Wow... 1st of all, 4:30am is way too early to be up on a Saturday morning {thank you hubby's work schedule}. Then the morning storm rips through and I have 3 little ladies who are scared to death that another tree is going to hit the house and that we'll have a black out again. Ugh, good times I tell ya!!! As I sit here trying to put the finishing touches on our Chicago trip the constant fighting and bickering has finally made me snap. As of right now all 3 girls are in their rooms. Claudia is blaming Constance, Constance is bawling and Chloe is giggling away, while riding her rocking horse all.by.herself!!! Why can't they all get along?!?! I call a {re-do}!!!! The house is destroyed with toys, you'd think a tornado ripped through the inside of the house, and yet they sit here telling me their bored. Seriously, how can you be bored. I'm tempted to show the big one what being bored really looks like. Oh and if the 2 little ones can't start sharing soon, they too will become bored, very fast!!!
AAAAHHHHHHH!!!!! {insert a vision of me screaming and pulling out my hair, jumping up and down like a toddler I know having a tantrum}
I post this because I know I am not alone. Many of my mommy friends could have wrote the same post. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE my girls, but the constant fighting and bickering is going to push me over the edge. I'm not looking for any advice, or any sympathy... I just need to write out my thoughts. I know in 20 years {hopefully} I will sit back and think "wow, it's so quiet here, I wish the girls were back home, fighting and all." I post this all here as a reminder of what my life was like at this very second. While I'm on the edge of needing a padded room, I'm also reminded just how much I love my life, my hubby and my girls. Yes, I'm very hopeful that my {re-do} is better than the 1st try of the day... but we shall see.
As my post comes to a close, the crying and yelling has ended... I think I hear giggling out of all 3 girls. I know they are ready to get out of their rooms, but I think I'll crack open a nice diet coke 1st and enjoy this very moment. To end I find it fitting to have one more moment... are you ready?!?!
aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!! {insert a vision of this calm, cool, relaxed mama, sipping a nice cold diet coke cherishing the moment of giggles coming from behind closed doors}
it goes way too fast, things change way too quick... enjoy every moment... that's my motto and I'm sticking to it!!!
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
quote of the day...
Constance holding a bag of skittles ~ "look mom, gamma gave me skittles. I had one thousand today."
Thankfully "gamma" also wore her out so she went right to sleep... it could have been a long night after eating one thousand skittles... LOL!!!
Thankfully "gamma" also wore her out so she went right to sleep... it could have been a long night after eating one thousand skittles... LOL!!!
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
a {less gross} update...
Now that the gross stuff is all out of the way, and the girls are actually playing nice at the moment I thought it was a good time to update on the events of summer. We have been busy!!! The cottage, the pool, the fair, parks, playdates with friends, the beach and lazy days in pj's have all made the list of fun things we've done this summer. It's hard to believe that it's already August. That means the "S" word is right around the corner... ugh!!! That word is so depressing. In case someone is unaware of the "S" word, it's a word that rhymes with cruel... (quite fitting that they rhyme... LOL!!!)
Claudia has had "the best summer ever"... at least twice a week I hear "mom, this is the best day ever!!!" She is LOVING the pool. The girl started the summer swimming with her life jacket and swim ring, and is now jumping off the diving board with only a life jacket and in the last few days has figured out that she can swim under the water and that it's okay if her face gets wet. She loves it and I LOVE that her confidence in swimming is growing every time we're in the pool. Sunday she told me that I was the best swimming teacher every!!! Oh how it melted my heart. She's been reading a lot and we've started working on multiplication (thanks to the $1 books at Target). She's also into the Kid Bop's Music right now... the girl knows pretty much all the words on discs 18, 19 & 20. She can totally out sing me. However, it's just another reminder that she is growing up and isn't my little preschool song singing girl anymore. Back to "S" shopping should be quite the adventure this year.
Constance is a trip... the girl says the cutest things. She doesn't have to try to silly either, she is just naturally silly. She is SO excited for "pees-cool". When we were at the fair last week she kept telling everyone that the fair was at her "pees-cool". She picked out a new backpack the other day, and has pretty much wore the zipper out already. She's also my drama queen. It's amazing to me how quickly she can turn the tears on. She's also an instigator... her younger sister doesn't take any crap though and has caused many tears to be shed by Constance. One minute they can be best of friends and then the next they become worst enemies.
Chloe... wow, the girl has a temper. It's fierce!!! She is talking more and more each day. I love it when I put her to bed and she says, "nite, nite mommy... I wuv you mommy... seet dreams mommy"... oh how I love to hear her cute little voice. She unfortunately is also my biter. Poor Constance usually gets the blunt of the biting, with Claudia taking 2nd place and sadly even her little friend Ava. We went for 2 weeks that she would bite daily. The biting would come out of no where... there were a few times that Constance would be right in her face being an instigator, but most of the time it was so random. Thankfully she is not just biting to bite anymore and we are down to maybe once a week instead of daily. It's so crazy how each kiddo is SO different. I think we are on the right track though. We continue to be consistent with discipline and hopefully my next update we are biting free. It was bad enough that she was biting her sisters, but I was SO embarrassed when she bite little Ava. No mom wants to be the mom of "the playgroup biter". Hopefully we are over the worst of the issue.
As for our family... we are super excited to take a family vacation together. It's only a long weekend away at the cottage, but it will be so nice to be together as a family. We will be more than ready to get away as we are going to be in the midst of a mess at our house when construction starts in 2 weeks. We will be having our roof replaced and the damage from the wind storm fixed. I am beyond thrilled that we aren't doing the work ourselves this time, but it is still going to be a mess around here.
Well... talk about a lot of blah, blah, blahing today... I wish I could be better and do it more on a regular basis rather than writing these novels every few months... maybe someday, but right now this is going to have to do. Time to throw in another load of laundry and to see what damage has been done by the girls. There hasn't been any fighting while I've been writing this out... I'm actually quite amazed... I'm going to enjoy it now, because in 10 minutes that may not be the story. That's my life, and I'm loving it!!!
Claudia has had "the best summer ever"... at least twice a week I hear "mom, this is the best day ever!!!" She is LOVING the pool. The girl started the summer swimming with her life jacket and swim ring, and is now jumping off the diving board with only a life jacket and in the last few days has figured out that she can swim under the water and that it's okay if her face gets wet. She loves it and I LOVE that her confidence in swimming is growing every time we're in the pool. Sunday she told me that I was the best swimming teacher every!!! Oh how it melted my heart. She's been reading a lot and we've started working on multiplication (thanks to the $1 books at Target). She's also into the Kid Bop's Music right now... the girl knows pretty much all the words on discs 18, 19 & 20. She can totally out sing me. However, it's just another reminder that she is growing up and isn't my little preschool song singing girl anymore. Back to "S" shopping should be quite the adventure this year.
Constance is a trip... the girl says the cutest things. She doesn't have to try to silly either, she is just naturally silly. She is SO excited for "pees-cool". When we were at the fair last week she kept telling everyone that the fair was at her "pees-cool". She picked out a new backpack the other day, and has pretty much wore the zipper out already. She's also my drama queen. It's amazing to me how quickly she can turn the tears on. She's also an instigator... her younger sister doesn't take any crap though and has caused many tears to be shed by Constance. One minute they can be best of friends and then the next they become worst enemies.
Chloe... wow, the girl has a temper. It's fierce!!! She is talking more and more each day. I love it when I put her to bed and she says, "nite, nite mommy... I wuv you mommy... seet dreams mommy"... oh how I love to hear her cute little voice. She unfortunately is also my biter. Poor Constance usually gets the blunt of the biting, with Claudia taking 2nd place and sadly even her little friend Ava. We went for 2 weeks that she would bite daily. The biting would come out of no where... there were a few times that Constance would be right in her face being an instigator, but most of the time it was so random. Thankfully she is not just biting to bite anymore and we are down to maybe once a week instead of daily. It's so crazy how each kiddo is SO different. I think we are on the right track though. We continue to be consistent with discipline and hopefully my next update we are biting free. It was bad enough that she was biting her sisters, but I was SO embarrassed when she bite little Ava. No mom wants to be the mom of "the playgroup biter". Hopefully we are over the worst of the issue.
As for our family... we are super excited to take a family vacation together. It's only a long weekend away at the cottage, but it will be so nice to be together as a family. We will be more than ready to get away as we are going to be in the midst of a mess at our house when construction starts in 2 weeks. We will be having our roof replaced and the damage from the wind storm fixed. I am beyond thrilled that we aren't doing the work ourselves this time, but it is still going to be a mess around here.
Well... talk about a lot of blah, blah, blahing today... I wish I could be better and do it more on a regular basis rather than writing these novels every few months... maybe someday, but right now this is going to have to do. Time to throw in another load of laundry and to see what damage has been done by the girls. There hasn't been any fighting while I've been writing this out... I'm actually quite amazed... I'm going to enjoy it now, because in 10 minutes that may not be the story. That's my life, and I'm loving it!!!
Sunday, July 31, 2011
and it goes on and on and on...
There's never a dull moment over here. I accept that this is my life, as disgusting as it can be at times. Yes, I said disgusting... that's your heads up that this may be one of those posts that leaves you gagging, but I just have to write about it. I have to try to find the humor in it. Yesterday was the start of a busy week over here. I have 4 possible 5 sessions scheduled this week, which is great, but also means some late nights editing. At dinner I decided to have a cup of coffee to help keep me going. The coffee did the trick and I was still pounding out pictures at 11pm, which I know isn't late for some of you, but on a {normal} night my bedtime is 9pm... I'm so old and boring sometimes... LOL!!! My eye lids finally started to feel heavy around midnight, so I wrapped things up and made my way to bed. As I walked in the room I was hit with the worst smell ever. Instead of waking the hubby up by turning on the lights, I grabbed a flashlight and went on a search for the stink. Our little puggers {Mattie Sue} is getting old and it's not uncommon for her to have accidents at night so I thought I knew what I was looking for. After a search of the floor and the end of the bed where she sometimes sleeps I came up empty handed. The stink was still there, but since I couldn't find anything I thought maybe a dog had bad gas and the stink would go away so I decided to just go to sleep... BIG MISTAKE!!!! As I quietly climbed into bed, {here it comes} I laid in the stink... thankfully I caught myself right away, before my head hit the big stinky pillow filled with the horrid mess, but it was still bad. I got myself cleaned up and then again grabbed the flashlight and went to work, cleaning the stinky mess. Do you know how hard it is to clean up something stinky while you're holding a flashlight in your mouth??? I do now and it isn't pretty. I finally was able to get it all cleaned up. However my side of the bed was a big wet, soapy mess from me scrubbing the stink out, so I had the privilege of spending the night on the couch. I have no idea how Jon did not wake up to the smell, and he's pretty darn lucky he didn't snuggle with my pillow {although that would have made me giggle a little... okay, A LOT} but nope this time it was all me.
Life... it just goes on and on and on... of course today is now filled with laundry, laundry and more laundry. Of course that means we are stuck inside today and that brings the screaming, fighting and sheer craziness out at our house. It's only 10:30 and I'm ready for everyone to nap already, myself included... preferably in a non-stinky room.
In the midst of the craziness and stink I do have to say that I am super thankful that I get to be home in the midst of it all. While I could totally do without the stink and the clean up that followed, it's all part of my crazy life... the life I love and wouldn't trade for the world.
Life... it just goes on and on and on... of course today is now filled with laundry, laundry and more laundry. Of course that means we are stuck inside today and that brings the screaming, fighting and sheer craziness out at our house. It's only 10:30 and I'm ready for everyone to nap already, myself included... preferably in a non-stinky room.
In the midst of the craziness and stink I do have to say that I am super thankful that I get to be home in the midst of it all. While I could totally do without the stink and the clean up that followed, it's all part of my crazy life... the life I love and wouldn't trade for the world.
Friday, June 3, 2011
Cottage Life...
It has begun!!! Yesterday I spent the day at the cottage cleaning with my mom and grandma. I have to say it felt funny cleaning a cottage that hadn't been used since last fall... why was it funny you ask?!?! Well it was actually cleaner than my own house before we even started cleaning... oh well. Lately my life has been so crazy busy I would rather spend time playing with my girls than cleaning. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE a clean and fresh house, but right now my kids come 1st. This sign hangs in my house... it makes me giggle every time I read it :)
The 1st official trip to the cottage always takes the most prep... "did I pack this, did I pack that?... oh wait, don't forget this"... and then of course it's inevitable that I will leave the house and get 15 miles down the road and realize what I forgot. Today the prep of laundry will be my main goal... packing for 3 little girls isn't easy. A few weeks ago I bought the girls their own "cottage bags"... and while their bags have been packed since I brought the bags home, my packing has only just begun.
One of my favorite things about the cottage is the quietness of technology. Of course I have my cell phone and am only a text away, but we have no internet up there and I'm looking forward to the break. I'll definitely miss my Facebook and my Pandora, but the free time with my girls is amazing and something I am not going to pass. Don't worry photo clients... the laptop will be packed and I will have plenty of editing time as I sit out on the deck with my feet up and a nice fresh lemonade listening to my munchkins play in the kiddo pool... oh I can't wait!!! Bring it on!!! Oh summer vacation, I have missed you... welcome back old friend... welcome back!!!
The 1st official trip to the cottage always takes the most prep... "did I pack this, did I pack that?... oh wait, don't forget this"... and then of course it's inevitable that I will leave the house and get 15 miles down the road and realize what I forgot. Today the prep of laundry will be my main goal... packing for 3 little girls isn't easy. A few weeks ago I bought the girls their own "cottage bags"... and while their bags have been packed since I brought the bags home, my packing has only just begun.One of my favorite things about the cottage is the quietness of technology. Of course I have my cell phone and am only a text away, but we have no internet up there and I'm looking forward to the break. I'll definitely miss my Facebook and my Pandora, but the free time with my girls is amazing and something I am not going to pass. Don't worry photo clients... the laptop will be packed and I will have plenty of editing time as I sit out on the deck with my feet up and a nice fresh lemonade listening to my munchkins play in the kiddo pool... oh I can't wait!!! Bring it on!!! Oh summer vacation, I have missed you... welcome back old friend... welcome back!!!
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Time flies...
Today was my 1st official day of Summer Vacation. I've been meaning to clean up my blog list, but during the school year I never have time. It was heartbreaking to me to know that the last time I was here was last June... yikes... how does a whole year go by so quickly? Here's a quick wrap of our past year...
June, July, August 2010 ~ We spent a lot of time at the cottage, and I personally spent a lot of time behind the camera.
September 2010 ~ It was time to head back to school. Claudia started 1st grade and I went back to work as an assistant in the Great Start Readiness Preschool Program.
October, November, December 2010 ~ Work, work, work... and somewhere in there I was a mom, wife and photographer... yes, it was insane!!!
January 2011 ~ We rang in the New Year... well kind of... I think we were all sleeping by 10pm... LOL!!!
February 2011 ~ Claudia got glasses... and can I just say she looks A.D.O.R.A.B.L.E in them!!!
March 2011 ~ The little girls and I were in a car accident. Thankfully everyone walked away. Jon and I had the privilege of van shopping... NOT... it was horrible. I hated every minute of it!!! We ended up getting a newer and nicer van and ended up having some extra $ in our pocket, so it ended up not being too bad, but definitely not something I want to go through again any time soon.
April 2011 ~ Again... work, work, work... started getting excited for the end of the school year.
May 2011 ~ Wrapped up another school year and photographed my 1st "big" wedding. It was awesome!!!!
Phew... when it's actually typed out there's nothing big and earth shattering that happened to us, but the everyday business consumes me, and I'm thrilled to have a break!!!
I'm going to try hard to keep up better on this blog... it's a good release for me to type out my thoughts... so get ready... I'm back and ready to blah, blah, blah it up!!!
June, July, August 2010 ~ We spent a lot of time at the cottage, and I personally spent a lot of time behind the camera.
September 2010 ~ It was time to head back to school. Claudia started 1st grade and I went back to work as an assistant in the Great Start Readiness Preschool Program.
October, November, December 2010 ~ Work, work, work... and somewhere in there I was a mom, wife and photographer... yes, it was insane!!!
January 2011 ~ We rang in the New Year... well kind of... I think we were all sleeping by 10pm... LOL!!!
February 2011 ~ Claudia got glasses... and can I just say she looks A.D.O.R.A.B.L.E in them!!!
March 2011 ~ The little girls and I were in a car accident. Thankfully everyone walked away. Jon and I had the privilege of van shopping... NOT... it was horrible. I hated every minute of it!!! We ended up getting a newer and nicer van and ended up having some extra $ in our pocket, so it ended up not being too bad, but definitely not something I want to go through again any time soon.
April 2011 ~ Again... work, work, work... started getting excited for the end of the school year.
May 2011 ~ Wrapped up another school year and photographed my 1st "big" wedding. It was awesome!!!!
Phew... when it's actually typed out there's nothing big and earth shattering that happened to us, but the everyday business consumes me, and I'm thrilled to have a break!!!
I'm going to try hard to keep up better on this blog... it's a good release for me to type out my thoughts... so get ready... I'm back and ready to blah, blah, blah it up!!!
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