I Have a Confession to Make...

It's been awhile since my last "I have a confession to make" blog post, and seeing as it's been one of those days around here, I figured why not give it a go and get some more totally irrelevant thoughts off of my chest.

Brace yourselves, here I go...

1.  My kids have been totally off the wall today, like non-stop crazy, I-wanna-rip-my-hair-out, off the wall.  I love them both to death, but seriously, is it bed time yet (so I can miss them and feel guilty about having to discipline them so much)?

2.  I am by no means a "neat freak".  I love it when my house is clean, and it makes me crazy when it's not (which is most of the time), but one thing I absolutely must do every single day is make my bed.  The thought of climbing into an unmade bed literally makes my skin crawl.  Our room can be a total mess (and it will bug the heck out of me), but as long as the bed is made, all is right in the world.

3.  We recently started a good behavior chart for Max, as a way of positively reinforcing all of the good things he does.  It was an idea that came about via both his preschool teacher and some other moms in a mother's group that I belong to.  The way it works is that he gets stickers for certain good behaviors... i.e. sharing with his sister, eating his dinner, helping clean up his toys, etc.  Once he gets enough stickers, he gets to pick out a prize... which by the way, he already has picked out.  It's kind of awesome, because he seems to be behaving much better based on the fact that he wants stickers like crazy, but kind of obnoxious, because now I get asked no less than 500 times a day when he can get his "small hulk guys" at Target.  I'm all for an excuse to go to Target, but come on!!!

4.  Which brings me to my next fun fact.  I have been to Target 3 times already this week.  It's Thursday.  Do they have rehab for this kind of thing?

5. If I see one more photo of a woman who is equally as far along as I am, but makes me look like the Octomom, I'm seriously going to cry.

6.  Am I the only one that leaves Christmas decorations up well into January purely based on the fact that I go into a serious depression after the holidays?  #Christmasforever

7.  I miss wine.  I'm pretty sure I've already mentioned that fact, but really and truly, I miss wine so much.

8.  There are a billion things I should be doing right now other than writing this blog post.  So... there's that.

Now that you're totally enlightened with a bunch of absolutely useless information about my life, I'm feeling much better.  Thank goodness tomorrow is Friday, have some wine for me!!!

Hump Day

Happy Wednesday... All week long I've been a day ahead. Perhaps because we're heading towards a long weekend and I know Mike will be home an extra day to help deal the craziness that has basically become the norm around here lately. In my mind it's Thursday, and I'm just going to go with it!

It's about a billion degrees outside, and humid enough to turn my hair into a frizzy mess the second I walk out the door. I know poor Max is dying to play outside, but he settled for a smoothie and playing with blocks for the afternoon when I promised him we would play outside after his nap... Hopefully by then it won't feel like a sauna outside.

Ella has been both cranky and sleepy after her shots the other day, nothing unmanageable, she just seems to either want to be eating every moment she is awake or she is sucking on her hands in an effort to eat.

Unfortunately I have been dealing with the fact that our beloved hound, Homer, has been having some health issues... This has had me worrying through the nights and guzzling iced coffee during the day. We're hopeful to have it worked out/managed in the near future. 

Anyhow, I'm super obsessed with coconut flavored iced coffee right now. It's summer in a mason jar with a shot of caffeine (or 10 if you're drinking it as much as I am).

I did manage to work on a few projects over the last couple of days in all of my spare time. I finally tackled some knitting, and turned those DIY tassels I posted about recently into some DIY jewelry.

In other news we obviously managed to make it to Target this week too. Only once so far, which is surprising seeing as we are usually there at least 3 days a week. We picked up a few things for this weekend's festivities and Max nearly poked his eye out waving his new flag around. All in all, good trip.

Hopefully the rest of the week goes by fast so we can all get to the fun stuff!

-J