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Karen — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:31:37 +0000

Things I’ve learned this week….

I’m a girl and Paul is a boy. If we switch and Paul is a girl, he can stay home and play with Courtney. I’ll be a boy and I’ll have to go to the salt mine all day.

Weaning babies causes me to have rocks in my boobs and intense pain. Good thing I’m not having any more babies.

I have less that zero idea about how much money I spend. The money I took out on Tuesday, that was to last me a week, was gone by Wednesday. Less than 24 hours after I took it out of the bank.

Having a limited amount of cash does cause me to think twice about what I’m spending my money on. I skipped Starbucks at least 3 times.

A glass top kitchen table is the dumbest thing one can own when they have children.

I went out of town for the weekend and I didn’t really miss my kids. I mean, I missed them but I sure did have a good time. 54 hours was the perfect amount of time to be gone.

I’ve lost all ability to sleep later than 7:30.

I now spend what feels like 90% of my time cleaning up crap. Literal crap and figurative crap.

On that note, the dog is either incontinent or he hates my guts.

I’m lazy. I have all kinds of ideas for things I want to do, things I want to organize, things I want to clean. And then I don’t. Lazy.

The next time I design a kitchen, I will not put the spice rack on the lower level. The kids seem to think the spices are here for their entertainment and I spend way too much time walking around looking for the nutmeg.

My kids are adorable little people. I didn’t exactly learn that this week, I already knew that. Oh, and I lead a boring and unexciting life. But I knew that too.

Do I really have to wait 18 more years for sleep?

Karen — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:23:21 +0000

There were at least a zillion things I was thinking I could write about but my brain isn’t working and I’ve got nothing. Patrick’s been waking up a couple of times a night, for no reason I can determine other than waking me up, for the past several nights. There was tornado night where we stayed up too late watching weather on TV and then I laid in bed, waiting for that train noise that is the tornado. I’ve had several days of go go go, where I only sat down to pee or to nurse the baby. We have gymnastics in an hour and the thought of going upstairs to find some clothes is almost more than I can handle.

Anyway…. I won’t bore you with my sleepy drivel. I haven’t exercised in over a week and I won’t tell you when the last time I bathed was…. Where’s the coffee???

Have a great weekend!

Signs of summer

Ramblings

Karen — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:21:38 +0000

This week has been long and tiring and busy and full of laughter and maybe even some tears and I am SO glad to be home.

The first day of preschool went really well. Granted, I never left the building but she was on her own for a while in the classroom. OK, not really on her own as much as with her teacher and her classmates but still, no me. She did a great job but we all know that next week is a totally different week, a totally different day. She looked so big in her class, I actually think she’s the oldest one there, but in so many ways she seemed like such a big girl. She may not have cried but I did.

We’re trying to tackle the items on our fix it list for the guy who’s buying our house. Somehow the 7th has snuck up on us and we hadn’t really done much from our list. The buyer is coming by this morning, or this afternoon, to make sure we’ve done what we said we would, I think we just made it. It will be really weird living here next week not as homeowners but as renters.

I feel like I should be packing and organizing and getting us ready to move, somewhere in a month. It feels so overwhelming. I have managed to sell a couple of things on Craigslist and I’m desperately trying to offload a broken TV, which a lot of people are interested in. I’m just not sure any one’s actually going to come and pick up the behemoth. I did manage to go through the Tupperware cabinet and pitched all the bottoms with no tops and tops with no bottoms… I’m thinking that’s not going to be enough to get us packed and moved. I did go and get a zillion paint samples and while fun and I’m VERY excited, that also won’t get us moved.

I’m going in this morning for my 32 week appointment, about a week late. I’m anxious to see how I’m measuring, if I’m still big. I feel like I’m still big. Huge. I guess we’ll see what the medical professional has to say.

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Vacation, stage 2

Karen — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:34:05 +0000

Thank you New Hampshire for the rain and the cool days and cooler nights, the fun in the lake, the sunset boat ride, a couple of sunny days, and finally a 7am wake-up for Courtney. Today we head to CT for the next several days to visit with more family and friends before heading home on Tuesday. It should take us about 3 hours to get to CT but I’m expecting it to take 4, you know, with all the pee breaks. For me.

Have a good weekend. (Insert evil laugh here!!)

Finally Friday

Karen — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:00:07 +0000

I had some thing that I wanted to write and I’m pretty sure I wrote most of it in my head, in bed, at 5:15 Thursday morning and now I can’t remember what it was. And then Thursday was a DAY and there was whine but no wine and I hadn’t even had my coffee yet and I wasn’t sure I could survive until 9am. It actually started the exact same way that Wednesday did, too much whine and not enough coffee. Or wine. Courtney has been screaming for at least an hour when we put her down to bed the past few nights and we don’t know what the deal is but we’re pretty sure that if we keep going in there we’re just creating a bad habit but if we don’t go in there she’s either going to hyperventilate or throw up. On the carpet and I don’t do vomit on carpets. Back to Thursday. The day included a trip to the Department of Labor, which is always an excellent use of my time without child. Nothing says “free time” like waiting 40 minutes to fill out a 10 question form that I could have done online but you can’t because the Department of Labor is the poster child for inefficiency. Then later there was more whine but still no wine and the dog was looking to get evicted and I’m pretty sure I screamed at the dog at least 5 times before I locked him out back. Then there was crying, although not mine, but I felt like it because the gas in my stomach was so extreme I thought I might die but it didn’t seem to want to go anywhere. And Paul had a work happy hour that he sort of actually had to go to and I told him to call me right after he left so he could stop at the store for “something” and he did call but I was reading to Courtney and then I called him but he has the new iPhone and was sitting on the antennae and it didn’t ring. But he loves me enough to go back out to the store for the coveted and desperately needed Gas X. It seemed like a good idea to add ice cream and the desperately desired bottle of wine, not whine, to the list because oh mah gawd the week. Although, when I told him I NEEDED Gas X, he laughed at me and I didn’t appreciate that but I was serious and pregnant and trying not to physically explode so out he went. And immediately upon his return I dove into the Gas X and the ice cream. I’m saving the wine for tomorrow’s whine. Or breakfast.

I think Courtney may have the right idea here. Personally, I’d prefer just to bury my head in the sand.