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After murals on the walls, lipstick on the carpet and various other toddler related disaster you’d think I’d learn not to trust my kids when they were out of my site. Wrong, once again my laptop has become victim to my son. He pulled thirteen keys off my keys off my keyboard when I was cleaning the kitchen. Luckily I was able to get all but five of them back on. I am missing the letters c, x, z, an alt key and some other key that fortunately I never use. I now get to type on little black nubs for the missing keys, fun!! I didn’t want a new laptop right now but it is looking like I will be getting one soon. I love my 12″ tablet HP but it is not sturdy enough to survive my kids.

The damage

As a parent I can understand that sometimes you might have to bring your kids to work. When Georgie was a newborn I was lucky enough to have a job that allowed me to bring her in with me. I had my own office, wasn’t near any other employees and was able to close the door so that if she did start crying she would never bother anyone. I did this for one month before we left Australia for the US. If we had planned on staying I would have found daycare for her; I would not have expected this to be a long term solution.

This past weekend we had an Architect come over to take some measurements and photos for a renovation of our old barn and the plans for our new garage. This guy showed up with his six year old son in tow. I personally find this very unprofessional, especially seeing that he mentioned that his wife was at home with their 18 month old. My husband ended up watching our two kids plus the architects child while I showed him around. This is our family home and my husband and I both want to be involved in the plans for it. We felt as if he wasn’t taking his job or us seriously. We made the decision to hire him together and he should have been talking to both of us about what we wanted for this project. We both want different things and its his job to put all that together.

In the hour they were here this child managed to bust my sons large Mickey Mouse balloon, hit Ethan with a truck, turn the slide upside down, climb up on it and try to get Georgie to climb up so he could shake it and knock her off and the worst was he killed our goldfish. Yes, this six year old child killed our much loved family pet. He dumped an entire container of fish food in with the fish and that’s what led to her death. We have had that goldfish for ages and it was a great fish with a lot of personality. We were only annoyed but the death of our fish was the final straw for us. How do we know that he won’t bring his son along with him in the future, next time he could injure one of our children.

The Architect has now been fired and it was all due to a twenty cent fish. I wonder how he feels knowing that he lost a large job due to something that costs twenty cents. Hopefully he learned a lesson and doesn’t take his child to clients houses anymore. If he does hopefully he’ll keep his son with him and not expect the client to babysit him.

How is it that 2009 is almost half way over? I remember when a year used to seem like a year, since having kids a year seems to fly by in a few months. I can’t believe its been three weeks since I last blogged, it was the quickest three weeks of my life.

My husband and I flew out to New York to pick up our RV. We bought this site unseen and were a bit nervous about it but we were more than pleasantly surprised at the condition its in. The inside has more storage space than I know what to do with and there is also tons of storage space underneath. I’m going to do minimal work to the inside, just recover the couch and reupholster the window boxes.

I have to tell you about the trip to pick up the RV; it was quite an event. Our flight to Charlotte was delayed so we missed our connecting flight to New York. Our one hour layover in New York turned into a four hour layover. I was surprised at how fast the time went at Charlotte airport, it really is nice for an airport. They have all these great rocking chairs by the windows overlooking the tarmac. We kicked back and read while waiting for our next flight.

The delay had us getting into JFK right at peak hour Memorial Day weekend. We were caught in traffic with all the people escaping the city for the weekend and it took us over 3 hours to go about 60 miles. I finally understand the saying there is no place like home. I’ve never really settled and enjoyed my nomad lifestyle but the traffic in New York made me appreciate the wonderful little piece of the world we live in.

I have lots more to blog about and a contest to announce the winner of but this will have to wait until this afternoon. I need to get the kids dressed and get them off to daycare.

Kicked back enjoying the view at Charlotte

What do you say to a friend who’s oldest child has just been diagnosed with cancer? I have been a member of an online forum for three years now. We all have two year old children born around September 2006. One of our members oldest child was just diagnosed today with a Brainstem Glioma. There are a lot of resources on the web for what not to say and some of them I really can’t believe a human being would mutter. I want to create a list for others who find themselves in the situation of trying to support a friend with a sick child. Please leave comments on what should be said and suggestions for what can be done to help a family in the same situation.

I’m tired, but I can’t sleep. Its been months since I had a good nights sleep and it is starting to wear me down. I’m not stressed even though I should be. I had four vials of blood taken on Monday and another taken on Tuesday so I’m hoping these provide a simple solution as to what is going on with me. I want to hear “take one pill twice a day and you’ll be back to normal in one week”. That would be nice.

We have a lot going on in our lives and I think that has a lot to do with it. I’ve temporarily given up on my Jeep blog and am just maintaining this one and Internet Toddler. We leave next week for New York and my parents are coming to stay with the kids. I think between picking up the RV, house hunting, sick kids and everything else I am just having trouble turning my brain off. If I don’t get some sleep soon I’ll have to change the name of my blog to ramblings of a Crazy Woman…darn it, already taken.

Despite the way it may seem I’m really not complaining. I have a wonderful husband who is a great provider and supports me 100% in all my crazy ideas. I have one wonderful child and a two and a half year old. I love life, love all the things I have accomplished, love the places I have been and the people I have met along the way. I still believe that life is an adventure meant to be lived. I just need to get some sleep so I can get back to living it the way I enjoy it best.

Daddy was back at work so it was time for the kids to get into trouble. I had some phone calls to make this morning and made the mistake of trusting the kids in the playroom. Big mistake! My daughter has figured out that dumping her toy box and turning it upside down makes a great step stool. She dragged it all the way across the room and took a box of crayons down. Yes, she colored on the walls. Not only did she color on the walls she colored on the same walls I just repainted after the black sharpie incident. While this was happening my little guy was standing on the dishwasher door pulling cups out of the top rack. This was only the first call of the day, the second call Georgie took a box of Cheerio’s off the kitchen counter and turned it over on the living room floor. To top the day off I found a trail of ants in the playroom leading under the TV stand where the kids had shoved some cereal. I love my kids, they make sure my life never has any dull moments.

Nascar is on and I am planning on spending the night blog hopping at the Virtual Girls Night Out. If I could choose one thing to change about my husband it would be his need to watch cars driving around in circles.

My daughter picked her clothes out today and even dressed herself. I love the independence; just have to work on her color matching skills.

We’re looking to feature some mom bloggers on my daughters site at the end of May. Check out Internet Toddler and contact us if you are interested.

It has officially been raining for almost three weeks straight with yesterday being the only day we were able to see sun and sky. It did rain within the 24 hours so it was not a day without rain. In three weeks we have had four storms that produced hail, three storms that put us under tornado watches or warnings, two lightning strikes close enough to make your hair stand on end and enough rain to flood the pool and bring the pond up to its banks. As I sit here typing I can feel the ground rumbling from the thunder and the mirror on my wall is reflecting the lightning all through the room. Maybe I’m strange but there is something about thunderstorms that I find calming and relaxing. I don’t mind the rain but it does get old after spending three weeks trapped in the house with two toddlers.

This photo was taken at 8:30 this morning. I haven’t seen clouds this dark in years

The dark clouds cleared out about 9:45 and the evidence of how much rain they left is easy to see.

I signed up for Harriet’s 1000 comment challenge and at the time thought, about 32 comments a day, I can do that. Wrong! I am averaging about 15 comments a day. The kids were sick and now I’m sick and trying to take care of one healthy kid and one teething cranky one. I am not going anywhere or doing anything this weekend so I will catch up! Is anyone else as far behind as me?

My daughter frustrates me and amazes me on a daily basis. Today was spent mostly in battle with her over cleaning up her toys. She managed to turn over the entire toy box and had the entire playroom floor co.vered to the point that it was impossible to walk in there. I would tell her to clean up her toy, she’d say no, I’d tell her again, she’d throw a tantrum and end up in a time out. I would let her out of time out, she would apologize and then we’d repeat the whole process. This went on for over an hour. I swear there are permanent indents in the carpet from where her butt spent most of the day.

She finally decided after over an hour of whining, screaming, crying and tantrums that she was going to pick up her toys. as she stomped off and made her way back to the playroom she said clear as day “I need a maid”. I have no idea where she learned this little phrase from but it sure was funny. I was pulling my hair out with her and in a split second she managed to make me laugh. That’s the great thing about kids, they drive you absolutely nuts then they give you moments that make you forget why you were so upset with them in the first place.