5 more posts in one

January 08, 2007 Same old same old
They boys are asleep in the livingroom, and I'm heading back to sleep after feeding MC. He is going to go to the doctor tomorrow. I'm now getting what he had, and I am taking Sudafed to head it off. Tomorrow I plan to drink a gallon of OJ and get as much sleep as possible. Speaking of sleep I feel HORRIBLE....G, K's hubby is having problems sleeping and what do I do, I call and wake him up. She said that he fell right back asleep, but I understand how it is to be awaken by the phone, especially when you are REALLY tired. She was going to come over tomorrow to visit so he could sleep, but our Tue schedules are hectic. I have a doc appt, MC is going to have one and Sunshine has a Speech Therapy appt as well. So she is going to come over Wednesday. I look forward to having adult conversation and seeing Sunshine have child interaction. I think that I'm going to try to get all the appt, ST, DT for both children set up on Tuesday's that way I don't have to miss as much work. Tomorrow I will call work after I get back from the doc's office. I think I'm going back on the 29th. I may go back a week earlier, I haven't discussed it with Duck yet. What's $25.00??? We'll see what happens. I want to get up and do about 15 min of house work.
Good night,Katy

January 07, 2007 Accomplishments
This week/end I made three large pots of chili, and put them into servings in the deep freezer. I fried 13 lbs of chicken and put them into portions. We went to the store and bought frozen veggies to make stir-fry. We got MC's wipes and trash bags and gallon storage bags. Tomorrow I'm going to make up the stir-fry veggie part. We are going to get up early and get back on schedule. I have a doc appt on Tues. I'm still at odds on which birth control to use, if any...meaning only that I don't want my milk supply to lower. I'm REALLY concerned about my milk. I am also not at all happy with the new reports out that my car seat is the most unsafe on the market. Well going to go for now, need to get to bed and actually get some sleep.
Katy

January 05, 2007 A first for everything
I'm proud to advise that my 2 year old (almost 3) took his pull up off and handed it to me this evening. This was after he had already stripped all the way down to his pull up. So I decided to put big boy underware on him. I showed him the cool people on the front and back and told him not to get the dirty. He was sorta grabbing himself so I decided to put him on the toilet. I ran some water as a suggestion from several people and guess what?? HE PEED ON THE POTTY. I'm so very excited that I gave him a Reece's cup at 11:00 pm. Daddy will be home soon to coral him. I praised him and told him what a good job he did and he was very excited as well. Just wanted to let the world know that my son used the potty. Gotta go cook 15 lbs of chicken now.
Katy

January 05, 2007 A small break
Both munchkins are asleep, and I will rest with them in just a few minutes. MC is doing a little better, still clogged up, but better. Sunshine hit the baby in the head again today by accident, not paying attention to what he was doing. He knew he did wrong when he did it.
We have evaluated the budget and figured that there isn't anything that can be done. I'm either going to have to get a raise at work or find a new job. We are going to stop eating out, making so many trips to Indy. I'm also going to try to save on electricity and gas and food and such. By the way, I copied this website that I found on a friends blog...it is AMAZING!
http://michaelbluejay.com/electricity/
I have turned my heat down to 71, and we are going to program our heater to hit 65 during sleeping hours and back up to 71 30 minutes before we get up. We have a space heater for our bedroom to keep us warmer. I'm also going to start cooking at home for every meal possible. I have found that it takes about 14 dollars for us to eat at McDonald's for one meal, but we could eat for a two days or more on the same 14 dollars. I intend on tryng cloth diapers while we are at home. Daycare won't use them and it is a huge inconvience to use the out and about. (Kudos to you K & G, I have huge respect for the fact that you do it)
MC's DT came over today, she worked on exercises with him, I know he's only 5weeks, but he can still stretch and such. She also believes that he is going to speak sooner than his brother since he is already doing the cooing and making a lot of verbal noises. He moves his head from side to side, follows objects and holds his head up. He's on track!
Monday we are going to get back onto track, we are going to get up between 7 and 8. Sunshine is going into underware, I know that I'll have to do a lot of laundry that day, but I want him to use the potty. We are going to sit down and do an educational craft and playdoh. I want him back on a schedule, not going to bed at 1 am and getting up at 10. Yeah that's nice, but it isn't going to work when he goes back to daycare.
Okay I need to go, I have 4 loads of laundry to fold and put up and I'm going to get a little bit done while Sunshine is still sleeping.
Katy

January 04, 2007 So it's been a few days!
Where do I start..well Duck is mad because his past is haunting him. Sunshine went to bed early for hitting MC in the head, he was aiming at me. Regardless, he needs to go to bed. MC is asleep on my lap right now, the only place he wants to be in on me. I know that I'm going to call his doc in the morning anyway to get the results of the x-ray. I am also getting some small amounts of blood up when I suck his nose out. I'm not freaked out about it or else he'd be in the ER. He slept better last night, but has been eating ALL DAY! I wish I could just remove my boob and let him have it for an hour so I can clean. Sunshine DESTROYED the living room. All the books are off the shelf, all the toys out of the bins and bucket. AHHHHHH. THIS TOO BETTER PASS. I am looking for a way to make $1100. per month so I can stay with the boys. Not sure how I'm going to achieve that, unless my boss gives me a two dollar an hour raise or I find another job. We have worked every aspect of the budget and there is just no way to survive on Duck's income alone. Even if I worked part time on the weekends somewhere. I've thought about maybe watching a few kids if I stay home, but then that would restrict me to the house day in and day out. All my problems would be solved if I could just hit the lottery. I would buy the house behind me, move into it (it's bigger), use this house as an office/daycare facility. Stay home with my boys running the daycare facility and volunteering to fight poverty and working with the homeless. Maybe I should run for Mrs. America...on second thought, I'm sure NOBODY wants to see me in a bikini. Okay, getting off my soap box here, I'm sure that there are people out there with far many more problems than I, I'm grateful for what I have and what I've been given. Gotta go clean what I have!
God Bless~
Katy