things to know about me

1) i'm really short (4'11")
2) for my weight i should be taller, but i've always been curvy
3) i'm a wife, a mom, and a nurse, i mostly identify with being a mom
4) i'm a cancer (july)
5) i have a good husband who can be a little tough to live with, but he loves me no matter what, and he has a great butt
6) i have two neices and nephew i love like my own, my nephew has cystic fibrosis
7) i hate to clean my house so much so that i sometimes take a few days off, and then deal with the consequences
8) my son is adorable-just look through the photo album, i want another baby
9) he is the best thing that ever happened to me, next to my husband
10) i have known my husband since he was 12 and i was 13
11) because he was my brothers best friend (still is)
12) i should not be blogging right now
13) i'm obsessed with NoBloPoMo
14) i feel a real sense of accomplishment if i get people to leave me comments (you like me you really like me!)
15) i think i have one regular reader named jean, you can find her under places i like
16) i have a few close friends, a lot of people i'm friendly with
17) i honor my commitments, if i say i'll do it i will, if i don't really commit then i don't want to
18) i'm very honest-except if i have to hurt someones feelings, if i have to i do it kindly
19) i know i can do anything i decide to do-like nursing school
20) for some reason i can't decide to take better care of myself

ok must do that housework, get ready for work thing now! see you all tomorrow!
12:26 PM

i have a neice who is three, she has huge blue eyes and long light brown hair with blond streaks. she is one of the funniest people i know!

my brother (the king of inappropriate) taught her to say; "farts are awesome" she says it
'farts rawe-some" another personal favorite is ella are you on crack? she looks at you and says "no, i'm not on crrrrack" it has become a running joke within my family. a few days ago i was at my moms with Will, my sister in law came to visit with my niece and nephew, and with all three kids running around we began to smell something unpleasent and started checking diapers, both boys were clean so my SIL asked my neice if she farted....she said
"no, but i farted on the way here" completely serious.

earlier this week i was watching her and my nephew and son and her house, i wanted to clean up the mess the boys made eating lunch so i asked her, ella where does mommy keep the broom.
she looked at me very seriously spread her arms out in an i don't know motion and said "
i think we are all out of brooms.."

i had taken her to preschool earlier in the day and picked her up. after we had been home a while i noticed she only had one shoe on, i asked her where the other one was and after thinking about for a moment she said " i think we left it at school" i had to think about it but no she had it when i picked her up, right? i mean i would have noticed if she had only one shoe on...i think! after a minute i decided she did have two shoes on, but i had been chasing a walker and a crawler on very little sleep all day...

speaking of preschool, i got lost on the way and turned around cause i thought i had gone too far, she spoke up from the back-what did we forget? i explained i went the wrong way and she told me that her school was the other way, so i turned back around but called my mom who has done this before to check, i explained all this and my mom said alison, your listening to a three year old!

never a dull moment when ella is around!

IT'S A MOMS LIFE

where are my comments? i love jean (myother blog-here haunting silence) but i wonder if i am writing to an audience of one....
i'm making an effort NoBloPoMo and everything...come on people comment dependent here!!!!


and for your personal amusement (and maybe a little sympathy for me)
here is my recap of yesterday:

5am- wake up because the boy is awake and yelling mama! mama!
feed him, change him give him milk let him play
7am-put the boy down for his nap, go lay down myself ( i have to work tonight)
9am-get up throw clothes on myself and boy, grab diaper bag, go pick up my mom for dentists appt
10-11am chase son around waiting room saying "no no will" or "mama said no" way too many times to count
11-1:30pm-drive mom home, do her laundry, put new sheets on her bed, make lunch and clean it up
1:30-2pm drive home to meet sister who is watching will, baby falls asleep in car
2:00-2:45 run around like idiot, cleaning up house, packing diaper bag, getting ready for work, my mother in law is picking up will here in about an hour so can't let her see house trashed, sister had started cleaning before i got here (LOVE HER)
2:45-3:15 get too work late(noone cares)
3:15-11:30pm work
11:30pm-1:30 am drive home deciding to grocery shop now without the boy
1:30-3:00 am pick up house, put away groceries, start tomorrows supper in crock pot, change laundry, put dog out, slide into bed
3:15am stupid toy in babies room starts going off on its own, loudly playing music waking me up through the baby moniter, stops on its own, baby still sleeping, go back to sleep
3:30am stupid toy goes off again in babies room,waking me up again, this time he is stirring, i must make it stop, run and and grab the toy, run out again, baby wakes up starts screaming cause he saw me...
go back in pick him up, and he is soaked, bring him downstairs to change him...
3:30-4:30 am change baby into new diaper and dry jammies, give him milk, watch sesame st on tape until he appears sleepy again, put him back to bed, slide back in bed myself
7am-wake up because the boy is screaming mama! mama! that was a refreshing 2 1/2 hours!

and i want another kid!

blogging at work

today has been crazy so i am blogging at work in the few minutes of quite time i have...so i don't mess up my commitment to blog every day for a month on day 2!

so ever chase your toddler around in a dentists waiting room for an hour? i'm sure many of you have...but still, not fun! he learned very quickly how to operate the water cooler...he tried to pull over the plants, he banged on the glass door dividing the waiting room from the office, he threw magazines on the floor(only once), spilled cheerios, it was a blast!!!

my mom had surgery two days ago on her foot so she couldn't drive herself to this appt. but to be honest most of what i wrote happened in the first fifteen minutes, then he settled down and chatted with everyone in the waiting room who missed all the fun stuff above and told me what a good boy i have!!!

so have to go but tomorrow...the halloween post!

first haircut

i made an appointment with my hair lady for 11am yesterday, october 31st. i wanted to take another set of formal pictures first, but i never got around to it, i woke up with a feeling of dread, but i layed out our clothes so we could get showered and bathed....and then i cancelled the appointment. i didn't do it, i didn't want to in the first place, there are people in our family (like daddy) who really want his haircut, and there are some who think i'm nuts for not cutting it because it is a not neat...it's a messy mop of curls. there are plenty of others who don't feel a need for a haircut like me. it's not in his eyes, it's long on the back and sides, but curls up to the top of his neck anyway.

why didn't i do it? or rather why don't i want to do it?

he is my baby! i don't feel the need to rush him into boyhood and then manhood. i knew it wasn't the right thing to do when i woke up with a knot in my stomach. does that make me a bad mother for trying to hold onto babyhood a little longer? i don't know and i don't care...so at 18 months still no haircut, and to be honest as long as it is not in his eyes, i don't care if people constantly mistake him for a girl, i'm not ready!