Oh Monday's, even when you stay home with your kids, there is just something crazy about a Monday. You start thinking of everything you have to do during the week. Plus to be starting out with a sick kid, this is not going to be my week, let me tell you. On top of everything, I start my part time job tonight. I am officially back in the hair business, although very part time. Fortunately, I am licensed in a profession that allows me to still be home during the day and work a few evenings a week. Along with a husband who likes me to be home during the day with the baby and helps to make it all work out.
Monday's are the day you figure out which days you're going to run your errand's, clean the house, what will be for dinner for each day of the week, play dates and all the other things you need to do every week. Plus, you also have to find time for yourself, your spouse or significant other, friends, family and of course the kids. Even when you stay home with your child, you still have to make time for them among all the other tasks that come with being home. It can be a little overwhelming and that is where my "To Do List" comes in. It helps prioritize my tasks and ensures I wont forget something.
While I will never LOVE Monday's at least it's the one day of the week where I can justify sleeping until Ella wakes me up. Hey it is Monday, and it's better than getting up with Nick at 5:30a.m. like I normally would. So glad Ella usually sleeps past 7:30am.
Monday, January 30, 2012
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Sick Kids
Ella caught Nick's cold. We were pretty sure it was going to happen, but it's still a bummer that she is showing the starting symptoms. When your child is sick, it just stinks. They don't feel very good, you feel bad for them. It really is an all around crappy situation. Although at least we aren't alone as parents. Every one's kids get sick and all parents feel bad when it happens.
Ella started coughing today, and it wasn't the fake cough she does that apparently, is soooo funny. This is an involuntary hacking that just makes me sad to hear and it makes my throat sore just listening to her. The only thing I am hoping for is that it doesn't last long. I really can not complain, up until now, she has had one cold in her first 15 months. I am so lucky we have not had to deal with any thing else.
I know it builds their immune systems, helps to protect them as they get older, that it's good to expose them to germs and all that. Ella is a frequent member of the lick the shopping cart handle club. I'm usually OK with that, meaning I don't freak out about it. Hey, my child doesn't go to day care and isn't exposed to other kids that often. She is around people a lot, but most adults don't try to share her cup, although she offers, frequently. So I don't really mind exposing her to germs in our every day lives. Now, if some kid with a cold steals her toy, that was in her mouth and puts it in their mouth, she will not be getting it back to chew on.
At least I get to take care of her when she isn't feeling well, who knows, maybe I will actually get some cuddle time for once from my amazingly independent baby.
Ella started coughing today, and it wasn't the fake cough she does that apparently, is soooo funny. This is an involuntary hacking that just makes me sad to hear and it makes my throat sore just listening to her. The only thing I am hoping for is that it doesn't last long. I really can not complain, up until now, she has had one cold in her first 15 months. I am so lucky we have not had to deal with any thing else.
I know it builds their immune systems, helps to protect them as they get older, that it's good to expose them to germs and all that. Ella is a frequent member of the lick the shopping cart handle club. I'm usually OK with that, meaning I don't freak out about it. Hey, my child doesn't go to day care and isn't exposed to other kids that often. She is around people a lot, but most adults don't try to share her cup, although she offers, frequently. So I don't really mind exposing her to germs in our every day lives. Now, if some kid with a cold steals her toy, that was in her mouth and puts it in their mouth, she will not be getting it back to chew on.
At least I get to take care of her when she isn't feeling well, who knows, maybe I will actually get some cuddle time for once from my amazingly independent baby.
Friday, January 27, 2012
Technology: Helpful or Hindering?
Our garage door is broken, well actually the opener is broken. Out of no where, it wont stay closed and when it opens it goes really far up the tracks and almost hits the opener light if it wasn't for that bolt they stick in the main rail to prevent that very action. It just started last night. We are pretty sure it's an adjustment problem, but as Nick and I are not in any kind of a garage door profession we don't know how to fix it. So a repair man will be coming out today.
While I like that I don't have to manually open my garage door every time I go some where or arrive home, I have to wonder, exactly how helpful are these technologies, when most people don't know how to fix them. You could look at it as you are paying for the convenience of these technologies. The fridge for example, when it acts up you have no idea why or what to do about it. Same with most major appliances that do make our lives easier. It just gets so spendy when they all decide to act up at once. Cars are another modern day convenient technology that most people cannot fix on their own, especially as cars become more advanced. Phones, computers, TV's, music and sound systems, now more than likely, we just go buy a new one for what you might pay to fix the old one. We did that when we thought our old fridge was dying, we just bought a new one.
The problem is, we then become hindered by these everyday technologies because when they act up, you have to find, hire and pay for someone to fix it. You cant use it until they come out to fix it, which sometimes can be days. Also what you may end up paying for that service, not that the workers don't deserve to be compensated, they are performing a service. However some repair men can and have been known to take advantage of a situation because the customer isn't knowledgeable on the subject or object they are getting repaired.
Now I am not voting for going back to a real "ice box", horses and buggies and candlelight but it does make you think about how much we pay for our modern day conviences, and not just with money.
While I like that I don't have to manually open my garage door every time I go some where or arrive home, I have to wonder, exactly how helpful are these technologies, when most people don't know how to fix them. You could look at it as you are paying for the convenience of these technologies. The fridge for example, when it acts up you have no idea why or what to do about it. Same with most major appliances that do make our lives easier. It just gets so spendy when they all decide to act up at once. Cars are another modern day convenient technology that most people cannot fix on their own, especially as cars become more advanced. Phones, computers, TV's, music and sound systems, now more than likely, we just go buy a new one for what you might pay to fix the old one. We did that when we thought our old fridge was dying, we just bought a new one.
The problem is, we then become hindered by these everyday technologies because when they act up, you have to find, hire and pay for someone to fix it. You cant use it until they come out to fix it, which sometimes can be days. Also what you may end up paying for that service, not that the workers don't deserve to be compensated, they are performing a service. However some repair men can and have been known to take advantage of a situation because the customer isn't knowledgeable on the subject or object they are getting repaired.
Now I am not voting for going back to a real "ice box", horses and buggies and candlelight but it does make you think about how much we pay for our modern day conviences, and not just with money.
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