Time Flies

I have realized this summer has flown by....I cannot believe that we leave for our annual Penticton trip in 5 days. This trip is the best! It is also kind of a close to summer. We go around the same time every year in August. I know there is still some summer left after, but it winds down, the sun leaves earlier...and fall comes, which we do love in our house...football season, and the slow switch to fall clothes :) (I love the changing of seasons!) Anyway, I'm getting ahead of myself.
The whole thing that brought this along was usually we are getting ready for our trip way ahead of time. I just realized this weekend that we were leaving next weekend! So, I pulled a bunch of clothes out for AM to pack. That's the extent of preparation so far. Since I have tomorrow off, I will be able to run some errands and get things we need. I was thinking now that it's not just us, does it just mean we are busier..? or is it just more consumed with someone else besides our own selves..we just don't have time to obsess about our vacation like usual...? So, Cory says the older we get the faster time flies. I think that makes sense because when I was little, summer was so long and vacations took forever to come...well our time will speed up more I guess, but soon AM will be at the age where her time will go by slow and she can obsess about summer vacations.

It's my Friday!

So, I think I'm going to like my new schedule. After 2 long days at the beginning of the week, Addie and I really enjoyed our day off yesterday. We got lots done around the house, we ran lots of errands, and we ended the day at a birthday dinner for my neice, Kayley. It was a late night for AM, but she did great and had lots of fun! Watching this little guy, it sure makes you realize how much more fun they are as they get more personality and can do things and have fun. I mean obviously it's different when they're yours, but still, now I understand what Cory always used to talk about. Anyway, off on a tangent there...I work today and then I have 3 days off and I'm very excited! Plans for this weekend...tomorrow AM is going to go to her (Friday) daycare since we were paid thru the month, just long enough for momma to get her hair done! And maybe throw in a pedicure :) Sat we have a baby shower for my cousin and then a going away party for friends. By Sunday...the house I cleaned yesterday will be a disaster and all the laundry will have piled up again...and the week starts over again!

She is growing up

First of all, today is going much better than yesterday-knock on wood. We've got through the morning, no real crying-almost done w/both naps, both feedings. Now...to keep AM entertained and not make too much noise so we don't wake him up...
She has been so good today. And taking care of him just makes me realize how she's not that much of a baby anymore. She actually listened to me this morning when I told her no, she didn't want to eat her baby food, but loved to sit on my lap and eat some of my muffin.
However, I know she's still a baby when she eats the muffin crumbs off the floor....oh well, she's trying :)

1st Day

Oh my goodness. This afternoon has already proven to be much better than this morning! The family I am nannying for was on vacation last week and the little guy is all off schedule. Needless to say it made for a fun morning of trying to get everyone accustomed to everything, AM and him with holding, feeding, sleeping, crying. It was a little crazy! Things are better now though, after both had 1st naps, feedings, AM down for her 2nd and after a little break from writing...I just got him down. Now maybe I have 15 minutes before AM wakes up and needs to eat. I think I may make it after all. And a bonus, Cory pointed out I may not need to go to the gym again because I've hardly eaten, I haven't sat, and during that hour of hell, I must have sweated off 5 lbs!
To do the list of 5 things, from memory I will try...
in my purse:
1. lip gloss
2. wallet
3. usually this phone (but obviously I'm using)
4. camera
5. sunglasses
in my car:
1. antibacterial
2. stroller
3. toys
4. glasses
5. wipes
in my fridge:
1. bottled water
2. diet coke
3. nectarines
4. lots of condiments
5. gatorade
(we have no kitchen otherwise we'd have some food I swear).
in my closet:
1. lots of shoes
2. clothes
3. purses
4. hangers
5. an old jewelry box
I think that's it!
And on a side note... Happy 3rd Anniversary to my wonderful husband!

Rainy Day

Today is just one of those rainy days you want to stay at home, in sweats, and watch tv, cuddle with the baby, the dogs, ok not so much the dogs- they are stinky. And they annoy me when it's raining because they do not want to go outside to go to the bathroom and I have to force them out. Ha...anyway, it's one of those days. I don't think it helps that I have only 2 days and 3 hours left at work, well probably less because I think we get to leave early for a drink tomorrow and Friday they will let me leave early because it's my last day and what possibly could I have to do? So, let's just say 2 days. It leaves me with no motivation whatsoever to work. I have been on myspace, email, blogs, read all the news and stories on MSN, and I went to get lunch. Which is obviously a big thing since I didn't feel like going out in the rain, but I didn't feel like working more.

Here is a picture, my first posted picture, of AM. This was at Target when my mom was with her, I went off to grab something...I come back and my mom has AM in her stroller, piled high with stuffed animals because my mom is trying to get AM to pick which one she likes best so she can buy it for her....and she's just laughing!

After narrowing it down with certain giggles and me taking many pictures in the middle of the store aisle....that bunny on the right is what we went home with :) (and looking at this, the doll on the left, I think she has one exactly like it that gma already got her..) Aren't gmas the best for spoiling? I am glad that AM has one to spoil her, it was my favorite thing when I was little and now I'm sure it is AM's too- especially by the way she smiles when gma is there to see her!

Excited

I just realized I can read other blogs and even post mine from my phone. I find this exciting because when I start nannying next week I will not fall off the face of the earth when it comes to keeping in touch with my friends on the computer! Yeah me! Although I'm not sure about pics yet....

Friends...and Posh Spice.

Yesterday evening I heard someone on the radio talking about how most women between the ages of like 25 and 35 (or something around that) have only had their current group of friends for 5 yrs. They said with all the changes you go through in life, people usually only keep their friends that long because your friends change as you do something new, like graduating college, getting married, having kids, moving for jobs, etc etc. I thought that was very sad for those people. I mean I am not still friends with everyone I grew up with (although I am with an important few), probably because we all went down the same path, but at least we are still friends. I am also the luckiest girl to have the friends I have from college. I think it doesn't happen for everyone, which I only recently realized that some people in our house did not graduate with a wonderful group that they still keep in touch with. But with our group, it's not like we just keep in touch, we do things together. And yes not all of us see each other all the time, but when things are planned with eachother, we are there and we have fun and it always makes me happy to think of times with them. I cannot imagine them trading me in for somebody else who is in the exact same moment as them, say, not wanting to have kids yet, or the few that aren't married yet, I don't think they'd say Lori, don't want to hang out with you because you're married. Nope, we all get together, with or without husbands, with or without boyfriends, with or without kids and we all know that everyone is welcome at anytime. Anyway, the story made me sad for all those other people out there that find new friends every 5 years. But it made me happy to know I have such a great group of girls I love and love to call my friends!
On another note....I never really was a fan of Victoria Beckham (Posh Spice), although I am a huge fan of her husband's [looks]. I thought she was too skinny, too mean looking, and why did she always wear sunglasses, you never see her eyes. And then I made Cory watch 'Coming to America' last night with me because I was so curious about her. And I have to tell you, I enjoyed it, I enjoyed her, and I wish it was an actual series instead of that one special. She was funny, she was sweet, she was silly and dumb sometimes, but I liked her! So, I will now apologize for any mean things I ever thought about her. I am now a fan.

Monday....

This weekend was fun- I had good times. Friday was a fun night out with Cory, Jazz, Tanya and Cassie. Beer (champagne) Gardens are always fun :) Cory and I at first felt old walking through there...lots of teenagers hanging out at the street fair (not the beer garden of course). I told him I felt extra old because that used to be me...very odd to be in the same area you grew up in and see that. But very fun that there is a tradition that we like to keep and go to these things. Jazz and I were saying when we were younger, we would stand outside of the beer gardens and all the old people we knew would be having so much fun inside. Now, we're the old people having fun.
Saturday I was a little tired....staying out til 11:30 really wipes a girl out. HAHA! Anyway, we had swim class which is always a good time, and then my mom and I took Addie to the street fair. We walked around, bought some things, ate some ice cream. It was hot, but it was fun. Oh, and to add to the old part from the night before....I went to one booth to buy a bottled water where the money went to charity and these two girls who thought they were so cool/hot (ha, didn't even mean to do that, but it works...), one was talking on the phone and she's like I saw so and so and so and so and he said.... I'm like....damn, I know those guys she's talking about. WEIRD. I've hung out with them, drank with them, and their older brothers. And I'm like I am so out of the loop..I am married and I have a kid...and who are these girls...? I'm definitely not one of them. So weird.
So, today I have all this anxiety and I couldn't figure out why. That's one crazy thing that I have figured out about myself..if I am feeling anxiety about something and I'm not sure why, I just have to think about it and once I pinpoint what is bothering me, it doesn't bother me as much. It's like that underlying terrible feeling isn't so terrible when it's no longer underlying. I think mine was going to the dentist today. I have come to hate those big needles in my mouth. I have had more fillings in the past couple months...ugh. I tell Cory it's because when I was pregnant the baby took all the stuff needed to make my teeth be okay. I read something along those lines a few times before, about getting all your teeth checked before you get prego because you are more likely to get gum disease or gingivitis or whatever. So anyway, that's why I think my teeth needed all these fillings...I mean who would get that many in a year or two since the last checkups? No way. But my anxiety was over for the most part when I was done with my appointment....until they told me on my way out that I have to come back one more time. Oh no.

So I'm back

Reading T's new blog has got me remotivated to write. However, hers and Mandy's have wonderful pictures that I just haven't gotten to yet. And now with my last week of work coming quickly, I honestly don't know how much I'll be on the computer.

Nannying will be fun, and busy! I will have the two little ones to watch, cuddle, and chase after ....well soon AM will be walking and I will be chasing! Fun times :) I am excited though, very excited. I look forward to the sunny days of summer out in the backyard. I look forward to singing paddy cake over and over like we did at the ranch (although I had Tanya to sing half of them :) and I look forward to my other two days off during the week to get some things done, like laundry, errands, cleaning the bathroom, and watching AM grow. I am excited...did I mention that already?

I will miss the socialization with people I work with, but am I broken up over it..nope. I have my friends that I will see, that I will make plans with, and honestly, I won't feel bad leaving AM at night to go out once in awhile...which will be nice. Like this morning, I woke up at 3:45 am...and then I laid there all morning wide awake thinking about how I made plans for this evening and how I don't want to leave her and I should cancel. Of course my mom makes me feel better (probably because her real motive was she gets to babysit) by saying I don't usually get to do things like this so I should go and have fun. So, I feel better....plus I made Jasmine not back out last night, so we have plans :)

Anyway, it's Friday...it's not sunny, it's stormy...I'm waiting for the sun to come out to motivate me for fun times to come! Enjoy the weekend~