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Xmas 2006

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.

Woot! Time off!

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.

It’s been a while…

Boy, it took a while to logon to this damned blog… mysql was screwed up on my vps account and I didn’t have securecrt installed on my new laptop so i could fix it…

Anyways, in exactly 8 days I’ll be back at work again. I felt quite stressed about it yesterday.. not so much today tho but the stress is still there. I know things will be changing dramatically next week. I’ll have to use my poorly exercised brain again and I’ll have to leave my poor baby at home with her dad while he has to deal with Jada too. The adjustment will be tough on all three of them. Oh, and I’ll basically have to get up before the sun comes up in order to make this work for me on days where J goes to daycare.

I know my computers at work have been unplugged for weeks and weeks. Who knows if they will come back to life at all. I’ll have to deal with pumping again… what a royal pain in the rear end that will be. :( I’m going to have to take care of both kids when I’m tired and have little gas (and patience) left in me. sigh….

I wasn’t used to being a sahm last month, but I think I am now. but anyways… I’ll get used to being a wohm again, it’s just going to hurt a little I guess.

So aside from my worries/anxiety/whatever about getting back to work, things at home have been going OK. I decided a few weeks ago to get house repairs done once and for all so I turned into the phone book comando calling people every day and keeping records of the calls and who called back and what estimates we got, etc… And we got the damaged fence repaired on saturday. This cost us 2900 bucks… a SUPER cheep price considering HOW MUCH fencing was replaced. in two weeks we get our patio screening and frame repaired. that will be half as much (another steal imo) then in about another month we will have our entire house restucco’d.. another super low price. I’m very proud! We also need to get our AC serviced (i just need to make one call to get that done… keep forgetting to do that!) then soon after we’ll get the house repainted, the roof repaired, our driveway repaved, our sprinkler system fixed…. sigh.. can’t wait!

So what else… the baby is doing great. She got over her second cold finally and got her second round of vaccinations this morning. Thankfully she hasn’t had a reaction to it.

I also decided (well, almost decided) to change the spelling of her name from Maya to Maia. I can’t explain why better than to say that, to me, she’s always been a Maia and not a Maya. LOL! sounds looney, i know.. but despite how strongly I feel about spelling it with an “I”, I still have some trouble making this final. It’s just one lousy letter and I’m afraid changing it might be a mistake, as if her entire future depends on this small insignificant thing. anyways, I’ll have to decide it soon.

She’s grown a lot already. 3 inches and 4 lbs since she was born! here’s a photo of her!

Smiling Maya

Jada’s Birthday Party Pics

Dennis beat me to it so i’ll just link off his site. :)

here are a couple of my favorites…

having a good ‘ol time! LOL
image 1

eating cake! what a mess!!!
image 2

full collection of photos are available (here)