Archive for March, 2009
Finally found time to post here! The whole moving thing has totally messed with my blogging time. There are SO MANY things to do as we get the house in order. Lots of fun stuff like painting and digging out from under all the boxes. Lord willing, this is the last time for a LONG time. I keep telling myself that when I’m tempted to complain about going through all our junk. Actually, I don’t mind painting all that much, as the end result is totally worth it, and I love throwing stuff away, so this is the perfect opportunity to get rid of stuff we’ve been carting around with us for the last 8 years. So anyway, I’ve been pretty busy between all of that and trying to keep Little D fed.
This kid has the biggest appetite. I can’t believe how much he packs away into that little tummy of his. It’s a little worrisome actually, since the genes my husband and I have passed down to him are not, um… the skinniest genes ever. Some mealtimes I have to just cut him off- no more food for you! I have nothing left in the kitchen to feed you! He must be doing some serious growing. This is no surprise, since after carrying him for just a little while, my arms feel like they’re going to fall off. Gotta build those “Mommy Muscles” back up- they’ve gone a little flabby since I stopped carrying Big J around.
So, our big splurge after buying the house was a shiny new dining room table. I wanted to make the dining room an office, but Mark convinced me that it was time to be grown ups and have some grown up furniture and I’m glad he did because the table is bee-yoo-tiful. We went shopping at a couple of places and only found one we liked. Furniture is one of those few areas in our marriage in which there is perfect harmony. Actually we would have passed it right by, but then we noticed the sign on the table said it was part of the Cindy Crawford Collection. Well, that does it. I mean the table was designed by Cindy Crawford! We must have it! She is obviously a *model* of taste and class and just having a table in our house from her collection will magically turn us into beautiful, perfect people. Yada, yada, yada… Seriously, why does Cindy Crawford have a furniture line? What does being a super model have to do with furniture? Why does having her name on a “collection” suddenly make it more marketable? That’s just sad people.
Okay, now that Big J is getting older, I am of course running into issues that I have no clue how best to deal with. My best friend’s daughter is over to play and Big J hits her. She runs to me and says in a tattle-taley kind of voice, “Miss Randa, he hit me!” (Let me interject here that my friend and I discipline each other’s kids since they spend a lot of time with each of us, and she’s trying to nip the tattling instinct in the bud.)
So, what’s the right way to deal with this situation? I want to know when Big J is doing something like hitting, but tattling is just as bad in my mind as it shows a mean-spirited desire to get someone else into trouble. What will I do with Little D is big enough for this to be an issue? In the case this morning, I punished Big J for hitting and I punished the tattling, just a bit lighter. My main question is, what should the RULE be? Don’t come to me unless someone is bleeding or property is being damaged? What if you have a kid who really needs some correction for something like hitting and he never does it in your presence? How do you know it’s happening?
Advice please…
Well it took a little while, but all the financial stuff is finally wrapped up and we’re ready to close next week! We had a last minute erroneous item show up on my husband’s credit report that threatened to derail the whole thing until we were able to prove it wasn’t his. It was a very difficult couple of days while it was being resolved, and a big lesson in not holding on to things of this world too tightly. We were reminded that we needed to be willing to let this one go without getting too hung up on it or upset about it. If things didn’t work out because of the random goof up at the credit bureau, that’s not a problem we caused and was in many ways out of our control. Thankfully, we know the ONE who is in control and who causes all things to work together for good.
Anyway, we couldn’t be more excited and grateful to be moving into a wonderful house! We are also thankful to have family that will be here to help with the packing. We’ve moved so many times in the last 8 years and are ready to settle down for a good long while. This feeling of semi-permanence is totally new to me. I can finally throw out that big bathroom shelf thing we’ve been lugging around from place to place, thinking we’d use it again. I can take my china out of the trunk and put it in one of the MANY cabinets in the kitchen. Okay… better quit doing my happy dance for now and get busy packing huh?
