Thursday, January 14, 2010
ALLLLLLVIIIIIIIINNNNN!!!
Oh I think I might just die if I have to watch another Alvin and the Chipmunks cartoon. this is Allisons thing right now. She loves them. I watch it atleast twice a day. I think she needs a detox. On another note Allison has been asking me for a baby lately. She wants me to have a baby for her. But alas there will be no baby until Jason is ready to start trying again. But I'm alright with that. On a good note, I have applied to another part time job today and I will be mailing in another resume to another job hopefully tomorrow, if not then on Monday. So I am looking. I applied for three jobs a few weeks ago as well. Well, that was my update for the day. Someone is finally coming over to fix the roof tomorrow morning at 8am and I will be up and ready for him. I will also hopeflly make it to playgroup unless I'm absolutely needed to stay home tomorrow morning. I will know tomorrow. Until then.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Stressed to the Max
Oh boy am I a big stress mess. I've been talking with my husband and I need to get a part time job. It's the only way we can save money. And I keep on thinking how much worse it would be for us if we didn't live with his parents. We'd have even more bills then we already have, and one bill is all mine and it's that stupid student loan payment.
I keep on getting told I'm not looking hard enough for a part time job that is suitable for me. The thing is I AM LOOKING!!!! I just don't know where to look, I've hit a dead end. Since I also have a 2 year old I have to think of some form of childcare for her that won't cost an arm and a leg. That's why I'm thinking about part time evening jobs, but it's not what my husband wants me to do. The thing that he doesn't understand is, there is nothing THAT I CAN THINK OF in the evening that is acceptable for him. Someone, anyone if you're reading this, please help me, give me advice, SOMETHING!!!!!!
Well that was my little jist for the day. Wish I cold talk more but I've got a dinner to check up on and a little one to look after. Until next time:)
Friday, January 8, 2010
A Fresh Start
Alright, this will be a fresh start. I thought I would start a blog and use it and I didn't. so one of my resolutions this year is to try to keep a regular blog. But who knows what will happen. Life has been good. The Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas season was wonderful.
We took Allison trick or treating on Halloween. We only did two cul-de-sacs. The last house we went to scared the little bear. She went to grap candy out of the bowl and the fog blower blew onto her and she ran away as fast as she could! she was pretty much done after that and it was cold for Halloween.
For Thanksgiving we went to visit Cindee and her family in Jacksonville Illinois. About an hour and a half south from here. It was great. We had good food, went and saw A Christmas Carol at the theater, spent time together with the whole family (though we missed Michael and the Hunsaker Family), spent the night and came back home the next day. The monday after thanksgiving was no fun here though. I got the stomach flu and was sick in bed for 24 hours. I then managed to pass some form of it around to everyone in the house, Allison was the only one who didn't get much of anything thank goodness. But for the rest of the week someone else in the house was sick. But eventually we all got better.
Then came Christmas. We put up the tree and decorated it as well as the rest of the house a few weeks before Christmas. We also realized that we couldn't put any Christmas presents under the tree without Allison throwing a deadful fit for not being able to open them. So the only presents we put under the tree are the ones she helped us wrap. Everything else had to wait until after she was asleep Christmas Eve Night. One of my favorite things that we do on Christmas is bake cookies and bring them to friends. We also read the birth story of Jesus in the Bible on Christmas Eve and we read The Night before Christmas. Christmas Day we opened presents. Allison had a moutain of presents to open and she ended up waiting to open her presents until she was ready and after she was finished playing with the previous present. I will have pictures soon! But Christmas was great as it always is.
Then came New Years. I was determinded to stay up till midnight, but as my luck had it I fell asleep 10 minutes before midnight. I woke up 10 minutes after midnight. The night was uneventful for us. But January 1st is the family annual finger foods day!!! We make lots of delicious treats and snack in two waves all day and into the night. Cindee and her family came to visit that day. We exchanged more presents, played games, hung out, and shared good food.
It is now January 8th and the Christmas decorations are all put away. Both Allison and I are sick once again. This time I think I have a sinus infection and my throat has been hurting me for 4 days now. Allison is just stuffy but she also has this nasty cough and coughs up stuff, but then swallows it instead of spitting it up. We are going to the doctor this afternoon to make sure we don't have anything that is in need of any antibiotics.
Goals for this year are to get Allison to sleep in her own room all night long with no problem. also to get Allison potty trained. I have a weight loss goal like everyone else does and I want to lose 35 pounds. I'm aready down 5 pounds, but I think it's from being sicj so it doesn't count. Jason and I both want to go on a vacation. An actual vacation and not just to visit other family members. So we are going to do that this year!! And I am going to try to save more money then I have been doing. We should be able to save almost a $1,000 a month and we only get $150 saved a month. So that needs to change, mainly I need to do things that don't cost money and I need to stay home instead of shopping a few times a week. So far, so good on that goal.
Well, that's about it for now. I'll update on my darling 2 year old Allison next time and talk about her adventures and her terrible two's!!! Until then.....
We took Allison trick or treating on Halloween. We only did two cul-de-sacs. The last house we went to scared the little bear. She went to grap candy out of the bowl and the fog blower blew onto her and she ran away as fast as she could! she was pretty much done after that and it was cold for Halloween.
For Thanksgiving we went to visit Cindee and her family in Jacksonville Illinois. About an hour and a half south from here. It was great. We had good food, went and saw A Christmas Carol at the theater, spent time together with the whole family (though we missed Michael and the Hunsaker Family), spent the night and came back home the next day. The monday after thanksgiving was no fun here though. I got the stomach flu and was sick in bed for 24 hours. I then managed to pass some form of it around to everyone in the house, Allison was the only one who didn't get much of anything thank goodness. But for the rest of the week someone else in the house was sick. But eventually we all got better.
Then came Christmas. We put up the tree and decorated it as well as the rest of the house a few weeks before Christmas. We also realized that we couldn't put any Christmas presents under the tree without Allison throwing a deadful fit for not being able to open them. So the only presents we put under the tree are the ones she helped us wrap. Everything else had to wait until after she was asleep Christmas Eve Night. One of my favorite things that we do on Christmas is bake cookies and bring them to friends. We also read the birth story of Jesus in the Bible on Christmas Eve and we read The Night before Christmas. Christmas Day we opened presents. Allison had a moutain of presents to open and she ended up waiting to open her presents until she was ready and after she was finished playing with the previous present. I will have pictures soon! But Christmas was great as it always is.
Then came New Years. I was determinded to stay up till midnight, but as my luck had it I fell asleep 10 minutes before midnight. I woke up 10 minutes after midnight. The night was uneventful for us. But January 1st is the family annual finger foods day!!! We make lots of delicious treats and snack in two waves all day and into the night. Cindee and her family came to visit that day. We exchanged more presents, played games, hung out, and shared good food.
It is now January 8th and the Christmas decorations are all put away. Both Allison and I are sick once again. This time I think I have a sinus infection and my throat has been hurting me for 4 days now. Allison is just stuffy but she also has this nasty cough and coughs up stuff, but then swallows it instead of spitting it up. We are going to the doctor this afternoon to make sure we don't have anything that is in need of any antibiotics.
Goals for this year are to get Allison to sleep in her own room all night long with no problem. also to get Allison potty trained. I have a weight loss goal like everyone else does and I want to lose 35 pounds. I'm aready down 5 pounds, but I think it's from being sicj so it doesn't count. Jason and I both want to go on a vacation. An actual vacation and not just to visit other family members. So we are going to do that this year!! And I am going to try to save more money then I have been doing. We should be able to save almost a $1,000 a month and we only get $150 saved a month. So that needs to change, mainly I need to do things that don't cost money and I need to stay home instead of shopping a few times a week. So far, so good on that goal.
Well, that's about it for now. I'll update on my darling 2 year old Allison next time and talk about her adventures and her terrible two's!!! Until then.....
Friday, November 6, 2009
As Promised
As promised. This is the birthday cake that I made a few weeks ago for a church friend. It took me awhile to get this picture up but I finally did. This cake didn't take me long to make it. I baked the cake the night before and decorated it the day of. And it is a chocolate cake, yum, yum!
Sunday, November 1, 2009
I'm Back
It's been quite a long time since I've blogged. I just haven't been in the mood, either that or I can't get to it because my now 2 year old keeps me from doing anything personal. It's been a crazy couple of months. I made a wedding cake for a dear friend of mine from college and they liked it so much that her sister has asked me to make her wedding cake as well. I'm still contemplating doing hers. I was also asked to make a birthday cake for someone in my Ward, which I absolutely loved doing. I have lots of pictures to get up here to show those of you who read my blog. But I will start with the wedding cake that I made back in August.
I made a sheet cake, a 4 tier cascading cake, and a grooms cake. The sheet cake and the wedding cake were yellow cake with a strawberry filling and some had a chocolate genoshe filling. The grooms cake was chocolate with a chocolate genoshe filling. The grooms cake was lots of fun. My friends now husband was a Marine for 4 years and he collects old war helmets. The grooms cake I made was a replica of one of the WWII hats he had re-painted himself. I copied all of the colors and his pattern and he loved it. The flowers on the wedding cake were ALL edible. It took a very long time to make those calla lillies and roses by hand. But the end result was worth it. It was worth all of the time I took to make this cake just to see how happy they were with the end result. All of the cakes had buttercream icing and the wedding cake also had a basket weave pattern with violet intertwined, which of course I did on my own. It took me a total of 4 days to make the 6 cakes. The first day I baked all of the cakes (the wedding cake was 2 layers each). Then it took me a day and a half to make all of those flowers and another day and a half to decorate. I will put up the birthday cake I made next time as well as some Halloween photo's of my little girl.
I made a sheet cake, a 4 tier cascading cake, and a grooms cake. The sheet cake and the wedding cake were yellow cake with a strawberry filling and some had a chocolate genoshe filling. The grooms cake was chocolate with a chocolate genoshe filling. The grooms cake was lots of fun. My friends now husband was a Marine for 4 years and he collects old war helmets. The grooms cake I made was a replica of one of the WWII hats he had re-painted himself. I copied all of the colors and his pattern and he loved it. The flowers on the wedding cake were ALL edible. It took a very long time to make those calla lillies and roses by hand. But the end result was worth it. It was worth all of the time I took to make this cake just to see how happy they were with the end result. All of the cakes had buttercream icing and the wedding cake also had a basket weave pattern with violet intertwined, which of course I did on my own. It took me a total of 4 days to make the 6 cakes. The first day I baked all of the cakes (the wedding cake was 2 layers each). Then it took me a day and a half to make all of those flowers and another day and a half to decorate. I will put up the birthday cake I made next time as well as some Halloween photo's of my little girl.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Cat for Sale
Ok there is no cat for sale but I have learned that I need to keep Allison's door closed whenever we are not in her room. This is the second day in a row that Cassidy's cat has pee-pee'd on Allison's bed. I'm starting to get angry and there may not be a cat when Cassi gets home from school one day. I'm just saying. I think Cassi thinks it's funny, she says the cat is jealous because Allison gets her own room and the cat doesn't. She's a cat, she claims everything and she's not trained so she goes to the bathroom everywhere. So I'm washing Allison's bedding again, and from now on her door stays closed. Unless she's asleep in there, then I keep it open.
In other news, I've started the process of teaching Allison to sleep in her own room. Right now she falls asleep laying on the floor next to me in her room and then I trasfer her to her bed. But the first couple of nights she cried and screamed for anyone but me for 2-3 hours. Last night she only cried and screamed for 45 minutes until she gave up. But she does not sleep through the night. Does anyone else have an almost 2 year old who wakes up 2-4 times a night? I do not understand why she does this. I do play soft classical music in her room most of the night and I keep a fan running on low for the white noise and I keep a night light on in her room all night long. These things seem to help. My next step is getting her to fall asleep in her new bed and not on the floor next to me. That will be a difficult thing to do. The funny thing is that Jason has been wanting Allison out of our room for over a year now and now that I'm doing it he misses her. Who'd of thunk that I would be the strong one and Jason would be the soft one. At night when Allison cries she calls for dada and if daddy happens to come in to the room he will take her out and into our room which defeats the purpose of what I'm trying to accomplish. Maybe this time next week Allison will be falling asleep without me lying next to her.
Does anyone have any advice on getting Allison to sleep without me lying next to her?? Or should I just close the door and let her scream and cry until she tires herself out?? Feedback would be nice:) Until next time....
Moving Day Come and Gone
Well, Moving day has come and gone. Thank you to everyone who came to help us move. The last few weeks have been crazy. I packed the house and we moved less than a week ago. So far I've got my daughters room set up and the kitchen is completely un-packed. I never knew how much stuff you can accumulate in the course of 2 years. We've still got a whole lot to un-pack. But things are starting to look a little better.
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