Yay and Nay!!
Since I've become quite profficient at whining and complaining I figured I would start this journal out with some good news.
We decided to switch Marlow to a big girl bed. She turns 2 this weekend, and I have been meaning to do it for awhile but have not been able to get the stupid child locks onto her dresser. So Joey and I set about the whole deal this past Sunday. He get's the side railing off the crib, we haul out the new stuff, the toddler rail, and then realize that somewhere in the move we lost the hardware to turn it into a toddler bed with the rail. That was about the same time the drill died and I didn't even manage to get one lock on the dresser. So by then we are cranky and tired. And I tell Joey that we will leave it all as is for one night. In the morning I'll go see about new hardware, and we will charge the drill overnight.
But the next morning Marlow is in her bed, playing quietly, waiting for me. There are no open dresser drawers. She did not roll out and land on the mountain of pillows I put on the floor outside her bed. And every 'quiet time' and night since has been the same! She cries a bit, but she does not get out of her bed. And in the morning she waits until I tell her it's okay to get down before she does. So I haven't had to clean up a single mess in the past two days. I may of jinxed myself now though.....
And now for the part I am best at...the whining!
Marlow's birthday party is this Saturday. So I asked for an RSVP from everyone by Monday because we are ordering cupcakes from a local bakery. Not cheap. 56 is costing me 80 bucks. But she infuses them with flavour, any kind you want! We are getting some with root beer infusion in them! And then decorates them. So I place the order today, then 8 of my inlaws tell me suddenly that they aren't coming, instead they are going camping that weekend. Well that's $18 worth of cupcakes ordered without need. And I can't change my order because I waited til the last moment to order so that everyone would know for sure if they were coming or not! And they are trying to talk about 5 more people into going with them. If they go and bail at the last moment, that's $36 wasted dollars. That's no small change. Plus, I bought stuff for goody bags while I was on the side of town with the dollar store, and now most of it won't be needed :(. It makes me angry.
And my little sister...sigh. I know, 'Jolene, would you shut the hell up about your sister!!!'. But this is my only real outlet for my absolute upsets at her. She has a new boy toy, they have been dating for all of.....oh....a week I think. And she 'loves' him don't you know? He is the one...she want's her son to start calling him daddy Jaron. ARE YOU SHITTIN ME!?!? I told her flat out, and I mean flat out, that it was horrible for her to do this to her son. That she should consider more then just herself sometime and it might work in her favour. I told her that she isn't being a very good mom.
I told her all of this when she came to pick up her son after some minor procedure at the hospital. She drops him off at seven in the morning and tells me she will be back at about three or four. Then at four she texts me to tell me she is going to emerg for something. It wasn't a necessary procedure, and she didn't even ask if I would keep watching Julian. She just went. So I had him until six that night. 11 hours!! And the doc gave her some meds that apparentley make her loopy and she can't work so I didn't have Julian today, and I don't have him tomorrow. But I imagine if she doesn't go to work Thursday she will be unemployed.
And back to another thing about her, ya I know I know, I sound pathetic even to my own ears. I'm just overcoming a cold. I don't get sick often, once a year maybe. But this one went hand in hand with a nasty cough. So she texts me at 830pm and says that she has to drop Julian off at 5am. Whatever, she does lawn care, I get it. Then she texts at 9pm, I am in bed already, but only because I was sick. She want's to know if I want Julian tonight so I don't have to be up at 5am when she shows up. I say no, I'm sick and I'm in bed. She kept harassing me! She wanted to just sneak in while I slept and put him to bed in our guest room. Then it was that it would be better for me if I would so that I didn't have to wake up and could get healing sleep. I must of told her no ten times. Then she texts to say that our neice, who is 15, is watching him at her house tonight and she will walk him over in the morning. She lives a few blocks from me. My neice knew I was sick so she kept him until noon. But seriously??? She wanted me to take him so bad because she went out and got drunk. She dumped him on our neice so that she could go to her boyfriends house and get hammered, like she does three to four days a week! ARGH.
Thanks.
We decided to switch Marlow to a big girl bed. She turns 2 this weekend, and I have been meaning to do it for awhile but have not been able to get the stupid child locks onto her dresser. So Joey and I set about the whole deal this past Sunday. He get's the side railing off the crib, we haul out the new stuff, the toddler rail, and then realize that somewhere in the move we lost the hardware to turn it into a toddler bed with the rail. That was about the same time the drill died and I didn't even manage to get one lock on the dresser. So by then we are cranky and tired. And I tell Joey that we will leave it all as is for one night. In the morning I'll go see about new hardware, and we will charge the drill overnight.
But the next morning Marlow is in her bed, playing quietly, waiting for me. There are no open dresser drawers. She did not roll out and land on the mountain of pillows I put on the floor outside her bed. And every 'quiet time' and night since has been the same! She cries a bit, but she does not get out of her bed. And in the morning she waits until I tell her it's okay to get down before she does. So I haven't had to clean up a single mess in the past two days. I may of jinxed myself now though.....
And now for the part I am best at...the whining!
Marlow's birthday party is this Saturday. So I asked for an RSVP from everyone by Monday because we are ordering cupcakes from a local bakery. Not cheap. 56 is costing me 80 bucks. But she infuses them with flavour, any kind you want! We are getting some with root beer infusion in them! And then decorates them. So I place the order today, then 8 of my inlaws tell me suddenly that they aren't coming, instead they are going camping that weekend. Well that's $18 worth of cupcakes ordered without need. And I can't change my order because I waited til the last moment to order so that everyone would know for sure if they were coming or not! And they are trying to talk about 5 more people into going with them. If they go and bail at the last moment, that's $36 wasted dollars. That's no small change. Plus, I bought stuff for goody bags while I was on the side of town with the dollar store, and now most of it won't be needed :(. It makes me angry.
And my little sister...sigh. I know, 'Jolene, would you shut the hell up about your sister!!!'. But this is my only real outlet for my absolute upsets at her. She has a new boy toy, they have been dating for all of.....oh....a week I think. And she 'loves' him don't you know? He is the one...she want's her son to start calling him daddy Jaron. ARE YOU SHITTIN ME!?!? I told her flat out, and I mean flat out, that it was horrible for her to do this to her son. That she should consider more then just herself sometime and it might work in her favour. I told her that she isn't being a very good mom.
I told her all of this when she came to pick up her son after some minor procedure at the hospital. She drops him off at seven in the morning and tells me she will be back at about three or four. Then at four she texts me to tell me she is going to emerg for something. It wasn't a necessary procedure, and she didn't even ask if I would keep watching Julian. She just went. So I had him until six that night. 11 hours!! And the doc gave her some meds that apparentley make her loopy and she can't work so I didn't have Julian today, and I don't have him tomorrow. But I imagine if she doesn't go to work Thursday she will be unemployed.
And back to another thing about her, ya I know I know, I sound pathetic even to my own ears. I'm just overcoming a cold. I don't get sick often, once a year maybe. But this one went hand in hand with a nasty cough. So she texts me at 830pm and says that she has to drop Julian off at 5am. Whatever, she does lawn care, I get it. Then she texts at 9pm, I am in bed already, but only because I was sick. She want's to know if I want Julian tonight so I don't have to be up at 5am when she shows up. I say no, I'm sick and I'm in bed. She kept harassing me! She wanted to just sneak in while I slept and put him to bed in our guest room. Then it was that it would be better for me if I would so that I didn't have to wake up and could get healing sleep. I must of told her no ten times. Then she texts to say that our neice, who is 15, is watching him at her house tonight and she will walk him over in the morning. She lives a few blocks from me. My neice knew I was sick so she kept him until noon. But seriously??? She wanted me to take him so bad because she went out and got drunk. She dumped him on our neice so that she could go to her boyfriends house and get hammered, like she does three to four days a week! ARGH.
Thanks.
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