PICTURE OF THE WEEK
Tommy swimming with his friend, Nick. Nick would splash Tommy and was having a greattime. Tommy wasn't that sure about the whole thing. They are two month apart in age, Nick just celebrated his 1st birthday. My baby needs TAN!!! The neighbors call him "White Boy"! Oh yeah, and Nick has had numerous haircuts already. Needless to say Tommy hasn't even needed a trim!
YAWN..........mornings come so quickly anymore. I thought the baby would have gotten up in the middle of the night since he didn't eat before bed, but he slept through the night fine. I am very surprised. I only got a little bit of packing done last night, oh well I still have a few days.
Tonight I won't be home from work until very late. It will be a long day. I have a meeting this morning at 10:45 and another on at 6:00 this evening. So I am sure I won't be getting home until nearly 9:00, so no packing tonight either. I will mostly likely come home and go to bed.
I didn't sleep well last night, I dremt of Josh's bio father. In my dream I was mad at him because he hasn't seen or talked to JOsh in about three years. Hmmmm.........that is exactly true. I personally don't mind that I haven't talked to him in that amount of time, but I feel bad for Josh. Not sure why I was dreaming about it, hmmm....maybe becuase I just mailed him Josh's medical bills. Who knows! The sad part is Josh is going to end up not caring about his father, which he already seems to be at that point. The saddest part about that is for years I made sure NO ONE not my family or anyone ever said a bad word about Josh's Dad. I didn't want Josh to know about any of our past, etc. he should be able to love his Dad just like any other kid.
All my hard work to ensure that didn't occurr and his father is the one who jsut stopped calling, or ever visiting. not like he visited a lot, Josh usually saw him only 2 times a year. His Dad was always too busy. But Josh looked forward to the visits, now if his Dad called, I am not even sure Josh would choose to go. That is so sad to me. It certainly isn't that I care about Josh's father, please don't get the wrong idea. I care deeply about Josh and wanted him to have a relationship with his father, just hasn't turned out that way.
I think their will be regrets in Josh's fathers life at some point. Or maybe his feeling for Josh will never change, then I guess he will be missing out greatly. Josh is an amazing kid, who will go far in life I am sure.
Ok...I need to get that junk out of my mind.........
OH one last sad note for me..................Josh is starting High School this year!! Where have all the years gone??? I can't believe college is that close to us now. I don't want him to leave home. he has orientation for High School when we are going on vacation. I took an extra day off and we will go get him all taken care of then. I think he is a little nervous about High School, but all he talks about his what he will do with my old car when I get a new one. He has cars on the brain! Can he get is painted?? Can he put a new stereo in it?? (where is he think he is going to get the money from???)
Well I need to take a shower and head to work. Have a great day........sorry for a bummer of a post, just what was on my mind when I woke up. I know, I know.....you miss my insane lists. But I don't plan on accomplishing anything tonight since I have to work so late. Ok....just so you don't go into withdrawals.
Hubby just got home from school, so I am going to quick get a couple of things done. Tommy is still scooting around the livingroom as I type. He can make it a long ways by walking along the couch, then coffee table, then playpen and then chair. It is a scary balancing act.
I am off........have a great night. Chat at ya in the morning.
I love this food grinder. I found one at Once Upon a Child for $3.00. I put some green beans in it tonight and Tommy ate them! I have never gotten him to eat beans before. He hated the consistence of the others I made.
Tommy is being good and napping so I better go pack. I did manage to vacuum out the van tonight. WOW, three kids sure dirty up a van.
CrazyMomma you make a very good point. I had not thought of it, but you are right some people might like their life harried. It just seems so hard for me to understand. But I am definitely not a fly by the seat of your pants person. I am a diligent list maker and planner. LOL!! To each their own, right??? Almost like a clash of cultures.....Speaking of lists.........
I have my errand list for before work all done. Now as I eat lunch I need to figure out what I need to get done tonight. Paul is at school all evening as well.
I am pretty much done with lunch, so I better get back to work. I took a short lunch since I need to be home early tonight so Paul can go to school. Have a great rest of your day!
For those of you who know who and what a SHE or Flylady is, do you every see someone and say, I sure know what you need. I babysat tonight and the kids got here at like 5:30 or a bit after. We had already had supper. I am sitting in the living room and Nick asks me, "when are you planning on making supper?". We already ate I told him..........Drats......I am starving. ARGH!!! I have nothing let from supper except a very small bit of potatoes. So I pull together two plates of food, potatoes, lunch meat and grapes. Their mother is so busy flying around doing this and that........she really needs a routine. If I hadn't fed the kids, they would not have eaten until after 8:00. I have mentioned Flylady to her........but she won't bite. Hard to see her struggle......though I don't think she realizes she is struggling. WEIRD.
My night included trying out the baby packpack with Tommy to see if it will work for vacation. Then I had my desk day...I paid all my bills for the rest of the month, did my medical reimbursement and reconciled my checkbook. What fun, eh????
I was sitting in the office and I could hear little knees coming down the hallway. Tommy crawled 3/4 of the way to the office from the living room, looking ofr me while I was paying the bills.
I have a number of errand to do tomorrow, such as:
Easy enough..............
Well I am off to bed, last night I woke up at 3am and had a hard time getting back to sleep. NIGHT!!!
OH Wait...mscaffeineaddict, you made me feel better that you haven't given E meat yet. At Tommy's 9 month appointment the Dr couldn't believe I hadn't started Tommy on meat/protein. I am not giving Tommy Tofu because I am allergic to it. I have tried egg yolks, but he didn't like them. But the pork chops from the food grinder have been a hit.
As for the prunes....did you make them??? I cheat on those and buy jarred.
I tried to accomplish a few things today. I am trying to get stuff ready since we are going on vacation on Friday and will be gone for about 10 days.
WHAT I ACCOMPLISHED TODAY:
I finally made ground meat for Tommy in a consistency he actually likes. I have a baby food mill that I have never used, but got it out as I plan on using it on vacation at restaurants to make Tommy food. I put some pork chop in it and it came out great. Tommy ate it all without gagging. FINALLY!!! So Tommy had pork chops and peaches for supper tonight. I also gave him a peeled quarterd grape with snack. He liked that!! He really wants what we are eating now, he will try to grab it off your plate if your not careful.
He is continuing to crawl and cruise along the furniture. He is able to now to chase the cat a bit. Molly (cat) sure likes that, NOT!
Well I am off to bed, I have a very busy week and home and work. Later! Hope everyont had a great weekend!
LOOK WHO'S 9 MONTHS OLD
Tommy figure out how to crawl last night!! Yeah, Tommy! I almost thought he was going to skip crawling all together. He is getting very good at pulling himself up with the assistance of furniture. He is starting to get back down independently now too....with a big thud to his butt.
He also loves to growl. It is so funny!! Paul will growl at him and Tommy Growls right back.
CHILDREN
Your children are not your children.
They come through you but not from you,
And they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love, but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow
Which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
But seek not to make them like you,
for life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children
As living arrows are sent forth.
Let your bending in the archer’s hand
Be for gladness.
Kahil Gibran
What a bummer. I will keep trying. 
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