the first cold of the school year

You got it, I was back to work for a week before I got my first cold!  I spent Friday afternoon and night shaking in bed with a fever and chills, but I think I am better now...just a little stuffed up.  I realized this weekend how much I take my health for granted.  It was so hard to be sick because I didn't want to get too close to the girls and get them sick....Liv did end up with it, but she seems to be doing okay night...she's chowing down some yogurt as I type. 

Yesterday morning matt and i did venture over to canada to look at houses....that was a fun little trip and I realized it is a place we should go more often...it's a nice normal city closer than bangor.  Nama Dale, if you are reading this, you need to get your passport so you can come with me over there shopping! 

Today we stayed in all day making sure everyone could get their rest....the girls and I took a two hour nap and my husband spent most of his free time today killing hornets in our basement......no idea where they are coming from, so if anyone is an expert on hornets, please come our way!  It was a rainy day, so it was a good day to rest.  Kind of pathetic that I have cabin fever from just one day cooped up inside all day.....I never have been a stay at home kind of girl!

Well i'm off to finish up our night time routine and then turn in for the night.....another fun week ahead of us!

Deciding on a house...

I never knew how hard it would be to design the perfect house for us.  Matt and I got up early this morning, took the girls to his mom's and went to canada looking at the modular homes over there....we didn't fall in love with anything, and we can't even decide if we want a ranch or a cape.....such a hard decision.  I am always so critical of our house, but when I got home today, I thought to myself, "if I would have seen this house today as a modular I would have fallen in love with it"  we do live in a beautiful house.......so i think that makes it even harder.  if we were living in a shack and building our first nice house, i think this would be easier.....(i know i sound like a spoiled brat, but this is how my mind is thinking right now)  There are so many options....how big to make the entryway...what a want in a kitchen...yikes!!!  first we need to decide if we want a ranch or a cape!!!!

House

We accepted an offer on our house today....we will be out of our house by the end of September!!!!!  One more mortgage payment to make..yayyyy!!!  Now we are off to design our new home :)

A Typical Friday Night

It's Friday!!!!!!!!  When I got home from work Matt asked if we might want to go to the mall for Chinese food for supper.....at first thought I was like yea sure, then I looked at my sleeping Olivia, my laughing Abbie, my empty bank account and thought, how about we find something we already have to eat??  I love how I have changed since I have switched jobs.  I no longer stress about going to work, and I no longer dread going to work.  I LOVE the middle school and high school age kids...they are great, and I love even more that I don't have to be their mother while I am at work.  I'm not sure I will ever be able to go back to the elementary school level again. 

So, anyway, back to friday night....we had turkey burgers from the grill for supper as we watched little abbie fling her peas all over the room....it beat chinese food by far!  Then we went for an hour walk to and from rite aid to pick up abbie's zantac which we are debating about trying to get her off of it.....we will see if we decide to or not.

Now abbie is sleeping, liv's having her juice, milk and teddy graham snack, matt's on the couch about to pass out and i'm going to catch up on the latest Parents magazine.......

Second showing on the house tomorrow morning.....hopefully this means something :)

Funny how things work

So last night as I was coming with with the girls from work, two ladies met me in the driveway.....one of them is moving here for border patrol with her husband and three kids, and she basically wanted to buy our house without even seeing inside.......she had just heard about the great work my husband did to it!!!!  She is supposed to call matt this morning, so we shall see!!!!!!  It appeared that she had quite a bit of money, so the only thing I am thinking is that she might find a house in a higher price range that she might like better...her friend lives right around the corner from us though!


Keep your fingers crossed that I sell my house on the first day of the kids coming to school at my new job :)

A Successful Day

I survived and even enjoyed my first day at my new job!  I have to say going to work is a lot easier than taking care of two little girls......my mom seemed pretty exhausted when I went to pick them up at 3!  My little Abbie is quite a handful and it was actually nice to hear mom say so.  I have spent the last six months with her and Liv each and everyday and man she's a lot of work.  She doesn't like the swing, jumperoo, exersaucer....she actually doesn't like anything but being held and played with alllllllllllll day.  I think it will be good for her to be with someone who might actually not run to her everytime she cries (although it would kill me a little if i saw it)  what I don't know can't hurt me, right???  That might sound crazy, but I have never been one to believe that a child should be played with and held all day...if they are, how do they learn to play by themselves?? 

Today was a great day and I"m excited to do it again tomorrow...

I also got to thinking on my way home that I am lucky....I might be away from my girls for a few years while they are really little, but I will get to enjoy them while I am working when they get to school age........not too many mothers get to do that!!!

Well, I think my words are starting to not make sense....getting up at 4:30 is a change for me!!!!

Goodnight

oh, and i survived a day and a half without facebook and it feels GREAT

First Day of work

Well today is my first day back to work after six months of being home with my two beauties and I'm actually feeling excited....I know my girls are always in good hands, and I am looking forward to getting back to work.  Abbie woke up at four thirty this morning...I was set to wake up at five, so I think she just didn't want me to be late!!!!  It felt good to actually sleep last night...when I was in charge of a classroom, I never slept the night before....

Well I'm off to get us all ready to be out the door...have a great day!

Goodbye Facebook!!!

I am happy to say I am saying goodbye to the world of facebook.............too much wasted time!!!!  My husband is going to LOVE me for making this decision.  Now maybe I will sit on the couch and watch tv with him at night instead of checking up on facebook statuses....I am so excited to have more free time...which also means I will be blogging more to keep my family up to date!!!!

The Second Child

I just got home from a shopping trip with my wonderful gram, and my beautiful second daughter, Abbie.  I realized two things while I was shopping today....one is that there are no clothes for toddlers in northern maine, which is okay because that just means some of my favorite girls and i will have to go to southern maine on a shopping spree, and the second thing I realized is that abbie is a sweet sweet sweet little baby.

Since Abbie has been born, I have naturally compared her to her older sister Olivia.  As many of you know, Olivia was one easy, easy, easy, easy baby.  She slept through the night her first week home from the hospital, drank her bottles down so good, ate all of of baby food with no mess, went out to dinner with her dad and i and never made a peep, and the list goes on and on about how great of a girl she is...

Well, I think Abbie is just as sweet, happy and good natured, it's just that we have Olivia to take care of too...  If we would have had abbie first, I think we would have thought she was just as easy as Olivia.  Today while we were shopping, she laughed and kicked and played with her toys while gram and I shopped.  She was a perfect little angel while we ate lunch...she chowed down her sweet potatoes and a bottle...then it was time to go and she talked nicely to me in the car halfway home then she fell asleep........it was such a nice day with her....I'm glad my mother-in-law took Olivia for the day so I got to spend time one on one with my little abbie. 

Sometimes I find myself wondering what my mom thought about me when I was little since I was her second.......I need to write things down for my girls so I have things to share with them when they are older.

Anyway, she is peacefully sleeping so I'm going to go fold some laundry...have a great weekend!

A Mom's Best Friend

What a girl my Olivia is.  It doesn't matter what I come out of the bedroom wearing when I get dressed after a shower in the morning, her response is always the same, "mommy, you look so beautiful mommy."  It doesn't matter if I have make-up on, my hair done, or not......I love it!  Today she was really excited about my outfit....I have a long flowy skirt on, and she chased me around the house saying how beautiful I am.  She is sitting next to me right now sharing my apple....she thinks I am the best thing on earth........and when she is around, I really feel like I am!

Have a great day!