Out of Tune with Domesticity
Archive for July, 2009
My Ridiculous Awesomeness.
Jul 31st
So we moved last Saturday. Two trips to Tyler Saturday — which, by the way, is about an hour and a half each way — and one final trip to get the last few (ridiculously few) things that wouldn’t fit in the two previous trips. Exhausting. But even still, with all the trips, it went pretty smoothly.
This week’s went alright. Didn’t get the internet hooked up until Thursday…which is why I haven’t posted. The house looks like a war zone. All of the kids’ toys are right in the middle of the living room. There are boxes everywhere. We are unpacking slowly. But dude, seriously, we’ve got a lot of crap. And when I crap, I mean crap. I think Andi and I both are part pack rat. I mean, sentimentalists, really. We just don’t throw much away.
Which can be a good thing.
For instance, this week, we were ridiculously low on funds. So low, we were negative on funds. I was desperate for cash…gas money namely. I’ve been taking Andi to and from work each day because he works downtown, and currently, if you drive, it’s sort of fend for yourself on the parking. So until we get that More >
Finite Things Bother Me. And also? Pee On Slides.
Jul 24th
A little sad.
Today is our last day living in Tyler. We’re moving in the morning. Hopefully it goes smoothly. It looks like Jude and I will be heading up in the morning so that DirecTV can come to hook up our satellite. At least we’ll have TV. Our internet looks like it won’t be getting turned on until Thursday. How will I survive? I suppose I’ll just have to. Good thing the iPhone gets internet through our network. But I digress.
I know it’s our last day to live here, probably ever. When we left Dallas last time, I was sad. Very sad. But also a little excited about a new life and new friends to make. In the back of my mind I knew we would be back, I just thought it’d be a few years down the road…not in 10 months. And I’m so happy to go back. I know I seem mopey about it, and I am. But I missed my friends in Dallas and my home there. But now I have a life here and I’ll miss that tremendously. This time, I don’t have have that “we’ll be back” feeling. I sort of feel like this is More >
The Move Back
Jul 22nd
We had our last play date with our friends here in Tyler today. Sad. It was fun though. We went to a place called Kids Depot 3000, which is just a bunch of climbing tunnels and slides, etc. and some really out of date arcade games. Adrien had fun, though, and that’s what really matters. Afterwards we went to McDonald’s. I was changing Jude’s diaper while everyone was leaving and I’m a little sad that I didn’t get to say a formal good-bye. Although that’s probably for the best, because I hate those situations. The ladies in the group signed a card for me and got me a $50 gift card to Target and a gorgeous ESV Bible. The gifts were unexpected, but a happy surprise nonetheless. I’ll have to use the gift card to get something exciting for the house or myself at the brand new Super Target they’re putting in not too far from the Dallas house.
I’m really sad to be leaving here. So much so that I haven’t even blogged about it here. If you know me in real life, or even follow me on Twitter or Facebook, you’ll know — or at least have an idea More >
Failure to Mother
Jul 20th
Adrien and Jude both had check ups today. Adrien had his 3 year check up; Jude, his 1 year. Both were to receive vaccinations, although I wasn’t sure yet about vaccinating Jude. He’s only actually ever had one set of vaccines…the equivalent to a baby’s 2 month vaccinations, and those were administered when he was 6 months old. Adrien is finishing up his vaccines and is now “caught up.” My assumption was for Jude to receive his “4 month” vaccines today. It would be logical since he’s only had one set. They told me he would be receiving 5 inoculations; quite a few, but I didn’t know what was normal. I asked which vaccines were being given and never did I hear the acronym “MMR”.
After he was vaccinated, I held him and calmed him while asking the administering nurse if any of the vaccines he’d received were any of the ones that could cause sore spots for days afterward…when she proceeded to inform me that the “MMR can have site pain…”
What?! I was furious…to say the least. So mad I was shaking, even. I told her that he was not to receive that vaccine, and that I’d planned for him More >
Everybody Poops…More
Jul 18th
So it seems like every time I write about Adrien, it’s in regards to poop. Not sure why, I don’t plan it that way. It just is.
Yesterday I took him and Jude to play at Dairy Queen so I could get my half price vanilla diet Dr. Pepper with free refills on. About twenty minutes into our visit, both he and the little girl he was playing with run out of the play area to grab some food from the mommas. I’d noticed some workers in the play area, but I was guessing whatever they were doing could be done with the kids around. Apparently not so. Just as Adrien shoved a french fry in his mouth, one of the workers shoved a “Closed for Repairs” sign in front of the entrance and blocked it off with mountains of high chairs.
To say that Adrien was upset is an understatement. Everyone in DQ was staring at me, wondering why my belligerent child was trying to climb the mountain of high chairs while yelling at me that I Wants it Open! I mean, what dipshit decided shutting it down during business hours would be a good idea? Feeling as though Adrien got a More >