Well, Monday kicked
off about how you would expect. I was begrudgingly up, getting ready for work.
The girls refused to peel themselves out of bed, and Amelia is rocking a whole
new level of attitude these days. She was just out of control this morning, and
talking back like crazy. I swear, she’s going to be the death of me. But, we
were FINALLY out the door, and on our way. My one saving grace on Monday is
that Christian drops Eliza off, so I have one less person to get ready and loaded
up (as long as I have her bags packed and bottles ready ahead of time – you
know Dad ain’t doing that!). I was off to work, determined to just suck it up,
try to turn my attitude around, and just keep to myself. Focus on my work, on
what I need to do, and go home. To make a crappy Monday even crappier, my pump
was working horrible today. I took it apart mid-pump and noticed milk was
backing up into the motor. Great, just what I need?! I got it cleaned up, dried
up and put back together, but it just did not sound great the rest of the day.
And, I didn’t get nearly as much milk as I usually do. Finger crossed I can
bring it back up. After work, I stopped at Target for a few groceries, picked
the big girls up, stopped at the show store to get Amelia some new tennis
shoes, and finally made our way home for the night. I started dinner and we ate
as soon as Christian arrived home with baby. The big girls were acting up and
fighting most of the evening, so they were sent to bed early. Eliza followed,
and we finally set in for some peace and quiet and “The Walking Dead”. What a
day!
Amelia built her a pillow fort
Tuesday was a much
more low key day, thankfully. The day started with Eliza sleeping right through
to the alarm – for the SECOND day in a row. Good Lord, so awesome! So grateful
when that happens! My newfound hate for being at work has had one silver-lining…it
has resulted in my being incredibly productive. I don’t even want to see or
talk to anybody these days, even my friends, so I just sit in my cube and work
away. Whatever. One bonus this week is that ½ the office will be out at a
conference for a few days, starting this afternoon, so I’m excited for the
quiet. I got out of the conference last year because I was pregnant, and this
year because I’m nursing…I’m afraid I’ll be forced to go next year. Gross.
After packing it up for the day, we had a pretty quiet evening. I picked the
girls up after work, we made our way home to make dinner and settle in for the
night.
Taco Tuesday!!
Wednesday was one
of my final “work from home” days. One of my final days of less stress on a
weekday. So frustrating, it still makes me so mad. But, alas, I dropped the
girls off and worked the day away. After I finished working, I folded some
laundry before picking the girls up. Amelia was getting into trouble as I was picking
them up…I am so beyond over their acting up, I just can’t even take it anymore.
So, she was sent to her room when we got home. Eliza was exhausted, and
actually fell asleep on the way home, so she napped for a little bit before
dinner. We sat down for dinner, watched a little TV, and one by one they were
all sent to bed. Eliza was coughing and sounds really stuffed up, so I’m hoping
she’s not getting sick! Poor thing.
I swear we have the laziest babies ever. None of them have held their own bottles. As you can see here, complete fail.
Thursday was back
to work, but everyone was gone at the conference, so it was sweet peace, all
day long. Well, in a way anyway. Of course, as usual, a big issue came up that
I had to deal with, so that helped make the day go quickly. I also signed the
girls up for “baseball” today, which will start at the end of April. Olivia’s
team may be all girls this year, I couldn’t tell for sure. While Amelia will
probably end up being the only girl, like Olivia was, but we’ll see. Hopefully
they both participate and enjoy it! It does sound like they’ll both be playing
on Mondays and Wednesdays though, at different locations, likely at the same
time, so that will be a pain. I’ve already warned Christian that he’ll have to
make sure he gets off “on time” on those nights during baseball season so he
can take one of them. Nothing is ever simple, I swear. After work I picked up
the girls, and we made our way home. Eliza was the happiest baby on the block
tonight, completely different than she has been. It was so wonderful, makes
life a whole lot easier, that’s for sure. I made dinner, did some cleaning up
and relaxed for a while. Whew. And, another big YAY, Eliza came home in the
same clothes all week, for the SECOND week in a row. Seriously, not having to
scrub out clothes every night has been heaven. I’m on a new mission to set
little goals for myself/our house every week to try to get some order back in
our lives. This week, my goal was to wash dishes/bottles every night, and load
/unload the dishwasher to keep things from piling up. So far, this week has
been a complete success! Just need to keep on it, and keep adding on more
things for us to focus on. Time to bring some organization back into this
chaos! Christian had his performance review at work today, which went really
well (and, he gets a little pay raise, which is always nice). They talked to him
about a couple of things they seem to bring up every year…potentially making
him salaried rather than hourly, what his openness to moving to overnights is,
etc. He did actually take some initiative and discuss the salaried option more
though. See, Christian works a lot of overtime…he works at least 2-3 hours
every day, plus all day many Saturday’s. This overtime makes up a lot of our
family income, it really makes a big difference. If he was salaried, at what he
makes now, they would absolutely still expect him to work the overtime, so now
he’d be working his tail off, taking time away from his family, literally for
nothing. So, when they brought it up again this year (telling him he’d remain
hourly this year, and they’d reevaluate again next year), he asked them what
kind of salary they are talking about. They told him they can’t guarantee he’d
make what he makes how (with overtime), but it wouldn’t “too much” less. It
still makes me really nervous though; we’ll have to see what happens. As far as
moving to the overnight shift…I just can’t see him ever agreeing to do that. It
would be REALLY hard on our family, and I don’t think he wants to go back to
that at all. But, they tend to approach it as a “stepping stone” move – and I
just don’t believe him. I’m afraid he’d move to overnights, and be STUCK there,
for a loooooong time, and that’s just not a good move. Ugh, life and all of
these decisions can be really frustrating, that’s for sure. Never knowing
what’s really the best thing to do.
Throwback Thursday resulted in a reenactment tonight. Love!
Well, Friday I was
off to work, one last day before a much needed weekend. Everybody was back from
the conference, ugh, but it was quite an interesting day. My friend Brad
brought me back some goodies from the conference – companies can pay to sponsor
the event, and a lot of them give out different merchandise, so that was a fun
surprise. There was a big controversy regarding out office fridge yesterday,
which came to blows this morning. See, every office/section is responsible for
providing their own fridge/microwave, etc…otherwise, you have to use your own
cooler/insulated lunch bag and the microwave in the building cafeteria. Well,
there are a couple of newer people on our floor who for some reason don’t have
the common sense to know/understand that, and constantly use our fridge.
Doesn’t sound like a bid deal, but we have 12 people in our section alone, and
over time, things start to really building up and the fridge fills up, fast. I
start work at 7:00AM, and not long ago, I came in and there literally wasn’t
anywhere for me to put my food it was so full. I was livid. Well, a few people
in our office got really upset over it yesterday, and decided they wanted to
put a sign on the fridge, saying it was for our use only. I told them I didn’t
think it was a good idea – that, in fact, I think we had done something like
that in the past and it wasn’t well received, but I told them I agreed with the
issue, so I would be “on board” with whatever they chose to do. Since our
supervisor refuses to deal with the issue, they went ahead with it, and that
was that. Well, sure enough, when our supervisor arrived back in the office
today, she took it down immediately and all hell broke loose. I swear, it’s
always something. Always some drama going on. Annoying. Later in the day, my
supervisor came over to me to tell me about all of the wonderful things she
heard about me stepping in the last few days. Normally, I’d be all flushed with
excitement over it, but I just don’t even care anymore. It doesn’t matter in
the long run, so whatever. I don’t need praise that doesn’t really mean
anything, you know? I was very excited when the day was over, and the weekend
was in full swing. I picked the big girls up and relieved my mom from
babysitting duties. When Christian arrived home, we decided to splurge and go
out for dinner, to a local Mexican restaurant we hadn’t been to for a long
time. Which ended up being a little bit of a nightmare. They sat us right at
the very first booth, right by the door. We didn’t want to be those annoying
people who ask to sit somewhere else, so we tried to make it work. But, it was
just way too cold, and we didn’t want Eliza dealing with it every time the door
opened. So, they chaos of moving booths ensued (seriously , we should’ve just
asked right away). Then, while we were settling into our new booth, Eliza got a
hold of my glass of water and spilled it all over the floor, herself and half
the table. While Christian and the (annoyingly very annoyed waitress) cleaned
that up, I took her to the bathroom to change her. Finally, we settled in. The
big girls are usually very well behaved when we’re out to each, but they were
messing around in the booth, bothering each other the entire time and we were
getting so frustrated. So, we ate as quickly as we could and booked it home.
And, it was pretty much off to bed for everybody. What a day!
Everybody loves a thin mint!
Saturday started
off pretty busy. Christian was off to work early, so it was just the girls and
me for the day. After breakfast, we were off to swim class…which is always
super chaotic when I’m on my own with the girls. Eliza is getting too heavy to
carry for long distances (like swim class, where I have to park in the Egypt
end of the lot and walk all the way into the locker room), so I decided to try
using the stroller today, at least to get in and out of the building. I had to
send Olivia into the pool area to go into the locker room and let us in the
back door. Then, I left the stroller in there and carried Eliza up stairs. That
worked a little better, but it’s still just too much going on, I feel like my
brain is on hyper-drive. After class, we quickly showered, dried off and got
ready, and we were off to watch Olivia’s BFF, Bella’s, last hockey game. The
girls had a lot of fun watching her, it was really cute. Finally, we had
grabbed some lunch and made our way home. Amelia took a nice LONG nap, which
was great, but Eliza just kind of cat napped all day, which was not so great.
Christian arrived home and I ended up taking Eliza into the room and napped
with her for a while….while Christian made dinner. We all ate, hung out for a
while and watched some TV together, before sending everybody off to bed. I
ended up falling asleep with Eliza, so overall, it was a pretty boring, sleepy
day. Which isn’t so bad really.
Watching her BFF's Hockey Game.
On Sunday, we were
up and at it pretty early (well, for Sunday). Today, we were off to my in-laws
for breakfast. It was supposed to be our family and my sister in-law’s family,
but our nieces were with their dad this weekend, so it was just her and our
family. My mother in law made a TON of food too….chorizo and eggs, plain eggs,
bacon, beans. Oh man, I was SO FULL, I couldn’t believe it. The girls started
getting overly antsy, so we packed up up shortly after eating. We stopped at
Walmart on the way home…we needed to get the girls rain boots, so we picked
some up, and did a little just because shopping, and let them pick out a couple
of clearance toys while we were there. Olivia got a Monster High doll and play
set, while Amelia got a Monster High doll and Frozen body pillow. Spoiled girls!
But, I’m a firm believer that sometimes you just have to spoil them and have
fun. After shopping away, we made our way home. I hung out inside with Eliza,
while Christian stayed outside with the big girls so they could play for a
while. Bella and her dad stopped over for a while, so they played with the new
Monster High stuff for a while. Her mom picked stopped over to pick her up a
short time later, so we had dinner and settled in for the night. Christian went
out for a couple of beers while I finished up some laundry and watched my
shows. Another week has come to an end. All too soon, as usual.
Baby gate is finally up, they were feeling pretty "locked up"
Until Next Week!
XOXO
