Is it to much to ask??

To keep your sick kids to yourself? I need to just say that I am not at all the mom that runs her kids to the doctor every time they have a sniffle. Frankly it drives my husband crazy, as he thinks they should go every time they are sick. I believe if it looks like a cold and it acts like a cold.....IT IS A COLD!! Well this morning I woke up for the third day in a row with a sore throat. I decided to take a looksy and see if there was anything going on in my mouth. I saw a few sores on the back of my throat and thought.....um.. please don't let this be strep. After asking my pharmacist what he thought, I decided to go to urgent care and get checked out. I was only afraid that if it was strep and highly contagious I would give it to the kids and I did not want that.

I HATE going to the doctor, any doctor, for this reason...........SICK KIDS and parents who let their sick kids run amok. Is it too much to ask that you keep your sick kids to yourself? I am forced to politely smile as this 2 year old with a runny nose, cough and a pacifier that should have been thrown away when he could take it out and talk, tries to touch my 10 month old baby. Now I know that kids do not know any better, but parents do. I should have known that the parents of this kid would do nothing, as his mom was still in her robe....yes her bathrobe at noon in the urgent care...and she wasn't even the sick one. Anyway, as I suspected from the beginning, just a sore throat. So all of this annoyance for nothing except a reminder of my hatred of doctors offices.

I called my mom after leaving the urgent care asking her to stop me the next time I think I need to go against my better judgement.

I did it...

Today I made my big purchase. A Canon Rebel Xsi with 4 lenses and a ton of other stuff to go with it. I have decided that I am going to make it my goal to learn all about my new camera and become really good at taking pictures. So many people take great pictures it has totally inspired me to learn. I love taking pictures, but am only happy with half of what I ever get with my P&S. I will keep you all posted with my learning and hopefully it will be reflected in pictures to come. My mom has a really nice camera also, so we will be learning together.

Oh I forgot to mention....

Valentine's Day was low key, I worked and Tom hung out with the kids. Friday night though, we had our babysitter come over, we went to dinner and against my wishes we went to the casino. Well, for once I was wrong and pleasantly left the casino with a little more in my purse. I am really close to my new camera, it may be this week that I make the big purchase.

On another note, after our long day at the zoo Tom came home and rather than laying down an taking the nap he really wanted, he went out in the front yard and did some work. It looks wonderful and I think it may have even inspired him to finish the back. We'll see.....

Overdue Family Day

Well it is not very often that Tom and I have a day off together. We have our schedule set so particular that anytime he is off I am working, it sucks, but if I am going to work that is the way it has to be. I was pleasantly surprised when he told me he had today off. If I had known in advance I probably would have planned to work, so it is a good thing he told me at the last minute. Anyway, we decided to have family day at the zoo. Oh and apparently so did every other family in the state. I do not even know why I didn't think the zoo would be busy being a holiday and all. We kind of slept in which was nice, cooked a big breakfast and got all ready for the zoo. Thomas was super excited, the poor kid spends most of his days tagging along with mommy doing things not so fun for him. It was a very nice day and although it was busy, it was fun.

Here are a few pictures from our day.

I Don't Wanna Take a Nap.....

Hope this makes everyone smile. Oh and because I just got yelled at by my mother, yes the car seat strap is a little loose, but we tighten it and then he wiggles around it becomes loose again. He is fine and safe!! Just prior to this video he was freaking out because he wanted his coat off, the strap came down while he was doing this.

Two week wrap-up

Okay I have been a very bad blogger in the last couple weeks. I have no real excuse except that each time I have sat down to post, I have wound up doing something else. First I must comment on the sad ending to the Superbowl last Sunday. This house was really pulling for the Cardinals, but no luck! Anyway, my latest project has been selling the kids' clothes on eBay. I have had some success in the past, so I thought I would try again. I am very happy to report that everything I put on has sold. I tackled Thomas' room first. Last week Tom was gone again for three days and my mom was kind enough to keep the kids overnight and I went to town on Thomas' room. I cleaned out everything, lots of clothes got donated, but I put together 4 Lots of clothes/shoes. Kids grow so fast when they are young, so many of the items in his closet have barely been worn.

All of the auctions ended last night and this morning and they all sold. YIPPEE!! I also broke down and sold my very nice and VERY unused film camera. I bought it when I graduated high school (before digital was around), spent a good portion of my graduation money on this camera, I just never have used it. It is film of course and that is such a thing of the past. The gentleman that bought it got a great deal as far as I am concerned. $65 for the camera, 2 lenses, a case and filters. Oh well I guess this is the way life goes. I am saving up again with Christmas money and the money from my eBay sales to purchase another nice DIGITAL camera. Taylor's clothes will be tackled next. Piles and piles of clothes that this little girl has also barely worn. I even have to admit that there are clothes still with the original tags. SAD:(

In other news, I finally booked our flights to Hawaii earlier this week and for any of you that know me very well you will know this was a very hard purchase. I am the saver in the family and big purchases like this give me anxiety. We are excited for the trip, but never the less I should make Tom do this kind of spending, it would save me a stomach ache. We leave on the 1st of April and will be gone for a week, bless my parents for agreeing to watch the kids while we are gone. Every night I say a little prayer that my little Taylor will become more and more independent as not to drive my mom nuts while we are gone.

I called the babysitter for tonight so Tom and I can have a little "date-night". Who knows what we will do though, usually we get in the car and just look at each other with blank stares. When you have kids it is such a foreign concept to have a quiet night out, well at least it is for us.

No new pics to post today.....I'll try and take some this weekend. Have a wonderful weekend all!