Oh Happy Day!

Thinking About: Decorating the Little Monster's Room
Current Mood: Content

Yup, that's right, I am very content today. No more depressed Mrs. R. Nope, she's been banished. Just happy go lucky Mrs. R singing along to "Love Song" in her office, hoping no one else can hear her, and tapping her toes to the music.

Just grooving............

Hmmm I just get into a weird funk sometimes, especially if I'm overwhelmed. It makes me all sad and tired, and it's hard to shake. But you know what, I had a great weekend, and got lots of rest, and just cleared my head.

Mr. Wonderful made another surprise appearance this weekend and let me sleep in on Saturday and Sunday; and also took the Little Monster out until late on Saturday night so I had even more time to lounge around and relax (although I was supposed to be cleaning....).

The Little Monster did a surprisingly wonderful thing yesterday by demanding she spend the night with her "weta "(wee-ta), or abuelita and wouldn't take no for an answer. She got dressed, put her shoes on, and told me to get her "packpack," aka backpack, "yuse," aka juice, and "cwar seat" into "weta's cwar." So we did it, we got her all ready, put her in the car, and fully expected her to freak out and want to stay with us as my mother in law pulled out of the driveway. Instead, she did the opposite. She contentedly watched her dvd, drank her juice, waved at us through the window, said "bye, miss you, love you" and that was that. Of course I immediately burst into tears, and cried for the next 20 (maybe I'm willing to truthfully admit 30-40) minutes, that my "baby" was gone, and it was her first sleep over, and the first time she had been away from us for the entire night. Obviously, it was much more traumatic for mommy, then baby. All reports this morning indicated that she had a great night, woke up in a great mood this morning, ate breakfast, and is busy playing with her cousin.

They grow up so fast.................. And I have a sinking feeling that this is one of many times I'm going to end up in tears as she continues to grow and amaze me. Sigh. Which is why getting overwhelmed comes easier than I'd like it to.

I think it's just easy as mothers, wives, daughters, friends to get so wrapped up in everything and everyone else, you just forget about you. I need that break, that step backward to just slow down. Let my thoughts rest, turn the little voice inside my head off, and do nothing.

Speaking of doing nothing, I have not gotten to any of the many sewing projects I wanted to do, and I don't think I'll be able to get to it this week either, as we are doing a major clean up in order to get ready to get some new furniture this weekend. The Little Monster got a "big girl" bed set, and we've been needing a new headboard and foot board for our bedroom, and a new couch for our family room, so we found a great deal at a local furniture store, qualified for financing (yay), and are anxiously awaiting the new arrivals. In the meantime, I had to totally clean out the Little Monster's room (our extra storage space), and empty out the old furniture which I'm giving to Mrs. S for the Little Brat. It's actually really good furniture, I've had it since I was a little girl!

Friday is also Mr. Wonderful's birthday and all the family is getting together for dinner, and then hanging out at our house Saturday. It should be fun, and maybe I can start my sewing projects then. I've got a ton of them to do!

I'm excited to see Mrs S too. We've been talking (and when I say talking, I mostly mean texting) about getting stressed out and overwhelmed lately, and how we should handle it and get over it, as if we could really get over it. (Hahaha)

We've concluded that we need to do the following:
1. Have more girl's nights out!
2. Pray more
3. Take deep breaths
4. Count.... ahhh counting.....
5. Don't sweat the small stuff (which, as a secret control freak, is ridiculously hard for me to do!)
6. Vent to each other
7. Laugh

We need to just laugh more often. What else is there when everything else goes wonky, but to just laugh.

Today is a great day. I am super excited to redecorate the Little Monster's Big Girl Room, and make it a a welcoming and safe haven for her to just relax, but more importantly, to give her a space that's really hers, and that she loves.

I'm hoping it's a great week..... I'll definitely keep you "posted."

Happy Monday to All!

the life of ms s

my sister in law ms r has got me thinking so much about life i loved what she wrote it was so awesome thank you Missy

Now onto the crazy life of ms s, Mr Shepard, brat, and itchy. Life has been interesting brat of course has been awful for two weeks but thanks to the fact that she is 3 preschool can deal with it haha and thanks to itchies doctor he will see a dermatologist on Monday so ahh maybe life is getting easier oh what the hell am i talking about we just got new castle hes the ugliest looking puppy but i love him my lil brat wants to rock him all the time and yes u can feel sorry for the lil pup and itchy is so horrible if pup plays and he doesn't want to he definitely lets him know and for Shepard he gets kudos for getting me tipsy (OK lets face it girls slutty buzzed you know you have been there) sushi was awesome everything went perfect i love Shepard's family hes one lucky guy they all make me laugh my ass off if we aren't talking about our fat asses then we are making fun of someone else's makes life so interesting. so since we take road trips on a constant basis our last one was so awesome my Mr Shepard stayed awake the whole time and the kids were so good we shoved thier faces with pizza and they were quiet. Mr Shepard wants to surprise his family anytime he can which we did thier faces were priceless this has truly been one of the best weekends ever we celebrated Big As day and i couldnt of asked for a better way to celebrate a life that is so missed and a son, brother, and friend who will always be so cherished

To Mrs R....

Mrs R has made my day, she has no idea!! Little miss brat was quite satanic today. I know that people believe their little ones are always angels but I am just trying to be real. My little BRAT acted far beyond her title today. With 107 degree weather and a son that gets so upset with his constant crack like scratching tactics it frustrated me so much I just wanted to choke my self. I can still hear the screams, "I DON'T WANT TO", "I DO", "NO MOMMY DADDY DRIVE NOT YOU" I will still be dreaming about this twenty five years from today when she is complaining about her own spawn of Satan's. I think this is the only thought that puts me to sleep at night, yeah the pay back. Then I have a third child my husband (AKA Shepard) that tells me to calm down but as he is saying this to me all I want to do is kick him up side his head and tell him then you deal with it. Oh yeah I do tell him that except for kicking him. HAHAHAHAHA the best time of the day today is when Shepard went to take a nap and I locked him in the room with our Brat boy that was fun because he took the nap but she decided to yell for me and yell and daddy the whole time. The funny thing is that I could not do a damn thing because I was locked out. HAHAHAHAHAHA it made me feel so good to have a nice little break but boy was Shepard MAD!!