Hello All,
It's been a normal week for us and I think I'm blogging because of boredom more than anything. I hope all is well in your neighborhoods. Are you enjoying the season change? I know we are enjoying not having to run the sprinklers daily like we have to in the summer. I'm looking forward to Halloween this year. Kieran is going to be the guy from "Scream," Steff is going to be Tinker Bell and Sadie is going to be a lady bug. I'm sure my sisters will have a Halloween party since it's my stepmom's favorite holiday. So, they will get to wear their costumes more than once which makes buying them worth it.
Ryan has been doing well. He seems to be past his funk of hating work. He had the big boss come and tell him that he recognizes the extra effort he has been putting in to getting things done. He also said that Ryan would see some kind of opportunity for growth in the near future. This must help him feel better about leaving home each day. I can sympathize with him on this though. He really loves his family and he's a very hands on dad so spending time away from us must be hard. I get to talk to him each night around 9:30 but it's usually to see how things are going for both of us and to express how much we miss each other.
Kieran came home from school all excited yesterday...He said there is a new girl and she likes him and wants to go out with him. I have to admit this makes me happy since he seems to base his value on who wants to go out with him. I have been trying to figure out how to help him see that what he thinks and how his family values him are more important than the kids he goes to school with. If you have any ideas of what to say or do to help him please email me. All suggestions are welcome.
He's still enjoying football and last night at his game he snagged an interception and ran it down the field for a touchdown. It was the most awesome thing to see. His face when he caught the ball was just classic and precious. You could tell he was shocked that he caught it. I can't express how much fun these games are to watch. I get chilly until it's time for the boys to do something else that is amazing. Last night the team they played had one of those coaches that takes things far too serious, he was yelling and screaming at his team the whole game. The funniest part was that our kids check in with the coach but for the most part they are allowed to call their own plays and run the ball any way they like and they won. I made sure to thank our coach for being so good to our kids. I also thank the Lord that we've never had a coach that was like this man was.
Steff is doing well. The other day she was in stinker mode and she got a hold of the table salt and dumped the whole box out in her room and was playing in it. She did annoying things like this all day that day. Yesterday was a good day and she said please and thank you and my ultimate favorite, "You're welcome."
She has been really playing with Sadie lately and it's not the usual throw something and tell her to go get it. She has been so cute with her and it makes me excited for the day when they can play together as friends. The cutest thing she has been doing with Sadie is giving her kisses when she goes down for a nap. She used to be so picky about when and if she would give kisses but lately she has been very generous with them.
Sadie is pulling herself up really well and the other day she started letting go for short periods of time. It won't be long now until she starts to stand on her own and then takes that first step.
She will be one soon...We are thinking of getting her a wagon for her birthday. We figure at this age she has all the toys she needs but they could both use a wagon so why not use her birthday as a good excuse to get one?
I have been reading Boundaries with Kids in the hopes that I will learn how to help raise responsible children and so far I've learned to parent for the future. What I do today will affect my children's lives tomorrow.
I just finished another book called Boundaries in Marriage and I found that Ryan and I have pretty good boundaries with each other. I found that my money spending habits aren't fair to him. Don't get me wrong, they have gotten better but I have this fetish with ordering things from catalogs and I try to justify it by saying that I'm buying things for Christmas. I know I'm not the best and that I need to respect our budget more, otherwise I wouldn't be airing my dirty laundry on the internet for the whole world to read. I really enjoyed reading that book and so far I've enjoyed reading about how to have boundaries with my children. Ryan and I took a class on raising kids with Love and Logic and this book really reinforces what we learned in that class. I think I'll have Ryan read it when I'm finished with it. He's so good about reading books that I suggest to him. Just one more thing to love about him. I don't know what I'd do if I had a husband that wasn't as supportive and helpful and loving as Ryan. Of course, we both went through lots of bad apples before we re-found each other. Ryan was saying something to the effect of being grateful that we had hard times at the beginning of our relationship to help us grow in love and commitment to each other. He said our marriage would be boring if we hadn't seen hardships. I have to agree with him. We have a history of working things out and our problems now seem small in comparison to the trials we've overcome in the past.
I have one final thing to say...Believing in God and actually believing God are two different things. Where do you stand?
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Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Friday, September 14, 2007
Rocks, girlfriends and lawnmowers
It's early and the drama has begun. The girls are up and doing something a little different than their usual morning routine. Steffanie is watching Sprout and being very whinny. She's usually pretty docile but not today. Sadie is moving and shaking things up. She's getting into everything and off crawling all over the house. Which is actually pretty normal for Sadie.
It's been an interesting week with doctors appointments for regular check ups and the occasional trip to urgent care to have aquarium rocks removed from two year old nostrils. Yep, Steffanie decided to stuff an aquarium rock up her nose and it was a pretty big one too. But first, it wasn't enough that she dumped out the five gallon fish tank, she had to add to the drama and stuff that rock into the easiest orifice she could think of. Not only did she stuff it up her nose she did it at bed time. So, at 9pm I decided this pebble wasn't coming out on its own and I'd better take her to the doctor. The doctor got it out successfully but she also insulted me by accusing me of not watching my child around the fish tank. I couldn't believe it...I leave the room to get towels to mop up the water and the vacuum to suck up the rocks and this doctor implies that I dare leave my daughter alone with an aquarium. I should have said something but I think I was in too much shock that she could be so rude. We lived through the whole ordeal and the fish is now safely in it's tank(thank God I hadn't put it in yet) and Steff can breath again.
Kieran has been trying to get this girl to "go out" with him since the beginning of school. I want to know where they're going to "go." He has been dressing nicer and doing his hair the way she likes. I think it's ridiculous, especially since she told him he has a 2% chance out of 10 that she'll go out with him. I have to give him credit for being so persistent but I hate seeing my poor son come home disappointed that she still put him off. I wish he'd find better things to concentrate on. I figure if I feel this way now I don't have much hope when he's a teenager. Or better yet, when his sisters are teenagers......
He had his first flag football practice last night and it got him all fired up to play. He said he did pretty well and he likes his coach. His first game is on Tuesday at 5:30. All of his games are on Tuesdays and Thursdays so Ryan won't be able to go to them all since that conflicts with work and they changed the policy that personal time must be taken for "an emergency." I wonder if they'll bend a little since they are such a small company that prides itself on family being important. I'm sure he'll be able to make it to some of his games.
Ryan got his lawn mower experiment to work with success! The problem was that the lawn was just too wet and way too long. He was so excited the other day when he mowed the lawn and it worked. I'm very proud of him but I haven't seen him attempt to create something without luck to this day.
Sadie had another fall down more cement stairs. Steffanie innocently left the door to the mudroom open and she crawled out it and went head first down the four steps. At least I think that's what happened I was in our bedroom waking Ryan up for the day when I heard her crying. I figured she was just stuck in one of the many unusual spots she crawls into and then cannot get out of. When I found her she was stuck alright. She was head down on the last step and trying to figure out how to get out of her predicament. She weathered pretty well considering. She ended up with a dime sized bruise on her cheek and a quarter size raspberry on the top of her head. Try as I might I cannot keep this poor child out of harms way. I'm just glad I don't have to talk with that doctor and hear her accuse me of some sort of neglect. She'd probably accuse me of having a door that my two year could open. It was truly that ridiculous when she accused me of leaving my child unattended with a fish tank.
I've been feeling terrible lately though. I've had a persistent headache and have been feeling achy and icky from the effects of allergies. I hadn't gotten my Allegra filled until a couple of days ago and my understanding is that the stuff has to build up in your system before it will work. I had a migraine headache so I took a dose of Maxalt and I got so loony you could have poured me into a to go cup and I wouldn't have noticed or minded. The worst part is that I had to take two of these monsters to get the dog-on thing to go completely away. I am so thankful my mom was here to help me with my kids because I didn't know it was going to affect me that way. I know the next time I get a migraine I'll be sure I'd rather deal with the side affects over the pain of the headache. I even had a conversation that I couldn't recall with Kieran's football coach. I had to call and admit my escaping mind and ask for directions to practice again. The coaches wife said she understood and re-gave me the directions. Wow, I was gone...
As a family we are doing well. We haven't done anything exciting-at least not all together. All of our doctors appointments went well and Kieran is being tested for hypothyroid. His dad suffered from it his whole life and I don't know the last time Kieran was tested but he should have one once a year. He was a trooper when the nurse took his blood. After the initial prick he watched the blood go up into the vial. He thought that was pretty cool. That's pretty much the skinny on our family for the last week. I hope you all have had a little more luck and peace on your lives. God bless you and keep you.
It's been an interesting week with doctors appointments for regular check ups and the occasional trip to urgent care to have aquarium rocks removed from two year old nostrils. Yep, Steffanie decided to stuff an aquarium rock up her nose and it was a pretty big one too. But first, it wasn't enough that she dumped out the five gallon fish tank, she had to add to the drama and stuff that rock into the easiest orifice she could think of. Not only did she stuff it up her nose she did it at bed time. So, at 9pm I decided this pebble wasn't coming out on its own and I'd better take her to the doctor. The doctor got it out successfully but she also insulted me by accusing me of not watching my child around the fish tank. I couldn't believe it...I leave the room to get towels to mop up the water and the vacuum to suck up the rocks and this doctor implies that I dare leave my daughter alone with an aquarium. I should have said something but I think I was in too much shock that she could be so rude. We lived through the whole ordeal and the fish is now safely in it's tank(thank God I hadn't put it in yet) and Steff can breath again.
Kieran has been trying to get this girl to "go out" with him since the beginning of school. I want to know where they're going to "go." He has been dressing nicer and doing his hair the way she likes. I think it's ridiculous, especially since she told him he has a 2% chance out of 10 that she'll go out with him. I have to give him credit for being so persistent but I hate seeing my poor son come home disappointed that she still put him off. I wish he'd find better things to concentrate on. I figure if I feel this way now I don't have much hope when he's a teenager. Or better yet, when his sisters are teenagers......
He had his first flag football practice last night and it got him all fired up to play. He said he did pretty well and he likes his coach. His first game is on Tuesday at 5:30. All of his games are on Tuesdays and Thursdays so Ryan won't be able to go to them all since that conflicts with work and they changed the policy that personal time must be taken for "an emergency." I wonder if they'll bend a little since they are such a small company that prides itself on family being important. I'm sure he'll be able to make it to some of his games.
Ryan got his lawn mower experiment to work with success! The problem was that the lawn was just too wet and way too long. He was so excited the other day when he mowed the lawn and it worked. I'm very proud of him but I haven't seen him attempt to create something without luck to this day.
Sadie had another fall down more cement stairs. Steffanie innocently left the door to the mudroom open and she crawled out it and went head first down the four steps. At least I think that's what happened I was in our bedroom waking Ryan up for the day when I heard her crying. I figured she was just stuck in one of the many unusual spots she crawls into and then cannot get out of. When I found her she was stuck alright. She was head down on the last step and trying to figure out how to get out of her predicament. She weathered pretty well considering. She ended up with a dime sized bruise on her cheek and a quarter size raspberry on the top of her head. Try as I might I cannot keep this poor child out of harms way. I'm just glad I don't have to talk with that doctor and hear her accuse me of some sort of neglect. She'd probably accuse me of having a door that my two year could open. It was truly that ridiculous when she accused me of leaving my child unattended with a fish tank.
I've been feeling terrible lately though. I've had a persistent headache and have been feeling achy and icky from the effects of allergies. I hadn't gotten my Allegra filled until a couple of days ago and my understanding is that the stuff has to build up in your system before it will work. I had a migraine headache so I took a dose of Maxalt and I got so loony you could have poured me into a to go cup and I wouldn't have noticed or minded. The worst part is that I had to take two of these monsters to get the dog-on thing to go completely away. I am so thankful my mom was here to help me with my kids because I didn't know it was going to affect me that way. I know the next time I get a migraine I'll be sure I'd rather deal with the side affects over the pain of the headache. I even had a conversation that I couldn't recall with Kieran's football coach. I had to call and admit my escaping mind and ask for directions to practice again. The coaches wife said she understood and re-gave me the directions. Wow, I was gone...
As a family we are doing well. We haven't done anything exciting-at least not all together. All of our doctors appointments went well and Kieran is being tested for hypothyroid. His dad suffered from it his whole life and I don't know the last time Kieran was tested but he should have one once a year. He was a trooper when the nurse took his blood. After the initial prick he watched the blood go up into the vial. He thought that was pretty cool. That's pretty much the skinny on our family for the last week. I hope you all have had a little more luck and peace on your lives. God bless you and keep you.
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