Well, I survived spring break.....didn't think i'd do it. It was an insane week lol. I spent all day Saturday shampooing my upstairs carpets, I find with the animals I have to do that about once a week. It helps keep the smell to a minimum. Then Sunday I did the downstairs, the couches and carpet. They're finally starting to look as good as it did before my surgery. So, last night, I go upstairs to do the bath, storytime and bedtime thing with the kids, and discover that my carpets are a mess again because of the dogs (we're dogsitting til like Thursday). I sat down, right there on Lana's bedroom floor and started crying. I just felt like "what's the point of all this work?" I work all day everyday trying to keep this place clean and suitable for kids.
Anyway, Tom comes upstairs and asks me what was wrong, he thought I overdid it and was in alot of pain. I just looked at him and said "that's it! all the animals are going! I can't take it anymore!" He looked at me with wide eyes, turned around and went back downstairs. After I calmed down and came back downstairs he looked at me and said "You're not really gonna make me get rid of Mea are you?" Of course I'm not gonna make him get rid of Mea. I'm as attached to that dog as he is. It's just frustrating is all. I am trying to talk him into keeping just the dog and one cat and getting rid of the rest. That would make my life SO much easier. He doesn't seem opposed to the idea and we've agreed on one cat, Ewok, she hates people anyway. The other one I wanna get rid of, Spaz, is the mama cat to Garfield and Ewok. She's gonna be harder to convince him, and I don't want to get rid of her either but it's either her or Garfield and there's no way in hell he's gonna part with Garfield, or Mea. I wouldn't ask him to part with Mea, she's too sweet of a dog to see go anywhere else.
As far as the housing situation goes, there's not much of a change there. We're still going to try to stay here. It's more affordable with our scarce funds right now. And we just tried again to enroll his father in DEERS, we figure it should go through this time because his unemployment checks stopped so he has no income. From my understanding, if we can get his father in DEERS, he'll be a dependant of Tom's and then the military can't say anything about him being here. So, fingers crossed that my family FINALLY gets a break. We could certainly use it.
I'd post more but i have alot to do today, no cleaning, just some research that needs to be done for certain things. So I'm going to get to it. Enjoy your day!
Louise
Monday, April 19, 2010
Friday, April 16, 2010
FRIDAY!!!!
Two more days until it's back to school. Thank god! My kids have been driving me nuts all week lol. They were fighting and whining and into EVERYTHING! I'll be glad when Monday comes and I get a few hours of peace and quiet.
Just a quick thought. On another blogging type site that I'm part of yesterday someone made a judgmental comment to one of my friends about something major that she's going through. In her defense one of my other friends posted a blog about how you should really think before you say or do something to somebody else. It REALLY had me thinking, all day and most of the night really, about why people feel the need to judge others before they know crap about them or they're entire situation. I've had it happen to me over a year ago and I'm still trying to put my life back together from the damage this person caused.
When Tom deployed, I didn't handle it very well at all. It wasn't just that they deployed him on our anniversary, or the day before Lana's birthday, it was that he wasnt HERE. It was a major shock to me. He had been gone before so I thought I'd be used to it. I was no where near prepared for what it was really like to have the man I married, the man I pledged my life too, not sharing a bed with me for a whole year. I literally shut down. I didn't clean, barley did anything with my kids. I just went through the motions to make sure they're most basic needs were met. I had trouble sleeping at night, so I didn't do much of that, which means when I did sleep I overslept so Lana missed a ton of school. I found out much later that this was caused by a form of depression that causes me to shut down and give up when I get overwhelmed, but I didn't know that at the time.
One of my neighbors (I'll never really know who), took it upon themselves to report me to DSS (Social Services) for neglecting my children. The following year was absolute hell for my family and myself. I came very close to losing my children. I had to have a psych evaluation (which is how we found out about the depression), Lana even had to have one! We found out she has Generalized Anxiety Disorder with features of depression, at 6! The therapist said it was partly caused by my not being able to support her and be there for her the way I should've been. They ended up sending Tom home from Iraq 2 months early. Of course he was furious with me for screwing up so badly and I don't blame him. It came very close to ending my marriage. We ended up in court where I had to admit everything publically and it's now on public record until Connor is 18. I still have DSS checking up on me once a month. Which is alot of the reason I'm so crazy about my housework.
Tom was told by his command, that because of this, we had to move a family member in to help out. So we moved his father in, I wasn't thrilled about this decision but I knew it was neccessary to fix what I had broken. Apparently there was some request form we were supposed to fill out with the military to approve this "guest" that we didn't know about so we didn't do it. Well again, one of my neighbors (probably the same one...who knows) reported us to the housing department for having an "unauthorized guest". So now we have them on our back trying to evict us.
If this person whoever turned me in, had just come and checked on me, offered to help rather than taking it upon themselves to judge me....NONE of this would've happened. We wouldn't have eviction swinging over our heads, I wouldn't have DSS knocking on my door once a month, and my marriage wouldn't have been in shambles, leaving me unsure as to whether or not it could be saved. And most importantly I wouldn't be constantly paranoid and afraid that someone was going to walk in here and take my children from me every second of every day. All of this because ONE person decided to judge me before they really knew me or my situation. So please, please, PLEASE be careful when you judge another person, there could be ALOT more going on than you really know. I try really hard not to judge other people before I know them, but even I admit I'm guilty of it from time to time. Fact of life I guess......
There's SO much more I could write on that topic and what's happened to me. But remembering what I went through is making me tear up now. To think that people out there are so cruel and heartless that they feel the need to try to ruin someone else's life just because they don't like them for whatever reason........Anyway, I'm changing the subject.
Last night, Tom had Staff Duty. Basically all he does is goes and sits at a desk and waits for the phone to ring all night. Anyway he comes home last night for dinner break and hands me a paper from the housing people that own our house thingy....for once it was good news! The contract that the place we live at now with the military ends in September and all these houses are going to turn into private rentals. We were waiting to see what the new rent was goin to be before we decided if we were going to move or not ( before all this housing crap started). Well, we got that letter yesterday. The rent is not going to change and the new landlord will continue to pay all utilities. This means that if we stay here, absolutly nothing will change. So Tom and I spent his hour dinner break talking about our options. And I think we've decided that we're going to TRY to hold the military housing off until the contract ends in September and we can sign the new lease October 1st. If we can do that, we'll put his dad on the lease and we'll be covered. And free of all this beaurocratic military bullshit we're going through now. Please guys, please pray that for once, this works out the way we want it to. I don't know how many more blows I can take. These brick walls are really starting to hurt.
That's all for today, enjoy your weekend!
Louise
Just a quick thought. On another blogging type site that I'm part of yesterday someone made a judgmental comment to one of my friends about something major that she's going through. In her defense one of my other friends posted a blog about how you should really think before you say or do something to somebody else. It REALLY had me thinking, all day and most of the night really, about why people feel the need to judge others before they know crap about them or they're entire situation. I've had it happen to me over a year ago and I'm still trying to put my life back together from the damage this person caused.
When Tom deployed, I didn't handle it very well at all. It wasn't just that they deployed him on our anniversary, or the day before Lana's birthday, it was that he wasnt HERE. It was a major shock to me. He had been gone before so I thought I'd be used to it. I was no where near prepared for what it was really like to have the man I married, the man I pledged my life too, not sharing a bed with me for a whole year. I literally shut down. I didn't clean, barley did anything with my kids. I just went through the motions to make sure they're most basic needs were met. I had trouble sleeping at night, so I didn't do much of that, which means when I did sleep I overslept so Lana missed a ton of school. I found out much later that this was caused by a form of depression that causes me to shut down and give up when I get overwhelmed, but I didn't know that at the time.
One of my neighbors (I'll never really know who), took it upon themselves to report me to DSS (Social Services) for neglecting my children. The following year was absolute hell for my family and myself. I came very close to losing my children. I had to have a psych evaluation (which is how we found out about the depression), Lana even had to have one! We found out she has Generalized Anxiety Disorder with features of depression, at 6! The therapist said it was partly caused by my not being able to support her and be there for her the way I should've been. They ended up sending Tom home from Iraq 2 months early. Of course he was furious with me for screwing up so badly and I don't blame him. It came very close to ending my marriage. We ended up in court where I had to admit everything publically and it's now on public record until Connor is 18. I still have DSS checking up on me once a month. Which is alot of the reason I'm so crazy about my housework.
Tom was told by his command, that because of this, we had to move a family member in to help out. So we moved his father in, I wasn't thrilled about this decision but I knew it was neccessary to fix what I had broken. Apparently there was some request form we were supposed to fill out with the military to approve this "guest" that we didn't know about so we didn't do it. Well again, one of my neighbors (probably the same one...who knows) reported us to the housing department for having an "unauthorized guest". So now we have them on our back trying to evict us.
If this person whoever turned me in, had just come and checked on me, offered to help rather than taking it upon themselves to judge me....NONE of this would've happened. We wouldn't have eviction swinging over our heads, I wouldn't have DSS knocking on my door once a month, and my marriage wouldn't have been in shambles, leaving me unsure as to whether or not it could be saved. And most importantly I wouldn't be constantly paranoid and afraid that someone was going to walk in here and take my children from me every second of every day. All of this because ONE person decided to judge me before they really knew me or my situation. So please, please, PLEASE be careful when you judge another person, there could be ALOT more going on than you really know. I try really hard not to judge other people before I know them, but even I admit I'm guilty of it from time to time. Fact of life I guess......
There's SO much more I could write on that topic and what's happened to me. But remembering what I went through is making me tear up now. To think that people out there are so cruel and heartless that they feel the need to try to ruin someone else's life just because they don't like them for whatever reason........Anyway, I'm changing the subject.
Last night, Tom had Staff Duty. Basically all he does is goes and sits at a desk and waits for the phone to ring all night. Anyway he comes home last night for dinner break and hands me a paper from the housing people that own our house thingy....for once it was good news! The contract that the place we live at now with the military ends in September and all these houses are going to turn into private rentals. We were waiting to see what the new rent was goin to be before we decided if we were going to move or not ( before all this housing crap started). Well, we got that letter yesterday. The rent is not going to change and the new landlord will continue to pay all utilities. This means that if we stay here, absolutly nothing will change. So Tom and I spent his hour dinner break talking about our options. And I think we've decided that we're going to TRY to hold the military housing off until the contract ends in September and we can sign the new lease October 1st. If we can do that, we'll put his dad on the lease and we'll be covered. And free of all this beaurocratic military bullshit we're going through now. Please guys, please pray that for once, this works out the way we want it to. I don't know how many more blows I can take. These brick walls are really starting to hurt.
That's all for today, enjoy your weekend!
Louise
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
It's Wednesday
Yep, it's Hump day again! My kids have been on vacation all week and I'm half gray already lol. They go back on Monday thank god they are driving me insane! Lana has this friend at school, and her mother sent a note home with her phone number to set up a playdate. Lana drives me nuts everyday wantin to go over to this little girls house. So I try to call this girls mother and she won't return my call. How rude!
I went to the dr last week. It was my post op appointment after my surgery. He told me that the pain I was feeling was normal. He said the stones were bigger than he thought they were originally so he had to make a bigger incision on the inside. He told me to start easing back into my normal routine. So last weekend I shampooed my entire house from top to bottom lol.
Alot of you know that I like to play with pictures. Well, I've gotten so good that I'm doing my kids school pictures myself to save a few bucks, as you know we REALLY need the money. Lana's school does pictures twice a year. So I did they're fall pictures in October, and yesterday I took they're spring pictures. I have to say this round of pictures came out SO much better than the last round! I'll post them at the bottom of this post.
It's been a month since we lost Ma. I can't beleive it. It feels like she just called me the other day. It's starting to hit Tom too, I mentioned this lilac air freshener we have, Lilac was Ma's favorite scent. He got emotional, I found him in the hallway crying. It broke my heart but I knew he needed it. He hasn't cried since she died.
The army figured out they've been overpaying Tom. He was getting deployment pay up until about 2 months ago. So now they're taking so much out of his check each month until it's paid back. This is NOT the time for them to do this, but there's not much we can do about it. I've been talking to Tom about me going back to work, but right now there's no way I can. I'm sure we'll figure it out, we always do.
Short one I know, but i couldn't think of what to write lol there hasn't really been much goin on. Until next time guys!
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Good Morning!
Good morning world! It's Thursday, one day closer to Friday! Not that it matters to me I don't work outside the home lol. Lana's school has a half day today and tomorrow then she's off all next week. I kept her out today because I have a doctors appointment this morning and I'll have no one here to get her off the bus, of course Tom couldn't get time off so when he comes home for morning break my father in law is going to have to take him back so he can have the car to drive me to the doctor. It's so frustrating not having a license. I keep asking Tom to take me to the DMV so I can find out what I gotta do to get my license back, but he keeps saying he's too busy at work. Oh well, I'll get there someday. I already know they're going to want a ton of money that I don't have right now anyway.
As far as my surgery, I think I'm healing ok. I was havin some bad pain yesterday, the small area around my belly button felt like I had just had my surgery like 3 days ago instead of 2 weeks ago. And ever since my surgery I've been having pains in my side. At least I go to the doctor today so I can find out if this stuff is normal. It could be me exaggerating things a little. It's no secret that I have a pretty low pain threshold. My mother was relieved that my kids were born C-section, she said I couldn't handle being in labor for hours LOL. She's probably right, I complain about every little thing that hurts.
I met Lana's "boyfriend" yesterday lol. I had to pick her up from school because she had an appointment with her therapist. So we're walking down the hallway and she's introducing me to all of her classmates. We walk past this little boy and she says "by the way Mommy, this is Matthew." He looks up at me and says "I have a Spiderman umbrella." LOL!
Last night, I made the very hard decision to sell my Ipod Touch. Now everyone who knows me knows I love this thing. I've wanted one since they came out and Tom got it for me for Christmas. But, we definatly need the extra money right now and my phone does the exact same thing with a bigger memory. I made a deal with Ej, my brother, and he's gonna buy it as a "loan with collateral" as he put it. If I ever want it back I just gotta give him the money back. I feel a little bit better knowing it's going to family but still upsetting when you have to do something like that. I really wish we could hit the lottery but I know there's as much chance of that as there is of me becomming the Queen of England LOL!
Well that's all for today, I'm out of coffee and cigarettes so I can't be creative lol. Everyone enjoy your day!
Louise
As far as my surgery, I think I'm healing ok. I was havin some bad pain yesterday, the small area around my belly button felt like I had just had my surgery like 3 days ago instead of 2 weeks ago. And ever since my surgery I've been having pains in my side. At least I go to the doctor today so I can find out if this stuff is normal. It could be me exaggerating things a little. It's no secret that I have a pretty low pain threshold. My mother was relieved that my kids were born C-section, she said I couldn't handle being in labor for hours LOL. She's probably right, I complain about every little thing that hurts.
I met Lana's "boyfriend" yesterday lol. I had to pick her up from school because she had an appointment with her therapist. So we're walking down the hallway and she's introducing me to all of her classmates. We walk past this little boy and she says "by the way Mommy, this is Matthew." He looks up at me and says "I have a Spiderman umbrella." LOL!
Last night, I made the very hard decision to sell my Ipod Touch. Now everyone who knows me knows I love this thing. I've wanted one since they came out and Tom got it for me for Christmas. But, we definatly need the extra money right now and my phone does the exact same thing with a bigger memory. I made a deal with Ej, my brother, and he's gonna buy it as a "loan with collateral" as he put it. If I ever want it back I just gotta give him the money back. I feel a little bit better knowing it's going to family but still upsetting when you have to do something like that. I really wish we could hit the lottery but I know there's as much chance of that as there is of me becomming the Queen of England LOL!
Well that's all for today, I'm out of coffee and cigarettes so I can't be creative lol. Everyone enjoy your day!
Louise
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Clarifying things
Ok so I talked to one of my friends yesterday who informed me that she's been reading my blogs. YAY! At least I know I'm not talking to myself lol. Anyway she mentioned something to me that really got me to thinking, and I'd like to take today's post to clarify some things.
She had said that my blogs sounded like I'm miserable with Tom. And while yes, we do have ALOT of problems, probably more than any one person should put up with. That's not completly the case. No, I'm not exactly happy with my situation, I wish he would listen to my opinions more and consider my feelings when making decisions more yes. However, I do still love him with everything that I am, and I do feel that while he has his faults, he still loves me and wants to care for me. I hate that he makes decisions without consulting me, I hate that he doesnt seem to consider my feelings in things. However, at the same time, he does do alot to make sure I'm happy and content.
For starters, that movie I mentioned that he got for me. We didn't exactly have the money for it, we're still trying to play catch up from our unexpected trip home. But he still got it for me because he knew I wanted it. I've been on this sweet kick latley, always craving something sweet. Well last night was no different. So I go out to the kitchen to get a bowl of cereal. He asks me not to so we can save the milk for the kids. I get frustrated, put the cereal back and walk into the living room to start reading my book again. A few minutes later, he comes in and places a bowl of oatmeal in front of me that he put chocolate kisses, brown sugar, and french vanilla creamer in. A small gesture but still sweet.
I may complain about him alot, but what couple doesnt have issues? However, this friend also knows alot more about my marriage than I'd ever dare to put in my blog. So she may be speaking out of experience but I want you all to know, just because I'm not exactly happy, doesn't mean I don't love him and want to stay. I may keep my mouth shut to him about alot of stuff that bothers me, that's because I don't want to fight again. And I know I shouldn't do that, but alot of our problems I don't want to discuss in front of his father and he's ALWAYS here.
His father is alot of our problems. He doesn't like me, I don't like him. And it's not that either one of us has done anything new wrong, I think it's just leftover resentment from North Carolina. I don't think we'll ever get over it and be able to truly like each other again. But we have learned to tolerate each other and at least be civil. Am I thrilled that he's living here? No. Did I want him to move in in the first place? Hell no! But at the time, I didn't have a choice and alot of you reading this know why. Someday I'll tell you the story....but not today. Either way, he's here, I can't change that and right now I don't want to. Tom just lost his mother, I'm not about to take his father away too. Right now he needs him.
So, when your reading my blogs and I'm complaining about Tom, something I'd like you to think about while your reading. I may not have the happiest marriage in the world, but it's not the unhappiest either. It works for us, which is probably why I'll never leave, and neither will he.
Get out and enjoy the sunshine!
Louise
She had said that my blogs sounded like I'm miserable with Tom. And while yes, we do have ALOT of problems, probably more than any one person should put up with. That's not completly the case. No, I'm not exactly happy with my situation, I wish he would listen to my opinions more and consider my feelings when making decisions more yes. However, I do still love him with everything that I am, and I do feel that while he has his faults, he still loves me and wants to care for me. I hate that he makes decisions without consulting me, I hate that he doesnt seem to consider my feelings in things. However, at the same time, he does do alot to make sure I'm happy and content.
For starters, that movie I mentioned that he got for me. We didn't exactly have the money for it, we're still trying to play catch up from our unexpected trip home. But he still got it for me because he knew I wanted it. I've been on this sweet kick latley, always craving something sweet. Well last night was no different. So I go out to the kitchen to get a bowl of cereal. He asks me not to so we can save the milk for the kids. I get frustrated, put the cereal back and walk into the living room to start reading my book again. A few minutes later, he comes in and places a bowl of oatmeal in front of me that he put chocolate kisses, brown sugar, and french vanilla creamer in. A small gesture but still sweet.
I may complain about him alot, but what couple doesnt have issues? However, this friend also knows alot more about my marriage than I'd ever dare to put in my blog. So she may be speaking out of experience but I want you all to know, just because I'm not exactly happy, doesn't mean I don't love him and want to stay. I may keep my mouth shut to him about alot of stuff that bothers me, that's because I don't want to fight again. And I know I shouldn't do that, but alot of our problems I don't want to discuss in front of his father and he's ALWAYS here.
His father is alot of our problems. He doesn't like me, I don't like him. And it's not that either one of us has done anything new wrong, I think it's just leftover resentment from North Carolina. I don't think we'll ever get over it and be able to truly like each other again. But we have learned to tolerate each other and at least be civil. Am I thrilled that he's living here? No. Did I want him to move in in the first place? Hell no! But at the time, I didn't have a choice and alot of you reading this know why. Someday I'll tell you the story....but not today. Either way, he's here, I can't change that and right now I don't want to. Tom just lost his mother, I'm not about to take his father away too. Right now he needs him.
So, when your reading my blogs and I'm complaining about Tom, something I'd like you to think about while your reading. I may not have the happiest marriage in the world, but it's not the unhappiest either. It works for us, which is probably why I'll never leave, and neither will he.
Get out and enjoy the sunshine!
Louise
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Back!!!!
Yep, I was gone for a few days...Easter weekend and everything. Hope everyones holiday was safe and happy.
Nothing overly eventful happened over the weekend. We went to an Easter Egg hunt at my friends house the kids had a BLAST. So, we get down to my friends house, the kids had they're baskets all ready. First we had cookie and cupcake decorating. That was so much fun lol. Connor ended up COVERED in 
green icing. 
green icing. 
Then we went outside for the egg hunt. Lana was more wrapped up in playing with her best friend, and Connor kept giving his eggs away lol. But at least they had fun. I couldn't stay as long as I wanted to though. Unfortunatly, my side started to hurt and I had to come home and rest. Since my surgery I've been having these pains in my side, like my lower side in the back. It gets worse if I overdo it. I'm trying to avoid calling the dr I have an appointment on Thursday morning anyway.
In case you guys don't know, Tom and I are extremly into wrestling. It's sort of a ritual of ours that we watch it every Monday night. Well, last night we were watching wrestling when he all of a sudden gets up and hands me his cell phone. Of course I asked why, I have a perfectly good cell phone. He then tells me that our friends are going to be calling to give him an answer about dog sitting they're dog for 2 weeks. Said he talked to them about it earlier that afternoon......yet he forgot to mention it to me. So now we're dog sitting a little chiuahua with a heart murmer for the next two weeks. On top of our dog and 3 cats. Plus the 2 kids and 2 men I have to clean up after when I'm still supposed to be taking it easy.
Luckily, the dog is very sweet and well behaved. He wants to keep the dog when our friends are shipped to Germany for 3 years! As of right now, I'm saying no because we still have to move. But I'm sure when the time comes, we're going to end up with an extra dog. He never really pays too much attention to my opinions....at least that's how it feels most times. Maybe when I go to North Carolina I won't come back. I say that alot, but I probably won't follow through with it. I never do.
So now, I'm off to do my housework. I'll probably end up doing way more than I'm supposed to, but it has to be done, I don't have much of a choice. I'm tired of my house looking like a tornado went through it. Til next time enjoy your day!
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Yesterday......(so funny!)
I know I promised yesterday I'd tell more funny stories today...and that's exactly what I'm going to do so listen up!
As you guys know, my daughter Lana, is 6 years old. And she comes out with things that I just can't help but laugh at. Yesterday was no exception. She comes home from school and we're doing the usual afternoon routines, getting her snack going through her bookbag, you parents know the drill. She then looks at me and says "Mommy, I have something to show you. I know you hate pink but look at it anyway." I giggle as she pulls this tube of pink lip gloss that one of her classmates had given her, puts some on her finger and wipes it all over my face and says "Mommy! You look beautiful!" I actually looked like a clown but hey, the things we do to make our kids laugh right? Then she says "Do you know who I love?" I said "Mommy?" she says "No, Matthew, and he's gonna be my boyfriend forever and we're going to get married." At this point I'm struggling to keep a straight face while talkin on Skype with Sue (my best friend in Pennsylvania). I say "Married huh? Well, congratulations." A few minutes later she comes back and puts her hands on her hips lookin like a little diva and says, "Mommy, where's your wedding dress?" I said "It's in the closet in the front room." She looks at me with a very serious face and says "Well, get it for me! I'm getting married you know!" I couldn't help it, I lost it laughing hysterically. She then tells me that she wants me to be the flower girl and Sue to be the minister. So Sue, if your reading this....I can't wait to hear what your going to say at the ceremony! LOL.
My son Connor then comes up to me and informs me that Lana is getting married because he wants spaghetti and meatballs for dinner, what one has to do with the other I'll never know...but it works for them I guess lol. A little while later, I'm cookin dinner (Spaghetti cuz that's what Connor wanted lol), when Tom comes home. The kids do they're usual rushing down the hallway to meet Daddy (I think that's his favorite part of the day). And Lana pipes up with "Daddy guess what! I'm getting married!" He dropped his pack, looked at Lana and said "I want his name, address and phone number so I can talk to him." She said "No Daddy, you can't hurt him I love him." LMAO!
Speaking of Daddy, Tom did the most amazing thing for me yesterday! I'm really into the Twilight series, as millions of people are. And I've been telling Tom forever that when New Moon came out on DVD I wanted it just for the special features. He kept telling me that it was pointless to buy the DVD since I already had the movie on my computer and I've seen it 3 or 4 times (I even got him to sit and watch it with me once which is amazing because he hates how vampires are protrayed in the series). But I still wanted it. Well yesterday, he comes home for lunch (something he almost never does), and hands me a package from the mailbox. I open the package and inside is the New Moon 2 disc special edition DVD! I was shocked. It's a little thing but SO sweet of him. That's how he is, if I even look like I might want something, whether I say I do or not, he'll get it for me as long as we can afford it.
That got me thinking, Tom loves the Highlander movies. Connor is actually named after Connor McCloud from the movie. His birthday is in August, and he'll be in Georgia training at that time. I'm thinking I'm going to get them for him and have them sent there while he's gone to suprise him. I feel like, for some reason, the past few days has been like a turning point for us. He's been more attentive, actually comming to bed with me, and now this movie thing. I feel like we're in a good place right now and I love it.
Ok, on to my blast from the past. I'm going to tell you about the day Connor was born, actually that night after everyone had gone from the hospital. Tom was only able to stay with me the first night this time as we had Lana at this point. Connor was born by c-section as well, only because the dr's wouldnt let me have him the natural way. Anyway, that night after everyone had gone home from they're ooohing and ahhhing and giving me congratulations and stuff, Tom and I decided to get some sleep. About 3 am, I heard the baby crying and Tom got up to change his diaper and get his bottle ready. I open my eyes to watch him, I love watching him with the first diaper. He was a seasoned pro by now, but had never changed a boys' diaper before. So I'm watching him go through the motions half asleep when all of a sudden he jumps back like something startled him. I said "what's the matter honey? Is the baby ok?" He finishes the diaper, gets the bottle and hands me the baby saying "Yep, and his sprinkler system works great too!" LOL!
That's my story for the day, off to finish the school thing and stuff! Until we speak again enjoy your life in the sunshine!
Louise
As you guys know, my daughter Lana, is 6 years old. And she comes out with things that I just can't help but laugh at. Yesterday was no exception. She comes home from school and we're doing the usual afternoon routines, getting her snack going through her bookbag, you parents know the drill. She then looks at me and says "Mommy, I have something to show you. I know you hate pink but look at it anyway." I giggle as she pulls this tube of pink lip gloss that one of her classmates had given her, puts some on her finger and wipes it all over my face and says "Mommy! You look beautiful!" I actually looked like a clown but hey, the things we do to make our kids laugh right? Then she says "Do you know who I love?" I said "Mommy?" she says "No, Matthew, and he's gonna be my boyfriend forever and we're going to get married." At this point I'm struggling to keep a straight face while talkin on Skype with Sue (my best friend in Pennsylvania). I say "Married huh? Well, congratulations." A few minutes later she comes back and puts her hands on her hips lookin like a little diva and says, "Mommy, where's your wedding dress?" I said "It's in the closet in the front room." She looks at me with a very serious face and says "Well, get it for me! I'm getting married you know!" I couldn't help it, I lost it laughing hysterically. She then tells me that she wants me to be the flower girl and Sue to be the minister. So Sue, if your reading this....I can't wait to hear what your going to say at the ceremony! LOL.
My son Connor then comes up to me and informs me that Lana is getting married because he wants spaghetti and meatballs for dinner, what one has to do with the other I'll never know...but it works for them I guess lol. A little while later, I'm cookin dinner (Spaghetti cuz that's what Connor wanted lol), when Tom comes home. The kids do they're usual rushing down the hallway to meet Daddy (I think that's his favorite part of the day). And Lana pipes up with "Daddy guess what! I'm getting married!" He dropped his pack, looked at Lana and said "I want his name, address and phone number so I can talk to him." She said "No Daddy, you can't hurt him I love him." LMAO!
Speaking of Daddy, Tom did the most amazing thing for me yesterday! I'm really into the Twilight series, as millions of people are. And I've been telling Tom forever that when New Moon came out on DVD I wanted it just for the special features. He kept telling me that it was pointless to buy the DVD since I already had the movie on my computer and I've seen it 3 or 4 times (I even got him to sit and watch it with me once which is amazing because he hates how vampires are protrayed in the series). But I still wanted it. Well yesterday, he comes home for lunch (something he almost never does), and hands me a package from the mailbox. I open the package and inside is the New Moon 2 disc special edition DVD! I was shocked. It's a little thing but SO sweet of him. That's how he is, if I even look like I might want something, whether I say I do or not, he'll get it for me as long as we can afford it.
That got me thinking, Tom loves the Highlander movies. Connor is actually named after Connor McCloud from the movie. His birthday is in August, and he'll be in Georgia training at that time. I'm thinking I'm going to get them for him and have them sent there while he's gone to suprise him. I feel like, for some reason, the past few days has been like a turning point for us. He's been more attentive, actually comming to bed with me, and now this movie thing. I feel like we're in a good place right now and I love it.
Ok, on to my blast from the past. I'm going to tell you about the day Connor was born, actually that night after everyone had gone from the hospital. Tom was only able to stay with me the first night this time as we had Lana at this point. Connor was born by c-section as well, only because the dr's wouldnt let me have him the natural way. Anyway, that night after everyone had gone home from they're ooohing and ahhhing and giving me congratulations and stuff, Tom and I decided to get some sleep. About 3 am, I heard the baby crying and Tom got up to change his diaper and get his bottle ready. I open my eyes to watch him, I love watching him with the first diaper. He was a seasoned pro by now, but had never changed a boys' diaper before. So I'm watching him go through the motions half asleep when all of a sudden he jumps back like something startled him. I said "what's the matter honey? Is the baby ok?" He finishes the diaper, gets the bottle and hands me the baby saying "Yep, and his sprinkler system works great too!" LOL!
That's my story for the day, off to finish the school thing and stuff! Until we speak again enjoy your life in the sunshine!
Louise
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