Cleaning Frenzy

For the past week or so I have been on some kind of strange, crazy cleaning frenzy. I have hit every room in the house...kitchen, Emma's bedroom, living room, even the basement!! Spring is around the corner, and I just want to get my house in some sort of order. Progress has been made, but I think I would be a lot farther along if I didn't have two little elves who follow me from room to room, pulling out all that I just put away. Kevin tries to help, but he just doesn't get the "cleaning itch" like I do. LOL. Tonight I will be hanging pictures in my bedroom and doing laundry. Nothing too exciting...I am kind of coasting now until Saturday when we are going to get done all of the things we need a ladder for :D Sarah, if you read this, my house is going to be so clean by the time you come! :D

Blessed

I got to hear the baby's heartbeat today when I had my ultrasound. Finally! :D I don't think there is anything more wonderful than seeing and hearing your baby for the very first time. No matter how many kids I have each "first time" always brings a tear to my eye. I am so lucky to be able to build the family that I want, when there are so many other worthy would-be-parents out there who cannot. It makes me feel very blessed. Even on mornings such as this, where Ellie peed on my clothes instead of in the toilet, I know how lucky I am...Sure, sometimes I have to recite that to myself so that I don't forget, but deep down I really do know :D

So, another 3 weeks until my next appointment. My Dr. does them every 3 weeks instead of every 4,which doesn't bother me a bit. I am really loving the fact that I only have ONE Dr. instead of FIVE like before. :D And now I have picture proof that I really am pregnant so others don't think I am just going crazy with all of these raging hormones.

The funny things my Ellie says

Ellie is at that age now where every other thing out of her mouth either embarrasses the crap out of me or makes me laugh 'till I cry...sometimes even both! Here are a few examples:

1) The other day Ellie and I were in the bathroom at Wal-Mart. She tried to go potty, but got scared by the auto flush toilet. To show her everything was OK I sat down and showed her that it wasn't scary. When I stood up she says, so very loudly, "Momma, you got hair on your butt?" OMG! I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO DIE!!!!!!!! I have never rushed out of a bathroom so quickly in my life!

2) Ellie and I were looking at a magazine together. She saw a young girl who looked a lot like Miley Cirus (i don't think i spelled that right.) She says to me, "Look, momma, Hannah Montana!" How in the world does my 3 year old know who Hannah Montana is???

3) It was bed time and Ellie was trying to get her shirt off in order to put her PJ's on. The shirt got stuck on her head and she ran around yelling, "I have a babushka on my head!!" Babushka? My dad must have taught her that one...I hope.

Those of you who know me are quite aware that very rarely am I at a loss for words. However, I find my self dazed and confused more and more often when Ellie opens her mouth. Clever little girl that she is, it catches me totally and utterly off guard nearly 100% of the time. Lord help us.

My Needless Whining

My big thing these days seems to be that I don't have enough time. Enough time for what, you might ask? Well, enough time for ANYTHING. I am constantly running around like a crazy woman, be it at home or at work, and I feel like I am spinning myself in circles. It is the midpoint of our fiscal year at work, which means A TON of extra paperwork and number crunching ( I stink at both of these!) Plus, with the unemployment rate going UP UP UP my caseload has been doing the same. More meetings, more drive time, more paperwork...One of these days I am going to say "goodbye" to doing placement work...Sadly, today is not that day.

At home Kevin has been looking daily for work, since his job has cut him down to like 3 days in the past 2 weeks. So he's been busy with that since we do need money to pay bills and such...That means after leaving the house at 7am and returning around 5pm I get to do dinner, baths, play time and stories...When all I really want to do is lay down and sleep.

I know that there are single parents out there who do so much more than me. I know that there are even married parents out there who do more...Military families, for example...Or families where an individual works more than one job...I am BY NO MEANS "bad off"...I understand this, I do. But since this is MY blog I am taking a moment to vent. I figure better to do it on here than to go home stressed out after you find out your co-worker is going to be gone the entire month of April and you get to handle his case load along with yours. Woohoo.

Art

Ellie loves art. She always has. Drawing, painting...it doesn't matter. She loves it. In the past she even did it with her poop!! (Hey, in a modern art gallery that would make a ton of money!) Anyways, I went into her room the other day and was lucky enough to discover another wonderfully pretty (large) picture on her wall. This one is purple, red, and pink...And it has progressed a great deal since the last time she snuck crayons into her room. Before all she would draw were little colored in circles and lines and stuff. THIS time she drew actual people. Sure, the eyes are huge and the arms/legs come right off of the body. But I can TELL it's a person!! A HUGE person! On her bedroom wall! Woohoo!! There is a fine line between being proud of your child's development and going crazy trying to keep up with it. My toe is on that line! :D

Potty Training-Please Help!!

I have been trying to potty train Ellie for months now. She will do really good for a while, slide backwards, do well again, then slide back again. I would like to get her into a preschool, but we have to make it over this mountain first. I am out of ideas. I have tried stickers. I have tried getting m&m's when she goes...I am wondering if I should just get rid of the diapers all together (she's in pull ups right now) and see if that helps??? Any thoughts, ideas?? I am open to any advice!!!

Stupid People

Sometimes I get so annoyed by stupid people. It's not even that I really think the person themselves are stupid, but lord help me with some of the back-assword things people do. A perfect expample today. Kevin has been getting his checks direct deposited for about 1 year now. Today I logged onto our bank account and saw that there was no deposit!! Thinking that the website just needed to be updated I called the main branch...But to my shock there really was NO deposit!! I called Kevin, who promptly called his work. Come to find out they decided to go back to paper checks. Hmmm...ok. Now in my mind that is HUGE piece of information and plays greatly into the whole plan of what bills I am going to pay, how I am going to pay them, etc. On top of it I had a car payment scheduled to come out today. So I just spent 40 minutes arguing with a person who speaks NO english trying to get her to change the payment and push it back so that we don't get overdrafted in our account. You would think this would be easy, right? SO WRONG! I don't know all of what this lady was trying to say to me, but believe you me it was not very nice. I know that HSBC sucks as an auto finance company (probably why they don't do it anymore) but come on people!!! Are you kidding??? Right after this I attempted to pay my water bill online, only to get an ERROR on the website. I call the woman who does the billing and she has no idea what the error means. No clue. Not even a small one. So I spent like another 15-20 minutes trying to clear that mess up. All the time I am wondering why I am the one arguing with some idiot when it was KEVIN'S work that screwed up and HE should be the one dealing with this. Not me. Especially since he is at home and I am running around between meetings. UGH! Stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

The Joys of Pregnancy (again)

So here I am pregnant for a third time. You would think by now that I would be used to it. I am most certainly not. Don't get me wrong, I love being pregnant!!! However, this time is quite a bit different from the last two. Instead of heart burn like before, this time I get the wonderful never ending pleasure of morning sickness. In my case it's more like afternoon/evening sickness, but whatever. You get my point. I feel so much more exhausted this time as well...though perhaps this has something to do with my 40 + hour a week job and my 2 other children. Hmmm...

The one fabulous thing is that I LOVE LOVE LOVE my new doctor!! The entire clinic is just great, they are all so nice. I have only ONE doctor this time, so I actually know who is going to deliver my baby! Woohoo!!! Plus I can make a DVD of my ultrasounds. I've never got to do anything like that before!!!

I have some fears about actually have 3 children...OMG, 3. But these are just fleeting fears that come and go rather quickly. I worry more for Kevin...poor guy...what is he going to do if it's another girl?????????

My Secret Is Out--I'm Pregnant!

Here it is folks...the secret you have all been waiting for! Now, most of you guessed it already, but I am going to tell you anyways. I AM PREGNANT! The Dr. confirmed it today. Yes, that's right...number 3 will be joining the Britting family in November 2009!!! We are very excited, and a tad bit nervous...3 is a lot! Perhaps we weren't ready for this one like the last two, but my joy is no less. I get to be a mommy again!! I think no matter how many times I get to say those words they will always make me smile. Still, this will be the last one (Kevin is going to go to the Dr. to make sure of this!) Perhaps this will be the long awaited male...though with our track record I would not bet money on it! :D We have told Ellie that Mommy has a baby in her tummy again, and now Ellie wants one in her tummy too. Lord help us. :D