Turbo Tuesday

On Sunday night, Buckley decided that he needed to go outside every two hours. This means that one (or both) of us had to get up to let him out, wait for him to do his thing, and then let him back in. You may be wondering why we would allow him to do this to us in the middle of the night. The answer is simple. Do you want to be cleaning up puke/poop (excuse the vulgarity) instead of sleeping? We think it is his new food. I mean seriously why else would you need to go to the bathroom every two hours? He didn't eat one of Josie's toys (a common culprit) and he's not acting sick in between bathroom visits. He did this all again last night. Joy.

I think he's trying to see how much we really love him.

This weekend, whily trying to finish the Jo's Halloween costume, the needle on the sewing machine got jammed and broke. In half. I inherited this sewing machine from my mother which means I don't truly know how to use it past the basics, and would have no clue how to fix it if it was really broken. Thank God it was only the needle which is easily replaceable and not something more. Crisis was averted after finding that JoAnn's Fabrics has like 20 different needle options. Once again, they never fail me. Never.

Except...that I can't ever leave there with just the thing I came for. A clearance rack was shouting my name, and this is what I came home with.


Well, not the baby. You can't get something that great at JoAnn's. But the flower on her headband? They have a lot of those. I also got a yellow one and some fancy schmancy elastic in case this flower-on-a-bow option doesn't work. See what I did there? I let you in on my secret. That is just a headband with a bow covered up. So tricky...

I heard rumors that it might snow this weekend. I wonder what Josie will think of the it? She liked wind, so she has that going for her. Good thing we live in the windiest city in the world (you got nothing, Chicago).

Tomorrow I am going to go to Body Pump at 5:45 AM. YES. In the morning. I am specifically writing this in this post so that I am held accountable because you can believe it when I say that I will not want to get up at 5:25 tomorrow morning. But it must be done. (Say it isn't so!! Why must I work out to get in shape?? Oh, life, you can be cruel)

When filling gas yesterday, we figured out that Tracey the Trailblazer is only get 13.5 MPH. What the what?? I am not that crazy of a driver. Tracey, you disappoint me. We were supposed to be a team. Now Mike thinks you are lazy and inefficient.

To top of Buck's meltdown moments that have already taken place, he also pushed open the (almost, oops my bad...) latched gate yesterday in a panic because he had the runs (you know what I mean right?) and didn't know where to go. Obviously, the logical choice is to break in to the basement and go on the carpet, in the back room, where there is 2 feet of room to work with. That means harder to clean spacewise and harder to clean carpetwise. Thanks, Buckley, for starting off this week with a putrid smell taking over the house. I get that it is not your fault, but the upstairs hard surface floor will do just fine in the future. Much easier to clean up. Better yet, just avoid the messyness all together. Ok thanks.

Four month photo

4 MONTHS OLD.

Like this, Mommy?

No, not quite, honey. A little to your left.

I love the puppy! How did you know??

It always makes you smile.

I'm going to be running before you know it!

That's what I'm afraid of. 
Love you baby girl!

Blue bird singing in the dead of night...

Take these broken wings and learn to fly. All your life, you were only waiting for this moment to arrive.

What moment? The moment to shine in her fancy new costume.

Happy Halloween!

The quality isn't awesome, but you get the idea. She stayed in the costume for about 5 minutes. Good enough for me and the camera. :)

Real blue birds fly, so fly she did. I think it made it more realistic for her. I could practically hear her saying "why the heck do I look like a bird instead of a baby. You people are strange".

Oh dearie dear, you have no idea how much you will love Halloween in the years to come. I can feel it. I think I have some learning to do on that good ole' sewing machine before I'm ready for more!

Weekend review

We got a new patio door:

I made some delish mac and cheese from scratch that took about...15 minutes. Seriously good. And not even bad for you.

We made a Thanksgiving-like dinner. It included turkey, stuffing, our famiy's favorite bread roll things, and mashed up cauliflower (review: good, but does not replace potatoes). Dessert was blondies but they did not turn out. boo.

Turkey chef himself:

Some parts of today were tough for this little cutie pie, but look at her, can you even be mad for more than 1 second? Pigtails, tutu, huge grin. Perfect.

Grammy's loving her some Josie time... great weekend!

And just for fun, this is my favorite picture. Why, you ask? Because I love seeing my house full of family! And this view made me just smile. Plus we always forget to use these hooks, so it's nice to see them used. I'm a weirdo, admittedly.

On to another week!

the good old days

I've come to the realization that when I look back on my life and think of the good old days, I will be thinking about right now. How corny is that? Oh but it is true. I was told at work by my boss that I had a refreshing new attitude since I have been back at work. My first instinct was to reassure her that it wasn't going to go away because that is what you tell your boss...that you are always going to be wonderful and perfect. But then I realized that my actions will show my coworkers that my "new attitude'' is here to stay. Honestly, I feel almost like a different person.

My life is so good. I'm truly so happy. I'm making changes to be healthier and it makes me grin. Weird, right? But I find myself truly excited at random points of the day about the smallest thing, like that there is room in my eating schedule for a treat, or that it's 3:00 already and the afternoon staff is there, or that I get to drink my cup of coffee with my favorite creamer (which I do every single day, why does it make me so happy??). I love that the little things add such joy.

Today was day 4 of the start of my Weight Watchers journey. Lets just call it a journey since its going to take a super long time for me to reach my goal, and I'm ready to take it on. I feel better already (I knew I would) and I feel like its going to be more of a fun thing sometimes than a burden. I say sometimes because I have some awful habits (awful!) and they will. not. be. easy. to break.

Josie is the funnest right now. She's moving more and more. She's smiling and laughing all the time. She's playing with anything in sight and always grabbing at new things. Its fascinating to watch her learn and see how quickly she adapts to changes and new discoveries.

Ah! I love it. Life. God, You are so so so good.

Just my monthly "I'm so blessed" post. Thanks for reading (if you still are :)...) (Seems monthly doesn't it? A much needed improvement from my grumpy old self of 2010)