MIA

Sorry I've been MIA lately! I'm really disappointed with myself that I haven't posted anything in a week. I've been trying to get better with keeping up with this, but the past week has just been crazy busy. I normally try to write these at night after K goes to bed, but I have been coming home so exhausted that by the time she goes to sleep I am too lazy to do anything at all. Pathetic, but true. So anyways, things are slowing down again now so I am planning on getting back on track.

On top of work being busy, the little miss decided recently she wasn't a fan of sleeping. For 4 nights in a row she literally would not sleep. I could get her to bed pretty easy, but she would be up about every hour or 2 the entire night. So frustrating. Before that she had gotten pretty good at sleeping and I was getting used to getting to sleep again too. Guess, she thought it was best to keep me on my toes. Thankfully though the past couple of nights it seems that she has gotten back to her normal sleep routine. Hopefully.

Before her little sleep refusal started, Vince and I were actually talking about baby #2. No, we weren't meaning we wanted to try right this moment. BUT, we were saying we wanted our kids to be close in age, and we wouldn't mind starting again soon, and blah blah blah. Well, now after those 4 days? I think I'm back to thinking that Kaylee is going to have to wait awhile for sibling..

On a completely random note.. during my lunch break today I ran to Babies R Us to get 1 thing. Well, of course as I'm walking back to the front to check out, I start browsing the clothing section and by the time I went to actually check out my arms were full. Why does that always seem to happen to me? In my defense, they were having some good sales though and some of the stuff on clearance was just too cheap not to get! ;)

OK I'm off to a meeting, but hope everyone is having a good week so far. At least it's already halfway over!

Wee Bit Wednesday

{one} what's your guilty pleasure tv show?

Well currently there's Keeping up with the Kardasians, Bachelor Pad, The Challange, Project Runway, True Blood and of course my favorite Big Brother. Yes, I know I have way too many. My DVR is constantly full.

{two} ear piercings on men: yes or no?

NO. At least not on Vince. I don't really care about what other guys do. Vince had his pierced in high school and I was so happy when he took them out!

{three} do you have dish or comcast?

Comcast.

{four} what's your favorite current fashion trend?

 

I read the other day that navy is the "fall color" this year. Not sure if it's true, but if so I am all about it.  I like navy better than black and actually just bought a navy blazer from express the other week.  

{five} if you could learn to do anything, money not being an issue, what would it be?

I would learn to do gymnastics. Be a real gymnast, good enough for the olympics. I could do your basic tumbling when I was younger, but nothing crazy. I LOVE watching the summer olympics, I think what they can do is amazing.

{six} red or white wine?

Red. Cabernet Sauvignon is my fav... mmmm..

{seven} what type of food is your favorite?

Mexican. No doubt about it. I would eat it every day of the week if I could.

{eight} hp or mac?

Mac. I used a Mac throughout college, but then got a hp a couple of years ago. Now Vince and I want to switch and get a Mac instead. Love them.

{nine} what color is your bedroom?

The bedding is a mixture of creams, browns, and light green. The walls are a dark tanish/light brown type of color. I need to take a picture because it looks much better than it sounds ha.

{ten} what's your favorite form of exercise?

Excerise classes of any kind. I much prefer taking a class over just running on a treadmill. (not that I have much time to get the gym between work and the baby.. I need to get back into a routine asap)

Thankful Thursday

First off I am most thankful right now that it's almost the weekend. Thanks to the little miss who has decided this week that 5am is time to start the day I have been exhausted and am looking forward to relaxing this weekend!

I am also thankful for lunch dates with Vince. Now that I am back at work we've been able to get back to our occasional lunch dates which are a perfect way to break up the work day and get a little us time again :)

I know I said this already this week, but I am SO very thankful that Kaylee seems to be enjoying daycare. She has made this transition back to work a whole lot easier on her previously worried mama.

I am thankful that the window treatments we ordered for our house about a month ago are finally in and being installed tomorrow. Sleeping in a bedroom with no blinds or curtains or anything is not making it easy to ever sleep past sunrise. (yes Kaylee does sometimes let us sleep in.. just wish it was more often ha)

I am thankful that Vince is getting done work early today and going grocery shopping for me, because grocery shopping with an almost 4 month old? Not always so easy.

I am thankful it's almost fall. I do love summer time, but fall is by far my favorite time of the year.

I am thankful that for my best friends wedding she asked 2 of us to be her maid/matrons of honor. It is much more fun planning stuff her with another person rather than just one person handling it :)

Lastly, I am EXTREMELY thankful that after a few months of ups and downs and trying all kinds of formulas and different medicines for Kaylee's colic and acid reflux issues.. we have finally found what seems to be the right thing for Miss K. She is now much more often the smiling, cooing, happy baby we always knew she was ;) 

** side note please don't judge me for formula feeding. If I hear one more person say that if I had breastfed she wouldn't be having problems, I'm going to scream. For the record I wanted to breastfeed, it just wasn't an option for us.  

My new goal

My friend Kate posted the other day about a cook-off she and her husband had with some of their friends. This made me start thinking about my cooking skills. (it also made me hungry just looking at the pictures!)

Before getting married I knew nothing about cooking. (seriously you would have been shocked at how little I knew)

So one of my major goals the first couple years of being married was learning how to cook.

So after 2 1/2 years of marriage I can now honestly say that I can cook.

I can easily follow recipes and put together a decent dinner for just Vince and I. Or I can make most of your basic meals without having to look at a cookbook. I've hosted plently of parties and had holiday dinners at my house making all of the major food items for the whole family.

BUT none of that qualifies me as being a "good" cook, more so it just shows that I know how to cook. I always comment about how my mom and my grandmom are good cooks. I swear they know how to make anything and it always comes out amazing. There's always something different to try when they make family dinners, insteead of being like me and just having the same old thing all of the time.

I want to be a good cook.

I want to learn to make all kinds of things and come up with some of my own ideas.

I know that this is something that takes time to learn to do, but I want to make this a new goal for myself. At least once a week I want to make something new and start expanding my basic cooking skills. So that maybe one day my grandkids will say what a good cook their grandmother is ;)

Now I just need to start looking for some new recipes..

no sleep + no caffeine = randomness

After almost 3 weeks of Kaylee sleeping 8-10 hours straight every night, she has all of a sudden started waking up again the past three nights and I am exhausted. So, because my mind is still half asleep and I haven't had any caffeine yet today this post is all over the place. Just a bunch of randomness that I woke up thinkng about...

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I wish Kaylee would take naps with me. I know it's probably a good thing that she would much rather sleep in her own bed, but there are times I would love to just curl up and go to sleep with her. I've tried to wait until she is really sleepy and then lay down with her, but the moment I do her eyes immediately open and any hope I had for napping is out the window. So I've given up on that (for now, maybe it will be different when she gets older) and just let her sleep on her own, at least that way I can nap sometimes too.

I need to go shopping. I am seriously in major need of new clothes. Other than a couple of random shirts here or there or some outfits I got as gifts, I haven't bought new clothes for myself in well over a year. Now part of that is because I was pregnant this time last year, but still I think I deserve to go shopping and invest in a few new things.  Right?

Over the weekend I decided it was finally time to start getting some pictures I have taken of Kaylee printed instead of just letting them sit on my camera. My intention was to just get a few.. well after a couple of hours of sorting through them I ended up ordering over 400 prints! No joke. I didn't even know I had that many pictures. To be fair though, some are doubles because I wanted to give some to both my mom and Vince's mom, but still. That's a lot of pictures. So last night once I had them all organized I put them in albums and marked down her age or where we were next to some of them. I'm so glad I did it, I'm going to try to keep up with putting them in albums every few months at least for the first year. It's just amazing to see how much she has changed when you back through all of them :)

On Friday my baby sister will be leaving for college and officially be a Freshman at Ole Miss. (wish I could say she was going to be a HOKIE like me, but whateverrr.. haha kidding, sort of) I still can't believe she is that old already! I am SO excited for her. College was definitely an adjustment for me at first and I had to get use to being away from home, but once I did it seriously was the best 4 years of my life. I know she will love it too and it make so many amazing memories. Good luck Sammie, I love you <3

Speaking of college... yesterday Vince and I opened up Kaylee's college savings account. I know she is only a few months old, but she will be 18 before we know it and I want to make sure we have that put away for her. Vince and I were both very fortunate in that both of our parents paid for our colleges and we didn't graduate with lots of loans. We were able to pick whatever school we wanted in state or out of state and I want to be able to give that same gift to our kids one day. So, starting now I am officially savings for my kids college (and wedding one day too haha). Man, when did I get so old??? lol.

That's all I've got for today. Have a good one! :)

Getting used to Daycare (and some cute Kaylee pictures)

This is now my third week back at work and I am happy to say it's not as bad as I thought it would be. Now please don't get me wrong I would LOVE to be at home with Kaylee instead, but I had been completely dreading going back to work and now that I am back I'm surprisingly ok with it.

I think it's mainly due to the fact that she has been doing SO good at daycare. I was really nervous about leaving her there all day long, and cried like a baby the first day I dropped her off (which was a tad embarassing, but oh well). Thankfully though each day has gotten a little bit easier.

We looked into all kinds of different daycare options while I was pregnant and ended up choosing to go with a family friend who has an in-home daycare where she watches about 4-6 kids depending on the day. She will only take one infant at a time (so we met with her awhile ago to make sure to hold the spot) and then she has one 1 year old and the others are between 2-5. She watched Vince's nephew for a couple of years when he was younger and her daughter works for my mother-in-law so we know the family and know that she will take good care of our baby while we are working. 

I love that when I go to pick her up I can hear her talking or laughing while watching the older kids play. Kaylee is the youngest baby there and from what I have heard from a couple of the other moms is that the other kids argue over who gets to play with her during the day. I like knowing that she isn't just sitting there starring at a wall or something and is actually being entertained and played with. (plus the lady who is watching her has been great and doesn't mind that I am a crazy mom and call all the time just to check on her haha) So far I have never gone to pick her up and found her crying or upset at all and that is a huge relief to me. Plus it gives me something to look forward to every single day when I know I will get a huge smile from her when she first sees me :)

I also have to admit that it is kind of nice getting out of the house and just being with adults some too. Again, I obviously miss her a ton every day and would love to be with her, but I am working I'm just grateful that she is doing well and being taken care of by someone I trust.

That's really all I have to say about that, for now at least haha... but I also wanted to share a couple of cute pictures I took of the little lady this weekend ;)

Happy Monday!

TGIF!

It's FINALLY Friday! This week has seemed to really drag on for some reason and I am SO looking forwarded to finally having a weekend with nothing to do! (It's the first time in awhile for us!)

Vince works tonight so it will just be me and my favorite little lady hanging out all night. Then tomororw we are going to stay at home just the 3 of us and have a relaxing night in. Sounds like the perfect weekend to me ;) I want to try a new recipe for dinner, just need to look through some of my cookbooks and find one first! haha I also assume we are probably going to spend most of the night watching LOST. We never watched it while it was airing, but then last year bought season 1 randomly and started watching it. Since then we have been hooked.  We are on season 4 now and I always get excited to finally have time to sit down and watch it with Vince.

Anyways, I hope you all had a good week and enjoy the weekend! Happy Friday :)