two things...

1. i love the snow. really. it is snowing outside, and everyone is complaining, saying how cold it is, and how they can't go anywhere... i love it. i went to take the kids to the doc today (even though the appt is actually tomorrow). it wasn't so bad. it takes a little practice getting the kids ready in time, but since this isn't heavy snow, we get by with galoshes and heavy coats. there isn't a need for snow pants, or balaclavas.
the little bit of snow that we get here, makes me miss Connecticut. i loved hearing the plows come through. i liked taking walks to get the mail, and seeing how different everything looked. i didn't mind shoveling the driveway, or the sidewalk. i like doing work that gets done.

2. i don't like my doctors. i don't like the fact that i can't choose where i have to go, to see a doctor, to be more specific. i also don't like the fact that i can't get an appointment to see a doctor. as it is, i can't hear anything, and when i can hear things, they are too loud. i hate being sick. and i hate being sick, and not being able to do anything about it, even more. hopefully the kids doc will have a looky at my ears tomorrow, and see if my situation needs more medical attention.

huh?

i am tired. it has been more than a week since the cold from hell hit our house, and i am beat! i feel like those experiments where they don't let people sleep for days on end, and then expect them to do everyday tasks and rate them on efficiency. my kids don't feel good, and i know i am not the most patient loving mom right now.

its hard to comfort the uncomfortable when i half expect a man in a coat to walk in and ask me to sort little screws and nuts out in the cold.

ugh.

thoughts on being preggo.

so, by now everyone knows i am pregnant (even flange), and i thought i would share some feelings on this particular pregnancy.

this itty bitty little bean inside me is making my body plum loco! and i am having a hard time dealing with it. i feel like i need twenty hours of sleep a day, and to be constantly eating. my blood sugar is known to plummet, and i am reduced to a trembling confused mess of a mom who tends to yell quite easily.

i think the best way to say it is: I am out of control.

i don't know what my body needs (water, a vitamin, nap?), i have lost control of my house (there is stuff everywhere, and it isn't getting any better), i just have no clue.

when i was pregnant with liz, pat was deployed, and i had a job, and some friends, and was fine to come home afterwork, and embroider and eat cold chicken, and watch law and order.
when i was pregnant with jake, pat had a 8-4 job, and would help out around the house, and dutifully bring me jack in the box tacos, and pepsi from taco bell.
now that i am pregnant again, pat is gone, and i have two kids and a dog counting on me to feed them, and know nobody that i would trust to leave my kids with while i get a much needed hair cut.

i miss my husabnd right now. i miss that i could go to target by myself, and that we could trade kids and look at books at the bookstore. i miss his corny jokes, and they way that if i don't want to cook he is more than happy with mexican pizza. i miss that he knows to take the kids to play at the park while i clean up after dinner, and have ten minutes of quiet to myself. i hope the rest of this deployment goes as fast as possible, and that my better half will be home soon. then i might be able to get things under control... at least before this new one comes...

AUTO INSURANCE!!!

i am on hold with met life. the only way i could get to a representative was to press a whole slew of buttons on the phone. there is no "talk to a real person button". i think i am going to cancel my policy and go with costco. they are cheaper, and a whole lot easier to get in touch with. anyone have any ideas of who else to go with?

can you tell me how to get...

so far, this cross country trip has been good to us. there hasn't been too much mishap, and even THAT was planned for. there will be much more posting later. i haven't uploaded anything to flickr for a while, so you will just have to wait.

from Hell Paso to Dallas, y'all

from 4/24 to 4/25

this i can actually write a bit about. it doesn't need photos. you can imagine. imagine being in a jetta with two kids and a trunk full of stuff for THIRTEEN HOURS!!! welll... there was a time change so... TWELVE HOURS!!! what makes up for it is the fact that we ate all we could at Cici's pizza, we have a continental breakfast coming to us, we saw a new LOST, and we are heades to graceland! Liz and I are stoked! poor jake... he won't remember. i will just have to take more photos.

from Phoenix to Hell Paso

2/21 to 4/24

from LALA land to Poenix

4/18 to 4/21

from cali to cali

4/15 to 4/18