Its been a week. Its been a very long sickly week! Laci got sick all over again when the first round of omincef didnt cure her ear infection, and then by mid week I started feeling awful! My throat was on fire, my neck was stiff, a fever....then the white blotches started to show up...STREP! UGH! So after a few days of antibiotics I am *finally* feeling better!!
We did manage to get the light fixtures in the kitchen and diningroom changed out and they look fabulous!!
I am also a new mommy...of a **tiny** 4 week old kitten that we have named "Chip". Chip is the same color...and roughly the same size....as a baby chipmunk, and I wasnt fond of Alvin, Simon, Theodore, or Dale, so we went with Chip. He was very very ill when I got him as a rescue and he was so badly covered in fleas that it took 3 baths to finally kill them all (I hope!). He is the size of my hand and just today started drinking water on his own. The last few days its been milk replacement in an eye dropper. The kids are over the moon for him, but the cats...not so much! ha! I think he will make it, but he still has a very long way to go. Brian says its the smallest kitten he has ever seen.
Other than that, today is Brian's first day out on the road after training! We are waiting to see how the review/raise goes and I pray good and fast! *fingers crossed* Christopher is in school, Laci is playing/holding/smothering the kitten and I am on my 3rd cup o'joe since I am sleepy still today. I have to get groceries later.
I am trying to make the final decision on whether or not we are going to Gatlinburg. Part of me really wants to, part of me would rather wait one more year and really have a great trip and stay in a cabin instead of a hotel. *sigh* I dont know, but I have to figure it out soon.
Hope you love the new layout and music!
XOXOX
Robin
Monday, August 31, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009
A very busy weekend...
Laci is still sick. Today it seems it has made its way through her and into her bowels...how fun! *not!* The weekend was an exhausting blur. I know that we had a garage sale on Saturday that was more trouble than it was worth. We made a whopping 65.00 and I am not dealing with listing everything on craigslist to get rid of it still. But the 65.00 did allow us to get the new light fixtures for over the kitchen table and in front of the laundry area in the kitchen. We ended up going with brushed nickle and as soon as I can make another 65.00 I will be getting the matching fan to go in the kitchen. I was up in the air about a fan as a light source in there but I have decided that it will look amazing!
Yesterday was just random running around and working in the yard. We finally got the lawn mowed and now in the evenings you can feel the cool crisp breeze that only means one thing...FALL is coming!!! I will be glad too when this heat is gone for the year! I am so over it.
Well not a lot to post today, just a blah kinda day where I am still in my pajamas b/c of taking care of Laci and just not having much to do.
Brian starts on the road in one week! That will be so nice!!!
Yesterday was just random running around and working in the yard. We finally got the lawn mowed and now in the evenings you can feel the cool crisp breeze that only means one thing...FALL is coming!!! I will be glad too when this heat is gone for the year! I am so over it.
Well not a lot to post today, just a blah kinda day where I am still in my pajamas b/c of taking care of Laci and just not having much to do.
Brian starts on the road in one week! That will be so nice!!!
Thursday, August 20, 2009
**YAWN**
So Laci is sick again. She was off 2 days ago and then the day before yesterday she threw up on herself in the carseat in line to pick up Christopher, and then yesterday she was real bad and had a fever so I took her to the doctor. After an hour and a half of getting her ears flushed out with meds and peroxide and warm water she was given some omnicef and a diagnosis of an ear infection with possible virus. She was miserable all day, and after a LONG night and some omnicef and some sweet tea she is feeling a lot better this morning. Thank Goodness! However its bad b/c today was supposed to be my first meeting with Mrs. Stark as room mom at 3pm and now I dont have a babysitter. :( I could have used Brian, but he took yesterday morning off for a few hours so I could go see Christopher run the boosterthon instead since Laci was too sick to go. I wrote her this morning to explain and I am waiting to see what we will do about it. :(
Now, for some good news...Christopher ROCKED that funrun! He ran 34 laps!!!! Thats over 2 miles!!!! He had a GREAT time and even though he only raised a small amount of pledges, he still had a blast, tried his hardest and made me so very proud!!! I will post pics soon. :)
Today will be another slow day as Laci needs to keep regaining her strength. I am hoping to finally make a nice turkey dinner tonight if my meat hasnt spoiled yet. I am still getting ready for the big yard sale on Saturday and hoping to make a couple bucks to go into new light fixtures for the kitchen and then my mom is going to take a day off soon to come spend the day with me and we are going to do the back splash tile together. :) Woot! My kitchen is going to look amazing!!! YAY!
Hope you all have a less tired day than me!
Now, for some good news...Christopher ROCKED that funrun! He ran 34 laps!!!! Thats over 2 miles!!!! He had a GREAT time and even though he only raised a small amount of pledges, he still had a blast, tried his hardest and made me so very proud!!! I will post pics soon. :)
Today will be another slow day as Laci needs to keep regaining her strength. I am hoping to finally make a nice turkey dinner tonight if my meat hasnt spoiled yet. I am still getting ready for the big yard sale on Saturday and hoping to make a couple bucks to go into new light fixtures for the kitchen and then my mom is going to take a day off soon to come spend the day with me and we are going to do the back splash tile together. :) Woot! My kitchen is going to look amazing!!! YAY!
Hope you all have a less tired day than me!
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Monday, August 17, 2009
Wow...
Not even sure where to start I have been off here so long now! Last week was pretty busy. We spent Friday morning at a huge bi-annual consignment sale since Brian took the day off to spend time with us. We got every bit of Laci's fall/winter wardrobe done (even a coat!) for a little under 100.00! Thats crazy! And this sale is great! Its all very gently used great name brand stuff! (Gap, Polo, OldNavy, Green Dog, ect) She is all set! As usual they didnt have a ton in Christopher's size, but we expected that. The rest of Friday and Saturday was spent sorting, retrieving, re-packing, and emptying out our storage building since we are staying and need to cut the bills down some. We have a huge pile that will be going up for sale at a Garage sale we are having on Saturday of this upcoming weekend!
Christopher did great in school again and was the first in his class to bring home Ellie the elephant to write about her in the class journal. He is pretty stoked that he is a "star student" and is always on Green or Blue in his class for behavior every day!
We moved Laci's kitchen to her bedroom finally and she now has a "real" room with more to do in there besides sleep and watch TV.
Yesterday I had lunch at Bahama Breeze with Joey and we went over some college stuff and he is doing so great and I am helping him prepare for taking his ACT and trying to set up a college tour of KSU for this fall. He is so good and I am always so proud of him. After lunch Brian met me at the big Halloween store that has already opened and then aroudn garden ridge and then it was grocery shopping, dinner, baths, and bedtime!!
I am pretty tired today after such a busy weekend and really wanting to chill out as much as possible this week! Wednesday is Christopher's FunRun at school. He is very very excited to be raising money for his school and I am hoping that he gets a few more pledges before the run! So far he has raised 110.00, but thats pretty good. He is really excited either way. :)
Well anyhow, I have to get going on my day and hope everyone has a nice Monday!
xoxo
Christopher did great in school again and was the first in his class to bring home Ellie the elephant to write about her in the class journal. He is pretty stoked that he is a "star student" and is always on Green or Blue in his class for behavior every day!
We moved Laci's kitchen to her bedroom finally and she now has a "real" room with more to do in there besides sleep and watch TV.
Yesterday I had lunch at Bahama Breeze with Joey and we went over some college stuff and he is doing so great and I am helping him prepare for taking his ACT and trying to set up a college tour of KSU for this fall. He is so good and I am always so proud of him. After lunch Brian met me at the big Halloween store that has already opened and then aroudn garden ridge and then it was grocery shopping, dinner, baths, and bedtime!!
I am pretty tired today after such a busy weekend and really wanting to chill out as much as possible this week! Wednesday is Christopher's FunRun at school. He is very very excited to be raising money for his school and I am hoping that he gets a few more pledges before the run! So far he has raised 110.00, but thats pretty good. He is really excited either way. :)
Well anyhow, I have to get going on my day and hope everyone has a nice Monday!
xoxo
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Tuesday....
Brian came home on friday! I was so excited! I had the nervous jitters all the way to the airport! The kids both went with me and he was actually able to get on standby and get a 1:18 flight instead of 6 something at night! So we were home nice and early! The kids were so excited to see him! They were really very sad without him and Laci wanted to be in his arms and didnt come out til bedtime! ha!! I was so happy to see him, I got all teary in the parking garage as we left recalling how very sad I had been 2 weeks prior. Me and Brian are on cloud 9 with one another!
Christopher did great with his first week in school, and Mrs Stark tells me he is one of her star students! He has a great time and loves all of it! Yesterday was a big pep-rally for the new Boosterthin Fun Run that they are doing to raise money for the school. He has to raise pledges this week and then next wednesday they all go out on the field and have a big party and run laps. There are balloons and bubbles, gatorade and water, and just tons of fun for everyone! He is super excited and loved the pep rally! He has already gotten some pledges! :) I am glad he has an instant desire to excell in school! Makes me so proud! Then yesterday I was named ROOM MOM!!! I am *beyond* thrilled as this has been a dream of mine forever!!And its also not easy at all to get that in this school, since so many teachers live in the big neightborhood across the street and are friends with a lot of moms already, so when a "newbie" like me comes in wanting to be room mom I have heard its almost impossible to get! But I got it!!!! WOOT!!!! :D.
Today I am organizing the kids packed clothes and what not as we are gearing up to move storage buildings in the next 2 weeks. So I have to go through EVERYTHING! Ick! Big huge job!! :P
I hope everyone has a terrific tuesday!
Much love
Mama P :) ♥
Christopher did great with his first week in school, and Mrs Stark tells me he is one of her star students! He has a great time and loves all of it! Yesterday was a big pep-rally for the new Boosterthin Fun Run that they are doing to raise money for the school. He has to raise pledges this week and then next wednesday they all go out on the field and have a big party and run laps. There are balloons and bubbles, gatorade and water, and just tons of fun for everyone! He is super excited and loved the pep rally! He has already gotten some pledges! :) I am glad he has an instant desire to excell in school! Makes me so proud! Then yesterday I was named ROOM MOM!!! I am *beyond* thrilled as this has been a dream of mine forever!!And its also not easy at all to get that in this school, since so many teachers live in the big neightborhood across the street and are friends with a lot of moms already, so when a "newbie" like me comes in wanting to be room mom I have heard its almost impossible to get! But I got it!!!! WOOT!!!! :D.
Today I am organizing the kids packed clothes and what not as we are gearing up to move storage buildings in the next 2 weeks. So I have to go through EVERYTHING! Ick! Big huge job!! :P
I hope everyone has a terrific tuesday!
Much love
Mama P :) ♥
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Tomorrow, Tomorrow...
My hubby is HOME TOMORROW!!!!!! YAY!!!!!
I am still amazed that its been 11 days now (12 if you count all sunday afternoon/night alone too) and now, tonight is the last night I am sleeping alone! (well...without Brian at least, I have had laci and 2 cats and at times Christopher in bed every night, LOL). I miss him so bad and I am so excited to see him tomorrow night!! :)
Today I am cleaning as always, doing laundry, and trying to get organized some more. Laci is being fantastic and Christopher is at school. I am almost 100% better now and only a bit stuffy (or runny depending on what I am doing) at times. I am so glad I got better and that the kids did too. Christopher still has a bit of a cough but its not too bad.
The sleep thing is great with the kids too! Topher is so tired from getting up so early and having such a big day at school that he and Laci are both in bed at 8:15 every night. I lay one down and then the other and I am usually done by 8:45 and free for the night. It is quite relaxing actually. And with both going to get so early, they both get up with no fussing in the morning and I have us on a perfect schedual every morning. :)
Christopher is doing so good in school. He walked in today by himself for the first time and I couldnt be more proud of him! His gym coach walked him in today. :) He is loving school and all that they do. It is already becoming the magical experience that only Elementary school can be too. Monday they had music class and there was balloon instruments to play first then real ones! He played the guitar of course! Ha! And then yesterday they read a book about a raccoon, and had to track footprints through the school. They led to the classroom where they found the raccoon had escaped back into the book, but left them chocolate chip cookies for their hard work! *love!!* Oh how wonderful!! :) I am so happy for him! I know he is going to just bloom so much this year! :)
Well, I am off to get upstairs finished and laundry put away (yuck!) and start getting ready for my husband to come home!!!!! YAY!!!
Hope you all (you know the millions of loyal readers I have, ha ha) have a fabulous day!
XOXO
Robin
I am still amazed that its been 11 days now (12 if you count all sunday afternoon/night alone too) and now, tonight is the last night I am sleeping alone! (well...without Brian at least, I have had laci and 2 cats and at times Christopher in bed every night, LOL). I miss him so bad and I am so excited to see him tomorrow night!! :)
Today I am cleaning as always, doing laundry, and trying to get organized some more. Laci is being fantastic and Christopher is at school. I am almost 100% better now and only a bit stuffy (or runny depending on what I am doing) at times. I am so glad I got better and that the kids did too. Christopher still has a bit of a cough but its not too bad.
The sleep thing is great with the kids too! Topher is so tired from getting up so early and having such a big day at school that he and Laci are both in bed at 8:15 every night. I lay one down and then the other and I am usually done by 8:45 and free for the night. It is quite relaxing actually. And with both going to get so early, they both get up with no fussing in the morning and I have us on a perfect schedual every morning. :)
Christopher is doing so good in school. He walked in today by himself for the first time and I couldnt be more proud of him! His gym coach walked him in today. :) He is loving school and all that they do. It is already becoming the magical experience that only Elementary school can be too. Monday they had music class and there was balloon instruments to play first then real ones! He played the guitar of course! Ha! And then yesterday they read a book about a raccoon, and had to track footprints through the school. They led to the classroom where they found the raccoon had escaped back into the book, but left them chocolate chip cookies for their hard work! *love!!* Oh how wonderful!! :) I am so happy for him! I know he is going to just bloom so much this year! :)
Well, I am off to get upstairs finished and laundry put away (yuck!) and start getting ready for my husband to come home!!!!! YAY!!!
Hope you all (you know the millions of loyal readers I have, ha ha) have a fabulous day!
XOXO
Robin
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
He loves it!
Christopher did so well at his first day of school. My mom came over first thing in the morning and we took him (with Laci in tow) to school. We got there with plenty of time and even though I felt like crapola still and the humidity and heat was awful, it was so sweet to watch my baby boy head into his big boy school. :) He wore a nice South Pole shirt, and his white khaki shorts and his new cop shoes. He looked so handsome! I didn't cry when I dropped him off. I had tears sting a bit, but that was it. But when I picked him up, and he ran towards me waving at us from the sidewalk while walking with one of the teachers, I swelled with so much pride so fast that the tears welled and flowed! :) My baby boy is growing up!!
He came home all excited for another day of it today and had a great afternoon and was up and ready to go this morning! Today he wore his G.I Joe shirt and camo shorts and was feeling pretty cool. I dropped him off in his class faster this morning and was so proud of him again. :) He is so awesome!
Laci is doing well with the quiet days alone with mommy. Today we have cleaned all the rooms again and changed all the beds in the house. Now we are all ready to go get Bubba in an hour or so and I still have a ton to do today!
Hope you all have a fabulous day!
He came home all excited for another day of it today and had a great afternoon and was up and ready to go this morning! Today he wore his G.I Joe shirt and camo shorts and was feeling pretty cool. I dropped him off in his class faster this morning and was so proud of him again. :) He is so awesome!
Laci is doing well with the quiet days alone with mommy. Today we have cleaned all the rooms again and changed all the beds in the house. Now we are all ready to go get Bubba in an hour or so and I still have a ton to do today!
Hope you all have a fabulous day!
Monday, August 3, 2009
Saturday, August 1, 2009
August!
Another month in the record books...
Its been probably the longest week of my life so far and I still have 6 1/2 days to go! I have not been this sad in a long long time and I havent felt this lonely in years. I cannot believe how slow life is when Brian is away.
The week has been full of cleaning and trying to "stay on top of things". The kids have been miserably couped up in the house because we have had rain every single day since Brian left..which makes perfect sense really. What makes no sense is why my body waited until he left to get sick. I have been sick with a sinus infection since monday afternoon! One day!!! I am still sick and I may be a *slight* bit better today than I was on tuesday...but not much.
Being sick didn't stop me from renting a rug doctor to steam clean my whole house on tuesday and wednesday though. My carpets look a thousand times better! (my old steam cleaner broke a few months ago) The dog has me nuts and is the reason I have been up since 6am on a saturday morning sick when I should be sleeping like my kids!
On a happy note, yesterday was OPEN HOUSE! I cannot believe my little man is starting kindergarten in less than 2 days now! crazy!! His teacher's name is Ms. Stark. She is super sweet and very young and pretty and Christopher is already very comfortable with her and he was playing with his friends already in class while I filled out paperwork yesterday. He is so ready for school on Monday and I know he will do great because he is so excited! No tears from him I am sure! :) He loves his class and his school and is super ready for Monday! I was sad doing it alone but it was good. I signed up for room mom and a room volunteer (room mom is a coveted position that usually goes to someone the teacher knows, not just an everyday shmoe like yours truly), I also signed up for the PTA and bought Christopher his shirt and a cute red towel with an emroidered lion that says LES under it. (liberty elementary school) He is very excited for the fact that they are the Liberty Lions and he was happy to put my cute cicle magnet on the back of my car showing that we indeed are Lions in this house. :)
Today I am taking the kids to the mall, and to the Dolly Madison for some snacks. Then this afternoon its haircut time. Tonight we will label all his stuff and tomorrow we will go to the store and let him pick healthy snacks for afternoon snack time and lunch stuff and drinks. :) I am still in awe that my baby is heading off to Kindergarten...it blows my mind. I am sure I will have lots of my own tears, but I will try to wait til I am alone before letting them flow. I have a lot to do and I guess now that Laci is finally up I should get to it all.
Hope you all have a fabulous start to this last month of summer!
Robin
Its been probably the longest week of my life so far and I still have 6 1/2 days to go! I have not been this sad in a long long time and I havent felt this lonely in years. I cannot believe how slow life is when Brian is away.
The week has been full of cleaning and trying to "stay on top of things". The kids have been miserably couped up in the house because we have had rain every single day since Brian left..which makes perfect sense really. What makes no sense is why my body waited until he left to get sick. I have been sick with a sinus infection since monday afternoon! One day!!! I am still sick and I may be a *slight* bit better today than I was on tuesday...but not much.
Being sick didn't stop me from renting a rug doctor to steam clean my whole house on tuesday and wednesday though. My carpets look a thousand times better! (my old steam cleaner broke a few months ago) The dog has me nuts and is the reason I have been up since 6am on a saturday morning sick when I should be sleeping like my kids!
On a happy note, yesterday was OPEN HOUSE! I cannot believe my little man is starting kindergarten in less than 2 days now! crazy!! His teacher's name is Ms. Stark. She is super sweet and very young and pretty and Christopher is already very comfortable with her and he was playing with his friends already in class while I filled out paperwork yesterday. He is so ready for school on Monday and I know he will do great because he is so excited! No tears from him I am sure! :) He loves his class and his school and is super ready for Monday! I was sad doing it alone but it was good. I signed up for room mom and a room volunteer (room mom is a coveted position that usually goes to someone the teacher knows, not just an everyday shmoe like yours truly), I also signed up for the PTA and bought Christopher his shirt and a cute red towel with an emroidered lion that says LES under it. (liberty elementary school) He is very excited for the fact that they are the Liberty Lions and he was happy to put my cute cicle magnet on the back of my car showing that we indeed are Lions in this house. :)
Today I am taking the kids to the mall, and to the Dolly Madison for some snacks. Then this afternoon its haircut time. Tonight we will label all his stuff and tomorrow we will go to the store and let him pick healthy snacks for afternoon snack time and lunch stuff and drinks. :) I am still in awe that my baby is heading off to Kindergarten...it blows my mind. I am sure I will have lots of my own tears, but I will try to wait til I am alone before letting them flow. I have a lot to do and I guess now that Laci is finally up I should get to it all.
Hope you all have a fabulous start to this last month of summer!
Robin
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