Hapbee Halloween!

I took Nora to my University class today so they could give her some sweets. We dressed her up like a bee. I can´t believe this is her third Halloween! (Devil, LadyBug and Bee). Time just goes by way too fast. I wasn´t able to take her to any parties or anything, but I figure she won´t remember anyways...maybe next year;) Hope your day was spooktacular!

Nora was baptized today!

She did a great job, crosses, and oils and water and candles OH My! She walked into the church and said, ¨Jesus loves me and I love him.¨ Couldn´t agree more. Here are some pix of the grand event.

I can´t make this stuff up if I try!

So, yesterday was one of those terrible two´s kinda days and N knew I was frustrated with her and she looked right at me and said, ¨I love you mommy, I´m sorry to you, you are my best friend.¨ Like, seriously? My heart melted. Tonight I was reading her the book, ¨Mr. Brown Can Moo Can You?¨ and it talks about all of the sounds of different animals etc and at the end you ¨review¨ the sounds of each animal. The rooster says Cock A Doodle Doo....... Nora KEPT pointing to the word COCK and saying ¨What´s that mommy¨ I kept saying, ¨Cock a doodle do¨ and she just was not convinced. I swear she pointed to the word cock like five hundred times. Ah, motherhood.

Do you ever just feel like you can´t keep up? Life is just kicking you in the shins over and over and over again? My house seems like a disaster and I feel like all I do is clean. My daughter´s hair is ratty and she has dried snot on her face, I´m constantly grooming her like a mother Ape. People complain at work, but to my face they tell me everything is GREAT! And the list goes on and on... This past week was really hard because A got the stomach bug and was vomiting ( I must say guys puke SO LOUDLY) and then Nora has had the worlds worst cold and started puking up snot that same day. She went to the doc and has red ears and throat so she´s on special meds now. Every night I´m so freaking tired because she has been coughing like every two hour non.stop no matter what medicine I give her or how much Vicks Vapo I rub on her chest! It´s been a week of sad thoughts like, ¨Maybe she´d be better off with a different mom than me.¨ Thoughts of, ¨I´m not cut out for motherhood.¨ And things of that nature. But then I think back to the first second I saw her and how much love and simple joy I felt at that moment. I remind myself I CAN DO THIS and ask God for patience EVERY SINGLE DAY to not be a yelling, nasty mother, but a calm collective nice mother(easier said than done!) I looked at the flowers, chocolates, and BOTTLE of Bailey´s my husband bought me (Thanks babe!) and smiled at all the love we have for one another. In the words of my hubs, ¨I never imagined how happy I could be with a family and fortunately, I´m living out that dream by your side.¨ The laundry may not be done, the house may be a mess, but our hearts are happy, healthy and full of love. The other stuff can wait.

Running Boy

Remember when I wrote about ¨scratchy girl?¨ The lady that is always scratching off stickets etc. from windows and poles? Well, there is a running boy that we see EVERY DAY 365 days out of the year, rain or shine, morning, noon, or night. We call him running boy (he´s probably about 25) because he is always in running gear, and he does indeed run sometimes, but most of the time we just see him standing near a tree trying to flirt with girls and failing miserably. He whistles and does the ¨eye-brow¨ raise and it´s really just embarrassing to watch. It´s incredible that he does this day after day after day ALL DAY LONG ALL YEAR LONG. I mean, today I was thinking..who does he live with? How does he have money? How can he be OK with just running-flirting with girls ALL DAY ALL YEAR LONG? WHO does that? Does he tell his parents, ¨Hey, see you later tonight I´m going to flirst with girls and run ALL DAY LONG¨ It´s just so freaking bizzaro to me I cannot handle it! Also, lately I have been seeing the same guy every day with TOO TIGHT pants. He´s a businessman so he has a nice shirt and tie on and then it´s like BAM, ¨HI, I buy my pants 5 sizes too small.¨ Why do people do that?! They are so tight that it´s almost comical. I hope he doesn´t ever have to bend over for anything.....

Let it all out.

Today A woke up throwing up. Is it just my husband or are men the LOUDEST thrower uppers in the entire universe? I mean, it´s almost comical. THEN Nora threw up tonight after her bath. A mother´s love is cleaning up a giant pile of vomit off of the floor that smelled so freaking bad with chunks that it was all I could do not to vom myself. It´s pretty must just a matter of time until I´m hurling up a lung. Wish me luck!

What up?

It´s awkward doing pelvic thrusts in gym class while lying next to a man. Just sayin.. It´s been 80s here and it MIGHT actually be 65 tomorrow. Did you hear that? I think I heard some angels singing. Thank you Lord for cooler temps coming our way. I recently got ANOTHER job so I have like 15 now. I´m super duper busy, but I´m gonna like the paycheck when it comes in. I decided to go home for Christmas and I am elated. Ten days of glorious snow and Christmas bliss. Alone. It´s gonna be amazing. I´ve already started to listen to Christmas music to prepare. Celine Dion..who else? I recently purchased a pair of shoes that were too small because I love them that much.

I´ve been busy.

This pic sums up how I´m feeling at the moment.

Undies?

n said earlier "i don't want to get bigger mama" after i asked her if she wanted to put her undies on like a big girl. Which she replied " i am not big i am small." potty training is hard! We will get er done one of these days!

tooties.

Raise your hand if you´ve ever had to fart at the gym. I mean, come on, it happens to all of us. I feel like it always happens to me when I´m in a class and we have to be on our hands and knees doing leg lifts. So, today I had to like, sit down for a second until it passed. And then it´s just awkward because I feel like the teacher is looking at me thinking ¨what´s she doing?¨ I mean, what am I supposed to say, ¨sorry, i´m just sitting here squeezing my butt cheeks together hoping I won´t let a smelly fart slip out.¨ Now THAT would be embarrassing. Before the class I was on the treadmill and I looked over and this girl was crying. Ok, that´s weird. So, next thing I know she´s off the treadmill, thumps this guy on the head that was on the bike, (I´m assuming it as her boyfriend, or maybe now X boyfriend) and she storms out crying and he he left cussing after her. Juicy. I wonder what that was about?! Yesterday I put N to bed and I heard her crying. I went in and she told me ¨upside down NO mommy.¨ Her blanket had the ducks facing the wrong way. OCD problems. I have no idea where she got that from.