Maybe...just maybe

Yesterday I had someone tell me “You are such a good homemaker”.

To me, that is the highest of compliments. My entire life that has been my goal, to have a home that is organized, has home cooked meals, and is full of kids. The “kids” part was changed when I couldn’t stay home and raise Hunter, something I am very much for. I didn’t want to have more kids if I couldn’t stay home, I felt that it wasn’t fair to them. I had a mother that stayed home, they should too. Ended up that I got divorced from Hunters dad and made it on one income anyway, so why couldn’t it be that I stayed home?

Anyway, that was my future as I saw it. Lots of kids, home with cookies (homemade) in the cookie jar. Super mom….my dream!

As we all know our dreams change over the years. I still work to make ends meet and to have insurance. My goals are still to be super mom but with a twist. I still try to have homemade cookies in the cookie jar, do the crafts, read the books, play on the floor with Tucker. I wouldn’t change who I am today, a version of my dream.
So to hear that I am a good homemaker….makes me feel very proud. Maybe, just maybe, I am doing something good, something right.

Super bowl...half time

Tucker is listening to Josh Groban "Little Drummer boy"....his most favorite song ever. He asks for it and ...of course we play it, and play it LOUD!!!

Best commercial so far is Doritos....the little boy who punches the guy who comes to take his momma out and tells him that 1. you dont touch my momma, and 2. dont touch my doritos. Cute!

This weekend Hunter and I painted pottery and I got to go to the movies with Kim. Finished making the 23 candy bouquets. And today have cleaned house. It is now 730 and I could go to sleep if my head it a pillow. Tucker looks like he has been through a fight. Not sure how he got the scratch on his eye or the one on his forehead....ALL boy!!!

So, he is at my feet now. Game is on and music is off.....CARS, CARS...I guess I have to play cars. Hunter and Todd are in yelling for the Saints who just scored. I am cheering for the Colts just to make it interesting.

I wasnt impressed with the half time show, The Who might have been "kickin" back in the day but not so much now.

Waiting for FRIDAY....

This week has been full, and it isn’t even Friday yet.

Peanut went back to his previous owner last night. Just wasn’t working out and it WAS Hunter’s decision. He required a lot including lack of sleep for her.

Tucker has figured out how to “play” when we are doing his flash cards. I will ask him if he is ready for the word game, he says YUP, then as soon as I start the cards he turns his head the other way and laughs. SO, I am stuck on day 28 and cannot advance because he thinks it is funny to “play” when it is word game time. I am not sure how to make it clear that he needs to look at the words, that it isn’t a game. Suggestions?

I am making some of the Valentine bouquets for some of the guys at my job. I have 11 to make so have been running around trying to find candy on sale…the money we make off it will go for a day at the ceramic store for Hunter and I. (she is helping with the making of the bouquets) We have wanted to go and paint some pottery but haven’t done so….so this will give us the funds to do it.

Basketball is over as of this week. Track will be starting in March…so there is a little break between-THANK GOODNESS.

Todd has been working some extra hours so we see each other in passing most days.

Time flies working all week, coming home to do the “mommy/wifely” duties, trying to get my workouts in and then to bed…to do it all over again. Not enough hours in the day. My house needs some desperate attention!!!! UGH

Teachers gifts for Valentines day....

DONE. Gifts for classmates...DONE. Cards with a pin for wearing for Grandmothers...DONE. WAAAAHOOOOOO

Sometimes you get what you pray for.....

Tonight I was in the basement working out and Tucker was down with me. He is usually busy with his balls, throwing them around, then he goes for a ride in his car, then he plays cars....tonight however he found his shadow. How awesome it was to watch him look behind himself, to see this dark figure that moved when he did..that had a ball in his hand too, and that disappeared when he closed the door.

All we have prayed for, hoped for and worked for was for Tucker to have typical life experiences. To live, learn, grow and do those things WE get to enjoy. To see him learning every day, doing something new all the time, figuring things out....like he has a shadow....OH what joy it brings. What joy HE brings.

OMG...who would have thought 10 minutes would do this

I hurt all over. Tonight I added 10 minutes, JUST 10 minutes, to my workout and OUCH!!! My back hurts, my legs hurt...feel like a truck ran over me. So I am now at 30 minutes hard workout with a warm up and cool down. WOW.....and to think it only took me 3 months to get here. (ha ONLY three months to work up to 30 minutes every other day....man talk about taking it slow) But the main thing is I am here now and it does feel good...good pain right.

Tucker is on day 28 of his reading program. He is reciting the words as we flip through his flash cards, some of the words I never would have thought would be in there...like popsicles, egg and teacher. They have been introduced already...we will see. He loves his "word game" as we call it. We get high fives and YOUR SO SMART after we play. He had his cardiology appointment and all looked great. Dont have to go back for 4-6 months. They took more pictures of his mitral valve (ok so now that I say mitral valve I have to go back and look to see what the actual name of the valve was) as it is on the small side but he is doing great with it. (this valve they had to split during surgery as Tucker didnt have two sides to it) The pressure in his right side is still high which means the left side is still high as well, in our terms it means it is still relaxing. His oxygen was 98...was at 93 when we got back from Boston which means it IS relaxing and doing what the surgery was meant to do. ALL VERY GOOD/GREAT things.

The pig was almost gone two days ago...pee on my carpet three times and he was going back. Hunter begged her case and I have given him two weeks to get used to the regime and get his act together....I guess he heard me and now knows he is not the ruler and better shape up. We havent had a one incident since. (knock on wood)

My sister comes into town this weekend with her new hubby. I hope he can handle all of us, lord knows we can be a bit overwhelming. Seven siblings and their spouses and their kids...and now our kids are starting to have kids. It is quite the bunch. Cant wait to see My Amy!

Ever have a day where you want to run and not be found? YUP, its one of those days for me.