Well, I am feeling a little more disheartened. I tried using a few blogging aides to expand my blog, but haven't been able to donate as much time as I had wanted.
So I had been taking advantage of the whole "next blog" button on the top to search through public blogs and find other moms/families with similar backgrounds or interests as me.
While commenting on one I had chosen to follow today, I realized it looked like my introductory message had been deleted by the owner. I can only assume she w not a fan of a stranger being on h blog :-( and now i feel like a creep
I had left a message on the blogs I had chosen to follow, just saying, hi, my name is Tiffany, I found your blog while searching through other mom blogs and wanted to say hi.
Oh well I guess.
Even though rejection by people you don't even know sucks too.
Monday, October 10, 2011
10/10/11
Yay! Second post in one day!
Although I still can't remember most of what I'd been thinking about blogging about these past few weeks.
I've been slacking a little bit in the past few weeks on making a homemade dinner each night. Due partly because we are getting low on meat. We have one of those vacuum food sealers, so we buy a lot of things in bulk and then repackage it and freeze it. We did a huge shopping trip back in lie April or May and bought some meat by the case at Sam's Club. If you buy it by the case they give you an even deeper discounted price. So we had bought a case of ground beef, and a case of boneless, skinless chicken breasts. We stIll have quite a bit of ground beef, but we are the very last few packages of our chicken. We are also just about out of pork (chops, roasts, etc). So that is making planning dinners a little bit harder as well. I've been trying to do a lot more with the ground beef since we still have so much of it, but we have some picky eaters and any recipes I find never seem to work. I found a recipe online and made Swedish meatballs for the first time yesterday. I served them over egg noodles, with corn and green beans the side. Myself and my hubby liked it, Logan ate his noodles and gravy, but not much of his meatball. My dad thought it was okay, but my mom didn't really care for the gravy. Tonight I'm making just regular old fashioned spaghetti and meatballs with red sauce. So it's meatballs 2 nights in a row, but totally different recipes. Hopefully I can get a couple hundred dollars extra and head back over to Sam's Club and get more chicken and maybe more pork too. It was great to not have to worry about buying meat for the last 6 or so months!!
Anyway, what else is going on. We have Logan's halloween costume, and Meredith's is being shipped. Logan is going to be Buzz Lightyear. He is really into Toy Story right now. We had bought a portable DVD player, and brought it with us on our trip to NJ last month for the car. For the first time he really sat and watched entire movies. And for Meredith, my mom found a cute flower costume online "baby blossom" it's called. Hopefully it looks cute on her.
Logan is starting to talk a lot more, but is definitely not where I want him to be. His doctor wasn't concerned at his 2 year checkup in July, but most of the other moms I know that have kids his age or younger or saying a lot more words and talking a lot more clearly. I had the pediatrician give me some information on a speech therapist just in case. I have decided if he isn't really talking more and better by January (when he'll be 2 1/2), then I will see about scheduling an appointment with someone. I don't want to be one of those pushy and overly worried parents, but i don't want to be overlooking anything that might be holding him back. I do find myself getting a little embarrassed sometimes at his lack of speech. I don't want other parents thinking I'm babying him or not doing a good job parenting.
Although I still can't remember most of what I'd been thinking about blogging about these past few weeks.
I've been slacking a little bit in the past few weeks on making a homemade dinner each night. Due partly because we are getting low on meat. We have one of those vacuum food sealers, so we buy a lot of things in bulk and then repackage it and freeze it. We did a huge shopping trip back in lie April or May and bought some meat by the case at Sam's Club. If you buy it by the case they give you an even deeper discounted price. So we had bought a case of ground beef, and a case of boneless, skinless chicken breasts. We stIll have quite a bit of ground beef, but we are the very last few packages of our chicken. We are also just about out of pork (chops, roasts, etc). So that is making planning dinners a little bit harder as well. I've been trying to do a lot more with the ground beef since we still have so much of it, but we have some picky eaters and any recipes I find never seem to work. I found a recipe online and made Swedish meatballs for the first time yesterday. I served them over egg noodles, with corn and green beans the side. Myself and my hubby liked it, Logan ate his noodles and gravy, but not much of his meatball. My dad thought it was okay, but my mom didn't really care for the gravy. Tonight I'm making just regular old fashioned spaghetti and meatballs with red sauce. So it's meatballs 2 nights in a row, but totally different recipes. Hopefully I can get a couple hundred dollars extra and head back over to Sam's Club and get more chicken and maybe more pork too. It was great to not have to worry about buying meat for the last 6 or so months!!
Anyway, what else is going on. We have Logan's halloween costume, and Meredith's is being shipped. Logan is going to be Buzz Lightyear. He is really into Toy Story right now. We had bought a portable DVD player, and brought it with us on our trip to NJ last month for the car. For the first time he really sat and watched entire movies. And for Meredith, my mom found a cute flower costume online "baby blossom" it's called. Hopefully it looks cute on her.
Logan is starting to talk a lot more, but is definitely not where I want him to be. His doctor wasn't concerned at his 2 year checkup in July, but most of the other moms I know that have kids his age or younger or saying a lot more words and talking a lot more clearly. I had the pediatrician give me some information on a speech therapist just in case. I have decided if he isn't really talking more and better by January (when he'll be 2 1/2), then I will see about scheduling an appointment with someone. I don't want to be one of those pushy and overly worried parents, but i don't want to be overlooking anything that might be holding him back. I do find myself getting a little embarrassed sometimes at his lack of speech. I don't want other parents thinking I'm babying him or not doing a good job parenting.
I feel bad
So I feel pretty terrible.
I started this new blog promising myself I'd paid more attention to it in ways I never did my old blog.
It's a little hard when I don't have many followers though (ie-1).
Not that that's WHY I'm doing this. I'm doing it for me, an outlet for everything I think and am going through. And I wanted to start fresh. I didn't really want most of the "friends" from high school and other moms I know on here just yet. I want totally new eyes and opinions. Some of the people I know are rather judgey. But I'm going to try harder from here on out. I'm not even really sure where I left off or what's been going on since I last wrote.
Let's start with Meredith I guess. She is 7 1/2 months old, and I don't know where the time went. If it goes fast with your first child, it goes LIGHTSPEED with the second!! I can still remember and feel sometimes being pregnant with her just a second ago......crazy. At her 6 month checkup they told me she was 50th percentile for weight, and 75th percentile for height. Well, she is currently wearing 9 month clothing, and has just jumped into 12 month pajamas!! At first I was just factoring in the weight, and so confused why she seemed to be outgrowing everything so quickly, when 50th percentile is absolutely average, but then last night my mom and I remembered how long/tall she is for her age, and I'm sure that's got a lot to do with it! Crazy still. My sweet little baby is getting too big too fast!!
She started her first foods on 7/19/11-Rice cereal. Then throughout July, August and even September we did the whole adding one new food/ingredient at a time. I'm sure I'm more of a worrywart about it then need be, but I always was worried about a bad reaction to something. After the individual foods with only one ingredient though, you have the ones like "Banana Plum Grape." Well, they make banana in a 1st food, but don't make plum or grape in a 1st food! So when you do that, you're really adding TWO new things at once to her diet. So I slowly integrated all those types of foods too, even though I am getting a feeling most moms don't worry about that type of thing once they get through those single-ingredient first foods. So by the end of September she had gotten through pretty much anything I wanted to introduce singly.
Rice cereal
Green Beans
Prunes
Apples
Peas
Squash
Carrots
Pears
Mango
Mixed Grain Cereal
Kiwi
Banana
Peaches
Spinach
Sweet Potatoes
Cinnamon
Pumpkin
"Mixed Berry"
Raspberry
Cherries
Apricots
Pineapple
Pomegranate
Corn
Then I had some organic baby food I had bought at a really cheap price with some different type of ingredients like "Yumberry"!
Now I just recently started her on the second foods dinner. I am doing the same dinner, 2 days in a row while I introduce them also. So far she's had:
Vegetable Beef
Apples and Chicken
Sweet Potatoes and Turkey
Turkey Rice (which is the first food ever that she didn't really seem to care for)
and tonight she tries Chicken Noodle.
So she's doing really great with eating it seems. A very good eater most of the time.
And she is a rolling maniac!!! Mostly likes to go from her belly to her back, but not a big fan of going vice versa.
Well I have to run for now as both kids need a diaper change. I hope to be able to hope back on here later.
I started this new blog promising myself I'd paid more attention to it in ways I never did my old blog.
It's a little hard when I don't have many followers though (ie-1).
Not that that's WHY I'm doing this. I'm doing it for me, an outlet for everything I think and am going through. And I wanted to start fresh. I didn't really want most of the "friends" from high school and other moms I know on here just yet. I want totally new eyes and opinions. Some of the people I know are rather judgey. But I'm going to try harder from here on out. I'm not even really sure where I left off or what's been going on since I last wrote.
Let's start with Meredith I guess. She is 7 1/2 months old, and I don't know where the time went. If it goes fast with your first child, it goes LIGHTSPEED with the second!! I can still remember and feel sometimes being pregnant with her just a second ago......crazy. At her 6 month checkup they told me she was 50th percentile for weight, and 75th percentile for height. Well, she is currently wearing 9 month clothing, and has just jumped into 12 month pajamas!! At first I was just factoring in the weight, and so confused why she seemed to be outgrowing everything so quickly, when 50th percentile is absolutely average, but then last night my mom and I remembered how long/tall she is for her age, and I'm sure that's got a lot to do with it! Crazy still. My sweet little baby is getting too big too fast!!
She started her first foods on 7/19/11-Rice cereal. Then throughout July, August and even September we did the whole adding one new food/ingredient at a time. I'm sure I'm more of a worrywart about it then need be, but I always was worried about a bad reaction to something. After the individual foods with only one ingredient though, you have the ones like "Banana Plum Grape." Well, they make banana in a 1st food, but don't make plum or grape in a 1st food! So when you do that, you're really adding TWO new things at once to her diet. So I slowly integrated all those types of foods too, even though I am getting a feeling most moms don't worry about that type of thing once they get through those single-ingredient first foods. So by the end of September she had gotten through pretty much anything I wanted to introduce singly.
Rice cereal
Green Beans
Prunes
Apples
Peas
Squash
Carrots
Pears
Mango
Mixed Grain Cereal
Kiwi
Banana
Peaches
Spinach
Sweet Potatoes
Cinnamon
Pumpkin
"Mixed Berry"
Raspberry
Cherries
Apricots
Pineapple
Pomegranate
Corn
Then I had some organic baby food I had bought at a really cheap price with some different type of ingredients like "Yumberry"!
Now I just recently started her on the second foods dinner. I am doing the same dinner, 2 days in a row while I introduce them also. So far she's had:
Vegetable Beef
Apples and Chicken
Sweet Potatoes and Turkey
Turkey Rice (which is the first food ever that she didn't really seem to care for)
and tonight she tries Chicken Noodle.
So she's doing really great with eating it seems. A very good eater most of the time.
And she is a rolling maniac!!! Mostly likes to go from her belly to her back, but not a big fan of going vice versa.
Well I have to run for now as both kids need a diaper change. I hope to be able to hope back on here later.
Friday, September 16, 2011
9/16/11
I'm going to start a post now, but think I will have to finish later.
I have a feeling I will be getting interrupted shortly, and won't have much privacy to write.I hate when I feel like someone is watching me or staring over my shoulder while I am doing things online. Even if it's not something secretive or anything, I still just hate that 'being watched' feeling.
Well my aunt came to visit to stay with us for just a couple days to help out. My dad's surgery is today at 2. He's having a resection done to take out several inches of his intestines at 2pm.
**this is where I had to stop earlier**
Okay, continuation!
His surgery is done, things appear to have gone well. He is in recovery now! He will probably be in the hospital until at least Tuesday.
Okay, what else to catch up on?
Our trip?
We left for NJ at about 9:15am on Friday 9/9/11. My mom, myself, my husband, and both kids. Overall the trip wasn't too horrible. Although it can be challenging managing the diaper changes and diaper bags in and out of restrooms or restaurants. It's like change one kid, okay, now let's switch kids so I can change the next one! Then okay, this person hold a kid so this adult can pee, etc, etc.!
So we stayed at my Aunt Lynn and Uncle Marty's house. It was nice to have a chance to visit and whatnot, although I wish we could've stayed longer.
The wedding was Saturday afternoon at a church, and was very nice. And the reception followed a couple of hours later at a Point Pleasant Yacht Club. The reception was awesome, Danielle and Andrew did a great job. They had a really nice cocktail hour with hot and cold passed hors' deurves, and a little made to order pasta station, a little made to order stir fry station, and an cold station with crostini and bruschetta topping, olives, fresh mozzarella
Then for dinner they did a buffet, which was actually really great! Buffets get a bad wrap, but when you go to a wedding you want to eat and drink and celebrate!! And I did go up twice, no shame here! They had some kind of like a sweet and sour pork, which was okay, a DELICIOUS filet mignon espagnole, a specialty dish of the club called chicken crystal, eggplant rollitini which was delicious, spanish paella-I'm not big on seafood, so I just took the rice and veggies, and it was really good!, some kind of delicious roasted potatoes. There were other things too, I just can't remember! Their cake was also delicious. One of the best wedding cakes I've tasted. I've been to several weddings where the brides said they were having these amazing cakes, and they were pretty gross/bad. Cake matters a lot to me, since I do so much baking and was/am a cake decorator.
Then Sunday we just visited with some family and friends. My aunt doesn't allow smoking in her house, so even though it was a little drab and dreary, we let Logan go outside when some adults were outside smoking. He managed to fall off/knock over on himself a very heavy outdoor bench. He cried, but seemed okay afterward. Well the next day he was walking funny. I took him to the urgent care/hospital as soon as we got home Monday night, they did X-rays, and said it looks okay, but if he was still walking funny in a week to take him to his primary care doctor. Well, he's still walking funny, and now isn't walking flat-footed, only on his tiptoes. So I think we will be making a phone call to the doctor on Monday morning. Never a dull moment-I tell ya!!
Dinner tonight is just a simple pot of italian sausage meat sauce, and I have a pot of hot water on. Whenever my mom comes home from the hospital I will throw the pasta in. We figured this was an easy meal that could just sit on the stove to cook until whenever we were ready to eat. Both kids are currently napping (yes! at the same time!!) which has given me a nice break to catch my breath and get a few things done. I wasn't sure I was going to get that lucky though, since Logan didn't sleep well last night, got up early this morning, and fell asleep in his playroom early this afternoon!! He didn't sleep long, but I thought "oh crap, if he slept in the playroom, will he still take a real nap in his crib later?!" Well, he went down late, but it seems to have worked!!
I have a feeling I will be getting interrupted shortly, and won't have much privacy to write.I hate when I feel like someone is watching me or staring over my shoulder while I am doing things online. Even if it's not something secretive or anything, I still just hate that 'being watched' feeling.
Well my aunt came to visit to stay with us for just a couple days to help out. My dad's surgery is today at 2. He's having a resection done to take out several inches of his intestines at 2pm.
**this is where I had to stop earlier**
Okay, continuation!
His surgery is done, things appear to have gone well. He is in recovery now! He will probably be in the hospital until at least Tuesday.
Okay, what else to catch up on?
Our trip?
We left for NJ at about 9:15am on Friday 9/9/11. My mom, myself, my husband, and both kids. Overall the trip wasn't too horrible. Although it can be challenging managing the diaper changes and diaper bags in and out of restrooms or restaurants. It's like change one kid, okay, now let's switch kids so I can change the next one! Then okay, this person hold a kid so this adult can pee, etc, etc.!
So we stayed at my Aunt Lynn and Uncle Marty's house. It was nice to have a chance to visit and whatnot, although I wish we could've stayed longer.
The wedding was Saturday afternoon at a church, and was very nice. And the reception followed a couple of hours later at a Point Pleasant Yacht Club. The reception was awesome, Danielle and Andrew did a great job. They had a really nice cocktail hour with hot and cold passed hors' deurves, and a little made to order pasta station, a little made to order stir fry station, and an cold station with crostini and bruschetta topping, olives, fresh mozzarella
Then for dinner they did a buffet, which was actually really great! Buffets get a bad wrap, but when you go to a wedding you want to eat and drink and celebrate!! And I did go up twice, no shame here! They had some kind of like a sweet and sour pork, which was okay, a DELICIOUS filet mignon espagnole, a specialty dish of the club called chicken crystal, eggplant rollitini which was delicious, spanish paella-I'm not big on seafood, so I just took the rice and veggies, and it was really good!, some kind of delicious roasted potatoes. There were other things too, I just can't remember! Their cake was also delicious. One of the best wedding cakes I've tasted. I've been to several weddings where the brides said they were having these amazing cakes, and they were pretty gross/bad. Cake matters a lot to me, since I do so much baking and was/am a cake decorator.
Then Sunday we just visited with some family and friends. My aunt doesn't allow smoking in her house, so even though it was a little drab and dreary, we let Logan go outside when some adults were outside smoking. He managed to fall off/knock over on himself a very heavy outdoor bench. He cried, but seemed okay afterward. Well the next day he was walking funny. I took him to the urgent care/hospital as soon as we got home Monday night, they did X-rays, and said it looks okay, but if he was still walking funny in a week to take him to his primary care doctor. Well, he's still walking funny, and now isn't walking flat-footed, only on his tiptoes. So I think we will be making a phone call to the doctor on Monday morning. Never a dull moment-I tell ya!!
Dinner tonight is just a simple pot of italian sausage meat sauce, and I have a pot of hot water on. Whenever my mom comes home from the hospital I will throw the pasta in. We figured this was an easy meal that could just sit on the stove to cook until whenever we were ready to eat. Both kids are currently napping (yes! at the same time!!) which has given me a nice break to catch my breath and get a few things done. I wasn't sure I was going to get that lucky though, since Logan didn't sleep well last night, got up early this morning, and fell asleep in his playroom early this afternoon!! He didn't sleep long, but I thought "oh crap, if he slept in the playroom, will he still take a real nap in his crib later?!" Well, he went down late, but it seems to have worked!!
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
ughhhhh
Things have been crazy. I will barely even have time to update right now, but wanted to jot down a little something since it's been so many days since I last wrote.
We left Friday for NJ, to go to my friend Danielle's wedding, it was beautiful, I'll write more about that when I have time. We got back to Ohio about 7pm-ish on Monday. The kids were pretty good for the most part. And my family was awesome about watching them.
Came home to a bit of a dirty house/chaos. Then to top it all off my dad is sick again/still. They admitted him after my mom took him to the ER today. They are going to do surgery Friday to do a resection, in hopes that they can contain/cut out the bad part of his bowel/intestines to get the diverticulitis under control.
We left Friday for NJ, to go to my friend Danielle's wedding, it was beautiful, I'll write more about that when I have time. We got back to Ohio about 7pm-ish on Monday. The kids were pretty good for the most part. And my family was awesome about watching them.
Came home to a bit of a dirty house/chaos. Then to top it all off my dad is sick again/still. They admitted him after my mom took him to the ER today. They are going to do surgery Friday to do a resection, in hopes that they can contain/cut out the bad part of his bowel/intestines to get the diverticulitis under control.
Friday, September 9, 2011
9/9/11
I haven't slept very well the last 2-3 nights, but I don't know if I'll be able to sleep tonight! I am anxious/nervous. I feel like a little kid the night before Christmas.
We leave in the morning for our trip to NJ for my good friend's wedding on Saturday. I would like to leave at 9am, but our goal is NO LATER than 10am. Wish me luck.
I'm a little nervous taking both kids on a trip that is 8 hours long. I think we will be okay though. We have a portable DVD player for Logan, and he is generally good on car rides. So as long as Meredith doesn't get needy and want to be held, I think we will be okay. It will be me, my hubby, mom, and the 2 kids. The car is pretty much packed except for the last minute items. And when I say packed, haha, I mean PACKED! That bad boy is stuffed with 3 suitcases, a stroller, 2 pack n plays, a booster seat, 2 big bags of snacks/toys, a bag of the babies food, a foam changing pad, a cooler, and all the other little stuff!! I think we will be okay, and I don't think we've forgotten anything major.
So hopefully all will go as planned! I'm going to try and relax and go with the flow, but I always get a little anxious about the kids misbehaving or forgetting something of theirs. I hate to be that unprepared mom!
We leave in the morning for our trip to NJ for my good friend's wedding on Saturday. I would like to leave at 9am, but our goal is NO LATER than 10am. Wish me luck.
I'm a little nervous taking both kids on a trip that is 8 hours long. I think we will be okay though. We have a portable DVD player for Logan, and he is generally good on car rides. So as long as Meredith doesn't get needy and want to be held, I think we will be okay. It will be me, my hubby, mom, and the 2 kids. The car is pretty much packed except for the last minute items. And when I say packed, haha, I mean PACKED! That bad boy is stuffed with 3 suitcases, a stroller, 2 pack n plays, a booster seat, 2 big bags of snacks/toys, a bag of the babies food, a foam changing pad, a cooler, and all the other little stuff!! I think we will be okay, and I don't think we've forgotten anything major.
So hopefully all will go as planned! I'm going to try and relax and go with the flow, but I always get a little anxious about the kids misbehaving or forgetting something of theirs. I hate to be that unprepared mom!
Thursday, September 8, 2011
9/8/11
Crazy day today.
My father has diverticulitis. It has been causing him a LOT of problems recently. He's been to the ER 7 times since May. Either just because of the extreme pain, or a few times because of passing out (from pain/dehydration). Well, today made trip #8. I was woken from a dead sleep by a loud thumping noise from upstairs (I slept downstairs on the couch since Meredith fell asleep on the first floor). I knew immediately what it must've been since, just hours prior we got my father to admit he hadn't been feeling well since Saturday. Then I heard what must've been my mom jumping out of bed. So I went downstairs to get my brother to assist (my husband was already at work). And lo and behold, yes, he had apparently gone to get up out of bed and lost consciousness for a minute (also not good when that happens because he has extreme back issues). So I called 911 for an ambulance, because we're never sure anymore if we should move him or not. Late this afternoon they decide to admit him. His PCP and his gastro doctor decided to keep him for observation. Usually all they can really say is that it's a divert. flare-up, and they give him IV fluids, and put him on antibiotics to help clear it up. Well, usually it seems shortly after he goes off the antibiotics, he gets sick again. So no one really ever has any answers!! And this is all just on top of another huge pile of mess, because my parents have no health insurance. My dad found in January that he was both losing his job, and that he had kidney cancer. So he became unemployed, and short one kidney. And things haven't really seemed to get better at all so far this year. I feel like we could really use a break already. I can't dare express any of these feelings on a network like Facebook, because some ass always ends up being a jerk and saying all I do is complain, or how it could be worse. Obviously it could always be worse.....but right now it's pretty bad. *sigh*
My father has diverticulitis. It has been causing him a LOT of problems recently. He's been to the ER 7 times since May. Either just because of the extreme pain, or a few times because of passing out (from pain/dehydration). Well, today made trip #8. I was woken from a dead sleep by a loud thumping noise from upstairs (I slept downstairs on the couch since Meredith fell asleep on the first floor). I knew immediately what it must've been since, just hours prior we got my father to admit he hadn't been feeling well since Saturday. Then I heard what must've been my mom jumping out of bed. So I went downstairs to get my brother to assist (my husband was already at work). And lo and behold, yes, he had apparently gone to get up out of bed and lost consciousness for a minute (also not good when that happens because he has extreme back issues). So I called 911 for an ambulance, because we're never sure anymore if we should move him or not. Late this afternoon they decide to admit him. His PCP and his gastro doctor decided to keep him for observation. Usually all they can really say is that it's a divert. flare-up, and they give him IV fluids, and put him on antibiotics to help clear it up. Well, usually it seems shortly after he goes off the antibiotics, he gets sick again. So no one really ever has any answers!! And this is all just on top of another huge pile of mess, because my parents have no health insurance. My dad found in January that he was both losing his job, and that he had kidney cancer. So he became unemployed, and short one kidney. And things haven't really seemed to get better at all so far this year. I feel like we could really use a break already. I can't dare express any of these feelings on a network like Facebook, because some ass always ends up being a jerk and saying all I do is complain, or how it could be worse. Obviously it could always be worse.....but right now it's pretty bad. *sigh*
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