I love doing the mainly attachment parenting thing with the kids. I know it's what is best for them, best for us, and it works for our family. I have been struggling though lately. Almost falling off the AP wagon at times and resorting to threats of spanking and bedroom time outs. Mister has always been a challenge to parent, it's Ladybug who has been extremely trying lately. She is approaching 3 years old and naturally we have coming across problems with defyiance, testing limits, saying no to everything, throwing massive fits, and wanting her own way all the time.
A few of her favorite sayings these days include "what?", as in her like not wanting to have heard the thing I just asked of her so she says what in reply to a lot of things. "I NOT want to..." do whatever it is that I ask of her like a simple task she took deodarant from the bathroom and ran away with it so I asked her to please put it back which lead to the throwing of herself on the floor screaming "I not, I NOT I NOT". I counted which made her scream louder then I threatened a time out. She put it back but continued her attitude towards everybody around her. "No", she likes no and says it as much as she can. "no mommy I want candy not a banana.." that was a fight this morning with her. I understand candy is yummy but it's not a breakfast food, she then proceeded to call me mean mommy and wanted me to go to a time out.
Ladybug is bossy and enjoys ordering people around. She will tell you not to be mean to her and if you go against her wishes she orders you to a time out. She is an expert at giving that look to you when you upset her. She hits and kicks when she is super upset, which isn't often as we try our hardest to curb that before it leads to that but when she hasn't napped she gets upset faster. She has been unwilling to nap more and more recently, if she does nap then she wakes up many times at night. We have come to just compremise on a later afternoon short nap and it's ok.
I know what we are dealing with is so normal for a child her age but it is none the less trying our limits and patience as parents. I said before I love how we parent and I do not wish to change that and start spanking and hitting because that gets you no where. How can you teach a child not to be mean when you are being mean to them?! Just doesn't make sense. The Marine is way less patient with her than I am and this upsets me often. He is quick to jump right into being mean and threats towards her, which I hate. I hate having to remind him that being mean to her gets you nothing but a mean child, she reflects when you teach her. So this area also is having a bad effect of our marriage...it doesn't seem like we are on the same page exactly or we are and I just have more control over myself than he does. I don't know.
I want her to stop with her behaviors but I want to do this in a way that doesn't curb her headstrong will, or squash her being. I think her being so strong willed and independant is a good thing actually and I want her to maintain these but I need for her to stop being such an attitudely little girl right now. This too shall pass I guess I should plaster all over the house.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
Road Trip!
Tomorrow bright and early we leave for our vacation to see my family in North Eastern Ohio. Boy I am not excited about being in the truck for 12+hours sitting in the back between two toddlers who probably won't be amused about this for long. I am looking forward to seeing my family once again. Only a small handful have met Mister and have only seen Ladybug once when she was 7 months old. It has been over two years since we have ventured up there so it was due for the trip.
Packing for an entire family makes you become a super organized person. I made lists of what all needed to go in what bag for each person and when it needed to be packed. For instance clothes are all packed (the kids are sleeping in their day clothes tomorrow actually) but things like pillows need to be packed first thing in the morning because we are using them now. The inside of the truck is packed but the outside in the bed will get packed tomorrow morning before we wake the kids. I had thought to pack it tonight but do you know how beyond pissed off I would be if that shit would have been stolen overnight?! Well it would be on the murderous level of pissed off-ness.
Today my awesome Friend Meagen came over to check out the house as she will be coming to let the puppies out three times a day and play with them and clean Bobby's nasty litter box. In exchange for her services I agreed to bake her some of my banana bread though I think she meant like a loaf not the four I made for her and her family to enjoy, two with walnuts and two without. Trust me when I say that this banana bread is so good that one loaf isn't enough and she has a larger size family so she needs more! She is amazingly awesome to be doing this for only banana bread when this is her job with a company that normally I would have to pay like $900!! So in any way I can repay her in food I am all for it!! Thank you Meagen!!!
We installed the carseats all nice and secure in the truck. We flipped Ladybug back around to rear facing for the trip, it is safer and The Marine and I feel much more comfortable traveling such a long way with her as safe as possible. Mister remains rear facing as usual. Surprisingly Ladybug enjoyed being turned around when we put her in to get her adjusted! She has enough leg room and she said it was comfy with her legs crossed. I also showed her that she could put them up against the seat back or down around her carseat if she wanted. If she gets cramped we can always take a break to stretch out, we had planned on doing this anyway. IF anybody wonders about this she actually likes her legs crossed better than dangling down, she has complained before how she doesn't like the "biting" feeling in her feet...which I assume is her feet falling asleep. She is 33lbs and the rear facing limit is 35lbs so we are just squeeking by on that! Plus ya know what it is easier to sleep when rear facing like that. No necks hurting cause you were all slumped over and bobbing all over with every bump, nope just close your eyes and relax!!
We bought some new special things for the trip at the store over the weekend. Some art stuff like peel and stick foam stuff. New coloring books, bubbles, and things hand held computer thing that I have never seen before but it has some good games and music things on it. Those combined with me, naps, eating in places, and more naps I think we will survive the trip just fine....I hope!! If you are my facebook friend you know I am very against having a dvd player or tv in the car. That actually sparked a huge debate the other day. I do not agree with the over use of tv in general and so having a tv in the car is totally outrageous to me actually. I can see how cross country trips it would be probably useful, or single moms who take super long trips with the baby alone, but simple around town trips or hop into the store real quick turn the tv on is just insanity and stupid. It will not happen in my family because that is how we choose to do things in our family. The world is too dependant on tv and other electronic things to begin with.. we all survived trips as children without tv and we are all alive today.(I know I normally hate that argument that we did it and we are fine, but only when it rearguards to safety issues like carseats....)
So tomorrow bright and early...Ohio here we come!!
Packing for an entire family makes you become a super organized person. I made lists of what all needed to go in what bag for each person and when it needed to be packed. For instance clothes are all packed (the kids are sleeping in their day clothes tomorrow actually) but things like pillows need to be packed first thing in the morning because we are using them now. The inside of the truck is packed but the outside in the bed will get packed tomorrow morning before we wake the kids. I had thought to pack it tonight but do you know how beyond pissed off I would be if that shit would have been stolen overnight?! Well it would be on the murderous level of pissed off-ness.
Today my awesome Friend Meagen came over to check out the house as she will be coming to let the puppies out three times a day and play with them and clean Bobby's nasty litter box. In exchange for her services I agreed to bake her some of my banana bread though I think she meant like a loaf not the four I made for her and her family to enjoy, two with walnuts and two without. Trust me when I say that this banana bread is so good that one loaf isn't enough and she has a larger size family so she needs more! She is amazingly awesome to be doing this for only banana bread when this is her job with a company that normally I would have to pay like $900!! So in any way I can repay her in food I am all for it!! Thank you Meagen!!!
We installed the carseats all nice and secure in the truck. We flipped Ladybug back around to rear facing for the trip, it is safer and The Marine and I feel much more comfortable traveling such a long way with her as safe as possible. Mister remains rear facing as usual. Surprisingly Ladybug enjoyed being turned around when we put her in to get her adjusted! She has enough leg room and she said it was comfy with her legs crossed. I also showed her that she could put them up against the seat back or down around her carseat if she wanted. If she gets cramped we can always take a break to stretch out, we had planned on doing this anyway. IF anybody wonders about this she actually likes her legs crossed better than dangling down, she has complained before how she doesn't like the "biting" feeling in her feet...which I assume is her feet falling asleep. She is 33lbs and the rear facing limit is 35lbs so we are just squeeking by on that! Plus ya know what it is easier to sleep when rear facing like that. No necks hurting cause you were all slumped over and bobbing all over with every bump, nope just close your eyes and relax!!
We bought some new special things for the trip at the store over the weekend. Some art stuff like peel and stick foam stuff. New coloring books, bubbles, and things hand held computer thing that I have never seen before but it has some good games and music things on it. Those combined with me, naps, eating in places, and more naps I think we will survive the trip just fine....I hope!! If you are my facebook friend you know I am very against having a dvd player or tv in the car. That actually sparked a huge debate the other day. I do not agree with the over use of tv in general and so having a tv in the car is totally outrageous to me actually. I can see how cross country trips it would be probably useful, or single moms who take super long trips with the baby alone, but simple around town trips or hop into the store real quick turn the tv on is just insanity and stupid. It will not happen in my family because that is how we choose to do things in our family. The world is too dependant on tv and other electronic things to begin with.. we all survived trips as children without tv and we are all alive today.(I know I normally hate that argument that we did it and we are fine, but only when it rearguards to safety issues like carseats....)
So tomorrow bright and early...Ohio here we come!!
My Advise Will Only Be Bought
I like to give out advise to people who seem to actually seek it out. I get messages on facebook often from new moms and some seasoned moms looking for advise. I give them what I can and what worked for my family under the understanding what works for me and my family may not work for them but I also point them to places and websites that offer information as well. No longer will this be happening unless I seriously get paid. If I get paid for my advise than well maybe it will put forth the seriousness for the person asking for it. I have mentioned before how I care way too much about babies in general and want the best for every baby out there.
I retain a crap load of knowledge on certain subjects, breastfeeding happens to be one of them. It seems I am sought out for breastfeeding advise most often and no matter what I say, do, or sites I point in directions it some how never works out for them and the baby ends up on formula. It's certainly not my advise I even consult with my friend who had been an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant for nearly 13yrs now. I get miffed when this happens. I put myself and effort out there to help succeed and you stop why? I did some snooping and one reason I found was cause I wanted to feel normal again ...normal? really? Normal is a woman who breastfeeds her baby because that is what a normal woman's body does..it lactates for the baby. Not normal is formula, created from another animal's milk in laboratories that the FDA doesn't even regulate. Nope not normal to me, sorry. What a bullshit reason for giving up a wonderful, natural, normal, and perfect thing.
Did you know only a mere 5% of woman have a real medical condition that makes them not able to lactate? Did you know that most medications are breastfeeding friendly and if not ask your doctor for alternatives. Did you know that there is so much support and information out there that anybody can access to help them succeed? Well yep...
Now I am not saying I won't give when asked, but you really have to be serious about it cause I am about done wasting my time on a lost cause. I can't save all babies though I wish I really could. i am ok with people asking me things, kinda makes me happy actually. But then I get so upset and disappointed when things fail anyway that The Marine told me he was going to revoke my Internet so that I stop being upset that I wasted my time. I just generally care too much and that kind of sucks. When I earn my Lactation Consultant title I will charge... until then I will only help those who actually mean to want to succeed.
I retain a crap load of knowledge on certain subjects, breastfeeding happens to be one of them. It seems I am sought out for breastfeeding advise most often and no matter what I say, do, or sites I point in directions it some how never works out for them and the baby ends up on formula. It's certainly not my advise I even consult with my friend who had been an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant for nearly 13yrs now. I get miffed when this happens. I put myself and effort out there to help succeed and you stop why? I did some snooping and one reason I found was cause I wanted to feel normal again ...normal? really? Normal is a woman who breastfeeds her baby because that is what a normal woman's body does..it lactates for the baby. Not normal is formula, created from another animal's milk in laboratories that the FDA doesn't even regulate. Nope not normal to me, sorry. What a bullshit reason for giving up a wonderful, natural, normal, and perfect thing.
Did you know only a mere 5% of woman have a real medical condition that makes them not able to lactate? Did you know that most medications are breastfeeding friendly and if not ask your doctor for alternatives. Did you know that there is so much support and information out there that anybody can access to help them succeed? Well yep...
Now I am not saying I won't give when asked, but you really have to be serious about it cause I am about done wasting my time on a lost cause. I can't save all babies though I wish I really could. i am ok with people asking me things, kinda makes me happy actually. But then I get so upset and disappointed when things fail anyway that The Marine told me he was going to revoke my Internet so that I stop being upset that I wasted my time. I just generally care too much and that kind of sucks. When I earn my Lactation Consultant title I will charge... until then I will only help those who actually mean to want to succeed.
Friday, April 15, 2011
Weather Steroids
Around here in Northern Alabama it is spring time, and along with spring comes spring storms. In the last week we have had three days that have been rainy and sometimes a little stormy. Also around here the weather forecaster seem to be on steroids about this whole weather thing to the point of insanity in my opinion.
Growing up I remember standing in the hallways at school or drills or warnings and it was never a big deal. I remember riding home on the bus watching the sky light up. I remember playing softball and having to huddle in the concession stand! I don't remember ever being let out of school for silly reasons short of an actual tornado on the ground, a blizzard, or summer vacation! I know this was I am not going to admit how many years ago many years ago but still with the better prediction center and all the technology out there things have got to be safer, easier, and better. At least you would think so, right?
Not so, not here. Weather paranoia is on a rampage, although they would prefer if you called it weather aware. Today it is raining, sometimes thundering, but mostly rain and those who had school this week (most had spring break) have been let out of school....or rain! I kid you not! This system has a history apparently from yesterday producing way more in other states before it moved through here...while it moved through here it has been weak and sad. That doesn't stop the weather forecasters on the news from pumping the weather steroids into everybody's veins! Oh no they started pumping this storm system up on Wednesday evening! They quickly had tv commercials playing throughout the day Thursday about how bad it will be today. All day today they have cut into tv shows to tell you about the weather. I am not shitting you, they have gone off the deep end around here! It's RAINING!!!!!!!!! Oh lordy lordy lordy we must button down the hatches!
They are calling today an event ...really it's spring rain and this is an event?! The noon news is on currently, guess what is this biggest story? ....yes it is the major storms!
Growing up I remember standing in the hallways at school or drills or warnings and it was never a big deal. I remember riding home on the bus watching the sky light up. I remember playing softball and having to huddle in the concession stand! I don't remember ever being let out of school for silly reasons short of an actual tornado on the ground, a blizzard, or summer vacation! I know this was I am not going to admit how many years ago many years ago but still with the better prediction center and all the technology out there things have got to be safer, easier, and better. At least you would think so, right?
Not so, not here. Weather paranoia is on a rampage, although they would prefer if you called it weather aware. Today it is raining, sometimes thundering, but mostly rain and those who had school this week (most had spring break) have been let out of school....or rain! I kid you not! This system has a history apparently from yesterday producing way more in other states before it moved through here...while it moved through here it has been weak and sad. That doesn't stop the weather forecasters on the news from pumping the weather steroids into everybody's veins! Oh no they started pumping this storm system up on Wednesday evening! They quickly had tv commercials playing throughout the day Thursday about how bad it will be today. All day today they have cut into tv shows to tell you about the weather. I am not shitting you, they have gone off the deep end around here! It's RAINING!!!!!!!!! Oh lordy lordy lordy we must button down the hatches!
They are calling today an event ...really it's spring rain and this is an event?! The noon news is on currently, guess what is this biggest story? ....yes it is the major storms!
Weather Steroids!
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Now I can take a flip side look and see that this storm system has produced some damage overnight in other states while making it's way to us. I can understand why parents would want to pull kids out of class because of a bad storm, maybe, I personally would not. I can understand why we need to be weather aware, to a point. I do not understand why we have to be weather paranoid.
The whole weather paranoia thing is having an opposite effect than they intend, I have stopped paying attention to their cries of wolf. It is starting to annoy me actually, stop crying wolf! These storms coming around lately are a normal part of spring time weather and we should all pull our big girl panties on and deal with them. Stay safe yes but stop with the annoying paranoia already please! What is this teaching our kids that we keep pulling out of school simply because what if... well I tell ya it's teaching them nothing good. First of all the majority of kids need to be in school, Alabama has such a high drop out rate and horrid test scores that i personally feel these kids need as much school time as they can get. Mentioning now that they have already missed so much this year for the snow storms they are so behind. Try not to take offense to that, i did not say your kid/s are stupid just saying they need all they can get because of statistics.Also another shameless plug for homeschooling...you can have an awesome weather lesson today!!! Secondly if we keep pulling them out and being paranoid what does that get them?....to be frightened and paranoid as well over nothing really. Kids don't need any stress, why can't we teach them how normal this is and explain why this is happening? Ladybug and Mister know about thunder and we makes jokes about what those clouds are so angry about that they have to talk so loud! They are perfectly fine with storms, just the way it should be in my opinion.
I must say that I personally love this weather. It's perfect napping, cuddle in blankets, and last warm soup of the seasons type weather! I think that storm chasing is something fun and I would in a heartbeat sign up for one of those "vacations" that take you out during tornado season to chase tornadoes! I vow to one day have my own photos of a tornado in my photo arsenal!
So dear weather forecasters, while you certainly are making us knowledgeable about weather coming our way put the syringe down and take a few notches off the hype of normal spring time weather. Thank you!
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Turbo Tubes In Place
Alright Mister has his tubes in both ears now! It was fast and he did wonderfully! We had to be at the surgery center at 6am which meant we had to wake up at 5am to gether everything ready. I had to pack the diaper bag for Ladybug as well so she wasn't insanely bored while waiting and she had breakfast to eat out of sight of her brother. We checked in and waited and then finally got called to his pre-op room, which funny enough was the same pre-op room I had a few weeks back!! It felt like we waited in there for a while before they came for Mister. When they did it was easy enough, I mean it sucked having to let him go but I knew it wasn't going to take long and it wouldn't actually hurt him so I was fine. The Marine on the other had taken this way worse than I did, he was so worried about Mister. Ladybug was worried too she kept asking where did her brother go and we need to find him.
We waited no more than 20 minutes before our amazing doctor came to tell us that everything went great and that his turbo tubes were in place. He didn't have any fluid draining out so there was no fluid just the pressure of his drums being sucked into his ears I guess. He gave us a script for ear drops because he remember ed we were going on vacation and if something were to happen we would have the drops, he said he would give them in the office if there was a problem but he didn't expect any. He really is an awesome doctor I would tell everybody to see him, and I wonder if he would travel with us if we have to PCS out of this area...hmmmm
So then they called for mommy only and I got to go back to meet him in post op. He wasn't there yet but I got to greet him with a huge hug once the nurses walked him out. They said he was the sweetest most loving little boy they had come in for a while. He won over everybody's hearts with his smiles and how he loves to hug! They said he never fussed once and just watched everybody do their thing. They asked if they could keep him there because he was so sweet! That's my boy, he is such a lover!
We got to go home very shortly after, it took longer for the nurse to get two Popsicles for the kids than it did waiting to go home! On the way home we stopped by krispy kream for a coffee and we promised ladybug a donut which she was extremely pleased to get. She did such a good job during the whole thing, she really impressed me!! I am proud to have such great kids like that!
After they ate he started to get fussy so right before 10am he went down for a nap and it wasn't until after 2pm till he woke up again!!! I was actually saying maybe we should check on him as he was waking up because I got worried!!
So did it help or not? well I am still not sure. I notice some changes in him but nothing major. His balance seems to be better and he doesn't hold his arms out as he walks so much anymore. He seems to have gained some degree of confidence too which I wasn't expecting but he has started defending himself when Ladybug picks on him and today at playgroup he sure did hang with the big kids more and wanted to interact rather than on his own being quiet. I don't know if he can hear any better as I was expecting him to stop the pterodactyl scream but he did that once then looked and went on to do it more only laughing because that ear piercing scream must be funny to him. His mood is improved so far. I know it has only been a day so far but he has been happy go lucky since so maybe he won't be so miserable now that the pressure in his ears is gone!
So all went well with him he still needs speech therapy to help him catch up to what he should be but now we might actually have progress instead of a stand still!
We waited no more than 20 minutes before our amazing doctor came to tell us that everything went great and that his turbo tubes were in place. He didn't have any fluid draining out so there was no fluid just the pressure of his drums being sucked into his ears I guess. He gave us a script for ear drops because he remember ed we were going on vacation and if something were to happen we would have the drops, he said he would give them in the office if there was a problem but he didn't expect any. He really is an awesome doctor I would tell everybody to see him, and I wonder if he would travel with us if we have to PCS out of this area...hmmmm
So then they called for mommy only and I got to go back to meet him in post op. He wasn't there yet but I got to greet him with a huge hug once the nurses walked him out. They said he was the sweetest most loving little boy they had come in for a while. He won over everybody's hearts with his smiles and how he loves to hug! They said he never fussed once and just watched everybody do their thing. They asked if they could keep him there because he was so sweet! That's my boy, he is such a lover!
We got to go home very shortly after, it took longer for the nurse to get two Popsicles for the kids than it did waiting to go home! On the way home we stopped by krispy kream for a coffee and we promised ladybug a donut which she was extremely pleased to get. She did such a good job during the whole thing, she really impressed me!! I am proud to have such great kids like that!
After they ate he started to get fussy so right before 10am he went down for a nap and it wasn't until after 2pm till he woke up again!!! I was actually saying maybe we should check on him as he was waking up because I got worried!!
So did it help or not? well I am still not sure. I notice some changes in him but nothing major. His balance seems to be better and he doesn't hold his arms out as he walks so much anymore. He seems to have gained some degree of confidence too which I wasn't expecting but he has started defending himself when Ladybug picks on him and today at playgroup he sure did hang with the big kids more and wanted to interact rather than on his own being quiet. I don't know if he can hear any better as I was expecting him to stop the pterodactyl scream but he did that once then looked and went on to do it more only laughing because that ear piercing scream must be funny to him. His mood is improved so far. I know it has only been a day so far but he has been happy go lucky since so maybe he won't be so miserable now that the pressure in his ears is gone!
So all went well with him he still needs speech therapy to help him catch up to what he should be but now we might actually have progress instead of a stand still!
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
How Many Places Can You Poop?
Ladybug can poops on the big potty, the little training potty for Mister, outside in her playhouse, while sitting ontop a diaper of her brother's, behind the chair in her bedroom, in the tub of her bathroom, on her indoor trampoline, and finally wrapped in a blanket hidden under her bed. So how many different places do you poop?
It seems we are going through an experimental stage right now with bodily functions. I think, hope this is normal for her age...? It started last week or the week before that when she suddenly wanted to wear a diaper after being potty trained for almost a year now. I said sure whatever it's all fun and games, and then she actually forced herself to go in it and while she did clean her own mess up I wasn't amused. Since then I have caught her forcing herself to go just about anywhere she can. I am not sure what she is thinking. I have sat her down every single time to tell her that she only goes pee and poo on the big potty, possibly the little training potty out for Mister but no where else or else ...I just don't know what to or else for his... um time outs are growing increasingly ineffective for her. She was stripped of her pants wearing priviledge for a few hours after the pooping outside in the playhouse incident this padt weekend... she didn't like that.
I just don't understand what can this girl be thinking?!?!? Phase can pass now cause mommy is not amused... and I am pretty sure there is poo someplace waiting to be found still in her room...
It seems we are going through an experimental stage right now with bodily functions. I think, hope this is normal for her age...? It started last week or the week before that when she suddenly wanted to wear a diaper after being potty trained for almost a year now. I said sure whatever it's all fun and games, and then she actually forced herself to go in it and while she did clean her own mess up I wasn't amused. Since then I have caught her forcing herself to go just about anywhere she can. I am not sure what she is thinking. I have sat her down every single time to tell her that she only goes pee and poo on the big potty, possibly the little training potty out for Mister but no where else or else ...I just don't know what to or else for his... um time outs are growing increasingly ineffective for her. She was stripped of her pants wearing priviledge for a few hours after the pooping outside in the playhouse incident this padt weekend... she didn't like that.
I just don't understand what can this girl be thinking?!?!? Phase can pass now cause mommy is not amused... and I am pretty sure there is poo someplace waiting to be found still in her room...
Friday, April 8, 2011
Mommy Guilt. Mommy Anger.
So Mommy guilt sucks so bad some times. I have been thinking and thinking all those what ifs that everybody knows not to but can't stop it. It's all about Mister and his ears, I feel awful. He has been living like this for so long now, he knows nothign different. His ears are always pressured and he can barely hear, no wonder he is so miserable. What if it was something I did like when I was 34 weeks I came down with some nasty awful bug. Just plain horrible for 3 weeks I faught it off. I was in the hospital for the fever once it reached over 103 degrees and our midwife said go. I was in and out of it for 3 whole weeks fighting. What if that did something to his ears in uerto? Should I have stayed in the hospital like they wanted instead of signing out AMA cause I thought their reasons for keeping me was foolish? What was the virus I had? I kick myself for not actually doing that newborn hearing exam, maybe they would have caught it then? Was it even a problem then or was it a developed thing to have had happen to him? I was always too busy to get the test done and after a little fight with our insurance if they would cover it or not I gave up and said whatever. I kick myself. Could I have helped him sooner?
Mommy anger is with me on this too. I am angry at his doctor who didn't think this was a problem until I insisted it was. I can barely remember either last June or July I thought he had an ear infection and had him checked. I barely remember the pressure test failing on him but his ears didn't look infected said his doctor. I want to review his charts and see from back then if this was going on. His ent said at the first pressure test failing and no infection it should have been taken seriously. I can't remember last summer much though so I can't say it was back then. I am angry at the stupid audiologist for not doing a single thing beyond saying he has fluid and we can't help him. I am angry at them for not looking in his ears the way his ENT looked in his ears. Why did they not reall do their job? I wish I would have skipped them totally and went right for our ENT. I am also slightly angry with tricare for being so slow with referrals, we could have shaved weekns off this whole thing just in the time we wait for them to say yes see this doctor. Now we wait for them to approve surgery!
I hate that my sweet baby boy has been dealing with this for who knows how long. I feel awful now for every time I have ever gotten upset and short with him for his constant crying, he is miserable from his ears! I hate mommy guilt I wish it would go away....so until then I don't think I am going to stop kissing and tickling the little Mister.
Mommy anger is with me on this too. I am angry at his doctor who didn't think this was a problem until I insisted it was. I can barely remember either last June or July I thought he had an ear infection and had him checked. I barely remember the pressure test failing on him but his ears didn't look infected said his doctor. I want to review his charts and see from back then if this was going on. His ent said at the first pressure test failing and no infection it should have been taken seriously. I can't remember last summer much though so I can't say it was back then. I am angry at the stupid audiologist for not doing a single thing beyond saying he has fluid and we can't help him. I am angry at them for not looking in his ears the way his ENT looked in his ears. Why did they not reall do their job? I wish I would have skipped them totally and went right for our ENT. I am also slightly angry with tricare for being so slow with referrals, we could have shaved weekns off this whole thing just in the time we wait for them to say yes see this doctor. Now we wait for them to approve surgery!
I hate that my sweet baby boy has been dealing with this for who knows how long. I feel awful now for every time I have ever gotten upset and short with him for his constant crying, he is miserable from his ears! I hate mommy guilt I wish it would go away....so until then I don't think I am going to stop kissing and tickling the little Mister.
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Thursday, April 7, 2011
Mister is Getting Tubes!
Well I may have mentioned (I don't remember) that Mister has been having problems with his speech, as in he communicates on the same level of 6-9 month olds. He is pretty much 75% of the day crying and screaming for one reason or another because he cannot effectively communicate with us his needs and feelings, which is pretty much a really hard thing to deal with every single day by myself. He has taught me more patience than anything else in my life. So when we started with figuring out what was wrong at the beginning of the year we started with an audiologist who did a simple hearing test in a booth which he failed, either he was super uninterested-my opinion- or he really did fail. Then she did a simple pressure test in both ears which showed negative pressure, worse in he left ear than his right. She said then he may have fluids in his ear behind the drum that she couldn't see and to come back in two weeks for a recheck the fluid should be gone by then. Well two weeks later it was not gone and in fact the pressure test was worse, so then it was onto his regular doctor for other options. I have to say we never did get a newborn hearing test because he wasn't born in a hospital and we failed to even bother with it. So his regular doctor said she could put him on a round of antibiotics I asked why when there is no infection just fluid it seemed, she said just in case, I said no send us to an ENT. So she put the referral in.
In the meantime he has been getting speech therapy and OT both twice a month through our states early intervention program. We have been working with Mister on baby signs since he was a baby and he never took to it, and now this therapists really want us to push with it but he still is resisting on a huge level. He seriously refuses to do any signs with me at all on any level no matter what. He can be in the best most super mood but if I ask him to sign more once at like a meal he turns into super screaming Mister and throws things at me during some point of my efforts...so this is failing. Although in further attempts to make me seem insane he does things for other people when they ask him. Like his therapists he just goes for it and signs for them whenever they ask him too... he thinks it's funny probably. He may have inherited my super sarcastic sense of humor... may have. ha ha.
SO today was his ENT visit, we sees the same wondering doctor that I do! We agreed on getting tubes put in both ears. As he described it Mister's ear drums are sucked back into his ears way more than normal think of a balloon around a vacuum tube and turn the vacuum on, it sucks it down in there. The drums are sucked down in so much its making it near impossible for the small bones and everything else to vibrate and work properly thus causing hearing loss. Mister can hear, just really muffled and poorly. He seemed super optimistic that getting tubes in with equal the pressure in his ears. Again he failed the pressure test and had negative pressure in both ears, worse in the left. It would balance out everything and allow any fluid that has collected inside there to drain out. He said it really should be the fix of this, if not children's hearing aides have come a long way in recent years.
So we have to wait on Tricare to approve the surgery- which may take like a week. Hopefully we can get him in and done before we take off for an Ohio vacation later this month. The whole things will last no longer than 20 minutes and he won't be fully put under, just laughing gas basically. After the surgery if he needs Tylenol that is all! It's really the most simple surgery he does but one of the most beneficial for those who need it! So I am excited to finally be having some answers and a possible fix...I was thinking tubes since the beginning as I just knew in my mommy gut that something was wrong. I am not too excited that this has to happen and my little boy is having any kind of surgery even minor! What mom would? So hopefully he have good results and he starts getting better once he can hear us for real! I hope that after he has the surgery he passed his hearing tests!
So we just have to wait for the scheduling lady to call us!
On a little update for me after my surgery since we saw my doctor today. I am apparently one of the slowest healers as I still have a lot not healed. I am having a lot of facial pain more on the left side and more than normal bloody discharge and more than I should bloody noses, even minor I shouldn't be having any bloody noses at this point. So I am on a round of antibiotics and a steroid pack plus super saline washing and nasenox (however that is spelled). I hate to admit that I am still having headaches that only go away for a few hours when I max out on OTC headache meds..they come right back. I am beyond disappointed in this, what if my surgery didn't actually help my headaches which was my main reason for seeing this doctor to begin with? I mean I know I had to have the surgery it was unavoidable but my head is still really hurting and it really upsets me. I need to figure this out.
In the meantime he has been getting speech therapy and OT both twice a month through our states early intervention program. We have been working with Mister on baby signs since he was a baby and he never took to it, and now this therapists really want us to push with it but he still is resisting on a huge level. He seriously refuses to do any signs with me at all on any level no matter what. He can be in the best most super mood but if I ask him to sign more once at like a meal he turns into super screaming Mister and throws things at me during some point of my efforts...so this is failing. Although in further attempts to make me seem insane he does things for other people when they ask him. Like his therapists he just goes for it and signs for them whenever they ask him too... he thinks it's funny probably. He may have inherited my super sarcastic sense of humor... may have. ha ha.
SO today was his ENT visit, we sees the same wondering doctor that I do! We agreed on getting tubes put in both ears. As he described it Mister's ear drums are sucked back into his ears way more than normal think of a balloon around a vacuum tube and turn the vacuum on, it sucks it down in there. The drums are sucked down in so much its making it near impossible for the small bones and everything else to vibrate and work properly thus causing hearing loss. Mister can hear, just really muffled and poorly. He seemed super optimistic that getting tubes in with equal the pressure in his ears. Again he failed the pressure test and had negative pressure in both ears, worse in the left. It would balance out everything and allow any fluid that has collected inside there to drain out. He said it really should be the fix of this, if not children's hearing aides have come a long way in recent years.
So we have to wait on Tricare to approve the surgery- which may take like a week. Hopefully we can get him in and done before we take off for an Ohio vacation later this month. The whole things will last no longer than 20 minutes and he won't be fully put under, just laughing gas basically. After the surgery if he needs Tylenol that is all! It's really the most simple surgery he does but one of the most beneficial for those who need it! So I am excited to finally be having some answers and a possible fix...I was thinking tubes since the beginning as I just knew in my mommy gut that something was wrong. I am not too excited that this has to happen and my little boy is having any kind of surgery even minor! What mom would? So hopefully he have good results and he starts getting better once he can hear us for real! I hope that after he has the surgery he passed his hearing tests!
So we just have to wait for the scheduling lady to call us!
On a little update for me after my surgery since we saw my doctor today. I am apparently one of the slowest healers as I still have a lot not healed. I am having a lot of facial pain more on the left side and more than normal bloody discharge and more than I should bloody noses, even minor I shouldn't be having any bloody noses at this point. So I am on a round of antibiotics and a steroid pack plus super saline washing and nasenox (however that is spelled). I hate to admit that I am still having headaches that only go away for a few hours when I max out on OTC headache meds..they come right back. I am beyond disappointed in this, what if my surgery didn't actually help my headaches which was my main reason for seeing this doctor to begin with? I mean I know I had to have the surgery it was unavoidable but my head is still really hurting and it really upsets me. I need to figure this out.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
City Chicken
This is such a yummy dinner! Growing up we used to have this often, my Nana would make it and she always made the best food! I grew up and moved out and forgot about it until working in a nursing home and the husband of a patient brought this in for us night shift girls. He was always so sweet to bring us night shift girls dinner! Since then I have been making it here and there and decided I was going to make it again for dinner tonight. I think I have only made this like 3 times since being married cause it is a tad time consuming to prepare. I love it! There is no chicken in this at all expect the broth, don't ask me why it's named that even though it has no real chicken in it cause I have no answers for you!
Ingredients:
-Cubes of pork or beef or even veal. I use pork and beef but you can do all one meat if you like.
cubing is easy for me I just buy beef for pot roast at the store which is already cut up and pork for stir fry!
-flour
-eggs
-seasoned bread crumbs
-wooden skewer sticks
-cooking oil
-chicken broth
Directions:
-alternating pieces of meat, skewer them onto the sticks
-coat with flour making sure to get thne flour into each piece and all around
-coat with egg again making sure to cover all
-coat with bread crumbs yet again making sure to cover all
-in a frying pan with heated oil just brown the outside, use metal tongs to turn it please!
-once brown place meat stick into a roasting dish
-Pour chicken broth over top meat and have enough in the bottom to roast with
-cover with tin foil and bake at 150 degrees for an hour!
It comes out really fall of the stick tender and so yummy! I love this dish I just don't love the time I have to put into making it because yes it does kind of suck making sure everything is coated well on the stick but other than that it's perfect! I served with homemade delish mashed potatoes and green beans! Good stuff!!
Banana Bread
Growing up my grandma Gin always made the very best ever banana bread so I knew this was one i had to add to my collection of recipes. I made it for The Marine one time and he could not stop raving over the awesome-ness of the bread and I could eat a whole loaf of it himself in one sitting so normally I make 2 at a time. This recpie I have is a tweeked version of what my grandma gin gave me and it's what I make today for my family. I made some this morning on a whim cause I wanted to surprise The Marine as a thank you for being so totally rocking to me!
Ingredients:
1 and 1/2 cup sifted flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 cup soft butter
1 cup sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
3/4 cup mashed bananas
2 tablespoons sour cream
-Mix together the top dry ingredients and set aside
-Mix together the bottom wet indredients until well mixed
-mix together the dry and wet until well blended
-bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour in a greased bread dish
It;s really very easy to make! My kids love mashing the bananas together, I give them an old potato masher and they go to town! This makes one loaf size so I normally double things so that The Marine gets his fill and the rest of us can have some too!
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| really yummy still warm with melting butter on top! |
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Dear Playgroup Mommies
Dear Playgroup Mommies who do speak different languages,
I think I speak for most of us other moms when I say that we would like for you to speak english when you are at playgroup. We might want to interact with you too and when you huddle in a group and jabber back and forth with each other in a different languages it really makes it hard for us other moms. I understand that is your language but let us be real our national language is english and when you are in a group like a playgroup it would reall be nice if you cut that out and spoke so that we all can understand what you are saying. I hate sitting there listening to you and your two other friends talk back and forth wondering what you are saying. Are you talking badly about other moms? Or worse our kids? I really dislike how clique-y the playgroup has gotten since your group has come in. Great way to boldly say hey we don't want to interact with you other moms, just get the kids out for 2hrs and thats all without coming outright and saying so. It annoys the piss out of me, I live in America and I like speaking english I also like hearing it too and interacting with other moms who also don't try to alienate themselves by talking amongst themselves in their language.
My child also would probably like to talk with your child and understand each other. To the child at playgroup who doesn't speak or understand english I am sorry for you, sorry for the injustice your mother and family is doing to you. What a shame that you live here in America and don't understand our national language, wonder how far behind other kids you will be if put in public schools? My poor kids would love to play with you and I know Ladybug has tried more than a few times to start a conversation with you but she gets upset because nobody has bothered to teach you english. I also would like for you to understand what I say when I am telling you to stop hitting or being mean because your mommy is too busy jibber jabbing back and forth with her other friends, probably talking about how much fun it is to just come to playgroup and not pay attention to your kids while other parents try and correct their horrid behavior as best they can when there is a language barrier.
I enjoy coming to playgroup regularly, I have made some friends there that I really like talking with when we are all there. It is fun for my kids to see their friends and play and have snacks and all that together. But really I like playgroup because I get to have adult human interaction which as a stay at home mom I really really enjoy! I would love to talk with you and get to know you and have interactions with you other than a welcome smile when you walk in the door. I remember last summer we had a family come in who was from Saudi Arabia and we all tried as hard as we could to interact with them even though they barely understood or spoke a lick of english. The mom was so willing to understand us and I even went as far as buying an eglish/Saudi translator app on my phone to helps us all comminucate better. That ended up helping so much and we were able to show that mom and her wonderful children a nice time while they were in the states. Heck we even made arrangements to get them too and from Chuck E Cheese one day!
So seriously if that mom made as much attempts as she possibly could why can't you? Is it that much effort to talk with us other moms? If you don't want interactiosn with us than why even bother coming to our playgroup? It really really bugs the shit out of me.
Signed,
Me, the redhead who is super annoyed at you
I think I speak for most of us other moms when I say that we would like for you to speak english when you are at playgroup. We might want to interact with you too and when you huddle in a group and jabber back and forth with each other in a different languages it really makes it hard for us other moms. I understand that is your language but let us be real our national language is english and when you are in a group like a playgroup it would reall be nice if you cut that out and spoke so that we all can understand what you are saying. I hate sitting there listening to you and your two other friends talk back and forth wondering what you are saying. Are you talking badly about other moms? Or worse our kids? I really dislike how clique-y the playgroup has gotten since your group has come in. Great way to boldly say hey we don't want to interact with you other moms, just get the kids out for 2hrs and thats all without coming outright and saying so. It annoys the piss out of me, I live in America and I like speaking english I also like hearing it too and interacting with other moms who also don't try to alienate themselves by talking amongst themselves in their language.
My child also would probably like to talk with your child and understand each other. To the child at playgroup who doesn't speak or understand english I am sorry for you, sorry for the injustice your mother and family is doing to you. What a shame that you live here in America and don't understand our national language, wonder how far behind other kids you will be if put in public schools? My poor kids would love to play with you and I know Ladybug has tried more than a few times to start a conversation with you but she gets upset because nobody has bothered to teach you english. I also would like for you to understand what I say when I am telling you to stop hitting or being mean because your mommy is too busy jibber jabbing back and forth with her other friends, probably talking about how much fun it is to just come to playgroup and not pay attention to your kids while other parents try and correct their horrid behavior as best they can when there is a language barrier.
I enjoy coming to playgroup regularly, I have made some friends there that I really like talking with when we are all there. It is fun for my kids to see their friends and play and have snacks and all that together. But really I like playgroup because I get to have adult human interaction which as a stay at home mom I really really enjoy! I would love to talk with you and get to know you and have interactions with you other than a welcome smile when you walk in the door. I remember last summer we had a family come in who was from Saudi Arabia and we all tried as hard as we could to interact with them even though they barely understood or spoke a lick of english. The mom was so willing to understand us and I even went as far as buying an eglish/Saudi translator app on my phone to helps us all comminucate better. That ended up helping so much and we were able to show that mom and her wonderful children a nice time while they were in the states. Heck we even made arrangements to get them too and from Chuck E Cheese one day!
So seriously if that mom made as much attempts as she possibly could why can't you? Is it that much effort to talk with us other moms? If you don't want interactiosn with us than why even bother coming to our playgroup? It really really bugs the shit out of me.
Signed,
Me, the redhead who is super annoyed at you
Monday, April 4, 2011
I do Miss You Mike
In my family if you are upset with somebody else you just stop having any and all forms of communication with them. It is how it is and for as long as I could remember things have been like that. My grandma is the biggest offender and probably where the rest of us get this from. Through out my childhood I can remember at one point in time she was not comminutcating with somebody else for one reason or the other, I think everybody has spent some time on the outs with her. It is what it is. It is a cycle of bad comminucation and harbored feelings, when you don't talk to somebody about whats wrong you never solve your problems. My parents did it when they were still married. They really enjoyed talking at each other from another room and never in a good way. Or under their breathe as they huff away from a fight...or plenty of other examples of why their marriage never worked or would have ever worked...
I am an offender. If The Marine upsets me I walk away, I just get up and walk away. I would rather not deal with it, I would rather ignore my hurt feelings than deal with it. I have been doing better. I do not wish to continue this cycle with my kids. I want them to know and understand healthy forms of communication which will help them now and for the rest fo their lives. I also am doing this for myself and my marriage. I really do love my husband and I know he is not a mind reader...he is a man and men are just slower to see things I think. If I were a lesbian I think it would be great cause we would mesh well and things would be done. But I married a man, ha ha!, and I have to remember that unless I tell him I want something done it won't get done. I don't want to harbor bad feelings towards him and not explain to him why.
My older brother is about the worst offender of them all. He has not spoken with or even probably though about our mother in near 10 years or so, along with her parents (his grandparents) simply cause they are her parents. I won't get into why he doesn't talk to her and says she is dead but it was a lot from way back when. He hasn't talked to our dad in over a year, that fight was at a Christmas visit when there was a joke made about AT&T vs Verizon and it wasn't handled as a joke so he just hasn't talked to Dad since...I wish I was joking about that but I am not. I doesn't talk to me anymore either over an issue with his mail. He had it forwarded to me while he was training for a new job and well all he ever got was bills and he always told me to throw the bills away. He got court papers for his daughter and I scanned those and emailed them so he would have them...I forgot where they went so when he wanted me to mail his crap back...ya I didn't have anything cause he either told me to throw it away or I had emailed it to him already. He stopped talking to me over that and it will be a year this summer since he has bothered with me.... he even blocks you on favebook if he isnt talking to you. I hold no hope of him even bothering to talk again, so whatever his loss.
Whats worse is that he has a daughter whom he has seen two or three times and by the time she was a month old had taken off and said he wanted nothing to do with her at all...why? well basically he drove the baby momma away for some unknown reason, prior to my niece being born it seemed like he was excited about it...then he slowly started picking fights and then was like whatever I don't care see ya later...or never. He then ran away across the US... child support courts caught him though which is good for my niece. He at one point when child support started said he wanted to go to court get a dna test and then take custody of her..whatever happened to that I have no clue because he hasn't done anything more than what the court papers have said he has to do. It's a real shame he acts like this but for some reason he just simply does not care at all about anything that is not right in front of his face. He is selfish and ignorant. I wish my brother was apart of my life, I wish he cared about his family, his daughter, or anybody else that's not himself but he doesn't. I get to just accept it and move on, Ive made more than my share of attempts at having a relationship with him and he has always rejected. Thank goodness my kids don't rememeber him at all, and his daughter doesn't know what its like to have him there either. It's probably better for her that way, not ever knowing what its like to have him around or knowing what its like to have him there when he isnt mad and upset with you...
So that's how it's done there...I miss you Mike... I wish you had some kind of pang to have relationships with your family... in the end of life we are the only ones who are here....as it is now when you die nobody is going to come to your funeral or anything because you don't want us around at all so why should we then? Maybe one day you will see....but until then I will keep breathing.
I am an offender. If The Marine upsets me I walk away, I just get up and walk away. I would rather not deal with it, I would rather ignore my hurt feelings than deal with it. I have been doing better. I do not wish to continue this cycle with my kids. I want them to know and understand healthy forms of communication which will help them now and for the rest fo their lives. I also am doing this for myself and my marriage. I really do love my husband and I know he is not a mind reader...he is a man and men are just slower to see things I think. If I were a lesbian I think it would be great cause we would mesh well and things would be done. But I married a man, ha ha!, and I have to remember that unless I tell him I want something done it won't get done. I don't want to harbor bad feelings towards him and not explain to him why.
My older brother is about the worst offender of them all. He has not spoken with or even probably though about our mother in near 10 years or so, along with her parents (his grandparents) simply cause they are her parents. I won't get into why he doesn't talk to her and says she is dead but it was a lot from way back when. He hasn't talked to our dad in over a year, that fight was at a Christmas visit when there was a joke made about AT&T vs Verizon and it wasn't handled as a joke so he just hasn't talked to Dad since...I wish I was joking about that but I am not. I doesn't talk to me anymore either over an issue with his mail. He had it forwarded to me while he was training for a new job and well all he ever got was bills and he always told me to throw the bills away. He got court papers for his daughter and I scanned those and emailed them so he would have them...I forgot where they went so when he wanted me to mail his crap back...ya I didn't have anything cause he either told me to throw it away or I had emailed it to him already. He stopped talking to me over that and it will be a year this summer since he has bothered with me.... he even blocks you on favebook if he isnt talking to you. I hold no hope of him even bothering to talk again, so whatever his loss.
Whats worse is that he has a daughter whom he has seen two or three times and by the time she was a month old had taken off and said he wanted nothing to do with her at all...why? well basically he drove the baby momma away for some unknown reason, prior to my niece being born it seemed like he was excited about it...then he slowly started picking fights and then was like whatever I don't care see ya later...or never. He then ran away across the US... child support courts caught him though which is good for my niece. He at one point when child support started said he wanted to go to court get a dna test and then take custody of her..whatever happened to that I have no clue because he hasn't done anything more than what the court papers have said he has to do. It's a real shame he acts like this but for some reason he just simply does not care at all about anything that is not right in front of his face. He is selfish and ignorant. I wish my brother was apart of my life, I wish he cared about his family, his daughter, or anybody else that's not himself but he doesn't. I get to just accept it and move on, Ive made more than my share of attempts at having a relationship with him and he has always rejected. Thank goodness my kids don't rememeber him at all, and his daughter doesn't know what its like to have him there either. It's probably better for her that way, not ever knowing what its like to have him around or knowing what its like to have him there when he isnt mad and upset with you...
So that's how it's done there...I miss you Mike... I wish you had some kind of pang to have relationships with your family... in the end of life we are the only ones who are here....as it is now when you die nobody is going to come to your funeral or anything because you don't want us around at all so why should we then? Maybe one day you will see....but until then I will keep breathing.
I Have a Constantly Messy Home
And ya know what? I so do not care! I would really rather be playing with the kids, creating arts, running wild, making forts, cooking creations, and in general having a ball with my kids than to be picking up after them and cleaning constantly. Seriously I have two tornados toddlers so my house is going to be messy and if that bothers you oh well you don't live with us! Sometimes i go to a home and it's like super super clean and in my head I am like ok when do you play with the kids? If you are always cleaning to make the house look nice all the time when do your kids have creative fun time? In the colder months my house is a total trainwreck and for us it's totally cool cause it just toy messes all over. I am a good housekeeper and things are clean, just always super messy! I don't care to always be picking up toys and making the kids put things away all the time. If I did then I would sound like a horrible broken record telling them to pick up and all that. BORING! Let my kids play and we clean up when we have to. Right now my kitchen is a total hell hole, my dishwahser if full and needing to be put away it's all clean, the sink is full of dirty dishes needing in the dishwasher, countertops messy and toys all over the floor. Right before lunch and naptime we started our dinner (something needs to marinate all day) and the kids helped me chop, mix, and make this mess! I will clean it after dinner, just not now cause we had more playtime to do!
Right now imagination runs our home and that is how we like it!
Right now imagination runs our home and that is how we like it!
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Ha Ha April Fools!
Every year I try to play out an April Fools joke on one person. this year I had to target my Dad and Step-mom only because it had been a while and it was the perfect set up.
As many may know they live far far away in the magical land of Ohio near the PA boarder where it snows all year and when it doesn't know there is road construction to fix the massive potholes from the snow. We have been planning a visit to go see them with both kids for what seems like a year now. Most of my family in Ohio have never met Mister and I have new family I have enver met there too like a niece and my cousin's miracle son who was born 10 weeks early and is now almost 2yrs old!! Last time we made the trek to Ohio was when Ladybug was 7.5 months old, it was there in my dad's purple bathroom I learned I was expecting a new baby! SOOO pranking them was perfect!!!
I called when I knew they were both home and asked to be put on speaker, I sounded as upset I could sound but saved the best for a few minutes into my whole talk. I had asked The Marine earlier in the day to help with this and he came out with a beautiful thing to have had 'happen'. I told them something had happened to my car today when I was driving back from getting the kids silhouette portraits done but I didn't know what so when The Marine got home we went for a ride and cue the crying my car broke. Cue way more crying and almost cannot understand me, serisouly I could have been and actor! We were at the mechanics now and the water pump had broken making the serpentine belt poke a hole in my radior and that it was going to be upwards of a thousand dollars to fix it, thus eating up our entire savings we had for Ohio. I was so good that my dad had to ask to say it slower and more clearly cause he couldn't understand me through my babble and cries!!!! SUCCESS! They sounded crushed (I feel almost bad about that) but said they wanted time to digest what I had just told them. I muttered that I would call them later when I calmed down a little, as I was just so upset.
About an hour later my step-mom called and asked if I was ok, I started the fake near cry again. Then she said that they talked and they would pay for our gas, we could still come to Ohio!!! WOOOOHOOOOOO what great parents I have! I played a little more kept saying what?! what?! really?! Ha ha it was good stuff.
Then I asked her what today was....pause...pause... "um it's April firs......OH You brat!!!!!" muhahahahahaha April Fools!!!!
so what did you do for April Fools???
As many may know they live far far away in the magical land of Ohio near the PA boarder where it snows all year and when it doesn't know there is road construction to fix the massive potholes from the snow. We have been planning a visit to go see them with both kids for what seems like a year now. Most of my family in Ohio have never met Mister and I have new family I have enver met there too like a niece and my cousin's miracle son who was born 10 weeks early and is now almost 2yrs old!! Last time we made the trek to Ohio was when Ladybug was 7.5 months old, it was there in my dad's purple bathroom I learned I was expecting a new baby! SOOO pranking them was perfect!!!
I called when I knew they were both home and asked to be put on speaker, I sounded as upset I could sound but saved the best for a few minutes into my whole talk. I had asked The Marine earlier in the day to help with this and he came out with a beautiful thing to have had 'happen'. I told them something had happened to my car today when I was driving back from getting the kids silhouette portraits done but I didn't know what so when The Marine got home we went for a ride and cue the crying my car broke. Cue way more crying and almost cannot understand me, serisouly I could have been and actor! We were at the mechanics now and the water pump had broken making the serpentine belt poke a hole in my radior and that it was going to be upwards of a thousand dollars to fix it, thus eating up our entire savings we had for Ohio. I was so good that my dad had to ask to say it slower and more clearly cause he couldn't understand me through my babble and cries!!!! SUCCESS! They sounded crushed (I feel almost bad about that) but said they wanted time to digest what I had just told them. I muttered that I would call them later when I calmed down a little, as I was just so upset.
About an hour later my step-mom called and asked if I was ok, I started the fake near cry again. Then she said that they talked and they would pay for our gas, we could still come to Ohio!!! WOOOOHOOOOOO what great parents I have! I played a little more kept saying what?! what?! really?! Ha ha it was good stuff.
Then I asked her what today was....pause...pause... "um it's April firs......OH You brat!!!!!" muhahahahahaha April Fools!!!!
so what did you do for April Fools???
I Found A Diaper I Didn't Like
Surprising, I know!!!
Let me say that there was only like 2 reason I did not like this diaper and let me tell you what I did like. I really liked the organic natiral fibers of the diaper. It was a one size pocket, the insert was hemp and the liner was all soft and cooshy on Mister's cute tushy. I liked the front pocket stuffing, while it never was an issue at anytime to have a back stuffed pockets gross nasty mess i understand it happens to other people so that was cool. The leg gussets were made of fleece so while they prevented leaks they were also breathable and let airflow to little butts, even more preventing and soothing diaper rashes. It was absorbant and held in it's messes. The diaper did what it needed to do. I did like those things about this diaper.
I didn't like these things so much that I gave it away
Yes I seriously gave away this diaper, I really didn't like it and it would have never gotten used in our stash. It went to a home who could love it more. Mister is on the smaller end of charts for his age, so by now means is he a big kid. This diaper while a "one-size" was on the largest setting both in the rise and the side snaps. If we didn't have it on the largest possible settings for him it would dig into him and he had red marks for a while before we switched it out. Even on the largest setting we would look at it and think that it might actually be a little too small on him. For that reason alone is why I gave this diaper to a friend who had a little baby in need of a new diaper. I thought they would use it more and get the use out of the diaper that the diaper deserved. By all accounts it was a great diaper and had the rise and sizing been bigger we would have kept it.
The diaper in questions is a BabyKicks 3G pocket diaper. We had ours in the cool red color. So I am sorry 3G you get a D in my diaper grading simply for size.
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