It's still not easy

I know it's been a month now and it should be easy.  The first day was definitely not the easiest day for me.  But after a month, you would think that dropping my daughter off at school for two and a half hours would be easy for me.  But it isn't.  I'm going to be honest.  It is one of the hardest things I go through every single time I drop her off.  It breaks my heart to have her push me away and say bye momma.  That's what she did today.  She saw her teacher walk up and she pushed me away and said bye momma, bye momma, bye bye.  I got a quick hug and kiss and I love you from her and then I walked away and every so often I would look behind me to see her.  

It hurts though.  I know it's for her best interest to be in school, with her peers, and learning.  But it still hurts to say bye for a little while.  I don't know why but her going to daycare for nine hours a day wasn't as hard as her going to school for two and a half hours.  

I cry once I get my son and I in the car.  I cry a little bit and then I start the short journey to go home.

A first for my little boy

Today was the first day my little boy got his hair cut by a professional.  I actually cut his bangs a couple of months ago.  I hated the idea of cutting his hair and I hated it even more that people were giving me such a hard time over his hair.  I mean, he's my kid, I can do what I want to him and if I don't feel like giving him a haircut yet, then please stop giving me a hard time over it!  I'm just glad my daughter's hair is long enough I can put it up in a ponytail or piggy tails and no one will know exactly how long her hair really is.

For the past few nights, both of the kids have been getting up.  But as soon as they are in our bed they are fast asleep.  But god forbid we put them back in their own bed.  It has been so exhausting dealing with that every night.

Tonight we are going out to dinner with my parents.  My parents will get to see my little boy's new haircut.  Hopefully they like it and don't give me such grief over his hair.  We see my parents only once a month and go out to dinner with them.  It's nice because my kids get to see their grandparents but we have to drive out of our way to meet up with them.  But the one thing I like about meeting up with them once a month is that when we get home both kids fall asleep pretty easily and they both sleep all night.

Time to finish the mountain pile of laundry.

A bit of a hiatus

I took a brief hiatus from blogging.  I don't know if I am starting to get carpal tunnel on my wrist, but it hurts sometimes.  So I decided to take a little break away from the computer and hope it would feel better by today.  It feels somewhat better but not entirely back to normal.  But my index finger on my right hand has been hurting a lot though.  Not sure what is going on with my body and that's disturbing.

I was supposed to make some thank you cards for my husband over the weekend but that didn't happen.  We ended up checking out the nursery on Saturday to pick out ten shrubs for our front yard.  And Saturday and Sunday my daughter was a nightmare.  So, I didn't get anything done.  I did one load of laundry and managed to put it away as well.  But I still have about three more loads to do and I should be caught up.

We're going out to dinner with my parents tomorrow so that should be fun.  I need to get my son a haircut before we go though.  And this weekend we are going grocery shopping.  So this week while they are napping, I plan to start making a grocery list and plan meals out as well.

How was your week?

Well, she ate last night

The good news is that my dog ate dinner last night.  I tested her a couple of times throughout the afternoon to see if her appetite came back.  I would ask her if she was hungry.  Usually when she responds with a "yes", her ears perk up.  So yesterday afternoon when I would ask her if she was hungry and when I saw her ears perk up, I knew her appetite came back.  But before dinner, my daughter decided to feed her some of her crackers she was snacking on.  We keep telling her to not feed her, but she still does.  I don't know want to put my dog in a room away from us because it would seem like we're punishing her, but at the same time I don't want my dog to constantly be eating stuff my daughter feeds her either.

I can't believe the weekend is almost here.  Tomorrow is going to be a long day for me again.  My husband is going out with some co-workers for drinks after work.  The good news about that is that he is going to bring dinnrt home so I don't have to cook.  Tonight we are having leftovers.  Last night I made another Modge Podge meal consisting of ground turkey, veggies, and pasta.

This weekend I am going to be working on making four thank you cards for my husband.  He needs them to give to some of the staff members who have helped him throughout everything when he started the new position at the school.  I can't wait to make them since I haven't made a card in nearly forever.  I am also slowly but surely working on organizing my craft stuff some more as well.

Why won't she eat?

I don't know what's going on with my little chihuahua.  But lately she hasn't been eating as well as she used to.  She used to be right there by the pantry as I was getting her dinner in the bowl.  Now I am trying to coax her from under the couch that it is dinner time.  Then when she goes to her bowl, she just sniffs the bowl and then looks at me imploringly.  

Yesterday after I dropped off my daughter at school, she finished her meal from the night before.  And last night she only ate her whole meal because I was standing right beside her, encouraging her to eat.  I think tonight I will put a little bit of something else for her to eat so she will eat.

I need to start making Christmas cards for the family pretty soon.  I had planned to start this weekend but I don't think I will get to even start.  It seems like everything I want to do is going to be put on hold for a little bit.

This is going to be a short entry on my blog today.  I am going to spend some time with my son now while my daughter is in school.

She just seems out of it

I don't know what's going on with my dog, but she seemed out of sorts last night.  Usually when it is time to feed her, she's right in the kitchen with me as soon as she hears me open the pantry.  But last night I told her dinner time, and she didn't rush up in the kitchen like usual.  Then when she finally got in the kitchen, she was smelling her bowl and then walked away.  I had to hand feed her one little piece of her dog food so she knows it is okay to eat.  After that she ate, but she ate slower than usual.

Last weekend was a bust as far as doing anything goes.  I wanted to start somewhat on getting things together to start making my daughter's teachers their Christmas gift.  But I didn't even get anything together.  I did manage to do one load of laundry though.  I also managed to lower the crib down a notch yesterday, too.  That's as far as what I did over the weekend.

But we did manage to go to the Goodwill on Saturday to get some stuff for the kids.  We got like nine books, two Tonka trucks, four shirts, and three board games.  We got all that for $24!  I am very pleased with our purchases.  Now I just need to put everything away.  I also need to fold the laundry I did yesterday but something tells me it's not going to happen today.

I need another cup of coffee.

Where did he go?

Where did the time go?  Seriously.  Today my little boy is seventeen months old!  It seems just like yesterday that we went to the hospital to go for our scheduled c-section to deliver our son.  And now here we are seventeen months later.  Time flew.  I can't believe how fast time flies when you have children.  I just can't believe my little girl is already three and in school.  I better savor every moment that I can because before I know it, I will be going prom dress shopping with her and visiting colleges with her.

My little boy has been fighting a cold again.  He keeps napping for a long time and then at bed time it makes putting him to bed so difficult.  I look forward to the days when we tell the kids that it is bed time and they go to their own beds, willingly and acceptingly (is that a word?).  I really can't wait for that moment.

Today was a challenging and trying day for me.  I wanted to relax and craft and make a gift for my daughter's teachers.  But instead, I got to sit and watch Mickey Mouse Clubhouse with my daughter while my son napped and thought in my head what I wanted to make for them.  My husband has had to do some stuff for work, so I was letting him do his thing and I was watching and taking care of our kids.

My daughter decided to take a really late nap today.  She just fell asleep at 4pm!  So, just for tonight, my husband and I decided to have bed time be at 8pm.  The boy ended up napping for a really long time and the girl decided to nap really late.  So we decided a late bed time might be the better alternative instead of having to sit/lay down and wait for them to fall asleep.  I just hope this later bed time will get them both to fall asleep easily and sleep all night long.  I miss the days when I would go to sleep and I didn't hear a baby cry or a kid cry.

Not again!

Just when I thought my kids were back to being healthy, they are sick again.  They are both coughing, but not a lot.  My runny nose is slowly going away and I have a slight cough here and there.  I think tonight I will put the humidifer on my daughter's room again.  I hope they get better soon because it is not fun hearing your kids coughing.

I had a horrible headache yesterday again.  I don't know what it is with these frequent painful headaches but I am not happy about it.  I decided to put some lavender essential oil on my pressure points last night after my son fell asleep.  But because I was already half asleep and my head was throbbing, I managed to drop the bottle.  I spilled some and the bathroom floor ended up smelling like lavender.  Luckily it wasn't the smell wasn't that strong because my husband gets bad headaches when he smells too much lavender.

I think next week while my daughter's in school, I'm going to do some more research on making soap.  I want to make some but I don't have everything I need yet.

I can't believe it's only 9am here and my son is asleep again.  He woke up at 5am today and my husband woke up with him so I could sleep a little bit.  But at 5:30am his alarm woke me up and I started my day.  But by 8am my son was fussing, so I was holding him and he fell asleep in my arms and he's been asleep since.  I moved him in his room though so I could blog and do a little bit of cleaning.

Oh my God, did I forget him?

Do you ever have that feeling like you forgot one of your kids behind?  I get that way all the time!  Every time I am driving or I'm in the passenger seat, I'm always doing double, triple, and sometimes quadruple checking to make sure both of my kids are in the back seat.  Sometimes they are both so quiet that I suddenly panic and think, oh crap, did I forget one of them behind?  Today I kept having this nagging feeling I forgot one of my kids behind and then it hit me, today is Wednesday, she's in school.

I totally understand being overly tired and forgetting things.  But I don't understand how one could be so tired they forget their own baby?!  I mean, you carry this baby within your body for nine months and during the last trimester they are there in your womb kicking you and poking you and stretching every which way to remind you that your baby is still there.  

I read stories of women, and sometimes men, who leave their children behind somewhere.  It seriously baffles me to no end.  It also baffles me to hear of men and/or women beating their children.  I don't understand child abuse.  It's one thing I will never understand.  How can someone just go and hurt their own flesh and blood?  How can someone harm someone who is so defenseless and so young?  It saddens me and angers me to hear of these stories.  Animal cruelty is very close up there, too.

Still amazes me

It still amazes me to this day that I am a mother.  I never thought I would be a mother and here I am, a mother to two and a half amazing children.  My sweet little chihuahua will always be my number one.  But my daughter and son will come very close.  Every single day I say a silent prayer for my children and am so thankful I have them in my life.  It seriously makes me so happy to see my son smile so big at me as he's toddling over to me and wants me to pick him up and when I do, he puts his arms around me and smiles at me.  These little things are the moments I am trying to savor as much as I can.  Soon enough he will be going to school, too, and I will be home alone with my chihuahua.

Today I dropped off my daughter at school.  When her teacher saw her, my daughter pretty much pushed me away to go to her teacher.  I had to ask her for a hug and kiss goodbye.  It made me sad but very proud of her.  I know she will miss me but I know being in school is helping her out.  But I do love when I pick her up, and the moment her teacher opens the gate and she sees me and her arms are wide open and she runs into my open arms.

I have no laundry to do, I have a little bit of cleaning to do, but I'll save it for when the kids are both napping.  Every time I try to do something, my son gets in my way.  Tonight for dinner will be pasta and red sauce again.  I love making this meal because it's quick and easy.  We have all this extra sauce, so might as well use it all up, right?

Football time!

It is that time of the year again!  This is the season of football!  My husband and I look forward to this time of the year every single year.  We have this package on our television where we get to watch every single game.  We usually record the games we want to watch the night before and plan which games we want to watch.  During the week we watch the games we recorded.  I look forward to this time of the year to watch football and to make some yummy snacks.

I can't believe that I am all caught up on laundry.  I need to clean up the house a bit, but I can easily do that while my daughter is in school.  But it looks like I am all caught up on laundry for the first time in a long time!

It is time to start the day and get ready for some football!

Reflection time

Fourteen years ago today the world changed forever.  History was being made.  It all started when a plane crashed into the World Trade Center building.  I remember that day like it was yesterday.  I remember my dad calling me on my cell phone to tell me we are at war and that the world is never going to be the same again.  I asked him what he was talking about and all he could manage to say was to tell me to watch the news.  So I grabbed my glasses and turned the tv on.  There in front of me was something I never expected to see.  My heart still breaks just seeing the building on fire and then collapsing.  I wished I could be there to help out with whatever I could.

Here we are today, fourteen years later.  Our country is still going strong but nothing is the same it feels like.  Please let us take a moment to give our loved ones an extra hug and kiss and always remind them that you love them.  Life is so short, we never know what can happen.  I will never ever forget 09.11.01.

P.S. Sorry for the sad topic, but this is just something I felt the need to share.

Attempting to climb down the mountain

Today I have so much laundry to do and finish!  I managed to fold one load of laundry yesterday but I didn't put it away yet.  But this morning while the kids were watching tv, I quickly put the clothes away and managed to do three loads of laundry.  Now they are all ready to be folded and put away.  I also have two more loads of laundry to do as well.

Laundry is the one chore that takes the longest to finish in my house.  I wonder if I'm alone on this.  I just have the hardest time putting clothes away, second thing that I have a hard time with is folding it.  But tomorrow is Friday and that means I will probably not get any laundry done at all since my daughter doesn't have school tomorrow.

Yesterday was open house at her school.  It was interesting to see/hear what she has been doing in school.  But afterwards we had to stop at Target to get some more diapers and wipes for the boy.  We also had to stop at Taco Bell for dinner.  Needless to say, it was easy getting both kids to fall asleep last night.  They both slept easy and they slept all night.  I was the only one struggling to fall asleep.  I have a cold that one of my kids gave me.  I hope I don't pass it back to them because I think my daughter is about 95% better and my son is about 85% better.  I just don't want to get either of them sick again.

School Picture Day and Open House

It is going to be a pretty busy day for my daughter today.  Today is school picture day and it is also open house tonight.  I am so glad today is picture day because it's a "free day" according to her school.  A "free day" is a day where the students don't have to wear a uniform and they can wear what they want.  I had a hard time deciding on what outfit to put her in, and then I was struggling doing her hair this morning.  

There seriously has to be an easier way for me to do her hair.  I usually do her hair in pigtails because it's easier (not really) and because it's cute.  I thought about doing her hair in a low ponytail, but her teacher and teachers aid say she looks adorable in pigtails, so I'll just put pigtails in her hair every day she is in school.  But I had her wearing a pink shirt because I like how it looks on her.

Tonight is open house at her school.  It should be fun seeing her class room again and see where she sits and what they do and everything.  I still can't get over the fact that she is in school already!  I swear, time only flew this fast after I had kids.  It never seemed to go this fast when I didn't have kids.

I have no idea what to make for dinner tonight.  I was thinking of heating up the leftovers we have just so the refrigerator can be less cluttered.  We shall see.

Busy, busy week

Sorry that I haven't posted on here in a week!  It has been a very busy week for me.  Last Wednesday my mother-in-law came in to visit us for a week.  And by us, I mean the kids.  I picked her up at the airport as my husband was working and the timing was perfect since I just dropped my daughter off at school I was able to head to the airport to pick her up.

We had a good week.  We ate some good food, good snacks, and drank a little.  Unfortunately, last week after my daughter got out of school one day I noticed her coughing a little.  She usually doesn't cough much so I got a little concerned.  Then when we got home, I noticed she was running her hand under her nose.  Two days later she started having a runny nose and a slight cough.  So I put the humidifer on for her when she went to sleep.  Now today she seems as good as new.

But germs spread fast, I guess.  Because now my son is sick.  He has a cough and his runny nose isn't that bad.  Tonight when he goes to bed I'll put the humidifer on in his room.  Hopefully it goes away soon.  I also have a runny nose though.  Ugh, nasty yucky cold needs to go far, far away from my house!

Monthly card subscription

It's that time for my big, awesome news!  I am going to be starting a monthly card subscription for anyone who is interested.  It is open for anyone in the United States.  Here is some information regarding this.  

Every month, I am going to make and send five cards to you.  It will be for any occasion, unless there is a specific one you are needing for that month.  Every first Sunday of the month I will send out a message on my Facebook page (www.facebook.com/SerendipityKisses) to see if anyone is interested in the next month's card subscription.  By the third Sunday of the month is when you will need to submit your payment for the next month's subscription.  If you submit a payment late, you will get your subscription of cards for the following month.  For example, if you send your payment late next month, instead of getting the subscription cards in October, you will be getting it in November.  All cards will be mailed on the first Monday of every month.  So, if you order now, you will have your cards in time for Thanksgiving!

The cost for the monthly card subscription is $10 a month.  Every card will have their own envelope and will be in a clear cellophane bag to prevent bending.  On the back of all my cards will be stamped "Handmade by Serendipity Kisses".  

Starting next year I will be having a referral program set up for you to refer your family and/or friends and you will get an incentive of some sort for this.  I will post more information regarding the referral program in the middle of October.

I know a lot of people love to receive mail and who wouldn't love receiving handmade cards every month?  I hope you guys would be interested in this as I am excited to make them for you all.  If you have any questions, please contact me at serendipitykisses@yahoo.com