Still around

This last month went by so fast. I am in shock that it is already Feb. That is just craziness. Last week marked 21 years since my sister passed away. I can not believe that it has been that long. That is just insane. She would be 39 now if she were still alive. That would be so cool to still have another sister but it is what it is. I had a few of my old friends email me on her anniversary. It was so nice to have them remember. One of the people I had not talked to in 15 years pretty much.

Anyway, a lot is happening this year. I feel like we are busy and running around all the time. I seriously thought my life would calm down soon but it just hasn't. I think the main thing is that Scott and Anna go to school in the next city over. I find myself in the car from 8:30-1 every day. It is quite irritating and I can not wait until Scott is in Kindergarten. I am trying to get Anna into the preschool in our neighborhood too. I really hope it works out because that would mean that I could actually be home more! I would also feel like I was on top of things a bit more being able to be home. I feel like I get home at 1 and am just exhausted. I am also trying to find things to pass the time away and end up spending money. I go to the gym, go to target..run errands etc. If I don't go to the gym, then I could come home but it is just too much back and forth all day. Anyway, I find out if Anna gets in next week. I am dying to know!

I did pretty well with my ebay sales this season. I am winding down from that and have pretty much spent most of it on Anna's clothes and household stuff. It is amazing how fast you can spend money. I need to learn how to save more!

Dave and I have been trying to lose weight. He has kicked ass and I have stayed about the same. I think I am going to change my goals to inches instead of actual weight. I need to lose a few inches here and there to get back to where I was after Scott was born and I lost all that weight. That really is my goal. I just need to get the doctor to clear me for running and then I am golden. That isn't going to happen for a few more months so I need to workout other ways to get this started. I am kind of in a rut...so Dave is helping me get out of it. I need to make a few small goals and if I can complete them in 2 months then he is going to give me some money to shop on my girls weekend in the mnts! So, I think I am going to say that I need to follow weight watchers strictly, drink my water, and go to the gym at least 4x a week. This is all in hopes to lose a few inches and not so much be a slave to the scale. I think those will be my 2 month goals starting tomorrow. I already go to the gym that much so that isn't hard! YAY! It is just the other stuff that i need to really work on. I have a hard time sticking to WW religiously. I should be able to do anything for 2 months. right?

Anyway, this is a pretty boring blog. I have not written in a while so I decided to jump on while I had some time. I don't think that much else is going on besides just busy life stuff. : )

I am awful.

How bad was I being so bummed about the kids not going to Charlottesville tomorrow. They are going to go on Friday but man, that was mean. Scott has been so sick all day. He has had about 104 temp with horrible strep throat. Poor kid. He was wimpered through the day. So now I have to come back on here to say I am not a horrible mother. I just had a selfish moment today. I hope Scott feels better tomorrow because today was so pitiful. Poor kid.

Tis the season for sickies

Anna spiked a high fever on Sunday night randomly. I kept her home for two days and she bounced back pretty fast. Then today I get a call about Scott. He was really weak when I went to go and pick him up from school. Poor kid. He was lying on their cot in the office looking so pale and sick. I think he might have strep. You know what the selfishly sucky thing about all this is. My parents are suppose to take the kids for the whole weekend! Dave is singing is a wedding this weekend here and we needed too many babysitters to cover all the events. So we asked my parents. Of couse everyone gets sick and it is suppose to snow. I am thinking and HOPING this is strep and he will be back on his feet in no time. I know, I am totally selfish..but come on..A WHOLE WEEKEND TO MYSELF! Ok, I need to go love on my little kiddo. He is pretty pitiful and I feel so bad for him.

Ok, enough babbling! More later!

I am still here

These pictures are of Anna pouting in her lizajane baby. I wrote about the clothes at the bottom of the blog. I love her pout...poor Anna!

I have been knee deep in my Ebay sales! I have sold about 36 things and made $1,000! I am freaking excited! I have a few more things to sell and then I will be finished until the July Fall sales. I love making money off of Anna's clothes. I do spend a lot on them but it is so nice to get almost all of that money back! I go to an outlet around here called Patsy Aiken. I buy Anna her cute play clothes and get paid more reselling them then what I paid in the first place. My child gets PAID to look cute! I have to say, I LOVE having her dressed up all the time. I love that she sees her bows and says "That is my bow!" I am training her well..huh? I love that she has as many smocked dresses as she does play clothes. I love that her play clothes are not T shirts! They are all cutesy stuff.What I love even more is that I can almost get my money back when I resell them! I have been making around $30 and $40 on her smocked dresses. They cost around $60! So that is not bad at all. Anyway, Ebay has allowed me to buy whatever the hell I want for Anna. I freaking love it. Who knew I would love children's clothes so much.

Since we are talking Children's clothes, I am still working with lizajane baby. Liza and I had a huge fight when the season ended but things worked themselves out. Well, she finally admitted I was right. We have known each other since we were 12 so when we have a huge fight..it doesn't mean it is all over but it does mean that bad things were said. She was pretty mean to me and I was pretty hard on her. She is not use to me being very businessy and when I played that card, it pissed her off. I am usually the "party flighty not mature girl" and she has always been the " clean house, smart, save money" kind of person. It rocked her world when I became the mature one. I guess our roles switched a bit. She was overloaded with orders and I was down her throat to be professional etc. It did not go over well for me but she finally admitted that she needs to rework her business side of things and has decided to take a season off from home shows. We are going to have Open Houses but will not do custom clothes. We really need to get our background stuff stronger to be able to handle the $10,000 in sales that we had. It was amazing to sell that much but it sucked when things got backlogged. We worked our asses off but there were not enough of us to meet the damand on time. Soooo, we are regrouping. I am sure I made no sense but I tried to explain something that was very very complicated. I just know I love her stuff. It is fantastic. It is all that Scott wears and Anna wears it to. I know that when my children' have her clothes on, we get stopped every 5 steps with someone gushing over it. I just hope that we can figure out how to do the background part of it. It will be get so much easier when our kids are in school. It is hard to have a full time job with your kids jumping all over you all day. Liza's kids are 2 highly active boys. They do not let her breath by herself more or less sew. Also, her husband does nothing to help. He traveled non stop last fall and it KILLED us trying to get our orders complete. Things will change...you can only learn!

I might try and download some pics... For some reason, they always end up at the top.

Off to bed. My blog is so dull....

Fun was had by all!

We had a wonderful Christmas this year. It was completely hectic on Christmas Eve and I thought I was going to fall on my face..but all in all..it was nice. The kids had a blast! Santa brought Scott and Anna bikes. Anna has had a blast with hers and Scott has acted like we were pulling his teeth. He had much more fun with his building games and his World Map puzzle then he did with his bike. We are really trying to step him out of his comfort zone and I thought this would be a great boost! Today we all went to a parking lot to ride bikes. Scott practically needed an anti anxiety pill to get up the very small hills. Dave and I really tried to be positive and encourage him but it was no use. He was not thrilled with the whole biking idea. It will be something that we have to really work with.

Anna got a Dora big wheel and LOVES it! She wants to fly down the hills and has a blast. Her feet don't quite hit the peddles but they are so close! I can not wait until she can do it. It is right up her alley. She also got a mini trampoline from my parents. She loves it. She and Scott are learning to take turns which can ben interesting to watch. We really need a timer. Right now I am using the microwave one so they do not kill each other. The novelty is wearing off though. Thank goodness!

Tomorrow we will go to Virginia to my home town. I can not wait to get there. I have not been home in a year! I can not wait to see some old friends and their babies!

Ok, I am going to try and attach some pictures on here. It is always confusing to me!

Merry! Merry!

You know, I just wrote this whole blog out and it deleted. Darn!

We are getting ready for the holidays! I am baking and getting excited to host Christmas for the first time. I will have both sets of grandparents here and it will be fun. The kids will have a blast! It is fun because Anna kind of gets it this year. She can recognize Santa and it is so cute! I also love that Scott is in the Pageant and gets the whole story of Jesus etc. It is a really fun time right now. I can not wait to watch their excitement on Christmas Eve and Christmas morning. It is a magical time, I think.

I pretty much wrote about how much I love that Scott and Anna play together now. It makes things so much more fun having her be at the toddler-like age. They chase each other and play and it is so nice! I love it. I love that Anna has taught Scott about pretend play. At one point Scott was at her age bracket for pretent play but he has slowly surpassed her..thank goodness! I was shocked when our speeach therapist said that Scott and Anna were at the same level. It was kind of sad for me to hear. I hated that Scott was not like his friends in that he could enjoy the fun things that kids do. BUT, the things that a lot of kids do are not fun for Scott. I asked Dave once if it made him sad that Scott did not have fun doing things that are suppose to be fun. Dave said "Katy, you have to understand..Scott does not feel like he is missing anything because he does not see them as fun." It is hard sometimes for me to understand that. I always thought I would have a kid that would run around the soccer field with me and play lacrosse or something and he just does not enjoy that. It is just one of those things..you can't always expect your kids to be what you thought they would be..right? He is a neat kid, it just takes some adjusting some times. Now Anna will be SPRINTING around the field hockey field! I can just feel it. She is so strong I can not wait to see where her interests go. It will be fun to watch!

Whew!

Wow, my last week was crazy! I was sicker then a dog and completely miserable! I have no idea how I made it through last week. Dave went out of town from Wed-Thursday night and it was about that time that I was at my worst. It was awful. I could not breath, could barely move..I was just dying! The doctor said it was a viral infection and that it will take up to 2 weeks to get over. dang! That is a long freaking time.

Anyway, I am a bit better but not 100%. (not even close to 100%)

I have a few more things I want to document about Scott before I forget. I want to have all of this written down so when I look back in a few years, I remember how old he was when he did certain things. I thought I would always remember when he was little and I have completely forgotten. It kills me. I have some of it written in my other blog and I am so thankful! I just think it is fun to have down for the future.

When I had knee surgery in December of last year, Scott was 3 1/2 years old. I remember sitting down with him and introducing math. He could add and subtract at that point so I wanted to teach him the addition sign and the subtraction sign. We sat down and I would write things like 3 5 = 8 I would then ask him what sign would go in the middle and he would tell me the addition sign. Then we would do something like this 4+ __ = 9. He would then fill in the blank. We did this a lot of different ways and it was so cool! He could also count to 100 by 2's, 3's etc etc. I just wanted to make sure I wrote it down. We were doing math during church yesterday and I was trying to remember when this all started. He is up to 4th grade math but only in addition. We need to go back a little bit and work on the other stuff. He can add this kind of thing together now

6789
7398
4398
+2345
_______

We are starting to print out multiplication etc to start him into that. He really loves math. He told his teacher at Thanksgiving he was thankful for it over his family. Nice!

Now, about Anna! I think she is the freaking cutest little thing ever. I am LOVING dressing her up. Especially for the holidays. I think we have an outfit for almost every day of the week until Christmas. It is insane! I am having so much fun. Her hair is growing and she has some curls and it looks so cute with a bow. I am dying. She loves playing babies and doing tea parties! I am so excited that she is into imagination. It is so fun! I never got to do this with Scott and it make sme so happy! Another thing cracks me up about her. She doesn't know her colors. Every time you ask her what color something is, it is green. I always laugh.

At this time, Anna can tell you what the shapes are and she can count to 14. Once she gets to 14 she keeps counting but saying everything is 14. It is cute. I have no idea what is good or bad but I think she is so cute when she does these things. She does love her shapes!

Today I get my stitches out finally! I was suppose to get them out last week but I was too sick to get there. It is going to hurt like hell because it has been a month since surgery! I can't believe it. I feel so much better. I am trying to be so careful. I feel tons better one month out now then I did 1 year out last time. That just pisses me off that I had to do this again. I want to run soooo bad. I can not wait to start!

I started WW again...but I got sick and stopped eating. Now I want to eat everything. It is a sick cycle.