i forgot my user name/password. but i didn't.
time to start blogging, not sure where and how i will find the time, but i will.
so thats all for now, i am back and will try harder to do this, leave little notes.
Monday, October 29, 2012
Thursday, June 14, 2012
better try harder to capture things
i think i blog so infrequently because i feel that i need to post photos. but i don't.
june 14, moved huxley into a "big boy bed" on the weekend 3 yrs, 2 months old, sort of old really. went cold turkey, crib out of the room, lux's bed into the room. its been less than perfect but not horrid. so
something was bothering him for sure, tonight he finally expressed it "i don't like the yellow bedspread i want the princess one" - okay fine here is the princess bedspread, as long as you are comfortable and happy than we all are!
lux is in a new full bed, new bedspread, new sheets. we argued about the bed, she wanted a loft bed, she is a sleep walker, it was a bad idea. so to get her off of the idea i showed a picture of the ugliest, fussiest, princess loft bed i could find and said "here its this one or the other one" she chose the other one. one for mom.
so tonight our cheribs are in their respective bedrooms, her in oversized boy basketball shorts and him with his princess bed spread.
june 14, moved huxley into a "big boy bed" on the weekend 3 yrs, 2 months old, sort of old really. went cold turkey, crib out of the room, lux's bed into the room. its been less than perfect but not horrid. so
something was bothering him for sure, tonight he finally expressed it "i don't like the yellow bedspread i want the princess one" - okay fine here is the princess bedspread, as long as you are comfortable and happy than we all are!
lux is in a new full bed, new bedspread, new sheets. we argued about the bed, she wanted a loft bed, she is a sleep walker, it was a bad idea. so to get her off of the idea i showed a picture of the ugliest, fussiest, princess loft bed i could find and said "here its this one or the other one" she chose the other one. one for mom.
so tonight our cheribs are in their respective bedrooms, her in oversized boy basketball shorts and him with his princess bed spread.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
i hate tuesdays
seems mondays i'm living off the zen of the weekend and i'm organized, thoughtful, house is stacked with groceries, clean laundry and vacuumed - by tuesday its pandomonium. today i: spilt a bottle of black nail polish after wasting nearly an hour trying to paint my nails, i spent another hour cleaning up the mess, had a pounding headache by 2 pm, took lux and her friend to ballet, brought huxley home screaming in the car at me the whole way (i had too bad of a headache to register what he was screaming, he cried ALOT today ALOT), came home put him in the bath which usually calms him down (it did), got him out the door to do a school dinner at varlamos, banged up my car and another car and outloud blamed geoff and swore loudly all in front of huxley who was coincidentally crying again (i'm still not sure what about - something he wanted today that i seemed to miss entirely), missed book club because both my kids were mental and tired, my foot throbbed all day and its 8 pm and breakfast stuff is STILL out, still. i'm not sure if i showered today or yesterday.
other things - took h to music class he announced "hi everybody" loudly and with vigor after we arrived late, he was happy and sat in the teacher's lap and hugged her, thanked everyone for coming, including the teacher and then we left. picked up lux and her friend from school - she recited an episode of Ellen to her friend (when the hell does she watch Ellen), loudly sang Taylor Swift with Huxley, loudly and with vigor - spouted off all the reasons Adele is so awesome and i can't think of anything now of what she said, except that she said "she is ridiculously talented" (did she get that from Ellen). Later in the day, i left huxley in the bath to run to my bedroom only to hear a thunk and 2 sec later there he was in my bedroom wrapped roughly in a pink towel NOT crying saying "hi mom so nice to see you".
i hate tuesdays, every god damned tuesday is the same - i'm a mess, the house is a mess the kids seem to be a mess, geoff works late and it always seems to rain which adds to the stress of running them to and fro.
by wed things are better, we seem to get over that hump of far away from the weekend and close enough to the next one - although i remind myself that really everyday is a weekend for me - and thats quite a nice thought isn't it, tomorrow just another bloody weekend.
kisses -
other things - took h to music class he announced "hi everybody" loudly and with vigor after we arrived late, he was happy and sat in the teacher's lap and hugged her, thanked everyone for coming, including the teacher and then we left. picked up lux and her friend from school - she recited an episode of Ellen to her friend (when the hell does she watch Ellen), loudly sang Taylor Swift with Huxley, loudly and with vigor - spouted off all the reasons Adele is so awesome and i can't think of anything now of what she said, except that she said "she is ridiculously talented" (did she get that from Ellen). Later in the day, i left huxley in the bath to run to my bedroom only to hear a thunk and 2 sec later there he was in my bedroom wrapped roughly in a pink towel NOT crying saying "hi mom so nice to see you".
i hate tuesdays, every god damned tuesday is the same - i'm a mess, the house is a mess the kids seem to be a mess, geoff works late and it always seems to rain which adds to the stress of running them to and fro.
by wed things are better, we seem to get over that hump of far away from the weekend and close enough to the next one - although i remind myself that really everyday is a weekend for me - and thats quite a nice thought isn't it, tomorrow just another bloody weekend.
kisses -
Monday, February 27, 2012
each day
a snipet of memories, to jot down for later. i wonder when your kids grow up if you feel the same way. the snip pets (is that one word) certainly change. lux's school break and we skied all day friday with her at whistler, in the deep snow, snowing and cold, laughing and wondering how the hell is she so grown up and how the hell are we skiing with her. me in front, her in the middle, geoffrey behind, snow separating us, hearing her giggles "mom speed up", me "too many moms honey call me claire" her "okay claire, speed up, but lets wait here for dad" me "okay we'll wait but just ski ahead of me if i am going too slow". her, skies on, boots on, helmet on, jumping on her binding to get onto the seat of the gondola, us helping her, her "i know how to do this" us thinking, yeah but thats what we do, we do up boots, put on skies, lift you to the gondola bench, put on your gloves, adjust your goggles...but slowly you stop doing that, and its heartbreaking a bit, but also overwhelming and nice and glimpses of her older "speed up claire, you're going to slow". i better be a hell of a better skier next year and the year after, i don't think there is much hope for g.
he, he is growing too, potty trained, out of his pack and play "hi mom, hi dad" at 6 am, too early for him, he's an up at 8 am sort of guy, go back to bed huxley, but "i NEED to go downstairs", me/us "no you don't huxley you NEED to go back to bed", geoff sleeping in the twin bed next to his pack and play while he (huxley not geoff, geoff gave up sucking his fingers sometime ago, while before i ever met him) sucked his fingers and watched him sleep for 2 hours while i slept soundly and geoff slept soundly and lux colored in her bed, waiting for a sign, a word to get up. and him with his "just in case crackers" named after nanny rachel packs crackers "just in case you get hungry" - he says "rachel do you have the just in case crackers".
funny i think there were a million other moments that i can't remember, funny things said and done, but just know that there were.
geoff and i had the most fabulous dinner, perfectly prepared, perfect wine, food, hockey game (on the tube), dinner, company, in a snow storm, parked in a snow bank.
i don't spell check this shit - clearly.
he, he is growing too, potty trained, out of his pack and play "hi mom, hi dad" at 6 am, too early for him, he's an up at 8 am sort of guy, go back to bed huxley, but "i NEED to go downstairs", me/us "no you don't huxley you NEED to go back to bed", geoff sleeping in the twin bed next to his pack and play while he (huxley not geoff, geoff gave up sucking his fingers sometime ago, while before i ever met him) sucked his fingers and watched him sleep for 2 hours while i slept soundly and geoff slept soundly and lux colored in her bed, waiting for a sign, a word to get up. and him with his "just in case crackers" named after nanny rachel packs crackers "just in case you get hungry" - he says "rachel do you have the just in case crackers".
funny i think there were a million other moments that i can't remember, funny things said and done, but just know that there were.
geoff and i had the most fabulous dinner, perfectly prepared, perfect wine, food, hockey game (on the tube), dinner, company, in a snow storm, parked in a snow bank.
i don't spell check this shit - clearly.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
ahh busy day
valentines 2012
13 valentines with g - count'em13! so here's the day, start to end:
gym
home to finish breakfast
french braid hair (lux, not mine)
walk lux to school with crash
home
kibitz with painter
pack huxley up for day (well the first half of the day)
meet g for coffee
do a few errands with huxley (in and out of car and carseat - yuck)
take huxley to music class for first time "hi sara so nice to see you" experience his bad-asses'yness
meet girlfriends for lunch - with huxley and their babies (thinking meeting for drinks after bedtime will be better next time)
potty training
struggle to get huxley down
run out the door and leave him still awake at 2:20 for lux's valentines class party
run to grocery store
prep dinner
another hairdo for lux for ballet
send her off to ballet with g (savior, savior i couldn't rally another car trip)
more prep dinner
skype with parents and huxley
lux's favorite dinner (grilled steak, green beans, fruit salad)
clean up dinner
make lunches
have a bath - treat - bad timing, g gets kids ready for bed, which he can but its easier with 4 hands, not 2
huxley comes into bathroom totally undresses to hop in my HOT bath
out of bath, kids bathed and in bed reading charlie bone with dad
huxley not tired, or maybe over tired, sit on his floor rocking him with songs
finally put him down, still not tired or over tired
go to say good night to lux, she is already asleep
come downstairs to hang out with g - he says "i have a con call" - i should know this
write my blog and think about tomorrow (breakfast, walk lux to school, take huxley to gym with me, pick and buy paint, come home, put huxley down, figure out a sitter, go to 3 pm accountant appt with g, figure out and make dinner...and somehow get lux home from school and out the door after an early dinner for basketball practice, figure dog sitter for crash...i know there are other things,like laundry and housework and making lunches and cleaning up breakfast, potty training, toy putting away, spelling word practice, reading practice, basketball hairdo
i thought staying home fulltime would mean an hour each day curled on the sofa with a book...wtf!
transformation to housewife complete...
13 valentines with g - count'em13! so here's the day, start to end:
gym
home to finish breakfast
french braid hair (lux, not mine)
walk lux to school with crash
home
kibitz with painter
pack huxley up for day (well the first half of the day)
meet g for coffee
do a few errands with huxley (in and out of car and carseat - yuck)
take huxley to music class for first time "hi sara so nice to see you" experience his bad-asses'yness
meet girlfriends for lunch - with huxley and their babies (thinking meeting for drinks after bedtime will be better next time)
potty training
struggle to get huxley down
run out the door and leave him still awake at 2:20 for lux's valentines class party
run to grocery store
prep dinner
another hairdo for lux for ballet
send her off to ballet with g (savior, savior i couldn't rally another car trip)
more prep dinner
skype with parents and huxley
lux's favorite dinner (grilled steak, green beans, fruit salad)
clean up dinner
make lunches
have a bath - treat - bad timing, g gets kids ready for bed, which he can but its easier with 4 hands, not 2
huxley comes into bathroom totally undresses to hop in my HOT bath
out of bath, kids bathed and in bed reading charlie bone with dad
huxley not tired, or maybe over tired, sit on his floor rocking him with songs
finally put him down, still not tired or over tired
go to say good night to lux, she is already asleep
come downstairs to hang out with g - he says "i have a con call" - i should know this
write my blog and think about tomorrow (breakfast, walk lux to school, take huxley to gym with me, pick and buy paint, come home, put huxley down, figure out a sitter, go to 3 pm accountant appt with g, figure out and make dinner...and somehow get lux home from school and out the door after an early dinner for basketball practice, figure dog sitter for crash...i know there are other things,like laundry and housework and making lunches and cleaning up breakfast, potty training, toy putting away, spelling word practice, reading practice, basketball hairdo
i thought staying home fulltime would mean an hour each day curled on the sofa with a book...wtf!
transformation to housewife complete...
Monday, January 30, 2012
on the potty
leaning forward on the potty after a night of battling with potty training and after being put to bed (always an excuse to get out of bed) "here comes the potty". i can't help but wonder when potty training will be a wrap...with lux when she decided to do it, she did it, very few if ANY accidents.
Sunday, January 8, 2012
christmas magic
i meant to write a few words over the holidays, but the holidays came and went and although we did very little, besides a bit of socializing and lots of movies (at home), they still came and went. but they and christmas was magical, huxley was into it, as was lux.
and while last year, something seemed amiss with lux on christmas, maybe it was what she asked for, and got wasn't what she was expecting...i'm not sure, but something was slightly amiss. and huxley too little to notice really anything. but this year...
she came into our bedroom at 7:38 am, i remember that because I said to Geoff on xmas eve "we better go to bed early, she'll have us up at 5 am" but she didn't and she slept (well sort of "in" for lux) and we went into the living room with her and all her gifts were wrapped but not all of Huxley's. AND the cookies crumbs were ALL gone from Santa's cookies and the carrots had been nibbled AND there were things in Lux's stocking that I didn't put there - so either it WAS santa, or Crash at the cookie crumbs and Geoff stashing in the stocking...I'll never know for sure.
anyways it was lovely - santa brought her an aryan American girl doll with blue eyes and bouncy blond hair and he brought Huxley a tool bench. Lux also got an American girl doll horse with ALL the trappings and Huxley a BIG truck and a guitar (among other things, many other things). And all day on the 24th and the 25th we spent together, the four of us, with lots of walks and music and cooking and cuddling together and it was so nice, and everyone said "oh won't you be lonely" and i said "no" :).
okay thats the cliff notes version, but its all candy canes and sugar plums you can be sure (the long version) so really i'll stop now. and i will post pictures later, because i GOT A NEW CAMERA.
xo
and while last year, something seemed amiss with lux on christmas, maybe it was what she asked for, and got wasn't what she was expecting...i'm not sure, but something was slightly amiss. and huxley too little to notice really anything. but this year...
she came into our bedroom at 7:38 am, i remember that because I said to Geoff on xmas eve "we better go to bed early, she'll have us up at 5 am" but she didn't and she slept (well sort of "in" for lux) and we went into the living room with her and all her gifts were wrapped but not all of Huxley's. AND the cookies crumbs were ALL gone from Santa's cookies and the carrots had been nibbled AND there were things in Lux's stocking that I didn't put there - so either it WAS santa, or Crash at the cookie crumbs and Geoff stashing in the stocking...I'll never know for sure.
anyways it was lovely - santa brought her an aryan American girl doll with blue eyes and bouncy blond hair and he brought Huxley a tool bench. Lux also got an American girl doll horse with ALL the trappings and Huxley a BIG truck and a guitar (among other things, many other things). And all day on the 24th and the 25th we spent together, the four of us, with lots of walks and music and cooking and cuddling together and it was so nice, and everyone said "oh won't you be lonely" and i said "no" :).
okay thats the cliff notes version, but its all candy canes and sugar plums you can be sure (the long version) so really i'll stop now. and i will post pictures later, because i GOT A NEW CAMERA.
xo
he take a dump
huxley at bedtime with lux's owl night light in my bathroom over the toilet "he gotta take a dump in the potty". at least he knows where it goes...not that he's doing it now or anytime soon.
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