School is almost out!! Plan for the summer

Tina is out of school next week!! Whoo Hoo!! I cannot wait. I love spending time with my big girl! I hope we can have a girls night soon. I feel like I do not spend enough alone time with her. I am going to plan something with her this weekend I think. Probably try to go to Cosi and hike alot. Also of course we are going to go to the beach. My favorite place in the world. So much to do this summer I cannot wait. Tina will be home and we all can do it together!

He is one in a million

My husband is one of a kind. There is no man as thoughtful, respectful or hardworking as he is. Everyday I wake up glad that I found him. My husband is there. He helps around the house without being asked. He makes me coffee in the morning. He puts our family first.

He is working a double on Friday to help our family. He is going to school to better his family. He spends time with us and makes us laugh. My girls and I are so grateful. I do not miss an opportunity to tell him how much I love and appreciate him. I do. I know how lucky I am. He makes me dinner and brings it to me. How many people's husband's do that? Not many. He is the love of my life.

Sometimes you do not end up with your first puppy love. Sometimes you find real love. I have and I just want to blog today and say that I have a very rare type of husband. I am glad for that. He wants to be here. He feels

I am on this site called cafemom and everyday there is someone griping because their husband does not do these things. I say do not settle. I think if your husband does not want to help you then he does not respect you. You can find someone that will. I am living proof of that.

Baby plans have changed....

Randy and I decided November is going to be the best time to conceive. I can be sick during Christmas so I do not have to deal with the crowds and the ringing of the bells. I also have the perfect excuse to stay out of the cold.

I am so excited. Going to be so fun having a planned baby. I cannot wait.

Summer here we come!!! And other things

I had to work all weekend but my girls spent Sunday afternoon in our pool with the neighbors. They had so much fun. Randy and I got in the pool ourselves after I got off work. So nice. Memorical day we are going to have a little cook out and let the girls swim. I have to work so it has to be lunch. Anyway I am so excited about our pool opening. Ava and I are going to spend the days getting in and learning how to swim. I got a new cute bathing suit that I hope to feel even better in by the end of summer. I am gong to look great!! I already think I am looking just wonderful. I have been getting compliments all the time. There are not many pictures of Tina due to her playing with her friends when Randy was taking pictures. I am sure there will be plenty of them later.

On another note I am going to take the 10 day challenge starting today. I am going to do the 4 mile fast walk for 10 days straight. I hope to do some major weight loss. I want a few inches off and a couple pounds. Wish me luck. Been having period problems so that might slow me down. We will see.

Another thing Randy and I have talked and we want to move our ttc up to November due to too many kids already having birthdays in August. So hopefully I will be very sick and pregnant in the month of December. I cannot wait til we can try. I am so excited about finally planning a baby. Might sound silly to some but I feel more in control. I feel more ready when we have things planned out. Wish us luck. Means I am going to have to change out ticker.

Anixous for summer

Christina had practice yesterday and I could not believe how much the girls complained! Christina said it felt like a desert outside and that she was going to jump in our 69 degree water. I told her go ahead but you will be cold. So I took the kids to the pool and let them get in. Tina stayed in for like 20 minutes. She was freezing when she got out. I then turned on the sprinkler and let the girlies play with that.

Wow I cannot believe how much fun kids have with sprinklers. They have to be the best invention ever! They loved getting in the pool for a minute too. I am so excited for summer. I think I am just as bad as the kids if not worse. Ava would not stop drinking the water. I put my camera on a different setting and captured her doing that. I could not seem to get a good shot of Tins. I have a whole bunch of the side of her head. I got one decent one. I thought I taught her better than that he he.

Anyway we had a great day. Daddy was at school and we spent some much needed time together. I have to work four days in a row. They are not used to that. I am going to feel bad but we need the extra money. Child support is not coming anymore. So I think this was just the thing for us. I even put them both to bed. I even snuggled with them on the couch for a few. I love my girls. They are my world. I am gong to miss them terribly this weekend. Tis life though. Always bills to pay. Never can make enough money so it seems.

No!!!!!

Avanelle is in her terrible twos. Or terrific twos. I guess it matters what day it is. Yesterday she was getting into things and I redirected her to a safe activity, and she told me no and for me to say yes. I had to laugh. She is getting so bossy. She thinks she knows everything. Somedays I have to take a deep breath and look at all my training. When I worked at TriRivers I worked with two year olds. I can do this!! I showed her the timeout chair yesterday. She knows where it is. I probably won't use it til she is three. I think I started way too early with time out with Tina. But good news she hardly ever has to go to timeout. She knows to listen. Avanelle on the other hand tells me she is not going to listen. I tell her if she does not listen then she is going to be in trouble. She tells me no trouble!! No point arguing with a two year old. We will get through this.... I cannot wait til she is three. Life is so much easier at that age. They are so helpful and agreeable. So there is light at the end of the tunnel. I just have to believe that.

Swimming Lessons

Randy's mother is getting the girls swimming lessons. I am so excited and happy to let her. She is worried about us having a pool. She wants the girls to know how to swim before we open our pool. She is afraid and that is ok. I hope this helps her. I hate to see her worry. If nothing comes out of this besides her being less worried I will be happy. Christina and Ava are excited and eager to learn. I am happy to take them and see them develop into good swimmers. I love to swim and I cannot wait to swim with them. I just know they are going to learn alot. I added some cute pictures of summer last year enjoy!

Weekend..... went so fast

Weekend came and went. Kind of like my lilacs in the the backyard.

Friday Tina had a game. She won her game of course. She need a little practice batting but that will come. Still want to take her to the batting cages. She strike out once. I am proud of her she is learning and having so much fun. We went home had icecream and went for a family walk. Then we put the kids to bed. Randy and I drank some wine and had a great evening talking and laughing. He lit some candles. What a nice night.

Saturday we woke up and ate a big breakfast. We got ready to go to Prairie Oaks. Of course dumb ass me forgot the sunscreen in the car. I was wearing a tank top and I got burned really good all over my neck and shoulders. Randy did too. The girls did not get burned at all. We walked around there for awhile then played on the playground and went home. Randy and I started dicussing the pool and how we are going to do things. We measured things out. Tina went to my exs mom's house. Randy and I were so tired from walking all day that we fell asleep on each other. We figured out real quick that the sun takes alot of out you. We spent the evening sleep and putting aloe on. So romantic.

We woke up Sunday. We got our crap in order and went out and got the pool stuff. We came home and Randy put it up while I made chicken on the grill. We had salads with chicken in them. We put Ava down for a nap and we took a nap while the pool was filling. Then we woke Ava up and went out to get the rest of the things. Chemicals and a cover. Before we knew it the pool was filled. We tested the water and have to put chemicals in it today. It's not a big pool but perfect for our family of four. It's 36 inches deep and 12 feet in diameter.

The kids went to bed and we went outside for a fire and ice cream. We then went to bed. I was so tired.

Avanelle cannot wait to swim. She tired to climb up the side of the pool. She told us that she did not want to go bye byes she wants to go swimming. Kids are so cute. So that was my weekend. Now back to work.

Friday sickness and two kids not as easy as it looks

Well here I was driving home from dropping off Tina and all of a sudden Avanelle is hacking. I look back and she threw up all over herself. Not to be gross or anything but it was green!!! Kind of scared me. So I got home and cleaned her up. Looks like I am staying home today. No ball game for me. Kind of sucks but hey my daughter is sick.

That is one thing about being the mother of two. You are cut up in two different pieces. I am only one person so I cannot take care of Avanelle and be at the game at the same time. I feel bad about it but I have to deal with the sick child who needs me more first.

Wait til I have three... or four ( if Randy wants four). Not sure what I will do then. But at the end of the day I love being a Mommy. It is challenging but very rewarding. Plus I am good at it. I know too many people that think having two is a piece of cake I cannot wait til they find out the truth. It is very hard because sometimes you have to choose. You never have time to yourself. Just when you think hey one is asleep, then the other comes home. Just when you think all I have to do is get the youngest one down. She refuses to sleep. Just when you think all is well, something goes wrong. It is never ending. Just when you think the laundry is caught up you have a sick child and you suddenly puke clothing to wash. Just when you think your husband and you have time, you fall asleep with exhaustion. Just when you think that you can go back to school you think when in the hell would I have time? Seriously it is never ending. I am so tired all the time and I have so many chores constantly. There is always a load of dishes in the dish washer and always a load in the clothes washer. Always something. Motherhood is defiantly not for the weak or the lazy! Or even for the inpatient. Nothing is going to be perfect but you take it as it comes and deal with one problem at a time. Someday I might get a whole day to do nothing. When they are in college! Hopefully they are not living at home.

Weekend

Friday was awesome. Randy got home early and we got the pizza on. I made a chicken pesto pizza with veggies and he made the pepperoni pizza for the girls.We ate and headed out to the ball field. Tina did awesome at batting I actually have a few videos that I am going to share at some point. I want to splice them together and make one. This turned out to be the first game they lost so far. Ridgedale had alot of bigger players. But life is not fair so I guess we move on and continue playing. It's all about having fun anyway.Avanelle decided to be her little rotten self and she ran onto the field to be with her sissy. Randy had to chase her down. That girl can run. She might be petite but she can run! So that was the game. Tina had alot of fun!!

We then went home and went around the block. I never knew we could have an adventure going around the block but boy did we. Avanelle and Tina took off running like they do. I kept saying come back and stop. Of course they did not listen. Tina ran very fair ahead Avanelle. Randy and I were trying to catch up and Avanelle fell. I then told both girls that running that far ahead is not a safe thing to do. It is a family walk not a marathon. Of course Tina was tired and started crying. She felt like I was blaming her for Avanelle falling when that was not the case. Avanelle falls every time we go around the block. I just think that if Tina would stay closer to the group Avanelle would too. Finally she stopped crying halfway around. Then this big bulldog without a leash decided to attack my dog. I had to kick the damn thing off of her. Then the dog when home and tried to catch up with us for some more. I was super pissed at that point. People need to leash their dog!!!! Next time I will call the authorities. Luckily the dog did not hurt Lexi since I kicked the dog off.I guess we are going to have to pick a different block to walk around.

That now gets me to the weekend. I had to work 12 hour shifts as always. Kind of sucked but I do love spending time with my clients. One of them has finally learned my name and says it constantly. Funny because I am the only person's name she knows and mine is the hardest name. Saturday I worked came home took a hot bath and relaxed with my hubby. We fell asleep watching Casablanca ( one of my favorite movies) So romantic. I had a glass of wine that relaxed me way too much and caused me to fall asleep.

Sunday, I woke up to heart shaped pancakes with the words I love you written in the syrup and butter. So sweet!! Tina was a grump!! She was so cranky. I did not get to spend time with her but right before I left. She finally said Happy Mother's day and gave me a rose. She made me a snow globe with her face at school. I love those homemade gifts!! The card she made me had a hint of what my present was lol. My favorite part of mother's day seeing those neat projects that they have made me. I love collecting them for later. Then I went to work. Randy went and spent time with his mother while I was at work. I really wish I could have went. Really sucked. I did not get to see anyone.

I then came home at 9 pm and Randy had my favorite thing waiting for me. A card. It said : To my sweetheart on mother's day. He wrote me to how he cannot wait to have another child with me and that I am the best mother he knows. I cried!!! I cannot wait either. I love being his wife and being the mother of his children. I could not have picked a better partner. Finally something I got right besides being a mother of course. I think Randy makes up for all the mistakes I have made. Finally something permanent something that is going to last. We have been having so much fun planning our third child. I really cannot wait to get the show on the road. We are not ready yet we still have a few things to get straightened out.

What a great mother's day morning. It is nice being appreciated. I hope everyone else had a great mother's day. I know I did. My eighth mother's day was awesome!! I just wish I could have been home all day. But I really did have a great morning!

Randy's dilemma

My husband wants nothing more than to provide for our family. He does a wonderful job of it. I have seen him work from 3 am to 3 pm. He loves us and wants the best for us. I guess a job is coming open that makes over $20.00 an hour but he would not be able to go to school and there would be alot of overtime. So he has pretty much decided once again that is family is first before money. He wants his degree. Once again shows how you cannot have it all. I admire him. I really do. He makes the best decision regarding out family. I could not ask for more. I am very lucky to have him and I know this every day.

Tina's Game

Tina had her first game today. She did so good batting. I felt bad because Randy did not get to see it. He had to go to school at 6. But he gets to help coach on Friday. Anyway, she just did great. Got to wear black marks under her eyes and played second base one inning. I was so glad to get to see her play. I am so proud of her.

After her game we took her for some ice cream to celebrate! Next game is Friday and I am pumped!!!!

How Randy is doing in college.

It's been an adjustment. We have done a great job though. Balancing everything can be tough at times. But that is life. A balancing act. Randy has an A in his class. I am very proud of him. I have to say that I am not sure he would be doing this well without me. I have to keep him on task. He tends to get distracted easily. I call him when I am at work and keep him on what he needs to do. But the rest is all him. He is determined to make a better life for his family. I love that about him. He is driven. Whatever he does I know he will do a great job. He is a worker a very hard worker.

He is starting to get connections at work. He is making alot of friends. I actually cannot imagine anyone not liking my husband. He is probably the sweetest guy I know. He has a new back -up job. Hopefully someday he has a better job at whirlpool. Maybe once he gets his degree.

I love my husband and support him. Keep an eye out in three years he may have his degree and be doing great things!

Friday Saturday Sunday, Life does not get much better!!!

When I say life cannot get much better I mean it!!

Friday night my family and I went to the ball park to watch Tina's scrimmage. She is getting so much better batting. Randy was very happy because he got to help coach. That man loves helping out!! It's been hard for him not to. But with school and everything we made the best decision regarding him being a full-time coach vs helping. Hopefully he can for Ava. By then we should be where we want to be. More money and done with school. Anyway Ava got restless. Thank goodness for bubbles. Where would I be without them? We went to a field away from the games. We had fun blowing bubbles and catching them. Before I knew it Ava wanted to go to the car. She fell asleep in her car seat. So I was stuck in the car!! Sucked!! But when you have two kids you cannot be everywhere.

After the scrimmage we went to Aldis but they were closed. So we went home and got the kids ready for bed. We had to get ready for going to the zoo. I was kind of worried about the weather. So Randy and I put Ava to bed and Tina. We went outback and had a nice fire. We had a glass of wine and talked together. So nice. I enjoy those alone times. Hard to come by with two girls. Very energetic girls.

Well we woke up Saturday and got everything ready. We decided to face the storm. We packed a lunch to eat there. i wanted to keep it cheap. We are saving for a baby . I have to watch what we spend. So we got to the zoo parked and went in. We were pleasantly surprised by how there was very little crowd. Lucky us it did not rain. I was so happy. We got to see everything. Tina and I loved the manatees. Ava not so much. She seemed scared of them. I got so many great pictures. I will share a few above. Well we then went home after we seen everything. We cleaned ourselves up and went shopping. We came home ate dinner. Tina had a friend stay.

Sunday morning Randy and I put a movie in for the girls in the playroom while we stayed in bed. The playroom is off our room so they were close. We talked about baby names. We have Corbin Lee for a boy and Lorali or Aster for a girl. We joked around and had a pillow fight. Only seven more months!! So much to do before we are there. Well we made a big breakfast as usual and got ready for the day. We decided to watch Wuthering Heights. I have been reading the book and wow!! What a great book!! My new favorite. So romantic. Really set the mood for later.

We then went to the park, climbed the hill and ate lunch. Unfortunately the Ava had an accident on the way to the bathroom. She peed on Randy. Accidents happen. We went home changed her clothes then went to Miejers. We came home made dinner and took a walk. So nice. Ava had to jump in ever puddle. I taught her how lol!!! So funny! Kids need so experience it. You are only a kid once. Why not enjoy it? That's how I feel about it. I never get mad. I am just glad to have the two of them. So now I am waiting on Randy and we are going to drink wine and listen to romantic music. I have to say I love my marriage. We are good to each other. I think people think we put a front. No we are real. Crazy in love!! I feel bad that some people are jealous. Go out and find it. I believe it is out there for everyone. Good night!! Love each other. Love is the best gift. Have a nice night!