My amazing little boy & Truthful Tuesdays

It is so amazing watching my son grow and develop. The littlest things are such a big deal to him, it just brings me such joy. When he discovers something new I feel as if I have discovered it too!

The sun was beaming in his room so I put him on the floor. He was amazed by the shadows created.

Everytime he moved his hand, he saw the shadows moving. He didn't understand the connection but was so intrigued. Watching him figure this out was so surreal.

He was so amazed by what he saw he had to make sure mommy saw it too. Oh he LOVES his mommy

What a handsome little boy he is

Finally, my favorite pic. He used to be happy to lay on his play matt, now he has discovered that he can grab the bars and pull the whole thing down. Isn't that more fun????? Look how proud of himself he is.

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Truthful Tuesdays
by Confessions from a Working Mom

What talent do you wish you have but don't?

Oh how would I love to be a ballroom dancer. How amazing their muscles are, so fluid and light on the dance floor.

My DH can not dance to save his life and I have to wind up leading. We went to a professional dance company for our wedding, but my poor hubby still did not understand how to lead. So, I wind up leading, which ruins the flow. When the teacher took charge and led me around the dance floor it was so amazing, its just as if time stops and you flow into the music.

I bet I would rock the dance floor!!!!

At least I can shake it up when I'm at home.

Truthful Tuesday & Don't Want Those Shoes & AAARRRRGGGG!

Truthful Tuesdays by Confessions From a Working Mom



Have you ever lost something...
And came out a winner?



Absolutely!  Before I met my husband, I was dating a boy who took my self-respect.  I of course I did not know myself at nineteen years old.  He enjoyed playing mind games with me and I soon became a mindless fool.  I couldn't eat, put on makeup, wear the "right" clothes without consulting him.  If we ran into his exgirlfriends, he would tell me how crazy and obsessed they were.  This went on, until one day I stopped being a mindless servant and took back my dignity and self-respect. 

I later found out that he did the same to all girls he dated, treated them like dirt and manipulated them.  WHY??? Well, he finally came out of the closet, No Wonder! 

I soon met my husband, and learned what a healthy relationship is.   I may have lost my self respect during that time, but I got it back.  I got back my confidence, self respect, self esteem and knowledge of who I am and the type of person I want to be. 


Don't Want to Wear Those Shoes!
Yesterday I went back to work and my son went back to day care. Some working mothers might be sad that they had to go back to work and want to stay home. NOT ME!!!!!! I am very happy that I am back at work. Does this sound cruel or selfish? I don't mean to sound that way.

I LOVE MY SON, HE IS A MIRACLE AND I LOVE HIM SO MUCH. But, I can not stay home all day and play and entertain him. I am glad that I get to go to work, talk to adults, gossip, eat when I want, go to the bathroom when I want, sit in silence if need be to collect my thoughts.
Yes its hard being a fulltime mother and working fulltime, very hard We all think about winning the lottery and living a life of luxury, but I would still work. Besides the fact that I worked very hard to get where I am and truly enjoy what I do.

I must give props to all of you stay at home moms, you must go ALL DAY!!!!!!! Those are some big shoes to fill, and I don't want to be the one to even try them on.

AAARRRRGGGG!

My son goes to a small family operated day care, WHICH I LOVE, and my coworker was already using-so I know it was awesome.

When I pick up my son, there are a caravan of cars filled with mothers waiting for their children to come off the bus. Figures, most of the time I am leaving, after having gotten my son, and trying to make a left onto the main road the bus comes and drops off the kids. Or as I am driving towards the end of the road the kids come off the bus and I have to wait for the herd to get on the car.

Well, some of these women got nerve!!!!!!

1-they pull up beside each other this is a small thin street and chat. HELLO do you not see me here?????

2-the kids take forver getting in the car.  I would like to pass and you are letting your kid have a full length conversation.  Why not tell your kid to move to let the car pass.  Oh, why would they do that, oh heavens forbid.  I picked up my kid TOO and want to get him home TOO. You live just up the friggin block, I have to commute!

3-THIS HAPPENED YESTERDAY- one of the mothers pulled her car out, as I was driving toward the intersection and was diaganol in the lane. Therefore I could not pass. WTF? she saw the bus coming and waited for her kids. WTF? ALl the kids slowly got into the cars, but her kid decided to have a conversation, and she started talking too! WTF? The worst part..... she used to work in our department in our school. OOOOH she saw the look I gave her. Sometimes she comes to our monthly working lunches, she better not even try being nice to me.

Maybe I sound like such a brat, but common friggin courtesy, SERIOUSLY!!!!!!

Truthful Tuesdays

This weeks Truthful Tuesdays: Is there a Santa Claus? by Confessions from a Working Mother

I believe in the magic of Santa Claus. Everytime you wrap a gift, give a gift, get excited when you watch someone open a gift you bought....YOU ARE KEEPING THE MAGIC OF SANTA CLAUSE ALIVE!

I can't wait till Athony is older and understand Christmas and Santa Claus.  How exciting it will be watching him open Santa's gifts.

Truthful Tuesdays & Rough Weekend

This weeks's Truthfull Tuesday, from Confessions of a Working Mom, is about Ghost Stories.

Do you believe in Ghosts?



I absolutely believe in ghosts and spirits. I think of as ghosts scary and harmful, but spirits as benevolant.  I have always believed that spirits surrounded us and protected us, loved ones here to keep a watch over us. 

Soon after I got pregnant, after many years of trying, I was laying in bed at night.  The light from the TV cast a shadow on the vacuum, up on the ceiling was a shadow of an angel. NO JOKE!  It looked exactly like an angel kneeling down with a halo above her head.  I tried to get a picture but flash threw off the shadow.  For months I would not let my husband move the vacuum. 

My son was born early and had a rough.  I was home alone with him many times, and I would hold him in my arms he would look at me as I talked to him and then suddenly he would look over my shoulder and give the biggest cheese grin ever! I got this feeling that someone was standing over me, scared that someone was in the house I slowly turned around to see nothing.  This happened so many times when I was alone with Anthony.   They became few and far between as he approached 2 1/2 months. 

I truly believe my Grandma Angie was there.  I know everyone says that when a newborn baby smiles it just gas.  I think it is more than that, I had a feeling that she was there. Or was it another benevolant relative wanting to protect and love my miracle boy.

Rough Weekend

What a weekend!  My little man has been so sick, he had a cold and it just gets worse and worse.  He was wheezing and had a rattling in his chest.  So Sunday morning, I called for a sick appt at our doctors office.  We got an appointment for 11:45, just as we were leaving my in-laws arrived.  My MIL came with me, thankfully I did not go alone.  So we get to the doctors office, and while we are in the room being treated an ice storm starts!!!!!! Everything is coated in ice, highways and roads are closed, and accidents everywhere.   So my MIL, Anthony and I are stuck in at the doctors office, I am totally freaking out because I don't have new snow tires on my Saturn Vue yet (the tires are bald) and we only had a bottle for him.  I hadn't eaten figuring I would eat after the appointment. 

We waited in the hallway for 1 hour playing with Anthony, then once it started raining and melting we drove to CVS to get baby food and then the diner so I could eat on the way home.  Since all the highways were closed since they were still iced we took the side roads home.  I don't like driving in this weather, but now with Anthony in the car, it was so scared for him.  Thankfully he slept the whole time since he was so tired and sick.

It took forever to get home, the roads were icy in some spots.  We left the house at 10:50 to make the appointment and didn't get home till 3:15!  Once my MIL and I got home we chugged down wine like it was water.  My in-laws had to spend the night, since they couldn't drive home (FIL can't drive in the dark - but that's another story). 

Now on to Anthony:  he is still sick and using the nebulizer, which he probably should have been given at the last sick visit.  He is still wheezing when he breathes and is stuffed up and coughing up a storm.  I hate to see him like this.  He is such a happy little guy, he smiles and laughs all the time, and to see him like this is so unsettling. 

My FIL has asthma and allergies, my two nephews have allergies and one has asthma.  I am so scared that Anthony will have asthma too, or even be allergic to our dog.  I know its not the worst that could happen and I should be thankful thats all it is.  I still feel guilty for stopping nursing. I know I couldn't continue due to repeated breast infections and he never latched on and was still pumping when he was two months.  I had to stop for my own health in order to care for him.  I still wonder if I had continued would he not have these health issues???????