done around 11:00am. It is now 8:30pm and he is still asleep. I guess he was pretty tired!
-took the kids to McDonalds for breakfast, then to Walmart to grab a few things, then to Hollywood video to get a PS2 game and DVD's for our day at home.
-did a load of laundry
-made a new peg shelf for our lower bathroom (where the kids hang their jackets and backpacks.) We've had one for a while, but there wasn't enough room to add a hook for the baby, so I made a new one. I just bought a piece of pine that is 1x6x36 and painted it red. Then I distressed it and put some coat hooks on it. The coat hooks were ugly, shiny gold, so I spray painted them with cool spray paint that made the hooks look rusty.
-I also painted an old cabinet shelf I had. It was forest green and just hiding in my closet since I don't have that color in my house any more. I gave it a few coats of read spray paint, then distressed it. I then hung it in the bathroom on the wall by the coat hook shelf. I love the way it all turned out!!!!
-after all the projects I did, my kitchen was a mess, so I loaded the dishwasher, swept, vacuumed and mopped. So much better!!!!!
-fed Chris some yogurt, pudding and applesauce.

Whew! It's been a very long day. The kids and I are now relaxing watching a Tom and Jerry movie. I'm hoping they fall asleep soon, so I can go to sleep too!

I hope everyone has a great weekend!!!

Nesting

I have been bitten by the nesting bug. In the past 2 months or so, I have been a maniac. I have:

reoganized my kitchen utensils and cleaned out the drawers, washed all the cabinets, touched up the caulking around the baseboards, touched up the paint on the baseboards, reorganized my linen closet, reorganized the closet in my bathroom, reorganized the garage twice (needs it done once more already) and gave a load of stuff to the Salavation Army, cleaned my scrapbook room, painted Addi's room then touched up the paint in her room, bought and put together a new bookcase for her room, made some artwork and sewed some trims onto her bedspread and pillowsham, painted Mason and the baby's room, painted stars on the wall for Mason and the baby's initials, rearranged their room make room for the crib, painted the dresser, sewed a crib skirt (NEVER again-what a pain) for the crib, cleaned out the kids's old clothes, cleaned and reorganized Addi's closet, put up a new shelf in Mason's closet for the baby's clothes, reorgainzed Addi's hair drawer and I'm sure there is even more because every time I put something away I decide that the cupboard, closet or drawer needs to be reorganized.

Just today I cleaned all 3 bathrooms, vaccumed, swept and mopped, dusted, did 4 loads of laundry, painted the baby's dresser, touched up the caulking and made cinnamon rolls in the Easy Bake Oven with the kids. Man I'm pooped!! I don't have any energy to do anything really, but my need to have a clean house overrides my lack of energy.

I will take pics of the kids' rooms when I get the crib mattress and get the bumpers done.

Hope everyone has a great week!