a little down
So this is a little how I feel. This was Chicken on Christmas Eve after we dragged him and Boo around to a couple stores.. He was exhausted and tired and cranky and did not feel like doing anything.
I have felt this way today a little down a little depressed feeling a little of the “stay at home mom blues”. At least this is what I call it, plus it’s cold and chilly outside which does not help my mood much. I sure hope I am not the only SAHM that feels this way sometimes. I hang out with a 4 and 2 year old all day the conversation is not very stimulating sometimes. Sometimes I really miss working the adult interaction the making of the money.. Yeah that was nice. Plus I am not very self motivated and work was nice because I knew I had to get up.. Now we just kind of drift through the day and do whatever. I know I need to seriously get on a schedule but then I think well they won’t be little forever and soon school will start and then we all will be getting up early forever. Funny thing is when I was working I just longed to be at home. WE always want what we don’t have right?
My personality tends toward being down anyway and any stupid thing can get me depressed. Oh well maybe it’s just that kind of day and tomorrow or even this afternoon will be better. It’s not like I don’t have laundry to fold, a house to clean, and inviations to write… Oh well…. oh and did I mention my coffee pot was broken?…… =-(
Kyboo and the Sourcream
This is Kyboo eating supper last night she was being really quite and I went to check on her she was painting her arm with the sourcream!
My Chickens…
When we decided to have a second baby as soon as we found out it was going to be a girl we started using her name. So early on Mason would point to my tummy and say ” Baby Kyra”
I was not really sure how he would react to to a sibling but when she came he called her ” his baby”.
Sometimes she was not so sure about this.
But he loved her from the beginning.
For a while it was really hard having a 2 year old and a new baby… I know Mason felt the change, babies take up more time. But at least at the time daycare was a constant for him he had the same teachers and his little classmates. But that changed when I quit my job to stay home full time. The adjustments were hard for both of us. I was suddenly with a toddler and a baby all day and he was without his little playmates. He would get frustrated sometimes that Kyboo could not play with him, he would try talking to her and then ask me why she would not talk back. But as she grew they became closer. And in the past six months they have really interacted more and it’s been so neat to see them start to play together.
She adores her older brother she wants to do whatever he does. She dragged this chair over to sit right next to him.
It’s been so cute to see her try and be the little mommy to him when he cries or is sad she will rub his back and go “ohhh” it’s so sweet. Don’t get me wrong they fight and the sibling rivalry is really starting to crank up.
But I am so glad we have our Chickens……
and I am so glad they have each other….
Some days I feel like this…
Some days this is how I feel. I know I have it good not everybody gets to stay home with their kids. I am thankful to be a SAHM but some days it’s just so hard. I used to work full time and I thought that was hard. But somehow the house managed to stay cleaner because no one was in it all day. I am not one of those highly organized people to begin with and I am not self motivated much to my husband’s chagrin.
So put me in the house all day with two kids 3 and 1 and well simply put the house gets trashed. And toys, toys I HATE them they are everywhere and when you ask the 3 year old to help he says “oh it’s too hard.” So I end up doing it myself because he takes so long to clean up. Then there are days like today… Things are going pretty good the house is trashed from the weekend I won’t even talk about that. But I was trying to clean it up as Kyboo (18 months) drags everything back out that I JUST put away.
So I decide to take a break an make some phone calls and all of a sudden Mason starts screaming bloody murder from the bathroom at the top of his lungs. Why are you always on the phone when they decide to either freak out or pee on the floor?
I tried to finish the conversation with the nice lady while my child is shrieking from the other room about pee on the floor. I get off the phone go in the bathroom and he has indeed peed a lake in front of the potty not IN it in FRONT of it. And then Kyra decides to take a stroll in the pee as I am scrambling around trying to find anything big enough to sop up this lake of pee. And I lose it. Yep impromptu baths ensue…and a little yelling…for Kyboo to get out of the pee for Mason to get in the tub it was a three ring circus.
So dear husbands when your come home and your wife is wilded eyed and the kids are in front of the tv eating junk food. Don’t ask why just give her a kiss and be thankful you were not the one sopping of the pee.
Finishing my “Leaf” Bracelet pt. 1
A friend of my husband’s Melissa Ringler is a blacksmith. She made my beautiful “leaf” bracelet that I got from the Chickens on Mother’s Day. We left the Chickens with my mom for a couple of hours and went to Melissa’s blacksmith shop Magic Metals to get my bracelet finished. It had not been sealed and the colors had not been brought out in the metal yet. When I first saw some of Melissa’s work I thought she added the colors to the metal with a varnish, I was surprised to find out that the colors already existed in the metal and all she does is heat it up with a propane torch to bring them out. The different colors are determined by how long you expose it to the heat. She asked if I wanted blues or if I wanted more purples and browns. I, of course, asked for Purple for Maddie.
The bracelet turned out beautiful it’s a pretty wheat color and yes there is some purple in there too. We made the following video to show the process of her finishing it up. It was fascinating to watch her work. I was even more surprised when she told me that I was going to make an arrow head. We took a video of that too. Tune in later for Part 2 my first blacksmith lesson.
If you would like more information on Magic Metals please click on the following link Magic Metals LTD.
A leaf
I had the most wonderful Mother’s Day. My husband and my Chickens did a really good job.
On Saturday I was hopelessly trying to pump my 3 year old for information on my Mother’s Day present… I would ask him, “What did you get mommy?” He kept saying ” A leaf”. I was thinking ok this should be interesting. He is not above picking up a stick or a leaf and saying, “Mommy here is a present for you.” So I did not know what to expect a box of leaves? He is after all three, but Daddy was involved so I need not worry. Besides any mommy would be thankful for a box of leaves from their three year old right?
We were frantically getting ready for church we are always running late and Ben said he had a surprise for me. He opened up one side of a wardrobe we have and said I have door number one. He had the cutest card from Mason and Kyra it said that I got to go shopping and I could pick out one bracelet and one necklace.
Then he opened door number two and had laid out some of the prettiest necklaces and bracelets. He said I got to pick one bracelet and one necklace and as you can see they are leaves. Thank you Chicken!
These are the two that I picked. They are handmade by a local artist who is actually a women blacksmith Magic Metals LTD.
Happy Mother’s Day
I just wanted to wish all the mothers out there Happy Mother’s Day. No matter if you adopted a child or if your children are grown or if your child is in heaven. You are all mothers…….big ((HUGS)) to you all and much love. Happy Mother’s Day!!
They grow up so fast…
I took this picture of Kyboo last week. She was headed off to some corner of our “front yard” by herself . Sniff. She is only 18 months old but she is already asserting her own brand of independence. She can put her own shoes on well one pair of shoes she can put on by herself. She can feed herself with a spoon and tries to put her bowl in the sink like her brother when she is done eating. She tries to buckle herself in the car seat, when we come home she closes the front door and wants to lock it. These are all little things, but it seems like she is doing them so much sooner then Mason did.
Funny how with the first you can’t wait until they start to walk and talk because you want to see them do new things. But with your second you realize how quickly they change how FAST they learn to walk and talk . And you want them to stay small just a little longer…….
This is Kyra at about 8 weeks.
Chickens and posting
So today was a typical Monday I had lots to do, a huge pile of laundry to fold and a sink full of dishes. But I really wanted to post something. So I told the Chickens since they were so computer savvy that they could post something for me today since I did not really have the time. So they being the responsible Chickens that they are got right to work….or so I thought.
I left them working on the computer and when I came back in from the other room I caught them ………
playing YoVille…..
I asked them what they were doing playing YoVille and not writing a post like they were supposed too. And Kyboo prompty told me that they were doing research… well see if I ever let them do a post again…. =-)