Friday, May 25, 2012

One of THOSE days

Some days are better than others….
Today has been one of those ups and downs kind of a day. Sorry this post isn’t gonna be FUN and EXCITING… more of a rant kind of a post. Or complaining. Whatever you wanna call it.

About a week ago my hubby came home from work and he sounded HORRIBLE!  He said that he had woken up not feeling good, but being the “BIG BAD MARINE” that he is, he went to work.  Well by Friday night I felt HORRIBLE myself.  Running nose, watery eyes, sneezing, coughing… all the typical signs of allergies. My hubby had a fever on top of everything else. I never got the fever part.
Saturday morning, my hubby still had to get up and go to work. He had a “Yellow Ribbon” event for at work.  He was still sounding horrible and I felt bad he had to work.  But I had to go with my day too, along with taking care of my 4 girls AND not feeling good myself. 
When my hubby got home at 430 we had dinner and then he went and sat in his chair.  By 5pm he was asleep and didn’t wake up until 745pm. He then headed back to the bedroom where APPARENTLY he fell asleep again and did not wake up until 745am Sunday morning. Yes, that is right he slept for over 14 hours! And me, well I finally got to bed at around 1130pm (on the couch, because he had fallen asleep with crap all over my side of the bed) and then was awake by 630am Sunday morning.
Well that was just the beginning.  My question is Why are men such babies when they are sick??  I mean really, I don’t get to nap or relax when I am sick. If I do, our world (the house) falls all around us.
By Tues morning my sweet baby girl (I guess I should stop calling her that since she IS 3 ½ years old LOL) started to feel ICKY.  By 1pm on tues she had had 3 naps.  That is SOOOO unlike her.  I took her temp and it was running 102 degrees.  My poor little girl had come down with the crud.  And since Tuesday she has been sick.  I finally broke down and took her to the Dr. this morning. Her temp has not gone away and I am just exhausted!  I have been up with her everynight and I just want her to get better. 
At the Dr they weighed Delaney and she is back down to 27 lbs. She has lost 2 lbs since her last visit in March.  The dr, took a throat culture (although she had her tonsils and adenoids taken out March 20th of this year) she said she wanted to be on the safe side with the long weekend.
So the rest of my day was spent loving my baby girl and holding her as she was feeling icky. I don’t get much accomplished when she is sick.
So my emotions have been running high lately. Being tired, PMS and the goings on in my life. I have TRIED to share my feelings and things with my hubby, but he isn’t much of a listener. ESPECIALLY when TV is on (which Is 24/7)  So tonight after I put the girls to bed and tensions were high between the oldest 2 after they had a little fight before bed. I sat down to TRY to once again talk to my hubby about things.  Well, that didn’t work out so well.  NOTHING was resolved and I feel crappier than I did BEFORE I started to talk to him.
I would LOVE to chalk this up to him AND me not feeling our best, but this has become the way of life for me lately.
I am NOT writing this to say my marriage is crap. I love my hubby.  I think we are just in a rut.  We will be celebrating our 15 year wedding anniversary MAY 31st. I wish I could get things to change.  But after all these years I have figured out, the ONLY person I can change is ME.  I CANNOT change him. I wish I could.
So, there is my complaint, my rant, whatever.  I just have to remind myself, tomorrow will be a better day (I HOPE)

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Springtime

It is SPRINGTIME!  I love this time of year when I can plant flowers and make my yard “pretty”

A couple weeks ago I spent the afternoon planting flowers with my girls.  LOVE the patriotic flowers… gotta have the Red White and Blue.  We had a great time laughing and playing in the dirt and water (sorry no pictures of the MESS we made) just the fun afterwards



Here are the pretty flowers we planted. 






We had a great time laughing and playing in the dirt and water (sorry no pictures of the MESS we made) just the fun afterwards



A quick trip



Walgreens has gotta be my home away from home these days.  The deals at that place ROCK! I just can’t stay away. LOL  Here is one of the deals that I got a couple weeks ago.  I got all of these goodies and paid just $5.12 and saved a Whopping $61.37.  




This is just one of MANY trips I have made to Walgreens in the past few weeks.  I just love sharing my deals.  Wanna see more???? Stay tuned!
The tooth fairy is pretty busy these days.  Kelsee (my #3) lost another tooth the Monday after Mother’s day.  She was so excited to show off her HOLE.  She came home from school and went right in to get a snack, like always.  After eating some cheetos she went into the bathroom and came out holding her tooth.  (thus the CHEESY smile!)



The best part of it was that little Delaney came running over to me and said “mama, look my toofs are coming out too.” And she wiggled her tongue back and forth in her mouth.   That little girl cracks me up!

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Happy Mother's Day!



Happy Mother's Day to......

ME!

Yes I am a mommy, of 4 sweet girls.  I am lucky to have them call me MOM! They bless my life each day and I am so grateful that I get to stay home with them and have the daily adventures that we do.
my sweet girls

I have had the GREATEST example to teach me HOW to be a mom... 
my mom and I at BYU Womens Conference 2012
 my mom is THE TOP MOM (in my book) She has taught me to be caring, loving, charitable and selfless.  I am so lucky to call her mom.  She is ALWAYS there to listen to me.  To give me suggestions and loving counsel. Even as I have grown up I know I can count on my mom to be there.
My Mother's Day did NOT start out the way I had planned (not that I really had a "plan" for the day)
 I was up EVERY hour last night (except for 1am.) I just laid in bed dozing off for 15-20 minutes at a time. Not the kind of night that I look forward to.  Let's just say, I didn't get much sleep.
When I got up though I came out into the livingroom and my family (minus the oldest) said HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to me.  My sweet Kelsee asked what I wanted for breakfast.  I figured I was just gonna eat cereal.  My hubby said - Ah! NO, you are NOT having cereal for your MOTHER'S DAY breakfast.  So instead he made me a cheese omelette and french toast.  It was so yummy.  Sydney helped him make it. (she loves cookin' with her daddy)

 
After enjoying a yummy breakfast we all got ready and headed to church.  It was a great meeting today.  We met together today with the Relief Society and the Young Women.  Kinda nice hearing a RS lesson after being in YW for so long now. My sweet little Delaney brought me a note after church and gave me her fruit snack and said "MAMA I LOVE YOU THIS (holding her arms stretched out) MUCH!"  I am so lucky. 
After church lunch was made for me.... and then dinner was too :)  How lucky I have been.  Thank you to my WONDERFUL husband for making it possible for me to be a MOMMY! I have the GREATEST job EVER!  

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Easter 2012

Easter 2012 was quiet…
Saturday we decorated Easter eggs. I had only hard boiled less than a dozen but the girls (and daddy) had fun. (of course I was the one TAKING the pictures, as always)










Happy 14th Birthday Haylee

So I am such a bad mom!  I admit it.  Life has just got too crazy and busy over the last few months. I want to blog but it just gets put on the back burner. So now it’s time to catch up….. so forgive my few posts all at once. And maybe, just maybe I can get caught up on “life”
March 23, 2012 we celebrated my OLDEST daughter’s birthday

HAPPY 14th BIRTHDAY HAYLEE NICOL!


She is all growed up (as they always said on Rugrats, one of her fav shows when she was younger) She is BEAUTIFUL, talented, a great sister, a wonderful daughter and an awesome babysitter!  She is my right hand girl. I can always count on her to be there to help me out.  I am so lucky to be her mom.
 
We didn’t do much for her birthday. Of course I decorated her door and made her a BIG poster.  She had her BFF sleep over and we had pizza for dinner.  I made her a chocolate chip cookie cake (which has been at her request for the past few years now) 









I certainly hope she had a good birthday and felt LOVED.  We LOVE you Haylee Nicol!