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March 02, 2007 Friday
Smiley didn't want to sleep yesterday, every time I'd nurse him and then put him down to clean or use the bathroom or do anything besides hold him, he'd wake up and get fussy. So a lot didn't get done. I had Duck order diaper covers off the Internet, I'll see how it works. I hope to be making my own by the end of this weekend. My first pattern worked well, but I have picked up another one to see if it is better. I hope to work on them Sunday while Duck is up north. We didn't get to go shopping or exercise today, K was not feeling well. I hope that she is feeling better by now, I'll call tomorrow to see if she needs anything. Duck's Mom is coming over for lunch and a visit tomorrow. I can't wait to set my table again, it looked really nice last time. I don't keep it covered since Sunshine puts his drink on the table and I don't want it to get stained. Anyhow, I need to get up and finish cleaning. I have brought all Smiley's clothes 3-6 mo down from the closet, they look huge on him, I'll keep him in the newborn clothes until they don't fit anymore. Okay, I'll try to get back on my questions by this weekend. I'm getting a little more sleep since Smiley is sleeping on me.
Katy
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Friday March 2, 2007 - 10:31pm (EST) Edit Delete Permanent Link 0 Comments
March 01, 2007 Back seat to a pig.....
Those were the words as we pulled up to K and G's house that came out of my husbands mouth. Keep in mind that we have a small back seat and two car seats in the back. He was numb when we got home, but the pig was signed, sealed and delivered. Two weeks it took to get the pig...this was a nightmare for me. Don't get me wrong K, I love that you have a pig, Sunshine made pig noises all the way home. It was cute....Here's the story! Two weeks ago my dad told me that Uncle B was selling his pig. So I asked K if she was interested, and she was so I relayed the message. Keep in mind that K runs a homestead with two and a half (new baby) goats, 9 or so chickens, Turkeys and more chickens coming and now a pig. I wanted to go and get the pig since the situation seemed iffy at the beginning on UB's part. And he's usually late or forgets so I didn't want them to be down there waiting on him for hours. Today they would've waited for an hour and a half on him. My point exactly. At least I had somewhere to go. We used our pet carrier and put the pig in the car and rounded up the children, by the time we got to the car, maybe 5 minutes, the pig had already made my car smell like a barn. It was rather funny to figure out how we were all going to fit in the car, but it worked, we got to see family, even if it was brief, it was nice. We picked up pre-paid cell phones today, due to the fact that the car is unreliable, I'd hate to be stuck somewhere with the boys and a dead car. We decided to do pre-paid since it was much cheaper. We will only use the phones for emergencies anyhow unless we have to burn our minutes. Our phone bills will only be about $60 every other month. Well I have a ton more to say, but it's late, I'm exhausted and I need to help Duck in the living room. More tomorrow for me, same day as this one I guess. I'll answer my questions and ask some more. For now I'm going to have pig dreams after we are done and be thankful that BobbyQ is at K's house, and that everything has worked out. I can't wait to take Sunshine over there when it gets warm, we have a close petting zoo to go to! I'm really glad that they took him.
Katy
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Thursday March 1, 2007 - 12:35am (EST) Edit Delete Permanent Link 0 Comments
February 25, 2007 Just life

Today we did a whole lot of NOTHING....Duck slept most of the day, I wish that was me. Sunshine didn't take a nap and Smiley is starting to get congested again. Back to the breathing treatments and sucking his nose out every 30 min it seems. I need to find a new bulb syringe, mine are busted. I found some on ebay and I think we are going to go ahead and buy them. They want 5.86 for one at the store or I can find them on ebay for 3/10.00. Better deal! I picked up a patter today at Wally World for a diaper, they were cheaper at my Wally. I am also going to use the cap, bib and blanket ones if I can learn how. I'm quickly running out of time on making the diapers, Smiley's are getting too tight. He's getting so big, it's amazing. He's usually very happy and smiles all the time...I love both of my children with all my heart. Sunshine has taken to being tickled all the time, he loves it. He also love to be scared. He's a good kid for the most part, what can I say, he's two and spoiled. My fault, yes I know. We are working on the potty thing, another night of being dry.
Yesterday's question was about reliving a year knowing what I know now. I'd pick being 18 all over again. Knowing what I know now, I would've worked the two jobs, put the money in a savings account and saved as much as possible. I wouldn't have done the drugs, or drank nearly as much as I did (at least 5 nights a week)! I would've taken classes when I could and I would've still meet Duck and bought a nicer house that would've made it easier to sell. I would've been able to pay it off a lot sooner. When I was 18 I was working at BK as manager and I was working pt at Pondo as a waitress. I was making excellent money for an 18 year old, I was bringing home nearly 600 every two weeks from BK and at least 300 every two weeks from Pondo. Let's see that's 1800 a month for a single girl renting an apartment by the week for 75, paying electricity of 10 per week and gas about the same. My phone bill was a little higher, any my car payment and insurance was only 150 a month. What more could a girl my age ask for? I could've saved so much and spent so much less. I remember one night we went to the bar, yes I was only 18, I think I dropped 90 dollars that night on drinks and pool. What a waste of money, plus I was drunk driving home. What a horrible risk to take. Anyhow, I got a rude wake up call, and changed my life completely around. I have too much to lose to do such stupid things.
Today's question: If you had to identically repeat any single year of your life to date, without changing a thing, which year would you relive? I'd relive this past year, or the year that Sunshine was born.
Another question: IF you could be sculpted by any artist in history, who would you choose? Duh....DaVinci....
Well gotta go, Duck want the computer, Smiley needs to get to sleep, Sunshine is running on adrenaline and needs to go to sleep, and I need to finish cleaning the living room since we are going to get the carpet cleaner back tomorrow as we REALLY need it. It looks like we murdered someone upstairs since Sunshine spilled my cherry Kool-aid from the other night all over the off white carpet. It is going to be hard to get out. Oxy Clean comes to mind.
Good night to all!
Me.
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Sunday February 25, 2007 - 11:46pm (EST) Edit Delete Permanent Link 0 Comments
February 24, 2007 Been a while....
It has been a few days. I've been down, I'm not sure if I'm just so exhausted I don't feel well or if I'm starting to get the blues. Just a million and one things going on and nothing in the right direction. I'll be fine once I can start walking and I start really exercising again...and we get out of this slump that Duck's pneumonia put us in.
Wed. we are going to pick up Uncle B's pig...guess I better tell dad. Sunshine has been trying to use the potty, but we have been a unsuccessful as far as every time. It will be better when we get our carpet cleaner back, we loaned it to a friend to clean her Jeep. Tue we are going to be in big boy undies. He is really star in to talk a lot more. Smiley has been cooing and very content. I mean, how could he not be. We have had two hour nursing sessions for the past three days. He woke up screaming today like he was hurting...I really think he had a bad dream. It took me a while to calm him down.
The last question I asked was: IF you could suddenly possess an extraordinary talent in one of the arts, what would you like it to be? I would like to be able to play the piano. My dad's wife play/teaches and she is wonderful. She posses such a wonderful amazing talent that she really seems to enjoy. No one can take that from her, she is so good at it.
If you could be instantly fluent in one other language that you currently do not read or speak, which would it be? Well I would love to be more fluent in Spanish, but I already read and speak. I hope that my limited words in French and German don't count. I guess I would like to learn Portuguese.
IF you could have permanent possession of any single object in the world, what would you want it to be? I'm not a materialistic person, I don't believe that I can answer this question...I would like to own a Strativarious Violin, but then again, it is just an object, it can be burnt in a fire or stolen by a thief. I'd rather retain something, like a gift to be able to play the piano or be a good sales person.
If you could have the starring role in one film already made, which movie would you pick? I think I'd like to play Rose in Titanic.
If you could return for one year to one age in your life, knowing what you know now, to relive that year as you wish, which year would you go back to? I think I know, but I'll explain tomorrow.
I need to go now...Sunshine is getting into everything.
Katy
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Saturday February 24, 2007 - 10:49pm (EST) Edit Delete Permanent Link 0 Comments
February 21, 2007 Let the pottying begin...
I have very good new for everyone....are you ready? Are you sure your ready? Okay, sorry I'm just so excited. As you can see by the title...you can guess that Sunshine has actually gone on the potty. YUP...the long awaited event happened bright and early this morning, okay it was 8:15. He woke up completely dry and so Duck put him on the potty and sure enough, he peed. I'm so so so so so so so so so so so happy. Granted some came out the front, but hey it was still pee pee on the potty. We made a huge deal out of it and showed him that he pee peed in the potty.
The Cloth Diaper....
Cloth diaper #1 has flopped. We got the sewing machine up and working and it was a flop. The patter will be great, but I need to learn how to sew in elastic. I will work on #2 just as soon as I pick some up. I have also found the next step of rubbers....on the Internet they are a lot more expensive, but they will last for the 3-9 mo instead of 3-6, so it about comes out right. Now that I know where to get them, I may wait to buy them until I figure out the cloth diaper cover thingy myself.
Taxes....
Today we are going to fill out our taxes. I called the 800 # to the SS office and told them that I just wanted to know if the number was available. They asked me everything under the moon about me and then told me that my name didn't match my SS card. So she acted like that was a problem, and I explained to her that I was in the process of changing it all. She then asked for all Duck's info and gave me the number over the phone. I thought they weren't allowed to do that, but she did, that's fine with me. We are going in at 3. big grins....
Questions:
If you could inherit a comfortable home in any city in the world what you could use but not sell, where would you want it to be? Thinking to my self this sounds like a time share pitch...I would choose Hawaii. They are always happy to see you, that have wonderful mountain, beautiful beaches and a uniqueness that we main landers don't have. yup...and it's warm.
If you could suddenly possess an extraordinary talent in one of the arts, what would you like it to be?
Maybe more later...
Katy