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momentous occasions that i did not bother to blog about over the last month
By heather | August 4, 2009
Alternate Title: How I Spent My Summer: Alternate Alternate Title: Why Do You Even Have A Blog?
(In somewhat-chronological-order-but-overlapping-in-many-instances)
The Second Birthday of the Blog – I don’t particularly care for the word “blogiversary” or any such hybrid so we’ll just celebrate two with as much of a lack of fanfare as I celebrate my own birthdays. The good news is that I started blogging at a time in my life when there was a lot going on. Alex was 8 months old, I had just discovered this whole blog phenomenon, and I thought, “I can do that!” (Incidentally this is the same way that I went from a technical recruiter with a public relations degree to the computer security analyst whiz that I am today. Har.) For a while I was composing posts in my head all the time, visions of retiring to write dancing in my head. The bad news is that since the arrival of Emily Kate I have been an absolute dismal failure at capturing those events as they happen because now it’s double the fun and dirty diapers, twice the cuteness, and as promised I’m a lot less anxiety-ridden with the second kid. I still compose posts in my head, I just started slacking at actually typing them out. Anyway, two! A few weeks ago! Woot!
Family Vacation – Two years ago, we did the great Northern tour for our family vacation, visiting grandparents and having a fine old time. Subconciously I knew we wouldn’t be able to recreate the exact circumstances that were the catalyst for coming back so relaxed and happy but I didn’t expect to come back less refreshed than when I left. We also forgot the rule of fish and houseguests and probably stayed away a little too long, so by the time we got home after an excruciating 8 hour drive we were all sniping at each other.
Emily Kate’s 1st Birthday – This happened while we were on vacation. We had a small party hosted by grandparents, and I am suffused with guilt over not baking her a cake. The end. (Actually not the end, because I’ll probably write her a first birthday letter and backdate the post so it looks like it went up on her actual birthday, just like I did for Alex.)
Alex PITP (pooping in the potty) - Also an on-vacation event, it appears to have been a one off, and hasn’t happened since. In response I have since refused any and all requests for reward-type chocolate for peeing and continually tell myself that no one goes to high school refusing to PITP. I’m setting my sights on Emily Kate and have high expectations that at least one kid will PITP soon.
The Return of Alex’s Insomnia (and Sidekick Bad-Tempered-Zombie-Mommy – Since we’ve been back from vacation, Alex has taken to calling out in the middle of the night, getting up and wandering around, and generally NOT SLEEPING. There was one night where I swear he didn’t sleep for more than 3 hours. Its just like a year ago when Emily Kate was a newborn and I was on maternity leave, except I have to wake up and have adult conversations and I can’t take a nap in the middle of the day. The problem is, if I have to get out of bed in the middle of the night it takes FOREVER for me to fall back asleep. Which stands to reason I really should go to bed when he does, because then I’d at least be sleeping from 8pm to 3am but then when would I think about blogging? Or surf? Or watch TV? Or lie around bemoaning how tired I am?
Our 8th Wedding Anniversary – A mere three days after getting back from the extended family vacation mentioned above, we marked it by eating sandwiches and watching NCIS. We were still coming off the binge of family togetherness and I think we may possibly have ended the day with a small disagreement. Note that we did go out for a nice dinner while we had grandparent babysitters, so it’s not like we’re totally lame and neglectful of our most perfect union.
A Visit from Vicki and Family – Vicki has a delightful (and regularly updated) blog and has been living with her family (husband, 2 daughters, and 2 cats) in a hotel room for the last month while waiting for their house to be ready. We invited them to come stay with us so they could spread out a little, and she promised us that whatever Alex did he would have a challenger for most irreverent behavior in Ashlyn, her daughter of the same age. Ashlyn was a perfect delight, a vision of blond pigtails and cuteness, while Alex made it a point to display attitude and behavior that was hands down the WORST we’d ever seen from him and so spent most of the visit in his room, in time out, or both. Still, we had a great visit with adult conversation and shared behavioral horror stories which made me feel a little better about my offspring’s displays of disobedience, even though I’m not sure I believe that Ashlyn is indeed as bad as Alex can be.
Selling the SUV, Marking the Offical Beginning of Middle Age- The purchase of the minivan was one thing, getting rid of the SUV means there’s no going back, at least not in any fiscally responsible way. I’ve attached my Penn State license plates and have rejected suggestions to buy those stupid stick figure decals that represent each family member including the dog and spend my time concentrating on pretending that the van looks like an SUV when I stand at an angle and squint. And now that there is no Pathfinder there to mock it’s van-esqueness, it kind of does.
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August 5th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
My friend bought a minivan before she even had kids. Now she’s got two but she swore it was a cool thing to have one without kids. Upside – lots of space!
Happy anniversaries!
skiplovey’s last blog post..There’s some sort of catchy title here but I’m too giddy to figure it out.
August 12th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
Happy all of the above! Sorry we let you down with Ash. Come visit us and you may see a taste of what we deal with on a regular basis. Maybe I should video it and just make that a new video blog… When Toddlers Get Crazy.