the entry about nothing...

Another weekend has passed us by. Oh how I wish they'd double in length. Yesterday E and I had a baby shower for a high school friend. It was nice to see her (she's now moved to the Seattle area). She is due in November... that is when I hope I can time my next maternity leave. Being off for the holidays would just be awesome. Although I do remember the complete exhaustion and stress of a new born... and adding that to the busiest time of year might be challenging... but I still think that time of year would be nice. We are trying to decide when to start trying again. I of course would love to get prego around Feb 08. Greg really wants to go to school and we feel like we need to do one or the other. Then whichever we do not do in 08 will have to wait til 09. I just don't want my kids to be to far apart in age... so I'm hoping for 08. E would be 2 1/2 by the time the new baby got here... that is if I got pregnant right away. I did get pregnant the very first time we tried with E. I do know that there is no guarantee that this will happen again though... so I am being realistic here and know my holiday maternity leave wish may not come true. I also am going to have to have make sure I have enough sick and vacation time built up... because I'm not sure I can get approved for 90 days off, unpaid. I did find out though that my coworkers could donate time to me for maternity leave. I feel that this is an inappropriate reason to ask for donations though. So we'll see.


I did just check my work manual and I can take 90 days off, using sick and vacation time first and then the rest can be unpaid!!! YIPPEE for me. Plus since my hubby works for the same county I believe he can donate time to me. This might just all work out!


Ok, done with that now, lets move on. Today E slept in until 7! WHOOO HOOOO! That is sleeping in. G is still on his night shift schedule so he didn't come up to bed until after 4 a.m. so I let him sleep in. We had breakfast, cleaned up the kitchen and then decided it was time to break out the markers. Thank god for who ever invented washable markers. This is what happened when I left the room for a minute and went to the laundry room... she decided to taste the markers! Tasty!

E was very accident prone today. She got her fingers caught in the bathroom door, hit her arm on the cupboard drawer and fell and hit her head on our plush (but not soft) ottoman. She screamed bloody murder each time. This past week she got her first real bruise/scratch on her face. She tripped over the kitchen rug and hit her face on the fridge... I wasn't home... :(. She was ok though. Thank god.

Is this rain ever going to stop? It has been raining ALL weekend. Nice for a relaxing 2 days home, but it is also hard to be stuck inside the entire time. Even worse to keep a 1 year old occupied inside for 2 days straight. I suppose we could have played in the rain, but yuck.

I really need to get to bed, I started this entry hours ago... it'll say the time I started the entry at the bottom... but I'm just finishing it at 10:22 p.m. Tells you how many interruptions you get with a husband who has the weekend off and a 1 year old. Not much time for yourself! I miss that some days!!! Although I did get 2 hours in bed this afternoon, alone, to read my book and relax. Nothing better than that. Ok, except little mac n cheese mouth kisses :).

One more thing. I'm *seriously* considering becoming a Packer fan. Yes~ I said it... a Packer fan. The Vikings just suck. (Sorry T) I'm totally a fair weather fan. Besides, the Packers have Brett. He's hot and broke the all time touchdown (for a quarterback) record today. Here he is with his dog Samantha. Go Brett!

Sweet dreams. K

My Fall Line-up

I LOVE when the new fall line-up starts! Here's my list of most tivo'd shows this fall...

The Bachelor- One word. Delish! Sorry Brad I'm taken ;) I cannot accept your rose... *sigh*

America's Next Top Model-

Faves:

Janet

Ebony

Lisa

Sarah

Least favs:

Mila

Bianca

Chantel

Gossip Girl- I am still so "high school", I just love this wickedly silly show. This is Chuck. The pompus ass. He oozes sex. In a bad way. Every girl out there knows a player like him. He is disgusting.

Survivor China- missed the first episode but caught the second one last night. I LOVE this show. I would give up all the others to watch this one! I just can't get enough, season after season. Can't stand Dave. Ish.

Some of my other favs...

Grey's Anatomy. CSI. Desparate Housewives. Brothers and Sisters. Private Practice. Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Making the Team 2. Wife Swap. And I look forward to checking out Pushing Daisies.

Sound like I watch a lot of tv? Not really. I don't get to watch much during the week. I tivo everything and catch up with them on Saturdays when E is napping. It is SO nice to zip through all those pesty commercials :)

What do you all think of Kid Nation? We watched about 20 minutes of the first episode and changed the channel. Kinda strange? Hard to watch? Not right? Can't decide.

Time for bed. Night.

p.s. we're on our own. My MIL left this evening after dinner :(. Oh that extra set of hands was so nice to have around!

K

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boring, I know

My life is very boring right now. I have not blogged all week. I am sorry to my faithful readers. I am currently up to late, watching Mich.ael Mo.ore on Op.rah arguing with a woman about socialized heal.thca.re. I love him. He rocks. It is terrible that 47 million people in our country are uninsured. Even scarier is the fact that this documentary he recently made, called Si.cko, was geared towards us 200 million "insured" people. I put insured in quotes because, as they stress on the show, most of us feel that if we have insurance we are safe, protected and don't have to worry. Which may not always be true.

Should someone be making a profit off of us as human beings and our health? Seems wrong to me. I'm praying for a universal health plan in my lifetime. I don't want E to ever worry that she may have to take a 2nd mortgage out on her house, file for bankruptcy or live (or die) without a certain treatment she may need some day.

One comment I liked best on the show was this. Would you be willing to wait 4-8 weeks longer to see a specialist for a non-life-threatening issue so that the 47 million other citizens of our "great" country could be covered?

Something to think about.

On to lighter topics...

My MIL is here. It has been great. I've come home the last 2 nights to dinner on the table and a happy E. What could be better than that?

OMG, my battery is going to die on the computer and I don't want to loose this post and I'm to lazy to go down stairs for the plug. So I'm out.

Night. K

Luuuuuv weekends

Not to much going on this weekend. G is working overnights the weekend so E and I are pretty much on our own. We had E's first haircut on Thursday night. I forgot my camera, but my mom came out and took some pics so I will get them up as soon as I can. Then we went out for dinner at a yummy local Mexican Restaurant. Friday after work E and I finished up some grocery shopping and came home for the evening. We had a big day on Saturday and needed our beauty sleep! Saturday afternoon I had an appointment at a photo studio in town. I had entered E in a "cutest little baby face" contest. The photography studio is owned by two local women who also own a high end children's store in town. They have also created 2 awesome Cd's of lullaby's. The Cd's can be personalized with your child's name in the songs. I have put E to sleep with the CD since she was born. I LOVE it!

They are looking for 3 children to model their new line. They have over 100 entries. It was fun to be in the studio with E. My bff J came with and so did my sister. I thank god they came with cause they kept E laughing. There were a few moments where I thought we may have to reschedule cause she got a bit grumpy. Thank god we had gone to Sta.rb.ucks before hand and I gotten an iced vanilla latte... that kept her happy (and no I don't regularly give her a latte). The photographer seemed to think she had gotten the shots she needed after 3 outfits. I'm excited and hope she does well. The 3 winners receive free prints a blanket and the modeling "gig" as they call it.

Yesterday morning and this morning E has slept until after 8! I can't tell you the last time I slept until 8 a.m.!! I think her sleeping issues are resolving themselves finally. Thanks for all the advise everyone gave me a few posts back. We were really struggling. She has gone to bed all week for me without any dramatic scene. Last night she was so tired she pushed off me, wanting to lay down in her crib. I was like... Woooooooooo Hoooooooooooooo!!! Her napping schedule has definitely changed. She is now only taking one nap a day for about 1-2 hours. I sure did like those days of 2 - 2 hour plus naps.

Grandma M is coming to stay with us for the week. She will be here on Tuesday evening and we can't wait. I think it will be SO nice to have an extra hand around here. I think by the time Saturday gets here I am going to be begging her to move in! There are moments in life when I would give anything to have a nanny. I love the show To.ri & D.ean Inn Lov.e. Tori just had a little boy and they have a nanny and when I see her sleeping in, eating dinner in peace and being able to shower and get ready alone... I am so jealous!! I don't think I'd want one around 24/7. I'd have one work 7-10 a.m. on the weekends, just so I could sleep in! And maybe on a Friday or Saturday evening twice a month so G and I could actually have a life! ;)

I've gotta go clean up E. I swear after lunch it looks like a food fight has broken out in my kitchen. Time for a bath.

Hopefully I'll have something more interesting to blog about this week!

K

Crud-Part II

OMG. I still feel like shit. I am now home for the 3rd day in a row from work. I feel real guilty about missing this much work. There is no one to do my work, so it is all piling up waiting for me to get back :(. Not fun. I really hope I can get back to work tomorrow. I can't imagine missing an entire week. Urgh.

Today my throat is feeling raw and my ears feel weird... that is the only way I can describe it. Can your ears feel raw? For lack of a better word they kinda feel that way to. Sore. Throbbing. Numb. I guess all of those to. I hope the dr was right about what I have and it isn't tonsillitis or anything else like that. I suppose though that this amoxicilan would also cover tonsillitis. But I don't think these meds are doing a dang thing for me. I feel lousy.

G stayed home from work last night so I could rest and he could take care of E. Which was good cause she was up again in the middle of the night. He is still sleeping right now since his body is on night shift hours he didn't get to bed til 4. I'm up with E right now. I'm hoping that she can go into town today and spend some time with my dad... and I can get some sleep. That way G can get the lawn mowed and do some other things around the house.

I hope to be back to work tomorrow. (Well, really I wish I never had to go back!) Still dreaming about being a SAHM...

I am going to go wake up the hubby to get him to take E into town. Hope you are all feeling good. Isn't it funny how we go about every day not thinking how good it feels to feel good. It is something so easily taken for granted. Ewwww... feeling sick sucks. I'll stop whining now. Take care. K

Crud

That is simply how I am feeling this morning. I am up at 7:15 with E. After being up with her in the middle of the night for almost an hour... G is on overnights now so it is good'ole mommy who has to get up... even when I have an ear and sinus infection and feel like HELL. I am so tired right now. I am bringing her to my friend T's today so I can get some sleep. T has a 1 year old also and the girls love to play. Thank god for good friends who you can count on! Really sucks that I have to drive 20 miles one way though to get her there... there are days when I really wish we still lived in the city and not out in the cornfields like we do :(. Oh god my stomach is growling... I've gotta get something to eat. Mmmmm, have you tried the Kashi honey and cinnamen oatmeal? It is so yummy. And good for you. I'm out. K

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