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.