Long Overdue

Today:

Finally seeing the sun awake

Mounds of fresh dough

5 loaves of Plymouth bread

a treat of 1/2 lb of Kerigold sweet butter for our fresh baked bread

Holly Hobby paper dolls colored pink

Holly Hobby doll parts in a pile (emily tore all her legs and arms off)

Mia and the crib in the kitchen watching the mixer go round and round

Ponyville houses scattered all over the house

Dishwasher full of dishes

Delicious feta and olive Greek salad in the refrigerator

Fresh deli sliced swiss cheese and roast beef in the bottom drawer

Warm printer ready to be fed

Sharp scissors ready to cut multitudes of 2011 calendars

soft banana chunks laced throughout the toy box

A paper trail from the front bedroom, through the bathroom, around the trash cans, under the rug and to the back office

Mini Diary Day 1

I saw this mini diary on Ali Edwards site. I think for now this would good for my blog, since I have no time to blog. The past 13 days I've been swamped with orders. I've been printing and cutting like mad. No time to design new stuff or to sleep.

So here goes for today:

TODAY:

Sunday June 13, 2010

I love the Smell of:

new my little pony coloring book for Emily

I love the Sound of:

squeals of Mia laughing at Emily

I love the Taste of:

nutter butter bars

I love the Sight of:

finished orders ready to mail

I love the Feel of:

very soft pillow and a quilt

Schedule

This week schedule we are on from 5 am - 5 pm. The last few days I've been getting up at 5 am. The kids have been getting up too, then taking a early morning nap. I've been trying to stay awake to get some things done while the kids are out.

Like this morning:
Washing the dishes
De-furring Rich's suit
Picking out Sunday clothes

Exhausted

Today, I felt like I'd flown across the world and had terrible jet lag. But alas I was just at home with kids who are changing the schedule again. We are now staying up in the morning until 10 am and sleep until 9 pm. Then staying up all night. Yesterday, the kids both went to sleep by 10 am. I laid down around 11 am and then at 12 pm A friend stopped by for 3 hours. So no sleep for me. I finally crashed around 3:30 pm. Then the kids were up ready to play, and I was not. Finally laid down for a nap between 1 am -2:30 am. Then I got up and started printing.

This afternoon, the drum ran out on the printer, so Rich changed it. OOPS the printer really needs cleaned the drum got contaminated. It took about 4 hours to get it working again. So I got a little behind in orders. Its been slow all last week, and then tonight it hit. Order after order. Finally feeling the end of the pile.

Spring is Here!

Enjoying today weather! Tim, Sophie and I took the kids to the park. Mia fell asleep in the car seat on the way there and slept most of the time. Emily played and played. She ran around making new friends. She got on top of one of the plastic dinosaurs and told a little boy that is was a "triceratops" then she went on to explain that the spots on him where to keep him warm. Where did she learn this?? Computer?? Maybe Diego or Dora, I've dinosaurs on those 2 shows? She had a name for the other dinosaur too. She was correct for both of them. After about an hour, Emily had me on the slides. She said "C'mon, lets climb up the stairs. I'll show you how!" Around 4 pm it was really starting to warm up, so we convenced Emily to go see the ducks by telling her we were going to get some french fries. She left was out a meltdown. We saw the ducks and turtle then left and went to BK. In the car, I kept asking Emily is she wanted some Fries, she just kept mumbling "I just want a coke." I got a coke and a chocolate milk shake. When Sophie and Tim left, we all crashed out for about 3 hours.

Get some Sleep

I crashed out last night around 7 pm. Mia went right to sleep after getting drops in her eyes and a bottle. I woke up around 1:30 am wide awake. I went to my studio and had a few orders to fill. So got busy working on orders. Orders done by 2:15 am. UMMM. its now 6:02 am and I'm still awake. New posting - done. Updated flashcards -done. Printed new flashcards - done. Ate stouffers early morning meal - done. Uploaded new pictures - done. Cut out flashcards - done. Make new packaging labels- done.

See lots done. But soon I'm going to need more sleep :))

Conjunctivitis

Such a big word. I called the doctor this morning, because Mia was all stuffed up was breathing out of her mouth. They told me to come right in, so an hour later I was at the office. 2 hours later I the doctor told me she had "conjunctivitis". It looks like to me she just has a sinus infection. So anyways they gave her a prescription for eye drops. I have to give them to her 4x a day for 7 days that quite a feat 4x for such a little person.

I got back from the doctor and Rich had to leave for a call. Mia was sleeping and Emily was watching cartoons, I decided it was time for some spring cleaning. I took all the toys and dumped them on the bed. I washed out the toy bins and started organzing. Legos, wooded blocks, plastic train tracks, wooden thomas the train, little people, stuffed animals and figurines - anything not in those categories or didn't fit went into paper bags to go to grandma's attic. I threw away trash and old toys, torn books, suckers, 1/2 crayons, missing puzzle pieces. I even moved the couch and swept underneath. PHeww. I feels good to actually be able to walk through one room of the house without stepping on 5000 toys and not bumping in to anything.

Where do I belong?

I was getting Mia out of the walker and Emily started this dialong. Where do I belong?

Emily: "Dadoo belongs in his office. That is where he belongs?
Me: Where does Mama belong?
Emily: "Mama belongs in the mama room.
Me: Where does Emily belong?
Emily: "Emily belongs in her bedroom on her bed with her kitty cats"
Me: Where does Mia belong?
Emily: "in the car."

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Mia has just started this new thing. Fighting Sleep!!!. Instead of laying in her crib and drinking a bottle and going right to sleep, she fights it. She cries and cries. The only solution I have found. Is just to hold her in my lap at my desk and play music for her or to watch internet tv.

Mia drank out of cup this morning. I had a little bit of orange soda in my cup and she guzzled it all down. Her new food she loves is yogurt, she couldn't get enough of it.

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Thoughts for my birthday. Is having a couple date night and going out to eat and leaving the kids at grandma's, even Mia!!

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Today!

Is already starting out long, it started at 3 am this morning. Mia played in her bumbo awhile then it was crib time and then the walker. Its 7:10 am and Emily has having a meltdown, because I won't let her dig through some of my office drawers. When she is getting less attention, she starts acting out. She got up around 4:30 am and was playing good until now. Now Mia is fighting sleep and fussing and Emily is bawling.

I have to go run errands this morning when stores actually open, because by 3 pm I'll be asleep or a walking zombie.

Target for shampoo
Sams for formula

Mash Potatoes

Today we are on a 12 hour shift from 4 pm to 4 am. I think out of all the kids shifts this one is my favorite. This morning we were up around 3:30 am. By 9 am the dishes were all done, clothes were folded and I was ironing pants.

Emily woke up sick this morning with a running nose and stuffed up. She told me this afternoon, "I need to go to the doctor to get a band-aid, that will make me feel better." So today has been sick day. Emily has been lounging around on the air mattress with 4 pillows and blanket along with her friends (2 stuffed cats and a dog). Watching ETV on the big tv and drinking Dr. Pepper.

I made a Roast Turkey stouffers meal for lunch and fed the rest of my mash potatoes to Mia. Then Emily came over and said she wanted mash potatoes and hot dogs. So I got Mia situated in her bumbo playing and made instant mash potatoes. I gave Emily a scoop sprinkled with garlic salt, then went back and got Mia a bowl. Mia grimiced for the first bite, I think if she could talk she would say "These aren't Stouffers!". They were pretty bad they smelled like cardboard and were tasteless.

Snowing

Snow falling all day.
Emily slept from 10:45 pm-9 pm.
Wound up until she crashed for a nap at 3 am.
Mia is her smilie self.
Mia
new toy - she loves playing with foam alphabets.
Washed all the dishes this
morning.
Domino's buy get one Tuesday special. A new Tuesday
tradition.
Two custom etsy orders done and ready to ship.
Some paper
cutting done.
Watched LOST on tv.

Many Files

Tonight:

Many files waiting to be edited in photoshop

Emily's crazy antics

Mia dancing in her bumbo playing with toys

Black beans and rice for supper

Rich's make shift office in the sun room

Melting resins in the oven waiting to be poured into molds

Dr. Pepper and Chocolate Milk in sippy cups

Custom Order proofs done for a birthday party

Emily's new line " I am sick with stage fright"

Very flat air mattress with a big hole created by Patches

Load of stinky baby clothes in the wash

Load of clothes ready to be ironed

Dishes half washed

Tired eyes at 4:31 am and one very wound up child

Seeing Stars

I think I'm seeing a Dishwasher for my birthday present. I've been saving up my etsy money for one. Since Mia was born, the dishes never seem to be done. I feel like we have 3x the mess. I think some little elves have moved in a dirty up all the dishes while we are sleeping. I found one at Lowes I like with a Pot Wash and santitary cycles. 2 years ago I had the money to get one and it ended up going toward bills. This time I'm buying one online, so the cash in hand won't disappear into bills.

Back on 3rd Shift

We were doing really well on first shift, but slowly we have reverted back to 3rd shift again. The kids were up to 4 am this morning. Its 4:16 pm and they are both still sleeping. Oh well I work better at night anyways its just hard to keep them quite while Rich is sleeping.

Its Snowing!

4:05 pm. YEAH

8:07 pm. Emily wanted to go outside. We both doned on hat, gloves, coats and shoes. Emily made snow angles and we might a tiny snowman and threw some snowballs. This is the first year she is old enough to enjoy the snow. Came in to warm up and charge the camera battery.

Mirror Friends

Today:

Mia making mirror friends

More laundry washed and folded

Emily helps put away folded clothes

Rich washes dishes

I wash more dishes

Swept all the floors

Emily plays computer games

I make new one word flashcards

Dreary day, appears to want to rain

Emily melt downs over the computer

Emily "I needs"

Leftover ham to snack on

Saying "Calm Down" 101 times