He's Blogging

After hearing numerous comments about things I have read on blogs--it's official--my hubby is a blogger too!!! He even copied & pasted someone's blog to me this morning because of something it said that he thought was hilarious!!

I was hoping to have some pictures posted, but I still haven't had time to sit down w/h hubby to let him teach me how. We had a great Memorial Day weekend. Saturday was spent lounging by the pool with the kids. Sunday we celebrated Grant's 6th birthday with lots of family and a great cookout. Monday was more lounging by the pool with family & friends.

Grant got a float that is motorized and looks like a jet ski, but it also squirts water. WHAT WAS I THINKING??? Between him & Madison fighting over it & me getting squirted I have already threatened to put it in the next yard sale!!! It also has a motorized fan on the bottom of it. It will only be a matter of time before Madison's hair winds up being tangled in it.

Cary & I are trying to cut out drinking cokes, not all the way just dramatically decrease our intake. Saturday Cary had 0 cokes and by 5:00 he was suffering a massive headache. Yesterday I only had about 8 ounces and last night I had a headache that just wouldn't go away. Today I feel much better.

Today Madison had to take one of her babies(puppy) to its new home. It just going to my Mom's but it still bothers Madison that it's leaving. She wanted to keep it 5 more weeks, but they are starting to eat puppy food and they are getting quite expensive. Madison's stays with my Dad during the day so she will see the puppy everyday but it still didn't make it easy for her. When I went into her room to wake her she was already outside getting the puppy and I'm sure letting Molly say goodbye to her baby. We'll see how things went this afternoon.

Naps

As a child I was always "made" to take a nap on Sundays. I don't really remember putting up much of a fight though. So naturally as I have gotten older I LOVE my naps. Sometimes I have even napped for 3+ hours at a time. I work full-time so I usually don't get a nap during the day, but I have been guilty of going home after work and crashing on the couch and napping. It helps me, it reenergizes me, it refreshes me. My husband is the greatest and he loves for me to get my naps. He will often take the kids to the farm or somewhere just so I can nap in peace. Everybody wins. The kids are happy, he's happy and I'm happy. Until.........I was looking over Madison's 3rd grade papers of things she has wrote over the past year. One particular one caught my attention. At the top it is titled "My Family" and then she has drawn pictures of us. The 1st picture is of ME in bed asleep. The 2nd one is of her, Grant & dad playing ball in the yard. So is this how she sees our life? I am always asleep and she is having fun with her brother & dad. I guess I am going to have to forgo my naps and spend more fun time with them. I don't want to be remembered as always napping. I can always go back to napping once their grown!!!!

Introduction to My Life

I am 33 years old and happily married to a wonderful guy named Cary. We have two amazing kids that keep us from being bored. They are Madison (9) and Grant (6). My hubby is currently in Texas for his job. I flew down with him on Mon the 15th but I had to come back Sun the 21st. We got to spend lots of quality time together. I got plenty of alone time. I even had 3 hours at the spa. That was wonderful. He couldn't believe that I wasn't bored being alone all day. I'm pretty much alone all day at work anyhow so I'm use to it. It was so hard to leave him but my kids needed me. Madison is going through a "stage" of wanting to be with us at all times and at home. So this trip was stressful for her. She has slept with me everynight since I came home except Tues. Grant heard her up Monday night when he was in bed so he decided that he was sleeping with me Tues night so that he could stay up. Madison being the older sister and pretty coniving she made him sign a slip of paper last night saying she could sleep with me the rest of the week. Madison is alot like me, very headstrong and independent she wants it her way or else. Grant is alot like Cary. He's easygoing and laid back and gives in to Madison when he really shouldn't.

Cary will be home tomorrow night and I can't wait to have him here. It's not fun being a single parent and it's really not fun during the summer. I don't know if the pool will ever be ready to swim in. I just can't take care of it like Cary can. Maybe it's because I really don't try.

Tuesday & Wednesday I had a procedure on my leg (EVLT) for vericose veins. Tuesday it wasn't so bad but last night I was starting to get sore & for some reason it is itching something awful. I don't know if it is the support hose or what but I am about to pull my hair out. I'm suppose to wear the support hose for 5 days which means I will be wearing them over the weekend. I was joking with the nurse and told her that I was going to look like I worked at Hooters with my stockings and shorts on. Can't you just picture that!!!

Finally!!

OK, after several months of lurking, I have decided to blog. One of the main reasons being I will have "diary" of things that have happened. I'm generally not very good at recording special events in my life, so maybe this will help me remember things later on.