So my housekeepers came this morning at 8am. They scoured the main floor and the upstairs and at noon they had to stop because they both had other jobs that started at noon and they were late for. So, I payed them only a portion of what we had agreed upon because they weren't able to do the basement.
BUT what they DID do was amazing! Although I'm a very clean person and clean everyday, my house has never ever looked cleaner! My appliances look brand new, I can see my own reflection in them! My house has the 'cleaner' smell, which I love! Even the bedrooms have that smell... I don't know what you'd use cleaner for in the bedrooms but whatever they did I love it!
I can never go back to NOT having a maid, now that I know what true cleanliness is... The kids are at school right now and Eric is still out of town, I'm afraid to have them all come home because it wont look as clean, HA! I need her to to come every other day and work her magic!
I'm hooked, maids are the best investment ever... if only she had time to do the basement!
Friday, March 26, 2010
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
What a Kick Off
Our family officially started off Spring by camping! Over the winter we had acquired quite the array of camping tools/supplies and were chomping at the bit to use them. So, when the camp sites opened up again and the weather warmed up... out we went!
The new tent worked great, our sleeping bag padding was really comfortable. My new cast iron pots and pans were awesome, although I still haven't learned exactly how to clean them! They're really high maintenance but great for camping! Eric bought a special camping hammock and slept in that. He said he liked it better then the tent. Once he set the hammock up, the kids couldn't stay off of it! They played in it for hours. Who knew a hammock could be so fun!
This week is the last one until Spring Break for the kids. I had aspirations of putting them in some kind of Spring Break camp, but I never got around to it, I'm not sure what we'll do to keep ourselves busy, most likely we'll spent 90% of it outside somewhere.
Elle is more then half done with the 2nd grade. She really loves her teacher and has great friends. This year though she really has started to have trouble in the math department. She's always done really well, but they are now moving past the stuff she did well at and moving into things she isn't so sure about. It also doesn't help that she seems to have a hard time focusing and paying attention. Her memory is really awful, she literally can't remember an instruction you give her, 5 minutes after she's given it. I'm starting to get a little worried about it. But she is a very sweet little girl and very kind hearted and loves to make people feel better. She's always the one that helps kids at school who don't have many friends. She always tells me how she felt bad for so and so, because they was being picked on, and she decided to be their friend at recess. She makes cards and notes for anyone and everyone she knows! She also joined Girl Scouts last month and is fitting into that nicely!
Pinky is loving Pre-K. She gets excited when I tell her it's almost time to leave for school. I think I've mentioned this before, how her teachers don't think she's ready for Kindergarten because she's the smallest and very coddled and babied by the other kids (which she loves by the way!). She's SLOWLY learning how to write her name. But I think she'll be ready if I keep working with her. She really tries hard and that's the important thing! Pinky sometimes blows me away with how observant and intelligent she is. She really pays attention to what ticks me off and is VERY good and getting around it. It's hard for me to remember that she's only 4 sometimes! Her memory is a steel trap, she literally never forgets ANYTHING. And I'm ashamed to say that my 4 year old might even have a better memory then ME! Which is why I think it's so strange that she can't identify letters/numbers yet, or write simple words. She's SO smart in some ways, I just I just expect that to spill over into other aspects of her life.
Although she has been having a few issues at school lately. Her teacher has been having problems with her beating up on the other kids. Not just a little hit now and again but like wailing on them, leaving marks on them, eyeing her victim across the room and running over to body slam them... remember I said she was the smallest one in her class...?? Her teacher says she thinks it's because she is acting out of frustration with her loss of hearing. She really has trouble hearing things lately and I'm sure she gets frustrated. It probably doesn't help that when she talks, no one can really understand her. I'm just hoping that next week when she gets her surgery, all this will be cleared up! So we're just biding out time!
Eric is being kept busy at Universata. Being the president of a company sounds glamorous but he will tell you differently! Lately he's been traveling alot, several days a week. I don't like being home alone at night, but I feel safer knowing anyone who broke into my house would have to face one of our 8 very scary guns... thats if they can get past our fierce German Shepard attack dog first! Eric comes home exhausted and beaten down. That poor man needs a vacation! He works harder and longer then anyone I know, he literally doesn't have an off switch. He is like a superman!
As for me, I'm doing well. Still going to the gym 3-4 days a week. Love that. I'm spending alot of time researching what I have plans to do with both kids in school full time this fall. I have two things I want to pursue. I wont share them though, because I have a bad habit of getting ahead of myself or overly excited about something and telling the whole world, only to have it NOT happen. Then I look and feel like an ass! So, this time I'm keeping my projects to myself! But I'm very excited! I succumbed and got a housekeeper. She starts on Friday. YIPPEE!! She was a good deal and a referral from a friend of a friend, hopefully she works out and cleans the house to my standards! I'm very picky!
So happy Spring everyone!!!
The new tent worked great, our sleeping bag padding was really comfortable. My new cast iron pots and pans were awesome, although I still haven't learned exactly how to clean them! They're really high maintenance but great for camping! Eric bought a special camping hammock and slept in that. He said he liked it better then the tent. Once he set the hammock up, the kids couldn't stay off of it! They played in it for hours. Who knew a hammock could be so fun!
This week is the last one until Spring Break for the kids. I had aspirations of putting them in some kind of Spring Break camp, but I never got around to it, I'm not sure what we'll do to keep ourselves busy, most likely we'll spent 90% of it outside somewhere.
Elle is more then half done with the 2nd grade. She really loves her teacher and has great friends. This year though she really has started to have trouble in the math department. She's always done really well, but they are now moving past the stuff she did well at and moving into things she isn't so sure about. It also doesn't help that she seems to have a hard time focusing and paying attention. Her memory is really awful, she literally can't remember an instruction you give her, 5 minutes after she's given it. I'm starting to get a little worried about it. But she is a very sweet little girl and very kind hearted and loves to make people feel better. She's always the one that helps kids at school who don't have many friends. She always tells me how she felt bad for so and so, because they was being picked on, and she decided to be their friend at recess. She makes cards and notes for anyone and everyone she knows! She also joined Girl Scouts last month and is fitting into that nicely!
Pinky is loving Pre-K. She gets excited when I tell her it's almost time to leave for school. I think I've mentioned this before, how her teachers don't think she's ready for Kindergarten because she's the smallest and very coddled and babied by the other kids (which she loves by the way!). She's SLOWLY learning how to write her name. But I think she'll be ready if I keep working with her. She really tries hard and that's the important thing! Pinky sometimes blows me away with how observant and intelligent she is. She really pays attention to what ticks me off and is VERY good and getting around it. It's hard for me to remember that she's only 4 sometimes! Her memory is a steel trap, she literally never forgets ANYTHING. And I'm ashamed to say that my 4 year old might even have a better memory then ME! Which is why I think it's so strange that she can't identify letters/numbers yet, or write simple words. She's SO smart in some ways, I just I just expect that to spill over into other aspects of her life.
Although she has been having a few issues at school lately. Her teacher has been having problems with her beating up on the other kids. Not just a little hit now and again but like wailing on them, leaving marks on them, eyeing her victim across the room and running over to body slam them... remember I said she was the smallest one in her class...?? Her teacher says she thinks it's because she is acting out of frustration with her loss of hearing. She really has trouble hearing things lately and I'm sure she gets frustrated. It probably doesn't help that when she talks, no one can really understand her. I'm just hoping that next week when she gets her surgery, all this will be cleared up! So we're just biding out time!
Eric is being kept busy at Universata. Being the president of a company sounds glamorous but he will tell you differently! Lately he's been traveling alot, several days a week. I don't like being home alone at night, but I feel safer knowing anyone who broke into my house would have to face one of our 8 very scary guns... thats if they can get past our fierce German Shepard attack dog first! Eric comes home exhausted and beaten down. That poor man needs a vacation! He works harder and longer then anyone I know, he literally doesn't have an off switch. He is like a superman!
As for me, I'm doing well. Still going to the gym 3-4 days a week. Love that. I'm spending alot of time researching what I have plans to do with both kids in school full time this fall. I have two things I want to pursue. I wont share them though, because I have a bad habit of getting ahead of myself or overly excited about something and telling the whole world, only to have it NOT happen. Then I look and feel like an ass! So, this time I'm keeping my projects to myself! But I'm very excited! I succumbed and got a housekeeper. She starts on Friday. YIPPEE!! She was a good deal and a referral from a friend of a friend, hopefully she works out and cleans the house to my standards! I'm very picky!
So happy Spring everyone!!!
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Happy St. Patricks Day!
The girls and I got our nails done last night... it's the most awful color of green, I know! But it's a cute thing to do for ONE day! Tomarrow I'll go back to my usual color... pink :)
Well, the snow is all melted, the lake is thawed and we are enjoying weather in the low to mid 60's! The hiking has resumed, here we are over the weekend...
Monday, March 8, 2010
I forgot what sunshine felt like...
This past weekend was reportedly the brightest and warmest we've had since NOVEMBER! I believe it though, it was beautiful! We went hiking and took total advantage of the high 50 degree weather.
Today is even warmer at around 60 degrees. I know that in 4 months 60 degrees will seem cold, but after a freezing winter, I was ready to put on my tanktop! I even had the car window rolled down!
Even though it's warming up, there was enough snowing for so long, that there are still piles of ice everywhere amd the lake is still frozen! After a week of awesome temps though, it will hopefully feel and LOOK like Spring soon!
Today is even warmer at around 60 degrees. I know that in 4 months 60 degrees will seem cold, but after a freezing winter, I was ready to put on my tanktop! I even had the car window rolled down!
Even though it's warming up, there was enough snowing for so long, that there are still piles of ice everywhere amd the lake is still frozen! After a week of awesome temps though, it will hopefully feel and LOOK like Spring soon!
Monday, March 1, 2010
Coming up...
All of Pinky’s health issues are coming to an end. I have to say, I’m a little sad. I’m thrilled of course that she’ll be normal but will miss being called ‘baba’ instead of ‘mama’. Those of you who don’t live so close might not know the extent of it, here’s the lowdown.
Pinky has had issues with her speech since she was able to talk. She was always very nasal sounding, as if she were plugging her nose when she talked. She also isn't able to make some letter sounds. For example, being called ‘baba’. There are several other sounds she can’t make as well.
I didn't realize this was a medical problem, I just assumed how she talked and I loved it. People would make comments, but I ignored them.
It wasn’t until her teacher this year informed me she thought Naomi would benefit from some speech therapy. Her opinion was that Naomi wasn’t progressing in speech and everyone had a very hard time deciphering what she said. Even the teachers themselves couldn’t understand what Naomi would say to them. What, really? I guess because I'm her mother I understand her perfectly and don't get how others can't!
I considered speech therapy but then decided it was worth a shot to try an allergist first. Since part of the problem is that her nose is stuffed up 24 hours a day. From the time she was a baby her nose was either stuffy or runny for no reason at all. Since Allergies run strongly in Eric’s family, we thought that surely must be the problem. She’d get on allergy meds, her nose would clear up and her speech would be just fine.
Well, she was tested for all sorts of things and surprisingly has zero allergies! BUT the allergist said that he thought she was a shoe in for enlarged adenoids. The dead giveaways were the nasal talking and the fact that she mouth breaths (because she can’t breathe out of her nose...)
So, off to the ENT we went, who X-rayed her and sure enough he said her adenoids are as big as they can get and can't get any larger. They are 100% obstructing her ability to breathe through her nose. She also had no airway from the front of her nose (nostrils) to the back of her throat. AND her ears were all messed up from the adenoids as well. Her hearing is a little below normal and is full of what he described as 'airplane glue'. Yikes!
So, all this time she has hasn't been able to smell. This is funny, because I used to take her to Yankee Candle with me and she’d want to smell the candles I was getting! I guess she just saw me doing it and wanted to try, but she actually couldn’t smell anything! Also, she has mouth breathed her whole life. I’ve never really noticed. But since getting a diagnosis, I’ve watched her and it’s true, she can only breathe through her mouth. Poor thing!
This unfortunate circumstance will soon change when on April 5th she's going into surgery to fix everything. She is getting her adenoids taken out (that will then create a clear passage way from the back of her nose down), but there’s still the problem of the front of the nose air passage. For that, the doc will take an instrument and basically create an artificial airway into her nostrils that then connect to the newly created passageway in the back of the nose, make sense?
Then to top it all off... she getting tubes in her ears.
So, all in one day she's getting the ability to hear better, talk better, and smell better!
Think good thoughts for my little 4 year old going under the knife on April 5th!
Pinky has had issues with her speech since she was able to talk. She was always very nasal sounding, as if she were plugging her nose when she talked. She also isn't able to make some letter sounds. For example, being called ‘baba’. There are several other sounds she can’t make as well.
I didn't realize this was a medical problem, I just assumed how she talked and I loved it. People would make comments, but I ignored them.
It wasn’t until her teacher this year informed me she thought Naomi would benefit from some speech therapy. Her opinion was that Naomi wasn’t progressing in speech and everyone had a very hard time deciphering what she said. Even the teachers themselves couldn’t understand what Naomi would say to them. What, really? I guess because I'm her mother I understand her perfectly and don't get how others can't!
I considered speech therapy but then decided it was worth a shot to try an allergist first. Since part of the problem is that her nose is stuffed up 24 hours a day. From the time she was a baby her nose was either stuffy or runny for no reason at all. Since Allergies run strongly in Eric’s family, we thought that surely must be the problem. She’d get on allergy meds, her nose would clear up and her speech would be just fine.
Well, she was tested for all sorts of things and surprisingly has zero allergies! BUT the allergist said that he thought she was a shoe in for enlarged adenoids. The dead giveaways were the nasal talking and the fact that she mouth breaths (because she can’t breathe out of her nose...)
So, off to the ENT we went, who X-rayed her and sure enough he said her adenoids are as big as they can get and can't get any larger. They are 100% obstructing her ability to breathe through her nose. She also had no airway from the front of her nose (nostrils) to the back of her throat. AND her ears were all messed up from the adenoids as well. Her hearing is a little below normal and is full of what he described as 'airplane glue'. Yikes!
So, all this time she has hasn't been able to smell. This is funny, because I used to take her to Yankee Candle with me and she’d want to smell the candles I was getting! I guess she just saw me doing it and wanted to try, but she actually couldn’t smell anything! Also, she has mouth breathed her whole life. I’ve never really noticed. But since getting a diagnosis, I’ve watched her and it’s true, she can only breathe through her mouth. Poor thing!
This unfortunate circumstance will soon change when on April 5th she's going into surgery to fix everything. She is getting her adenoids taken out (that will then create a clear passage way from the back of her nose down), but there’s still the problem of the front of the nose air passage. For that, the doc will take an instrument and basically create an artificial airway into her nostrils that then connect to the newly created passageway in the back of the nose, make sense?
Then to top it all off... she getting tubes in her ears.
So, all in one day she's getting the ability to hear better, talk better, and smell better!
Think good thoughts for my little 4 year old going under the knife on April 5th!
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