Monday, April 28, 2008
Um... I Don't Think So
Jack and I were watching a Jon & Kate Plus 8 show that I had recorded a week ago (life is so busy that I am 3 weeks behind on ER!) tonight before he went to bed. He, for some reason, is totally hooked on this show. He brings up the fact that Jon and Kate have 8 kids all the time. He will say "can you imagine 8 kids?" Yeah he is copying me. So tonight I asked him if he would like to have 8 kids in our house. To which his reply was "no not 8, but I think 6. Dawn and Jim plus 6. Yeah that would be soooo cool." Yeah I don't think so. Dawn and Jim plus 1 and 1/2 (Laura) is just perfect in my book!!!
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Missed My Guys Today
I had a trade show event today with Arbonne. I was there selling and demonistrating from 9 - 6:30. I had a great time and made a lot of good sales and good contacts for my business. However, I have to tell you that I missed my two boys, Jim and Jack immensely. I didn't even see Jim today at all. He worked last night and hadn't even arrived home before I left this morning to take Jack to school. By the time I got back home, he had left tonight to go to work again. I will see him sometime tomorrow afternoon I guess.
Jack was the worse I think. I dropped him off at school at 8:00 and my neighbor picked him up and brought him home. I didn't see him until 8:00 tonight and my arms literally ached to hold him. I know it was only 12 hours, but I think that was the longest time that I had been away from him since last summer. I thank God everyday for the opportunity to stay home with him and be there for him. Even though I have a part-time job and now this Arbonne job, I am there for him after he gets out of school at noon and it is our time. I was really shocked at how much I missed him today! The level of love I have for that boy still amazes me four years later.
I will just have to remind myself of this post come mid-summer and I will be counting the days down until school starts again.
Jack was the worse I think. I dropped him off at school at 8:00 and my neighbor picked him up and brought him home. I didn't see him until 8:00 tonight and my arms literally ached to hold him. I know it was only 12 hours, but I think that was the longest time that I had been away from him since last summer. I thank God everyday for the opportunity to stay home with him and be there for him. Even though I have a part-time job and now this Arbonne job, I am there for him after he gets out of school at noon and it is our time. I was really shocked at how much I missed him today! The level of love I have for that boy still amazes me four years later.
I will just have to remind myself of this post come mid-summer and I will be counting the days down until school starts again.
Monday, April 21, 2008
Bad Blogger I AM
Sorry ya'll I know it has been awhile and few and far between posts from me lately. Life just seemed to go into warp speed around here. I thought that with the purchase of my new laptop, that I would be posting all the time and boring everybody with my mundane drivel of life. But when I am on the laptop, it is usually doing something with my new business, Arbonne, which has taken up a lot of my time.
So far, the new business has been going great. No, I am not making the $12,000 per month YET, but I can foresee soon. I do know somebody who is making that right now, yes that is her PAYCHECK every month from Arbonne. And there have been hundreds or thousands of women everywhere who are doing it. I just need to work it, to get there. I have a lot of events scheduled in the next couple of weeks. This Thursday, I am part of a "Shoppers Delight" bazaar where I will have a booth giving out free facials if anybody wants one and hopefully booking more shows. Then on Saturday, I am opening my house up for a "Discover Arbonne" event for the entire neighborhood to come and see what we are all about. It is exciting and fun.
In other news, big big news, Jack is now night time potty trained. Yes folks, it took him until he was four to get it down. I admit that it was partly my fault for dragging my feet on the whole subject because he does sleep with me when Jim is on duty and well I just didn't want to deal with the mess in MY bed. But one day I ran out of pullups and just decided to give it a try and lo and behold he made it through the night, which was amazing, because when he had the pullups on, he very rarely woke up dry. Of course, we made a big deal about him being a big big boy now and I just never went to get any more pullups. It has been about three weeks now with no accidents and I am proud to say that after four years, we are a completely diaper/pullup free house!!!
My birthday was fun. Jim took Jack to a local pottery place, where they painted a teapot for me. Yes, it brought tears to my eyes when they gave it to me and Jack was so incredibly proud of himself for painting it. He painted his name on it and Daddy helped him paint, "I love you Mommy". Very cute. I now have plans for Fathers Day, hehe.
We had our anniversary on the 13th and we dumped Jack off with friends and went to a movie and dinner! I do believe that this might have been the fourth or fifth actual date night we have had since Jack was born. We went to the movie 21, which was pretty fun because I spent a lot of time on the MIT campus during college, no I did not go there, just knew somebody who did. I went to Bentley college down the road. But it was fun seeing the place and telling Jim, oh I know that place! The movie was very loosely based on the MIT blackjack team in the early 90's, but of course with some drama thrown in. But I thought it was good.
We then went to Emeril's for dinner. And yes, it was really good. The waiter said Emeril himself comes in quite often and in the kitchen actually cooking. I think that would be cool to have Emeril cook for you. But as you can imagine, it was quite spendy, so I don't think we will be going there again for awhile. After dinner, I decided to try to play some blackjack and ended up losing $5 total, not bad for about 30 minutes of play. Did I ever tell you, that I love to play blackjack?
This last weekend, we celebrated my mother-in-law's 86th birthday here at a restaurant on the beach. She is quite amazing. I hope to be getting around as good and look as good as her when I am 66! It was funny because my brother-in-law brought a cake to the restaurant earlier in the day and told them we were celebrating her 86th birthday. I guess the manager asked if she would need some assistance getting up the 5 steps to the restaurant (the building was built in 1755). He laughed and said that she was the one least needing the assistance. At this rate, she is going to outlive us all I think.
Jack is on his last month of school until he is out for the summer. His last day is May 16th and let me tell you I am mourning the thought of no school. However, I think he has the summer itch and keeps telling me that he "has no school". Once school is out, I am going to have to change up my schedule with the part-time bookkeeping job I have. Right now, I go there 3 mornings a week when he is at school, but after school, I am going to have to figure something out with Jim's work/sleep schedule and whatnot until Laura gets here the first week of July and she can take over babysitting. I am also going to go sign him up this week for swim lessons, which will be everyday for two weeks, just to complicate matters more with the schedule.
Like I said, Life has increased into warp drive speed lately.
So far, the new business has been going great. No, I am not making the $12,000 per month YET, but I can foresee soon. I do know somebody who is making that right now, yes that is her PAYCHECK every month from Arbonne. And there have been hundreds or thousands of women everywhere who are doing it. I just need to work it, to get there. I have a lot of events scheduled in the next couple of weeks. This Thursday, I am part of a "Shoppers Delight" bazaar where I will have a booth giving out free facials if anybody wants one and hopefully booking more shows. Then on Saturday, I am opening my house up for a "Discover Arbonne" event for the entire neighborhood to come and see what we are all about. It is exciting and fun.
In other news, big big news, Jack is now night time potty trained. Yes folks, it took him until he was four to get it down. I admit that it was partly my fault for dragging my feet on the whole subject because he does sleep with me when Jim is on duty and well I just didn't want to deal with the mess in MY bed. But one day I ran out of pullups and just decided to give it a try and lo and behold he made it through the night, which was amazing, because when he had the pullups on, he very rarely woke up dry. Of course, we made a big deal about him being a big big boy now and I just never went to get any more pullups. It has been about three weeks now with no accidents and I am proud to say that after four years, we are a completely diaper/pullup free house!!!
My birthday was fun. Jim took Jack to a local pottery place, where they painted a teapot for me. Yes, it brought tears to my eyes when they gave it to me and Jack was so incredibly proud of himself for painting it. He painted his name on it and Daddy helped him paint, "I love you Mommy". Very cute. I now have plans for Fathers Day, hehe.
We had our anniversary on the 13th and we dumped Jack off with friends and went to a movie and dinner! I do believe that this might have been the fourth or fifth actual date night we have had since Jack was born. We went to the movie 21, which was pretty fun because I spent a lot of time on the MIT campus during college, no I did not go there, just knew somebody who did. I went to Bentley college down the road. But it was fun seeing the place and telling Jim, oh I know that place! The movie was very loosely based on the MIT blackjack team in the early 90's, but of course with some drama thrown in. But I thought it was good.
We then went to Emeril's for dinner. And yes, it was really good. The waiter said Emeril himself comes in quite often and in the kitchen actually cooking. I think that would be cool to have Emeril cook for you. But as you can imagine, it was quite spendy, so I don't think we will be going there again for awhile. After dinner, I decided to try to play some blackjack and ended up losing $5 total, not bad for about 30 minutes of play. Did I ever tell you, that I love to play blackjack?
This last weekend, we celebrated my mother-in-law's 86th birthday here at a restaurant on the beach. She is quite amazing. I hope to be getting around as good and look as good as her when I am 66! It was funny because my brother-in-law brought a cake to the restaurant earlier in the day and told them we were celebrating her 86th birthday. I guess the manager asked if she would need some assistance getting up the 5 steps to the restaurant (the building was built in 1755). He laughed and said that she was the one least needing the assistance. At this rate, she is going to outlive us all I think.
Jack is on his last month of school until he is out for the summer. His last day is May 16th and let me tell you I am mourning the thought of no school. However, I think he has the summer itch and keeps telling me that he "has no school". Once school is out, I am going to have to change up my schedule with the part-time bookkeeping job I have. Right now, I go there 3 mornings a week when he is at school, but after school, I am going to have to figure something out with Jim's work/sleep schedule and whatnot until Laura gets here the first week of July and she can take over babysitting. I am also going to go sign him up this week for swim lessons, which will be everyday for two weeks, just to complicate matters more with the schedule.
Like I said, Life has increased into warp drive speed lately.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Happy Birthday to Me
Happy Birthday to me! Ack it is number 41, which seems a hell of a lot worse than 40 for some reason. I guess when you get to 41, you are firmly ensconced into the forties. Oh yay. As somebody told me last night, I am 29 with a whole lot of experience. My friends gave me a little birthday party celebration dinner last night, which was really nice of them. Of course, most of them are in their early thirties and can't even imagine being in their 40s. I am not sure how we got in the "young" crowd at our church. Maybe it was because our kids are the same age and play together, but it can make me feel old and young at the same time ya know.
Anyway, here it is. The 40s are firmly established now. I think it is going to be a quiet birthday. Jim worked last night and again tonight. The exciting plans that I have are going to get my hair done this morning while Jack is at school! I really really need to go get groceries, but you know I hate doing that on any day, but my birthday? No thanks. That is a tomorrow thing.
Anyway, here it is. The 40s are firmly established now. I think it is going to be a quiet birthday. Jim worked last night and again tonight. The exciting plans that I have are going to get my hair done this morning while Jack is at school! I really really need to go get groceries, but you know I hate doing that on any day, but my birthday? No thanks. That is a tomorrow thing.
Saturday, April 05, 2008
The First Day
Today was the first day in about 3 months I do believe, that we had absolutely nothing planned to do. And to make it even better, it was pouring down rain this morning, making me want to go deep into my cocoon and be very slug-like. It felt so wonderful to wake up and not have to go somewhere. However, because of that rain, well actually it was more like the monsoon season, practically the entire area was under water, my internet was out all day long! So here I was with nothing to do and I had no internet. Yeah it was bad.
Oh and since the arrival of my new laptop, I have had to fight Jack to get to use the thing. I showed him the playhouse disney site and he is now an addict of the Higglytown Heros games and the Winnie the Pooh color by number on the screen. The thing is, the boy can navigate the site just about as good as I can. These kids today. Geesh.
Gotta go because I have used up all my "just a few more minutes" with Jack. He is losing patience very fast and needs his Little Einsteins fix.
Oh and since the arrival of my new laptop, I have had to fight Jack to get to use the thing. I showed him the playhouse disney site and he is now an addict of the Higglytown Heros games and the Winnie the Pooh color by number on the screen. The thing is, the boy can navigate the site just about as good as I can. These kids today. Geesh.
Gotta go because I have used up all my "just a few more minutes" with Jack. He is losing patience very fast and needs his Little Einsteins fix.
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