I feel like I'm getting a lot done. Cleaning, bills, taxes, school, plus random errands or other things that are going on. Yet here I am, a week into wanting to blog about a bunch of things and I cannot find the time to do it. And now that I'm doing it, I know I'm going to leave out a bunch of stuff that I meant to say.
We've had a pretty major events week this week for our family. Trevor lost his second tooth. He was chewing on a string from the kids camera we have and he got it caught around the tooth, and pulled it out. It was much less traumatic than the first tooth, so hopefully it'll keep on getting easier from here.
Trevor got his first report card on Wednesday. To me, it wasn't a surprise. But what was hard to discern was if he had improved upon the areas we were trying to work on since conference time. So I talked to his teacher again, and we even are going to focus more on a few areas and use some sticker charts to see if that helps Trevor gain some confidence that he is doing a good job.
On Friday, Trevor got his first bee award. The class focuses on three "Bee's": Bee Responsible, Bee Respectful, and Bee Safe. He has been trying to earn an award since the beginning of school, and was SO excited to finally get one.
Friday night, Russ and I, Kevin and Kelsey went to watch the group Hairball perform at a nearby hotel. It was nice that it was so close to our house, and got to see the cool stuff that Brian gets to do.
Saturday, our church has an annual Cana Dinner around this time every year. I decided to sign us up for it. Thankfully, we were not the youngest couple there, and I knew three other couples there. They had dancing, a nice dinner, renewal of vows, door prizes, a fun survey game, and plenty of alcohol (hey, we're Catholic, what can I say?). Next year I'm going to try to convince some of my mom friends to come along with.
This week, it was made public that Russ is going to be changing jobs. He will be working for a company that he has previously worked for, however he will be traveling for most of his job. We are both very positive about this change and thankful that we are in the situation that we are in, because without the support of our family and friends, our family wouldn't be what it is today.
That is as much as I can remember for now. Hopefully I can get more down soon.
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Monday, January 19, 2009
The strange thing that bothers me....
So as a mom (and actually I learned to deal with it way before being a mom by being a camp counselor at a camp for special needs people) you get thrown into a lot of stuff. Most moms can say they have been pooped on, peed on, thrown up on, bled on, and just about any other what might be termed "gross" thing that can happen to you. I've discovered that there is only one thing that does not roll off my back like the others. And I have no idea why.
What is it? SPIT. I've been eating yogurt as a snack for myself, and Gwen loves feeding herself (and others) with a spoon. So if she sees the yogurt I'm eating, I will almost have to be done. She will first try it herself, get it all over her face and clothes, and then start feeding me. It gives me the chills just thinking about it. It bothers me even more than we are related. Now, thinking about it logically, I have no idea why it should bother me. "Swapping spit" when I was younger never bothered me. And if it is with Russ, it doesn't bother me. If it was a complete stranger that spit on me....it would gross me out more than if it were some other bodily fluid. But that is only if it were on my face.
So I was just thinking that it is kind of strange for me to be bothered by that and not anything else. And those are my thoughts....
What is it? SPIT. I've been eating yogurt as a snack for myself, and Gwen loves feeding herself (and others) with a spoon. So if she sees the yogurt I'm eating, I will almost have to be done. She will first try it herself, get it all over her face and clothes, and then start feeding me. It gives me the chills just thinking about it. It bothers me even more than we are related. Now, thinking about it logically, I have no idea why it should bother me. "Swapping spit" when I was younger never bothered me. And if it is with Russ, it doesn't bother me. If it was a complete stranger that spit on me....it would gross me out more than if it were some other bodily fluid. But that is only if it were on my face.
So I was just thinking that it is kind of strange for me to be bothered by that and not anything else. And those are my thoughts....
Monday, August 4, 2008
Instead of emailing
I figure I'd just post stuff here. FYI.....
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Friday, April 18, 2008
Pray Pray Pray
That's all I can really do at this point. And be SO Thankful that I am blessed with a healthy family. I now know 3 children that have a caringbridge website where their parents update the blog or journal with how they are doing. I have to say that it really helps direct prayers and know what is going on and keep in touch by mentioning how wonderful they are.
Trevor's friend Ryan has a little sister that was born with heart problems that have caused her to undergo a few major heart surgeries (and is actually in the middle of recovering from one now). I'm hoping they will not mind that I post their sites: www.caringbridge.org/visit/babyweness
Trevor's friend Elizabeth has a little brother that has Hereditary Spherocytosis as well as Neurofibromatosis. He has been having to have blood transfusions to keep his hemoglobin up to healthy numbers. His site is: www.caringbridge.org/visit/henrygorder
And now I just got a mail message from my ECFE teacher for Gwen's class where a classmate of hers just found out that she has stage 4 cancer. They are undergoing aggressive chemotherapy and at the moment it looks like she is responding well to the treatment. They found out about her diagnosis between the spring break classes. And her site is: www.caringbridge.org/visit/giannagrace
I also read these sites to give myself inspiration on those tough days. My "tough" days are nothing compared to these families. But it gives me strength to be able to pray and wish that their days are filled with love and good news.
Trevor's friend Ryan has a little sister that was born with heart problems that have caused her to undergo a few major heart surgeries (and is actually in the middle of recovering from one now). I'm hoping they will not mind that I post their sites: www.caringbridge.org/visit/babyweness
Trevor's friend Elizabeth has a little brother that has Hereditary Spherocytosis as well as Neurofibromatosis. He has been having to have blood transfusions to keep his hemoglobin up to healthy numbers. His site is: www.caringbridge.org/visit/henrygorder
And now I just got a mail message from my ECFE teacher for Gwen's class where a classmate of hers just found out that she has stage 4 cancer. They are undergoing aggressive chemotherapy and at the moment it looks like she is responding well to the treatment. They found out about her diagnosis between the spring break classes. And her site is: www.caringbridge.org/visit/giannagrace
I also read these sites to give myself inspiration on those tough days. My "tough" days are nothing compared to these families. But it gives me strength to be able to pray and wish that their days are filled with love and good news.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Disney Info
No...not about any upcoming Disney trips we are having...but just read about this on yahoo's site:
Kind of sad that they can't get stuff going faster than other production companies can, but I guess better late than never. I think Trevor will be the perfect age to get that last installment of Toy Story, but I wonder if he'll start to feel too "cool" to watch the second Cars movie. He'll be 8 1/2.
Anyway, just some random thoughts for you all....
Kind of sad that they can't get stuff going faster than other production companies can, but I guess better late than never. I think Trevor will be the perfect age to get that last installment of Toy Story, but I wonder if he'll start to feel too "cool" to watch the second Cars movie. He'll be 8 1/2.
Anyway, just some random thoughts for you all....
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Yet another busy weekend
I THINK we are finally at the end of our crazy busy weekends, until the baby arrives. Friday night Russ and I went bowling with the moms and dads that have kids around Trevor's age. I found out that bowling is something I can do, even as pregnant as I am. So that was nice. And we didn't stay up quite as late as we would have if we had played cards, which was the original plan.
Saturday was the 10 year High School Reunion for Russ's High School. Seeing as how Russ took charge of the reunion, we were there from beginning until end of both events. Starting out with the picnic up in Brooklyn Center and ending downtown Minneapolis at the Palomino restaurant. We were on the road starting at 10:15 or so, and ended after midnight. It was a fast paced, but hard day on a pregnant lady as I had to spend most of the entire day on Sunday trying to get rid of the swelling, tired feeling I had.
Russ did a great job, as he always does when he plans things. And from what I overheard, and was told, everyone in attendance enjoyed the reunion.
Trevor got some quality time with his aunt Tracy on Friday, and Uncle Derek (and future Aunt Kyrsten) on Saturday. He was BEAT on Sunday, and is still a little worn out a few days later. Now I know, from my childhood that things you are interested in do not always turn into what you do with your life because when I was younger, I LOVED (and actually still do) to go to Laundro-mats. Family loved to say that when I grew up, I was destined to run a laundro-mat. Unfortunately, my career path never really went in that direction.
But with everything that Trevor has been interested in - probably since he was a little over a year old, it is hard to see that he won't be continually interested in some form of cars, traffic, or geography field. Yes, the boy does have a wonderful memory, like his dad that uses it often to quote and recite movies from, but whenever we take rides in the car, he loves to ask about cities we are in, looking for water towers, and asking about signs and streets that we are crossing. When we drove up to the picnic for the reunion on Saturday, we drove past 3 water towers. Edina, St. Louis Park, and then Brooklyn Center. He has seen the first two often enough, but was pretty excited to see the new one. So he was telling Kyrsten and Derek about it, but could not remember what city was on the last one. So he was asking them. Unfortunately, they thought it was another city around Bloomington, like Eden Prairie. But when he asked me about it the next day, I remembered, reminded him that it was Brooklyn Center, and he got very excited that that was the city that he saw.
Oh....speaking of excitement, we drive by the church that Trevor will be going to preschool almost anytime we go anywhere. So I've been talking to him about it, saying that it is where he will be going to school, "in September". But now, I've started to count down the days. And yesterday, it was down to 10 more days. At which point, I think he understands how close 10 days is, and was REALLY excited to hear it was so close. And now today, it's 9 more days....I have a feeling he's going to enjoy school a lot. And I'll have plenty more stories to tell.
Saturday was the 10 year High School Reunion for Russ's High School. Seeing as how Russ took charge of the reunion, we were there from beginning until end of both events. Starting out with the picnic up in Brooklyn Center and ending downtown Minneapolis at the Palomino restaurant. We were on the road starting at 10:15 or so, and ended after midnight. It was a fast paced, but hard day on a pregnant lady as I had to spend most of the entire day on Sunday trying to get rid of the swelling, tired feeling I had.
Russ did a great job, as he always does when he plans things. And from what I overheard, and was told, everyone in attendance enjoyed the reunion.
Trevor got some quality time with his aunt Tracy on Friday, and Uncle Derek (and future Aunt Kyrsten) on Saturday. He was BEAT on Sunday, and is still a little worn out a few days later. Now I know, from my childhood that things you are interested in do not always turn into what you do with your life because when I was younger, I LOVED (and actually still do) to go to Laundro-mats. Family loved to say that when I grew up, I was destined to run a laundro-mat. Unfortunately, my career path never really went in that direction.
But with everything that Trevor has been interested in - probably since he was a little over a year old, it is hard to see that he won't be continually interested in some form of cars, traffic, or geography field. Yes, the boy does have a wonderful memory, like his dad that uses it often to quote and recite movies from, but whenever we take rides in the car, he loves to ask about cities we are in, looking for water towers, and asking about signs and streets that we are crossing. When we drove up to the picnic for the reunion on Saturday, we drove past 3 water towers. Edina, St. Louis Park, and then Brooklyn Center. He has seen the first two often enough, but was pretty excited to see the new one. So he was telling Kyrsten and Derek about it, but could not remember what city was on the last one. So he was asking them. Unfortunately, they thought it was another city around Bloomington, like Eden Prairie. But when he asked me about it the next day, I remembered, reminded him that it was Brooklyn Center, and he got very excited that that was the city that he saw.
Oh....speaking of excitement, we drive by the church that Trevor will be going to preschool almost anytime we go anywhere. So I've been talking to him about it, saying that it is where he will be going to school, "in September". But now, I've started to count down the days. And yesterday, it was down to 10 more days. At which point, I think he understands how close 10 days is, and was REALLY excited to hear it was so close. And now today, it's 9 more days....I have a feeling he's going to enjoy school a lot. And I'll have plenty more stories to tell.
Monday, August 20, 2007
The Weekend is OVER
Actually, now that I think of it, that would be a much more appropriate heading for next weekend. Next weekend, we have something going on every day, including Friday night. It's going to be a busy one. This last weekend was nothing compared to that, yet I'm exhausted and not sleeping well, so I'm probably a very cranky girl.
I do want to say yet another huge THANK YOU to my Cmoms friends that threw me a lovely baby shower on Friday night. And not that I didn't think that I was about to have a baby before the shower, but this REALLY kicked it into gear for me. I still need to go out and get a few small items to feel a bit more prepared for the little "Kermie".
And what is really cool about these "showers" (we've had one for each of our second - and in one case third children) is that we have figured out how to add webcams to the mix, so we can watch the honoree open the gifts and even occasionally get a glimpse of the kids if they are still awake.
Fast forward to Saturday..... Tracy and I tried our luck at a local card club in a Ladies only Poker event. Tracy did very well....outlasted more than half the field. And I just could not get the cards I needed to stay in the tournament. I did make it to the first break which is an hour and a half. But the main point was that we both had a really good time, and maybe if they keep doing them we'll play in another one someday.
While we were at cards, Trevor, dad, Grandma, and Amy all got to go to the zoo. It wasn't a very nice day, but there is plenty to do indoors so they got their day's worth of fun animals.
So on to the week. Going to run some errands, have some visitors, and prepare for the busy weekend ahead.
I do want to say yet another huge THANK YOU to my Cmoms friends that threw me a lovely baby shower on Friday night. And not that I didn't think that I was about to have a baby before the shower, but this REALLY kicked it into gear for me. I still need to go out and get a few small items to feel a bit more prepared for the little "Kermie".
And what is really cool about these "showers" (we've had one for each of our second - and in one case third children) is that we have figured out how to add webcams to the mix, so we can watch the honoree open the gifts and even occasionally get a glimpse of the kids if they are still awake.
Fast forward to Saturday..... Tracy and I tried our luck at a local card club in a Ladies only Poker event. Tracy did very well....outlasted more than half the field. And I just could not get the cards I needed to stay in the tournament. I did make it to the first break which is an hour and a half. But the main point was that we both had a really good time, and maybe if they keep doing them we'll play in another one someday.
While we were at cards, Trevor, dad, Grandma, and Amy all got to go to the zoo. It wasn't a very nice day, but there is plenty to do indoors so they got their day's worth of fun animals.
So on to the week. Going to run some errands, have some visitors, and prepare for the busy weekend ahead.
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