cat

So nothing really new worthy today.

I finally cut Chester's nappy parts off of her. So now she has like huge bald spots on her. LOL It's funny to look at her.

Christian had practice. He caught a pop fly to the face. LOL. He's ok. It was full "sandlot" material though. He also has one of the coaches breaking down how he throws which will be good for him. His first knights game is Monday. WHATTTTTT!!!!! Let the summer of baseball officially begin.

So I feel like I was sabotaged with coaching for cheer. I told Lauren I would be her asst. and she mentioned to one of the other coaches (who is not particularly fond of me) that she was going to make me her asst. So the other coach started telling Lauren how it was a horrible idea and I will not be reliable because I work. She should find someone else blah blah blah. Then she refers someone to Lauren to be her asst. I am super bummed, and pretty pissed at Nikki. Like she sent all these texts to Mattie. So I read them. At the time we were like "yay. Lauren's going to ask you to be her asst." then today we find out, after that conversation Nikki referred someone to her to be her asst.
Sucks. But o well. What can I do right?

Loan training was good. I do feel like I learned something. I am not sure what. But there are a lot of seasoned reps in there so it is nice to see how they would handle certain situations. Kind of get different strategies on how to approach things.

So tonight after practice I put Christian to bed and Lily is in the shower. So Chester is in bed with Christian and of course he is super mad because he doesn't want her in there. So I am able to talk him into letting Chester sleep with him until Lily is out of the shower then I'll come back and get her. So Lily gets out of the shower and I go in Christian's room to get the cat and he has her all pulled close to him with his arms around her. MMMMHMMMMMM for someone who was so adamant that they didn't want the cat in their room they sure are snuggled up tight with her. LOL

Anyway, I hope you have a great day! I love you! Good night

mother's day

Mother's Day was good. I missed a call from Mason :( By the time I saw I missed his call and listened to his message it was too late to call him back. I will have to call him tomorrow.
But anyway...I think today went well. Dinner turned out fantastic. Addison loved her first experience with ribs and corn on the cob. She was a pro.
I thought it would be a good idea today to get the outside toys and let the kids have fun today. They stayed outside all day long. Olivia came outside and played in the water with them, it was fun. Until, we were getting ready for bed and christian was so upset. Mother's day you are supposed to spend time with your mother and we played all day. We didn't spend any time with you. I swear sometimes he is so sweet. But I got the house picked up and some laundry done, so it was fine with me if they spent the whole day playing outside.

I realized tonight that today was the first time in a long time that I haven't had any anxiety or panic attacks. I wonder if that means this medication is starting to work. I hope so. Or maybe my day was so stress free that I didn't have any. Who knows. I guess we'll find out tomorrow when my day is back to normal. LOL.

Well I hope you have a good day today. I love you! Good night!

The Finale

It was good. Addison was perfect...Christian was a pain. He had a good time though but he kept running off. There were so many people there...I was so worried he just wasn't going to come back, or he just wouldn't tell me where he was going and would disappear into the bathroom. What if something happened to you!?
The girls did really good! I personally feel they were robbed of their championship. The team that took first place dropped a girl from a stunt and then couldn't get her back up. Our girls were flawless. I keep trying to send you the video on FB but my phone is so dead. It was the best I had ever seen them do. Lauren said it was their highest score too. We got a recognition ribbon for not having any penalties or errors.

Christian's game was cancelled, the other team forfeited. We played the team with the super aggressive coach I was telling you about. Anyway, so we all get there ready to play our game...our whole team was there...the coach sent a message to coach randy who is the baseball coordinator and said he wasn't coming. So coach randy told coach andrew (our coach) so we wait around probably 20 more minutes because a few of their players were there. Then the other coach calls him and says "we're not coming" he said he wasn't playing us today because we are his first game in the playoffs. So because you play us first in teh playoffs you're just not showing up to your last regular season game?! How does that make any sense? And how is that teaching your boy's how to play baseball? It was very frustrating. I mean it personally worked out better for me with cheer and not having Christian with someone else. But it still sucked at the time.

Anyway I hope you have a great day! I love you!!

Wednesday

I think the end of the season has officially set it. Practice was cancelled tonight. I can honestly say I am happy about it. I am so tired. I am ready to be down to one baseball team.

I dont really have much more to say today. It feels like nothing really happens anymore.

I got to hang out with Mattie some today since the big kids were at church. I had no where I needed to rush off to. So that was nice I guess. We picked the kids up from church and came home and everyone went to bed.

My computer is doing some weird things. I am not 100% what is going on. I don't ever do anything on here except pay bills and write you so I don't understand how it could be acting crazy like it is right now.

Alright well I hope you have a good day! I love you! Good night

Guess Who

Charged the computer and can write you again!!! That's right me!

Guess who else gets to go to bed early...yup, me again1

O but guess who washed their 3 white sweaters with red pants. :( yea that is definitely me as well. so now I have awful pink sweaters. I am washing them again with some borax and praying the pink comes out. Because if not I have ruined 3 of my work shirts. UGH!

Not the way I wanted to end my night, but that's what happens when you don't use your brain while washing clothes.

So Ms Addison went to bed super early tonight. She didn't even eat dinner with us. She had a banana and a bottle and went to bed.

which that gave me some nice chit chat time with the big kids. I feel like we got to enjoy each other more.
But other than that tonight was uneventful.

I hope you have a good day! I love you! Good night

alone

I feel like today was the first day I operated solo and succeeded. Matthew was off. Luckily I feel like I got everything I wanted accomplished. We even got to leave on time today.
I call it a success.

I was pretty disappointed in my dinner tonight it sounded like it would be so good reading the recipe. Maybe I will try and make it again another day. It didn't turn out how I hoped it would, but then I also didn't follow the recipe exactly. That may have something to do with it. lol. O well. Maybe next time it will turn out better.

Not really much else to report that I can think of tonight. It stinks we did not get to talk today. Maybe tomorrow?
I hope you have a good day. I love you! Good night

shipt

Well we got our first "delivery" today.
It was pretty awesome. The lady text me when she was leaving, text me when she got to the door and helped me carry everything inside. UMMMM...could you be more helpful. Anyway, we get 2 weeks free...so I figured why not. But it was nice. Lily and Christian don't like it because they like to pick out our fruits and veggies and they can't do this if someone else does it for us.
But...fun fact...on the fruit page I put 1ct of bananas...thinking that would be 1 bushel right? That makes sense to me. Nope...wrong...I got ONE count em ONE banana. LOL. I couldn't help but laugh....o you literally wanted to know how many bananas I wanted. Well the answer is more than one.

Christian has recently become very self conscious of his body. Which is fine I guess. But he has been shirtless since saturday because we were at the pool and then he was sick and just wore basketball shorts all weekend. Well anytime anyone...besides me...would get close to him with his shirt off he would freak and tell them to look away because they can see his boobs. I tried to assure him that boys don't have boobs and if they did they couldn't walk around shirtless but never the less he's terrified of people seeing his "moobs" LOL

So everyone was able to eat dinner tonight without getting sick so that was good...well except Addison she threw all hers on the floor as fast as it was given to her. This kid...I'm just going to start giving her an empty plate and then pieces of my food so she thinks she is getting something special. She's gonna get real hungry, real fast once she isn't on formula anymore. Im surprised whiskey isn't fat yet...she doesn't even taste her food, she just immediately throws it all on the floor.

Anyway I have to open tomorrow so I need to go to bed. I love you! Good night!

Mortified

Never going back to the pool again...
Ok maybe that is an over exaggeration.

So anyway, shortly after we got off the phone another man asked those guys to leave. So anyway they left and went to another street and sat there listening to their gangster rap music. They must have been doing something, but who cares they left. Well now the pool is nice and peaceful and the kids are being crazy. All of a sudden lily gets out and her lips were crazy blue and she said she was cold and wanted to go home. So I told her she was a party pooper and to lay down to warm up. Almost immediately after that Christian comes up and says his tummy hurts he wants to go home. Well you guys are no fun...fine lets go home. So I'm packing up...and bleh. Christian yaks all over the patio, like 5 times. OMG! Thank God Jacey's boys were there...Mark got a garbage can out of the bathrooms and helped me clean everything up. Lily takes the baby to the car, Christian goes to the car, Mark and I finish cleaning the patio. We get home and Christian goes to the shower I ask for Lily's help getting the pool stuff put away so I can change the baby and put her down for a nap. Then I hear more puking. So I am talking to who I think is Christian through the baby monitor asking if he is ok. Well it wasn't Christian. It is Lily...now she is puking too. Luckily she made it to the bathroom.
So now they have a stomach bug. Neither one of them have stopped vomiting since. It is no fun at all. I tried to give Christian some water because "my throat is so dry" and he threw it all up.

Hopefully it is only 24 hours. But I found out later in the day that mom is in the freaking hospital with the same crap.

My poor babies are so sick. Hopefully they will be better tomorrow and hopefully mom is better soon. It just hit everyone so suddenly and from the sounds it at the same time. Mom wasn't feeling well and got sick the same time the kids did.

I hope your day goes better than ours...lol...I love you! Good night!!

softball

I have never felt as old as I do right.

We had softball practice today which was ok...I am very rusty. VERY!

Anyway...so the field we practice on (the one next to the branch) is not in good shape so I decided I wasn't going to play that hard because 1) it's practice 2) this field is garbage.
I still hurt. It's not even the next day and I hurt.

But it went good. I am playing first again this year. We have to find another female to play infield too, we have to have two in the infield. These rules are crazy. The field is split 5 men 5 women.

So at Christian's practice tonight one of the mom's has the cutest lil Shih Tzu puppy and Addison was so excited to see him. She kept yelling "DOG" "DAT DOG" "DOG!"
It was super cute. I had some shirts made for her and Lily that came in tonight. I am super excited about them. I will have to show them to you later.

Anyway not much else to report. I am super tired and have to open tomorrow. Hopefully I get to talk to you tomorrow. I enjoyed talking to you today. I miss you!

I love you! Good night

Break...

Break....What is a break?
If Monday were a person...





She'd look something like this.

So today started so smooth. What are you doing today? Well I am going to work on the schedule and do some teller observations...it's going to be a good day. FALSE!
Today was so good, then all of a sudden...SHE comes in. The she who ripped my face off last week because she is rude and ignorant.
She comes in and she is on the phone with the contact center because she wants everyone to know how "mean and nasty that assistant manager is"
UGH! FO REAL!


I can only appropriately handle this situation with memes.

Anyway the "newish" teller gets and gives her exactly what she wants. So when I pull her aside and ask her why she didn't follow procedure. "Well....ummmm....well she was angry and causing a scene and she was on the phone with corporate office"

UMMMMMMM FALSE!
One we don't have a "corporate office" we are not some super villain corporation. Two she was on the phone with the contact center...who are they...they are telephone tellers.
"Well they told me not to do it?"
O Really? You talked to them?
"Well no, she told me they said"
Ok Well I need you to go read her acct notes now, and for future reference you need to CYA and if you are going to make exceptions like that...you need to speak to the person who is "okaying" them. Not hearsay.

Ugh...just ugh!



Anyway, that was my day in a nut shell. I hope you have a good day. I missed talking to you the last couple days.
I love you!!
Good night.

All Stars

This was a longgggggggggg weekend. It's funny I am looking forward to going to work on monday so I can get a break. I can't remember the last time I had an energy drink...and I was so tired today I had to ask the kids dad to bring me one to the game. I was flat exhausted.

But it was a good day today...our boys crushed those other teams. One of them they absolutely annihilated. They played really good. Christian's bats are really on fire lately. He hit amazing today! I cannot stop watching the videos I took today. He is getting really good. They are teaching him how to be a catcher. Not just a stand back and watch the balls come in....like an actual catcher. He loves it. I am excited for this knights season. With that being said...I HAVE TO REMEMBER TO PUT SUNSCREEN ON! I put it on everyone except myself

I am pretty sure my face is burned too. But I haven't looked in a mirror since I've come home.

So much pride is in my heart for this little boy.

So as if I didn't have enough on my plate. I've had to start packing Addison's lunch too. I put it off and debated so long about it. But I have to. I buy so much fruit and veggies for Addison to eat for lunch and mom feeds her garbage 5 days a week. Saying she doesn't know what to give her. WHAT?! HOW?! Give her a banana, a pear, an apple, an orange. For real. I threw away so much fruit and veggies this week. So tonight I made her some frittatas for tomorrow and sliced a kiwi. So hopefully this will help cut down on the wasted food and on the garbage she eats.

Well I hope you have a good day. Sorry I haven't been writing much. I'll get better about it. I love you!

Home

It feels good to be here.
I did however have to come home and crash clean though...because I forgot to tell you. Jacey referred her cleaning lady here. So she is coming tomorrow to view the house.

Soooo....I have got to be the best baseball mom ever! LOL. I feel like I fail as a real mom but I am wayyyyy up there as a sports mom. I got Christian's glove all broken in. You would never look at this glove and think it has been in our possession less than 24 hours. It is soft and flexible. I have a ball wrapped up in it right now shaping the pocket. But this hot oil treatment was awesome!

I had another episode with mom. Hopefully this gets better when you are back and she won't "be required to work such long hours".

So Christian got fitted for his knights uniform tonight! So originally we were getting 2, now Coach is saying we may only get one depending on the most popular. The black ones are cool, but the white ones are AMAZING! I hope we get them both, but if we only get one I really hope we get the white one. And that I can keep Christians white.
So right when I thought I was going to get a nice relaxing Saturday with the kids at the pool....FALSE! I have been asking their father for weeks now if he was going to take Lily to the daddy/daughter dance. He never answered me. Well he told me today TWO days before the dance he will be picking her up at 4. Now...while I am happy he is taking...WTH man!? Must you wait until the last freaking minute. UGH!

I am sure I have more to tell you but I cannot remember it all. I am tired.

Good night! I love you!

no judgement

Life is beating me up, and I am literally about to lose my shit...
I told Christian's travel coach that tonight. It is how I feel.
I wasn't going to tell you. I was told I shouldn't complain to you. But I am...
Bad wife status...

So I forget to take C's bat bag out of my car. I get to the game 10 min late. Just enough time to see my clean up hitter smack a double into left-center. But they tag a kid out on 3rd and there was 2 outs. Anyway so I run over to the dugout to give him his bat bag. His glove isn't there...
We didn't play with the Indians or the Knights on Sunday. We played with the Cubs coaches. He literally was using whoever was on the bench...he used their glove. Luckily we played Coach Randy's team tonight (they killed us) because Coach Andrew is out of town. So I talk to him after the game and he calls Coach Jason (Cub's coach) and Coach Jason does not have C's glove. He says hopefully someone turned it in to lost and found but a nice glove is doubtful. Great...just fucking great. So I ordered C a new glove tonight...he is paying us back for half of it. But I also spent a lot of money on other stuff. So I need you to not pass any judgement because I am having a very bad week so far.

So anyway, Lily lost her freaking acro shoes last week. I didn't do anything this past weekend because I was hoping she would find them when she went back to dance Tuesday...ummmm no of course not. So I had to get her new freaking acro shoes. I am seriously at the end of my rope over here.

We have an early game on saturday and afterwards I am literally not doing anything. I had already planned on grilling that evening. So I am going to the pool with Vanessa and the girls. I just need a break from reality.
I don't have an issue leaving work stuff at work but I do have an issue of leaving home stuff at home. Because I still have to deal with home stuff at work...I am never doing just one job. I am always doing all the jobs.

Thankfully I had asked Samantha to bring a glove for Christian to use (even though he refused to use it) or I may have lost my head right then...I could feel myself starting to break down. So then to make a stressful situation even more intense. Their dad is on vacation for the next 2 weeks, for his birthday. So I asked him to follow me to publix and I would give him cash for gas, food, and a new glove if he would get the kids tomorrow or thursday and take them shopping. His answer was no...so then I was really about lose my cool. Trying to figure out how I was going to get him to Dicks to get a new glove. So I just ordered one off of Amazon...crisis averted.

So in the end I figured it out but it was a rough evening. I talked to Coach Andrews mom tonight, she is a really nice lady. Anyway she said she just made a point to buying several gloves at a time that way when this happened she could just pull another one out and they could use it. This is all new for me...I never lost my glove. I had one glove, I outgrew it and got a new one. The "new" one is the one Lily used...I NEVER lost my glove. I am making him give me money for half of his new glove as punishment for not keeping up with his equipment.

Anyway...that was my night. On a lighter side Christian is hitting fantastic off the pitching machine now. He will probably be clean up hitter from now on. He hit a double and they tagged a runner out at 3rd. Then he hit a single into right field and hit in 3 RBIs. I say he did his job on that last hit. My man!!! hittin bombs all over the field!
I hope you have a great day. I love you! Good night

Monday Indeed

UGH! Just ugh!
I swear it seems like there is just shit when Matt is off and he has only been off twice. Well we will start with...I am pretty sure Addison had a stomach bug last week and now I am pretty sure I have it. So there's that. Then we'll move on to....I didn't get to take a lunch today. We only had one teller and it was busy, so I was on the teller line. And if one more mother effing person were to yell at me...I would quite possibly be unemployed right now. Like these people were not just upset or frustrated. I mean they were screaming at me. The first lady I could understand, her situation was different. But the last lady. OOOOOO MAN! She almost made me forget who I was. It was bad. She was ignorant and kept cutting me off when I was trying to talk to her. Like with noises too, not words. I was would be in the middle of a statement and she would be like "NAHHHH!!!" "EHHHHHH!!!" "UH UHHHHH"
Omygoodness it was so unimaginably hard to maintain my composure. Then when she left she was storming out all bitchy. "I'ma had dat bitch's job. You wait. She don't know who she mess wit"
Apparently I messed with someone extremely immature and uneducated. But had she just shut her mouth and let me speak to her...she would have heard that I was going to do what she wanted "as an exception". But nope...didn't want to let me talk. So screw her...

On a lighter note here is Lily's school project. I think she did a fantastic job. We are not quite done yet. I am not sure if we are going to be able to put the pictures on the board since we put the target on the board. But hopefully it all turns out.

So Addison has definitely high a new milestone. She is just a completely different little baby to be around. Almost over night too. She makes all kinds of different noises when she is talking now.

The #1 sign your infant is turning into a toddler. How can 1 child do this!? Just how?

Well I hope you had a good day! I love you! Good night.

car sale

I.AM.EXHAUSTED!!!!

So I got to leave around 630. There were still people on the lot looking for cars. But...we had already sold almost 200 cars and done 3mil in loans! WHAT!? That's huge. So the department I was given to manage is a lot of fun, but stupid busy. I enjoyed it but man, it was busy!

I got to watch the last 2 innings of Christian's game. They lost 14-12. But they played well. It is amazing how much these kids have grown since the beginning of the season. They all have gotten so good.

Lily's team came in 2nd again. Coach said they were robbed of their win. That's disappointing. I am really sad I could not be there for it.

But that is all I have for the day. I hope you had a great day. I love you! Good night

day off

What day off?
O you mean extra day to do housework? Got it.

I hate hate hate separating out the meat from BJ's. That is job one you get back. I would rather fold laundry all day long than do that. But...it got done.
Then...I didn't cook dinner. I am ashamed :(
Home all day long and we had raviolis for dinner.

I never did quite recover after that anxiety/panic attack. I still feel anxious and short of breath. O and then come to find out...my Dr isn't at that practice anymore. So now I have to get another Dr. I always hate having to get a new Dr and then try to talk to them about anxiety....it gives me anxiety lol. Because most of the meds they give you for it is actual drugs and I feel like they look at your like you are a big pill head. It's a rough cycle. I guess I'll figure it out. I have to do something...I can't feel like this randomly. It screwed up my entire day.

So I am super bummed...we aren't competing on Sunday...Only the big one on Saturday. SOME of the parents didn't pay all their competition fees...so when it came time for the gym to finalize our spots this weekend they couldn't. Stupid people not paying their stupid dues. Then the people who actually CAN adult...their kids suffer. UGH! Just irritated me.

Poor Addison has her first official diaper rash. I feel so bad for her. She is so miserable. Her diapers have been abnormally disgusting the past couple days and I guess it finally caught up to her poor skin. I put some of that "lotion" I made on it...every other time it has healed spots up real quick. Hopefully it will fix her poor skin. She is miserable. I felt so bad changing her tonight.

Well I hope you have a good day. I love you!!!

Monday

Today was a busy day. I am seriously counting down the days until you get home. Doing this alone is getting really hard. I am trying to stay as organized as possible but it is getting so hard to keep up this balancing act. I feel like I cannot focus on anything. Hopefully it will get easy as I find my groove in things.

She just couldn't wait for dinner to be done anymore. She was so mad. She wanted her dinner NOW! So I cut her an avocado. She ate almost an entire avocado, 2 pieces of cauliflower, and a piece of pork chop. Just...wow!

She no longer low crawls. She crawls like a big kid now, and she can squat to pick things up if she is holding on to something. :( It makes me sad that she is getting so big.

Anyway I hope you have a good day and I hope I can talk to you tomorrow.
I love you and I miss you so much!
Good night

bicycle tire

Apparently I am not smart enough to figure it out. I cannot get that floor pump to put freaking air in that tire to save my life. I do not know what to do besides set the whole bicycle on fire and buy her a new one. So freaking frustrating. Even more frustrating...Andy offered to fix it for me before he left, and I never gave him a chance to fix it. Now he is gone and I can't fix it myself. UGH!

I completely screwed myself this afternoon. The kids do not have school tomorrow. It is "fair day" so I let them go to the movies today with their dad....at 8PM. Now I have to stay up and wait for them, and be at work by 730 tomorrow. Why...why did I tell him to come pick them up so late. Apparently my brain was not thinking.

Christian did ok at try outs today. He wasn't real good but he also wasn't real bad either. I am sure he will make it though since he was on the advanced team. He jammed his hand last night playing basketball, I was worried he wouldn't be able to throw today. But he actually threw better. Surprise surprise.

Mattie and her kids came over last night for a few hours. It was fun, they destroyed the upstairs. Poor Chloe, fell out of one of the dining room chairs. I felt awful, we both said she was going to fall and then let her sit up there anyway. She fell. She wasn't even doing something crazy, she was just sitting....and fell out. Poor baby.
But besides her baby getting hurt we had fun, and the kids even slept in this morning. That was the best part. Everyone slept until 9AM. Christian until almost 930.

I have to go to BJ's on Wednesday...we have absolutely no meat in this house.

Alright well I hope you have a great day. I love you!!

Busy days...

Paired with busy nights...makes one exhausted mommy.

Today was stupid busy. I know I still cannot help members 100%. So I am still not completely functional. But man it was so busy today. Just all day. With weird stuff too. So then I had to go get Lily from practice, that was loud and insane. Then off to the baseball field. Then to the grocery store, because the baby was out of formula. Then home....annnnnndddddddd I literally just realized I never ate anything for dinner. UGH!
Anyway, I get home at almost 9PM and look around. Mom is not enforcing my chore chart which is starting to get frustrating. I have these things in place so the house will not look like it is in a state of emergency. I am seriously waiting for the red cross to show up. Anyway, so I spent the rest of the night cleaning.

Speaking of dinner...now that I realized I never ate I am so hungry....but anyway. So these pampered little kids. All these other "baseball moms" talk about how on practice nights they just eat sandwiches, Brittany said they do that all the time too. So I figured what the heck I'll try it out. Ummmmm....no. They.Were.Pissed! Sandwiches is NOT dinner. I am still hungry, there is no vegetables, where is the chicken, is this seriously what we are eating for dinner. Well that was a bust. I won't be doing that again. LOL.

I don't know how I am going to do it this weekend. I am trying to iron out my schedule for the weekend. So Christian's coach said he would keep him so he didn't have to miss the game, Alicia is keeping the baby, Lily has to be at check in at 8 AM, AND I have to pick up mom. I get tired even thinking about all of this. So coach said I could drop Christian off as early as 630, he offered to let him sleep over. But you know we can't do that. Anyway...so I have to get up get myself ready, get Lily ready, get Christian and the baby ready. Take Christian to coach's, pick up my mom, drop off Addison and be downtown all before the sunrises. I need lots and lots and lots of coffee. I am no longer excited about competition day. I am sure it will not be as bad as I am making it....I will just have to be really prepared by tomorrow night. Which I am sure I will be.

Well I hope you have a great day. I love you!!! Good night

Plants

Okra, and Marigolds

baby tomato sprouts

Hooray! Zucchini

Cucumber and Marigold

Beans and Marigolds

I sent all of our pictures to Mason's mom so she can our plants! I am so super excited. I really hope we get some yummy veggies.

So I am really nervous about leaving Addison with Mattie tomorrow. Not even because I don't trust her...because obviously she wouldn't be going there if I didn't trust her she wouldn't be there. I am just nervous because Addison hasn't been with her for a long time. What if she get anxious, or upset because myself or mom aren't there? UGH! This is getting harder. The first week at work was so easy, it is starting to get harder.
Maybe it will get easier now that I am in the branch and not in training.
I am sure she will be fine. She doesn't typically get upset when she is left anywhere.

Alright well have a good day! I love you!

meeting

ughhhhhhhhh I have my first meeting in the morning and I already feel like a train wreck.
I have to be at HQ by 745. That is too freaking early to function.

So I really need to take a picture of our plants for you. The bean sprouts are officially bean plants. They are already bigger than the marigolds.

I feel like I had stuff to tell you but I am officially too tired to think.

I was able to get all the kids in bed by 8 though. The big kids even got to read a story. Well Lily read a story. Christian thought he would be cute and tell me he wasn't going to read his book. So Lily read her story and I put them to bed. Then he was pissed I wouldn't let him read his story. He was so mad at me. He was trying to be smart and was calling his dad while laying down so he wouldn't have to look at me and dropped my phone on his face. If you thought he was mad at me for calling his bluff you should have seen how mad he was when I laughed at him for dropping a phone on his face.
Sometimes I feel like a bad mom. Is that bad parenting? It was so funny.

I hope you have a good day. I love you so much! Good night

Expectation vs Reality

 Expectation. It's a little blurry but I like this one so much.

 Then there is reality.

We had a good day though. We spent the afternoon at Alicia's and Wade's family was there. It was nice. The kids had a good time, there was lots of food. We were all so tired by the time we left though. I am sure Alicia will sleep well tonight. She always works so hard for holidays.

OOOOOO she has one of those fancy Robot vacuums. That thing looks so cool. But when I think of all the dog hair on our floor. The Robot would probably explode. Wade said it has these brissel things that come out when it is near your baseboards and it scrubs the dust off your baseboards! WHAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTT!!!!!!

They said you set it to come out and vacuum and when it is done vacuuming it goes back to its home, or if its battery is about to die it will stop what it is doing and go back to its home. How cool is that!?

Anyway but when we left her house today we got to the neighborhood at the exact time as Hunter, so Christian got to get his Hunter fix. I really wish we were close with him like we used to be. Christian loves him so much. I swear if he was allowed to ride his bike that far he would always be at his house. Anyway so that was probably one of the best parts of Christian's day.

So Addison wore her big girl jammies again tonight. She is not a fan of the nightgown. It hinders her from crawling and she was very upset with it. But she looked cute

She doesn't seem to mind it now that she is sleeping. I guess it is just hard for her to move in when she is used to always being in pants. That's the same reason I don't ever wear dresses LOL

 So here are so more little cute pictures from the other day.

 Christian wanted to make sure you got pictures of them coloring eggs. He made an egg for you. He wrote your name on it and everything.

 She was so pretty this morning.

So I saw this on the way home from my sister's. It is very nice on the outside, and 2 acres. BUT...it is only 4 bedrooms, and it is heinous on the inside. It is just a few doors down from my sister though. It looks like old people built it on the inside...very disappointing.

So I showed you my calendar but not my menu. I am loving these. They are awesome!!!

Well I hope you have a good day. I love you! Good night

Easter

GOOD NEWS!!! The Easter Bunny came. The kids will be so happy. He came and Whiskey didn't eat him :)

They are going to be so excited when they get up!

So I have some more exciting spring news! All of our plants have sprouted....except the tomatoes...ugh go figure! But we are growing stuff!!!! How exciting is that! I will take pictures of those guys tomorrow. The basil is teeny tiny you can hardly see it right now.

She will probably hate me when she is older with all the food pictures.
This is how you eat strawberries when mom isn't looking. This kid...

She was so grumpy this afternoon after we got off the phone. Skipping that morning nap threw her whole day off. She was ready for bed tonight, she didn't even try to say no.

Anyway, I hope you have a great day. I LOVE YOU!
Good night

burnt out

I am not sure how I am supposed to make it until you get home. I am so tired. I feel like I can make it until Thursday night but by Friday I am good for nothing. I am exhausted.

Hopefully you can see that video that I sent you. It is really cute. Well I say it is cute now until Addison's answer for everything is no.

Back to training tomorrow. At least I will be able to go home early again on a Friday.

OMYGOODNESS!!!! Lily has a 4 hour practice tomorrow. WHAT!?! FOUR HOURS!!!! Poor thing!
But her first competition is next Saturday. Finally! I am so excited! I cannot wait to torture her and do her hair and her make up. I am debating finding a sitter for Addison or bringing her with me.
I feel like I should get a sitter for her but then I want her with me too. IDK. 

Not a whole lot more going on over here. I am so tired I do not know what to do with myself.

I hope you have a great day! I love you and I hope I can talk to you soon.

Longest day EVER!

So I think we are all overly tired. Christian was so overly emotional.

Mom said Addison boycotted her afternoon nap. So by the time dinner was done that poor baby was tired. I was trying to move her crib mattress down and was standing with her little face smooshed against the bars trying to get in her bed. It was so sad. I am not sure I have ever seen her so tired that she was literally trying to climb in her bed.

The bunny bit Lily again. LOL. Right when I thought he was starting to love us. Apparently he bit her pretty hard. Poor girl. I think she may have scared him. She was cleaning his cage and then she reached in and tried to pet him. So he was probably scared from her cleaning out his cage and then he saw her little hand coming toward him and he reacted. She cried so hard.

Anyway I am going to bed early tonight I am really tired.
So goodnight! I hope you have a great day! I love you!!!

Red Powerade

All in my car...red powerade. AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
Kids are why I can't drive a nice car. GRRRRRR!!!!!

So we killed our first game. Second game killed us!
Second game got pretty intense. I hope once these tournaments start counting that they hire umpires. The parents were all yelling on the field calling plays today. The other team was yelling at the parents calling them cheaters...telling them to learn the rules. UMMMMMMM this is a 6u team, not MLB. I'm going to need everyone to calm down.
Man Christian's bat is on fire...STILL! My man was hittin bombs today!
He got robbed of his first home run. If we were not following tee ball rules, he would have hit a clean home run. He hit a solid ball into centerfield. Everyone was chasing it to the fence, they got it in about the time he was rounding 3rd. They threw it to the pitcher who called time....he was maybe one step from the dead ball line. He had to go back to 3rd.
It was awful! My man deserved that home run! It was his...I saw it...then they stole it from him! I'll try and get a video next time. He is a solid hitter now. Even Coach was saying how he couldn't believe how his bat has come alive. He said now we all wish 7u was coach pitch.

https://youtu.be/ez6m6Jt3Trs

I have to find time sometime to get stuff for Easter. And go grocery shopping. I should have done that saturday with Mason. But I didn't have my stuff together. I am not even sure what days we have practice this week. UGH! I need to get myself organized.

Alright well I hope you have a great day! I love you!

Murderer!!!

Sorry I didn't write you last night. I am so unimaginably tired this week. I am going to be a burnt out mess by the time you get back.

So I stepped on a toad tonight. OMG! I don't think I could be more devastated. I told Jacey I would dog sit this weekend. Because they went down to see the Braves play the Yankees (that's the game I wanted to take the kids to :( ) Anyway so it started raining, so I drove down there real quick to let her dogs out and I came back and I stepped on a toad. I am so very sad. I murdered him. :'(

Other than that today was uneventful. Baseball was cancelled again. Which is good because I am exhausted. We have a tournament at home this weekend but it is supposed to rain all weekend long. So maybe not.

Mason and I are going to try...TRY...and plant some vegetables. We decided tonight we are going to go buy the stuff tomorrow to plant them. Hopefully they live. LOL.

I hope you have a good day! I love you so much! Good night  

Mixed Feelings

Well it sucked that our call got dropped. I kept hoping you would call back. O well...maybe tomorrow.

Anyway. So what to do, what to do...
The first day in the branch went well. It was uneventful. We hired that kid this morning. He was fantastic. I hope he turns out to be a good teller too, because he seems amazing so far.
But...I don't think I am a fan of the other one that I do not know. She seems...idk...lazy. Like a bare minimum person.
She was rude. I am not impressed so far. I mean you would think if your "new manager" was observing you for the day you would be on your A game right? She knows everyone except me...let me make a good impression. Ummmmm no. Didn't even complete the basic functions of her customer service role. She doesn't speak in complete sentences which is irritating. "How can I help?"
What? how you can you help? Help with what? Is it really so hard to add the "you" at the end of that sentence?
I'll have to tell you more on the phone. But I was not impressed.

I have heard so many bad things about where I am and the people that are there in the week I have been back. That makes me sad, because we were the place to beat. We were number 1 in everything and now...now we suck. Now people hear our name and go "your people need more training" that makes me sad.

But I got my orchid! It is pretty! I hope I don't kill it. And...AND...I can't get Thanksgiving off for competition. Now what? I guess I am going to have to see if Mattie or Lauren can take her. But I am really, really sad that I am going to miss it. O well...I guess I will figure something out.

Well, I hope you have a great day. I love you! Good night.

Another first day

So tomorrow is my first day in the branch. I don't get too long. I get today and tomorrow. Then back to training...yay!

So Addison is pulling up on everything now. Everything. If she can get her chubby little hands on it she is going to use it to stand up. Mom said she can stand up on her crib now. I haven't seen it but I can believe it because she was trying to do that last week. Guess I will have to move her crib mattress down this weekend.

So I forgot to tell you that this weekend may start the weekends of me having the kids 100% now. I kind of got a "this is probably going to happen this weekend" text the other day. But I haven't heard anything else since then. So we'll see.

Mattie and I were asked to be the team moms for cheer this year. I said yes...it couldn't possibly be too hard, and between myself and Mattie we can get it covered. Plus that means no working the gate for us...what what!!!! That's exciting. O and I guess I am going to have to set up a special account just for cheer. Because Lauren was saying that the hotel prices for nationals and regionals are ridiculous. And we have to stay at the hotels we are issued...she said this past season the price for A room was $350+ dollars when they went down there. That is CRAZAY!!!! So at least if I plan now, it will still suck just not as bad.

Anyway I hope you have a good day. I love you. Good night

zoo

Exhausted!
Absolutely exhausted!
I needed to do laundry today...none of that got done.
I swear it feels like the laundry is never ending in this house. Ever! There is always laundry to do. It never ends.

There is not much to say since I got to talk to you earlier. Everyone was exhausted.

O when I got home Mike met me in the front yard and said he saw the sprinkler was messed up and offered to fix it. So I am pretty sure he replaced it today. I talked to them for a long time but then I went in with the kids and didn't see them again. He didn't fix the time because I told him I wasn't worried about it. I said we would worry about that another day but that I did need to get the sprinkler head fixed. I am going to check it before I go to bed to see if it works. I hope so. I just thought it was funny that we were just talking about that and he met me in the driveway as I pulled in offering to fix it.

I finally found someone to keep the kids tomorrow if mom is still sick. Took me all day but I found someone. I try not to ask a lot for favors but it is nice to know she will help when I need her. Then I remember all the times she asks me to help at church so I shouldn't feel guilty...lol...if she couldn't do it she would say no right.

Well I hope you have a good day. I love you! Good night.

night game

I was so excited for a night game tonight. Hooray. Our first game under lights. How exciting. WRONG...just wrong! All the boys were crazy. Just crazy. Wild. They were climbing the fences, running around being insane. Not listening, running in and out of the dugout. I was tempted to lock them in the dugout.
We lost. It was sad. We were doing so well, then we had that one bad inning and that was it, we lost it. Christian got a good hit...but he was chased down and tagged out. It was very dramatic...he wasn't tagged so much as he was shoved down. LOL. He went tumbling down the baseline...was covered in chalk and clay. After that he got a really nice foul ball, but nothing else.
He lost his spot in the top of the line up. He was very upset about that. I am not sure he has ever been at the bottom of the line up.
His coach also yelled at him tonight. Made him cry. LOL. I felt bad for him , but he told him after the game he holds him to a higher standard than the other boys so he is going to be harder on him.

Lily got to spend the entire day at Mattie's house. We went to pick her up from the gym and Mattie said do you mind if Lily hangs out with us so she doesn't have to go to the baseball game. So she got home about 9 tonight. She said she had a good time though. But that means that she didn't get pick out her Easter outfit. Christian picked out everyone's stuff. They all match. LOL. Lily's dress is a little more blue because Christian couldn't find one for her that matched everyone else. But him and Addison will have on the exact same colors. It was very cute. Hopefully Lily likes her dress. Christian put a lot of thought into it.

Anyway I need to go to bed. I am so very tired. Have a great day. I love you!

day 4

Not much to say about day 4.
Ready for day 5 to be over.

Christian did fantastic at practice tonight. He really did. His throws are looking better. He made a sliding stop on his knees. He backhanded a grounder and flipped it to second. It was awesome. He came so very close to catching a pop fly. We have practice tomorrow at 5 for the second team then a game saturday evening. Then another tournament but this time it is in Julington Creek.

Anyway I hope you have a good day. I love you! Good night

day 3

So I missed writing about day 2. Day 2 was hectic.

Day 3 was excruciating. We went through file maintenance and address changes.
The highlight of my day was getting to see the Riverside branch. Jonathan works there now so I got to talk to him. Their branch is awesome. It is so high tech and awesome. The rest of it I zoned out for...she asked me a question one time and I was completely out of the class. I was like "what huh? I'm sorry...what did you say?" Then she gave the new kid a test and had me watch/help him complete his test on file maintenance and address changes.

I am so unimaginably tired though. I am not sure how I am going to do this and not be a complete train wreck by the time you get home. I am so tired...I have no desire to do anything. I got lunches premade and snacks packed. Other than that....the floors didn't get done...the baby's toys are still everywhere. I still have to pay the bills that have come in, and get myself prepared for tomorrow and all I want to do is crawl into bed. Mom keeps folding laundry for me and I haven't even had time or energy to put them away. I will have to get up early tomorrow and put them away.

O get this. I came home today and Addison is pulling up on everything. Mason's little cars stools that he has. She is pushing herself up on them and trying to stand. She can crawl up the first 2 steps of the stairs (guess it's time to keep the baby gate closed). I leave for one week and look at all the stuff she is doing. Not even one week I've been gone 3 days. She did have some separation anxiety tonight. She was fine when I got home, then when we got to church I put her in the high chair so I could go get dinner. She freaked out! It was horrible. She was hysterically crying. It was sad. But I gave her a cracker and she was fine. LOL.

Well I hope you have a good day! I love you! Good night

day 1

Well day 1 was uneventful. We had a meeting with the executives this afternoon and it really made me feel bad for the kid that is training with me. Everyone came in basically "O we are so excited you are back. Lakewood really needs you. It's going to be so great with you back. How's the kids? How's the baby?......o, hi? who are you?"








But then he got even with me. He had questions about everything...everything! Can you really be that interested in the CU's marketing strategy....shush...I want to go home. I am not sure what we are doing tomorrow, but they said we should get to leave early tomorrow too. I hope so. I still have a million tests to do. My eyes were starting cross today. I do not remember that many tests. BLEH.

I am liking this prepping the night before though...all the lunch stuff and snacks are packed. I got everyone in bed again before 8. WHAAAAAAA!!!!!
That will change for the rest of the week though because we have practice tues,thurs,fri...and then church on wednesday. Those are all late days.

Addison did well with mom. She said their day was good. She wasn't upset when I left and she wasn't real happy when I got home. She was a little clingy but nothing like I expected. Which I guess is a good thing.

Alright well have a good day. I missed getting to talk to you today. I love you
Good night.

double header

Today went really well. The second team forfeited so we technically only played one game but we also technically left that tournament undefeated. Christian got a really good hit. It is so weird how they have the leagues split up. So he is machine pitch every other game. But for the advanced team it is coach pitch and your last pitch is off the tee. WHAT!?! Anyway, so he got an amazing hit off the coach. Lead off hitter, first pitch...over the center fielder's head. It was great! The rest of his hits were off the tee, he fouled a few off but no more like that first one.
The team he plays with for advanced they are amazing. It is unreal. Those kids are good. Christian plays the outfield, which honestly I think will be good for him because he can play every other position except outfield. I think he genuinely had fun today. They are ordering uniforms apparently this week. I think we have another tournament this coming Sunday.
Thank goodness I can get the church sermons on podcast. I thought I was going to be able to go to the service but then Kenzie spit up all over me. All over me. It was nasty. So I went home so I could change.

So tomorrow is the day. I am not excited and I am not sad. We'll see how I feel tomorrow. I am worried about leaving the kids for the whole day, especially Addison. We haven't been away from each other like this before. I am really nervous about that.
But I have everything all put together and ready to go. Everything except the kids' sandwiches are made. Their clothes are laid out. All I have to do is shower and do my hair. Then I am ready for tomorrow.

So I am going to go get that done so I can get to bed early. Have a good day, because I am going to assume I won't talk to you tomorrow. 
I love you! Good night

 Excuse our bed head, but we love some blackberries. She fed all her pancakes to the dog but wouldn't share her blackberries.

 Snapped right before his hit.

This is what it looks like when you play baseball while you're getting over the flu. The second game may have forfeited but our guys stayed out to practice. That extra time hit him hard.

last night

Well tonight is my last free night before going back to work. Know what I did? Nothing...absolutely nothing. I swept the floors. LOL.
I did not get the room organized like I wanted to. O well. I will just have to make time for it later.

So today's game was good. I am glad I went. We ended up in a tie. Which is awesome considering we were down 4 runs most of the game. We had one kid hit a home run and score 1 then in the bottom of the last inning we scored 3 to tie it up. But we ran out of time so we had to end it in a tie. Better than a loss I guess.
I also learned that Christian has a double header tomorrow at Argyle. Luckily...I was told he will be there tomorrow. But, um, what do they wear? This team is made up of 5 different teams. Do we just wear game uniforms?

Not much else to talk about tonight. I have to just try and get everything ready for Monday tomorrow. Now I am starting to get nervous. I am sure everything will be fine but what if the house isn't put together the way I want it.

Alright well I hope you have a good day. I love you! Good night

flu day 2

O.M.G!

I hate this huge, long post typed out for you and somehow managed to delete it all.

So you will just have to wait until you talk to me today! I cannot believe I did that.
 Ugh!

I will pick up where I left off.

Addison actually crawled from the living room through the dining room into the kitchen through the front room to her bedroom when I was cleaning it tonight. It was amazing. I mean I know she can crawl and it isn't that amazing. But that is a long way for her to navigate and not get frustrated and start crying.

Well I hope you have a good day. Sorry I ruined this post, and deleted most of it :(
I love you!
Good night.

Flu

Well everyone is on Tamiflu...except me. I think I am just going to boycott that nonsense! The kids say it is awful and disgusting. Christian only has to take it for 5 days...Lily has to take it for 10 days. LOL. Christian got her good on that one.

So I got the word tonight that Christian DID make the advanced team! I am so happy, you would think I made the advanced team. LOL. Of course he will be missing the first practice...or at least he should miss the first practice. I will leave that up to his father. I told his coach that I think technically he is still contagious until Saturday. Personally I would rather him rest tomorrow and be able to play Saturday. But I also know Christian will want to go out there if he knows he has practice tomorrow. He was upset he missed it tonight and he slept all afternoon. I feel so bad for him. He is always sick but I couldn't tell you the last time he was THIS sick. He hardly ate anything today. He had half a sandwich a few snacky things today. No dinner, nothing. He said everything tastes funny. Could that be from his fever? Hope so because I told him it was.

I have to take him and Addison with me tomorrow morning to get my drug test done for work. The lab in OP only has a small window that they do them. So I have to take them in the morning with me. I am sure the people in the lab will be pissed about that, but what am I supposed to do. I can't leave them home alone, and I am not leaving them in the car again. We've had enough of that for one week. Then I also have to take him to get him a cup for baseball. Ugh! I keep forgetting about that.

Thank goodness for Lysol and essential oils. I have to disinfect the entire house. Poor Addison and Christian were having withdrawals from each other by the end of the day. I wouldn't let them near each other. They couldn't snuggle or play. They were both freaking out. Every time she could get within eye sight of him she would scream out to him and be reaching her arms towards him "MAH BUBBA!!!" I ended up having to put everyone to bed early she was so fussy because she wanted him so bad. There was no way to soothe her without giving her to her brother.

Well I hope you have a great day! I love you so much! I cannot wait until you are home! Good night

Awanas

So, everything was going fine. The kids irritated me so I was giving the cold shoulder LOL. I call it a sanity break. I don't know why I bothered buying Lily new shoes...when she still insists on wearing the ones with holes in them. GRRR

Anyway, so I wasn't talking to them for a few minutes. So we went through dinner silently. They were good. They were actually awesome. I should ignore them more often. LOL.

So then we get into the church and they go. I go sit in the nursery. Kelly comes and gets me "Christian is throwing up...like bad....come quick"
WHAT!? He was just fine.
So I run up there. I mean I literally run up the stairs. He is sitting on the yucky bathroom floor, eyes all watery "I frew up mommy"
UHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! :(

So we all go home. Now he has a fever. Well I guess at least it happened BEFORE I went back to work. But jeez....who gets sick while they are taking antibiotics!? Apparently Christian. How is that possible...aren't antibiotics supposed to make you better? How do you get sick while taking them? Maybe it was something he ate, maybe he'll be ok in the morning. Hopefully. But probably not, he's in our bed right now. Poor thing.
Lily nor Christian have ever thrown up before...this is a first. Poor guy.
So we are hoping for no sick babies tomorrow...I really don't want my babies to be sick, and I was really looking forward to going to the gym.

Alright well I hope you have a good day. I love you! Good night.

Success

Well week 1 of 2 practices in one day I call a success. I was able to get everyone fed, homework done, grand prix cars painted and decorated, and everyone where they needed to be on time. I call that a success.

Poor Christian is having such a hard time batting. I am trying to leave him alone but he is getting conflicting information all over. His coaches tell him one thing, his dad tells him another. He is so confused. His dad is being an awful bleachers coach and it is starting to irritate me. I will have to tell you on the phone what all happened. But I am also in a really bad mood this evening. So maybe I should just sleep on how I am feeling.

I am in one of those moods where I should be in a cage on display somewhere. I am dangerous. LOL.I just don't need to talk to anybody. If I am in a mood like this tomorrow I don't think I am going to go work in the school. It's bad.

So the sippy cup for Addison is working out great now. She is back up to 3 8oz drinks a day. I am hoping to squeeze a 4th one in there. But the past few days she has cut out her bedtime "drink". She did tonight too...she just went right to bed. But the sippy cup is working so well. She is drinking from them so good. Much better than trying to force feed her a bottle.

Well I hope you have a great day. I love you! Good night

9 months

So we had a nice little chat about addison not drinking bottle anymore. Her Dr said she is not concerned about the amount of formula she is taking in since we are doing the baby led weaning. She said she is clearly eating balanced meals and is healthy. She said to give her formula in sippy cups and let her take it as she wants it. So I told you I did that this morning and she drank about 4 oz. She had another 16+ oz out of a sippy cup before the day was over. That is fantastic!

She is 16.13 lbs and 29 inches even. So her growth slowed down a little and her weight increased. She is 26% for weight now, and 89% for her height. She is still super tall. I did get a little upset there today though and I tried to argue it but eventually just gave in. She got her Hep B shot at her 6 month appointment. Well her 6 month appointment was like 2 days before she was actually 6 months. So the department of health said her 6 month shot for Hep B doesn't count and she had to have it again. WHAT!?! She got it...who cares it was 2 days before she was actually 6 months...that does not negate the fact that you stuck a needle in her leg. I was pissed...her Dr talked me down a little but I was not happy she had to get another shot.

So Lily's wort I'm convinced just doesn't want to die. It is huge. She had it frozen again. She said it hurt really bad this time. She has to go back AGAIN in 3 weeks to have it done again. Most expensive wort ever!

Other than that today was uneventful. I took a video of Christian reading to send you but FB told me it was too long. So I need to edit it. He is doing so good. I cannot believe how well he reads...remember in August when school started he couldn't read at all and now he is reading chapter books.

Well I hope you have a great day! I love you! Good night

Grillin

Guess who learned how to use the grill tonight! That's right, me! Mike showed me how to turn it on, and I did it...all by myself. I only grilled hot dogs, but still....gotta start somewhere right?

So today was very busy. I feel like we were nonstop from the time we got up until we went to bed. But it was a good day. The kids were good. Lily passed out at the game in grass and slept through almost the entire thing. I learned today in 7u that we do not play an hour...we play 6 innings. WHAT! I did not plan for that! I planned for an hour. Mason got into a fight with another little boy at the park. Well really I think him and another little boy started playing too rough and Mason got the short end of the stick. I turned around and saw the little boy slam Mason down into the ground. I freaked. Sat Mase by my mom took Elijah to his mom, told her I didn't want Mason near him again today. Then later they were together again and she told me. So I said yea I saw them so if he gets roughed up again then he should have listened to me. But he didn't, they played nice. So it worked out.

So Christian has developed a very poor attitude and I am not sure what to do about it. I understand he was frustrated that he struck out, but how can I get him to have constructive frustrations? He threw his bat up against the fence. I made him go back and get it. I get that he is upset...that is normal, it is not normal to throw your bat and I won't tolerate it. I mean he had an ok day, not a standing out day. But he wasn't awful either. He covered his bases, he hit...he got out. But he advanced the lead off runner 2 bases and we scored. We ended up winning by 1 point...so that counts. He didn't see that until I explained it to him. I just don't get it. He has never had a bad attitude like this.

Well I hope you have a good day! I love you. Good night

out of cumin?

No way! Not possible! How could we run out of cumin?! Don't we always keep a back up supply? Um nope. We are definitely out of cumin. We made chili today and that's when I made that discovery.

So opening night was fun today! It was cold. But we got to leave as soon as our kids were announced. Addison cried through the whole thing. That was no fun. She decided on her own she was going to skip her afternoon nap and we all got to pay for it. She was in her bed for her afternoon she just never went to sleep. She laid in there playing. So this evening was awful!

So Jacey came over tonight and we had an impromptu craft night. We made dug out hangers for tomorrow. So all I need to do is get some D rings or something to hold my markers and we are good.

I am pretty excited for tomorrow, just so you know! Tomorrow feels like Christmas morning for me! LOL
I have your shirt to send you. I promise I will get it all in the mail to you next week! Promise!

Well I hope you have a good day and I will try and get lots of pictures of everyone for you tomorrow. Mason and Christian played really well together alone today. I love you! Have a good day. Good night. 

busy!

If this is any clue as to how busy I am going to be when I go back to work. I am going to be so burnt out when you get home it is not even funny!

So I made it a family affair when I went to the credit union to do my paperwork. Addison came with me. Mom came with me. Mom sat in the lobby with the security guard, Addison and I went into HR. So Tracy played with the baby while I did all my paperwork. She came in the office and said Hi to me and how happy she was that I was back. Then she says "AND! Perfect timing too. We just enrolled in the First Coast games. We are going football AND softball this year I am going to go ahead and register you ok?" LOL...o ok. Glad you guys are also profiting on my athletic abilities.
After the credit union I took mom to the orthopedic surgeon for her knee. They thing it is just severe arthritis and bone spurs in her knee. But she has to go have a MRI done to rule out a meniscus tear. So she is not completely out of the woods. But she said it is not as bad as it was earlier. So hopefully it is just arthritis. But then that will pain she has to live with for forever...so IDK what I should hope her diagnosis is. I mean she already has the arthritis and bone spurs in her knee. So should I just hope she doesn't have another ailment to add to it? IDK.
Then I brought mom back to her car, went and got the kids. Went to Christian's doctors office. Got home in just enough time for Lily to complete her homework. Went to church. Went to the park to collect more raffle stuff. Back to the church to get the kids and help in the nursery and now I am home....finally. I am so tired I just want to go to bed.

Check that out though! Uniforms look good this year huh.

I missed talking to you today. I kept hoping you would call. But o well. I hope you had a good day. I love you.
Good night

March 7

I'm sorry!

Yup that's how we get started today.

So I finished the taxes. I changed the phone number at the end to mine, since 1) it had your old # and 2) if they needed something they couldn't call you anyway. Soooooo, I get a text while we are at dance "your taxes have been rejected by the irs. check your email for more info." So when we got home I opened the email. There is no way I would have been able to rest without knowing how to fix that. So anyway...it was because it still had C on there as dependent-not claiming, or however it was. When he should have just been a non-dependent. So I fixed it and resubmitted it. But sorry, I opened your email.

So that was proud moment for me. YAY my boy! Lol

Well, I am going in to the credit union tomorrow to sign all my new hire paperwork. AHHHHH!
I officially start March 7th. So I have 2 more weeks home with my babies and then back to work I go. Well not even 2 more weeks. Less than 2 weeks.
O get this! I had a mini meltdown today. So I call my mom to tell her March 7th she needs to be available to watch the kids. I call her and she can't talk because someone is helping her into the house. She hurt herself at the Y today playing pickleball and can hardly walk. WHAT!!!!!!! How are you supposed to watch Addison if you cannot walk. UGH! So then I had an extremely selfish moment and did not even ask her if she was ok. I told her she needed to figure out what was going on so I could make other plans for the kids. What is wrong with me?! What kind of heartless person does that?! Anyway, so I am taking her to an orthopedic surgeon tomorrow and if it is bad and she cannot keep the kids Addison has to go to daycare. I lost my head...completely lost it! I don't want her to go to daycare. But then I felt really guilty that I was so selfish when mom is the one that is hurt. So I just need you to pray that she is ok and it is nothing serious so Addison doesn't have to go to daycare. Because that will make my first day to work even harder.

Alright well I need to go to bed. I have to seriously adult tomorrow. Have a good day. I love you so much! Good night
 

bust

well that's what tonight has turned out to be. I was sitting here watching a show and the internet stopped working, go figure. So I'm going to bed...nope! I told you I would finish the taxes. So I go upstairs and reset the router. Crap! I forgot to call the bank for my balance. UGH! So...no taxes tonight. Sorry. Tomorrow for sure.

So I don't know what Christian's deal is at practice because...homeboy CAN throw...GOOD! I forced him to play catch with me to work on his throws. He only had a few issues. But if he just focuses on what he is doing he throws very good!

So I realized tonight while making the menu for the week that I haven't gone to BJ's this month. We have no chicken. AHHHHHH! Well...we have chicken now, after I went grocery shopping. But crap! Now I have to go to BJ's soon. Mom made the comment about it too. "You always have snack foods here. Your pantry is looking so empty" it's not empty :( you just actually have to cook the foods you want LOL
Plus the whole time my mom was here all she drank was soda, and apparently in my drugged state I repeatedly nagged her about how unhealthy all those sodas were, she needs water, and how I'm going to stop keeping sodas in the house if that's all she is going to drink. LOL.
Apparently I'm rude when I'm on narcotics.

So I have definitely created a tiny little monster. Christian asks to sleep with me every single night. Every night. He slept with me last night, and begged until the very last second to sleep with me tonight. But I didn't let him. He does not like going to bed alone. Even when he does sleep with me he is very upset that I do not go to bed the same time he does. I am not sure what has changed with him. I kind of like it though and I totally would let him sleep with me every night if I knew it wouldn't hurt Lily's feelings. But it would and I have to be fair.

Ok well have a good day! I love you so much! Good night

I am ashamed

In two days I have eaten all of the ice cream in the freezer. All of it. I am ashamed. LOL.

I got my new carrier. I love it! Absolutely love it! Love everything about it! It is so soft and snug. It still doesn't feel normal to back carry. Addison seems more comfortable in this on my back than the Ergo but it still felt weird to me. Maybe I'll get used to it. I have to find a way to keep her from pulling my hair while she is back there.
It is so very soft though. I love it so very much!

Omg! So the kids came home and Christian ofcourse was being so sweet. Can I get you anything? Are you feeling ok? And then he does it...he walks right up to me and presses the side of my face so hard. He didn't mean to hurt me but I thought I was going to cry. He felt bad after the fact. He said "it's so fat I didn't think you'd feel it"
Dang kid...hurt me twice :'(

Anyway, nothing else exciting over here to report.
The kids are home...yay!

I love you! have a great day! Good night.