2015 -Week 4

After a long weekend of dealing with Eliza’s crabby sickness, Monday was a Holiday. President’s day. The big girls were off to daycare for the day….my mother in law had to work, which I was pretty upset about. I had literally been looking forward to this day for soooooooooo long. A day at home, with the house ALL TO MYSELF, all day long. I’ve had it planned for months…it was my day to finally tackle the basement. Luckily, Christian has some leave time he has to use up by the end of the month, so he was able to take the day off. So, after a morning feeding, he was put to work, on daddy duty, and I made my way downstairs. It was beyond a disaster, I can’t even explain. I was overwhelmed at the thought of it. Today, my main focus was going through everything, gathering it up and getting it back in the room it belong. Toys in the toy room, princess stuff in the princes areas, the Holiday stuff packed up and into storage, the “storage” stuff back in storage where it belongs. I didn’t have much to show for all of my work, but it was Step 1. Eliza napped for a while, Christian gave her a bottle at some point in time, but around 3:00 she was up and ready for another feeding, so I called it a day and made my way back upstairs. We watched “Zero Dark Thirty” while I fed her and relaxed, before picking up the big girls. Good movie! I picked the big girls up around closing time, we ate some dinner and we spent the evening listening to music at full blast and dancing around. I love when we have spontaneous dance parties! Before I knew it, it was time for bed, time to call it a night. The long weekend came to an end WAY too fast, but at least it’s a super short week!

Sweetness!

Tuesday…back to work. No Bueno. To top it off, back to another LONG day of interviews. I seriously hate it, HATE IT, and I’m so glad it’s officially over. Now comes the part where I get to deliver bad news to all of the consultants that didn’t get the project….that’s much harder to do when you’ve actually seen the people, in person. Somehow it feels more personal now. Ick. The interviews and meeting afterwards pretty much took up my entire day…between the Holiday yesterday, interviews all day today, working from home tomorrow and my Friday off this week, I don’t see myself really getting a ton of stuff done this week. After work I picked the girls up from daycare and we stopped at Target. We needed a couple of groceries, and I was on a mission to buy a new curling iron. My hair is super, SUPER long. And it’s super fine, so it doesn’t hold anything. Curling it is a complete waste of time. I thought if I buy a large barrel curing iron, it would at least give it some volume. I ended up finding a new fun gadget though that I’m pretty excited about. It’s kind of a cross between a flat-iron, a curling iron and a crimper. It’s a “3 Barrel Waver” and I can’t wait to try it out! When we left the store it had started snowing…thankful I don’t have to drive in it tomorrow! We met Christian at home for some dinner and a quiet evening. Eliza was asleep when I got to daycare tonight, fell asleep on the way home from Target, and went to bed super easy tonight. Fingers crossed, maybe she’s finally feeling better!

There is a lot of hair going on in the Duran household right now. Just about time for cuts all around!

Well, fingers crossed didn’t work. It was another long night for little Eliza. Seriously, I LONG for sleep. Amelia was a horrible, HORRIBLE sleeper. She didn’t sleep through the night even once until she was about 9 months old. But, once she did, she did it pretty consistently. That doesn’t seem to be happening with Eliza. It’s such a rollercoaster with her! But, my one saving grace is that it was my work from home day. So, at least I didn’t have to worry about showering and getting ready and rushing off to an exhausting day in the office! Christian ran to Menard’s for some things for the house (really he’ll look for any reason to go to that dumb store), so we met up at home after I picked up the girls from daycare. We had dinner and a quiet night. Looking forward to my “Friday” tomorrow!

Blocking out the world around them...

Thursday, my last work day for the week. WOOT!! I spent the day pretty much catching up after being “away” all week. Routing things that had been sitting, responding to e-mails, getting my work from home going. It was definitely a busy day! I got a call from daycare around 2:45 that Eliza had been having bathroom issues all day, watery, green stools, and had to be picked up. By the time I got the message, finished up my work, got to daycare and got her ready to go, it was just about time for Olivia to get back from school, so I got Amelia ready and we just waited for Olivia in the van. She was pretty excited to see me…she usually gets mad when I get there early, LOL. We made our nightly store run and stopped at Walmart before making our way home. Eliza napped for a bit while I washed bottles and got dinner started. Christian finished cooking when he arrived home while I fed Eliza and relaxed with her. It was a pretty early night for all of us. Christian and I are both off tomorrow, but after this long week, I don’t know how productive it will be!

My throwback this week...not much has changed in the morning routine, there are just more of them to delay the process.

Friday, FINALLY! We were both off, and thankful for the short week (Christian really never gets those, so he was in Heaven!) After getting Eliza fed and down for her morning nap, I got some cleaning done upstairs and ran to Target to do a big shopping run (you know, rather than my daily runs after work, HA!). When I got back home, I hung out with Eliza while Christian and his dad worked on the snowblower. Ick, the garage just reeked of gasoline for days afterwards. So gross. I did actually do a tiny bit of work while Eliza took her afternoon nap to make up for leaving early yesterday. I picked the big girls up from daycare around closing time, we picked up some pizza and settled in with a few movies on Netflix for the girls. Once they were in bed, Christian started “The Expendables”, but I was way too tired and passed out (I’m thinking I didn’t miss too much though).

There's a smile from my sweet baby!!!

Saturday was a busy day. Everybody seemed happy and healthy, and ready to go. We started off with some breakfast and Christian and I showered and got ready for the day. Then, we were all off to the big girls’ first day of their new swim classes! They were SO excited to finally be back in the water, and picked right back up. Olivia still amazes me, I cannot believe what a good swimmer she is becoming. Amelia seems like she’s really matured since her last session, she was listening way better than she ever has, and really trying, putting in some effort. Very proud! After class, we stopped home to get all of the girls ready, packed up a bag and we were off to my BFF Kari’s house for her little ones 1^st Birthday Party! So crazy, I can’t believe little Addison is already 1, I swear I was just meeting her and snuggling her. Time just goes way too fast. It was so great getting to catch up with Kari and her family for a while, and the girls had a blast playing with the other kids there. And, poor Eliza, she’s much bigger than her little best friend Addie, even though she’s 3 months older than her. That’s OK though, she’ll protect her while they’re growing up, LOL. After the party, we made our way home for some dinner. Christian went out for a couple of beers with his friend Lorenzo, while I got the girls to bed, caught up on some of my shows and watched a little SNL before passing out. Way too much activity for this old, tired mom!

Swimming and Partying

On Sunday we were up way too early. But, I got right to work on my Sunday chores. I got the kitchen cleaned up…counters, washed dishes and bottles. I made a big breakfast for the family, and a couple batches of baby food. I swapped out Eliza’s closet for 9-12 month clothes – so sad, I can’t believe it! And, I did a few loads of laundry throughout the day and relaxed with the family in between. Overall, it was a pretty quiet day. All of the girls took a nice LONG nap…Christian and I found “Wahlburgers” Season 1 on Netflix and binged on that for the day. It was quite a perfect day actually! Even Eliza had a pretty good weekend, so we’re hoping she’s feeling better and is on the mend. I made an evening trip to Walmart for a few things I forgot on Friday and grabbed some Chipotle for dinner on the way home. I ended up getting a monster headache out of nowhere once I was home, and had to call it a night early. I hate when those hit!

She LOVES oranges!

Until Next Week! XOXO