Wanting to sleep

Some days I feel so blessed to have two great kids. I love my children so much but there are also days when I wish I could drop them off somewhere for just a few hours, these are the days, like today when I wish I lived closer to my mom.

After getting up early the past two days, I am not a morning person, I'm exhausted and just want to lay around and rest. Unfortunately the little guy decided this wasn't going to happen, he decided to nap on the drive home so now he's raring to go. The big guy however, was nice and laid down and took a nap for me. That was nice. I thought I'd turn on the TV for the little guy to get some rest, nope couldn't find the remote. Little guy kept telling me it was upstairs but why would it be upstairs? Course, when I told him to go get it, he didn't listen but such is life. We did end up finding it as we were getting ready to come back downstairs. It was laying on the floor in our bedroom. Not sure why or how it got there (I was working, remember) but there it was.

I'm still very tired but I did manage to get a good chunk of my book finished and I think it will be in bed early tonight for me, that's if I get the bathtub fixed, kids bathed after dinner and then get them rested up so they'll go to sleep at a decent hour.

Meet the Teacher

Tonight my son got to meet his preschool teachers. They seem like really great ladies who have a mission to help children. We were greeted by the director when we came in and then were directed to the classroom. B got to find his nametag as soon as he came in and then he put a sticker up for his attendence that day. He then got to play with some stuff and learned where his cubby hole was for his coat and backpack. He learned where the job chart is and what the jobs are (don't ask me I forgot some already).

We also got our handbook with all the days they'd have off, which isn't many and all the important info. We also got a schedule of what they will be doing during their days.

He was so excited until we got home and he found out E wouldn't be going with him. He's now upset but I told him, that E might get to go next year, then he wasn't so upset.

The feeling in the pit of your stomach

I was having a great day yesterday. Got up went to work, came home got the kids their lunch, did some computer stuff, spent time with the kids, did dinner, spent some more time with the kids, gave them a bath, watched some TV with them and put them to bed and enjoyed some mommy alone time. The kids were even pretty well behaved too. No major issues. Then my husband came home. He sits down and looks rather upset. He then proceeds to tell me that his DM came in and wrote him up, yet again, for something that happened a month ago before his DM came back to the company.

Some background info, my hubby started working for this company almost 2 years ago. His DM at the time was great. He helped hubby get his store in order, then he got transeffered to a different district. A new DM came along and started being a jerk from the start. Now dh was always running short handed. He was to have an assistant and a third key holder but was always short the key holder position, until just recently (June to be exact). He did the best he could even through Christmas and other holidays. He managed to take a store that was not doing well profit-wise and make it into a store that produced a profit. He really cleaned up the store. When something happened that went against policy, he handled it with stern warnings both verbal and written. He is a hard worker and puts more time into the store some days than he does his family it seems. He was written up several months ago for a bed store visit. He had taken care of the issues before the visit but he still loss points because that's the way the DM wanted to be. DM #2 left for another company and DM#1 came back. Thing went a lot smoother and things were going great, then DM#2 returned, a week ago and now all heck breaks lose again.

So now I'm left with a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach. I have no idea if dh will have a job soon and I'm scared. The one good thing that came out of this is we prayed together for the first time ever last night. Now to put my faith in God and know that he has control of this situation.

Kids

I'm sitting here trying to find a recipe for a simple, basic yellow cake for my son's birthday cake. I need the recipe tonight so I know if I have all the ingredients or not, so I can make it first thing tomorrow for his birthday on Sunday. Do you know how hard it is to find a basic yellow cake recipe? It's hard.

While I'm doing this, the two kiddos are suppose to be entertaining themselves without the TV. Now they've been playing with toys until I sit down here. Now they're beating on each other, yellowing, yampering, and the little one is taking off his clothes and running around with just a diaper and sandels on. Not sure why but he is. Now he stands here whining at me because he started to take his diaper off and he doesn't like that. Then why start to take it off?

Last night he crawled into bed with us, not sure why but he did. My hubby left him lay between us and fall asleep (he crawls in on daddy's side). I wake up about an hour or so later, take him back over and realize that he's soaked. Seems he figured out how to pee up and over the top of the diaper (I think hubby didn't have it on tight enough). He made our sheets wet and his pjs wet. I had to change him and wake hubby up to change the sheets. This now reminds me that I have to go get the towel out from under the sheet and find some fabric freshner. My hubby was still sleeping when I left this morning, so I forgot until now. Yuck. I hate the smell of pee. I sure hope I have something to spray on it or I'm flipping the mattress until I get something tomorrow at work.

I'm so tired right now I could handle going to bed now but I have to get off here to give the kids their baths and get them ready for bed. Maybe while they're playing I'll get some jammies on too and take out my eyes so I don't have so much to do when I'm ready for fall asleep.

The new neighbor

I have a new neighbor. They just moved in recenlty in the house behind us. Our other neighbors moved into something smaller and where they don't have to worry about cleaning their walks. Seems this spring when we had our ice storm, they got a noticed in the mail about their icy sidewalks and they had to pay someone to come out to clean them, so they chose to move into a retirement community.

Now a few months ago, I came home from work to find out that my other neighbor was kind enough to call the cops because our dogs had been barking through an upstairs window (dh didn't think to close it before he left). Nothing much amounted from the incident other than an awareness that my dogs are annoying, which I pretty much already knew. Now when we are gone they are locked in the basement so this won't happen again.

Well it seems that our new neighbors have a dog that they tie out periodically throughout the day. It also seems that the dog barks at anything and everything. Doesn't matter that there is nothing out there to bark out, it barks. Now I wouldn't normally care but I like to sleep with my bedroom windows open and our dogs sleep in our room, and well the neighbors tie their dog out first thing in the morning (7-8 o'clock) and it starts barking. It then causes my dogs to start barking, which in turns wakes me up. I hate being woken up. I feel like my day just isn't right if I don't get up on my own. Unfortunately or maybe fortunately, it's been raining here for the past 3 1/2 days straight, so the other dog hasn't been outside for any period of time but that means neither has our neighbors or us.

I want to make them aware that one of our neighbors has called the cops on barking dogs and to watch how much they allow theirs to bark. I'd hate to see our new neighbors in trouble with the cops already and on bad terms with the cranky neighbors. I do have to laugh though because if my dogs and our neighbor across the street's dog is out and our new neighbor's dog is out we could have quite the barking fest. I'm sure that would really drive the cranky neighbors crazy. Not to mention if we got the other two larger dogs on the block to start. Okay, on second thought that might not be too funny.

Open Wide

On Wednesday, Bman, had his first dentist appointment.

I was a little nervous for him. He's not good with strangers sometimes and really not good if they are going to touch him. I decided the best way to handle it was to talk about it. I told him what the dentist would do and how he didn't need to worry about anything. When they called his name, he went happily back the hallway with the lady.

He sat in the chair and even before she had on her "equipment" he had his mouth open. He was such a big boy. He got to hold the thing that sucks the goo from your mouth and he thought he was a big shot. He even giggled when she cleaned his teeth and didn't even flinch when she flossed.

He got an A+ for being so big. He also got a Lightening McQueen toothbrush, a pencil and two stickers.

Now he can't wait until the nxt time.