For some reason the phrase "when it's good it's very good but when it's bad it's awful" if just sticking in my head today. Perhaps because it has been the most horrible day in a very long time at our house! And I'm actually taking the time to sit down and write this now with hopes that putting it on paper will stop this snowball affect that seems to be making this day just worse and worse....we'll see....
The day actually started at 1am when Aiden decided it was going to be one of those mornings where he wakes up for his bottle and refuses to go back to sleep. I let him scream for a half hour and then gave in. Couldn't get him quiet until about 4:30am. I have no idea what was bothering him, his stomach probably, but nothing seemed to make him feel better except mommy holding him so I sat in his rocker for three and a half hours until he was sound asleep and then slipped him back into the crib. And that started the snowball into a horrible day....
My alarm went off at 7:40am but because I was so exhausted from not sleeping I hit the snooze button way too many times thus resulting in us running late for school. I got the kids up and dressed and down for breakfast. Luckily I had an idea that the morning might be hectic so I had packed Emma's lunch for school the night before. It just so happened that this morning was also our morning for bringing snack to school (God help me!). I did buy the snack in advance but for some reason had decided that we would have apples and did not want to cut them in advance and have them brown on me so I had waited until this morning to do so. We had gotten a neat apple cutting device for our wedding a while ago that is suppose to peel the apple and then slice it all at once so I figured this would be an easy, quick task. Nope, of course not. The apples didn't seem to go through the thing correctly and I kept ending up with chunks of random seedy apple everywhere. No nice slices.... In an attempt to fix the contraption I sliced open my finger. So here I am profusely bleeding, kids crying at the kitchen table, no snack ready.... I wrap my finger in a tissue and continue with the next 5 apples I had to cut. No luck, more apple "chunks" everywhere and another cut open finger. I gave up! Sorry class but you only got four apples cut into random chunks, some with the peel and core still attached.
It's now 9am (we were suppose to be at school at 8:45am). I'm still in the pajamas and still bleeding all over the kitchen. I debate whether I should call the doctor to see if I need stitches, but decide there's no time for that I need to get this darn snack and kid off to school. I run upstairs, grab some band aids and a bra and head back downstairs (This won't be the first time I've brought poor Emma late to school, still in my pjs! Can't wait for the teacher conference tomorrow when they tell me how discheveled I am). Back downstairs get jackets and shoes on both kids and realize Emma's car seat is sitting on the playroom floor. She had dumped chocolate milk in it yesterday and I had brought it in to clean it. Race around getting it put back together. Can't find my car keys to get it into the car...grab the spare set and get the seat installed. Grab the kids, put them in the car. And we're off to school. Bleeding, in my pjs, fifteen minutes late and with a very crappy snack.....
I decide that there is no way I'm going to make it through an entire day of work with my kids after this bad morning so I text Tish, the wonderful girl who works for me and doesn't judge my horrible parenting skills, and ask her to come in for the afternoon so I can come home. She agrees and I'm feeling better.
So happy that adventure was over and am now ready to restart the day and go to work for just a few hours with Aiden. Aiden and I leave Emma's school and head home. I never did find my keys so when I unload Aiden from the car and go to enter the house I find that I had locked the door and have only the spare car key in hand. We're locked out!! I feel like I just might cry... Find the "hidden" key and we get back in. Thank you hubby for hiding that because my dumb self left my cell phone in the locked up house and would have been in BIG trouble without that key. I shower, pack up our stuff and head to work, now running 15 minutes late for work! This day must get better right??
Nope! I get to work and remember that I don't have a key to the store. I leant it out to another worker the day before and have to go retrieve it from the pet store next door. Now I'm twenty minutes late opening the store. We get inside and settled and my stomach reminds me I haven't eaten anything and I've left my breakfast and coffee in my car parked around the corner. I'm not up for dragging Aiden out again with me and I don't want to leave him alone in the store so I decide to just add that to my list of things that did not go right today.
Thankfully the few hours at the store go by very quickly and I'm overjoyed to see Tish walk in twenty minutes early! We pack up our stuff and head back to Emma's school to retrieve her. The original plan was that my friend Jen was going to pick her up and bring her to the store so I'm excited that it will be me picking her up instead so I get to spend more time with her. Unfortunately, Emma did not feel the same way. As soon as she sees me she runs as far away in the classroom as she can get and refuses to come home with me. I have to drag her, carrying her in one arm and Aiden in the other, out the door and to the car, kicking and screaming the entire way. She's mad that she had to leave school and to top it off mommy picked her up, not Miss Jen. Please just let this day be over.... Emma then proceeds to have the worst temper tantrum I have ever seen. I actually crack up laughing because I just have no idea how to react to her behavior. She screams and kicks for a half hour after we get home and pees her pants. I just ignore it because I'm pretty much spent for the day.
Of course its then I fight to get Aiden back down for his afternoon nap and Emma does not want to spend "quiet time" in her room. Everyone is now settled, many some quiet mommy time for me? Nope, the tv is telling me I have to call the company if I want to watch a show and I can't remember my password to get into google to write this blog.... Please oh pretty please, can we just go back to bed and start again tomorrow??
Monday, November 19, 2012
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Sleep Deprived
I've decided that its just never going to happen....I'm never going to get more than 4 hours of sleep at any given time. Maybe when the children are in college.
I feel that I must be doing something wrong when it comes to getting my kids to sleep because they just don't do it! Emma was a bad sleeper as a baby. She slept through the night very young, maybe three months, but then around six months it stopped and she's been getting up at least once a night ever sense. As we got closer to Aiden's birth she did get much better and was only up maybe once a week, but at that point I wasn't sleeping because of my giant belly so it didn't really matter.
Then my little prince Aiden arrived. As most of you know, he has his issues. He has a wide range of allergies which upset his stomach and we still haven't really gotten to the bottom of what is wrong with him. This mean lots of crying, especially at night. He usually goes down around 7pm and is up at 11pm and 4am and usually 2am also (although some nights I do get lucky without the 2am wake up!). I've been told to just let him cry by numerous people but you can tell the poor kid is in obvious pain and isn't just crying because he's spoiled. When you feed him his stomach gurggles like he hasn't eaten in days! So I get up...and up...and up.
There is the rare occasion that Aiden only gets up once in the night. This would be wonderful but for some reason Emma feels she needs to compensate and ALWAYS wakes up with nightmares or a cough on those nights. So I get up!
So why am I the only getting up you may wonder. Where is my fabulous husband? The lucky man sleeps right through it. All of it! We even put a monitor for Emma next to him in bed but does he hear it? Nope! I think he would sleep through a nuclear bomb if it exploded near our home. And I could wake him, and do once in a while. But I lay there thinking "Well if I'm already awake why wake another poor soul? I might as well just get it over with!" Don't get me wrong. He is a great help. If I asleep already for the 11pm feeding and he's still awake he does it no questions asked and if I wake him in the middle of the night because I'm just too tired to get up he never complains. He's just so lucky that he sleeps right through it all.
I even had the fabulous opportunity to have my mom come one night to sleep over. She felt bad that I was so tired so she offered to keep the monitors for me so I could sleep. I had this feeling that there was no way it was going to happen but was optimistic. Guess what?! The batteries in Aiden's monitor died and I got up because I could hear him screaming! Really?! What are the chances??
Sometimes in the mornings the kids sleep in until 7:30 or 8am which is wonderful. Unfortunately I think there is a conspiracy against me because its always these mornings that something or someone else wakes me up at the crack of dawn. Let's see....the other morning it was the man next door blowing his leaves, a few times the trash truck, once in a while its Alex's 5:30am alarm clock or a cat jumps on me wanting to be fed. This morning is was a text message! And if I'm super lucky and none of these things wake me it's a morning that we need to be up early for school or work or a doctor's appointment.
I would love take the constant advice, sleep during the day while your kids sleep, but that seems nearly impossible as well. Either I'm at work (don't think you guys would like it too much if I was sleeping in the back instead of helping you!) or the two kids just refuse to nap at the same time. It always happens, I get one down and race to get the other one asleep and by the time that's accomplished the first one is up!
So when you see me and see the giant bags under my eyes and read about all of the dumb things I forget to do on a daily basis. Or if I don't call you back or answer your facebook post....just think of this post and how sleepy this poor mommy is! A incredibly happy mommy, but a very sleepy one!
I feel that I must be doing something wrong when it comes to getting my kids to sleep because they just don't do it! Emma was a bad sleeper as a baby. She slept through the night very young, maybe three months, but then around six months it stopped and she's been getting up at least once a night ever sense. As we got closer to Aiden's birth she did get much better and was only up maybe once a week, but at that point I wasn't sleeping because of my giant belly so it didn't really matter.
Then my little prince Aiden arrived. As most of you know, he has his issues. He has a wide range of allergies which upset his stomach and we still haven't really gotten to the bottom of what is wrong with him. This mean lots of crying, especially at night. He usually goes down around 7pm and is up at 11pm and 4am and usually 2am also (although some nights I do get lucky without the 2am wake up!). I've been told to just let him cry by numerous people but you can tell the poor kid is in obvious pain and isn't just crying because he's spoiled. When you feed him his stomach gurggles like he hasn't eaten in days! So I get up...and up...and up.
There is the rare occasion that Aiden only gets up once in the night. This would be wonderful but for some reason Emma feels she needs to compensate and ALWAYS wakes up with nightmares or a cough on those nights. So I get up!
So why am I the only getting up you may wonder. Where is my fabulous husband? The lucky man sleeps right through it. All of it! We even put a monitor for Emma next to him in bed but does he hear it? Nope! I think he would sleep through a nuclear bomb if it exploded near our home. And I could wake him, and do once in a while. But I lay there thinking "Well if I'm already awake why wake another poor soul? I might as well just get it over with!" Don't get me wrong. He is a great help. If I asleep already for the 11pm feeding and he's still awake he does it no questions asked and if I wake him in the middle of the night because I'm just too tired to get up he never complains. He's just so lucky that he sleeps right through it all.
I even had the fabulous opportunity to have my mom come one night to sleep over. She felt bad that I was so tired so she offered to keep the monitors for me so I could sleep. I had this feeling that there was no way it was going to happen but was optimistic. Guess what?! The batteries in Aiden's monitor died and I got up because I could hear him screaming! Really?! What are the chances??
Sometimes in the mornings the kids sleep in until 7:30 or 8am which is wonderful. Unfortunately I think there is a conspiracy against me because its always these mornings that something or someone else wakes me up at the crack of dawn. Let's see....the other morning it was the man next door blowing his leaves, a few times the trash truck, once in a while its Alex's 5:30am alarm clock or a cat jumps on me wanting to be fed. This morning is was a text message! And if I'm super lucky and none of these things wake me it's a morning that we need to be up early for school or work or a doctor's appointment.
I would love take the constant advice, sleep during the day while your kids sleep, but that seems nearly impossible as well. Either I'm at work (don't think you guys would like it too much if I was sleeping in the back instead of helping you!) or the two kids just refuse to nap at the same time. It always happens, I get one down and race to get the other one asleep and by the time that's accomplished the first one is up!
So when you see me and see the giant bags under my eyes and read about all of the dumb things I forget to do on a daily basis. Or if I don't call you back or answer your facebook post....just think of this post and how sleepy this poor mommy is! A incredibly happy mommy, but a very sleepy one!
Friday, October 12, 2012
Mommy Brain
Ever since Aiden was born I fear I am suffering severely from "mommy brain". Thought it would be funny to make a list of all of the hilarious things I've done (and not done) in the past 7 months....
1. Went to the store 3 times specifically for a part for my breast pump. Didn't come back with the part until the 3rd time....not sure what I bought the other 2 times!
2. When getting ready for bed I put my contacts in. I had worn my glasses all day and apparently felt it was a good time for contacts.
3. Got out of the shower and realized I never washed anything....what the heck did I do in there? Had to get back in and actually "shower".
4. Constantly rinse something in the sink and leave the water on.
5. Took me 4 Sundays to remember to start taking my birth control pill on a Sunday!
6. Made chicken broccoli alfredo - served it and then realized I never put the broccoli in (hubby said lets just eat it the way it is!)
7. Grabbed my coffee mug to run out the door but never put coffee in it.
8. Looked at the video monitor and freaked out when the baby wasn't in the crib. Realized a few seconds later that I had put him in his swing!
9. Usually find out how many scoops of coffee I put in the machine once I pour the first cup (almost always lose count!).
10. Washed and dried a load of the children's laundry and never added any detergent. Everything came out stained and stinky. Had to do it all again!
11. Sorted the white and darks. Loaded the whites into the washer. Then loaded the darks on top of them.
Do you have any good mommy brain moments to share??!!
1. Went to the store 3 times specifically for a part for my breast pump. Didn't come back with the part until the 3rd time....not sure what I bought the other 2 times!
2. When getting ready for bed I put my contacts in. I had worn my glasses all day and apparently felt it was a good time for contacts.
3. Got out of the shower and realized I never washed anything....what the heck did I do in there? Had to get back in and actually "shower".
4. Constantly rinse something in the sink and leave the water on.
5. Took me 4 Sundays to remember to start taking my birth control pill on a Sunday!
6. Made chicken broccoli alfredo - served it and then realized I never put the broccoli in (hubby said lets just eat it the way it is!)
7. Grabbed my coffee mug to run out the door but never put coffee in it.
8. Looked at the video monitor and freaked out when the baby wasn't in the crib. Realized a few seconds later that I had put him in his swing!
9. Usually find out how many scoops of coffee I put in the machine once I pour the first cup (almost always lose count!).
10. Washed and dried a load of the children's laundry and never added any detergent. Everything came out stained and stinky. Had to do it all again!
11. Sorted the white and darks. Loaded the whites into the washer. Then loaded the darks on top of them.
Do you have any good mommy brain moments to share??!!
Saturday, September 22, 2012
I'm back!!
Well we are finally back to normal at our house with our second store open and doing well. Luckily I was able to find some great employees and cut back on my hours so the house is once again clean, laundry is done and the children are striving and growing way too big! We have filled our already busy schedule with preschool, playgroup and dance and swimming classes. There's been many adventures I wanted to blog about but there just wasn't enough time to get it all down so I'm going to recap some of the "fun" times for you in the next few weeks!
Emma's 1st Day of School
A few months ago at Target.....
(The back story: Emma has an imaginary sister named Lila. She comes with us everywhere but according to Emma she does not live with us and she has a different mom!)
So as you know if you read my blog about shopping, I do not take my kids shopping with me. Unfortunately with the time restrictions of opening the new store I really had no choice but to drag them along with me one day on a major shopping trip to Target. I decide to take the giant shopping cart with the two red toddler seats in the front and a regular cart behind them. I let Emma sit in the seat and put Aiden in the cart. Of course, Lila came on the trip with us too.
So here we go, me pushing this giant cart, loading it up with garbage cans, Rubbermaid bins, paper towels, etc. (nothing small!). I fill the cart and under the cart, we could barely see poor Aiden. Then I need to start filling the areas around Emma in the front part. I put my 24 rolls of toilet paper on the empty seat next to Em and she freaks out!
Emma: "Mommy you're squishing Lila!"
Me: "Can't Lila hold the toilet paper for mommy?"
Emma: "No! Don't put things of top of her."
I'm not up for a fight in Target so I try to fill all of the other areas around the seat instead. So here I am carrying the 30lb cat litter while pushing this giant cart. Other shoppers think I'm crazy because there is obviously an empty seat right in front of me to put the litter down...oh well!
We pay and make our way back to the car. I put the kids in their seats and go to push the cart into the cart corral. I get back into the car and Emma says "Mommy! You left Lila in the cart!" Oh my goodness, really?! I get back out of the car and go back over to the cart corral. Pretend to take Lila out and get back into the car.
"Ok Lila's here now. Can we go?"
Emma: "No, you need to buckle her into her seat. She can't ride in the front it's not safe!"
So I pretend to move her to the back and buckle her in. We can finally leave Target!
What a trip....this is why I don't bring the kids shopping with me!
Nothin like baby love at the end of the day
Dance Class
A few months ago at Target.....
(The back story: Emma has an imaginary sister named Lila. She comes with us everywhere but according to Emma she does not live with us and she has a different mom!)
So as you know if you read my blog about shopping, I do not take my kids shopping with me. Unfortunately with the time restrictions of opening the new store I really had no choice but to drag them along with me one day on a major shopping trip to Target. I decide to take the giant shopping cart with the two red toddler seats in the front and a regular cart behind them. I let Emma sit in the seat and put Aiden in the cart. Of course, Lila came on the trip with us too.
So here we go, me pushing this giant cart, loading it up with garbage cans, Rubbermaid bins, paper towels, etc. (nothing small!). I fill the cart and under the cart, we could barely see poor Aiden. Then I need to start filling the areas around Emma in the front part. I put my 24 rolls of toilet paper on the empty seat next to Em and she freaks out!
Emma: "Mommy you're squishing Lila!"
Me: "Can't Lila hold the toilet paper for mommy?"
Emma: "No! Don't put things of top of her."
I'm not up for a fight in Target so I try to fill all of the other areas around the seat instead. So here I am carrying the 30lb cat litter while pushing this giant cart. Other shoppers think I'm crazy because there is obviously an empty seat right in front of me to put the litter down...oh well!
We pay and make our way back to the car. I put the kids in their seats and go to push the cart into the cart corral. I get back into the car and Emma says "Mommy! You left Lila in the cart!" Oh my goodness, really?! I get back out of the car and go back over to the cart corral. Pretend to take Lila out and get back into the car.
"Ok Lila's here now. Can we go?"
Emma: "No, you need to buckle her into her seat. She can't ride in the front it's not safe!"
So I pretend to move her to the back and buckle her in. We can finally leave Target!
What a trip....this is why I don't bring the kids shopping with me!
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Grocery Shopping
Recently while working at Cuddle Bugs I got into a conversation with some moms about dragging children around while running errands. I am happy to say that Cuddle Bugs is extremely accommodating to parents with children as we provide a playroom for them to occupy their time while their parents shop. I was thinking how lovely it would be if Target would start doing that!
As a mom of two, I avoid taking my children anywhere that is not necessary. It is rare that you'll see me pushing a cart with both of them in it into any store. I'd much rather sneak my shopping in when they're sleeping or home with daddy or Grammie. I do it at the most awkward times of course.
The late night deli counter people probably hate me at Price Chopper because I grocery shop after the kids are in bed. This means I get there around 8:45 (Em is usually asleep by 8 and then it takes me 30 minutes to write the list and gather the coupons!). The deli closes at 9 so they're always cleaning up and I know they hate it when I ask for a million things right before they close. Obviously they have no idea what it would be like if I was carting around two kids with me!
I love late night grocery shopping though. There's always parking available and no one is in the store! I take my sweet time wandering aimlessly through the aisles. I stop at the apples and whip out my phone to calculate if its cheaper to buy the individual apples or the bag. I look over all of the meat to see which one "looks" the best (really they all look the same...). My favorite is the ice cream aisle. I could spend hours there. First it's deciding if we really need ice cream (we're suppose to be on diets). I always decide that we need it. Then it's what flavor to get and what brand. I always feel good after I leave the ice cream aisle....
I take my time picking out what I want too. I'm the girl who stands there and reads all of the labels. Did you know that fruit snacks really don't have fruit in them? The first two ingredients are sugar and high fructose corn syrup! They really should call them sugar snacks. You'd be amazed at the things they put into foods that kids love. My poor kids are going to be the losers at the lunch table with whole fruit in their bags and no fruit snacks! I once read a juice label that said "less sugar". The first ingredient was water. Of course if you water it down it has less sugar. I can do that at my house for free and not pay an additional dollar for it.
Well eventually I do have to check out. I like to pretend that the lady at the check out analyzes all of her customers and thinks "wow, what a good mom" and "that lady with the organic romaine and natural peanut butter must really have healthy kids" when I come through the line. Really she's probably thinking "only 5 more minutes until my break"....but hey I can dream right? Maybe think for a minute that my hour at the grocery store wasn't just to keep me sane but to nourish my family as well and then not feel so bad that I'd been gone for so long.
When I get home half the time Aiden has woken up and has been screaming for the past half hour and Emma never actually feel asleep and the chaos begins all over again. But hey that hour at the grocery store was really great. Looking forward to doing it again next week!
From the mouth of Emma:
Me: "Emma you should put your shoes on. I don't want you walking around in bare feet."
Emma: "Mommy, I don't have bears feet. See my toes?"
As a mom of two, I avoid taking my children anywhere that is not necessary. It is rare that you'll see me pushing a cart with both of them in it into any store. I'd much rather sneak my shopping in when they're sleeping or home with daddy or Grammie. I do it at the most awkward times of course.
The late night deli counter people probably hate me at Price Chopper because I grocery shop after the kids are in bed. This means I get there around 8:45 (Em is usually asleep by 8 and then it takes me 30 minutes to write the list and gather the coupons!). The deli closes at 9 so they're always cleaning up and I know they hate it when I ask for a million things right before they close. Obviously they have no idea what it would be like if I was carting around two kids with me!
I love late night grocery shopping though. There's always parking available and no one is in the store! I take my sweet time wandering aimlessly through the aisles. I stop at the apples and whip out my phone to calculate if its cheaper to buy the individual apples or the bag. I look over all of the meat to see which one "looks" the best (really they all look the same...). My favorite is the ice cream aisle. I could spend hours there. First it's deciding if we really need ice cream (we're suppose to be on diets). I always decide that we need it. Then it's what flavor to get and what brand. I always feel good after I leave the ice cream aisle....
I take my time picking out what I want too. I'm the girl who stands there and reads all of the labels. Did you know that fruit snacks really don't have fruit in them? The first two ingredients are sugar and high fructose corn syrup! They really should call them sugar snacks. You'd be amazed at the things they put into foods that kids love. My poor kids are going to be the losers at the lunch table with whole fruit in their bags and no fruit snacks! I once read a juice label that said "less sugar". The first ingredient was water. Of course if you water it down it has less sugar. I can do that at my house for free and not pay an additional dollar for it.
Well eventually I do have to check out. I like to pretend that the lady at the check out analyzes all of her customers and thinks "wow, what a good mom" and "that lady with the organic romaine and natural peanut butter must really have healthy kids" when I come through the line. Really she's probably thinking "only 5 more minutes until my break"....but hey I can dream right? Maybe think for a minute that my hour at the grocery store wasn't just to keep me sane but to nourish my family as well and then not feel so bad that I'd been gone for so long.
When I get home half the time Aiden has woken up and has been screaming for the past half hour and Emma never actually feel asleep and the chaos begins all over again. But hey that hour at the grocery store was really great. Looking forward to doing it again next week!
From the mouth of Emma:
Me: "Emma you should put your shoes on. I don't want you walking around in bare feet."
Emma: "Mommy, I don't have bears feet. See my toes?"
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Sick babes
I figure in a blog about my wonderful adventures with my two kiddos I can't skip today's trip gone very bad! It actually started yesterday....
Aiden had his 4-month doctors appointment. 16 pounds 2 ounces! Everything looked good. Of course he screamed after the shots but big sister Emma held his hand. Unfortunately the shots didn't seem to sit well with him and he was miserable for the rest of the day. Cried all day except when he was sleeping and refused to eat anything. This made me incredibly nervous since I was suppose to work today and I couldn't imagine running the store with a screaming 4 month old and active 3 year old. In preparation for the worst I asked my assistant Wende if she could be "on call" in case I couldn't work.
Emma also wasn't feeling too well. She had had diarrhea for the past few days and wasn't eating much . We got some potatoes in her just before bed and Alex brought her up to tuck her in. A few minutes later...ciaos....Emma puked the potatoes up in her room. She told us she had stuck her finger in her mouth so we didn't think anything of it. We cleaned her up and sent her to bed and didn't hear from her again until I woke her this morning for her first day of summer camp.
When I came into her room this morning to tell her we had to get ready for summer camp she said she didn't want to go. I persuaded her to get dressed and that it would be so much fun to meet new friends. We loaded into the car and off we went to Saratoga. I had actually gotten out the door on time but of course I realized I forgot to pack a snack so we had to stop at Stewerts which then made us running late.
On the way to camp Emma said her belly hurt and she didn't want to go. I told her to try it out and if she didn't feel well I would come right back for her. Bad mommy, assuming she just didn't want to go to camp and wasn't really sick. Well just before we got to the school she proved to me that she really wasn't going to camp.....she puked all over herself and my car! I pulled over to the side of the road and attempted to clean it all up (so gross!). Ciaos again....I didn't have a change of clothes for her except one pair of capris so she was practically naked. The car seat was wreaked so there I was trying to wipe it off with baby wipes. Aiden was screaming because he was mad that the car had stopped and now wanted to be fed. Ahh! 5 minutes later I had Emma sitting in her semi-clean car seat covered with a blanket and Aiden back to sleep after a few sips of bottle and we were all the way back to our house in Glens Falls.
Luckily Wende was still on call and came in to cover the store for me (I'm so lucky to have help so I can be home with my sick babies). Now I'm wondering if poor Aiden has the same stomach bug that Em has and that is why he's so cranky.
Well we're home now, both children are napping and I'm hoping we're done with throw up and on to recovery (the smell alone makes me want to hurl too). We'll try camp again on Thursday if Emma is better by then....we'll see...I don't want to infect any other children. I wouldn't wish this one anyone! Soothing sick kids is a whole lot harder when there's more than one. That's for sure!
On a brighter note we had a fabulous vacation in Cape Cod a few weeks ago.....
Aiden had his 4-month doctors appointment. 16 pounds 2 ounces! Everything looked good. Of course he screamed after the shots but big sister Emma held his hand. Unfortunately the shots didn't seem to sit well with him and he was miserable for the rest of the day. Cried all day except when he was sleeping and refused to eat anything. This made me incredibly nervous since I was suppose to work today and I couldn't imagine running the store with a screaming 4 month old and active 3 year old. In preparation for the worst I asked my assistant Wende if she could be "on call" in case I couldn't work.
Emma also wasn't feeling too well. She had had diarrhea for the past few days and wasn't eating much . We got some potatoes in her just before bed and Alex brought her up to tuck her in. A few minutes later...ciaos....Emma puked the potatoes up in her room. She told us she had stuck her finger in her mouth so we didn't think anything of it. We cleaned her up and sent her to bed and didn't hear from her again until I woke her this morning for her first day of summer camp.
When I came into her room this morning to tell her we had to get ready for summer camp she said she didn't want to go. I persuaded her to get dressed and that it would be so much fun to meet new friends. We loaded into the car and off we went to Saratoga. I had actually gotten out the door on time but of course I realized I forgot to pack a snack so we had to stop at Stewerts which then made us running late.
On the way to camp Emma said her belly hurt and she didn't want to go. I told her to try it out and if she didn't feel well I would come right back for her. Bad mommy, assuming she just didn't want to go to camp and wasn't really sick. Well just before we got to the school she proved to me that she really wasn't going to camp.....she puked all over herself and my car! I pulled over to the side of the road and attempted to clean it all up (so gross!). Ciaos again....I didn't have a change of clothes for her except one pair of capris so she was practically naked. The car seat was wreaked so there I was trying to wipe it off with baby wipes. Aiden was screaming because he was mad that the car had stopped and now wanted to be fed. Ahh! 5 minutes later I had Emma sitting in her semi-clean car seat covered with a blanket and Aiden back to sleep after a few sips of bottle and we were all the way back to our house in Glens Falls.
Luckily Wende was still on call and came in to cover the store for me (I'm so lucky to have help so I can be home with my sick babies). Now I'm wondering if poor Aiden has the same stomach bug that Em has and that is why he's so cranky.
Well we're home now, both children are napping and I'm hoping we're done with throw up and on to recovery (the smell alone makes me want to hurl too). We'll try camp again on Thursday if Emma is better by then....we'll see...I don't want to infect any other children. I wouldn't wish this one anyone! Soothing sick kids is a whole lot harder when there's more than one. That's for sure!
On a brighter note we had a fabulous vacation in Cape Cod a few weeks ago.....
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Halfway There....
I'm happy to report that things are going much better at our house! I finally feel that I have the two kid thing kind of under control (at least enough to keep everyone safe and mostly happy!). It's not easy. I have to sacrifice so much of my personal time in order to maintain some kind of order and cleanliness around the house and it's always a struggle between work or reading "one more story!" I've come to realize though that between lack of time and complete mommy brain I leave a lot of things half done!
Come to my house and you'll see so many things that I've tried to start but got interrupted by a waking baby or hungry toddler. Usually I only have two or three days a week at home with them so really tackling a project is near impossible. The bathroom has three out of four walls without wallpaper. Started that project one morning when getting out of the shower and seeing the wallpaper peeling off the wall, probably a month or two ago. Had a great hour a few weeks ago when I got to work soaking the walls with remover and got three of them almost completely stripped. Poor wall number four though is just hanging out still waiting for another day when both kids sleep at the same time (which rarely happens)....maybe next month.... I keep hoping the wallpaper genie will just come do it for me and one morning I'll wake up to a new bathroom!
Generally the house gets vacuumed in two or three parts. Some days just the living room rug, some days the whole downstairs. Never both the upstairs and downstairs together (how wonderful would it be to have a maid?!). Sometimes I can't get it together to get both litter boxes cleaned on the same day (sorry kitties!). Usually I have time to take a shower but never to dry my hair. I get the dishwasher unloaded but the dirty dishes still sit on the counter when Alex gets home at the end of the day. There's almost always a pile of clean laundry waiting to get put away at the end of the bed, which usually only gets put away because I need the basket to start a new load.
So today's project....gardening! Last week I started to pull weeds and move some plants around next to our house. Half done of course because Emma didn't want to stay outside anymore so we went in. Today I moved another plant around to the other side of the house and one more to the backyard. Just as I was filling the dirt around one plant Aiden started crying from the bumbo seat and Emma needed her shoes put back on. I shoved some dirt around the poor plant and we went inside. It started raining and now I've realized I left a huge hole where the plants used to be planted! Oh well! Maybe next week I'll fill it in!
It's a wonder my children are fully clothed everyday....!
Come to my house and you'll see so many things that I've tried to start but got interrupted by a waking baby or hungry toddler. Usually I only have two or three days a week at home with them so really tackling a project is near impossible. The bathroom has three out of four walls without wallpaper. Started that project one morning when getting out of the shower and seeing the wallpaper peeling off the wall, probably a month or two ago. Had a great hour a few weeks ago when I got to work soaking the walls with remover and got three of them almost completely stripped. Poor wall number four though is just hanging out still waiting for another day when both kids sleep at the same time (which rarely happens)....maybe next month.... I keep hoping the wallpaper genie will just come do it for me and one morning I'll wake up to a new bathroom!Generally the house gets vacuumed in two or three parts. Some days just the living room rug, some days the whole downstairs. Never both the upstairs and downstairs together (how wonderful would it be to have a maid?!). Sometimes I can't get it together to get both litter boxes cleaned on the same day (sorry kitties!). Usually I have time to take a shower but never to dry my hair. I get the dishwasher unloaded but the dirty dishes still sit on the counter when Alex gets home at the end of the day. There's almost always a pile of clean laundry waiting to get put away at the end of the bed, which usually only gets put away because I need the basket to start a new load.
So today's project....gardening! Last week I started to pull weeds and move some plants around next to our house. Half done of course because Emma didn't want to stay outside anymore so we went in. Today I moved another plant around to the other side of the house and one more to the backyard. Just as I was filling the dirt around one plant Aiden started crying from the bumbo seat and Emma needed her shoes put back on. I shoved some dirt around the poor plant and we went inside. It started raining and now I've realized I left a huge hole where the plants used to be planted! Oh well! Maybe next week I'll fill it in!
It's a wonder my children are fully clothed everyday....!
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