I cracked

Well, I finally cracked and signed up for FB. I'm thinking this may satisfy my need to gripe/whine/complain whatever and I won't be needing a blog anymore. I guess we'll see. I'm a sucker for peer pressure apparently but who knew I was missing something so great? I'm still learning my way through it but I like it so far.

The hubs and I had a great weekend away but it was about one day too short. All morning I was wallowing around in the huge hotel bed stuffed from room service complaining about going home already. He kept reminding me how much I love our kids. I kid you not we were home less than an hour before him and Squail got into it. Seriously. The two of them butt heads more than anyone else in this house. I snickered and reminded him how much he loved the kids. He did not appreciate my sarcasm.

Even though Squail freaked out about his cmas elf it has come in handy with keeping him in line. If we remind him that elf is watching he promptly corrects his behavior. I'm thinking we need an elf for every holiday. I'm liking the concept. And this way the elf looks like the bad guy and not me.

I'm not happy with myself for my lack of work lately and it's catching up with me. My actual work and my work at the gym. I was on a roll at the gym for a little while but I've tapered off. Gotta get back on track. With my water babies I'll be in a bathing suit in no time and that's not a good thing right now. Which reminds me I need to hurry up and figure out swim lessons for Squail. They start in Jan and I need to pick a day. And get his bday invites done. Crap. I gotta get off here and get busy!

24 hours

I'm going to get a very short get away in a couple of weeks. About 24 hours. I had hoped for more but I guess I will take what I can get. The hubs and I will get a night away. I can't remember the last time I had a night away from the kids. I've never been away from the baby overnight but I can't remember when I was away from Squail last. It's been a really long time. I am trying to think of places to stay, things to do. I have a short list but I'm lacking ideas. I'm thinking my friend V needs to give me some ideas!

It's been baby week around here! I've had three friends have them and 2 that are due any second! I'm so excited and still get all teary eyed when I see the sweet newborns. Mostly because they don't talk back or yell at you yet. I get a lot of that from Squail lately. I know that my mom used to say that I would argue with a fence post. I'm thinking that Squail has inherited that trait from me. I'm sure she revels in that but not so much on my end.

This has been a long week and I'm ready for the weekend. This time change is still kicking my arse and at least one, if not both of my kids have been up at the crack of dawn every day. I am not a morning person and even coffee isn't helping. I need a 24 hour nap to catch up and then I think I'll be good.

Finally

I finally decided who to vote for. But I still question my choice. I am so politically stupid that it took some research on my part but my research always yielded the same results. I ranked with one person just barely higher than the other every single time. So in combo with my "gut feeling" and what I've researched I will go vote tomorrow.

I also finally watched some of the SNL skits about the election and I honestly cannot tell the difference between SP and TF. That is by far one of the best impersonations I've ever seen.

I also finally signed up for Facebook. I've literally done nothing but sign up. I didn't do a profile or really select anyone as a friend. I selected one person as a test (and you accepted :) ). I just can't imagine adding one more thing to my to do list right now like checking facebook on a regular basis but I may get around to it.

And the phone that I've been wanting finally came out. Well, it technically comes out tomorrow but I'm afraid that I will not be able to make myself pay full retail price. I'm not eligible for an upgrade FOREVER so I need to go look at it and decide if it's worth the cash. I walked away from the other shiny, beautiful phone for the cost issue but I really want one of them. My sister so kindly said she would let me have her old phone, which is a step up from mine and will accomplish what I want. I may have to take her up on it so that I can let them work out the kinks on the new phone. Well, that's at least what I'm going to tell myself when I decide that I won't spend the cash on it :)

Baby Ruth?

Ok, does this not look like the guy from Goonies? The one that likes the Baby Ruth's?:

Squail did this all on his own and he just could not understand why we were laughing so hard afterwards!

I ate my fair share of candy for sure this year. I think we came home with 10 lbs of it and most of it got sent to work with hubs. Thankfully Squail didn't even notice today that his loot was a lot smaller than when he went to bed. I'm sure I'll notice the tightening of my pants later though. Ugh.

Age is just a number right?

I finally, FINALLY got around to watching the SATC movie tonight. It came out the day after I had the baby and I just never got around to it. I was a little disturbed at a few things. Why did everyone look so tall and skinny? And not just the women. It's like it was shot in some weird frame or something. And everyone looked so old. Does this mean that I'm old? Does this mean that I have to accept the fact that these gray hairs on my head are really there? Why did they look so old? And if I am going to have to start looking old I at least want to look as skinny as they do. Overall I liked the movie but it wasn't as wonderful as I had hoped it to be. I will however probably watch it 100 times when it shows up on cable. Or has it already and I've missed that too? I'm telling you if it's not programmed to be saved on my DVR I just don't see it anymore.

For the purposes of this blog we are going to call my oldest son Squail. I haven't come up with a name for the baby yet. For those of you who know me (not like anyone is actually reading this blog anyway...) you'll understand where Squail came from. The rest of you can just rack your brains and try to figure it out :)

So, tonight at dinner Squail said "Mommy, let's do cheers" and held his cup up to toast me. He had the biggest grin EVER on his face and he was so very proud of himself. He cracks me up. I guess this is something he learned at school but I think it's funny and we should somehow institute a nightly thing for it. I loved it.

Get it together

I used to be better organized. I felt pity for all those moms who just couldn't get themselves together or get that crap together. Always running late, forgetting things, hair and makeup not done. I am SO that mom now. I am usually either almost late or a few minutes late and I run in the door like a crazy person. I am always forgetting something. And it's not always the same thing but it's always something. I hardly ever fix my hair or put on full makeup anymore. I am longing for the days when my hair will grow out long enough to pull back so I can sport a ponytail.

I have decided that I must return to writing my "to do" list down because I never get all my stuff done or done in a timely manner. Even sometimes simple stuff like paying bills or whatever. It seems that there is always some errand that needs to be done so I need to start writing those down too so that I can finish all these projects that are just hanging around. You know, like finishing decorating my baby's bedroom. I am still not done with that.

Hubs says that we are done having kids but I'm not sure. However I think if I threw another one in the mix I may never be able to leave my house because I'll either forget that I have somewhere to be or I won't be able to pull myself together enough to get us all out of the house. I have no idea how that woman in Arkansas with all those kids does it. I would be in the looney bin for sure.

Credit

I should also give credit where credit is due for this blog. I would never have come up with the name but a friend of mine has a brilliant husband who thought of it and passed it on. Thanks!