30. Three boys. Married to a sexy geeky genius. I cook, eat, drink, craft, dance. Live for my dirty vodka martinis.
1. My stepson Jude visited over the weekend. It was nice having him around and having a full house. However, I’m looking forward to getting back into our routine.
2. We are ready to start transitioning Harper to cups. He is doing really well with cups already, but we need to put up the bottles until bedtime. I’m more worried about how he’s going to do with giving up the pacifier!
3. There is a job I’m dying for as a photography assistant and the application was just posted yesterday. I applied, the photographer knows how excited I am about this job, and now I’m having to just let it go and know it’s out of my hands! That’s so hard for me!
4. I am constantly conflicted about something. One week, it may be business ideas. Another week, it may be what city I want to live in. This week, it’s whether to keep growing my hair or to cut it short.
5. I finally got a boost in motivation, in the form of Jane Fonda. When I was a little girl, my mom always did the Jane Fonda Workout (1982). It was the first mass-produced workout video. It is absolutely amazing. I remember how it whipped my mom into shape. We had been searching for it on DVD for years. It was never produced on DVD, but we hoped we’d find a homemade version somewhere. Then, after years of searching, I found it… in YouTube installments! I did the workout for the first time yesterday. I am so sore… and itching for more! Maybe Jane can help me lose all this weight!
6. My husband and I are working on our first blog collaboration, hopefully launching in June. It’s a lot of work to run a blog that we hope people will use regularly and depend on it as an information resource. We live in a small town that is so not connected to the internet. The few hiring businesses want you to send in a resume… via snail mail. People shop and do business in surrounding cities, because they don’t even know what’s available to them here. And the local newspaper (published once a week, on Thursdays) is very sad. The “writers” have very biased views… and they show in the articles. I’m pretty sure you can pay for an article too (if you agree with the editor’s views, at least). We hope to bring something new and fresh to the table, and we’ve gotten a lot of good feedback about our plans!
7. Harper started taking a few steps here and there in recent weeks. Now, he is full-on walking. He favors it over crawling most of the time. I really can not believe this is my baby. He may be our last baby, and I’m trying to soak it all up before it’s over.
8. Sometimes I feel like a big gray cloud hangs over our house, pouring down germs. Someone here is always sick (and I guess with 6 people currently living here, the odds are against us). A cold has circulated, dotted here and there with sinus infections and bronchitis. There is poison oak or poison ivy in our house, along with a recent 24-hour stomach bug. I have come to believe in the power of positive thinking though. I started to get my second cold in a month 2 days ago, but started popping vitamins and listening to my body, and now I’m fine!
9. I need to post a wedding recap on the blog, along with some of the millions of pictures. I just don’t think I can find the time (or patience) to really write out the details of the day. And it was so simple, what is there to really tell? I’m thinking I’ll let the pictures do the talking. That’s what everyone wants to see anyway, right?
10. Just when I couldn’t think of a number 10, my dad comes in and suggests I just buy some kool-aid instead of juice. I told him no, there’s absolutely no nutritional value in kool-aid and it’s all sugar. He was surprised, people. SURPRISED.
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Hi just thought u could use a tip on the paccie when I broke our son I used and was successful with the paccie tree method we (my son helped which made him feel more in control ) with a piece of string loosely tide to it we Hung it on a tree and told our son that the paccie fairy would come get it and take it to another child , when he moved on with his activities we removed it and then took him and showed him that the fairies had been there ; “it worked”
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