June 30, 2007 at 9:58 pm (Uncategorized)
I don’t know when and if we can take a vacation.
However…
I just found out that an acquaintance of ours bought a house in Salt Lake for fun and totally offered it to us if we wanted to take a trip.
Gosh, if only we knew people to visit out there?!??
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Update: I am going to talk to the wife about seriously trying to go. I think we’re going to see if we can swing a trip to So. Cal. to see family this fall - late Fall. We’ll see if we can do SLC for maybe a day or two on the way back!?!?
June 28, 2007 at 3:48 pm (day care, internet friends, money)
This blog is rated PG, so I had to throw a 4-letter word into a entry title to spice things up a little. Apparently, my use of the words “suck” and “gay” put me out of the G rating category.
So….
What an incredible group of people you all are. It’s amazing how much you can get from people out there on the other sides of the country – or the across the Atlantic!
I want to respond to everyone individually, but I’m sorry that I haven’t yet. It’s been a crazy week.
We are doing okay.
There has never been a doubt in my mind that I will be with Lois forever. Being a parent, as many of you know, can change things just a little bit. Just a teeny tiny little bit.
I will begin preparing the adoption paperwork next week, since I am pretty much doing the lawyering part by myself. We have made a decision to move forward and deal with our plans for our family and take each other matter in stride as they come our way.
Another conversation we had in all of this was about money and jobs and day care. That whole topic taken together just sucks.
Everything is working ok right now because Lois is on unemployment after losing her job and is at home with Andrew. That will run out at the end of the summer, so the “perfect situation” is going away.
It’s funny how both of us were a little resistent to the unemployment benefits in the beginning. Neither of us had ever taken advantage of it before. But it’s worked out great as Lois has been looking for something that will work out for us.
Then, we started looking at the numbers.
Sheesh.
I called 3 day care centers yesterday to find out what openings they had, if they did part-time, their hours, etc. Due to where we live, it’s flippin’ expensive!!!!!!!!!!
Most “decent” day cares here are between $280 and $350/week. WTF?!?!?
Lois was hoping to not have a full-time job but many of them only give a $50 break per week for “part-time” kids.
Any job in her expertise will put her at a net income, after day care and gas, of about $50/week. A part-time job paying $12-$14/hour can’t come close to making money after paying someone to watch Andrew for just a few hours.
We knew this would become an issue, but I guess reality is sinking in.
How great would it be if Lois’ mother was somewhat sane and we could use her? How great would it be if we lived in Utah…I know a few people who could watch him!?!?
June 26, 2007 at 3:39 pm (Uncategorized)
I don’t know why I felt the need to do a protected post. I guess I just need to get something out of my head, or off my chest. Whichever.
Anyone interested (who’s not psycho) can email me at hollykr1976 at yahoo dot com for the “word”.
June 25, 2007 at 6:26 pm (Uncategorized)
Andrew is 4.5 months old.
And I do not have Thank Yous out to my co-workers.
As more time passed, I thought I would do something big and creative, with some type of photo montage.
Now, I just need to get them out and I feel like such a schmuck for letting it go this long. At this point, it will be nothing more than Target thank you cards and a wallet sized photo of Andrew in it.
It’s not that I’m not so grateful for the gifts, it’s that I am so disorganized and uncreative and incapable of making something special and cool.
Now, it’s so late, I don’t know how to make it special.
ugh.
June 25, 2007 at 3:50 pm (search terms)
I usually don’t have much in the way of odd search terms for my blog, but this one has left me shaking my head:
holly lsu naked
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The weekend was a success! Sometimes, I can’t understand why I always feel exhausted on Monday morning.
We did the 40th Anniversary dinner for my parents on Saturday night. We got to the club at 6 pm and didn’t leave until somewhere around 10 pm.
Sunday, we went to church again. (We are so proud of ourselves) Again, there was an entire sermon about not discriminating against people. The service pamphlet also had a little thing about how this parish supports the current stance in favor of same sex unions. Wow.
Sunday afternoon was a BBQ at Lois’ parents house for her father’s 60th. Plus, more pool time for little Andrew.
I also did not get to go kayaking this weekend. Darn it.
June 22, 2007 at 7:49 pm (Uncategorized)
Tomorrow is my parents’ 40th wedding anniversary.
My siblings and I joke about how they’ve stayed together so long because they are never together. They both worked in jobs that required travel, they vacation with their friends, only sometimes with each other. But, I must admit that I have learned from them that healthy and happy relationships do not mean “co-dependency” and they are very much separate and independent individuals while being a very married and together couple. We wish them many, many more years of continued happiness!
We didn’t do much for them because they didn’t want us to, but we did get them a gift certificate to this place. I’m sure they will be so thrilled!
Tomorrow night, we’ll do a little family dinner for them.
Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!
As for me, I am brushing the cobwebs off the kayaks and hitting the lake!
Is it uncool to have a kayak rack on the WRX?
June 22, 2007 at 2:29 pm (what bad mommies we are)
The back of Andrew’s head is pretty flat.
We’ve joked about it a little from time to time, but Lois is now very worried that we have been horrible mommies and he’s going to be permanently damaged if we don’t do something about it.
Apparently, she spent a considerable amount of time on the internets yesterday looking up stories about babies with misshapen heads whose parents “let it go too long”. Many of them required helmets or other such things.
So, we are now trying to overcompensate the other direction and keep him from lying on the back of his head as much as possible.
We even propped him completely on his side for sleep last night. It worked pretty well, other than the fact that the binky falls out easier when lying on your side and it’s worthy of some short loud frustrated screams.
In the last 24 hours, we have put our poor child through an endurance test of sorts, making sure he was getting plenty of time upright or as we are now calling it “head fixing time”.
I even put the Jumparoo (present from Grandma R.) together, thinking he was too small for it. uh uh. He LOVED it!!!
Here’s a slideshow of the poor kid enduring his activity marathon.
June 21, 2007 at 1:17 pm (flippin' sweet rides, money)
You all remember the car saga from this post and this post, right?
We sold the Hyundai. Actually, Billy sold my Hyundai.
After Billy allowed us to use his driveway for broken Hyundai storage, after we worked to pay off the $1,800 we owed on it, after searching each and every option to fix or do something with this car, we sold it for parts.
$200.00
“That’s all?” I asked Lois.
“What did you think you were going to get for it?”
I don’t know. The car had so much more value to me. I guess I was still hoping it had some worth.
Maybe we’ll put it towards our P-Town vacation next month. Maybe we’ll pay a bill or two.
$200.00
I guess better than than nothing, right. Sigh.
BTW – the odometer read 100,520. 520 miles over the warranty and they wouldn’t push it through or cover any of the work. I guess I feel a little better that I’m driving a Subaru now. At least Subarus don’t self destruct right after the warranty coverage expires.
June 20, 2007 at 8:44 pm (what bad mommies we are)
Andrew was hanging out on the floor playing when we both got engrossed in the fact that he kept getting sidetracked from playtime and would scratch the back of his head with his left hand.
Finally, we decided to look at the back of his head.
Poor kid has this red cradle cap/rash thing going on.
Oops. Sorry buddy. It looked pretty itchy.
He was probably thinking “hey, you idiots, instead of ooh-ing and ahh-ing about how cute I look right now, could you possibly get me some cream or something?!?!?!”
We were just amazed that he was using his hands to do something with purpose!
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