We are in week 4 of Jon being home and recovering from knee surgery and boy is it wild. It is a terrible reason to have him home but I am so glad he is here and so are the kids. We are all getting so used to it, it is hard to think of him having to go back to work eventually. While he has been home though I have been working more and it has been so hard leaving he and the kids. I have always worked evenings and stayed at home during the days with the children but now that we are all home together, leaving for work is even more difficult.
I think it has been a healthy does of perspective for all of us that this has happened though and in the beginning I definitely couldn't see the silver lining.
Jon has learned that he wants to spend more time at home with the kids and me and he really likes being the one the kids ask for first thing in the morning and they all have a fun time with the new routine.
The kids are enjoying Daddy time so much that they don't wish either of us to have to work EVER and they think everyday is the weekend. In a way it has been like everyday is the weekend and especially in the fact that I can't keep track of what day it is!!! I am lost!! We all wake up together everyday and that even confuses the Mama as for what day of the week it is :)
It has been great for me to let them all have this time even though my role has dramatically changed for the time being. There is something so safe and happy about knowing they are with their Daddy when I leave for work. I have this piece of mind that I haven't realized before.
So as we work to rehab Jon's knee and get him back on his feet and back to work, we will all just enjoy a few more weeks, days and hours of being together as a family for as much of our days as possible. Course I am off to work and I can't stand it BUT tomorrow we will all wake together and have the whole day ahead of us, TOGETHER.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Happy Birthday To ME!
Another birthday has come and gone. I have turned 29 again and it was an amazing day. The kids and Daddy spent two days designing, baking and icing a cake for me as a surprise. It was PERFECT. They have never done anything like this for me (usually my husband is working 55hours a week so there isn't much time for planning) but as he is off work with this knee surgery, there was plenty of time and they made my day!
It was so funny to me, looking at this later that I am the "Mom" this cake is made for!
I always try to make each person's birthday as special as possible. We celebrate all day long from sun up to sun down. They pick their favorite meals, they choose what we do for the day, they design their cake and help with their parties. So the fact that they were all about Mommy this whole day and took the time to design a cake for me and execute it while I was mowing the lawn means SO MUCH. In fact, they will probably never know how special this birthday really was to me.
Friday, August 26, 2011
Announcement!!!
Household Budgeting Class will be held on September 20, 2011 at 7pm at the Florence Branch of the Boone County Library.
Sign ups are available online or in the Florence Branch.
The class will be filled with ideas and tips for cutting your grocery budget without using coupons, cutting your household product budget, recipes for your family that are easy and budget friendly as well as a giveaway that you must be in attendance to receive!!!
Join me and other locals who are interested in cutting the household budget in order to free up money for other fun things you can do with your family.
Sign ups are available online or in the Florence Branch.
The class will be filled with ideas and tips for cutting your grocery budget without using coupons, cutting your household product budget, recipes for your family that are easy and budget friendly as well as a giveaway that you must be in attendance to receive!!!
Join me and other locals who are interested in cutting the household budget in order to free up money for other fun things you can do with your family.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
The Best Conversations
I love to have conversations with our son, Henry, who is 4 years old. He is so smart and he is so inquisitive about EVERYTHING. We aren't just talking the "WHY, WHY WHY???" He really thinks about things and wonders about things and he knows how to find his answers.
It started with his love of books at a young age. We go to the library every Thursday and have since he was an itty bitty boy. One of the first moments I was so proud of him was when he said to me, on the way to the library, "I think I need a book about snowmobiles, I don't know enough about them." So we got a book about snowmobiles and I was so proud that he realizes where and how to get information!
We have looked up various things robots, outer space, comic books, spiders, bug guides, drawing books, transformers, crabs and lobsters, octopus, anything and everything. Today in the car we are talking about exoskeletons and going through every animal and talking about if their bones are on the inside or the outside and my daughter says "dog?" Henry goes through his entire reasoning, "well reindeer are covered in fur and they have bones on the INSIDE. Dogs have hair on the outside so they must have bones on the INSIDE too! Yeah they don't have shells so they don't have exoskeletons!" He was so proud of himself and so was I. I was absolutely so proud of him and of the fact that because of how we have made the library a priority we can have these super fun conversations!!
It started with his love of books at a young age. We go to the library every Thursday and have since he was an itty bitty boy. One of the first moments I was so proud of him was when he said to me, on the way to the library, "I think I need a book about snowmobiles, I don't know enough about them." So we got a book about snowmobiles and I was so proud that he realizes where and how to get information!
We have looked up various things robots, outer space, comic books, spiders, bug guides, drawing books, transformers, crabs and lobsters, octopus, anything and everything. Today in the car we are talking about exoskeletons and going through every animal and talking about if their bones are on the inside or the outside and my daughter says "dog?" Henry goes through his entire reasoning, "well reindeer are covered in fur and they have bones on the INSIDE. Dogs have hair on the outside so they must have bones on the INSIDE too! Yeah they don't have shells so they don't have exoskeletons!" He was so proud of himself and so was I. I was absolutely so proud of him and of the fact that because of how we have made the library a priority we can have these super fun conversations!!
Monday, August 1, 2011
Trading Places
My husband, Jon and I have often spoken about how he will never understand what it is like to be a Mom and housewife all day long and THEN go to work 8 hours at night, going on constant lack of sleep and trying to do so many jobs at one time. Just as I will never understand what it is like to be gone from the house 55 hours a week to come home exhausted and have to be Dad for the last few hours of such a long day.
Well, we should of been more careful of what we wished for because we are about to switch roles and it will be a HUGE adjustment for our families but will hopefully give us each some insight as to what each other does all day.
Jon injured his knee last week and will be having surgery upcoming in mid-August. He will not be able to go to work until after the surgery and recovery is well under way. This will be about a month off for him or so. I, in the meantime, will be picking up as many shifts at work as possible days, evenings, nights whatever I can to make up for his time off and our medical expenses. We won't be using our babysitter at all because Daddy or Mommy will ALWAYS be home.
I am scared and nervous. I am a mess really. I don't like seeing my husband in pain and I am scared of him going into surgery. I don't know what we are going to do with the kids on the day of surgery. I don't know how I am going to get out of bed tomorrow but this may be a good change for us. Both of us have been looking for ways to improve, ways to get closer to goals we have set and such, maybe this will be the "blessing in disguise" that we need.
Will keep yall posted about all the new adventures and my new work as a woman back in the full time work force! Oh Help Me!
Well, we should of been more careful of what we wished for because we are about to switch roles and it will be a HUGE adjustment for our families but will hopefully give us each some insight as to what each other does all day.
Jon injured his knee last week and will be having surgery upcoming in mid-August. He will not be able to go to work until after the surgery and recovery is well under way. This will be about a month off for him or so. I, in the meantime, will be picking up as many shifts at work as possible days, evenings, nights whatever I can to make up for his time off and our medical expenses. We won't be using our babysitter at all because Daddy or Mommy will ALWAYS be home.
I am scared and nervous. I am a mess really. I don't like seeing my husband in pain and I am scared of him going into surgery. I don't know what we are going to do with the kids on the day of surgery. I don't know how I am going to get out of bed tomorrow but this may be a good change for us. Both of us have been looking for ways to improve, ways to get closer to goals we have set and such, maybe this will be the "blessing in disguise" that we need.
Will keep yall posted about all the new adventures and my new work as a woman back in the full time work force! Oh Help Me!
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