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Tue
Dec, 26
2006

Xmas 2006

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We drove up to Bradenton which is north of Sarasota and spent two days with Dennis’ mom, step father and sister. I’m sure they loved seeing the kids although all I could think about was “Do they think I’m fat? Sure they do. They must think I’m fat. They’re sure playing it off really well tho”. LOL! But really, aside from my mind beating me up, I did have a pleasant time. Jada did act up from time to time but, all in all, it was nice to see them again.

The one gift I was worried about was the one I got for D’s step father. A book called “Sex, Death, and Flyfishing”. I laughed my head off when I saw it especially since the other book I was looking at was “50 Flyfishing places to visit before you Die”. What the hell is it about flyfishing that makes you think of death?!

Jada cleaned house with a large Dora doll, books, more books, care bear figures, and a coloring book. I got Dennis a watch, Nintendo DS game, and a ‘toy’ from thinkgeek. Dennis got me two PostSecret books (awesome!) and a figurine of a guy dead at his desk after surfing the net too long (so me), and I got a dvd from his sister and blouse from his mom.

Anyway, we got back home yesterday evening just in enough time to turn our house upside down with more packages, suit cases, bags, gifts. Jada openned the gift we got her last night as well. An easel. One side is a chalk board, the other a white board and it’s got a paper roll for painting. We also got her paints, paint brushes, chalk, eraser. She really likes it but she now officially has too many toys. So many that it begins to be detrimental for a child’s emotional health. Pretty soon she’ll start to expect many many regular gifts from random people and wonder why there are 5 and not 7.

I need to schedule a toy purge for late January.

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Sat
Dec, 16
2006

Vacation day #8: a day in Miami

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I spent the entire day in Miami today visiting with my father, stepmother, grandmother, aunt and uncle, a couple of my cousins who I forget are my cousins and not my uncles and aunts because they’re that much older than me.

It was an OK day I guess. Fabulous if you factor in I completely expected to get into a fight with my grandmother and leave early. The last time I spoke to her (on the phone) she accused me of child abuse and she had me in tears. If she had brought it up again today, I would have left her house but not before telling her off. I’m convinced now that woman mind is really fucked.

She let me know that my brother went to see her and saw the photos of my girls. I was surprised to hear he had gone to see her especially after he had vowed never to see or speak to her again. Long story, I’ll probably never talk about it publicly. Anyway, I said to her how surprised I was considering he was “mad at her”. (This was obviously putting it lightly) and she said “what? no, he wasn’t mad at me”. I’m like HUH?! “of course he was mad at you.” Hell, she and I even spoke about it on several occasions. She repeated that no he wasn’t and that he had just not had a chance to come by. Right. I wonder if denial is a disease passed from generation to generation in my family.

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Fri
Nov, 17
2006

Woot! Time off!

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I just scheduled eleven days of vacation for early next month.  I’m not going anywhere, just staying at home.  I’m not even going to have company either. 

I had to schedule it because Dennis will be going to Germany on business and I need to stay home with the kids since we really don’t have anybody who can babysit them while I’m at work. We had thought of packing up everybody and making a big trip out of Germany but I’m not so sure I want to do that with a 7 month old baby. I rather wait until they’re older so at least the older one can remember it a little and we could leave the strollers and play pens at home.

The downside of this is that I’ll be using up every last one of my vacation days for the year which means that I won’t be able to take any time off for the holidays. That’s OK tho.  I’m looking forward to the eleven days alone with the kids. It will be a nice vacation from everything. Sure I’ll have kids to look after but that’s no big deal for me. I’ll take them out during the day and go to the park or the mall and make it fun for them too.

God forbid, tho, that anybody gets sick during those days. Now that would completely ruin the whole thing.

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Tue
Oct, 17
2006

Quick! Cuff me while you still can!

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With as much guilt as I’ve already been carrying around for not being the model mother, the last thing I needed today was to get a phone call from my grandmother and listen to her tell me that I abuse my older daughter.

This woman is fucking insane!!Where’d she get that notion, you ask? It doesn’t take much, but it all started two weeks when we were over at her house. My oldest was jumping on her bed and wouldn’t stop despite being told several times by both myself and my husband and her to stop. She was afraid she’d fall off. After about the 4th time we asked her to get down, we took her off the bed physically, stood her on the floor, and told her not to do it again. It looked like she got the message at first but 30 seconds later she was right back up there doing it again. We took her off the bed again and then sat her down on my aunt’s couch for a 3 minute time-out.

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Sun
Oct, 15
2006

Procrastination

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…what a disease.

It’s like some addiction where even when you know it’s not good for you, all you keep doing is putting it off and putting it off. I don’t think I was always this way. Not even in college. I remember being happy and doing my laundry every week.

I did put things off like school work but I don’t think that stuff really mattered to me much anyway. Sure I look back on those days and wish that I had been more dedicated to school and had studied harder, but I think everybody looks back on their life and wished they had tried harder and used their time better. But at least back then I feel I was a happier person. I had friends. I had fun. And more importantly, I had ambition and was hopeful for what the future could bring.

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Tue
Oct, 3
2006

A good weekend & an analysis

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The Weekend:
All in all, our weekend went well. We got to meet my brother’s wife and their daughter. My stepmother and them came up, spent the night, we had a nice morning with breakfast a-la stepmother. The kids played, fought, played, fought.. We went to the Palm Beach Zoo, then we drove south to the Miami Seaquarium. I’d say the experience was a mear “OK”, though, because both parks had some level of drabbiness and neglect that’d make us stop and think “god that sux”. Dirty tank waters, trash dumped in various places. sigh… But we got to spend time together, toddler tantrums and all.

By the end of the day I had a huge headache from the sun and from dehydration and I was h-u-n-g-r-y! We dropped them back off at my grandmother’s at 6pm and we could have just kept driving home but I stayed because, like I said, I was h-u-n-g-r-y! and my grandmother and/or aunt always have food to offer. I ate like an animal and had 2 very tall glasses of water. Even my very picky 3 year old ate like crazy. My 5 month old drank a bottle and a half of milk and she entertained everybody for the next hour with her babbling baby cuteness.

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