Eleni

Long Blog Posts

Seriously?  Who has the time?  How do these women do it? 

I can't even shave both of my legs in the shower at 11pm, when they are BOTH sleeping.  Seriously...

Thanks for reading & letting me vent 

sheesh

In an attempt

First, thanks to everyone for the "hang in there's..." etc, your comments do get read and certainly do mean a lot to me.  :)

So, I've attempted to busy up our days with some "constructive" activities. As much as I love playing bulldozers, choo choos and "people" (fisher price little people) I did a little research on-line, and found this book and was itching to try something out.

So, the other day I decided we should do this activity that involved painting with water.  In my head I thought..."sweet, not a whole lot of mess to clean up, I mean it's water ....."  Ok, so the activity goes like this, you take construction paper and crayons and color the red piece of construction paper with a red crayon then paint over the crayon with water and the crayon lines are supposed to "pop" out of the page.

 weeeeeeeeeeeeell, we did that and it wasn't working, in fact the red crayon was running all over the place, so  I try blue, then green, nothing, no pop, no wow,  just a big, wet, runny mess, to make matters worse, I reach for these and um yeah, the are made out of soy, why I thought they would hold up I don't know, really you could eat them.  Then the light bulb went on and I realized that the crayolas were freaking WASHABLE!  DUH! 

The funniest part of all this debacle is that Chris didn't even care, about the project, the crayons or anything, all he was interested in was, of course, the water! 

 

Can't wait to see what the weekend drums up!  It's supposed to be in the 50's I feel a birdhouse coming, inspired by none other than this here, Although the ground may still be frozen so driving a dowel down into the dirt may be a challenge, definitely will be interesting!

Colic!?

According to Wikipedia, the definition of colic is a condition in which an otherwise healthy baby cries or screams frequently and for extended periods without any discernible reason. Yeah, I think I have one. only mine is two years old. 

We are knee deep in the throwes of being two years old here in our little household, oh and did I mention the 6 month old that adds to the mix.  ***Caution tirade coming*** We have been trapped in this house since November, and we just received a fresh new 15 inches of  powder here on our front door step, it's around13 degrees, and he keeps asking to go outside and play in the  "No".  Kinda sucks, kinda at my wits end, kinda want to get the hell outta dodge, and we just got back from vacation!  

Get out and socialize you say, well everyone is sick, not in my household, but everyone we know, and considering that we just got through a rough month of illnesses, I'm not in such a hurry to bring him around other kids or to an indoor play structure, also known as a  germ-infested gerbil crawl through thingy, sorry ain't happenin.

So I wait paitently every day for signs of spring, as I read through that book up there which I picked up from the library a few weeks back looking for a cheap thrill and a way to kill two hours with the boys.  So far it's just ok, nothing earth shattering just confirming that everything we are going through is "normal" we will see if it gives some good solid advice on how to handle these situations, we shall see.

Speaking of books, I got half- way through Friday NIght Knitting Club, it's pretty good I must say, makes me want to knit and move to NYC, but we will have to wait until next year when I go on vacation again for me to finish reading it!  HA!

Alright peeps, I am outta here!