Nanamom's thoughts Blog

A week from tomorrow we leave (or today depending on your time zone) we are traveling 16 hours with a 3 year old. He really is a greatat this but after 12 hours in th ecar we ar eall ready for a break. We hope to leave Monday after work and get a bunch of it done then finish on Tuesday and get a good nights sleep before we start site seeing. Between now and then I have to make a blanket, pack, hold a 4 day garage sale, help out at church with kids activities (after planning said activities of course) and of course do 5 days of lessons with DS2, hold playgroup (at same time as a garage sale) do laundry which we hang so I need ot make sure the things I want to pack are dry in time and that means 2 to 3 days hanging, an ddo th eusual stuff around the house like cook, clean, etc. Mind you I'm not complaining just feeling a litte whelmed. Meanwhile my DH is job hunting.
We hav edecided that we can't stand it any longer. when we get back form this vacation we are getting a dog. I have been dog less for two months and that is long enough for both of us.! We would love to find another golden but will probably go to the local shelter and get a "purebred Heinz" for those who aren't familiar, Heinz used to advertise 57 varieties and some of those dogs I've seen probably have that many!

My DH seems to be gearing up for finding another job. Yesterday he got phone calls from two different companies (consulting type) in two different areas of the country. We still don't have our set of kids we are waiting for nor are any on the horizon. We are wondering if we would have a better chance if we move first and then reapply. The case study transfers. Both the jobs by the way will be more east than we are now. If any one knows of companies looking for "data wranglers" our there let me know! I believe his exact title is Senior Systems Analyst or some such thing. In th emeantime we are enjoying our scenery (not weather, it's cold!!) and getting more involved with the people at church. Wish we'd found this church when we first moved here!

I have fallen behind on my sewing and it is the 18th already. Tomorrow is already filled and so is part of the next day. This weekend had better give me some good sewing time or I will be hard pressed to get it done. We also have a large garage sale coming up the last week of this month that I am trying to get ready for. i hope to borrow tables, set them up and then just move them into position when the day arrives. I haven't figured out how to cope with life while the sale goes on but guess I will when the tiem comes.

We live in a beautiful spot. It is close enough to a small city that we can shop (some) and my DH can get to work in under 20 minutes and it is in the country enough that we enjoy trees (I like raking leaves with a little one) and grass (DH mows) and all kinds of little animals to watch as well as a couple not so little ones (the bear was spotted near DH work not here) I forgot about the disadvantage of fall (my favorite season) I found evidence of mice in our house. I miss having a dog!!!! She never let anything like that around even when all she did was sleep 23/7. I dutifully bought and set traps, impressing my DH with knowing what to use as bait (pbutter)and where to set them. I left the counter undisturbed (good excuse for a pizza night) and waited to see what would happen. This morning I had two dead mice. At that point I informed my DH that disposal was his department. YUCK!!! I felt really bad, they only wanted what we want, warmth and a dry place to raise little ones. I could have spared the food. I liked it better whne th eanimals we kept made those decisions for me!! The traps are set in case they weren't alone (and mice rarely are)

My DH went to Promise Keepers this weekend along with a group from church. It was a wonderful experience for him but not so great for me. In addition to the somethings missing feeling I always get when we are apart, I discovered tha tour dryer (in which I was doing all the vacation laundry) no longer blew hot air and it takes alot of starts to dry clothes with cold air. So we spent a couple hours at the laundrymat today to catch up. I plan on washing everyday and line drying everything until we move somewhere. Washers cost 1.75 at the laundry mat and don't hold alot. Dryers are 25 cents for 8 1/2 minutes. It was a great lesson on electricity costs money for our DS but a horror for me. I spent 6.75 on three loads. At least pour electric bill will go down, we needed coats today so no more AC and no more dryer. In fact I am going to offer it at the garage sale were having at the end of the month as a fixer upper.
I am learning that God is soverign even when things go better for others than they do for us. As long as he's in charge I'm content to take wha the allows into our lives.

Waiting for us at home was a polite letter from the IRS telling us we had goofed two years ago and owe them more, alot more!!! We were just going to be able to put some away for the move/down payment when this came up. I expect to be paying it until next years tax return at whihc time it will eat up the refund we have been planning to help with the before mentioned move/down payment.

3118 miles later we are home again!
I love the kids, their spouses and our grandchildren, but the travel!! I know we live a long way off but that is where the job is! We are trying to move closer but that doesn't seem to be going any faster than our getting more kids is. Oh well, I believe in the soverenty (sp?) of God so I guess things will come in good time. In the meantime we will drive alot of miles a couple times a year.

We got a call today about two more kids that need placed. They are also potentially going back to family whihc scares me terribly. Not because of what it will do to DH and I but what it will do to DS2. We are trusting that the Lord knows what is best and will make the decision, but in the meantime....I hate limbo!!!!!!!

Other than the interesting task of getting a 3 year old to sleep in a sleeping bag in a tent the weekend was fantastic. I love cooking over an open fire and impressed my DH a couple times with the things I made. At the end of the weekend I commented that we weren't even tempted to go out all weekend (a biggie for us) because we used a campfire. He agreed that this is a cheap way of restraining him from wanting to go out. I have also started giving him a picnic lunch and his son once a week on his lunch hour which they both love. We're going one more weekend in September and we can all hardly wait. If this is workable we may start looking for camp places instead of hotels on our way East to see the kids and grandkids.

It is frustrating to me how far we are not ahead!! Our EF had to take a break thanks to new tires (yes that is an emergency when you have to get out of town and one is flat) and a night at a hotel while we waited for the tire place to open. Oh well, at least we have it to use and it isn't on our credit cards. We are starting a ministry project that costs us about 500 to begin. That is OK we had that saved for the project and will probably enjoy doing it. What isn't ok is some charges that are on that the money wasn't put away for. We can cover it but I am not happy about it. I will be much happier when the car is paid off. Then there will be alot more play in the budget that we can use for saving for a down payment and building the EF faster. Of course if we haven't been successful in our domestic adoption we will probably opt to keep renting and try to adopt internationally. Expensive but we aren't geting any younger and need to get this done soon. The car has about 5 more payments. I am planning on doing it in 4 at worst. I suppose I should be encouraged as my DH says, 4 years ago we were into big negative numbers on our balance sheet and now they are positive, small but positive. He's right but....

We're going camping tomorrow for two nights. We have a two room tent that we picked up at a garage sale. We includes a 3 year old (barely)child who needs a light on to sleep peacefully. I can't imagine this but soon I won't have to imagine it. I can't imagine my stress level rising but again it could be soon!!!

Limbo is NOT a fun place to live. We are planning on joining a church near us however we got an email about a job that DH interviewed for several months ago. In the same week we got a request for our case study to be submitted for a trio of kids that will be available for adoption locally. Our lease is up in the spring and we would like to move or buy or both. I probably can't buy because I just found out my X had a car repoed that was in both our names. This is after he defaulted on a loan also in both names and didn't pay th etaxes he was supposed too. I've been divorced for 5 years when does it stop haunting you!!!??? I paid all of the obligations the court decided was mine before the divorce paper was dry. Oh well, At least we are on the right track. I just wish I knew what the Lord wanted, a different job and kids there or kids here and the same job.Oh well sooner (probably later) we'll know.

Today my DH took me out for our anniversary. We went to a free zoo a couple hours away and walked around. Then we went to Red Lobster for lunch. After that we went to a local county fair and saw alot of cows (it is Wisconsin after all) and played midway games and rode rides. Our 3 year old had a blast and so did we. Of course we spent part of the time saying if we had three more we'd........ He said the best part of the afternoon was the Ferris Wheel.

I haven't blogged for awhile. Figured no body would be interested in all the things that happen to me, which is to say very little!! However we are awaiting news on two things. Or maybe I should say 4 things only three aren't things but people. anyway we got a call that there may be 3 little girls available for us to adopt. We also got an email that a job we have been courting since oh about 8 to 9 months ago may be opening up. If we get one we don't get the other. The fun part will be figuring out what God want sus to do!! The job gets us closer to the two older kids and all 7 living grandchildren which is a big big plus. Having more kids is a dream and getting three under 4 at once awesome. We're going to leav eit in God's hands for now.

Our little one turned 3 last week. WE had a wonderful time at his party. We had invited his play group. There are actually 2 other 3 yr olds in it but one has brothers so it ends up being a 7 yr old,one 5 yr old, three 3 yr olds, and a 18 month old. Six kids can rock this house!! They were all coming to his party but one got sick. and th elittle one had to stay home too. So we ended up with 3 3 year olds and a 7 year old for the party. We were doing a veggie tale theme. My DH and I were up early getting ready. The party was pretty cheap and could have been cheaper but we spurlged a little. DH took 8 x 10 pictures form the veggie web site and glued them onto cardboard. When they were dry he took a linoleum cutter and made jigsaw puzzles. He made different numbers of pieces for each child. The kids could put them together and then color them. We also had crowns made up in advance for them to wear. T used a group pic of veggies from the site and colored it then glued it to a cardboard crown I had cut out. We measured each kid on a long piece of paper. I had an extra growth chart that was free with a book purchase that I used but you could use anything. We took a picture to glue by their name so our DS has a record of who was here. The real fun began after they colored a picture for their treat bags (again from the site, free to print and color) We had several stations set up but since there were only 4 we did it all at once. First we "bobbed for Bobs" Most people do it for apples but theer isn't an apple on the veggie show yet. Even the parents got into it!! After that we reached into a container of fruit cocktail (make sure no sharp edges) and pulled out a grape (messy, very messy) We took a half of a cucumber (precut into a puzzle) and tried to put it back together, For the peas we had a small water toy that boats sail in but you could use anything that holds water. I dumped a cup of frozen mixed veggies into it and they had long handled spoons to pick out the peas. One for every year old they are. They had to pick up one pea at a time and take it to the table of course they had to hold the handle in their mouths, no hands!! For blueberries I had frozen one in each ice cube and they had to shave it with a snow cone maker I picked up for 10 cents at a grage sale. If you don't have one you could use another way to melt them. I hid baby carrots in grape jello (darkest color) and had them eat their way to it. After they collected all 6 veggies they got a prize. We used punch balls because they were 3 for a dollar at the dollar store. We "pinned the picture on the poster" I had a poster but you could make one off of the site coloring pages and we taped a copy of part of it onto the poster with a blindfold on. We only spun the older one. The others just had to find the poster. Last but not least was the piniata. I used a long brown bag and painted it green with a face on it. I'm no artist but it was familiar to any kid who has seen the shows. I filled it with dollar store stuff. It was for a boy so we had bugs, snakes, etc. You can get a bunch of stuff really cheaply. Instead of having them hit the thing I threaded strings through the bottom on the bag and had them pull two each. We all pulled at once because there were only 4 kids. After that we divided everything up evenly. You could put in candy but we don't encourage alot of sugar. I did have a small thing of fruit snacks for each child in there. For lunch we had Pizza, jello (strawberry banana) and cake. I decorated it with a kit but you could just draw a tomato and a cucumber on it with icing. We had chocolate milk to drink (a big treat around here)We gave each child a card game as a favor but you could skip this part if you wanted or get the games at the dollar store. The party probably cost us about 20 to 25 dollars but we could have done it cheaper if I hadn't gotton the cake topper or cups to drink out of. If we had had more kids coming we would have skipped the frills but 6 of stuff wasn't much. The part I enjoyed most was when the parent came for two of them and the kids started talking all at once about how much fun they had!!

I haven't written anything in a very long time, or so it seems ot me. The last tiem I was here we were on th eway to MI to do a good deed for my MIL and run a garage sale. The phrase "No good deed goes unpunished" fits well here. After a couple days with her she blew up late at night in front of our 2 year old and scared him so badly that he regressed in several ways for a couple weeks. We are just now finally back to the little boy we knew before. My DH has said that she will never get the chance to do that again. So my little one will grow up without grandparents but will be safer, healthier and happier for it. I agree with his decision since we know it has happened with his cousins other times and we refuse to give the chance of repition with us. We forgive her, we just won't allow a rematch. I really admire my DH though. He listened (as we threw our things into a suitcase with DS clinging to me) and didn't lose his temper and return "fire" It wouldn't have done any good anyway. So no more MI entries!!

After spending several days with my MIL I am back at home and hoping to find a little sanity until I have to go back there. We leave in 3 days to once again attempt to help without losing our minds and our tempers. I am trying to not think about the fact that this time we will be there over a week. I wish I were rich so I could buy the stupid farm as is and not have to worry about it any more. At least my DIL and SIL are reaping the benefit of the lessons I receive at her hands. I hope they are anyway. I'm sure I'm a poor MIL but I try not to be as bad as that. I hope they know or at least have an inkling of how much I value, respect and love them. They are in my prayers, and have been for more years than I have known them. Ah well, onward to more garage sale research. I have to sell a myriad of items, from a driving cart (updated sulky) to antiques to a sawmill. Should make for an interesting week! On a plus note we had 14 tons of metal hauled out of there this past weekend and she got 50 % of the money for that! Made me feel like I had accomplished something at least.

My DH has had it!!! He is determined to lose weight. At work they presented everyone with a challenge. The person who loses the most weight in the next 6 months gets 200.00 as does the one who loses the greatest percentage of weight. The others are in a drawing for different prizes. Everyone gives 10.00 to enter the challenges and weighs in with the nurse. I decided to join him and we are putting a bit of money away every payday to see which of us loses the most as well. I want to lose 42 pounds in the next six months. Thats only 7 pounds a month or two a week. I should be able to do that pretty easily. If my DH can do at least that (he wants ot lose more like about 80 or 90) we will be in great shape next winter. My worst tiem of day is naptime so I may start blogging then to keep me from eating.

my little one is growing up, he now decided that if he doesn't want ot go to bed he will get up and play in his room or peek out t his parents to see what fun they have after his bedtime. We are back to a crib, or sitting beside his bed, or lots of tears because Mom got mad, or all of the above. I don't like this particular stage in his life. Add the cough/ stuffyness he got from his Dad and you have a recipe for long nights and no fun evenings. Wonder how long this will last. I am getting ready for his party at the end of July. Today I found die cast Larry mobiles for a favor and of course had to get extra for my Grandkids.i am selling stuff for my MIL and so far it is going pretty well, except for the saw mill. I did find out it isn't an antique so I have a better chance at selling it, but no chance at the donation thing.

I am so proud of my daughter I could explode. I want to brag to everyone about how awesome she is. This isn't a new thing I have always been proud of her but when I look at her little ones and how well she is raising them I get positively nuts with pride. She had a few rough times that about wore out my knees but has become a woman I am proud to know. Someone I want my little one(s) to hang around. She married an awesome young man whom we are honored to have in our family and together with God they have created some lovely little ones that I am excited about watching grow up. Those tiny ones are blessed to have her as their mother. I've been thinking about all her good qualities and how we want to instill them in our little one. I know none of them were learned from me. so the prospect is staggering.

OK, I know I have room in my house but I didn't plan on taking up that space, just enjoying that I could look at a smaller house when I moved. Now well...OK my MIL was sorting out stuff and alot of it came home with me. Some of it was expected, the family good dishes to be passed down to DS2 and the like. But some wasn't. Like the set of books for DS2 I couldn't resist. Or the large stack of puzzles my SIL gave us. It is making me rethink my closets though. I have one that is filled with a computer (I thought it would be better than our old one but can't get it to work right) and three boxes of stuff that belonged to our exchange student he hasn't come back for. My DS2 closet has a lot of stuff "in case" the next one might like it. The closet in our room has clothes. The hall cupboard has all craft stuff, some of whihc I haven't seen since I put it in there. The large hall cupboard has Christmas stuff (I shop early) fabric (She who dies with the most fabric wins?) and alot of just in case stuff, in case of what I'm not sure. There are also two large boxes of photos (I take alot of pictures) and the Christmas stuff. The time has come to clean my closets. I want to wait until I feel better but need to get started. MY DH has been sick for three or 4 weeks with some sinus virus or other and now my DS2 and I seem to be losing the fight with the same thing. Because it is a virus there is no "cure" only paliatives which I don't use unless I have too. He called off two days this week and it seems to have helped. I keep asking where I call off to? The other "little" problem is that I can't clean closet when my little one is awake because he is very helpful and doesn't understand why he can't play with all that stuff. I think I'll start with the craft cupboard and make it into the "heirloom" closet. That way I shouldn't have to touch it again until I move!!!

We left Friday for the farm. It is usually an 8 hour drive. 11 hours later we pulled in. We didn't even stop for dinner. We made some stops for gas and potty breaks but that was it. WE got started sorting and planning a garage sale that night. The next day I got up wiht out little one and spent an hour looking at all the different places we have to clean out and sell contents of. It took a long time. We are talking a barn shed and house all of which are huge. The rest of that day was spent going through several rooms in the house and that evening we planned how to get rid of shed contents. This includes a 20 foot long sawmill. I am a bit whelmed by all this but keep up a good front for my MIL who owns all this. She needs to get rid of it very soon. Financially she is hurting from owning two residences and paying lots of bills on them. i started a thread begging for help on where to sell this stuff. The saw mill is most daunting, but the horse has me concerned as well. She will let the saw mill go to anyone but the horse has to have a "good" home. Her standards are quite high. I'm not sure anyone will be good enough for that animal. Don't get me wrong I love animals and am actually rather fond of all of her horses but don't feel they need a better life than I have.
Sunday we drove home and it "only" took 9 hours. We even were able to stop for dinner. This will involve several more trips which cost a mint in gas but it's for family. My DS2 and I came back with colds my DH came back with the same cold he has had for 3 or 4 weeks. We go back in July. DH will work the holiday so he can leave a day early. The sale is around the 20th to 24th. I need to have the sawmill out by then. DH is hoping to get someone to buy the metal stuff that is around there, but they have to come pick it up too. To top it off they planned a big family reunion on that farm before the sale. I am really praying for a miracle.

In an effort to build good habits in our DS2 we are having him start a bank account. This year for his schoolwork we ar edoing a weekly community helper. We have done the usual police, fire, ambulance, lifeguard stuff and are turning to other jobs. I had planned on starting his allowance when he turns 3 (5 weeks) but since we are doing banking as a community helper decided to go a couple weeks early. Our local bank has a "JOhnny Appleseed" account that insclude a passbook, has no minimum, gives birthday cards redeemable for coupons to local stuff, and has a drawing for a prize twice a year. You get a ticket for the drawing for every deposit you make. We plan on giving him his allowance (50 cents)weekly and having him save 10 cents every week. I am past the bank every week so we can stop for him to make his deposit easily. He will also put 10 cents in the charity box. (we'll start those community helpers later this month). The other 30 cents is his to spend. I plan on "needing" to go to the dollar store every month or so so he can spend if he wants to. He has started showing an interest in money and can tell the coins apart and count pennies. I am going to see that he gets his money wiht a different coin configuration every time so we can have another lesson. I realize some of you think I am crazy and I will be told that he will never remember it. I am learning lately that they remember the bad stuff best but I am hoping to build a habit that will last him a lifetime. By the way, for those of you who do not believe in allowances, yes he does chores too. He sets the table and when he is three it will involve more than the utensils. He also helps with other things like emptying the dishwasher and collecting trash.

My DH is still sick. He is so tired of being sick and I have to admit I am losing patience. We are going to the Dr. today and I am going to be adament about his getting a blood test for hypothyroidism. He is constantly tired and can't fight this sinus thing that has him down. He manages to make it to work and that is about it. I have to hire someone to mow my lawn. I contacted a youth group and am going to make a donation so at least that isn't as bad. I would do it myself but can't start the mower with my shoulder the way it is. i find myself hoping it is something easy to fix like his thyrioid. He was raised to "coddle" illness and I fight it tooth and nail unless it actually drops me (almost died a couple times that way so I know there is a happy medium).

I spoke with a member of my family last night and my heart just ached for her. They are at the get a car or walk point and she is frustrated because they ran into the same thing 12 years ago when they bought their car. To her minimum wage isn't a challenge it is a daily way of life. I remember being there, it isn't a fun place to live. I remember being so tired of everything that you just want to give up. It was very educational and I hope I never live there again. What I remember being th emost frustrating was that we were in debt and there was no real light at the end of the tunnel. I felt like we would be in debt forever. Not that we have much now but I can at least give my kids and grandkids birthday presents that are useful to them (OK maybe they don't think they are useful but I try) without going into debt. I wanted to suggest that they try saving a car payment for a year and ride the bus but she wasn't at the listening point. Sometimes you can't even lead them to the water.

This Saturday my DH felt too yucky (again) to go garage saling with us so DS2 and I went alone. We found very few things worth considering, much less spending money on (yeah) but at a church sale we found a large box (about 2 feet by 1 foot)of precut yarn for rug hooking for only 50 cents. My DH does that in the evening when he has motivation and supplies so I bought it. He has to finish a rug for one of our twin grandsons for Christmas as well as make one for the extra room (hopefully the next babies room) Our DS2 has three huge rugs that he made when he was in his 20's that are large cats, a lion, leopard and a tiger. We want our D? to have something waiting for her/him as well.
Actually it was just as well he stayed home the pager rang off the hook and he was primary call. He got enough pages to be able to take most of Friday off so we can leave for the weekend of gargae sale work in MI sooner. Now if I could only think of a place to sell an enormous working sawmill...I'm almost afraid to find out what else might be in that shed.

I have agreed ot help my MIL do an estate sale so she can sell her house in Michigan. I am concerned about some of the stuff I know is there. How on earth will I sell a working (at least it did years ago) sawmill! I am going down next weekend so I can get an idea what is there that may prove a challenge and figure out a place to list it. I'm going to take my camera and get pictures of stuff I think will sell better on ebay than in a garage type sale. I am going to have a garage sale here too, probably the week after I get back. I don't have alot of stuff but need to get rid of what I have. I can't take my stuff there to sell although I did that once a couple years ago. She has asked me to sell her horse too. I listed it online but that has gone no where. In addition we are anxiously awaiting news of our next child. We are so frustrated with waiting but the garage and estate stuff should distract me for awhile at least. The actual sale should be the third week in July and then we need to list the house. I have to help find an agent for her to have sell the place too. She is giving us some stuff that we have to rent a truck to get home which will be a pain but worth it since the furniture is nicer than we will ever afford.

It was a long trip but worth it. I got to see my oldest sister, my niece and her family, Shamu and several rockets. We didn't do the Disney thing because I won't spend that kind of money until I am sure my kids will remember it for the rest of their lives. It is a once in alifetime thing (if then). We did go to Sea World. Tickets to this attraction are about 62 dollars per adult. We chose to pay 20 dollars instead. To do this we had to attend a free breakfast hosted by one fo the local timeshare people and let them talk to us for 90 minutes. The breakfast was so so but beat the cold cereal we had been eating in the room (it was free too) and the talk was interesting. The tour was beautiful. The savings over the 2 hours was 80 dollars. I figure that was 20 dollars per hour per each of us (plus breakfast for 3) so we made out. Because we saved the extra I felt better about spurlging on the fish (yucky looking little things) to feed the seal, rays and sharks. The next day we went to the Kennedy Space Center. We paid for the "standard" admission (31 per adult) and spent the day seeing cool stuff. DS2 learned alot so it was worth it. I never realized how big that place is. The rest of the trip included lots of walks to see neat flowers, birds, and visiting family. We ate most of our meals in th ehotel with stuff I had brought. We did spurlge aon a couple things, but were carreful to keep in our "vacation" budget so we didn't run up credit cards. All in all we did very well that way. Some of the trip will be paid for by my DH company because he had to attend a conference the first 2 1/2 days. That means to car, hotel and all his meals were covered during that time, as was his airfare. My MIL gave us the money to cover DS2 and my airfare because she found out we weren't going because I was too cheap and wanted us to go along. All in all it was a nice week but we are both TIRED!!!!

No not me, my son in law. I didn't get the chance to talk to him and wish him a Happy Birthday on the phone (tried twice!!) so I thought I would write it here.
My husband and I feel we are blessed to have him as our son in law. He is a wonderful husband to our daughter and a great father to our grandchildren. I prayed for him for years before I met him. I wanted my daughter to marry someone who would cherish her and help her realize her potential as a woman and as a Mom. I wanted someone who would appreciate her and see how special she is. I prayed she would marry a man who would raise our grandchildren to be intelligent, caring, little people who were hungry for knowledge. I prayed she would marry someone who was as good looking as she is so that my grandchildren would be great looking.My daughter married an awesome man. He is good looking (fantastic hair) and brilliant. He is dependable, has a great sense of humor and is honest and fair. He loves my little girl and their children intensely. I prayed that she would find someone who was willing to share his family from time to time with in laws and have tried to be a good MIL. I can't think of enough adjectives to describe the great job God did of finding my daughter the special man who I am proud to claim as part of our family. I thank God for his answer to prayer.

If it sounds like this is to be a complaint entry, you got it. I won't be insulted if you ignore it and go to someone's blog who is in a better mood. I just spent a couple hours trying to get my two year old to hold still long enough to fall asleep. This is after church where he acted so tired he could hardly stay upright and then fell alseep on the 15 minutes trip home. 2 and 1/2 hours of fussy kid, in humid weather is awful!! i am not however willing to give up since if I do he will think he can get his own way all the time. I can't let that happen. Now he is finally asleep and it is time fo rhim to get up. If I wake him he'll be cranky. If I don't he won't be tired to go to sleep at bedtime. Oh well at least he should be wide awake fo revening church.
In addition, we are T minus 2 1/2 days to his first airplane ride to Florida. I am not looking forward to the trip believe me. Several days in a hotel room with a 2 year old. The last couple days shouldn't be half bad since there will be two parents and we are going to see dolphins, rockets and maybe water. The first several it's me, a toddler and an outdoor pool. That means if it rains I am in big trouble. DH has a convention and I tried really hard to convince him to let us stay home to save money but MIL got wind of it and paid for our tickets. Since his is courtesy of the company as is the hotel room and car except for the last two days my we can't afford it argument went flat. I'm sure I would hate to stay home without him but I'm not sure going with him will be alot of fun. Oh well, guess fun is not the point of life is it!