September 18th, 2007 by Del

So today started off badly… I woke up just before Haley’s alarm went off and had to take some allergy medicine (when the seasons change my allergies start acting up until they get used to the new weather) and then had to make sure Haley was getting ready and whatnot, Michael was cranky getting up (probably because he didn’t want to go to sleep until around 10pm last night) but was good once we were out the door to the school. Dropped Haley off (which reminds me I need to write a note for her absence yesterday) and came back home to relax… at least that’s what I thought. I tried turning the knob to open the door and it was locked!! I NEVER lock that particular door because I’m usually back within 10 minutes of leaving the house, so I’m stuck outside with Michael, no keys or id’s in hand. Thankfully I always take my cell phone with me and called the Housing Office to see if someone could help me out and all they could say was they’d pull the extra key out but either I or someone else had to pick it up, now if I’m locked out of my house wouldn’t that mean I left my keys inside and where do you think my car keys would be… HELLO!! INSIDE that’s where! Ugh, so I had to call my friend and see if she could swing by before work and pick them up for me otherwise I’d be stuck up sh*t creek without a paddle Thankfully she came by with them and I was able to go in and relax… that didn’t last long….

I got a call from my other friend asking me if I could watch her two kids because the lady that was watching them was in the middle of taking her son to the ER (found out later he broke his femur when he fell off a scooter… he’s 3yrs old btw) and she had no one else to turn to for help with her kids. I felt bad and well her kids are very well behaved so I said yes and watched them for a couple of hours before their dad picked them up and then I had to go get Haley (which btw I was running late to do as well), afterwards we went to the commissary and oh my gosh Michael is going through I don’t know what kind of phase but he’s stomping his foot and giving an attitude when he doesn’t get what he wants or doesn’t get to do something (yeah I’m not the type of parent to give into a kid so he can pout and fuss all he wants)… so I was beyond stressed when I left the commissary and then as I was pulling into the gate I realized in all my commotion to leave the store I COMPLETELY forgot to get any kind of meats for dinner!!! OYE!!

By the time I got home it was just about time to get started on dinner so I didn’t get to relax (again) and sat the kids down to eat and then got another call from my friend (whose kids I watched earlier in the day) asking if I could watch her kids for her part of the day tomorrow (she’s taking a daycare provider class on base and tomorrow is the last one)… I feel bad because the only other person available to watch her kids is this other gal on base and frankly I wouldn’t even let her watch my kids!! So I said yeah and then I remembered her saying the class started at 7:30am and that’s the same time I leave to take Haley to school, so I had to call my other friend (the one who got my spare key for me) and asked her if she could take Haley to school for me since her daughter and son have classes almost next door to hers and she has to come on base anyway to park, she said yes and then in turn asked me for a favor (I knew it was coming… never fails with that one). So she and her husband were going to go get a new mattress for their bed since the one they’ve been sleeping on is giving them so much back pain and asked me to watch her two kids for about an hour at the most…. an hour and a half later she came and picked them up, by then I had my kids tucked and in bed.

So tomorrow I’m gonna be scarce again I think, I have to watch my friend’s two kids PLUS the gals OTHER little one (the one whose son is in the ER tonight)… I feel bad because I enjoy walking with Haley to school This is only for half a day though since I have somewhere to be at 2pm, which I’m not sure I’m going to want to go by the time the other kids leave. NOT to mention I’m probably gonna get points for my grass not being mowed (which I was going to do today but obviously had not enough time to), so I’m gonna have to call the inspector and tell him my sob story too . My one friend (whose kids I’m watching tomorrow morning) did come by this evening after all the kids were gone and mine were asleep and dropped off an Oreo Flurry from McD’s and some cookies, I thought that was sweet… she kept apologizing for even having to ask me knowing David’s deployed. I understand her predicament though and I know she genuinely feels bad… the other one though likes to take advantage of me I think even though she doesn’t realize she’s doing it, her husband is always around and yet they want me to watch their kids while they get a date or some alone time… yet they can only watch one of mine once in a while

It’s just been a very stressful and tiresome day today. Hubby did call when I got back from the grocery store and I broke down crying to him, I couldn’t help it… the stress just built up on me today and I couldn’t hold it in anymore and well I miss him horribly right now

Well, my day has been long enough without me waiting for sleep any longer, so now that I’ve taken my Motrin I’m gonna take my tired emotional self to bed… hopefully I’ll live to see the next day. to all my peeps who are always around to lend an ear… or an email, lol.

September 13th, 2007 by Del

That’s what we’ve been doing since Sunday My FIL and I started on the living room walls on Sunday afternoon (after David left), then I walked with my kids and my MIL to a friend’s house around the corner to her little girl’s birthday party (didn’t stay long, wasn’t in the right frame of mind to socialize). We came back and spent the rest of the evening moving furniture around and rearranging the room, I definitely like how it all ended up and it feels so much more cozier in the room now

Monday we took Haley to school and started moving stuff out of my bedroom and cleaning the walls to prep for the paint, we ended up finishing the bedroom around noonish and still had another gallon and a half of paint left over so we said may as well do the hallway while we’re at it, lol! So we finished that by about 2:30 and just in time to have to leave and go get Haley from school I LOVE the way it looks, I was hoping we’d have paint left over for the hallway too, lol! We spent Tuesday cleaning out the storage closets outside and my closet, I took a baby stroller, a toddler gate, infant carrier, a potty seat, and a CRAP LOAD of clothes to Goodwill (couldn’t get a hold of anyone at the Airman’s Attic to donate it to them so I went with Goodwill). Now all I have left to clean out are the back closet and the kids closets, but that will wait for another week or so then my friend Renee’s going to come over and help me paint Haley and Michael’s bedroom walls… yay!

I got a call from David late last night telling me he made it safe to one place and would call me when he got to his final stop (can’t disclose that information for the safety of our guys and gals). I can’t wait for him to in-process so I can get a working e-mail addy for him and his physical addy there so I can start sending him some homemade goodies. It’s really lonely sleeping at night, even as tired as I am I find it hard to fall right to sleep because I’m so used to cuddling up to my baby I hope and pray he stays safe out there and gets to call or e-mail me often enough to keep my sanity.

Before I leave I’d like to tell you all what happened at school today with Haley, lol. I get to the school to pick Haley up and the teacher waves me to come in for a second and I think to myself ‘please don’t tell me she caused a commotion, lol’… well the teacher says, ‘we had apples for snack time (and I’m thinking great she got diarrhea, lol) and Haley’s took fell out, but she didn’t feel it comes out and we couldn’t find it!’ Omg, what a relief I tell ya… was afraid she had some sort of crap accident, lol! So the teacher gave her a piece of note paper and told her to write a note to the Tooth Fairy explaining what happened so she wouldn’t be upset with the lack of tooth under her pillow, lol. So funny, I got a pic of her cheesing without her tooth that I’ll upload a bit later in the “Picture Braggin” section. Anyhoo, gonna go for now and write a letter to my aunt whom I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. TTFN my sweet peeps