Red Wine and Sippy Cups

I am considering the perks of downing a bottle of wine tonight. It has been one of those days. I love my daughter, but this two year old bit is getting OLD! It is a good thing she is cute because there were times I might have packaged her up today (not seriously, so don't report me) and fedex'd her to Nana! This was day three without her normal three hour nap. She at least took one today, but only for an hour. She has also refused to eat anything that is not in the shape of a fish or multicolored with chocolate in the middle (meaning M&M's). So on top of being over tired and just plain 2 she has low blood sugar which makes for a grump (which I understand since I get this way too, but not voluntarily). So tonight maybe the apple juice will be replaced with a good Cabernet and Mommy might sit on the couch with a good movie drinking wine out of the sippy cup. Who knows after today her binky might be good too:) Doesn't that make a great mental picture?

You Have Got to be Kidding!

About the time that the movers were moving us into our house I contracted Hand Foot and Mouth disease from my sweet little girl. This was about a month ago now. After a week of painful blisters on my hands and feet and inside my mouth I thought that I was good. Well, little does the online info on this illness tell you that a few weeks later your hands and then feet would start to peel! Yuck, as if the initial onslaught of this thing wasn't enough it had lingering effects! So my peeling just ended a few days ago. I thought I was good. No more peeling hands and feet and then it hit today....the best part of it all...PEELING NAILS!!! Yep, you heard me right, one of my nails is peeling up from the base. It is just gross. I started to notice that the area above the cuticle was getting really light and then a little while ago I noticed what I thought was my cuticle, but to only find out that it was peeling upwards and that it was my nail. Thank goodness there seems to be new nail underneath, but come on this is getting ridiculous! I am freaking out that my nails are going to fall off and that my toenails are next! I just paid almost 50.00 bucks for a pedi last week. I don't want it to peel off from the nail. I am hoping that it will be a one nail event since none of my other nails seem to be discoloring. Hoping and praying! The thought of the whole thing just has me weirded out. Luckily Mary Cate never had any of this peeling business. Good thing, I can't imagine dealing with a toddler whose nails are peeling off. I am hoping that this is the last hoorah for this thing and it will finally GO AWAY! Luckily I haven't been contagious in weeks, but I just want to forget about this experience. It is seriously one of the yuckiest and worst illnesses I have had. So here is to hoping that I keep my nails (and toenails)!

Just Haven't Had Much

Okay, so I am apparently the world's worst blogger. It is just that I haven't had anything lately. Life has been busy though with getting the house together and birthday parties. The house looks great and is about 97 percent put together. The only room we really have left is the fourth bedroom, but that is Doug's room and I am not touching it with a ten foot pole. He has went ahead and hung the deer head and the fish on the wall already. We are in dispute about the bed size to put in there though. We have a twin bed that is in the room put together right now (no sheets or anything else on it though), but Doug wants to put a queen bed in there. The room is 10x11, which to me is NOT big enough for a queen size bed and a desk. I told him that we have a full bed in our son's room and that when we have guests they can stay in his room and we will put him downstairs. He is just not happy with that option. He wants to have a "nice" room for guests. I just want to know when we started to run a hotel. It doesn't make any sense to me to have a room just for guests when we need it for other stuff. If we had a five bedroom house we would have a guest room, but we don't. I am pretty sure I will win this one in the end. Plus, our guests will want TV and cable and the spare room doesn't have it and our son's room does.
We threw a double birthday party for the kids last weekend. I few weeks early for our son, but I am SO happy that we went ahead and got it out of the way. I love to entertain. I love to cook for others and to welcome people into my home, but it is tiring. I can't imagine doing it again in a couple of weeks. Plus, it get expensive to throw a birthday party. Logic tells you that it should be cheaper to have it at home then to out source it, but it isn't! You don't have the initial sticker shock that you would at a bouncy place, but in the end I am pretty sure we spent more. Next year we will out source. The kids had a blast and it was great to see all of our friends. Now if I could just convince myself to clean out all of the excess food out of the refrigerator.
Now on to the weekend, the last one before school starts. I cannot believe my baby boy is starting kindergarten, but I am ready. I love him so much but he thrives in school and mommy needs a break. I love seeing his smiling face when I pick him up from school. I cannot wait to see him learn to read and write. We meed his teacher tomorrow and hopefully the teacher in me will stay away and I won't be too critical. It will be hard, but I can do it.