Long weekend

This is weekend one of two this month that Hubby will be MIA. I guess you could call this weekend the dry run, since he's not home, but not gone. He's covering for his BIL on the farm, which mean chores in the morning and at night. The only benefit is that he was going through an "I wish I were a farmer stage" and well, this killed that! :) He said he wished it was more like his John Deere Farming computer game...and you could just hit exit. Too bad that isn't an option in real life!! When he's not at the farm this weekend, he's got a tractor pull. Lovely. In two weekends, it is the big fishing trip. They leave Thursday am at 4 and aren't back until Sunday. Apparently it's not a big deal to stay home w/ the two kiddos is you're the "mom". :) When I try to leave to get an hour or two of work done, it's a whole different story!

In other news, Buddy is now officially "2 fingers" as he says. He is such a chatter box. Everything from "baby einstein" to "what's the deal, mom" to "after nigh-night, lake house" can be heard every second of the day at our house. He even jokes w/ me now, which is funny. We played playdough for nearly an hour this afternoon, and only had to stop bc Little Miss woke up, not because he had had enough. He was so excited about this birthday, especially the balloons. He still keeps the birthday cards he got...."happy birthday bug", "tigger & pooh happy birthday" he could tell you about all of them. His new favorite activity is to go to the lake house. He asks about it at least every day, sometimes many, many times per day. I'm not sure if he loves it because we're outside playing in the sand/lake all day, or bc every time we go there, "bramma" comes too. :)

Little Miss is growing up way too fast. I'm trying to enjoy every minute of it...and I do, except for the times she wakes up at night. I don't think I'll every look back on those fondly and wished I'd enjoy them more, so I think I'm okay. :) I don't think I've ever met a baby who is so smiley....all the time she is smiling so big it looks like it should hurt her face. Speaking of which, I've GOT to take more pictures, and video too. it's sad knowing that this is the last time we'll ever do the baby thing. Not so sad that I think we should go for an encore, but sad. I'm sure everyone feels that way...even if you have 20 kiddos. You know that they'll never love you as much or look at you with such awe as they do when they're three months old. :) She's very good, too, so that really helps. Doesn't like the stroller or the car seat, either, but I guess I couldn't have a perfect kiddo, right!?! :)

Work is going well. It is so strange to think that I've already been back at it for a month already. In some ways I feel like i never had any time off (which, I guess I didn't....there wasn't any weeks where I didn't do any work at all!). My 10-15 hour a week job has turned into more like 15 on a good week, 20 on most. That's a part time job that I'm trying to fit into one day and a 3 hour morning!! No wonder I feel like i have no time. Just keeping up w/ the book for Hubby is taking time too, I ended up spending my Friday night last night paying the bills and balancing the checkbook for them. Nice. What a rockin' Friday night! :) So, needless to say, I'm a bit behind on the house stuff. I should hire someone to help, but I guess I feel like that's admitting defeat of some kind, like I can't handle it all, when clearly I should be able to. :) I just don't like to do any of it when the kids are up (which is 90% of the day!). I know that I'll never look back and remember filthy carpet, but I'll remember playing playdough for an hour on a Saturday. But, still, I can't bring myself to put up the white flag and hire someone to help out!!

Next weekend we're going out. I can't remember the last time we went out just the two of us. You see, babysitter nights (at $6/hour) are precious so we normally use them to do something w/ friends. But next weekend is our 5 yr anniversary, so we figured we'd better go out and do something. :) I think it's going to be dinner, glow golf in the mall and the cold stone creamery. We thought about a movie, but haven't been to one in 4 years, and we'd hate to brake out streak! :)

Well, I should get back to it. My long weekend by myself it nearly (one day left) over. :)