our weekend

snob in-law's be damned - we had a blast doing our own thing!

Recap 1

My intentions of blogging about something at least every other day haven't fit into reality yet. Just because I changed jobs doesn't mean there aren't things to blog about. So...as I get into the swing of it I'll do recaps if I go more than 3-4 days between posts. 25 year old cheerios, salt on the birthday cake and a "naughty" card to great grandma Stories come out from the past, usually very funny ones! I managed to be a part of that grand legacy over the week. When J was younger he'd stay over at Grt G's farm. One morning they wanted to have cheerios. While Grt G had the grandchildren stay over a lot, it wasn't enough to finish off a box of cheerios and so they sat in the cabinet. When they had breakfast that day, well, lets just say the cheerios checked out a long time ago. Salt on the birthday cake My mother in law, V, is a decent cook but leave it to her own kids to give her a hard time about it. I guess it stems from the fact that she sprinkled a cake with salt instead of sugar. Naughty card to Grt G. This is where I come in. We usually give a somewhat religious card to Grt G for her birthday and a sarcastic card to sister in law, C, for their birthdays. Guess who, in her infinite wisdom, put the wrong addresses on the cards and sent them out...?! Yup, that'd be me! Grt G got a card with 2 cartoon people's as* cr*cks on the front and a tag line "expecting some cr*cks about your age". Thankfully, she had a sense of humor about it, but even still....I won't be living that one down any time soon! Pictures Remember how K had the accident at the park last week and I was hoping it'd heal before pictures yesterday? Well, it did, however I don't know why I bothered because all K did is cry and say (most emphatically for a 2 year old) "Done!" Over and over and over, "done!" inbetween tears. I did every freakin' trick I knew to elicit even a slight smile but there was no way! So we left, empty handed and me in a pretty foul mood. It seems that everyone else's kids take pictures just fine. Sure maybe they fuss for the first 10 minutes, but the parents don't leave empty handed! We go through this every time we get pictures done. It's always a big production with K. I know that he gets antsy at new places and with new people but geez! We were there early and had plenty of time to get him acclimated to the place. Anyway, I really wanted professional pictures done but that isn't going to happen. I've been coming to terms with that for the past 24 hours....and I'm still dealing with it. Are You Copying Me???? One of the crew members were talking about bait fish. The next words out of K's mouth: "bait feeesh". Later on, J had said "Hi, Honey". K said, "Hi Honey." It could be a long drive in traffic now that I REALLY have to watch what I say. That's it for now. I'm going to brush my hair and go spend time with J and K because even though K p*ssed me off a bit with the pictures, I still love him to death.

i didn't drop of the face of the earth

really, i swear, i am still here! while i do sometimes miss being able to blog whenever about whatever, i must admit that i'm loving the fact that i have a job that keeps me busy all day! it's been two weeks and it has been a whirlwind, but in a good way. i think it helps that my boss just let me dive right in to the work instead of just giving me tiny pieces here and there. sometimes it's been a bit overwhelming but only because i'm still learning the procedures and lingo - which, now that i work in a corporate law firm, is a REALLY HUGE DEAL! i am one of a handful of new people there too so it helps to not be the only newbie on the floor. i think i may be the youngest, though! doesn't matter, it's just funny how that always seems to be the case for me. so what is it that i do now? well, i work in human resources, specifically with employee benefits. i like it a lot because i'm learning a lot and it requires strong organization skills - basically, i can let my an*l-retentive side out and not be called a b*tch for it. at previous employer people complained about how much of a stickler i was to things being completed the right way, etc, etc. at the firm, it is expected. such a nice change! so that's the rundown thusfar. i'm going to try to update more often and keep up on visiting other blogs, but i have to get a routine going so it may take a bit. as for j and k, they are doing well. j is working his way through his new job and k is talking a lot, has learned how to climb into chairs and onto tables on his own. i look at him now and i'm just amazed at how almost 2 years ago he was a tiny baby. amazing...

never would've guessed

ahh, look at this pic: we were so young, in love . . . . . . . . . . . . and naive. no, i don't think we could've anticpated that i would've pelted him with a gummy-worm that'd been taken away from a certain young boy who spend his afternoon hitting me over and over and spent numerous time outs staring at a corner. it really wasn't intentional, j just happened to be in the trajectory of said flying object and i was really frustrated at being k's preferred choice of hitting companion instead of j or anyone/anything else. plus, the whole repeating myself that "we don't hit people" is getting really old. i've tried to be creative about hitting causing boo-boos, owies, it's mean.......i don't know how else to get it across. hence the gummy worm attack. i'm certain we wouldn't have foreseen whisking said boy out of major-chain bookstore once he started screaming AT THE TOP OF HIS LUNGS because he had to leave the 18 thomas the tank train cars behind, which in turn fostered a crowd of looky-loo's who felt they could pass judgement with their eyes because,of course, they could've handled it so much better. fat chance of that, i'm sure, because none of them had kids anywhere near them, which means they have no f-ing clue and would be just as frustrated as we were. and seriously, there isn't anything else we could've done but leave the place, so i think we handled it just fine thank you very much! anyway, i digress. our weekend wasn't terrible. we're just in the throws of a young boy who is really coming into his own and while we can figure out most of what he wants, we still have to get on the same page as far as timing. he is, indeed, a force of nature.

snow day!

now this is how to spend a holiday!