Female Power

This past fall I had four new tires put on my car. At this time I told Kevin that I needed them readjusted, but he didn't believe me. Well, what do you know, I was right! My two front tires are worn out on the insides b/c of a bad alignment. So today I took matters into my own hands. I went to Goodyear, talked the guy into a deal, and walked out with two new tires :D Wait until Kevin gets home and finds out I did it all without him. I am a confident woman, sure in my abilities not to be taken advantage of...I hate having to depend on anybody, especially a man. Some may think that makes me snobby...I think it makes me smart. Which, incidentally, is the same reason why I pay all of the bills :D

First Kiss on a Crappy Morning

It's official, folks!! I got my first kiss from Emma today! I don't mean one of those open mouthed "I want to bite your nose" sorta kiss...Nope, a REAL kiss!! :D Boy, it could not have come on a better day, either.

Kev's alarm went off this morning at 4:00am. I will say that again--- 4:00. Then, being the hard sleeper he is, of course he didn't turn it off right away. So every 30 seconds or so (this is no joke) the alarm would go off again. Of course this woke Emma up (hide your shock!) Well, I spent about 10 minutes telling him to get up and take care of the baby. Finally I just got up, got Emma and her bottle, and brought her to him in our bed. Needless to say he DID not like that. Well, within minutes Ellie bounced into the living room. I could here her little feet patter down the hall from where I lay trying to go back to sleep. At this point I decided that if either of them were going to get more sleep I had better get up and go help Kevin. As I walked out I witnessed the site of Emma falling off of the couch where my zombie-like husband had placed her. Now the crying really began. As I reached to get Emma Kevin yelled at me to just get back in bed...though perhaps he didn't say it as nicely as he could have. Ignoring him, as I sometimes do, I got Ellie back into bed and took our hyper active dog out so he could go potty. Then I myself went to lay back down since I did not have to be up for another 2 hours. I am just drifting off when Kevin comes into the room, loudly asking why I didn't talk to him when I went to take the dog out. What? Huh? Are you KIDDING?? I won't go into detail about what was said then...

So, fast forward a few hours and here I am giving Emma a hug before I leave for work, and POOF, the kiss. :D I could go on YEARS with that...Moments like those remind me why I do what I do instead of, say, selling pineapples on a beach in Tahiti.

Decorating for Christmas

I decided I needed to start decorating the house this past weekend. I put up our little Charlie Brown tree, Kev's nativity, etc. The entire time I was doing this I was worried about how Emma would react to it all...She has very active hands and is crazy fast around the house. Well, my worries were totally misplaced! It is actually ELLIE who is into everything. She calls the nativity her "dollhouse", and I actually caught her trying to give baby Jesus a bath in the bathroom. The tree wasn't as bad except for ever time I turned by back she was trying to hang all of her toys as high as she could put them. I am excited that my house looks more festive, but a little worried that it will also be destroyed by the end of the season. Kevin finds the entire thing hilarious, and is only worried that the dog will pee on the tree like Koda did when we had him. So far no problems with that, but it's early yet so keep your fingers crossed :D

My Christmas Wish

It's getting closer to Christmas time, and I am starting to miss a lot of people back in Michigan. I love having my Daddy here in Minnesota, but I need my girlfriends as well!! I miss having coffee with Sarah, or watching a musical on TV with Jill, or baking something with Jen (Actually, usually I just ate what she baked but whatever ) Don't get me wrong, having Kevin home every night and not gone for months at a time is totally wonderful, but I just really need some female perspective and insight (aka. gossip) I want to talk about female things, not about what temperature he uses to cut wire at work. I want to watch Christmas shows with somebody who isn't rolling his eyes the entire time. I want to go shopping. Boy, sounds like I want a lot of things, doesn't it? Really, though, it's only one thing---I WANT MY FRIENDS!! I am grateful for everything I have here in MN, and the ladies I work with are terrific, but they all have their families and are very busy. Plus, I'm at least 10 years younger than each of them so sometimes I feel a little silly saying "Hey, you wanna hang out?" I know that there is no way for it to happen, but my Christmas wish this year would be to be closer to all of you again. I love you all so very much!!