The little man is not feeling well today. I heard him coughing off and on throughout the night (it's a deep cough, so keeping an ear on it to make sure it doesn't start to sound like croup...that would just be wonderful), and when he woke and came to my room he was really hacking. He said "Oh Mommy. I think I getting sick. I really not feeling so well." so I asked him if he needed to go to school and he said "Yeah. It's really not good to go with my cough". So the poor guy is snuggled on the couch watching his favorite shows and coughing away.
In funnier Ian news, he has changed the spelling of his name. Twice. First, he wanted to spell it (I'm going to write this word for word) "I.A.N.M.Q. and a O." He actually wanted me to go to the store and get some more letters for his wall because there were some "missing". After that, he changed it to "A.I.N." He switched the "A" and the "I" that are hanging over his bed. He got upset when we went to church and they printed his nametag spelled "IAN", and then during the craft he actually wrote his name on his paper as "AIN". He's very persistent. :p
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Monday, January 31, 2011
Wonderful Weekend
This last weekend was one of those that you just don't want to ever end. The weather was BEAUTIFUL Friday-Sunday (topping out at 70 on Sunday--perfect!).
On Friday, Ian and I met a friend at the park. That evening, his little friend came over for a few hours so that his mommy and daddy could go on a date, and they had a blast playing and destroying my house. ;)
Saturday morning, we all got up and went to the Family Fun Run that Bragg puts on once a month. It's a 5K that allows strollers, dogs, walking, running, everything. So the dog came along, and Ian finished his FIRST 5K! He did the majority of it, only spending a few minutes on Daddy's shoulders. He would have done better if Mommy hadn't been waddling so slowly behind him. After that, we headed downtown to Once Upon a Child because they were having a sale--any clearance item you could fit in a bag for $15. So we got around $100 (Once Upon a Child prices, not retail) of clothes for baby girl for a grand total of $15. Ian got a cute pair of shoes, too. Then we went to TRU/BRU and wandered around for a little bit. We found the diaper bag we want (Hazen picked a backpack style...hopefully it's as wonderful as he thinks it will be/the reviews say it is) and then headed across the street for lunch. Hazen went to the gym and Ian and I played outside in the sunshine, I got a two-hour nap, and then hubby and I hung out and watched a movie on Netflix after the kiddo went to bed.
Sunday was GORGEOUS. I got to sleep in until 10, then we all got ready for church. Had another wonderful service (nothing new!), then came home for lunch. Hazen headed to the gym and Ian and I went to the park and played basketball, tried out the roller blades he got for Christmas (work in progress...he says they're "too hard to practice"), then rode his bike to another park. Hazen met up with us there after the gym, and we all walked home in the sunshine. Capped the evening off with homemade carne asada burritos and the Pro Bowl (or half of it...we went to bed early).
Now it's Monday morning. The kiddo is still sleeping (yay for quiet time!), I'm working on my to-do list for the week, and it looks like it reeeeeally wants to rain outside. At least we got a few great days. :)
On Friday, Ian and I met a friend at the park. That evening, his little friend came over for a few hours so that his mommy and daddy could go on a date, and they had a blast playing and destroying my house. ;)
Saturday morning, we all got up and went to the Family Fun Run that Bragg puts on once a month. It's a 5K that allows strollers, dogs, walking, running, everything. So the dog came along, and Ian finished his FIRST 5K! He did the majority of it, only spending a few minutes on Daddy's shoulders. He would have done better if Mommy hadn't been waddling so slowly behind him. After that, we headed downtown to Once Upon a Child because they were having a sale--any clearance item you could fit in a bag for $15. So we got around $100 (Once Upon a Child prices, not retail) of clothes for baby girl for a grand total of $15. Ian got a cute pair of shoes, too. Then we went to TRU/BRU and wandered around for a little bit. We found the diaper bag we want (Hazen picked a backpack style...hopefully it's as wonderful as he thinks it will be/the reviews say it is) and then headed across the street for lunch. Hazen went to the gym and Ian and I played outside in the sunshine, I got a two-hour nap, and then hubby and I hung out and watched a movie on Netflix after the kiddo went to bed.
Sunday was GORGEOUS. I got to sleep in until 10, then we all got ready for church. Had another wonderful service (nothing new!), then came home for lunch. Hazen headed to the gym and Ian and I went to the park and played basketball, tried out the roller blades he got for Christmas (work in progress...he says they're "too hard to practice"), then rode his bike to another park. Hazen met up with us there after the gym, and we all walked home in the sunshine. Capped the evening off with homemade carne asada burritos and the Pro Bowl (or half of it...we went to bed early).
Now it's Monday morning. The kiddo is still sleeping (yay for quiet time!), I'm working on my to-do list for the week, and it looks like it reeeeeally wants to rain outside. At least we got a few great days. :)
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Why I love being a stay-at-home mom
Ian was diagnosed with pneumonia yesterday. Obviously, this isn't a good thing. What is a good thing is that it's OKAY. I don't have to worry about who he's been exposed to while sick, I don't have to worry about what to do with him for the next few days while he gets better, I don't have to worry about someone not babying him the way I want him to be babied (babyed? Baby'd?) when he's sick, and I don't have to worry about making my boss angry that s/he has to cover me for a week while I'm out with a sick child. Yeah, my kiddo being sick isn't fun, but it really doesn't do much to change our lives. I'm still home with him, I'm still the one making sure his needs are met, and I'm the one who is adapting our schedule to fit what he is able to do (which, until today, was pretty much just lay on the couch).
I love that I don't have to feel guilty and figure out my priorities. We don't have a lot of money and we struggle from time-to-time, but so what? At the end of the day, my son knows that no matter what Mommy will come running, Mommy will fix his boo-boos, and Mommy has the cuddles when he doesn't feel well. It's easy to make myself think I'm not "doing" anything when I stay at home. But it's times like these when I realize how important my role really is to our family, and it makes me feel good that I can do it (and that, most days, I LOVE doing it).
I love that I don't have to feel guilty and figure out my priorities. We don't have a lot of money and we struggle from time-to-time, but so what? At the end of the day, my son knows that no matter what Mommy will come running, Mommy will fix his boo-boos, and Mommy has the cuddles when he doesn't feel well. It's easy to make myself think I'm not "doing" anything when I stay at home. But it's times like these when I realize how important my role really is to our family, and it makes me feel good that I can do it (and that, most days, I LOVE doing it).
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Jammie day
I am sooo behind on the blogging. I really had this big plan to become some great blogger, with pictures, and family news and all that fun stuff. Even planned to split this blog up into the "main" family blog, a nutrition/"green" one, and my place to vent. Trying to figure out how/when to transfer the baby blog over here. Maybe if I would spend a few minutes being productive rather than doing silly things like play games on Facebook, I would get it done. :/
Anywho, we've had a long week here! Saturday was spent in the ER where we found out that little man had croup...again. We spent the next few days lounging around, even missing church and our 5K Stop Children Trafficking walk (Hazen still went, we bought the shirts, but it was still a bummer!). The doctor assured us Ian would be past his contagious stage in time to go to school on Tuesday, but unfortunately he just was not feeling well and we slept in until 9:00 (he goes to school at 8:30). So he missed his first day of the year, though I don't expect it will be his last.
Today was Jammie Day at school. We had a jammie day last month, and the kid REFUSES to wear his pajamas to school. He just tells me over and over "No. Pants and shirt to school. Pants and shirt." So, he didn't wear his jammies. Again. I even packed a pair in his backpack thinking he might change his mind when he saw the other kids wearing their jammies. There were only 4 or 5 wearing theirs, and that wasn't enough to convince him. I don't know if the other parents just don't read their calendars, or if the other kids don't get the concept of wearing pajamas to school either. Maybe it's half and half? Regardless, I'm sure I'll get a reminder to read my calendar when I pick him up. If it were up to me, he'da worn his dinosaur jammas today. But it's becoming clear that less and less is up to me, so pants and a shirt it was. ;)
Anywho, we've had a long week here! Saturday was spent in the ER where we found out that little man had croup...again. We spent the next few days lounging around, even missing church and our 5K Stop Children Trafficking walk (Hazen still went, we bought the shirts, but it was still a bummer!). The doctor assured us Ian would be past his contagious stage in time to go to school on Tuesday, but unfortunately he just was not feeling well and we slept in until 9:00 (he goes to school at 8:30). So he missed his first day of the year, though I don't expect it will be his last.
Today was Jammie Day at school. We had a jammie day last month, and the kid REFUSES to wear his pajamas to school. He just tells me over and over "No. Pants and shirt to school. Pants and shirt." So, he didn't wear his jammies. Again. I even packed a pair in his backpack thinking he might change his mind when he saw the other kids wearing their jammies. There were only 4 or 5 wearing theirs, and that wasn't enough to convince him. I don't know if the other parents just don't read their calendars, or if the other kids don't get the concept of wearing pajamas to school either. Maybe it's half and half? Regardless, I'm sure I'll get a reminder to read my calendar when I pick him up. If it were up to me, he'da worn his dinosaur jammas today. But it's becoming clear that less and less is up to me, so pants and a shirt it was. ;)
Monday, July 19, 2010
Fail (kinda)
The fast isn't working too well due to some recent news posted on my other blog. So the new strategy is this: hubby is fasting one day a week, and I am doing nothing. I'm eating what I want when I want. Didn't think now was the ideal time to be making drastic and temporary dietary changes. ;)
Monday, July 12, 2010
6 week "fast"
We just started a 6-week series on Ephesians in church. As part of it, our wonderful pastor mentioned the gap between what we "know" and what we "believe". He suggested, as a way to help close that gap, a "fast" of sorts. We're also to spend much more time in prayer than we usually do (an hour 1-3 times a week in addition to what we normally do).
The "fast" suggestions were these: fast one day a week (not an option--Hazen and I both become VERY cranky when we get hungry), skip one meal a day (not an option for the previously mentioned reason), or give up something. So, for our fast, beginning today, we will be doing 6 weeks of no meats, no sweets, and no booze. The sweets will be the absolute hardest thing for me. The meats I can handle. The booze will be fine. The sweets....ugh. I finished up the ice-cream in the freezer last night because I couldn't bear to see it go to waste (at least that was my excuse while I was downing my massive bowl...).
My biggest concern about "going vegetarian" is making sure we aren't missing any essential nutrients. Ian will be following our diet, though a little less strictly, so I really want to be sure he is getting what he needs. The nutrients we'll need to watch are:
•iron
•calcium
•protein
•vitamin D
•vitamin B12
•zinc
We all take multi-vitamins, so I'll be checking the daily values on those, and will also be looking into what natural options exist. We've decided to allow dairy, eggs, and a couple of servings of fish a week. So I guess that will mean we're dabbling in pescatarianism/lacto-ovo vegetarianism...vegetarianism with the allowance of fish, dairy, and eggs.
Our hope is that when it gets hard-and I'm sure it will!-we will be able to pray through it and stick to it. We're also hoping that cutting some of the fattier, nastier things that we enjoy so much will help with the waistlines...we've both put on a little weight in the last few months. Nothing drastic, but the fact that I'm gaining at all disturbs me as I've always been someone who can eat whatever she wants and not gain an ounce. This darn aging thing is a bit of a menace. ;)
kidshealth.org has been a helpful source in finding which nutrients we need to be careful about and giving options for obtaining those, and this blog post: http://eatclosetohome.wordpress.com/2008/03/29/vegetarian-menu-and-recipes-for-a-month/ is sooooo hopeful! She has two months (that I've found...there may be more!) worth of vegetarian dinner menus already laid out including the shopping lists and recipes. I don't think she could have made this any easier for me!
A couple of complications--Ian's birthday, which we will be celebrating three times when all is said and done. We already went to the Smithsonian in DC (which I really need to post about...I am so not good at this blogging thing), then Ian and I will be celebrating on his actual day, and then we'll have a small get-together about a week later beeeeecaaaaause...Hazen is going TDY for two weeks, right over Ian's birthday. So I'm really not sure how he plans to follow the "fast" while he's living out of a hotel room in Missouri. We're going to have to come up with some kind of plan for him. I'm sure it will be doable, but he will definitely have the harder time between us. And we've already decided we all get a pass on Ian's birthday/party. There's gonna be cake. He's been asking for cake for months. I can probably get around the meat thing, even if I have to grill burgers for everyone else, and serve Hazen and I something different. But I'm gonna have cake. No way I'm missing out on the best part of my kiddo's birthday celebration. ;)
So, wish us luck. Hopefully this will give us the boost in our faith that we need, and maybe we will enjoy this new lifestyle. We've been trying to add more meatless meals to our menu anyway, so this is a good way to really kick us into it and force us to try new foods!
The "fast" suggestions were these: fast one day a week (not an option--Hazen and I both become VERY cranky when we get hungry), skip one meal a day (not an option for the previously mentioned reason), or give up something. So, for our fast, beginning today, we will be doing 6 weeks of no meats, no sweets, and no booze. The sweets will be the absolute hardest thing for me. The meats I can handle. The booze will be fine. The sweets....ugh. I finished up the ice-cream in the freezer last night because I couldn't bear to see it go to waste (at least that was my excuse while I was downing my massive bowl...).
My biggest concern about "going vegetarian" is making sure we aren't missing any essential nutrients. Ian will be following our diet, though a little less strictly, so I really want to be sure he is getting what he needs. The nutrients we'll need to watch are:
•iron
•calcium
•protein
•vitamin D
•vitamin B12
•zinc
We all take multi-vitamins, so I'll be checking the daily values on those, and will also be looking into what natural options exist. We've decided to allow dairy, eggs, and a couple of servings of fish a week. So I guess that will mean we're dabbling in pescatarianism/lacto-ovo vegetarianism...vegetarianism with the allowance of fish, dairy, and eggs.
Our hope is that when it gets hard-and I'm sure it will!-we will be able to pray through it and stick to it. We're also hoping that cutting some of the fattier, nastier things that we enjoy so much will help with the waistlines...we've both put on a little weight in the last few months. Nothing drastic, but the fact that I'm gaining at all disturbs me as I've always been someone who can eat whatever she wants and not gain an ounce. This darn aging thing is a bit of a menace. ;)
kidshealth.org has been a helpful source in finding which nutrients we need to be careful about and giving options for obtaining those, and this blog post: http://eatclosetohome.wordpress.com/2008/03/29/vegetarian-menu-and-recipes-for-a-month/ is sooooo hopeful! She has two months (that I've found...there may be more!) worth of vegetarian dinner menus already laid out including the shopping lists and recipes. I don't think she could have made this any easier for me!
A couple of complications--Ian's birthday, which we will be celebrating three times when all is said and done. We already went to the Smithsonian in DC (which I really need to post about...I am so not good at this blogging thing), then Ian and I will be celebrating on his actual day, and then we'll have a small get-together about a week later beeeeecaaaaause...Hazen is going TDY for two weeks, right over Ian's birthday. So I'm really not sure how he plans to follow the "fast" while he's living out of a hotel room in Missouri. We're going to have to come up with some kind of plan for him. I'm sure it will be doable, but he will definitely have the harder time between us. And we've already decided we all get a pass on Ian's birthday/party. There's gonna be cake. He's been asking for cake for months. I can probably get around the meat thing, even if I have to grill burgers for everyone else, and serve Hazen and I something different. But I'm gonna have cake. No way I'm missing out on the best part of my kiddo's birthday celebration. ;)
So, wish us luck. Hopefully this will give us the boost in our faith that we need, and maybe we will enjoy this new lifestyle. We've been trying to add more meatless meals to our menu anyway, so this is a good way to really kick us into it and force us to try new foods!
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Fun website
www.labelwatch.com
It shows all the ingredients in all kinds of stuff and has them color-coded: green=good, yellow=okay, red=bad. It's fun to scroll through and it helps when I'm looking up some of those ingredients that I can't pronounce. ;)
It shows all the ingredients in all kinds of stuff and has them color-coded: green=good, yellow=okay, red=bad. It's fun to scroll through and it helps when I'm looking up some of those ingredients that I can't pronounce. ;)
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