Hi hi! I've done pretty much nothing for the last 2 hrs except to sit at the computer. Augh. Sure, we had lunch and I played a bit with the kids. But, that's about it. I typed up a potential kijiji ad, advertising daycare spots over the Christmas holidays. I know some parents can be stuck for care then because either their caregiver took off time or they don't need care because their kids are in school full time. I only have 2 kids here so that leaves me with 3 potential spots to fill. sigh I really hope I can luck out and find some kids for those 2 weeks (and that it works with my schedule!)

 

I can't believe I have to leave in 15 mins. Looks like it'll be a quick snack... crackers, cheese and clementines. Just gotta cut up some cheese.

 

Gotta change a stinky bum and clean up Timmy as he got into some paint. Delaney requested painting after school but I'm realizing today may not work as maddie gets picked up early and Gavin and Laura likely will since their dad comes to get them.

 

Hope you're having a good day!

i'm having a pretty decent day.  tired though!  during my cleaning job i was so tired i was actually tempted to close the bathroom door and lie on the floor.  i've never felt like that during a job before!

 

that's a good idea - i'm sure there are plenty of parents who need care during the holidays.  i hope you get a few kids and they aren't annoying!

 

you like the taco salad huh?  yum doritos lol - i haven't made it in years but i'd love to have the doritos right now.

 

i'm tired but i totally need to pull a late night to be able to relax late.r  scott thinks i'm nuts with that but he doesn't get that it's hard for me to relax and have fun when there's so much stuff not done.  yes, i can chill and sleep or whatever or be a bum but it's not "fun" for me to be a bum when the house is a mess - if i'm going to relax and do crafts and stuff this wknd i want a clean house and stuff done.

 

going to update my list.  i'm pretty behind.  braeden came home sick.  i had no cell coverage where my job is so i came out at 1:00 and there were 3 missed calls starting at 11.  poor kid was in the health room for almost 2.5 hours before he got picked up.  they called our house, my cell, scott's cell, my mom, and finally scott's work.  by the time i got the messages scott was on his way home to get him (but still had an hour left to drive) and my mom was on her way to pick him up.  scott called her and asked her to - apparently the school had the wrong # for her.  braeden went to the health room at 10:45 but told them i was on a cleaning job and would be done at noon.  not sure where he got that information - i don't normally finish that one and get home 'til almost 2 but that is why they waited 'til 12:30 to start calling other numbers.  he's fine though.  i hope he can go to school tomorrow.  the job i have tomorrow is the same people i had to postpone last time for my kids being sick.  i've been out and about since about 3:30 - my doctor's apptmt ran late so about 3.5 hours of running this evening and only about a 2-hour break in between my job which i used to touch up paint the ceiling and take a small break lying down with my eyes closed.

 

i have a lot more to do!

 

i hope you got something done after 4:41

Well, I'm doing pretty good here but have been having braxton-hicks throughout the day so I'm thinking I'm over-doing it a bit. Sooo, while I'd love to keep on going, I don't know that I can. There is stuff I can't put off though like putting away the meat, some veggies still from grocery shopping and I have the cinnamon roll dough rising. I don't want it to get crusty so I need to deal with it tonight.

 

Augh, I dont' know what to do. I think I will cover up the dough and leave it for tomorow. The only thing on the agenda is grocery shopping and then the rest of the time can be spent at home, getting stuff done. So, maybe if I leave the grocery shopping til later in the day, that might work out. I feel so much better earlier in the day, especially if I drive the kids rather than walk. So, I should take advantage of that at home.

 

Going to check the cinnamon dough recipe and then head to bed. I'll probably watch t.v. for a bit and come up with a list of who I need to write Christmas cards for... hmm, maybe I'll just start writing those up too. A good, lazy activity! Gotta make up my grocery list too.

Here's something weird - I sometimes get that Braxton-Hicks feeling even when I'm not pregnant!  I had false labor a lot with Chane.  The doctor said the way I could tell is if I started walking around a lot and they went away.  Real labor would progress with exercise but Braxton-Hicks would subside.  Of course you feel like lying down when you get them out of fear of having the baby early!

 

Do you like your cinnamon roll recipe?  Is it bread machine?  I want to make real cinnamon rolls this year instead of the kind in a can.  We have cinnamon rolls every Christmas morning.  Although I'm not sure if I can deal with baking on Christmas Eve along with everything else. Do you ever make yours the night before?  I did it once and they were crusty like you said.  I let them rise in the fridge instead of baking them the night before.  I wonder if baking them the night before would be better?  Is that what you do?  I know I can't deal with actually making the rolls on Christmas morning.  I have so much trouble rolling them out that even with the bread machine doing the work it still takes me a long time.

 

LOL I just read your next paragraph about covering it.  If you cover it with greased plastic wrap would that keep it from being crusty?  I do that with regular rolls.  Hmm.  You are the expert - any advice?

 

I am starting to finally realize what time of day I can get things done too.  LIke different times I can do different things. It used to be that late at night I could get stuff done but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore.  Last night we were watching tv and I asked Scott if we could pause it for 5 minutes and go down and do something.  I managed to finally sort out everything in the living room so it looks nice now other than the actual tubs of sorted stuff need to be moved out but it's nto spread all over.  He did his Scout tub because he was having an asthma attack and couldn't move around fast.  He's been having a low grade attack for a few days.  I would like to call and make him an appointment - I wonder if he has a respiratory infection like bronchitis or something?  But I don't know when to make the appointment and can't get him to make one himself.  Maybe I'll just do it and call him at work and tell him to get home for the doctor.  If I could be sure I could actually reach him!

 

Anyway, I was saying I need to do better about planning for when I have more energy because I do know what times I can do what.  Although the last couple of weeks anything is an effort.  No highs.  I think that might be the drugs?  I don't know!  I have a cleaning job today - I'll see if I feel like lying down halfway through again.  I hope not - that really sucked.  Luckily Brae seems to be okay.  I might have even resorted to taking him sick to my mom's just to avoid postponing this job - it seems like I'm always postponing for sickness and I didn't want to do it again not to mention I don't want any cleaning jobs next week.

 

Gotta get C out of tub

Whoa, that is weird! Well, I'm still having some weird cramping stuff going on. So, we'll see how today goes.

 

This is a new recipe I'm making. I found it on Pioneer Woman.. a blog that's kinda neat. I've only ever looked at her cooking stuff but she seems like a rpetty funny lady. it was pretty dry last night so I'm wondering if I messed something up. But, I checked today and the dough looks good and it's not crusty! I had to put it in my garage since my fridge is full. I'll let you know how things go today when I try to make them. I'm going to bake and frost them and then freeze them. We'll see how that goes! I'm by far an expert on yeasty stuff. I can never get the hang of it.

 

Hope today is a more awake day for you! I do wonder if it's the meds doing that to you. I'm realizing that while coming off the effexor, that's when I was needing to go to sleep at 8. I'm doing much better to stay awake until 10! But, I'm sore by then so I can't really do anything.

 

Yikes, could the weather be effecting Scott's breathing? Our weather has been so whacky, I think that's why we're sick though different than asthma related stuff.

 

Well, I did my grocery shopping and hopefully I didn't forget anything. I decided to drive the kids and then go since we had a different morning with all the kids waking up early. So, I'm already feeling off. I'm going to see what I can do about my kitchen and get drinking water. Maybe I'm dehydrated.

Augh, I have not been productive at all today. I brought in the dough to warm up before I try to roll it out (I think it's too thick to turn out but we'll see.)

 

I'm having an emotional, negative day. augh I posted the kijiji post though I don't expect any replies. I was going to call my caseworker first but didn't bother cause I figured it wouldn't make a difference and that would just make me higher up on her 'bad' list. I kind of feel like 'why bother' with the cleaning when it'll just get messed up again. I don't feel like doing any of my food stuff for Sat. cause I'm sure I'll mess that up too.

 

I'm beyond fed up with Andrew. We're going to try having him do his own dishes and see how that goes. It works with laundry, why not try with dishes? I'm also tired of him leaving things around. It's not big things but he doesn't get how one piece of mail left on the dining room table just compounds. I then move it over to the already piled high island so then eventually, I have to sort through all of that cause you can bet Andrew wouldn't do that. I'm getting sick of that. I'm not his maid, he's a grown man that should have the common sense to be able to clean up after himself. I shouldn't have to remind him to do that or that there are other people in the house. (he leaves his shoes on the mat to dry, neve rmind that we have a plastic boot tray where EVERYONE else puts them.) So, this morning, I come down to the shoes being in front of the door, on the mat. I threw them in the garage. He's the last one to leave in the morning so to have all the kids come in and trip over them, yeah, that doesn't work. Aparently I'm the one in the wrong and should tell him that there's an issue. HELLO... use your brain!!! Shoes in front of the door WILL be in the way. I dont' think he's stupid enough to realize I have daycare kids who use the front door but I don't know, I wouldn't put it past him to not realize that.

 

Timmy's napping so I'm going to attempt the kitchen or something... augh augh augh

Sounds like you are having a rough day.  Well I will join you!  Everything was going fine at my cleaning job until I decided to use the shower head to rinse the shower.  I reached up to angle the nozzle and the entire thing broke off from inside the wall in my hand!  I took responsibility for it - went up and found them which was so much fun.  But there's no way turning the shower head should have made that happen.  So instead of thinking "oh isn't she great, she's taking responsibility for something she obviously really can't have done," Tony's (the husband) reaction was to question me as though it couldn't possibly have happened that way.  Well, yeah, it couldn't have.  There was obviously something broken inside the wall and that should have been his first thought considering my history with them but his first thought was that I was lying about what I did.  What did he think I was doing, swinging on the thing like a chimpanzee?  So my feelings were hurt and I started crying after he went back upstairs and I was actually crying hard enough that I had to stuff a rag in front of my mouth to keep from being loud.  I got myself together before I left - I saw them again and I was fine but I did a half-ass job on the rest of the house because I just wanted to leave.

 

If they were friends or something, I'd confront them but they're a client.  I should have said what I thought about it not being my fault but I didn't want to be defensive about it.  I kind of figured they'd say "uh, there's no way this could be your fault" but it didn't go that way.

 

Sigh.  I'm making myself feel better by thinking how next December I won't even remember this happening.  It's definitely not the end of the world and the actual thing could have been worse - I mean, it can't be more than $200 to fix it I'd think.  They are using my plumber and they charge about $100 an hour and if it's a big repair then that is even more obvious I didn't do it.  Hopefully the plumber will tell them it was unscrewed inside before I touched it.  The piece that came off had threads on it like it screws into the other pipe so even if I'd done chin-ups on it it couldn't have come off like it did unless it was unscrewed.  Who knows, maybe Tony will think I unscrewed it for some dumb reason.

 

Ahhh.

 

I need to go shower and maybe do some picking up or maybe do some Christmas stuff.  We'll see!

 

BTW How do you like having a garage???  I use mine for a fridge too, at Christmas.  I use my deck for sodas and my garage for baked goods :-)

Aw man, that would totally upset me :( I hope that it all turns out all right and that he apologizes for how he questioned you. I hope the day gets better!

 

Still having a rough day but getting VERY small things done. Took a load out of the dryer and put a new one in. Got the first layer of the Snickers fudge done though it was suckily thrown together so I hope it turns out ok. I also started rolling out the dough but came down here to figure out if I'm following the recipe. The dough is still cold so I hope it's ok.

 

Ok, looked up the recipe and gotta get a move on here. I should leave in about 20 mins to go pick up the kids. I'd love to be lazy and drive but it's pretty nice out there and we need the fresh air. The cramping and tightness seems to be going away so the walk should do me good.

 

Yum snickers fudge sounds good.  I think I made something like that once.  Only it had actual snickers bars broken up in it.  Does yours?  I'm thinking yours is probably caramel and chocolate and peanuts like snickers rather than broken candy bars?

 

I'm glad your cramping is going away.  That is one of those things when you're pregnant that is worrisome.

 

We went shopping for our Walmart angel.  I spent $150 on accident - yikes.  I have to return some stuff.  Part of me says we spend more than that on stupid stuff but I know that my husband works hard for our money and even though he considers it our money, I feel like I shouldn't be giving it away unless he is totally agreeable to it.  He was okay with me giving the bell ringer $20 the other day (did I tell you how I got $20 back from my debit card and this voice in my head kept insisting it had to go to the bell ringer guy and I was arguing with myself but the voice just insisted - and no, i'm not really hearing "voices" but it was just this very very strong feeling) but he gulped when I said $150 for the angel.  And truly it was an accident.  In my mind I wanted to spend $100.  Plus I was kind of thinking, what if this little boy has a brother or sister who only gets one thing?  Scott gulped at $100 too but I said if we pick an angel, we are responsible for him.  If we're not going to buy decent stuff, we shouldn't have picked him because the angels get picked really quickly, especially the little kids (ours is 5 years old) and he may have gotten better stuff from someone else.  We bought a ton of things.  A lot of toys plus I found a bunch of shirts and pants on clearance and some socks and underwear.  I think I will return some of the clothes because my kids picked out the toys and they were excited so I hate to return their stuff.

 

I am envious of your cinnamon rolls!  If I lived near you I would help you out but I would also be snitching baked goods out of your kitchen and would probably get up to 300 lbs!

I think I've talked about this fudge before. I had tried making it before we moved and ended up using bad peanuts. I ended up not finishing all the layers (I think there's 4-5 layers) and just threw it out. Yes, this has a layer of choc. (with pb melted into it), a nougat layer, peanuts, caramel layer and then a choc. icing (which is the same as the bottom.) I think that's it.

 

Yikes! $150 definitely is a lot! That's so cool that you guys do that though :) And good for you on giving $20! I totally get what you mean about the feeling to do something. I think i've ignored it too many times that I just don't get that feeling anymore :(

 

Aw man, just found out Gavin and Laura might not be here Monday and Tuesday in 2 weeks, the first week off for holidays. I should be happy but if they were here, I'd get $60. If they aren't, I still can get paid but it's only $28. Big difference. Plus, chances are I'll end up finding some kids to look after when I don't even have my original kids I'm caring for! And, I'm trying to explain this all to their mom but now feel like I've given the impression that this is all a money thing, it's not worth it to do daycare over the holidays just for her kids, etc etc. Augh. Man, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut.

 

Well, I've baked up one pie plate of cinnamon rolls. Gotta make the icing still. I hope they taste good!

 

Ok, gotta throw the noodles in for supper and get a move on.