My Thursday

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I feel like I need to update, but it’s going to be in little bullets and bits and pieces.

-Today my mom watched Bailey while I ran some errands. I went shopping (which now equals going to Kohls and Target). I also got my hair cut and it looks really cute! Thanks Ellen, if you read this!

-I spent a half an hour on the phone with Avon support in India trying to get something straightened out. I had to return a bunch of items that a new customer of mine bought from another rep. It was a pain.

-I found a winter coat for Bailey. I was going to try to find a picture of it to post, but the London Fog website sucks! (Also I did NOT pay full price for that coat. I’m cheap.) Her new coat is a few different shades of pink and its a little bit puffy. The only drawback is she won’t be able to wear it in her carseat, but it will be a great coat for playing outside in cool weather. I also got her the mittens with the string that connects through the sleeves of her coat.

-Bailey started saying people, purple, and pee pee yesterday. She also put two words together today- which is very rare for her. She said, “Hot hice” at dinner. Which translates to hot rice.

-Speaking of which, my baby is 18 months old today. That’s a whole year and a half. We’re not going to think about it for too long right now.

I can’t believe she is big enough to sit along in a chair, to wear a Disney Princess jammie shirt, to eat an apple by herself. And those legs? They are not chubby baby legs anymore. They are long, skinny, bruised kid legs. I love her.

-I went in our hot tub tonight after Bailey was in bed. For the first time in about 26 months. It was great. Jonathon sat outside and worked on his laptop, and I sat in the hot tub and read a book.

-Tomorrow night we are having a date night. I think we are going to go see the movie Fireproof. And out to dinner, but I’m not sure where. Nothing too fancy. I am wanting to go to Red Lobster sometime soon to take Jonathon to the all you can eat shrimp. We do that every fall. But if we do it before the movie, I will be stuffed and then I won’t be able to stay awake. I am bad about falling asleep during movies. I am also having a Melting Pot craving.

-Tomorrow during the day, we are going to a pumpkin patch with friends. I am looking forward to it. This is the first one Bailey will go to, ever. Lots of pictures.

-Our trash service changed. I am happy about that because the prices went way down, and now it all gets picked up on the same day. Before, our neighborhood had the choice of three services and so there were trash trucks every day, between the people who had all the different companies, and twice weekly pickup, and yard waste/recycle on different days. I hated it. Now? ONE DAY. No more stupid trucks rattling down the street several times each day.

-We got our tax return. Remember how I had to file an amended return because we didn’t get the credit for Bailey? That whole mess? Well the IRS paid US interest! I guess they felt like it was their fault since Bailey was on our paperwork and they didn’t catch it. I personally thought it would have been Turbotax’s fault for it not processing correctly, but whatevah. I’ll take it. Big fat refund and interest. And now we have $300 coming our way in the next few months for the rest of our stimulus check!

My Sweetie’s Birthday

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Jonathon turned 32 this week. I can’t believe it… where has the time gone? It seems like just yesterday that we met and he was like 26 and I was 22 and had just graduated from college. I feel like he always gets shortchanged on his birthday, since it’s in December. I have usually already started my Christmas shopping and tend to just use one of the things I bought for Christmas, for his birthday. I’m sure his brother gets it even worse, as his birthday is December 31st.

Anyway, this year I decided I was going to make a point of doing something special for his birthday. We had his birthday dessert over at our house (I did not want to try to cook an entire meal, we’ve just been too busy lately) and I even put up streamers I will have to post pictures of that later when I get a minute.

I also made an effort to do my shopping in advance for him. He got two big gifts. The first was a wine of the month package. Like from one of those wine clubs. It turned out to be cooler than I thought it would be. At first, I couldn’t figure out why we were getting a FedEx shipment that an adult over 21 had to be home and sign for in person. Duh… I have just been doing too much online shopping lately and forgetting what is coming when!

Our neighbor ended up signing for it so I went over there to pick it up. It included a newsletter and a little score sheet for judging wine. There are two bottles, one red and one white. It also said on the package that a gift card was included, but apparently it was just a “greeting card” and not an actual gift card Anyway one of these nights we will have to do a date night and try our wine.

His other gift was a pocket knife. Not like a high tech Swiss Army one or anything, but a cool personalized one with his initials engraved on it. I tried to take a picture to include, but it wasn’t turning out well because the flash was reflecting off the shiny silver. I think he was pretty excited about the pocket knife. My dad and my grandpa both have one and they are always busting theirs out when something needs to be opened or cut or whatever. My grandpa was commenting last night that his was dull, so I might order him a new one for his birthday. I think it’s too late now to get it for Christmas, unless I pay for super mega fast shipping!

Oh, and we went to Outback on Jonathon’s actual birthday night, while my parents watched Bailey. We sat at the bar after dinner and had a few drinks. It was so great not to have to try to entertain her while we ate. We haven’t gone out alone in a few weeks, at least.

Fun Weekend

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This weekend was very busy- Friday night I went out with Faith. Saturday was a baby shower and then dinner with my grandparents. Sunday was church, a diaper shower, and a dinner at The Melting Pot.

Would you like to play on your Baby Einstein mat, Bailey?

Why, yes I would!

I went to a baby shower for my friend Kim in the afternoon. She is due (well, scheduled C-section because the baby is breech) on July 5th. The gender is a surprise- what a patient mommy! Anyway I made a diaper cake for her because Jonathon and I got one at one of our showers and I thought it was really cool. I had a lot of fun making it, so I’ll probably do it again sometime! Here is Kim with the cake. I’m not sure why she looks so brown- I guess issues with my flash or something.

A close-up of my masterpiece:

Grammy and Grampa bought Bailey an Exersaucer last week. Saturday was the first day we really put her in it and let her try it. I know she’s still kind of little for it and she’s not reaching for toys yet. But we put her pickle pillow behind her to support her and she seemed to enjoy sitting there and looking at all the toys for a while. They got the one with the most stuff on it, so it should keep her busy! Thanks again, Mom and Dad



She was so worn out that once she fell asleep and got moved to her bed, she slept through the night until about 20 minutes before my alarm went off for church!

Sunday night we had our weekly date night. This week we went to The Melting Pot, which is one of our favorite restaurants. We had a great time, and Bailey got to go play at Grammy’s house. Everyone was happy about those plans