I don’t know

Filed Under Complaining, Second Pregnancy, Two and a half years old | 3 Comments

I am seriously stressed right now. I have so much to do around the house. Get the baby’s room ready, clean, ship Amazon orders, clean my office, move all my Avon stuff into my new office downstairs, set up playroom in downstairs family room area, clean bedroom, clean bathroom and reorganize. I am freaking out a little bit. Tonight I was supposed to be relaxing and watching Cold Case which is only one of my FAVORITE shows when guess what? We get almost to the end and the tape stops. Yes we still use a VCR, we can’t get U-ver$e at our house because AT&T sucks. Apparently the show started late tonight and SOMEONE didn’t allow for that while taping. So I was extremely pissed and I still am. Good old pregnancy hormones, someone better get out of my way. I feel like hitting something. I’m glad I’m not a man or I would be punching the wall.

Oh but did you know that when you are in a bad mood and a cute little someone starts dancing in their raincoat while watching their reflection in the oven glass it almost makes it all better?

What’s not for dinner

Filed Under Complaining, Cooking/Baking | 3 Comments

Well let’s see… I have forgotten to thaw any chicken, hamburger, pork chops, etc. Our pantry and refrigerator are both fairly empty. Our grill is out of gas or whatever it uses (HONEY- PLEASE REMEMBER TO GO GET MORE! THIS IS NOT A GIRL JOB!) I wish I could enter “spices and dry pasta and frozen meat and lunch meat and canned veggies” into allrecipes.com and have them actually suggest a dinner to make. That’s about what I have to work with. So barring a creative miracle, we’re having spaghetti and canned peas and garlic bread. Not too horrible but I’m pretty sure we had that last week too…

Allergy Meds

Filed Under Allergies, Complaining, Sleep, Two Years Old | 3 Comments

Bailey started on Cl@ritin last night after a visit to the pediatrician. We have had quite a few sleepless nights and crabby days (both of us) lately. Jonathon suggested that I sleep more at night… Um, so do I just let her cough and cry because obviously I am getting up to take care of her and not just play minesweeper on the computer at 2 a.m.

Anyway I have been tired lately and busy trying to get ready for the cruise. I hope to get some pictures uploaded soon from a wedding last weekend.

Wordless Wednesday- Not so wordless outings

Filed Under Complaining, Outings, St. Louis, Two Years Old | 3 Comments

A few pictures from our outings last week- first the Magic House (LOOK at Bailey with her hands in the sand! She is doing so much better since she started her O.T.)!! And then at the Botanical Gardens.

Magic House playdate with Addison

Botanical Gardens- it was so hot… it got a lot more humid than I expected and what was supposed to be an overcast day turned into a muggy, sweaty day. I don’t do summer in St. Louis, I melt when it gets above about 85. Just ask anyone who knows me IRL, I quit coming to playdates last year for the month of August, unless they were at the pool. I am thinking this year we might potty train in August since we won’t leave the house!

But we still had fun with our friends- Ella, Kaitlynn, and Brady (whose mom just started selling Avon too!)

Crummy Day

Filed Under Complaining, Twenty-One Months | 3 Comments

Today has been a bummer. I spent this morning working at church (okay, I got to enjoy the company of my friend Casey, but still not a thrilling Saturday morning). I left early for a dentist appt, only to find out the dentist DOESN”T TAKE MY INSURANCE despite the fact that they are listed on my insurance website and assured me they did when I made the appointment. So now I have to find another new dentist and wait a month or two to get worked in. It’s just for a cleaning, but still. Oh and did I mention one of our cars needs to be fixed? We think it’s just the radiator hose leaking but we need to get it into the shop. Nobody would look at it today because it’s a Saturday. AND I wanted to take Bailey to see Elmo Live today but didn’t because I had already committed to those other things. So I have been bumming about that. I wish I had just taken her.

Also she might lose a lung at any moment the way she is coughing. Minimal clear snot, no other symptoms. Completely dry cough. I am chalking it up to allergies again because of the recent warmer weather. But we will see, if it gets worse it’s back to the doctor’s office to spend another copay being told she’s JUST FINE. And I am tired. She coughs all night in her sleep. She sleeps, I don’t. But I just rocked her to sleep for nap. She was so tired that she actually let me. It was awesome.

On the Mend

Filed Under Clothes, Complaining, Nineteen Months, Sick | 6 Comments

This weekend after we got back from the wedding, Bailey kept getting sicker. She has just been coughing and coughing. I keep hearing about how pertussis (whooping cough) is going around again. It makes me really thankful that I got her vaccinated for it. Especially since she is around other kids ALL THE TIME and lots of those kids have preschool or school age siblings. Not to mention that I work in my church nursery every week, and Jonathon works at a school. So there is no telling what we come into contact with. I also can’t help but think that maybe if everyone got their kids vaccinated, we wouldn’t be having this outbreak again. I am on the fence about delaying vaccinations for our next child but I can’t imagine just skipping them altogether.

On Sunday we stayed home from church since she couldn’t go to the nursery, and we all needed some rest! It was nice to have a morning at home all together, since we were so busy with the wedding on Saturday. You can especially tell in this first picture that Bailey wasn’t feeling well.

And I just had to share this one because I thought this was weird. Bailey really needed some new undershirts (a.k.a. onesies) to wear under her sweaters and shirts that don’t tuck in. I figured onesies are the best because they stay down and she isn’t really pottying anyway. It is SO stinking hard to find onesies in her size. Gerber makes them in 18 and 24 months but they look like they might fit a Cabbage Patch doll. I don’t know why their stuff has to run so small. I finally found some Carter’s ones that looked like they might fit all the way around her middle. I should also add that it was $24 for a 5-pack, so I WISH the Gerber ones fit!!! They are sooo much cheaper. Anyway, tonight after her bath, I put on one of the new shirts for under her jammies. Why is it so long? What 24 month old is an entire foot longer in the torso than Bailey?

By the way, the greasy look is Aquaphor lotion on her face. She gets completely covered in it at night so her cheeks don’t get chapped!

When we were passing the Walmart in Rolla by the way, we stopped to get Benadryl for B. There was a display of their alli diet pill thing. I have actually heard some decent reviews about that stuff but of course from companies or “sources” and not real people. Have you heard anything?

Internet was down

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We had a big fiasco with AT&T this weekend… they were going to hook up our fiber optic service and then decided they couldn’t because we were over 2000 feet away, although they will sell the service as long as you are within 3000 feet… maybe they should come out and check first before signing you up for the service! So then they had to take down our DSL only to find out that they couldn’t set up the new thing. Jonathon had to rig up wireless for us, but it was so painfully slow that I couldn’t even stand getting on the computer except to get directions for a baby shower and to check my email, to check on something I was trying to find on Amazon books (but it took too long to load) and the weather once.

Playing Catch-up

Filed Under Avon, Blogging, Complaining | 3 Comments

I am still trying to get caught up on things from while we were out of town. And how is that our house got really messy again in just five days? And WHY am I so tired all the time? I just sat down to write a nice lengthy blog post and to share some pictures but I think if I sit here for more than a minute I am going to fall asleep. I should also be looking at business resumes to find a sample for Jonathan to follow when he updates his. And I should be replying to about forty emails sitting in my in box… So instead I’m going to go drink a Diet Cherry Coke and get my Avon brochures ready. Which is NOT my favorite thing to do.

Another In-law rant

Filed Under Complaining, In-Laws, Travel | 5 Comments

So you know how my in-laws drive me absolutely up the freaking wall. Well the latest is that they decided we are NOT going to stay at their timeshare in Branson over Thanksgiving. They wanted to get a one bedroom condo for the five of us and told us that if we wanted our own bedroom we could pay extra, otherwise their was a pull out couch. Right. (By the way, if you don’t know a whole lot about how timeshares really work, read that Wikipedia link- it’s actually really interesting!)

So then they decided that they would come here over Christmas. I told them they could not come actually ON Christmas Eve or Christmas day because we were spending those with my family this year (we alternate years). They said they were going to stay at our house and Jonathon’s brother was coming too. Well we live in a split level and there isn’t really a “guest bedroom” since we made the fourth bedroom into Jonathon’s office, and the third bedroom is my office/Avon sorting area. I told them that was too many people to sleep out in our living room and would just not work well with Bailey playing in the living room and with her sleep schedule and whatnot. So they pouted and decided they weren’t coming.

Then Jonathon’s brother was trying to convince them to look at priceline.com or one of those other travel sites. There are only like a million websites to compare hotel costs and seriously if you want to go cheap, there’s a Days Inn and a Motel 6 about twenty minutes from here. They leave the light on. The only thing I told them was, if they use one of these services to make sure to use one where you know what hotel you will be staying in before you make the final reservation. I would be nervous just choosing a category of hotels and then letting them decide based on the price I submitted. Anyway, apparently that was not a good solution for them either.

The latest? They are going to buy a pop up camper so that they can save money when they travel. You know, because it’s always best to spend over $10,000 in order to save money on hotels. When you travel twice a year. And have already purchased a timeshare that was NEVER used. Stay tuned to find out what will actually happen if or when they visit.

Crabby Tooth Girl Pics and Other Randomness

Filed Under Complaining, Fourteen Months, Second Pregnancy, Teething | 7 Comments

Now that I say Bailey’s crabby teething spell is over, she is having a random crabby day today. Hopefully once she wakes up from her morning nap, she will be in a better mood. Not to mention that I just started my period (which I am sure you all want to know, but that means I’m not pregnant!) and I am crampy and feel blah. Drinking a Diet Coke helped the situation a little bit, as did a flour tortilla rolled up with butter and sugar and cinnamon in it. If you haven’t tried it, you should. It sounds nasty but it’s so, so good.

By the way, if we got pregnant this month, our kids would officially be two years apart. Not that we have any plans for that, but we always said we would NOT want them any closer than two years. I know people do it, but I also know my child and I know myself. And being pregnant again doesn’t sound at all appealing to me yet. I’m sure that someday it will sound fun and exciting and I really will want a new baby. For now, Bailey is enough. We want more than one child eventually, but not now. So stop speculating on when I am going to get pregnant, those of you who have been asking since Bailey turned one!

Here are some pics I took the other day while Bailey was being Crabby Tooth Girl. Doesn’t she just look pitiful?

I am also curious if anyone knows anything about authorize.net or other similar services. They set you up so that you can take credit cards as a merchant. I was wondering if I could use something like that instead of Paypal, when people buy stuff from me online like greeting cards or when I do calligraphy.

Sleepy Crabby

Filed Under Complaining, Thirteen Months | 3 Comments

I am so tired. Jonathon has been working late, so I’ve been single-mom-ing it all week. The house is a wreck, my Avon orders haven’t been delivered, and I can’t decide whether I’d rather crawl in bed or read a book and eat some cookie dough ice cream first. Oh and lots of laundry to be done, and my office to organize again. Because I have been alone with Bailey, so anytime I need to get anything done, she is in here with me.

But here is my little girl, dancing and twirling. No matter what, she makes me smile.

No Spring

Filed Under Complaining, St. Louis | 1 Comment

It went from chilly, to nothing but rain and storms for what seemed like weeks, to 90 degree, very humid weather. We really got screwed out of spring weather this year I was hoping for lots of nice days to take B to the park and the zoo and all that stuff. If you have ever been in St. Louis in the summer, you know that the humidity is so thick and just makes everything feel nasty despite the actual temperature. I hope it cools off a little after this week.

First Stride Rite shoes

Filed Under Clothes, Complaining, Shopping, Thirteen Months | 11 Comments

I decided it was time to get B her first pair of “good” shoes. Her white sandals from Tarjay kept falling off and they were starting to rub a blister on the back of her foot So we headed off to L@urie’s Sh0es this morning. The lady working was a total beeotch. We got the shoes, and they are cute, but I am so not sure about the fit at all. She put Bailey in a size and a half bigger than what she had been wearing, and an extra wide. They are gappy around the ankle and one fell off when I took her out of her carseat. Also I think the reason she told me she needed an extra wide is because they were out of the regular wides. Grrr so once we got home I spent time on the phone with their main office telling my tale of woe and we are going back to their main location tomorrow so they can check the fit and personally apologize to me. It would be really nice if that apology included a coupon.

I won’t get into all the details but basically while we were there the woman did not look at Bailey or speak to her and was very rushed and kind of rough with her. At a kids specialty shoe store. Great, huh? Then about a minute after I told her that I wanted a shoe she could wear all summer, she said something like, “And some people are really weird and want their kid to wear the same shoes all summer!” Thanks for making me feel like an idiot. Bad first impression, and they didn’t sign me up for their customer club thing so that was also part of my reason for calling, to get added to that.

The exciting thing? My grandma came with us and surprised me by paying for the shoes! All $42 of them… for a pair of toddler sandals… but aren’t they cute?

Ban on Chinese Food

Filed Under Complaining, Food | 4 Comments

Last time my mom went to our favorite Chinese carryout place, she felt horrible afterwards. Last night I ate their with a friend and then brought food back for Jonathon. I felt a little queasy in the evening but then I was fine. He ate his food later and was up off and on with an icky tummy. He finally threw up this morning and feels better. I’m blaming it on the food. I don’t think we will be going there again. Which sucks because it was our favorite place

There goes our stimulus check

Filed Under Complaining, Home Sweet Home, Money | 5 Comments

Want to hear something that sucks? We have termites. Not actually in our house but in wood right near the foundation, in a big colony under the driveway, and in the mulch in our flower beds. So… time for termite treatment at the low low cost of only $1000   This area (midwest) is apparently pretty bad for termites, and we live in a wooded area with lots of big old trees. The Terminix guy we had out said that was good and bad- there were lots of trees so the termites didn’t have to resort to ONLY eating houses, but also that there tend to be more termites. So. We are going to get a treatment done that lasts 12 years. They come back and check every year and as long as you pay for that visit every year, their service is guaranteed and also you are not financially responsible for any damage to your house. I talked to my dad later and he said we should check with Semo, who they use at their house. It’s a smaller company but a lot cheaper and they offer the same warranty. Terminix wanted $250 a year to keep up the warranty and Semo only charges $60 a year! Big difference. Not that you care about all this but it was just annoying to deal with.

And the other thing our check is getting spent on? A new part for our air conditioner. We were lucky and Jonathon found a guy to do it after work at his cost plus just a flat $75 for labor. Jonathon always finds nice people who want to help him. He’s just a likeable guy Seriously though this is still going to run almost $500. So now you can see that we have no stimulus check left once we’ve paid for these two things. That sucks. There goes my dreams of shopping, vacationing, pedicures, The Melting Pot…