My lil blessings

Today I have woken up in the most grateful mood.  I am blessed to be able to stay at home and experience all the little things people usually take for granted.  My time with Sereniti, she loves doin girly big girl things with mommy.  Make up, nails did, pictures, Hannah Montana LOL.  Today she tells Erik and I at dinner about how they were learning about dinosaurs in school and how she was going to fly on one to the North Pole, Erik tells her the dinosaur will eat Santa and she just gives him a look it was funny.  My time with Phoenix, he loves bein a boy dirt and bugs EEWW.  I love when he tells me about his friends from school and just the way he looks at me I can see his appreciation and love for me.  My husband who works his fingers to the bone working 12hr shifts and still tryin to make time for his kids and me.  I do everything I can to make homelife easier for him, leaving only the lawn and catbox for him to worry about.  I also write littlwe notes to put inside his lunchbox so he knows I love him <3
I have been really hard on myself throughout Phoenix's last yr and this pregnancy and it is something I am working on.  I hate not feeling good enough, feeling like a bad mom like I can't handle things and also letting people take advantage of me.  I am proud of myself for noticing the little things I do get done at this point in my pregnancy and not overdoing it so everyone has to pay with my crabbiness later.  I have excepted that if I get a few little things done that is enough because as long as my house is clean and doesn't smell nobody notices the little things anyway :)  For bein this far and takin care of my 2 fulltime kids plus my "niece" plus every other wknd my stepson I rock ;)

Our lil world

 Me at almost 31wks.  I have my lovely nausea and throwing up back, yay :0P  Crazy to believe I have about 8wks left! 

 The kids colorin before Phoenix had to go to school, he loves his big sis so much =0)  These are the reasons I love staying home.

Baby at 31.5wks =0)  Healthy and a lil over 3lbs.  The doc says this ones petite compared to Mr 8.6 Tee Hee

My biggest pet peave right now is all the drama going on, ugh I moved to my own little world to get away from it, then I get a response of "oh you seem like you have the perfect life" no my life isn't perfect but I don't air my dirty laundry thank you very much.  Life is what you make it, I try to make mine a happy one   =0)

Wow time flies!

Today I am 30wks!  So crazy how time has flown by.  This morning as our routine goes Phoenix and I chilled and watched cartoons, while watching cartoons he decided he wanted to cuddle.... with the baby!  Every time he would lay on me he would pull up my shirt so he was directly on my belly.  It was so cute I couldn't pass up the pic.  The thing that really stands out in this pregnancy is the hormones, they are driving me crazy!  Tee Hee

Aww the beginning of February...

I have made it my goal this wk to get things accomplished better around the house.  I have set laundry days (now set @ light day and dark day), and house cleaning days (3 days, 1 level a day).  Yesterday I totally kicked bum, got all my darks washed, dried AND folded!  Lately the folding hasn't happened the same day.  Today I was too busy to get my cleaning done for the day, in fact dinner dishes are waiting till tomorrow to be done I am tired!  Woke up @ 4am to make sure Erik got up with his alarm, again @ 5am to set up my nieces bed for when her dad dropped her off, again ?@ 620 when he arrived here, and again @7 to get the house up and ready for school.  Needless to say after dropping Sereniti and Taydin off I needed some rest, do you think Phoenix let me? HA!  So I picked the girls up from school. got Phoenix off to school and went to my ultrasound app (no still didn't find out, it was to fig out the size), then Phoenix's teacher called about 15min before his school got out saying he had a rash... wasn't there when he went to school.  So after he got home I straightened up the house a bit and took to kids to the Layton office because the Roy one didn't have an opening, ugh.  I had the hardest time finding the place so we ended up being about 10min late to his app but luckily we still got in pretty fast.  The rash, the docs said seemed to be just an allergic reaction to something, what I haven't a clue so hopefully it'll just leave his system and we can be done with it.  I told Erik if he isn't in the hospital he wants to see docs since I took him in about a wk ago for ear infections.  Sereniti has been an angel most of the day and didn't cause any grief in the docs office yay!  Came home, made dinner, baths, then bed.  Wow now it's me time (having to sacrifice time w the hubs)  How do you guys make time for yourselves?  I seem to lack that since becoming a SAHM and sometimes it drives me crazy.  Wouldn't change the time w my kids for the world but a woman has to have her alone time right?

Time Flies!

I can't believe I am 20wks already!  Man these 5mths have flown by.  Baby is increasing their movement, everyday I feel more and I'm loving it!  Sereniti is going to be such a great big sis for this she has done awesome with Phoenix.  She is my loving, caring, family girl.  Family time means the world to her.  Phoenix likes to discuss whether my belly ring is my baby or not and kiss it, so cute!  He is always so active yet his best friend is Sereniti.  He gets excited about anything new and has random thoughts he likes to share.  Khalib is gonna be almost 10yrs old when our baby is born, pure craziness!  I know he will be a big help and enjoy more of the baby since the older you get the more helpful you wanna be.  He is Mr. Talkative and always has an opinion about something.  If you haven't guessed or heard yet we aren't finding out the sex of the baby, drives Erik nuts but I'm excited about the surprise =0)
As for my CHAOS, I have some of it under control but I have been fighting a cold that will either be the death of my patience or my sleep I haven't figured out which yet.  And also the kids have been out of school so you know how that brings things out of whack.  Well back on track tomorrow!
Life couldn't be better for us at this point, we finally got our break =0)  All I need is more time out with my gfs so come on ladies lets make some plans!

Gettin in the swing of things.

I have started following Amanda's "CHAOS" blog and have picked up on some of her habits, they just aren't all for me.  With being 19wks pregnant I constantly either feel tired or that things aren't clean enough so I over do myself.  So my plan is to get on a better routine, I feel better when I follow a routine but I get bored doing the same things day after day.  I need to get my bum outta bed shortly after Erik leaves so like 5:30ish and have my chill time because once Phoenix is up all the madness begins he expects all the attention and Sereniti has to start getting ready for school 7:15ish, so if I have mommy time before I can focus on their needs a little more.  After Sereniti is off to school then start pickin up the morning mess, and play.  Homework when she's home and Phoenix is at school then relax with my big girl.  My biggest prob seems to be the night routine when I'm worn out and Erik wants to chill so I wanna chill with him yet I feel like I can't until the kids are in bed so gotta push some energy that way so I can stick to the actual routine nightly...  Ok I can do this! Feel free to leave me tips ;0)

My first official Parent Teacher Conference: Sereniti

 I thought these were so cute and found her blonde hair quite funny!

When I came home from Phoenix's conference and told Erik about his work outside his classroom Sereniti kept bragging about her turkey, found it and she did a fabulous job!

Today was Sereniti's first parent teacher conference and her teacher was very impressed with her.  She can write her numbers quite well and was impressed by how correctly she writes her name.  I think the preschool she was in last year did wonders for her.  The only thing I was worried about was her attention span as she seems to get bored easily but her teacher said she did fine.  She just has to keep her and Taydin separated so they don't work on their social life ;)  She said to just keep doing what we were doing homework wise because it seems to be working.