Wisdom from my walk

I’m so excited, we went out and bought a new pack and play since Calebs old one broke and the broken part wasn’t replaceable. I called Graco and they wouldnt replace it for free but offered us a rebate based on the amt we spend on a new one, I guess it’s better than nothing. I love our new one. Of course baby stuff changes so much over time, so 3 years after having Calebs this one is so much more advanced. It comes with lights to check on baby, nature sounds or music, a cool attachment to hold toys/diaper stuff, as well as a full size basinet feature(calebs old one had this too) and a changing table and a mobile ( these things also were features on the old one). It will definitely make our upcoming trips much easier! Funny how new things can brighten your day!

I’m still aching from my fall on Monday, being mad at myself for not having gone to the doctor. One of my fingers is definitely sprained at the least, it is still painful and a little swollen. The bruising on my wrist and arm looks horrible, Dean said I can say that he beat me if anyone asks about it. My back is really hurting too, I really dont want to have to go to the doctor but if I’m still achy on Monday I think I will go. Enough whining about that….mostly because I have to use that achy finger to type and it’ s bothering me so off to bed I’ll go…have a great weekend!

Guess it’s time for an update. It’s Thursday, there you are now updated! No really, it’s been a busy week for us. The best parts of the week were the three nights Boaz slept through completely, then of course last night he was up 3 times. Aside from that, I failed to rewrite the entry for the Valentines Day from hell. Here’s the short version, I fell and hurt my hand/wrist , Caleb busted his lip, the dog destroyed several items around the house, why go on? isnt that enough? Did I mention at all that for the last week and a half we’ve come home from being out to find dog poop all over the living room, today was no exception!

The plus sides of this week so far, my friend had her baby this morning, 3 weeks early but doing great. We switched car insurance companies, we’re saving $300 in the premium alone, and the payment plan is better so we’re paying less each month so that will be nice. Add to that the drop in premium from getting rid of car # 2 last month and we’re saving about $800 every 6 months in car insurance with these last two changes to our coverage. That’s a lot of freakin money! Of course we added a Y membership to our monthly expenses but it’s still not as much as the difference we’ve made in car insurance premiums. We’ve also managed through our tax money and Dean’s generous bonus at work to pay off all of our credit cards except for one that now has a low balance since we wanted to save money for our upcoming trip to Ohio. So in the new year so far we’ve saved ourselves quite a bit of money and I’m feeling the weight of financial worries being greatly lifted. It’s a great feeling to be almost completely out of debt other than our mortgage. We dont even have a car payment right now, it’s amazing. Since our refinance a few months ago we’ve bettered our financial situation a great deal, it also helped that Dean got a good bonus last month. The only other major thing out there now is paying for hospital bills from Boaz’s birth but I’m in no rush to pay off medical bills.

I should be doing productive things instead of sitting here babbling on but what fun is that? Another fun thing this week, I started working out, the result so far has been a horrible back ache, cant decide if it’s from the fall on Monday or from the new exercising I’ve been doing. Either way it’s made me decide not to work out today, I did yesterday even though my back hurt and it just got worse so we’ll see how I feel tomorrow. well I really do need to get something done. hope everyone is having a good week.

aahhhh! i typed an entry earlier and I guess it got lost……the worst part is it hurts to type becuase as the entry told, I fell today on the ice….blah! i cant recount the entry now but it’s been a bad bad day and now that my entry isnt here I feel it’s not getting any better. the world is against me today or something, isnt it supposed to be a happy love filled day!?!?!?

I’ve got a gripe, and it’s not often I gripe about internet related things, especially not in such a public way. But I’ve had enough with having to register my information just to read someones journal. In the last two months I’ve had to set up at least 3 new accounts so I could catch up on the lives of friends. I understand everyone has their needs for a medium that’s user friendly for them. My thing is if all of these services are free, or at least the basic memberships to them are, then why make me waste my time registering. These companies have no right to need my demographic info and I’m getting sick of having to give it them. Sure I could make it up and once I did use a temp email addy to avoid it but I’m really getting peeved about it. I could just choose to not read or comment on these people’s journals/blogs but I want to and I shouldnt have to choose not to just because of something so stupid. I know from the service providers point of view they need to know who’s using their product so they know their target audience but they should already know that. Honestly I can tell just be logging into some of these sites who they are targetting and believe me it’s not me! The sites are user friendly but too much so for me. I like having to learn a little html to make things work. I like having a challenge but I dont want reading other people’s journals to be a challenge, that should be the easy part. Maintaining and updating your blog should be a little harder work than the work it takes for someone to log on and read what you’ve done. Argh! I admit I’ve given in and subscribed to these users sites but aside from the accessibility to their entries I’m gaining nothing out of my membership to these annoying services other than a headache of having to login. And please why do people have to have more than one place for a journal, there’s no need for it!! pick a website and stick with it folks, if you need advice finding a better space for your blog please let me know I’m sure I can help, but please let the next best thing you find not require me to register and login every freaking time! that’s all folks, I’m just a *little* annoyed right now!

Boaz and his 8 month old cousin Jack, I couldnt catch it quick enough but this was right after Jack kissed Boaz. They had fun watching each other today.

Boaz 2/12/05

Giant Valentines Chocolate Chip Cookie

Yesterday I attended Caleb’s preschool Valentines Day party with him. It was a lot of fun and he got a lot of cool cards and candy. I made lolipops and attached Caleb’s valentines cards to them for his classmates, they turned out to be really cute. So I was in full Valentine mode yesterday. I even made pink and white chocolate covered pretzels, they also are really cute and yummy! I took those to a home interior party at my moms house last night. Two of my girlfriends went with me and it was fun. I was dissappointed, but not too suprised, to come home to a messy house, there were even still dishes in the sink. Caleb even went to bed early for once while I was gone so he was up early today and that was frustrating as well. Boaz had been with me at the party and he had been awake most of the day, I’m beginning to think it was because I drank a lot of soda w/ caffiene yesterday which is something I dont normally do. So yesterday was a busy social day,quite the opposite to today so far.

Since Caleb was up early I was up and out of the house early, it felt like it was nearing noon but we were at the grocery store at only 9 am! So now the day is going slowly. I ended up forgetting to buy one of the main things I went to go to the store to get and it was too cold to get the kids out of the car and go back in so I just came home. So now I’m trying to decide what to do since I cant do what I wanted to without it. Blah!

In return for my night out last night Dean is going out tonight, as if he wouldnt have gone anyway but still…..so he had one kid to care for last night while I was out and the kid went to bed early for him, tonight for me will be me and two kids and the kid never goes to bed early for me. we’ll see. friends are coming over this evening to hang out with us so hopefully he’ll be tired and crash at a reasonable time. This is turning out to be a boring entry so I’ll go. No Valentines plans for us this weekend, I’m kind of bummed about that, but not sure we’d be able to leave Boaz for long yet so it doesnt really matter. I’m making a cookie cake for a friends husband that will say “will you be my valentine” I wish I had come up with the idea myself but I’ll be glad to see how it turns out. I cant think of anything to get my own hubby as he keeps going and buying himself new gadgets with our tax money so he’s left nothing for me to get him. I probably wont even try to be creative about it, I ‘ve thought for a while about what to get him and keep drawing blanks. I am doing the same with picking out a birthday present for a friend. it’s like my brain just isnt working these days, no suprise, I talk to a baby and a three year old all day, not stimulating enough to keep the wheels turning.

I am trying to prepare caleb for the day soon when we will take the dog to a shelter. On top of all of her other issues she greeted us twice this week to poop and pee all over the living room. We take her out at least once before we ever leave home and the first time this happened we had been gone for less than 2 hours. She’s not sick either. I truly believe it’s her way to try to get attention since we havent been able to give her much not to mention I’m so mad at her most of the time I have no desire to show her any attention. Caleb doesnt want her to leave and I know it will be hard on him but right now it’s too hard on me and my nerves to deal with it anymore. I wish I could change my attitude but the dogs behavior isnt helping any. I want her to be in a home where’s she’s loved, right now the only one who shows her any love is Caleb and even then she’s starting to get rough with him. Speaking of which they are running around like crazy and I need to address it before it gets out of control…..

Caleb and Boaz

Boaz smiling, it’s blurry but the smile is all you need to see!!