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Danica & Ariah enjoying an afternoon snack in the backyard.
Friday, June 17, 2011
The light at the end of the tunnel
Just as I thought things were starting to look up for us this summer we are yet again faced with a road block. This time it is financial in nature and completely due to a mistake that a male household member made... (bills paid online twice.. it happens! LOL) But we will somehow make it through and be just fine. I mean surely it is possible for three people to live off of $2.57 a day for 13 days, and if not then I can drain our savings account- what's left of it. As some of you know Jake is not in the country right now and things tend to really go bad when he is gone. But so far this detachment has been a breeze in comparison to ones in the past. No one has died, been to the emergency room or admitted to a hospital... & it seems like my girls really can be normal kids in Texas as long as I take the proper precautions before hand. We were even able to play outside this week in the pool and go to a splash park in the middle of the afternoon! I am so thankful for the opportunity to let them be little and just play!
Monday, June 13, 2011
A day in the life of...
So, I should start out by saying that this entry is for those of you who wonder what in the heck it is that SAHM's do ALL day...?!? Oh and SAHM means Stay At Home Mom- though I'm NOT always home.
Anyway, here it is!
I will start at midnight -YES MIDNIGHT!- on June 13th. Why Midnight? Because one of my children had just fallen asleep at 12:01 am and so it begins at midnight!
12:01 am- A is finally out for the night, only 30 minutes behind her big sister and yet I know she will be the one who is up first and the only member in our house who somehow wakes fully rested.
7:00 am- A wanders into my bedroom and removes her pull up on the way in... only problem is that it started leaking hours ago so she is soaked and stinky.
7:05 am- as I'm laying in bed with a naked, half smelly toddler D walks in demanding that she get in the tub with her "soap" because she is itchy. This soap is not soap at all but it a paste of Apple Cider Vinegar and baking soda that she rubs all over.
7:10 - 8:00 am- kids are in the tub, half playing and half arguing over who gets to touch what toy and in what order. I sit on the toilet seat (just sitting!) and listen, direct and wash kids.
8:10 am- A is now fully dressed to her approval and D is flopping around on the floor complaining about the pants that SHE picked out... this does not end until 10 but the show must go on, right?
8:30 am- BREAKFAST- well at least for the kids...
9:00 am- A decided to play in her toy room while D continued to throw her fit so I snuck off to take a shower. My shower lasted about 7 minutes and that time included me "getting ready" for the day. Not a pretty picture as I'm sure you can imagine!
9:20 am- pick up breakfast dishes and eat remaining oatmeal out of D's bowl... YUMMY!
The next 45 minutes is spent in an attempt to get you know who to put her shoes on by herself... she's 5 and they slip on so I refused to "help"
10:30 - arrive at the YMCA for mom and me class! We had a good time
11-12- ME TIME! Kids in the nursery and me on some random piece of workout equipment trying to look like Im awake.
12:10 pm- Arrive at Target for the sole purpose of buying juice and milk... EPIC FAILURE> I would NOT let A get some nasty all dye and no juice fruit punch so she threw one of her very long and very LOUD tantrums... she was half hanging out of the cart during the whole ordeal as she refused to sit or walk or be carried. I bought 100% APPLE JUICE thank You!
12:30 pm- Get home and start cooking lunch, a lunch that no one ate and all went to the dog. But at least I can say I tried. While cooking I had to make an important phone call and during this time the kids decided to throw down... I sent A to the potty to buy me some time! LOL something Im sure I can only do during this potty training phase, but I was so thankful to be able to distract her!
1:00- after no one eating because all they wanted was juice or bc there food touched I decided to attempt to get them to nap...
1:30 I left the bedroom to clean up from lunch. 1:30 is also when A decided it was more fun to be a monkey than to sleep... whatever... I went in the room after about 15 minutes of listening to their insane laughter and turned the light on and told them they could read books.
2:00- they wonder out and demand ice cream... I then have to inform them that they can have grapes NOT ice cream and that if they would have eaten their lunch then blah blah blah... I get tears and screams... we all scream for ice cream! JOY!
2:30 ish... they began to settle down but only bc I turned on some movie about going to Mars... they watched it while I did the laundry... oh and they ate pretzels not grapes... but still better than ice cream
3:00 we made a chain of paper chains to represent the number of days their daddy will be gone... D got the concept, A did not. A cut things out of a catalog and glued them to paper... but we had fun anyway
4:00 kids start to get bored with artwork and sine it was only 100 degrees out and the UV index was starting to dip decided we could play outside. I snuck out and filed the pool and hung yet another sun shade...
4:10 let the bathing suit battle begin! D wanted to wear her bikini... A NO NO for PMLE kids... but I let her wear it and covered every inch of her in Lizard Lotion.
4:15 go outside! This is where I did sit and relax... kind of... if getting splashed and having mud flung at you is relaxing :) but this was by far the highlight of my day since the girls were having a blast!
5:00 RUN inside and grab food to feed the girls outside! they ate canteloupe, the whole thing! I offered other things but once again they didnt want those things.
6:00 hose kids off and head inside.
6:15 get on pj's
6:30 turn on Go Diego Go... hoping this would help them unwind... it didnt. Damn Diego and Dora! Always wanting kids to yell at the tv!!! I would have preferred Spongebob over those two but it wasnt on...!?!
7:00 pm- brush teeth, read book tuck kids in... for the first time anyway.
7:30 pm remind kids that it is bedtime and not play time.
7:45 pm- now mommy is losing patience and they are getting whinier every minute.
8:00 D falls asleep and A wakes her by climbing on her bed... UGH!!!
8:10 pm- both kids are screaming "MOMMY I WANT YOU!" as I am attempting to put my dinner in the oven....
8:30 pm- A is crying so hard that her whole body is red. Great! so I lay down in the middle of D's twin bed, one kid on each side. A passes right out but D keeps singing quietly to herself and wants me to scratch her back. So I do, for 30 minutes!
9:00 pm- I tell D that she needs to fall asleep now... she does...
9-10 pm talk on the phone to my mom while feeding the guinea pig, dogs, and cleaning up the living room...
10- BLOG
so that is what I did all day!
Anyway, here it is!
I will start at midnight -YES MIDNIGHT!- on June 13th. Why Midnight? Because one of my children had just fallen asleep at 12:01 am and so it begins at midnight!
12:01 am- A is finally out for the night, only 30 minutes behind her big sister and yet I know she will be the one who is up first and the only member in our house who somehow wakes fully rested.
7:00 am- A wanders into my bedroom and removes her pull up on the way in... only problem is that it started leaking hours ago so she is soaked and stinky.
7:05 am- as I'm laying in bed with a naked, half smelly toddler D walks in demanding that she get in the tub with her "soap" because she is itchy. This soap is not soap at all but it a paste of Apple Cider Vinegar and baking soda that she rubs all over.
7:10 - 8:00 am- kids are in the tub, half playing and half arguing over who gets to touch what toy and in what order. I sit on the toilet seat (just sitting!) and listen, direct and wash kids.
8:10 am- A is now fully dressed to her approval and D is flopping around on the floor complaining about the pants that SHE picked out... this does not end until 10 but the show must go on, right?
8:30 am- BREAKFAST- well at least for the kids...
9:00 am- A decided to play in her toy room while D continued to throw her fit so I snuck off to take a shower. My shower lasted about 7 minutes and that time included me "getting ready" for the day. Not a pretty picture as I'm sure you can imagine!
9:20 am- pick up breakfast dishes and eat remaining oatmeal out of D's bowl... YUMMY!
The next 45 minutes is spent in an attempt to get you know who to put her shoes on by herself... she's 5 and they slip on so I refused to "help"
10:30 - arrive at the YMCA for mom and me class! We had a good time
11-12- ME TIME! Kids in the nursery and me on some random piece of workout equipment trying to look like Im awake.
12:10 pm- Arrive at Target for the sole purpose of buying juice and milk... EPIC FAILURE> I would NOT let A get some nasty all dye and no juice fruit punch so she threw one of her very long and very LOUD tantrums... she was half hanging out of the cart during the whole ordeal as she refused to sit or walk or be carried. I bought 100% APPLE JUICE thank You!
12:30 pm- Get home and start cooking lunch, a lunch that no one ate and all went to the dog. But at least I can say I tried. While cooking I had to make an important phone call and during this time the kids decided to throw down... I sent A to the potty to buy me some time! LOL something Im sure I can only do during this potty training phase, but I was so thankful to be able to distract her!
1:00- after no one eating because all they wanted was juice or bc there food touched I decided to attempt to get them to nap...
1:30 I left the bedroom to clean up from lunch. 1:30 is also when A decided it was more fun to be a monkey than to sleep... whatever... I went in the room after about 15 minutes of listening to their insane laughter and turned the light on and told them they could read books.
2:00- they wonder out and demand ice cream... I then have to inform them that they can have grapes NOT ice cream and that if they would have eaten their lunch then blah blah blah... I get tears and screams... we all scream for ice cream! JOY!
2:30 ish... they began to settle down but only bc I turned on some movie about going to Mars... they watched it while I did the laundry... oh and they ate pretzels not grapes... but still better than ice cream
3:00 we made a chain of paper chains to represent the number of days their daddy will be gone... D got the concept, A did not. A cut things out of a catalog and glued them to paper... but we had fun anyway
4:00 kids start to get bored with artwork and sine it was only 100 degrees out and the UV index was starting to dip decided we could play outside. I snuck out and filed the pool and hung yet another sun shade...
4:10 let the bathing suit battle begin! D wanted to wear her bikini... A NO NO for PMLE kids... but I let her wear it and covered every inch of her in Lizard Lotion.
4:15 go outside! This is where I did sit and relax... kind of... if getting splashed and having mud flung at you is relaxing :) but this was by far the highlight of my day since the girls were having a blast!
5:00 RUN inside and grab food to feed the girls outside! they ate canteloupe, the whole thing! I offered other things but once again they didnt want those things.
6:00 hose kids off and head inside.
6:15 get on pj's
6:30 turn on Go Diego Go... hoping this would help them unwind... it didnt. Damn Diego and Dora! Always wanting kids to yell at the tv!!! I would have preferred Spongebob over those two but it wasnt on...!?!
7:00 pm- brush teeth, read book tuck kids in... for the first time anyway.
7:30 pm remind kids that it is bedtime and not play time.
7:45 pm- now mommy is losing patience and they are getting whinier every minute.
8:00 D falls asleep and A wakes her by climbing on her bed... UGH!!!
8:10 pm- both kids are screaming "MOMMY I WANT YOU!" as I am attempting to put my dinner in the oven....
8:30 pm- A is crying so hard that her whole body is red. Great! so I lay down in the middle of D's twin bed, one kid on each side. A passes right out but D keeps singing quietly to herself and wants me to scratch her back. So I do, for 30 minutes!
9:00 pm- I tell D that she needs to fall asleep now... she does...
9-10 pm talk on the phone to my mom while feeding the guinea pig, dogs, and cleaning up the living room...
10- BLOG
so that is what I did all day!
Monday, June 6, 2011
Wake up call
Here it is 2:38 am and Danica is watching Little Bear on Nick Jr. Quality parenting right. I told her she could watch one show after she took her medicines, she was begging anyways. So now she is half sleeping, half watching and sipping her beloved "miky". She is once again covered in PMLE rash despite our best efforts to protect her. She was wearing sun protective clothing, SPF 110 *yes they make such a thing!* and playing in a very shaded backyard, all after 4pm. So now what... can she just not go outside? Im seriously confused and it looks like yet again she will miss school and we will be at the dermatologist office. (primarily to get a refill on meds and to ask why she is sooo sensitive and to see what else we should be doing... unfortunately once they start to get the rash it just has to run its course, usually about a week)
Tomorrow *today really* is field day at school and the last day of school as well. She was really looking forward to getting a snow cone and playing one last time with her friends. But on the up side she has a class at the YMCA tomorrow and Im babysitting one of her friends so I guess we will have to make due. We've also got to drag her out to get her labs done... something I tried previously to do but was asked to leave since she threw such a huge fit! Im positive it will take both Jake and I to hold her down... not that blood work really hurts but she has NO tolerance for pain and a major fear of needles.
Its going to be a LONG summer with NO sun... we are very open to suggestions on what to do with two children who cannot enjoy the great outdoors... I guess its time to stock up on playdough, rice bins with sand toys and all the other things we used to do to pass the time in South Texas... Oh and the play date we are hosting on Tuesday... well... can we all just meet at McDonalds by the mall instead?!? LOL! we will have to cancel... unless your boys want to come over and play with Barbie and her super cool house!
Tomorrow *today really* is field day at school and the last day of school as well. She was really looking forward to getting a snow cone and playing one last time with her friends. But on the up side she has a class at the YMCA tomorrow and Im babysitting one of her friends so I guess we will have to make due. We've also got to drag her out to get her labs done... something I tried previously to do but was asked to leave since she threw such a huge fit! Im positive it will take both Jake and I to hold her down... not that blood work really hurts but she has NO tolerance for pain and a major fear of needles.
Its going to be a LONG summer with NO sun... we are very open to suggestions on what to do with two children who cannot enjoy the great outdoors... I guess its time to stock up on playdough, rice bins with sand toys and all the other things we used to do to pass the time in South Texas... Oh and the play date we are hosting on Tuesday... well... can we all just meet at McDonalds by the mall instead?!? LOL! we will have to cancel... unless your boys want to come over and play with Barbie and her super cool house!
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