Today has been kind of ridiculous. I decided to work from home today because I have the most annoying 3 hour training from1pm-4pm. I mean, seriously?? I’m hoping it really isn’t that long. Seeing what the training is, I can already tell its unnecessary. Apparently it only lasted an hour yesterday. I’m hoping that’s the going trend with this session. Anyway, I decided to do the laundry this morning. I texted my mom last and offered to do their laundry as well. After I dropped the baby off at daycare, I swung by their house, picked up their laundry, and headed over to the Laundromat before work. For some reason, loading and unloading heavy baskets really wiped me out today. I was beat by the time I got back to my parent’s house. I went to pump and realized I didn’t have any of my pump stuff. Ugh!!!!!!!! I was so upset. Anyway, I headed back home, pumped, logged in to work, and was frustrated with a project I’m working on. Knowing I have training makes my mood a lot grimmer, but I’m trying to stay positive today.
Last night, after I got the baby to bed, I worked on the playroom. I hung the rainbow fabric panels on the wall and finished my cloud throw pillows. It looks amazing! Dad is going to measure to put carpet in. I also received the patio door curtain in the mail. That needs hung up, but I need to buy a curtain rod first. I dread that project. I hate hanging curtain rods. I swear, it never works right. I’m hoping it doesn’t take me forever. The curtain is really nice though and necessary. I hate being in the basement without a curtain on the patio door. It’s scary thinking anyone can look in at me. My neighbor across the street is a creeper and always staring at me. He can see right into my basement from his front door. I just want to get the curtain up to avoid that awkwardness. I’m going to make some cloud poms to hang from the ceiling. That’s the last of the projects I’ll be doing in the playroom until next month. I plan on buying a new couch in October, which means my current living room couch will be going into the playroom. I’m so excited about this. I’ve needed a new couch for quite some time. The old one will be okay to go into the playroom until I can upgrade again.
This weekend, we’re going to sincerely yogurt again with my sister and nephew. I don’t have any other plans aside from some pool time. The weather looks okay on Sunday, so hopefully we aren’t washed out again. Other than that, I hope we can just relax and sleep in a bit. I couldn’t fall asleep at all last night. The last time I looked at the clock it was after 11. The baby was up two separate times to eat, which wasn’t too bad. He fought me a little at bedtime, but nothing unmanageable. We played a lot last night, so he was pretty tuckered out. He’s now able to crawl onto his knees. He can hold that position for a couple of minutes. He hasn’t mastered crawling on his knees yet. His poor knees were so red yesterday though. I felt bad. He must have really been trying at daycare. When I picked him up, his knees were bright pink. He needs some knee pads. Haha.
Alright, That’s about all I have for today. I need to go pump one more time before training begins.
Happy Thursday, All!
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
MUMMY'S CRANKY PANTS
I got my rainbow colored curtain panels in the mail already! I’m so excited, but less enthused about actually hanging them up. That sounded really lazy. I just know it isn’t going to be the easiest task. My plan is to use thick string and eye hooks. I’ll have to fish the string through each curtain panel and then tie them up to the eye hooks. Sounds easy, right? I’ve done this before and it’s always really hard to get the string through the panels. The last time I did this, I tied the string to the end of a pen and I fished it through that way. There are 6 panels though. It’s going to take me some time. This is the cheapest and easiest solution to hanging these panels against the wall. I’d end up spending a ton of money on a curtain rod that can even extend that far distance. Once I get it up, it’ll be fine, but actually don’t it will probably suck. I was a little disappointed in the length too. I wanted the curtains to sweep the floor. That definitely isn’t going to happen. The length between the ceiling and floor is bigger than I anticipated. I guess we’ll just see how it looks when it’s all said and done. I’ll post pictures when it’s ready. I stuffed one cloud pillow last night. Of course, I busted the seam, so I need to take some stuffing out and repair before closing the pillow up. Decorating was an epic fail last night.
Emerson was in rare form last night too. Meltdown city for about 3 hours! I have no idea what was up with him. He was just FREAKING out. As long as I held him, he was okay, but I had stuff to do around the house. We hadn’t been home all day. Eventually, I gave up and just walked around with him. I thought maybe I’d be able to sooth him to sleep. Not a chance in hell. Around 8:15pm, I put him in the bath and let him play awhile. Afterwards, I gave him dinner, which consisted of apples/blueberries in a baby food jar. I was defeated by that point and didn’t have it in me to serve a real dinner. Plus, he seems to be a little bit bound up still. He didn’t poop at all yesterday. I started to wonder if his tummy was bothered him. I laid him down on his belly and rubbed his back and put him in a warm bath. I thought that might get things going. Hopefully the apples helped and he poops at daycare today. I do have more prunes, but I left them at my parent’s house. I’ll have to grab them if he doesn’t go at daycare today. Anyway, after dinner, I took him up to bed. I thought he was going to fight me. I guess he thought I suffered enough because he went right to bed. He was up a couple of times, but nothing outrageous. It was just really insane. I’ve never seen him flip out like that before. Part of the frustration was my own fault. I was trying to clean and stuff my cloud pillows. I should have just accepted that I wasn’t going to get anything done last night and left it for another time. Let’s just hope he has a better day today.
I did the ice bucket challenge yesterday to raise awareness for ALS. It was fun and I was silly and wore a winter coat and gloves. I caught a lot of flak for it though. I was told it was considered cheating, but I’m not re-doing the challenge. That water was cold! My sister made us use the water from the pool, which was freezing! With the temperature dropping so much in the evening, the water hasn’t warmed up at all this summer. I had a good time doing it though and it’s fun to see the people I nominated carry the challenge out.
My stomach is bothering me so much today! I didn’t think I’d make it into work, but because I want to take a half day on Friday, there was no way I was working from home today. I sucked it up and made the hour long ride into town on the bus. I didn’t throw up, so that’s a plus! I’m still feeling iffy. We have a staff meeting shortly, so I hope I can keep it together through that. Maybe this is why the baby was cranky last night. Maybe he felt the same way then that I do now. It’s no fun though! I hope it’s just a fluke. I didn’t eat anything weird yesterday either.
I was able to watch my shows after Emerson went to bed last night. I am so obsessed with the Bravo! Network. Real Housewives of Orange County was on last night. It was the season finale. I can’t wait for the reunion special. Typically, they do a 3 part reunion. It was such a good season, so I’m sure the reunion will be just as good. I can’t get enough of this channel though. I just realized I left my bedroom door open and the remote on my bed. Ugh, let’s hope Kodie doesn’t eat that today. I’ll be so upset. She already ate one remote. I won’t be able to change the channel in my bedroom and it isn’t on Bravo! Right now. I changed it to TV Land last night, so I could get my King of Queens fix before bed. I am so lame. These are the things I worry about during the day! I think the remote might be hidden under my pillow though, so there is hope that she doesn’t eat it. I love her to pieces, but she can be a real asshole at times.
I think I’ll stick to regular baby food tonight for Emerson’s dinner. I just want to make sure that I’m not causing him discomfort. Maybe I’ve been too aggressive with the solids. He has teeth though and chews and swallows so well. I don’t want to regress and start feeding pureed food again. Maybe I just need to make blander dishes. I have no idea what I’ll even make for myself tonight. I really want to be get back into cooking healthier, but I swear, it’s just easier making chicken patties and French fries! I need to re-do my grocery list and just preplan and precook meals. It’ll be easier that way.
I had my mid-year review last week. I was rated a 4 out of 5, which is amazing. Very rarely does anyone receive a 5, so getting a 4 is great. We have end of year reviews sometime in December. I won’t find out my raise amount until January, which will go into effect on April 1st. I hope it’s good. I have a huge project due by the end of the year. I have to break out and complete16 process flows. My year end goal is to complete 7 flows. I already have 3 done. I’m working on a 4th this week. I’m aiming to completely at least 10 before end of year, so I’m exceeding the goal. It takes a really long time though.
Alright, I have to go get ready for my meeting. My stomach is dying right now. I hope everyone has a really good Tuesday.
Emerson was in rare form last night too. Meltdown city for about 3 hours! I have no idea what was up with him. He was just FREAKING out. As long as I held him, he was okay, but I had stuff to do around the house. We hadn’t been home all day. Eventually, I gave up and just walked around with him. I thought maybe I’d be able to sooth him to sleep. Not a chance in hell. Around 8:15pm, I put him in the bath and let him play awhile. Afterwards, I gave him dinner, which consisted of apples/blueberries in a baby food jar. I was defeated by that point and didn’t have it in me to serve a real dinner. Plus, he seems to be a little bit bound up still. He didn’t poop at all yesterday. I started to wonder if his tummy was bothered him. I laid him down on his belly and rubbed his back and put him in a warm bath. I thought that might get things going. Hopefully the apples helped and he poops at daycare today. I do have more prunes, but I left them at my parent’s house. I’ll have to grab them if he doesn’t go at daycare today. Anyway, after dinner, I took him up to bed. I thought he was going to fight me. I guess he thought I suffered enough because he went right to bed. He was up a couple of times, but nothing outrageous. It was just really insane. I’ve never seen him flip out like that before. Part of the frustration was my own fault. I was trying to clean and stuff my cloud pillows. I should have just accepted that I wasn’t going to get anything done last night and left it for another time. Let’s just hope he has a better day today.
I did the ice bucket challenge yesterday to raise awareness for ALS. It was fun and I was silly and wore a winter coat and gloves. I caught a lot of flak for it though. I was told it was considered cheating, but I’m not re-doing the challenge. That water was cold! My sister made us use the water from the pool, which was freezing! With the temperature dropping so much in the evening, the water hasn’t warmed up at all this summer. I had a good time doing it though and it’s fun to see the people I nominated carry the challenge out.
My stomach is bothering me so much today! I didn’t think I’d make it into work, but because I want to take a half day on Friday, there was no way I was working from home today. I sucked it up and made the hour long ride into town on the bus. I didn’t throw up, so that’s a plus! I’m still feeling iffy. We have a staff meeting shortly, so I hope I can keep it together through that. Maybe this is why the baby was cranky last night. Maybe he felt the same way then that I do now. It’s no fun though! I hope it’s just a fluke. I didn’t eat anything weird yesterday either.
I was able to watch my shows after Emerson went to bed last night. I am so obsessed with the Bravo! Network. Real Housewives of Orange County was on last night. It was the season finale. I can’t wait for the reunion special. Typically, they do a 3 part reunion. It was such a good season, so I’m sure the reunion will be just as good. I can’t get enough of this channel though. I just realized I left my bedroom door open and the remote on my bed. Ugh, let’s hope Kodie doesn’t eat that today. I’ll be so upset. She already ate one remote. I won’t be able to change the channel in my bedroom and it isn’t on Bravo! Right now. I changed it to TV Land last night, so I could get my King of Queens fix before bed. I am so lame. These are the things I worry about during the day! I think the remote might be hidden under my pillow though, so there is hope that she doesn’t eat it. I love her to pieces, but she can be a real asshole at times.
I think I’ll stick to regular baby food tonight for Emerson’s dinner. I just want to make sure that I’m not causing him discomfort. Maybe I’ve been too aggressive with the solids. He has teeth though and chews and swallows so well. I don’t want to regress and start feeding pureed food again. Maybe I just need to make blander dishes. I have no idea what I’ll even make for myself tonight. I really want to be get back into cooking healthier, but I swear, it’s just easier making chicken patties and French fries! I need to re-do my grocery list and just preplan and precook meals. It’ll be easier that way.
I had my mid-year review last week. I was rated a 4 out of 5, which is amazing. Very rarely does anyone receive a 5, so getting a 4 is great. We have end of year reviews sometime in December. I won’t find out my raise amount until January, which will go into effect on April 1st. I hope it’s good. I have a huge project due by the end of the year. I have to break out and complete16 process flows. My year end goal is to complete 7 flows. I already have 3 done. I’m working on a 4th this week. I’m aiming to completely at least 10 before end of year, so I’m exceeding the goal. It takes a really long time though.
Alright, I have to go get ready for my meeting. My stomach is dying right now. I hope everyone has a really good Tuesday.
Monday, August 18, 2014
Mummy's mellow weekend
This weekend was pretty mellow. After work on Friday, I went to do the laundry. Emerson stayed with my mom. Afterwards, we went home. Nothing too exciting to report. Saturday, my mom and sister babysat for me, so that I could go to my friend’s baby shower. It was gorgeous! I had a nice time. Emerson ended up army crawling for the first time when I wasn’t there. I was so upset that I missed it, but luckily, my sister was able to get a video of it. When I got home, my sister and I took the baby down to the waterfront. We went to a place called Sincerely Yogurt. Emerson had sherbet and loved it! We window shopped for a bit before heading home. Yesterday, I filled up his pool. We swam a bit before heading over to visit my parents. I ended up running up to Walmart to purchase stuffing for two cloud pillows that I made during one of Emerson’s naps yesterday. I can’t wait to complete the pillows. They are so adorable! I used some gray polka dotted fabric that I had lying around the house. The cost of the stuffing was pretty minimal, so I got two huge pillows for about $9!
This week, nothing too much is going on. I have to hang the patio door curtain in my basement. Let’s hope that isn’t too hard of a project. I have another half day on Friday too, which I’m excited about. I’m hoping the weather is beautiful this upcoming weekend, so that we can use the pool. It’s been so chilly at night. The water is freezing! I know if I wouldn’t want to get in, then Emerson for sure won’t want to use it. Britt and I are taking the kids back to sincerely yogurt this Saturday. Isaiah wasn’t with us when we went and he wants to check it out. He has an away football game on Saturday too. I don’t think I’ll be attending that though. It’s too much work with the baby. He isn’t going to want to sit in bleachers for hours on end. I can’t exactly let him crawl around either. We’ll go to the first home game though and stay for a bit to cheer Isaiah on.
I had to give Emerson prunes last night. He has been having a rough time going #2. He went twice on Saturday, but both times were very hard and stone-like. After he ate the prunes, he ended up having a bowel movement during dinner! I didn’t care. I was just happy it was soft and he felt better afterwards! So, it seems okay now. I have more prunes just in case, but I’m so glad he was able to go last night! I made tater tot casserole yesterday. He was not a fan. I think it was the ground meat in it. I’ll just eat that for the week and give him something else. I’ll give it another try tonight before I call it a fail.
I have new visitors living under my shed…BUNNIES! They are absolutely adorable! Before I moved in, my landlord told me there were a lot of adorable, fluffy bunnies that run around the neighborhood. I hadn’t seen any. Well, the skunks moved in and kicked the bunnies out. I guess they reclaimed their home now that the skunks are gone! Kodie wasn’t too bothered by them yesterday. We were all in the yard and she didn’t even chase after the bunny. I know she saw it too. I just don’t want her getting a hold of one. I will freak out if Kodie ends up eating a bunny. I’ve never seen her eat anything before, but I haven’t had much luck with wildlife either. LOL Anything is possible!
Alright, that’s about all I have for today. I hope everyone has a speedy Monday!
This week, nothing too much is going on. I have to hang the patio door curtain in my basement. Let’s hope that isn’t too hard of a project. I have another half day on Friday too, which I’m excited about. I’m hoping the weather is beautiful this upcoming weekend, so that we can use the pool. It’s been so chilly at night. The water is freezing! I know if I wouldn’t want to get in, then Emerson for sure won’t want to use it. Britt and I are taking the kids back to sincerely yogurt this Saturday. Isaiah wasn’t with us when we went and he wants to check it out. He has an away football game on Saturday too. I don’t think I’ll be attending that though. It’s too much work with the baby. He isn’t going to want to sit in bleachers for hours on end. I can’t exactly let him crawl around either. We’ll go to the first home game though and stay for a bit to cheer Isaiah on.
I had to give Emerson prunes last night. He has been having a rough time going #2. He went twice on Saturday, but both times were very hard and stone-like. After he ate the prunes, he ended up having a bowel movement during dinner! I didn’t care. I was just happy it was soft and he felt better afterwards! So, it seems okay now. I have more prunes just in case, but I’m so glad he was able to go last night! I made tater tot casserole yesterday. He was not a fan. I think it was the ground meat in it. I’ll just eat that for the week and give him something else. I’ll give it another try tonight before I call it a fail.
I have new visitors living under my shed…BUNNIES! They are absolutely adorable! Before I moved in, my landlord told me there were a lot of adorable, fluffy bunnies that run around the neighborhood. I hadn’t seen any. Well, the skunks moved in and kicked the bunnies out. I guess they reclaimed their home now that the skunks are gone! Kodie wasn’t too bothered by them yesterday. We were all in the yard and she didn’t even chase after the bunny. I know she saw it too. I just don’t want her getting a hold of one. I will freak out if Kodie ends up eating a bunny. I’ve never seen her eat anything before, but I haven’t had much luck with wildlife either. LOL Anything is possible!
Alright, that’s about all I have for today. I hope everyone has a speedy Monday!
Friday, August 15, 2014
Mummy's in the clouds
I finished the cloud wall! It looks beautiful and I couldn’t be happier with it! I haven’t done anything else to the room. I’m waiting for the colored panels to come in the mail, so I can hang them on the adjacent wall to resemble a rainbow. I think it’ll look cute! I’m so much more excited over this room now that I see the cloud wall completed. I can’t believe I didn’t mess it up! I am no artist, so doing something freehand like that made me extremely nervous. You can’t really mess up a cloud though. It’s supposed to be whimsical!
Emerson can now crawl backward. It is hilarious! He more slides than crawls, but it’s a step towards crawling. It won’t be long now. I have a couple of baby-proofing kits that I need to open to prepare the house. I haven’t done that yet, but we’re getting awfully close to him being able to crawl, so I might as well prepare now. Emerson had ravioli for dinner last night and loved it. It wasn’t regular ravioli. It was one of those Gerber meals, so there wasn’t any sauce on it. It was stuffed with carrot. I had to run to the store to grab a gift bag for the baby shower I’m going to tomorrow and grabbed it on a whim. He tried picking the pieces up himself, but we aren’t quite there yet. I’ll still let him try, but for now, it’ll be me spoon and fork feeding.
I have a half day today, which is awesome. After work, I’m heading to the Laundromat to finish up the clothes I didn’t get to wash on Tuesday and what we’ve used all week. Afterwards, I’m just hanging out with Emerson. We’ll visit my parents and then probably head over to the park. No pool today. It’s not going to be that warm and was chilly this morning. This summer has been such a bust. More cold and rainy days than hot. The baby loves the water too, so it really irritates me when we can’t use the pool during the weekends.
I still haven’t heard if my sister and mom are taking my nephew to football weigh-ins tomorrow. I really hope they aren’t. My mom is babysitting Emerson for me, while I go to the baby shower. I guess I’ll find out when she gets home from work around 11am today. Alright, that’s about all I have to report now! I hope everyone has an awesome weekend!!!!
Emerson can now crawl backward. It is hilarious! He more slides than crawls, but it’s a step towards crawling. It won’t be long now. I have a couple of baby-proofing kits that I need to open to prepare the house. I haven’t done that yet, but we’re getting awfully close to him being able to crawl, so I might as well prepare now. Emerson had ravioli for dinner last night and loved it. It wasn’t regular ravioli. It was one of those Gerber meals, so there wasn’t any sauce on it. It was stuffed with carrot. I had to run to the store to grab a gift bag for the baby shower I’m going to tomorrow and grabbed it on a whim. He tried picking the pieces up himself, but we aren’t quite there yet. I’ll still let him try, but for now, it’ll be me spoon and fork feeding.
I have a half day today, which is awesome. After work, I’m heading to the Laundromat to finish up the clothes I didn’t get to wash on Tuesday and what we’ve used all week. Afterwards, I’m just hanging out with Emerson. We’ll visit my parents and then probably head over to the park. No pool today. It’s not going to be that warm and was chilly this morning. This summer has been such a bust. More cold and rainy days than hot. The baby loves the water too, so it really irritates me when we can’t use the pool during the weekends.
I still haven’t heard if my sister and mom are taking my nephew to football weigh-ins tomorrow. I really hope they aren’t. My mom is babysitting Emerson for me, while I go to the baby shower. I guess I’ll find out when she gets home from work around 11am today. Alright, that’s about all I have to report now! I hope everyone has an awesome weekend!!!!
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