So when i say i've got the urge to spend money, I'm sooo not kidding. We went to the Samko & Miko Toy Warehouse sale. I got a Spider-man patio set, baby bouncy seat, plug in video game, soccor ball, plastic character dishes and a few books for now.
For Christmas i already have 10 gifts now.
Sean: another plug in game, lights/sound car, superman coloring set.
Emily: wall puzzle, 4 books (kim possible & lizzy mcguire), Anne of Green gables hardcover, Birthstone collectable barbie,
Adrienne: Mermaid bath toy, dora puzzle, guess who game.
Me: birthstone barbie
And total spent was $167!
We went to Sam's club afterward and stocked up on food stuff, detergent and drinks. Only one fun thing...National Treasure 2, that's it and the grand total was $225. Somehow mike didn't mind filling up the van, LOL!
They also have a CD player alarm clock on clearance at wal-mart for $39. However, we also have 2 cd players we don't use anyway so i might save myself the money.
Emily made it clear yesterday that she's totally not interested in any toys, except her build a bear.
Wow, writing this down makes me feel insane. Emily's also been asking me when we are going on another girls' shopping spree. Only place left to hit is gymboree......
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Monday, May 26, 2008
The Responsible, Highly Domestic Mamahen
I've bitched for years that I absolutely hate routine and the domestic life and you know what. I find myself making things more routine! How ironic is that! My cleaning is done in a system, on a certain day or by a certain day. Like sheets, i've been changing them on Sunday afternoon now so mike can lug all the laundry down for me. He looks at me like i've gone insane but it needs to get done dammit!
So all the things i've said i'd get done before/when baby is here i'm actually keeping true to my word. This morning i baked my first batch of a dozen muffins. Of course by the time i left for work there was only 5 left so chances are, i still have nothing to give the kids for a snack tomorrow. But i've been doing well. We've cut a good chunk of the crap out of the grocery budget but now i have another thing on the to-do list.
Speaking of lists, i've begun my christmas shopping. How insane~ and someone on the internet says they keep a spreadsheet with all the items, price paid, amount saved etc. OMG why didn't i think of that.
So Emily's list goes something like this:
CD player (2nd big gift)
3 cds, HSM, Hannah Montana, Avril Lavigne
American Girl boxset
American Girl doll (her big gift)
High School Musical 1 + 2
Considering some type of jewellry
Video game (probably for Wiii)
Clothes
She's sooo over toys...
Adrienne:
no idea really, dolls, art stuff, video game, clothes,
already got her a water barbie doll for $4.94
Sean:
car stuff, or anything else with wheels
Baby:
not much
See how equally focussed on the kids i am. Maybe its overcompensating for the fact that i don't get along with Emily very well. That's probably not the right way to put it but she's so introverted whereas the other kids let u know everything they are thinking right then and there!
Not sure if i mentioned in my last post that we are cancelling all vacations this year~~DisneyWorld, Sherkston Beach, anywhere else~~ we're just going to stay local and do day trips to Wonderland, CenterIsland and Zoo after baby is here. Back to that whole responsible thing and to save money. Being a grown-up sucks *Pout**Stamp*LOL!!
So all the things i've said i'd get done before/when baby is here i'm actually keeping true to my word. This morning i baked my first batch of a dozen muffins. Of course by the time i left for work there was only 5 left so chances are, i still have nothing to give the kids for a snack tomorrow. But i've been doing well. We've cut a good chunk of the crap out of the grocery budget but now i have another thing on the to-do list.
Speaking of lists, i've begun my christmas shopping. How insane~ and someone on the internet says they keep a spreadsheet with all the items, price paid, amount saved etc. OMG why didn't i think of that.
So Emily's list goes something like this:
CD player (2nd big gift)
3 cds, HSM, Hannah Montana, Avril Lavigne
American Girl boxset
American Girl doll (her big gift)
High School Musical 1 + 2
Considering some type of jewellry
Video game (probably for Wiii)
Clothes
She's sooo over toys...
Adrienne:
no idea really, dolls, art stuff, video game, clothes,
already got her a water barbie doll for $4.94
Sean:
car stuff, or anything else with wheels
Baby:
not much
See how equally focussed on the kids i am. Maybe its overcompensating for the fact that i don't get along with Emily very well. That's probably not the right way to put it but she's so introverted whereas the other kids let u know everything they are thinking right then and there!
Not sure if i mentioned in my last post that we are cancelling all vacations this year~~DisneyWorld, Sherkston Beach, anywhere else~~ we're just going to stay local and do day trips to Wonderland, CenterIsland and Zoo after baby is here. Back to that whole responsible thing and to save money. Being a grown-up sucks *Pout**Stamp*LOL!!
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Sean update and other domestic ramblings....
Well i really see early retirement in our future not necessarily due to savy investing or winning the lottery but that boy of mine will be a pro-baseball player! Daddy bought him a bat and ball from cleveland--better than using the rolling pin!-- and this kid just goes to town. He's got a great swing and really keeps his eye on the ball. When he says Mummy, catch it you best look up cuz he's pitching at your head!
He's been behaving alot better. I'm avoiding triggers now. All this week i haven't been taking the girls to school. They're proud to walk alone and i can see them from the driveway so its okay. Sean and i do spend more time together whether its baseballing, watching movies or just cuddling. Yesterday we go to fortino's and as soon as we get there he's starting a shit-fit because he wanted to sit in the cart. I'd deliberately taken one that you can't sit in so i wouldn't have to lift him. So i grab a bag of not frozen freezies for him to help with. He helped put everything in the cart and push it and he didn't even go nuts for chocolate. We were in and out in 45 minutes with no freak out!
So we get home and i decide to forgo the van and take Sean and Noelle to pick up Adrienne. Poor Noelle hadn't been out for a walk in weeks so she's trying to gallop ahead of me, too bad for the leash and harness. Surprisingly, Sean listened and went home semi-cooperatively. We were going to bake cookies, banana muffins, and make homemade pizza with chicken wings.
I measure all the cookie ingredients, eat lunch with kids and start my mixing. Not 5 minutes into it my mixer starts smoking and goes Poof! Damn it!! I guess that's what you get when you buy $10 wal-mart appliances! So i move the cookie dough to another dish, get pizza dough started as i walk to wal-mart to get new mixer and pans and Wii-fit. I ready to die by the time we get there and still have to get everything and walk back. i took the stroller b/c i didn't want to chance sean freaking in the electronics section....drag fat preggo ass home and then start baking, cooking and doing dishes. Thought my feet, back, and gut would fall off....But i now own 10 different baking pans, LOL! Mike said i'm a totally dork and the simplest things make me happy. It's true. Right now i'm working on baby's Christmas stocking and am giving myself 9 weeks until i'm done work to finish it.
He's been behaving alot better. I'm avoiding triggers now. All this week i haven't been taking the girls to school. They're proud to walk alone and i can see them from the driveway so its okay. Sean and i do spend more time together whether its baseballing, watching movies or just cuddling. Yesterday we go to fortino's and as soon as we get there he's starting a shit-fit because he wanted to sit in the cart. I'd deliberately taken one that you can't sit in so i wouldn't have to lift him. So i grab a bag of not frozen freezies for him to help with. He helped put everything in the cart and push it and he didn't even go nuts for chocolate. We were in and out in 45 minutes with no freak out!
So we get home and i decide to forgo the van and take Sean and Noelle to pick up Adrienne. Poor Noelle hadn't been out for a walk in weeks so she's trying to gallop ahead of me, too bad for the leash and harness. Surprisingly, Sean listened and went home semi-cooperatively. We were going to bake cookies, banana muffins, and make homemade pizza with chicken wings.
I measure all the cookie ingredients, eat lunch with kids and start my mixing. Not 5 minutes into it my mixer starts smoking and goes Poof! Damn it!! I guess that's what you get when you buy $10 wal-mart appliances! So i move the cookie dough to another dish, get pizza dough started as i walk to wal-mart to get new mixer and pans and Wii-fit. I ready to die by the time we get there and still have to get everything and walk back. i took the stroller b/c i didn't want to chance sean freaking in the electronics section....drag fat preggo ass home and then start baking, cooking and doing dishes. Thought my feet, back, and gut would fall off....But i now own 10 different baking pans, LOL! Mike said i'm a totally dork and the simplest things make me happy. It's true. Right now i'm working on baby's Christmas stocking and am giving myself 9 weeks until i'm done work to finish it.
Call me Flamingo--B-day continued...
So i get home from work to a spotlessly clean house and shampooed carpets. I'm in domestic heaven!! Kim pops over at 5:30 to watch the kids and we are out the door like bats out of hell for out bi-yearly night out without children.
We get to Mandarin and bi-pass the oodles of hungry people waiting for a table without a reservation and got right to eat. Its all you can eat crab night and mike's just pigging out, me and baby are all over the place. Mike keeps telling me that we'll stay out til exactly 8pm cuz its so few and far between that we get away from kids (hint flew over the cuckoo nest, LOL). Eating continues, many trips to the buffet, he goes to the bathroom and falls in (didn't notice, figured he's making room for more crab). We get to the car, caution to the wind i'm having my birthday cigarette but i sit in the car, he stands behind it (I think nothing of it!). Since we still have time we go look at houses in Peel Villiage--yeah right there's no immigrants there!
Finally we get home. I walk in the door and everyone screams "SURPRISE!!!!" hOLY cRAP!! I had no idea! I seriously believed the party was cancelled because of the long weekend! It was so sweet and the kids were so excited cuz they really surprised me and they did a fabulous job of decorating the house.
So we spent the evening chatting and chilling out. Oh and Noelle got drunk. Too funny, people kept giving her beer and the stupid dog didn't want to go to sleep with sean as she normally does she kept going right down to her beer pimp til she walked into the patio table!
All in all it was a great night and i had a fabulous 30th birthday--i'll ignore the fact that now i'm old!
We get to Mandarin and bi-pass the oodles of hungry people waiting for a table without a reservation and got right to eat. Its all you can eat crab night and mike's just pigging out, me and baby are all over the place. Mike keeps telling me that we'll stay out til exactly 8pm cuz its so few and far between that we get away from kids (hint flew over the cuckoo nest, LOL). Eating continues, many trips to the buffet, he goes to the bathroom and falls in (didn't notice, figured he's making room for more crab). We get to the car, caution to the wind i'm having my birthday cigarette but i sit in the car, he stands behind it (I think nothing of it!). Since we still have time we go look at houses in Peel Villiage--yeah right there's no immigrants there!
Finally we get home. I walk in the door and everyone screams "SURPRISE!!!!" hOLY cRAP!! I had no idea! I seriously believed the party was cancelled because of the long weekend! It was so sweet and the kids were so excited cuz they really surprised me and they did a fabulous job of decorating the house.
So we spent the evening chatting and chilling out. Oh and Noelle got drunk. Too funny, people kept giving her beer and the stupid dog didn't want to go to sleep with sean as she normally does she kept going right down to her beer pimp til she walked into the patio table!
All in all it was a great night and i had a fabulous 30th birthday--i'll ignore the fact that now i'm old!
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Happy Birthday to Me!
So now i'm officially old"er" the big 3-0. Scary but not that scary since i feel 40 with 3.5 kids, 4.5 if you count the husband, dog, mortgage and other domestic crap. So what did i do??
What anywoman would do...go shopping...AT Wal-Mart, LOL! Sad huh?? Dying to know what exciting thing i purchase...well i bought meself a waffleiron, recipe book, bake pan, new sandle for the girls and running shoes for E, and a new purse to replace the one the dog ruined, oh and of course food for the mutt! Then i went to chapters and got the book "the explosive child" (see next post), and "Goodnight moon" for sean/adrienne.
I came home to sean screaming like a lunatic all the way home but when i got there, my Chapters order had been left on the porch....American Girls, Kirsten, and Teach your Child to Read in 100 easy lessons. See, all the cool stuff i bought myself, LOL!
So i nap, and cook, and bake (this was the day before my birthday). The day of my birthday, i cook, and do laundry, and cook more, and clean the coke leaking out of the freezer because a can exploded (thanks honey!), and take out the massive amount of trash that i find the day after garbage day. So i'm thinking dinner will be early. Right, Mike's worse than a woman by the time everything was done it was too late to go out. He thinks i'm insane because its only 6:30pm but everything takes forever when you try to get 5 people out the door.
He did get me 30 red roses and we are going out for dinner today, without the children!!
What anywoman would do...go shopping...AT Wal-Mart, LOL! Sad huh?? Dying to know what exciting thing i purchase...well i bought meself a waffleiron, recipe book, bake pan, new sandle for the girls and running shoes for E, and a new purse to replace the one the dog ruined, oh and of course food for the mutt! Then i went to chapters and got the book "the explosive child" (see next post), and "Goodnight moon" for sean/adrienne.
I came home to sean screaming like a lunatic all the way home but when i got there, my Chapters order had been left on the porch....American Girls, Kirsten, and Teach your Child to Read in 100 easy lessons. See, all the cool stuff i bought myself, LOL!
So i nap, and cook, and bake (this was the day before my birthday). The day of my birthday, i cook, and do laundry, and cook more, and clean the coke leaking out of the freezer because a can exploded (thanks honey!), and take out the massive amount of trash that i find the day after garbage day. So i'm thinking dinner will be early. Right, Mike's worse than a woman by the time everything was done it was too late to go out. He thinks i'm insane because its only 6:30pm but everything takes forever when you try to get 5 people out the door.
He did get me 30 red roses and we are going out for dinner today, without the children!!
Sean's Behavioral Issues
Tuesday must have been one of the most horrible mornings of my life with this kid. First he wanted to go to the park, then we took the long way down the path from the other school and then the little shit decided he wanted to go to wal-mart. No matter what i said or did he wouldn't budge. HE was screaming, i was yelling at him, some fucker in the school was yelling something probably at me and at that point i was hoping they'd call children's aid cuz i was ready to leave Sean on the side of the road and just go home.
I'm so sick to death of him acting psychotic, of the fucking stares and people shaking their heads like they've never seen a screaming/tantruming kid. I'm sick of the 10 minute round trip walk taking 25 minutes (on a good day) to 1 hour (like tuesday).
Funny, i saw Diane (the lady that lives down the street) on Friday and she was like OMG are you pregnant?!?!?!? No wonder you didn't just lift him and carry him home the other day. No shit but thanks at least i'm still skinny, LOL!
Anyway i spent the entire day just pissed off and stressed out---things continued with Sean and later the other kids. And the fucking dog ate Adrienne's new sandles (and Emily's sandles, and my dress shoes, and my purse).
So i'm seriously considering having Sean evaluated by a behavioral psychologist. Mike suggested it, diane asked about, so did everyone else that has come into contact with Sean lately or heard the stories.
I'm torn though. I want him to be normal but i'm just terrified of them attaching some label to him or wanting to medicate. i just don't know how to deal with him to make things better (more often). Some days he's great and reasonable but others he flies off the handle so easily that its frightening to watch especially when he is hitting, biting or kicking.
I'm reading a book, "The Explosive Child" by Ross W. Greene and it really reiterates that conventional discipline will not work with a child like Sean and sticking to it won't make things better just more frustrating for him and us.
Karin says the same thing, is it just an age/personality thing (ie. stubborn/strong-willed), partly due to the speech issues or is it really a behavioral/psychological issue. I don't know, i guess it won't hurt to have him evaluated especially since its done thru ErinOak, the speech place. I'm terrified of what he'll be like when the baby is born and I hope that he can grow out of this phase before he starts school.
I'm so sick to death of him acting psychotic, of the fucking stares and people shaking their heads like they've never seen a screaming/tantruming kid. I'm sick of the 10 minute round trip walk taking 25 minutes (on a good day) to 1 hour (like tuesday).
Funny, i saw Diane (the lady that lives down the street) on Friday and she was like OMG are you pregnant?!?!?!? No wonder you didn't just lift him and carry him home the other day. No shit but thanks at least i'm still skinny, LOL!
Anyway i spent the entire day just pissed off and stressed out---things continued with Sean and later the other kids. And the fucking dog ate Adrienne's new sandles (and Emily's sandles, and my dress shoes, and my purse).
So i'm seriously considering having Sean evaluated by a behavioral psychologist. Mike suggested it, diane asked about, so did everyone else that has come into contact with Sean lately or heard the stories.
I'm torn though. I want him to be normal but i'm just terrified of them attaching some label to him or wanting to medicate. i just don't know how to deal with him to make things better (more often). Some days he's great and reasonable but others he flies off the handle so easily that its frightening to watch especially when he is hitting, biting or kicking.
I'm reading a book, "The Explosive Child" by Ross W. Greene and it really reiterates that conventional discipline will not work with a child like Sean and sticking to it won't make things better just more frustrating for him and us.
Karin says the same thing, is it just an age/personality thing (ie. stubborn/strong-willed), partly due to the speech issues or is it really a behavioral/psychological issue. I don't know, i guess it won't hurt to have him evaluated especially since its done thru ErinOak, the speech place. I'm terrified of what he'll be like when the baby is born and I hope that he can grow out of this phase before he starts school.
Mother's Day
What a horrible day that turned out to be. I went to bed early and mike actually slept in Sean's room to keep him quiet. I got close to 10 hours sleep before having to go to work at 5:30am. So i'm feeling pretty good, the hotel was dead so i started sewing at 10am and sewing....Get home for 3:30 knowing that Mike will be leaving for his business trip to Cleveland.
I get home to see him scrubbing the potty in the kitchen sink! No it wasn't ever used to poo or pee in, actually is just an expensive stepping stool that plays music, no Mike decided to go take a nap (sick) and left Sean to his own devices in the living room. Sean got a full bottle of Vim and poured some on the xbox...potty...adrienne's shoes....bird cage...dog cage...dog...carpet and on various books... So mike cleans the xbox and potty and leave the rest..along with all their dishes (still with food) on the kitchen table, table also covered with newspapers, counters cluttered with recyclables, all garbages overflowing. So he packs up and leaves. BTW, he didn't put Sean down for a nap and the kid passed out cold in our bed. So what did i do...CLEAN everything... I was so pissed! He did buy mother's day cards for me but didn't sign them til Wed. after his trip.
Crap i'm not expecting gifts, i've given up on sleeping in, the least he can do is ensure the house is clean one fucking day of the year!!
But emily made me a tissue paper flower in a clay pot and adrienne made a butterfly that unfortunately the dog got to before i did! The girls spent the weekend at my moms so the gifts were given on Friday...after Adrienne ruined Emily's surprise!
I get home to see him scrubbing the potty in the kitchen sink! No it wasn't ever used to poo or pee in, actually is just an expensive stepping stool that plays music, no Mike decided to go take a nap (sick) and left Sean to his own devices in the living room. Sean got a full bottle of Vim and poured some on the xbox...potty...adrienne's shoes....bird cage...dog cage...dog...carpet and on various books... So mike cleans the xbox and potty and leave the rest..along with all their dishes (still with food) on the kitchen table, table also covered with newspapers, counters cluttered with recyclables, all garbages overflowing. So he packs up and leaves. BTW, he didn't put Sean down for a nap and the kid passed out cold in our bed. So what did i do...CLEAN everything... I was so pissed! He did buy mother's day cards for me but didn't sign them til Wed. after his trip.
Crap i'm not expecting gifts, i've given up on sleeping in, the least he can do is ensure the house is clean one fucking day of the year!!
But emily made me a tissue paper flower in a clay pot and adrienne made a butterfly that unfortunately the dog got to before i did! The girls spent the weekend at my moms so the gifts were given on Friday...after Adrienne ruined Emily's surprise!
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