That is what I have been....missing in action!!! That is because my husband ALWAYS has my computer with him seven days a week for his business so that makes it impossible to ever find a spare moment to blog.
Fortunately things in our household are same ol' and boring. But in some case boring can be good. We have been having some work done around our house. We had a side driveway poured this week, and our painter has been here working completing the nursery and my kitchen. Both of which choosing colors for me had me completely stressed out and basically living at Sherwin Williams for the past four days. But thankfully we settled on a very subtle White Mint Green for her nursery and a beautiful deep Gold for our kitchen. Who knew decorating a new home was such work. The builder had the house painted a sandy color so everything was very neutral but also very bland. It has been nice to slowly come in and make it our home!
Well I am getting bigger by the day. This pregnancy is so much different than it was with Ethan. I need to get a little better at this blogging thing so I can post some new pics of Ethan, the nursery progress, and my ever growing belly. But that of course would mean my husband would have to go replace my camera which I let him borrow for work one day and the camera never made it home...go figure...
Anyway hope all is well with everyone. Keep reading and checking back and I promise I will figure out how to be better about putting some pictures up!!!!
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Dizzy Spells
Well it has been awhile since I have been able to log on and write about what is going on with the Kramer Family. Joey has the computer usually 6 days a week so I might get lucky on Sundays and get to use it to catch up on emails and blogging and such...
Well life here is pretty much same as usual. Ethan spent Friday night with his Grammie and Poppy because they called wanting to have a sleepover with the boys, so Joey and I got to go out to a Mommy and Daddy quiet dinner without any interuptions.
Ethan is becoming quite the little helper around the house. It truly is amazing what children pick up on. I can not even begin to count the times Ethan has watched Joey clean out our fire place prior to starting a fire on cold nights. Well it is these little things that you really dont think children notice but believe me they do. Friday morning, prior to heading out to drop Ethan at Kim's, I started up one of his favorite shows and told him I was getting a quick shower. Now this is something we do day after day and he will always sit there mesmerized by the TV and not move a muscle. Well for some reason he decided he wanted Friday to be different. I took a quick shower and when I got out I could still here the show playing in the living room so I went ahead and dressed quickly. Once I went out to the living room to check on him I noticed he was not in the spot where he had been sitting when I went to get in the shower. I walked the downstairs looking for him and did not see him anywhere. As I was coming out of the kitchen I noticed something blue sticking out of the fireplace and quickly realized it was Ethan's pajama footie. I rushed over and what did I see.....my 2-year old with dust pan in hand fully seated in the fireplace scooping up the debris and dumping it out on to my fireplace stoop. I was in total shock. This was a moment I wish I had grabbed my camera, but I was worried about him eating the soot so I grabbed a rag and quickly got him cleaned up and undressed. In hind sight it really was a sweet gesture. Maybe next time I will get lucky enough for him to try and run the vaccuum!!!!
As for our other baby, she and I are headed to the doctor for a check-up first thing tomorrow morning. This is a routine check-up but I am glad it is time for me to go in because I have been experiencing mild to moderate dizzy spells for the past week. They come at random times and I can not really pin point a reason why. This is something I never experienced with Ethan so I am not familiar with what exactly the problem might be. I hope to have some answers after tomorrow's meeting. The one thing I can tell you is that I am really showing BIG TIME with this pregnancy. Maybe it is true that you do actually carry boy babies and girl babies differently because my belly is very extended and pronounced with Ella Grace but overall I look mostly the same everywhere else. People keep telling me my face has not changed at all. With Ethan I sort of swelled all over but my belly was never THAT big...so this is a whole new thing for me. I literally look like I swallowed a little bowling ball.
Oh one thing I forgot to mention earlier about Ethan is how FUN it is when your child goes through the "I am 2 so I am not going to eat anything you want me to eat...." stage. The things that he loves he wont touch unless he is the mood for them at that particular moment. Chicken Fingers....forget it unless he asked for them specifically. Macaroni and Cheese...NO MOM I DONT THINK SO....Fried Shrimp...yeah right...and it always happens on the nights when you are going it solo. So tonight, having ruined my own dinner in the crock pot and frustrated with my 2-year old who refused to eat Mac and Cheese for the 1000th time, I did the ultimate Mommy NO NO and gave my child exactly what he wanted for dinner....2 packs of fruit snacks and 3 Snickerdoodle cookies. Ok Ok, no judging me. You just wait til you are over 5 months pregnant with an aching back and a rumbling stomach and you find yourself also eating cookies for dinner...and then see if you would not do the same thing if in my position.
Well it is time to sign off this thing for the night. My husband is finally home, the kitchen needs cleaning, work needs billing, my son needs his night-night milk, and laundry needs folding....oh did I mention my back is hurting....
Well life here is pretty much same as usual. Ethan spent Friday night with his Grammie and Poppy because they called wanting to have a sleepover with the boys, so Joey and I got to go out to a Mommy and Daddy quiet dinner without any interuptions.
Ethan is becoming quite the little helper around the house. It truly is amazing what children pick up on. I can not even begin to count the times Ethan has watched Joey clean out our fire place prior to starting a fire on cold nights. Well it is these little things that you really dont think children notice but believe me they do. Friday morning, prior to heading out to drop Ethan at Kim's, I started up one of his favorite shows and told him I was getting a quick shower. Now this is something we do day after day and he will always sit there mesmerized by the TV and not move a muscle. Well for some reason he decided he wanted Friday to be different. I took a quick shower and when I got out I could still here the show playing in the living room so I went ahead and dressed quickly. Once I went out to the living room to check on him I noticed he was not in the spot where he had been sitting when I went to get in the shower. I walked the downstairs looking for him and did not see him anywhere. As I was coming out of the kitchen I noticed something blue sticking out of the fireplace and quickly realized it was Ethan's pajama footie. I rushed over and what did I see.....my 2-year old with dust pan in hand fully seated in the fireplace scooping up the debris and dumping it out on to my fireplace stoop. I was in total shock. This was a moment I wish I had grabbed my camera, but I was worried about him eating the soot so I grabbed a rag and quickly got him cleaned up and undressed. In hind sight it really was a sweet gesture. Maybe next time I will get lucky enough for him to try and run the vaccuum!!!!
As for our other baby, she and I are headed to the doctor for a check-up first thing tomorrow morning. This is a routine check-up but I am glad it is time for me to go in because I have been experiencing mild to moderate dizzy spells for the past week. They come at random times and I can not really pin point a reason why. This is something I never experienced with Ethan so I am not familiar with what exactly the problem might be. I hope to have some answers after tomorrow's meeting. The one thing I can tell you is that I am really showing BIG TIME with this pregnancy. Maybe it is true that you do actually carry boy babies and girl babies differently because my belly is very extended and pronounced with Ella Grace but overall I look mostly the same everywhere else. People keep telling me my face has not changed at all. With Ethan I sort of swelled all over but my belly was never THAT big...so this is a whole new thing for me. I literally look like I swallowed a little bowling ball.
Oh one thing I forgot to mention earlier about Ethan is how FUN it is when your child goes through the "I am 2 so I am not going to eat anything you want me to eat...." stage. The things that he loves he wont touch unless he is the mood for them at that particular moment. Chicken Fingers....forget it unless he asked for them specifically. Macaroni and Cheese...NO MOM I DONT THINK SO....Fried Shrimp...yeah right...and it always happens on the nights when you are going it solo. So tonight, having ruined my own dinner in the crock pot and frustrated with my 2-year old who refused to eat Mac and Cheese for the 1000th time, I did the ultimate Mommy NO NO and gave my child exactly what he wanted for dinner....2 packs of fruit snacks and 3 Snickerdoodle cookies. Ok Ok, no judging me. You just wait til you are over 5 months pregnant with an aching back and a rumbling stomach and you find yourself also eating cookies for dinner...and then see if you would not do the same thing if in my position.
Well it is time to sign off this thing for the night. My husband is finally home, the kitchen needs cleaning, work needs billing, my son needs his night-night milk, and laundry needs folding....oh did I mention my back is hurting....
Sunday, February 1, 2009
5 months and counting....
Well I finally hit the 5 month mark...is it just me or did that seem to take forever? Little Ella Grace is now only 4 months and counting from making her grand entrance and we can not wait!
Our weekend this weekend was relatively uneventful. Joey worked ALL weekend (nothing new) and Ethan and I pretty much hung out together (also nothing new....) It was nice because my hubby did get home early Friday night and took us all out to a very nice Japanese dinner. Ethan loved it. He ate the fried rice, and shrimp, and some of the chicken too! He absolutely loves fortune cookies too. But then again, I have never seen Ethan meet a cookie he did not like :)
Saturday was nice too. Joey finished his work way earlier than expected and arranged for our babysitter to come (last minute) and he took me out on a nice date. We went and had burgers, caught a silly movie, and went out afterwards for dessert. It was such a great escape after being house bound with Ethan for 3 days. Ethan and I do have our little things we do...like for instance Thursdays are "McDonalds Thursdays" because we always have lunch there and he gets to play on the indoor playground with the other children. I hate that the weather is so cold and nasty right now because it makes it hard for a 2-year old to understand why he can't get outside and play like he wants too. I swear Ethan would get out there in 30 degree weather but for Mommy to tough it out it has to at least reach 65.
Joey and I have found a new church here in town that we have started going to regularly. We visited around for 7 months before finally finding something that seemed like a good fit. I am much more traditional than Joey when it comes to church because that it the type of environment I was raised in. Nothing wrong with contemporary, but it does not suit me and it is not what I want to raise my children in. I want a church with strong Baptist principles and Baptist theology and we have found that at Newnan First Baptist. I knew God had called us to be there when on the first day we visited the church, Ethan walked right in to the nursery and did not cry even one bit. He ALWAYS cries. No matter where we have gone and no matter how many times in a row we went somewhere else he would always cry. On day one, no tears at this church nursery so that was a great sign for me!!!!
Well my eyes are heavy. Even though I had at least an hour nap today I am still tired. Plus I need to sign off now before I pass out from the GAS my husband just let rip right in my face as I sit here typing this out. In fact, I feel myself starting to gag right now.....
Hope everyone has a fantastic week. I will keep you guys posted on all the wonderful happenings of the Kramers in the days ahead! Oh and pray that that stupid ground hog either sees his shadow or not....whichever means SPRING is coming because I have an anxious 2-year old that needs to get to play in the park badly!!!
Later....
Our weekend this weekend was relatively uneventful. Joey worked ALL weekend (nothing new) and Ethan and I pretty much hung out together (also nothing new....) It was nice because my hubby did get home early Friday night and took us all out to a very nice Japanese dinner. Ethan loved it. He ate the fried rice, and shrimp, and some of the chicken too! He absolutely loves fortune cookies too. But then again, I have never seen Ethan meet a cookie he did not like :)
Saturday was nice too. Joey finished his work way earlier than expected and arranged for our babysitter to come (last minute) and he took me out on a nice date. We went and had burgers, caught a silly movie, and went out afterwards for dessert. It was such a great escape after being house bound with Ethan for 3 days. Ethan and I do have our little things we do...like for instance Thursdays are "McDonalds Thursdays" because we always have lunch there and he gets to play on the indoor playground with the other children. I hate that the weather is so cold and nasty right now because it makes it hard for a 2-year old to understand why he can't get outside and play like he wants too. I swear Ethan would get out there in 30 degree weather but for Mommy to tough it out it has to at least reach 65.
Joey and I have found a new church here in town that we have started going to regularly. We visited around for 7 months before finally finding something that seemed like a good fit. I am much more traditional than Joey when it comes to church because that it the type of environment I was raised in. Nothing wrong with contemporary, but it does not suit me and it is not what I want to raise my children in. I want a church with strong Baptist principles and Baptist theology and we have found that at Newnan First Baptist. I knew God had called us to be there when on the first day we visited the church, Ethan walked right in to the nursery and did not cry even one bit. He ALWAYS cries. No matter where we have gone and no matter how many times in a row we went somewhere else he would always cry. On day one, no tears at this church nursery so that was a great sign for me!!!!
Well my eyes are heavy. Even though I had at least an hour nap today I am still tired. Plus I need to sign off now before I pass out from the GAS my husband just let rip right in my face as I sit here typing this out. In fact, I feel myself starting to gag right now.....
Hope everyone has a fantastic week. I will keep you guys posted on all the wonderful happenings of the Kramers in the days ahead! Oh and pray that that stupid ground hog either sees his shadow or not....whichever means SPRING is coming because I have an anxious 2-year old that needs to get to play in the park badly!!!
Later....
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Crossroads
Have you ever found yourself at a Crossroads? I am sure we all have a time or two in life and it is scary to think that these many moments we encounter can very well shape the path our lives take. Maybe only temporarily or maybe for an even greater period of time...
As many of my friends and family know, I have been preparing for my "new career" for the past year. I have been taking all the necessary tests, calling up and getting my old high school and college records, finding SAT scores from 9 years ago, and getting all my ducks in a row. At the time Joey and I moved to Coweta County (pre pregnancy) I started making calls to the Board of Education to prepare myself for the 2009-2010 school year. I was told at that time that there would be a job fair held in mid to late April 2009 to hire all teachers for the upcoming school year. Well in September when we found out about our little miracle on the way, I still had full intentions of forging ahead with my plans for teaching this August. Joey and I have bounced ideas back and forth and I just thought it would be best for us if I went ahead and started working. Well I was logging on to the Coweta County website first of this past week and guess what I found...a banner advertising the JOB FAIR...which they state is being held in 4 weeks!!!! Wait...back up a second....4 WEEKS!!!!!!!!! I am not prepared for 4 weeks. I immediately start having a panic attack. I thought I had more time to decide about next year, thought I had more time to figure things out and get myself mentally prepared to leave my very very small infant in the hands of someone else....thought I had time to get myself emotionally prepared for this big decision...and then it hit like a ton of bricks...time is out Brittney, you must decide now because this is something I have to register to attend, must make sure my application and all reference letters are turned in, and then I must go and sell myself in hopes of finding a perfect fit.
So you see....I am at a Crossroads. Maybe I have been putting off the inevitable, convincing myself that if this JOB FAIR were indeed in April I would magically have the answer by the time that date arrived. Delusional huh? Or perhaps I thought that Joey's business would get off the ground really good between January and April and I would feel more secure about waiting another year and not starting to teach until August 2010 when my daughter will be 15-16 months old. Maybe I just dont like having this HUGE decision weighing down on me....because teaching is not really like any other job. It's not like I can say..."well I will wait until January when Ella Grace is 7 months and then I will start looking...." nope if I put this off then I will more than likely not find any openings until Fall 2010 when they start hiring for that school year. Now I know there is never constant assurance in any decision we make, but I would like to feel a security blanket thrown over me knowing that if I do decide to stay home for a year with my daughter (as I have done with my son) then I can rest assured that my decision was the right one.
Joey says stop stressing myself out about it...says to wait one more year til I am good and comfortable putting her in a day care and then start teaching then...with a clean conscience and the ability to go to work everyday knowing that my children are safe and happy and well cared for.
For those mothers out there that do not get to stay home with their children but want to, my heart goes out to you. Call me crazy (and some have) but my heart is with my son and I know that I doing better by him then anyone else would be able to. And so what if I have to work until I am 60 to put in my 30 years for retirement all because I stayed home and cared for my kids while they were small. Will there be any regrets then? I highly doubt it. I will never get this time back, Ethan will never be two again, and once it is gone I know it is gone for good.
What a tough choice we mothers are forced to make. I just consider myself so blessed that for me it is even a choice at all!
As many of my friends and family know, I have been preparing for my "new career" for the past year. I have been taking all the necessary tests, calling up and getting my old high school and college records, finding SAT scores from 9 years ago, and getting all my ducks in a row. At the time Joey and I moved to Coweta County (pre pregnancy) I started making calls to the Board of Education to prepare myself for the 2009-2010 school year. I was told at that time that there would be a job fair held in mid to late April 2009 to hire all teachers for the upcoming school year. Well in September when we found out about our little miracle on the way, I still had full intentions of forging ahead with my plans for teaching this August. Joey and I have bounced ideas back and forth and I just thought it would be best for us if I went ahead and started working. Well I was logging on to the Coweta County website first of this past week and guess what I found...a banner advertising the JOB FAIR...which they state is being held in 4 weeks!!!! Wait...back up a second....4 WEEKS!!!!!!!!! I am not prepared for 4 weeks. I immediately start having a panic attack. I thought I had more time to decide about next year, thought I had more time to figure things out and get myself mentally prepared to leave my very very small infant in the hands of someone else....thought I had time to get myself emotionally prepared for this big decision...and then it hit like a ton of bricks...time is out Brittney, you must decide now because this is something I have to register to attend, must make sure my application and all reference letters are turned in, and then I must go and sell myself in hopes of finding a perfect fit.
So you see....I am at a Crossroads. Maybe I have been putting off the inevitable, convincing myself that if this JOB FAIR were indeed in April I would magically have the answer by the time that date arrived. Delusional huh? Or perhaps I thought that Joey's business would get off the ground really good between January and April and I would feel more secure about waiting another year and not starting to teach until August 2010 when my daughter will be 15-16 months old. Maybe I just dont like having this HUGE decision weighing down on me....because teaching is not really like any other job. It's not like I can say..."well I will wait until January when Ella Grace is 7 months and then I will start looking...." nope if I put this off then I will more than likely not find any openings until Fall 2010 when they start hiring for that school year. Now I know there is never constant assurance in any decision we make, but I would like to feel a security blanket thrown over me knowing that if I do decide to stay home for a year with my daughter (as I have done with my son) then I can rest assured that my decision was the right one.
Joey says stop stressing myself out about it...says to wait one more year til I am good and comfortable putting her in a day care and then start teaching then...with a clean conscience and the ability to go to work everyday knowing that my children are safe and happy and well cared for.
For those mothers out there that do not get to stay home with their children but want to, my heart goes out to you. Call me crazy (and some have) but my heart is with my son and I know that I doing better by him then anyone else would be able to. And so what if I have to work until I am 60 to put in my 30 years for retirement all because I stayed home and cared for my kids while they were small. Will there be any regrets then? I highly doubt it. I will never get this time back, Ethan will never be two again, and once it is gone I know it is gone for good.
What a tough choice we mothers are forced to make. I just consider myself so blessed that for me it is even a choice at all!
Monday, January 26, 2009
A major pregnant moment...
I am certainly having a major pregnant moment...well let's say a major pregnant day! Thank goodness I have been blessed with the most understanding husband God could have ever created. I think my hormones are just having a hayday right now or something because today has been a day unlike any other the entire 5 months of this pregnancy.
I worked today at an elementary school which is hard because you have to be up at 5:30am and also hard because I do not love that age group. But..the extra money is nice so I forged ahead. Well about mid day I started getting so sleepy that I could hardly keep my eyes open. The lovely 10 and 11 year olds kept coming up to me with ridiculous statements or questions and I found myself staring at the clock wishing time would indeed fly by for once. Finally I get out of there and go to pick up Ethan only for the day to get worse from there. You see, my child has hit the "terrible twos." And you know it's the terrible twos because your night goes something like this:
Walk in the door and child starts screaming for Pablo (a favorite tv character) so you oblige and turn on the show is wanting. 5 minutes later he starts screaming for Super Why (another show he loves) so again you oblige and change the channel for him. You go back to the kitchen, get elbow deep in hamburger meat only to hear your child starting stomping and kicking and once again demanding Pablo. At this point you have washed your hands free of hamburger meat 3 times and your nerves are starting to get tested. So you tackle this issue by turning off the TV and encouraging your child to go play and what are you met with....a full blown temper tantrum because you have just turned off his favorite show. Once mayhem subsides and you attempt to sit down for those hamburgers you have been working on for 2 hours, your child decides that he hates hamburger meat tonight so he is going to refuse to eat anything but fries and vanilla wafers. No matter how hard you struggle, only fries and wafers pass the lips. Once dinner is finally over your nerves are shot, your lucky if you have any hair left, your at your wits end, when in walks your husband from work having missed all of the evenings earlier festivities. Not that your bitter, I mean after all he was working all day, but sometimes it just rattles that last little nerve that is barely hanging on after the all out struggle with your toddler for the past few hours.
Can anyone relate? I am sure I am feeling this extreme because as I mentioned earlier the hormones must be out of whack or something. So you know what wonderful hubby did...made me wash my face and put me in the bed along with the lap top so I can blog it all out and attempt to feel better. And said hubby is currently upstairs bathing devil toddler who has for the moment returned to his normal angelic self.
And to think we are adding another one in to this mix. Oh dear God pray for my nerves and sanity :)
So I do feel better now that I have aired everything out. Writing must be a release. I think I will go enjoy my quiet time in my bed, feet kicked up, pj's on, and maybe have a good cry to get all these crazy hormonal emotions out of my system. Can't wait to feel better in the morning!!!!
I worked today at an elementary school which is hard because you have to be up at 5:30am and also hard because I do not love that age group. But..the extra money is nice so I forged ahead. Well about mid day I started getting so sleepy that I could hardly keep my eyes open. The lovely 10 and 11 year olds kept coming up to me with ridiculous statements or questions and I found myself staring at the clock wishing time would indeed fly by for once. Finally I get out of there and go to pick up Ethan only for the day to get worse from there. You see, my child has hit the "terrible twos." And you know it's the terrible twos because your night goes something like this:
Walk in the door and child starts screaming for Pablo (a favorite tv character) so you oblige and turn on the show is wanting. 5 minutes later he starts screaming for Super Why (another show he loves) so again you oblige and change the channel for him. You go back to the kitchen, get elbow deep in hamburger meat only to hear your child starting stomping and kicking and once again demanding Pablo. At this point you have washed your hands free of hamburger meat 3 times and your nerves are starting to get tested. So you tackle this issue by turning off the TV and encouraging your child to go play and what are you met with....a full blown temper tantrum because you have just turned off his favorite show. Once mayhem subsides and you attempt to sit down for those hamburgers you have been working on for 2 hours, your child decides that he hates hamburger meat tonight so he is going to refuse to eat anything but fries and vanilla wafers. No matter how hard you struggle, only fries and wafers pass the lips. Once dinner is finally over your nerves are shot, your lucky if you have any hair left, your at your wits end, when in walks your husband from work having missed all of the evenings earlier festivities. Not that your bitter, I mean after all he was working all day, but sometimes it just rattles that last little nerve that is barely hanging on after the all out struggle with your toddler for the past few hours.
Can anyone relate? I am sure I am feeling this extreme because as I mentioned earlier the hormones must be out of whack or something. So you know what wonderful hubby did...made me wash my face and put me in the bed along with the lap top so I can blog it all out and attempt to feel better. And said hubby is currently upstairs bathing devil toddler who has for the moment returned to his normal angelic self.
And to think we are adding another one in to this mix. Oh dear God pray for my nerves and sanity :)
So I do feel better now that I have aired everything out. Writing must be a release. I think I will go enjoy my quiet time in my bed, feet kicked up, pj's on, and maybe have a good cry to get all these crazy hormonal emotions out of my system. Can't wait to feel better in the morning!!!!
Sunday, January 25, 2009
The Start of an adventure.....
Hello All!
Well my sister started a blog, and lots of my friends have these so I thought I might give it a try. My husband says that I am your typical stay at home wife...meaning I like to cook, constantly find something to fix around the house, and now apparently blog as well. It seems fitting!
For those who might read this that don't really know my family, a quick overview can sum us up. My husband is 31 and owns his own business which means he works like crazy. I am 26, pregnant with our second child, and a stay at home mommy right now. We have a perfect 2-year old little genius named Ethan who is the light of our lives. He is a mommy's boy but I have no problem at all with that. Our daughter, Ella Grace, should be making her debut in late May.
I love being at home and find that I don't really miss the working world. Maybe it is because I feel like there is so much I might miss out on if I left Ethan for long periods of time. I substitute teach from time to time to start making some connections here in the county since we just moved, but I spend most of my days with my son trying to teach him to potty, watching cartoons, playing cars and putting together puzzles. If anyone reads this and has any good tips on how to be successful when potty training a boy then I am all ears. I don't really think he is ready mentally quite yet to understand what the potty is all about, but when your two year old pats his little behind and tell you that he poo poo'd I feel like some call to action is required. So we have set out on the potty adventure. And to call it an ADVENTURE is quite an understatement. Ethan likes to dance around it naked, put his feet or various toys down in the potty, open and close the lid 1000 times, and best of all have accidents right on my carpet or bathroom rugs despite constant reminders to sit down when he feels pee pee or poo poo coming. I know you blog readers are super psyched to be reading about my toddler's bathroom antics but I did warn you in my ABOUT ME section that this would be a crazy blog about the life of a young family.
As for Joey and I, I guess we are pretty boring compared to the potty adventure we are on. We steal nights away whenever we can afford our babysitter or whenever a too kind grandparent calls and volunteers for a toddler filled night. We live for the nights we get to go to dinner together and have adult conversations without any interuptions or thrown food or spilt drinks. We know all to well that these next 4 months we better treasure our nights out because we seriously doubt anyone will volunteer for newborn duty along with an energetic 2 1/2 year old in tow.
I look forward to sharing our craziness with friends and family through this blog. Most of our family lives local but there are those that live away that we do not see often enough. Hopefully this will allow them a little window in to our day to day family life.
Until next time....
Well my sister started a blog, and lots of my friends have these so I thought I might give it a try. My husband says that I am your typical stay at home wife...meaning I like to cook, constantly find something to fix around the house, and now apparently blog as well. It seems fitting!
For those who might read this that don't really know my family, a quick overview can sum us up. My husband is 31 and owns his own business which means he works like crazy. I am 26, pregnant with our second child, and a stay at home mommy right now. We have a perfect 2-year old little genius named Ethan who is the light of our lives. He is a mommy's boy but I have no problem at all with that. Our daughter, Ella Grace, should be making her debut in late May.
I love being at home and find that I don't really miss the working world. Maybe it is because I feel like there is so much I might miss out on if I left Ethan for long periods of time. I substitute teach from time to time to start making some connections here in the county since we just moved, but I spend most of my days with my son trying to teach him to potty, watching cartoons, playing cars and putting together puzzles. If anyone reads this and has any good tips on how to be successful when potty training a boy then I am all ears. I don't really think he is ready mentally quite yet to understand what the potty is all about, but when your two year old pats his little behind and tell you that he poo poo'd I feel like some call to action is required. So we have set out on the potty adventure. And to call it an ADVENTURE is quite an understatement. Ethan likes to dance around it naked, put his feet or various toys down in the potty, open and close the lid 1000 times, and best of all have accidents right on my carpet or bathroom rugs despite constant reminders to sit down when he feels pee pee or poo poo coming. I know you blog readers are super psyched to be reading about my toddler's bathroom antics but I did warn you in my ABOUT ME section that this would be a crazy blog about the life of a young family.
As for Joey and I, I guess we are pretty boring compared to the potty adventure we are on. We steal nights away whenever we can afford our babysitter or whenever a too kind grandparent calls and volunteers for a toddler filled night. We live for the nights we get to go to dinner together and have adult conversations without any interuptions or thrown food or spilt drinks. We know all to well that these next 4 months we better treasure our nights out because we seriously doubt anyone will volunteer for newborn duty along with an energetic 2 1/2 year old in tow.
I look forward to sharing our craziness with friends and family through this blog. Most of our family lives local but there are those that live away that we do not see often enough. Hopefully this will allow them a little window in to our day to day family life.
Until next time....
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