Growing Pains

Well life has sure changed a lot in the past year and a bit.  I feel a bit like the life I had planned to be living right now was put in the blender and someone turned it onto puree!  It's not that I don't like the changes that have taken place, some of them have been so beneficial... But change is never comfortable!!  Your always readjusting...

  For example, Matt and I have become a one car family for the first time since before we had kids.  Now that's not such a bad change, less car insurance, less gas...  I think I wouldn't mind it so much except that we don't live anywhere near any sort of transit whatsoever...  Again, not so bad, I can get up early and drive Matt to work, sometimes... when he doesn't need the car...  But again, its change right... So its NOT comfortable!!

  Potty Training, another change in our household...  It is finally going well... Kind of.  Anybody have a child out there that is scared to poop in the potty?  Not scared of pooping, just in the potty...  He was pooping just fine in the potty and then one day he decided that he was scared of it.  I am totally stumped, I have tried asking what is wrong, I have tried reading him everybody poops, we bring it up in everyday conversation, he gets awesome potty treats when he poops...  Really? is there anything else I can be doing to facilitate non-scary bowel movements?  LOL... I'm sure this will be a really funny story in about 15-18 years to tell his girlfriend... But for now I am stumped!  He doesn't like a poopy diaper, but the ordeal we have to go through to poop... Yup Change Is Uncomfortable!!

  Aaron is going through a typical 7 month old stage where he doesn't want to be put down... EVER!  If I walk away it is the end of the world!  I don't remember Eli going through this, but maybe he did.  Thankfully I was at my friends house tonight and they had a basket of books in their bathroom, (and who doesn't pick up good old bathroom reading?)... and one was What to Expect in the First Year!  Well I flipped right to 7 months and low and behold, Aaron is right where he should be in that regard.  7 month old babies all want to be held all the time... and guess what... I'm doing everything that book said to do to get past this stage... LOL.  It is just a matter of time for Aaron to get used to this Change! Oh yes, Change is UNCOMFORTABLE!!  For Aaron and for Mommy!

  These are just a few of the changes that we are getting used to in our household... And I felt the need to blog about them.  Sometimes it feels nicer to be able to type it all out.  It feels less uncomfortable!  Thanks for letting me rant.

The Rantings of a Mother/Wife/Woman experiencing CHANGE!  And its UNCOMFORTABLE!

Why Always in March?

There is something about March that always seems to make me want to blog... Apparently... I just looked at my former blog posts and I seem to always start close to now.  Is it being cooped up in the house all winter and feeling like it is finally time to get out of my hibernation??  Whatever it is, here I am again... I have 2 blogs now, this one and my couponing one.  I have not been able to update my couponing one because I have just been collecting my coupons and have not had the car to be able to use them just yet.  However I am looking forward to getting a bunch of diapers really soon because my diaper coupons will have expired and I don't want them going to waste!!  Nothing is worse that wasting diapers coupons!!

Now...  Today is a relatively nice day, it isn't raining at least!  It feels like it ALWAYS rains.  I really do not love the rain...  But because it is a relatively nice day it has motivated me to get moving... I need to clean up and feel like I am getting something done.  It is very hard to get motivation, so I am going to take what little I have and run with it!!  Since having Aaron I don't feel like I have had ANY energy at all...  I am eating healthy, taking vitamins and I am going to start exercising because I just don't know what else to do about it all.  It feels like it is everything I can do just to get out of bed and get my day started... I really wonder though... Why is it that people our age (in our 20's) have so little energy??  Isn't there something wrong with the fact that we are barely into our adult years and we can't seem to get out of bed????  Some how I don't think the pioneers felt like this... Not when you consider what went into a single day!!  I mean when you have to milk a cow before you have your milk for the day that leads me to believe that they had much more energy than we do...  Processed food, recycled air, preservatives and a lack of exercise are really seeming to do a number on our society I think....

So this is my fresh start!  I am going to create a routine (that's flexible or else I will never stick to it) that will include my exercise, meals, cleaning, kids, grocery shopping, driving Matt to work, and whatever else is in my day...  I think I need to see it all written down so that I have physical goals to meet every day.  Maybe with a life that organised I will start to feel more like the healthy 20something year old that I know is buried deep in there... so here we go March!!  Lets get er done!!!!