Last night Sam and her best buddy M asked if M could sleep over. I said yes, as I have in the past when they asked. Thus far, it never lasted more than an hour. Well last night at 9:30 they were still clucking around - very funny to listen to the conversation of a 3 year old and a 7 year old! So I went in and told them it was time to be quiet. It took a little time of monitoring them, but by 10:00 they both were fast asleep and slept thru til this morning! I am shocked!
Sam just started sleeping in the top of her bunk bed and they both were fast asleep in it last night. AWWWWWWWWW....
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Monday, May 30
Saturday, May 28
Additional on the TV...
by
welee
on Sat 28 May 2005 09:16 AM PDT
Yes, this tv is the heavily discounted floor model that we paid $317.00 for. It is a 32 inch HDTV that ran about $1000.00 at the time. So we are now getting a NEW TV at no additional cost, so it looks like we got a brand freaking new 32 inch HDTV for $317.00 and yes, that included tax!
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~*~*~*~Happy dance~*~*~*~* Friday, May 27
Ok, now I come up 8th for
by
welee
on Fri 27 May 2005 09:15 AM PDT
HORNY MOMS GALLERY. OMG!!! I didn't think my blog was that interesting... lol!
A few various ramblings....
by
welee
on Fri 27 May 2005 09:14 AM PDT
Yesterday was spent baby sitting our expenses. First, we had to cancel our Citibank card because there was a weird charge on it. So they issued us a new one. Luckily there were only 3 charges on it to be switched over. Well the first charge of $3.03 transferred over fine. Well the other two charges of 16.something and 19. something transferred over and then a total of the two transferred over as a transfer balance. So we called Citibank. I had to speak to THREE people and after 45 minutes, the third rep finally got it but said she couldn't do anything until they next day cause the statement hadn't been cut yet. GRRRRR...
Then there is my STUPID insurance. I have an EPPO which works kinda like and HMO only I can see doctors out of network at 60%. When I hurt my back, I found a GREAT in network doc. He first sent me to PT. The faculty is in network, they called to verify my benefits - which are 100%. So I went. Well, I am still battling charges with them from the end of Jan and the beginning of Feb cause they have only paid it at 60%. I have spoken to 10 people, most of which find that they ARE in network, then resend the claim only to NOT have it paid. I contacted the PT people and there is a nice woman there who is writing a corporate letter of appeal. I wish I could say this is a one off with my health insurance, but it is not. I have constantly had to baby-sit them. It makes me wonder how many people pay for lots of stuff they shouldn't have to. The good news is that we finally settled with the hospital from when they used Latex on me after Sam was born. The settled amount is ten grand. Of course the lawyer gets 40%, but when I got the check for us to endorse, they listed a bunch of other charges that were to be deducted from our settlement - office charge $250.00, postage $40.00... but the kicker was the court costs of $155.00 and the medical records of $110.00. The reason they were the kickers is because we PAID for them when they came up! The court cost was actually $155.00; however, the medical records was $114.37. So I have one of the checks and I am getting a copy of the other from the bank so that I can send the correct adjusted amount owed to us with proper documentation. Ben says that it shouldn't be a problem; but of course I worry. I mean it is only and additional $300.00 but that is a lot to us and why should I pay for something twice? It just gets frustrating that so many people SUCK at their jobs. I mean when I was working professionally, I always took great pride in doing a good job. I always followed thru on what I said I was going to do. I just never knew it was an option not to. Even now waitressing, I always try to do the very best I can. It bewilders me that so many people can just be sloppy and still have their jobs. And it gets so tiresome to have to constantly baby-sit everyone else! But since it is my money involved, I baby sit! Speaking of cash, I have picked up 2 shifts this weekend - one tonight and one Monday night. Hopefully it will be profitable! Other news, our beatiutful new TV is acting up. Grrr... But a repairman is coming out and it is still covered under warranty. He did say if it is the color tube that we get a brand new TV! WOO HOO!!!!!!!! A quick brag: Yesterday Sam tells me that Baby Kit is being DISRUPTIVE. Her language skills just blow me away!!!!! I am now off to go play with the kiddos who are playing dress up so nicely together! Monday, May 23
We must have been on Candid Camera...
by
welee
on Mon 23 May 2005 09:13 AM PDT
So Ben and I went on a date and used our new baby sitter (Boy is she GREAT!!!!! I could blog a whole entry on her....). We went to see the new Star Wars film. Pretty good overall. I thought the beginning was slow but then it REALLY picked up. And the actor who played Ani must have taken acting lessons cause this time around, he could actually ACT most of the time.
After the movie Ben and I decided to go to the local Red Robbin for a snack. They are a restaurant. We went to the bar and sat at a table. The waitress finally came over and asked us what we wanted to drink. I asked her what wines she had. "Well we have White Zinfandel for white wines," I was told. Ok, it's been awhile since I had a drink, but last time I checked, Zinfandel was pink and considered a blush. So I asked what red wines she had. "We have Chardonnay as a red wine," she answered. Now I knew this waitress was confused or had been sampling the wine cause I was certain that Chardonnay was a white wine. I asked if she had a Merlot, which she did, so I ordered that and Ben ordered a Captin Morgan and coke. When my wine arrived, it was indeed red and in a wine glass. However, Ben's Captin and coke was in a large soda glass. We were skeptical, but there was indeed a teeny tiny bit of Captin in there. Unfortunately he would need a triple shot to make it taste right. The waitress said she'd be right back with a straw for Ben, which never arrived. When she was passing by, we asked if we could order something to eat. She wanted to know what we wanted. We told her that we needed to see a menu. After reviewing the menu, we chose the chicken quesadillas to share. When she was dropping the food off, she spilled tomatoes all over one of the plates and had her hand in our lettuce, which she then picked up and moved to a different spot on the plate. She never brought us napkins or silver. We were planning on asking her for these things when she did a check back. Well that never happened. Infact she then dropped the check with out ever offering us another round on our drinks. Then as were getting our money ready, she came between us and asks for the sugar caddy. Everything was so absolutely wrong, we were sure that we HAD to be on some hidden video show. The service was soo bad, it was too bad to be angry, we just laughed! So watch out for the Bendys.... Saturday, May 21
A little bit of this and a little of that...
by
welee
on Sat 21 May 2005 09:12 AM PDT
The good/funny:
My kids are a trip. When I walked into my room today, Sam says to me, "Look how clean the furniture is Momma." So I take a closer look to find that there is baby lotion smeared all over my dresser. I then look at Sam. "I helped you clean," she proudly states, beaming ear to ear. Well I guess Baby Kit didn't want to be out done today cause he helped too. After I got done shaking out the duck bathmats and moping the floor and had everything put away, in comes my handsome little 17 mth old toting my wet mop that he some how managed to get down from a hook. He proceeds to move the duck mats and start moping. After a few minutes, he stops moping and drops the mats in a bunch in the middle of the floor. He then straightens them as best as he could while giving me the cheekiest smile I ever saw! Too cute!!!! The annoying: Awhile ago I mentioned a non board friend of mine who ALWAY complains about her two boys who for some reason decided that they might go for baby # 3. Well today she tells me at a bday party that they got pg on the first try and she is now 9 weeks. I mean I am happy for them (I guess) but now I know I am going to hear her bitch and moan even more... I have decided tho that I am going to give things a rest for awhile. I am tired of going round and round with Ben. Undecided and no bc will have to do for now. And truthfully after Kit's latest stint in the hospital, I am too tired to worry about that I am ovulating. It just feels like a kick with my friend, but I am not going to open another page of whine. Time: To go outside and play with the kiddos! Friday, May 20
Bullshit...
by
welee
on Fri 20 May 2005 09:11 AM PDT
You know, I have posted to a board for about 4 years now. I have read many things, many TMI about so many things. When something was more than I wanted to know, I just passed it over. And many things were written in black and white on the page. Well today I shared about a REAL WEIRDO who was reading my blog. I wrote that it was gross and a link in case anyone wanted to see how gross this person was (in my opinion...). I did not make ANYONE link the link. Well don't you know that I was ticketed and told to remove the link. So fine I did. But what bullshit. I rarely say boo to anyone about anything, but when I go there to share that I am a little grossed out - not wanting to say to much here being that the weirdo was/is reading me here, I get my wrists slapped. BULLSHIT. But I can read about how someones kids molest their other kids and all sorts of other bullshit. I guess it's ok for some but not for me. Makes me REALLY FUCKING PISSED OFF.
At least here I can just say what I want. Thursday, May 19
The one about when Ben tripped on cough medicine...
by
welee
on Thu 19 May 2005 09:10 AM PDT
And this was just the other night. So Ben and I have this wicked nasty evil colds that we got from Kit's stay in Peds. We have no adult cold medicine in the house but I remembered that I had some med for the kids that is an antihistimien/decongestant/cough med. I figured it was ok for me to take with nursing Kit 1x a day. There was no dasgae info on it on the net, so we figured if Sam could take three quaters of a teaspoon to a full teaspoon then we could easily double or triple that amount, right? So I took 3 teaspoons and ben took 2.5. He then went up to bed.
While I was playing on the computer, I started feeling like I was whirling around like in a whirlpool, but didn't think anything about it. It was when I stood up and couldn't feel the ground below me that I was like, hmmmmmmmm... So I go to bed, well for the next several hours, I was waking up with wild mini dreams and flashes every ten minutes. I swear to pikles! Well during one of my wake ups, Ben bolts up emphatically asking me, "Did you see that, did you see that?"I told him that he was having a mini trip from the medicine and needed to go back to bed. He also continued to get up every ten minutes.It was sooooo bizarre. Thank God, we didn't take more. I tried looking it up again tho and couldn't find dosage and on the bottle I couldn'f find the strength of the meds per ml. Now I am wondering if it is the totally wrong strength for my kids and if I have been dosing them. I mean if I felt that with three teaspoons, how wacked must have Sam been at 1 teaspoon and Kit and a half of teaspoon. So as I test last night I took one teaspoon and it worked really well with out the trippy side effects. But I think I may not give it to the kids any more or dose it down A LOT for them. Life is a wild ride!
Christopher...
by
welee
on Thu 19 May 2005 09:10 AM PDT
is doing soooo much better - solid poop and no puke. And boy oh boy is he such a pleasant boy. He rarely fusses, easy to get to sleep, eats well and always has a smile on his little face. It fills my heart to see him back to his normal active self. He is just an absolute joy to my life!
Samantha....
by
welee
on Thu 19 May 2005 09:09 AM PDT
Love is....
When you are laying next to your daughter and she turns to you and says, "Momma, you have bugs (boogies) up your nose." And then before you have a chance to reply. she shoves her little finger up your nose and says, "That's ok Momma, I'll get them out for you." Brag...Sam was outside playing with her best buddy Morgan and another girl, Leanne. Morgan asked Sam if she remember a story about a big brown bear that she had told her. Sam said that she did. Morgan then turned to Leanne and starting calling her the big ole brown bear. As Morgna taunted Leanne, Sam saw that Leanne was getting upset.Sam stood up with both hands on her hips and said, "Morgan, Leanne is not the big brown bear. You are not being nice and you are making Leanne feel sad. I think you need to say sorry."Morgan was so floored at what Sam said, she just up and went home.Ben and I were soooo proud of Sam for having her own mind, not going with what her friend wanted her to do and not being afraid to do the right thing. Yeay Sam!The Contrary Threes.... Some days it seems that Madam Stinkpants (aka Sam) just takes issue with every little thing. Why oh why is everything an arguement? Today we were at a bday party and my Sam was the one who was having an issue with everything. Yes, it was me that had that kid today. I know it is normal, but boy does it feel like I am el-sucko parent. And then of course, she refused to nap. Can't wait for bedtime tonight!!!!!> Monday, May 16
Finally home...
by
welee
on Mon 16 May 2005 09:08 AM PDT
Last Tues we had to take Sam to the doc cause the stidor in her throat was HORRIBLE. She ended up having both croup and bronicitis. So she was put on antiboitics and steriods. Let me forewarn you that my brain cells are shot and I am beyond tired, so there will be typos and mis-spelling galor here....
Well later that day Baby Kit started puking and it did not stop for almost 18 hours. About 8 hours in started the worst smelling diarreha that I have ever had the misfortune of smelling. OMG it was like something crawled up him butt and died. I felt so bad for my boy tho, I just held him as he wretched and wretched. He stopped puking for about 12 hours and then started again. Stopped again and then started 12 hours from then. As the time moved forward, he just became so listless and we knew that he was not doing well. After 48 hours went, I took him to the ped and they sent us straight to the hospital. They suspected Rotaviris. His ketones were off the chart and his CO2 was really low, which inidicated that his kidneys were shutting down and we are lucky that we got him there when we did. They immediately got the IVs running. And even with them going 24-7, it took almost a day until his diapers started getting wet. Of course I stayed with him. Ben and Sam came when they. The hospital was ok. Some good some bad, but overall, I found kinda uncaring. I mean they did their job but that was about it. I woke up Sat morning with such a head ache, I thought my head would fall off. I asked if one of the nurses could stay with baby Kit for a moment while I ran to their gift shop to get some tylenol. (They could not give me any...) I was told no cause they were too busy. BTW, the floor was not even half full. Each nurse had 2 patients. Yes, I can read the boards after Sam's stint in PICU. So that meant I was screwed because Baby Kit would freak out when put in that jail looking crib (it was silver and did look like a jail). I could not leave my baby freaking out, flailing himself with an IV in his arm. They were just like, oh well.... WTF?????? And while I am venting... can I say how many kids were there with out a parent! WTF is that? You'd have to shoot me and drag me still clasped to my child's bed to get me away. Luckily, we got to come home late Saturday, but I have been too exhausted to blog. They wanted to keep baby Kit longer, I begged them to let me bring him home. Sunday was rough cause he still was not taking in a lot of fluid, but we kept trying to get a little in him as the day went on. Today was much better and we are hopeful that we are coming out of the woods. Sam was also still pretty sick when I got home, she was still on the steriods and antiboitics. She was also VERY mad at me for being away. All day she acted helpless and kept saying that she was a sick baby. I know she she where I was and that Baby Kit was really sick but in her own mind, she was at home sick and I was not there. So after I got Baby Kit to bed on Sat and Sunday, we spent lots of time just us gals. To boot, now Baby Kit has an upper resporitory infection as do Ben and I. I think it was a party favor from being in peds for a few days. Hospitals AKA Germ Factories. So now the kids are in bed and asleep and I am soon to follow. Thanks everyone for the prayers. Specifically M, I have had you and Baby F in my prayers, I hope that she is home and the billis are going down and that you are recovering. I will be keeping you both in my prayers. Everyone else, I am behind in my blog readings but know that you all are in my daily thoughts and I hope that everyone if well.
XOXOXOXOXOXO!! Saturday, May 7
Totally TMI, so be forewarned...
by
welee
on Sat 07 May 2005 09:06 AM PDT
Such a tease that bitch AF is. She decided to be 4 days late, which for me NEVER happens. Of couse I tested once I was 2 days late and again 3 days late, but I had to go and buy one of those fancy digital tests. And don't ya know it, both give me an error message. Not a yes, not a no - just an error. So after my dumbest day at work ever, I went and bought 2 old fashioned pee on a stick and see a plus sign or not.
Like a good girl, I saved all my best morning pee and POAS. I thought I saw a plus but faint. Ben said he saw it but it was too faint for him to count as a +. Well later that day, spot decides to show. She was faint and orange/brown, so I tried holiding on to hope. Alas, the next day, she came on much more red and altho she didn't really fill a pad, she left AF style leavings in the toliet. The weird thing is today, I still have red blood, but no treats in the toliet and only some on a pad. It's like it is over. A one day period with a day before and a day after of spotting? Weird. Maybe it's stuck? The kicker is that my boobs are still KILLING me and tonight when I was mowing the lawn, my mouth tasted like metal. I feel like my hormones are just SOOOOO fucked up. It sucks, but the only way I am going to get pg and be able to stay pg is with taking Clomid. And I WON'T do it til Ben gets on board and he is not yet. (Needless to say, we went round and round about that. What a way to make myself feel even better when AF has already kicked me and cut me open leaving me to die...) The only positve thing that happened is that Ben finally admitted that he can think of some positives about having a 3rd. He is still undecided leaning toward no, but it is a start. So I have been a bit MIA and indugling in my own pity party full of whine... Ok God, it's me Wendy and I am waiting for a miracle here. I'm a good mom and 3 is just the perfect number for me... Speaking of prayers and requests for God, please get those billirubins down for Baby F and healing vibes for her mom. And send some healing vibes for Momma's momma down in sunny Fla. Send some peaceful vibes to Jedi Mel and my friend Jen (not any board Jens...) who are weaning from the crazy meds. And some STAY PUT vibes for little baby Logan and his mom who is hoping for 9 more weeks.... And to all my friends who are moms, HAPPY MOMMY'S DAY!!!!!! Tuesday, May 3
Tonight I was a stupid moran at work....
by
welee
on Tue 03 May 2005 09:04 AM PDT
I made more mistakes tonight than I have made the whole year I have been there, Luckily the kitchen covered my sorry ass when I forgot, yep just forgot, to give them my slips. It wasn't super busy. I was just brain dead.
And then there was clutsy... I was walking into BIG trays of dough that were just sitting there... Uh, hello, I lost my brain... has anyone seen it???? So the guys at work and I had a good laugh at my weirdness. I am lucky that I was still charming and came home with 87 from my lovely little customers... |
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