I'm tired. I am and always have been a proud breast feeding momma. However, Andrew will be two in February, and he is still nursing frequently through the night. I am so sick of it. He uses me as a soother and ends up waking well over 15 times a night. It is insane. As a newborn, he would do a 6 hour stretch and then wake up for a feeding, and then two 3 hour stretches. I know, everyone says, "just wean him already" It really is way harder then it seems. He still asks to nurse quite a bit during the day as well. I know a lot of the time he does it because he is bored. Maybe I am lazy, I don't know. It just seems that I can't do enough to keep him entertained. When we are around other people, he is super happy. Loving to be busy and be around others. When it is just him and I, he is bored. I think that maybe I don't do enough fun things with him in the house, but I have to keep up after my own house work. I sometimes feel like weaning him cold turkey would be a great plan, but I can't bear the all night awake session (we tried doing this a couple of times now) I barely get any sleep as it is, but to go from little to none is worse. I am not a good mom when I am tired.
Ugghh. Okay, I know this is a little bit of a rant. I love Andrew with my whole heart and I am grateful everyday for him. He truly is a gift from God. I just wish I could have a little sleep.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
A Thankgiving One
I took this from Crystal's blog. I thought it would be fun to try, even though we celebrate Thanksgiving in October in Canada.
1. Which do you like better: Cooking at your house, or going elsewhere? I have done both, and I like both. We rotate houses in my family for Christmas's and Thanksgiving's.
2. Do you buy a fresh or frozen bird? We always go frozen, although I suppose it would be nice to have fresh.
3. What kind of stuffing? My mom's stuffing. Traditional, normal stuffing. It always is the first thing to go.
4. Sweet potato or pumpkin pie? Oh yum! Both please, and lot's of both. Pumpkin pie is my very favourite pie, and I love sweet potato, all year round.
5. Do you believe that turkey leftovers are a curse, or the point of the whole thing? I could honestly eat turkey everyday. I love turkey leftovers.
6. Which side dish would provoke a riot if you left it off the menu? Definitely stuffing, and my sisters special candied sweet potatos.
7. Do you save the carcass to make soup or stock? By carcass do you mean the bones? Yes, I do. Every time I cook turkey or a chicken, I boil the bones to make stock for a soup/
8. What do you wish you had that would make preparing Thanksgiving dinner easier? Two ovens. Definitely two ovens.
9. Do you get up at the crack of dawn to have dinner ready in the early afternoon, or do you eat at your normal dinner hour? We eat at normal dinner hour.
10. If you go to somebody else's house, what's your favorite dish to bring? I am asked to always bring the buns. My mom has the best bun recipe, but has lost her bread making touch. So now I make the buns. I also like to bring a dessert, like pumpkin cheesecake.
11. What do you wish one of your guests wouldn't bring to your house? My one sister-in-law likes her food cold, so when we had dinner at her house one year, everything was cool, even the turkey. Yuck. I love her, but I wish she wouldn't bring anything except stuff that is meant to be cold, like a salad or a dessert. (My family doesn't know about this blog- it's all good) I also hate picked beets and a lot of my family loves those things.
12. Does your usual mix of guests result in drama, or is it a group you're happy to see? It's my family, so yeah, there is usually drama and happiness.
13. What's your absolute favorite thing on the menu? Stuffing, mashed turnip, and mashed potatoes and gravy.
14. What are you thankful for this year? I'm thankful for a lot. My husband and his wonderful new work schedule that allows us to actually spend time with him. My sweet son. New life being born all around me. Our new house, and the funds that are making it possible to renovate, and our debt load being reduced very quickly.
Now it's your turn!
I took this from Crystal's blog. I thought it would be fun to try, even though we celebrate Thanksgiving in October in Canada.
1. Which do you like better: Cooking at your house, or going elsewhere? I have done both, and I like both. We rotate houses in my family for Christmas's and Thanksgiving's.
2. Do you buy a fresh or frozen bird? We always go frozen, although I suppose it would be nice to have fresh.
3. What kind of stuffing? My mom's stuffing. Traditional, normal stuffing. It always is the first thing to go.
4. Sweet potato or pumpkin pie? Oh yum! Both please, and lot's of both. Pumpkin pie is my very favourite pie, and I love sweet potato, all year round.
5. Do you believe that turkey leftovers are a curse, or the point of the whole thing? I could honestly eat turkey everyday. I love turkey leftovers.
6. Which side dish would provoke a riot if you left it off the menu? Definitely stuffing, and my sisters special candied sweet potatos.
7. Do you save the carcass to make soup or stock? By carcass do you mean the bones? Yes, I do. Every time I cook turkey or a chicken, I boil the bones to make stock for a soup/
8. What do you wish you had that would make preparing Thanksgiving dinner easier? Two ovens. Definitely two ovens.
9. Do you get up at the crack of dawn to have dinner ready in the early afternoon, or do you eat at your normal dinner hour? We eat at normal dinner hour.
10. If you go to somebody else's house, what's your favorite dish to bring? I am asked to always bring the buns. My mom has the best bun recipe, but has lost her bread making touch. So now I make the buns. I also like to bring a dessert, like pumpkin cheesecake.
11. What do you wish one of your guests wouldn't bring to your house? My one sister-in-law likes her food cold, so when we had dinner at her house one year, everything was cool, even the turkey. Yuck. I love her, but I wish she wouldn't bring anything except stuff that is meant to be cold, like a salad or a dessert. (My family doesn't know about this blog- it's all good) I also hate picked beets and a lot of my family loves those things.
12. Does your usual mix of guests result in drama, or is it a group you're happy to see? It's my family, so yeah, there is usually drama and happiness.
13. What's your absolute favorite thing on the menu? Stuffing, mashed turnip, and mashed potatoes and gravy.
14. What are you thankful for this year? I'm thankful for a lot. My husband and his wonderful new work schedule that allows us to actually spend time with him. My sweet son. New life being born all around me. Our new house, and the funds that are making it possible to renovate, and our debt load being reduced very quickly.
Now it's your turn!
I took this from Crystal's blog. I thought it would be fun to try, even though we celebrate Thanksgiving in October in Canada.
Monday, November 24, 2008
Our weekend
Well, my weekend has been pretty good. This morning my beautiful sister had an amazingly beautiful boy, Jacob. It is her third child and we are so happy to meet him. She lives 6 hours away, so we are trying to make plans to go see him as soon as possible.
Isn't he amazing?
We have finally finished siding our house. It looks so good. It has been a pretty long process for us, as we put in all new windows in our house, put styrofoam insulation on the exterior of our house for added insulation. It was a heck of a job for my husband (it was his first time) and he did a great job. I am going to have to start posting some before and after pictures of our house to show all the hard work that we have done in the past year in this house.
We are also in the process of toilet training Andrew. It is going surprisingly well. I read that it is really helpful to have them go naked from the waist down. For the first part, whenever we caught Andrew peeing, we would run him to the toilet and he would finish there. He now knows to go on the toilet, and is beginning to ask to go. So far, his reward has been to wash his hands. May sound lame to some, but he is a HUGE water baby! He loves washing his hands! Whnever we go out of the house, we put diapers or pull ups on him, and he just continues to go in them, and doesn't even ask to go potty. I have a hard time getting him to go on public toilets as well. I have been getting him to sit to pee (he is too little to aim) and on those big toilets, there is no pee sheild for little boys, and he is too little to stand and when I hold him beside the toilet, he won't go. He doesn't like it. Is my only option to carry a toilet seat around with me everywhere? That sounds so, well, disgusting. Any moms of boys have any advice for me?
Isn't he amazing?
We have finally finished siding our house. It looks so good. It has been a pretty long process for us, as we put in all new windows in our house, put styrofoam insulation on the exterior of our house for added insulation. It was a heck of a job for my husband (it was his first time) and he did a great job. I am going to have to start posting some before and after pictures of our house to show all the hard work that we have done in the past year in this house.
We are also in the process of toilet training Andrew. It is going surprisingly well. I read that it is really helpful to have them go naked from the waist down. For the first part, whenever we caught Andrew peeing, we would run him to the toilet and he would finish there. He now knows to go on the toilet, and is beginning to ask to go. So far, his reward has been to wash his hands. May sound lame to some, but he is a HUGE water baby! He loves washing his hands! Whnever we go out of the house, we put diapers or pull ups on him, and he just continues to go in them, and doesn't even ask to go potty. I have a hard time getting him to go on public toilets as well. I have been getting him to sit to pee (he is too little to aim) and on those big toilets, there is no pee sheild for little boys, and he is too little to stand and when I hold him beside the toilet, he won't go. He doesn't like it. Is my only option to carry a toilet seat around with me everywhere? That sounds so, well, disgusting. Any moms of boys have any advice for me?
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Picture Game
Jamie, just tagged me for this game.
Go to your picture file, 4th folder, 4th photo and post it.
This one is my sweet grandma, holding her sweet great-grandson, my boy, Andrew.
I remember taking this picture. It was freezing outside, like -40 weather, and I had left my camera in the car. I brought it in and let it warm up, and every time I would try to take a picture, my camera would die.
A few pictures made it through and this is one of them. I am so glad I got this picture because my grandma passed away a year ago this Christmas and she rarely let anyone take her photo.
She was such a wonderful lady.
Andrew looks so tiny!
I don't tag anyone, because I only have two blog friends, and they have already played.
Go to your picture file, 4th folder, 4th photo and post it.
This one is my sweet grandma, holding her sweet great-grandson, my boy, Andrew.
I remember taking this picture. It was freezing outside, like -40 weather, and I had left my camera in the car. I brought it in and let it warm up, and every time I would try to take a picture, my camera would die.
A few pictures made it through and this is one of them. I am so glad I got this picture because my grandma passed away a year ago this Christmas and she rarely let anyone take her photo.
She was such a wonderful lady.
Andrew looks so tiny!I don't tag anyone, because I only have two blog friends, and they have already played.
Saturday, November 22, 2008
YAY!
Jamie got my package that I sent her. I stole a picture of what I sent her off of her blog.
I had so much fun doing this! I hope you enjoyed the stuff, Jamie!
Friday, November 21, 2008
My Favourite Things!
I received my favourite things package from Jamie today! So exciting!
I am going to have to steal some pictures from her blog when she posts about the package she sent me because unfortunately, my digital camera is broken. I only have my dvd video camera, which doesn't allow me to get pictures or videos off until the disc is full, and I just started a new CD.
I will tell you what was in there, though. Jamie wrapped everything! She loves surprises and opening gifts, so she wrapped every individual thing up! It was seriously like a little Christmas here. Gabriel, Andrew and I were all pumped taking turns opening each gift.
She sent me peanut m & m's. Yummy. No word of a lie, I was having the biggest chocolate craving today, and I was so pumped when I found them. She also sent popcorn, which I later read that I was supposed to try with the popcorn. Too bad we had devoured the m & m's before we read the note from Jamie. I am definitely going to have to try that.
There was also a journal. Believe it or not, I debated sending a journal in my favourite things package, but decided against it since I don't journal as much as I used too. I used to journal all the time, but haven't done much since I had Andrew. I have been meaning to buy a new journal, mostly to have as a prayer journal. Great minds must think alike.
Then there were a package of mechanical pencils. While that never even crossed my mind to put in my package, I love those pencils. Growing up, I was in a family of six kids, and when we did back to school supplies shopping, we always just got the basics. Nothing fancy. I was always a little envious of the kids with the mechanical pencils.
She also sent pop rock candy. They were one of my favourite childhood candies. We even fed some to Andrew, who couldn't stop giggling as he ate them. By the way, all of them are already gone.
She also sent me a Glade Fresh Linen Candle (which is burning right now!) There used to be a little store around here that sold fresh linen candles, and my husband and I were both crazy about them. That store closed down about 5 years ago, and we have not had a fresh linen candle since then. I had completely forgot about those candles until now.
She also sent two pair of boys shorts for Andrew. The one pair is an olive green and the one pair is plaid. We have already put the plaid pair on Andrew and they are so stinkin' cute! hey fit him great now, and they should still fit him next summer.
Last, she sent a toy Nemo car. Her boys had picked it out to send for Andrew because they love playing with cars and the whole family loves Disney. Andrew LOVES it! He got pretty pumped when he pulled it out, and has been driving it around for a while. He loves cars too, but we actually have no small ones for him yet, so it is his first. I had wanted to send toys for her kids too, and almost sent some toy trucks for her boys as well. So thoughtful of Jamie to include Andrew in her gift as well.
We were pretty pleased and feel a little spoiled over here. The house smells like clean linen, we have bellies full of candy, and are waiting to eat the popcorn after supper.
Thanks so much, Jamie! She was the one who organized this swap and I had a blast. We really enjoyed your package.
Thanks to Jamie, I can now put the pictures on here!
I am going to have to steal some pictures from her blog when she posts about the package she sent me because unfortunately, my digital camera is broken. I only have my dvd video camera, which doesn't allow me to get pictures or videos off until the disc is full, and I just started a new CD.
I will tell you what was in there, though. Jamie wrapped everything! She loves surprises and opening gifts, so she wrapped every individual thing up! It was seriously like a little Christmas here. Gabriel, Andrew and I were all pumped taking turns opening each gift.
She sent me peanut m & m's. Yummy. No word of a lie, I was having the biggest chocolate craving today, and I was so pumped when I found them. She also sent popcorn, which I later read that I was supposed to try with the popcorn. Too bad we had devoured the m & m's before we read the note from Jamie. I am definitely going to have to try that.
There was also a journal. Believe it or not, I debated sending a journal in my favourite things package, but decided against it since I don't journal as much as I used too. I used to journal all the time, but haven't done much since I had Andrew. I have been meaning to buy a new journal, mostly to have as a prayer journal. Great minds must think alike.
Then there were a package of mechanical pencils. While that never even crossed my mind to put in my package, I love those pencils. Growing up, I was in a family of six kids, and when we did back to school supplies shopping, we always just got the basics. Nothing fancy. I was always a little envious of the kids with the mechanical pencils.
She also sent pop rock candy. They were one of my favourite childhood candies. We even fed some to Andrew, who couldn't stop giggling as he ate them. By the way, all of them are already gone.
She also sent me a Glade Fresh Linen Candle (which is burning right now!) There used to be a little store around here that sold fresh linen candles, and my husband and I were both crazy about them. That store closed down about 5 years ago, and we have not had a fresh linen candle since then. I had completely forgot about those candles until now.
She also sent two pair of boys shorts for Andrew. The one pair is an olive green and the one pair is plaid. We have already put the plaid pair on Andrew and they are so stinkin' cute! hey fit him great now, and they should still fit him next summer.
Last, she sent a toy Nemo car. Her boys had picked it out to send for Andrew because they love playing with cars and the whole family loves Disney. Andrew LOVES it! He got pretty pumped when he pulled it out, and has been driving it around for a while. He loves cars too, but we actually have no small ones for him yet, so it is his first. I had wanted to send toys for her kids too, and almost sent some toy trucks for her boys as well. So thoughtful of Jamie to include Andrew in her gift as well.
We were pretty pleased and feel a little spoiled over here. The house smells like clean linen, we have bellies full of candy, and are waiting to eat the popcorn after supper.
Thanks so much, Jamie! She was the one who organized this swap and I had a blast. We really enjoyed your package.
Thanks to Jamie, I can now put the pictures on here!Monday, November 17, 2008
An update
Okay, since Jamie linked to me, I figured I should put an update, seeing since last time I wrote anything was in June. Oops.
I was actually planning on writing a post the other day before I knew that I was linked to, so I am not completely a blog slacker.
I usually come on the computer when I am rocking my little man to sleep, so I don't have free hands to type, but once he is out, I do a lot of surfing. I have been checking out a lot of crafty websites lately. A lot of these women could give Martha Stewart a run for her money. There are a lot of talented people out there. Here are a few I think you should check out:
Little Birdie Secrets
Tip Junkie
homemade by jilll
Thrifty Decor Chick
I am getting some serious inspiration from these sites!
In other news, I have been reading all over on blogs about how people have already put up there Christmas tree. I have always waited until the 25th of November to put up my tree, but I figured since so many of you were, that I would too.
PEOPLE THINK I AM CRAZY.
My husband came home and asked me what I was thinking and he assumed that I must have been super bored today. I told my mom and she replied, "now why would you do that so early?" I told my sister. "Your kidding me right?" Apparently people around here don't put up their trees early. I figure, why not? I mean, I love Christmas, so if I want to have my tree up now, I will have it up now. If I want to keep it up all year, maybe I will. (I know I would never do that, I probably would be crazy if I did.)
Andrew sure thought it was fun to smash all of my glass balls while I was going to the bathroom, and he also somehow decapitated all of the people for my Christmas village while giving them rides in his toy tractor. I think I may keep the little headless people. He sure is a busy boy, but he is so darn sweet.
I was actually planning on writing a post the other day before I knew that I was linked to, so I am not completely a blog slacker.
I usually come on the computer when I am rocking my little man to sleep, so I don't have free hands to type, but once he is out, I do a lot of surfing. I have been checking out a lot of crafty websites lately. A lot of these women could give Martha Stewart a run for her money. There are a lot of talented people out there. Here are a few I think you should check out:
Little Birdie Secrets
Tip Junkie
homemade by jilll
Thrifty Decor Chick
I am getting some serious inspiration from these sites!
In other news, I have been reading all over on blogs about how people have already put up there Christmas tree. I have always waited until the 25th of November to put up my tree, but I figured since so many of you were, that I would too.
PEOPLE THINK I AM CRAZY.
My husband came home and asked me what I was thinking and he assumed that I must have been super bored today. I told my mom and she replied, "now why would you do that so early?" I told my sister. "Your kidding me right?" Apparently people around here don't put up their trees early. I figure, why not? I mean, I love Christmas, so if I want to have my tree up now, I will have it up now. If I want to keep it up all year, maybe I will. (I know I would never do that, I probably would be crazy if I did.)
Andrew sure thought it was fun to smash all of my glass balls while I was going to the bathroom, and he also somehow decapitated all of the people for my Christmas village while giving them rides in his toy tractor. I think I may keep the little headless people. He sure is a busy boy, but he is so darn sweet.
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