The merry merry month of May!

Hey Blog, it's been awhile, again... I guess I've been pretty busy. Homework everyday, working at night, pinterest... You know. Well, anyhow, I need to unload! I am planning a birthday party for my "baby" who is not technically my baby anymore. Saturday she will be 2 and 2 year olds are not babies, they are toddlers. I swear Shiloh was never a baby. She came out walking, then ran the next week. And soon there will be an actual baby baby in our house. One that sleeps and cries and nurses. A sweet little swaddled up newborn in my house again! I can't say that I am in a hurry, but it will be fun I suppose. I know Katharine is excited. She already lays her head on my tummy and whispers sweet things to her soon to be sibling. Oh yeah.. about that birthday Party! I decided on a Wiggles theme, but there is not a single Wiggles themed ANYTHING in any store around here. You have to order it all online, and I do everything last minute so there was no time for that. So I found these little Wiggles printables on Etsy that I can use for cupcake toppers or stickers or labels... and that's what I'm going to do! I got a giant bag of M&M's at Costco that I'm going to separate into clear bags and label them "Wiggly Candy". In lieu of those crappy toys, I got each kid a small box of Crayolas and I printed out some coloring pages for tons of coloring fun. Last week I went to our local cupcake shop and tried to order some cupcakes but they were booked Thursday, Friday and Saturday because it's graduation weekend. Sigh! So I guess I'm doing to baking tomorrow! Don't tell Albert but I am going to cheat on the cake part and use a mix, but I will make the butter cream frosting from scratch! It's all about the frosting anyway, right? Yeah. I ordered Spaghetti from DaVinci's (it wont be cold) and I'm making fruit salad. There will be a Wiggles cd playing and some Wiggles Dvd's on. Yeah, doesn't it sound like a blast? You know you want to come! I just want everything to be ready already so I can stop stressing. Parties are so stressful!

Google +

I'm trying out this new Google+ Blogger hybrid thing they got going on... See if I like it. Hopefully it will make Blogger work better than it has been in the past. But maybe my problems were my old computer... I have a new one now :D

2012

I'm not really into New Years as a Holiday, but I am loving this feeling of a fresh start.

I've got all these ideas and this inspired feeling...
Good things are gonna happen this year.

December...

It's Christmas soon! Hoooray!

I've been crafting a little bit. Can't wait to post pics....

I wish I lived in a wintery place. I feel like I would stay indoors and do crafts and cook everyday.

Maybe I could do that now if I got rid of everything in my house that has a screen/monitor???

Yes, I think so.

Things are looking up...

I'm recovering a bit from the craziness that resulted in my last post.
I have my moments, what can I say?

My house is getting more organized and Katharine is back in school from the break and she's still doing well. It will be my birthday soon, and I'll begin my last year as a 'twenty-something'... sigh.

The holidays are on and I need to start working on some crafts! No more anime marathons late at night!
I <3 Inuyasha


That's all for now.

Priorities

My priorities have been way out of wack lately. Reminds me a little of when my first daughter was the age that my second daughter now is.

Why do I go through these cycles? They really mess things up. I was doing so well.
I'm going to blog more, because it helps me sort out my thoughts and feelings. They might not be happy and interesting, there will probably be a lot of self pity and vague things that makes sense to no one but my. Feel free to ignore these. I just need to let it out.

Yellow Card

Katharine got a Yellow card yesterday!

I picked her up and she pointed to both her hands. I said "What? No stamp?" and she shook her head and tried to fight back a smile. "Did you get a yellow card today?" Then she nodded still trying to fight the smile and pretend to be sad. I gasped to try and hide the urge to smile and laugh myself. Not sure why, it was just kind of cute and funny. I had to turn away from her to talk, to show that this was a serious matter, nothing to giggle about.

She told me that she had touched the Brown Bear story board too many times after the teacher and told her not to. "I just kept touching it, over and over and over again!"

I really didn't know what to do. She was pretty disappointed with herself. She said she never wanted a yellow card and she was sad about it. I didn't know if I should just let that be her punishment. I decided to let her call her Dad at work and tell him what happened. She did. Then when I got him on the phone he said to put her to bed and only let her do her homework, no toys and no coloring the rest of the night. Then he text me and asked if he should spank her when he got home. It was cute. "Should I spank her when I get home?" I dunno. We want to do the right thing but we have no idea what exactly that is so we just try everything at once. Of course I said no. That she felt bad enough about the whole thing.

I said to my walking buddy that morning in front of the school "This is going to be a bad day for her." She has stayed up an hour past her bedtime the night before and that morning she was just whiny and slow and agitated.

This is why schedules are so important! YELLOW CARDS PEOPLE! This is serious! First its yellow cards, then its red cards, then it's bailing them out of jail!

Sigh.

This morning right before I sent her to the classroom I said "I want you to apologize to your teacher for not listening and tell her that today you are going to get a green card!"

I wonder if she did.