June Already?
June 07, 2010 11:11 PM
Wow! Okay, so I didn't update once in May. Sorry about
that. Guess I was a little pre-occupied. Well, JT has
been out of school for about two weeks now and we're
already bored. I can't believe it's summer already. It
kind of snuck up on me this year. Seems like the year
is flying by. The good news is that means the next
couple weeks should fly by too and then Melinda will be
here! Yea Minda! My niece is finally coming to visit me
and she's going to be here for long enough that I can
abuse her and make her babysit while I run errands and
maybe, just maybe... have a date night with my hubby.
Who by the way I met 13 years ago tonight. 
In other news... Jon was gone for two weeks in May. He went back to Iowa for a week when he picked up his new car and then he was in Chicago on business for a week following that. Two weeks is a long time! Luckily Mom came to visit for a few days while he was gone so that broke things up and distracted JT a little. He really missed his daddy! Plus he was really excited to see the new "daddy car" because it's a convertible. I've got pictures of his first ride in it. The dealership gave JT a BMW cap and he already had some sunglasses so he was one pretty cool dude driving around with the top down. At least for the first 10 minutes or so before he fell asleep. I'll see if I can add the pictures to the Pictures & Videos page for you. If you can't find them let me know and I'll email them to you instead. I may have better pictures on my camera, I just haven't downloaded them yet.
I don't think I know much else. I'll try to do better about updating and uploading pictures.
Love you!
In other news... Jon was gone for two weeks in May. He went back to Iowa for a week when he picked up his new car and then he was in Chicago on business for a week following that. Two weeks is a long time! Luckily Mom came to visit for a few days while he was gone so that broke things up and distracted JT a little. He really missed his daddy! Plus he was really excited to see the new "daddy car" because it's a convertible. I've got pictures of his first ride in it. The dealership gave JT a BMW cap and he already had some sunglasses so he was one pretty cool dude driving around with the top down. At least for the first 10 minutes or so before he fell asleep. I'll see if I can add the pictures to the Pictures & Videos page for you. If you can't find them let me know and I'll email them to you instead. I may have better pictures on my camera, I just haven't downloaded them yet.
I don't think I know much else. I'll try to do better about updating and uploading pictures.
Love you!
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Cute Bear Story
April 28, 2010 10:50 PM
Okay, one quick Bear story before I go to bed. I
shouldn't do this. Every time I say something positive
about JT he acts the opposite and has a bad day the
next day. But today he was so sweet I thought I'd
share.
JT brought home a cold last Thursday. Other than not liking his nose running all the time it really didn't phase him. Of course he was kind enough to share his germs with me. Despite my constant hand-washing I still got sick. This morning I was coughing a lot and I was having a hard time. He looked at me very sweetly and said "Are you okay Mommy?". I was honest and said no that I didn't feel well and that it hurt when I coughed. I told him I may try to go to the doctor while he was at school and asked him if it would be okay if I was late picking him up from school. He was fine with that and fine with the idea of taking a nap at school with his friends. Well, I didn't make it to the doctor so I picked him on time and he was very happy to see me. He was very sweet all afternoon and wasn't bossy or anything. He even let me rest. Normally he wants someone to play with so I usually try to play with him or pay attention to him. Today I kept falling asleep and he just let me nap while he played very quietly and watched TV. I was hoping he'd nap too, but he never did. After dinner I talked him into going up and getting ready for bed early and he fully cooperated. Here's the best part.... before getting in the shower he had to pee so I put him on the potty. He's decided he doesn't need the potty seat any more so he was on the regular toilet. He wiped jumped down. The very quickly cried out that he needed to go again. I went to lift him back up, but he had jumped back on by himself. Then he sat there until he pooped! And it was a good poop! I was ecstatic that he went poopy on the potty all by himself and made a very big deal of it. Hopefully it will encourage future acts to go just as smoothly. Then we got cleaned up, put our pjs on and came back downstairs to play for a while. When the timer went off he picked up his toys, took his vitamins, grabbed his water and we went up to read. We read three stories and turned out the light. He didn't argue with me, he didn't fight for one more story, he just cuddled with me and fell asleep.
Okay, so maybe it's not a traditional cute Bear story, but it was very sweet the way he took care of me all day. I thanked him for being so caring and sympathetic. And at one point while we were playing he called me "mother dear". It was cute. He was very grown up and loving today and it was probably the best medicine any mother could ask for!
That being said... I'm off to sleep the rest of this cold off. Good-night!
JT brought home a cold last Thursday. Other than not liking his nose running all the time it really didn't phase him. Of course he was kind enough to share his germs with me. Despite my constant hand-washing I still got sick. This morning I was coughing a lot and I was having a hard time. He looked at me very sweetly and said "Are you okay Mommy?". I was honest and said no that I didn't feel well and that it hurt when I coughed. I told him I may try to go to the doctor while he was at school and asked him if it would be okay if I was late picking him up from school. He was fine with that and fine with the idea of taking a nap at school with his friends. Well, I didn't make it to the doctor so I picked him on time and he was very happy to see me. He was very sweet all afternoon and wasn't bossy or anything. He even let me rest. Normally he wants someone to play with so I usually try to play with him or pay attention to him. Today I kept falling asleep and he just let me nap while he played very quietly and watched TV. I was hoping he'd nap too, but he never did. After dinner I talked him into going up and getting ready for bed early and he fully cooperated. Here's the best part.... before getting in the shower he had to pee so I put him on the potty. He's decided he doesn't need the potty seat any more so he was on the regular toilet. He wiped jumped down. The very quickly cried out that he needed to go again. I went to lift him back up, but he had jumped back on by himself. Then he sat there until he pooped! And it was a good poop! I was ecstatic that he went poopy on the potty all by himself and made a very big deal of it. Hopefully it will encourage future acts to go just as smoothly. Then we got cleaned up, put our pjs on and came back downstairs to play for a while. When the timer went off he picked up his toys, took his vitamins, grabbed his water and we went up to read. We read three stories and turned out the light. He didn't argue with me, he didn't fight for one more story, he just cuddled with me and fell asleep.
Okay, so maybe it's not a traditional cute Bear story, but it was very sweet the way he took care of me all day. I thanked him for being so caring and sympathetic. And at one point while we were playing he called me "mother dear". It was cute. He was very grown up and loving today and it was probably the best medicine any mother could ask for!
That being said... I'm off to sleep the rest of this cold off. Good-night!
Record Sales!
April 27, 2010 05:43 PM
Back from Spring Break!
April 19, 2010 11:55 AM
Well, we went to Iowa for Easter and ended up being
gone for nine whole days. Now that we have been back
for a week I finally feel like I'm getting back into
the groove of things. But tomorrow is my birthday and
that means the month of April has flown by way too
fast. Every three months I have to make a sales quota
to stay in business with Creative Memories. My three
months is up this month. That means I have ten days
left to meet my quota and I still have a ways to go. I
really need to focus on getting some more orders. I've
been working the business hard this month and I have a
lot of people "thinking" about this or that and
checking out my website, but so far only two orders. I
guess getting my website and pictures updated is going
to have to wait until May. Right now I'm going to
concentrate all my efforts on staying in business. If
you're interested in helping me out please click on the
Creative Memories link to go to my website and place an
order. So until May... TTFN!
Busy Week
March 29, 2010 11:41 PM
I'm going to try and be better about keeping at least
the blog up to date. I don't know if the rest of the
site will be as lucky, but I'll try and do this much. I
have a busy week this week. It's pretty normal routine
for Jon and JT, but we are thinking of going to Iowa
next week for Spring Break and I have a bunch of stuff
I want to try and get caught up on before we leave. So
far today I'm off to a good start. I got some laundry
done and some cleaning done. I got my other blog
current and online finally. I have a plan of action for
the rest of the week. Now I just need to go make my bed
and sleep in it! (I washed the sheets today).
But if we go to Iowa for Spring Break I might not get this site updated the first week of April like I usually try to do. So I'm being proactive and posting before April 1st instead so say hello and Happy Spring! The weather is suppose to warm up this week and this afternoon the sun finally came out so things are starting to look a little brighter here in Michigan!
But if we go to Iowa for Spring Break I might not get this site updated the first week of April like I usually try to do. So I'm being proactive and posting before April 1st instead so say hello and Happy Spring! The weather is suppose to warm up this week and this afternoon the sun finally came out so things are starting to look a little brighter here in Michigan!