I have been back to work now for three weeks. Life is moving forward as if I never left and Madelyn has always been part of our life. Wierd how that works. But we have a good system. Joe and I make a great team. While one is doing something the other is with Maddie. Joe get's daddy time with her every afternoon and early evening before I get home. These days, I am trying hard to get home as soon as possible, however it seems like the traffic, on top of two major construction projects, on hwy 50 are causing my commute be to be 1-1/2 to 2 hours. This cuts so deep into my time with Maddie and just doing the things I need to do in the day, such as eat dinner, do the dishes, bath and feed Maddie. If there were only a few more hours in the day Or if I didn't have to get up a 4am to start my day.
Maddie is going to run before she walks. The Jossel's got us this jumper/bouncer jungle-gym and Maddie just loves it these days. She likes it because she can actually sit in it by herself without falling over. When she kicks her feet to make it bounce as she is still a little short to reach the floor, it makes monkey and elephant noices. She will sit in it for a long time. Well long for her is about 20 minutes. She doesn't like to lay down much these days. She loves to be up looking around and to be part of whatever anyone is doing.
She is doing good at daycare. The little boys at daycare love her. She is the only girl. Well, I shouldn't say that, she is the only girl until the daughter comes home from school. I think Maddie likes going there. She doesn't ever give me a fit when I drop her off. She sometimes gives me a fit if I pick her up. She loves it when her daddy picks her up. This typically is his job since he as bankers hours most days. She loves her daddy. He can walk in the room and make her smile in an instant. Boy is he ever in trouble. I think he knows it too. This is good to know, so if I ever need anything done, I just have to have Maddie ask dad and it is all over.
For all you single mom's out there (dad's too), but mainly mom's. I don't know how you do it. I have great support from Joe and we both said the other night that sometimes we both feel like a single parent. We typically say this when the other one is gone and Maddie is fussy. But I have nothing to complain about, Maddie is an excellent baby. I am so lucky. Really, for those of you that had difficult babies and your a single working mom. Wow, you deserve an award. Kids are difficult, needy and time consuming. They are worth every moment though. For those of you that don't have kids yet. It is nothing like you think it will be. Everything you think you know, just throw it out the door. It is all wrong. I really commend my mom. She raised both my sister and I on a very small income while working sometimes three jobs. I don't know how she did it, but she did a wonderful job. Jeni and I could have been a lot different that we turned out to be. We never got into drugs and alcohol, we didn't get pregnant as a teen and we graduated from school. She deserves the mother of the century award. We turned out okay. Great actually if I say so myself. :-)
Oh, to make some of you feel really old, Jeni (the baby of the family) is turning 30 years old on the 25th. Wow, how time flies. You know I didn't really have a hardtime turning 30 myself, but I am having a hardtime with Jeni turning 30. She is my baby sister and I just can't believe we are both in our 30s now. How the world changes before your eyes? Just when you think you have all the time in the world to do what you want to do you realize time is just flying by. So if you have a desire to do something, I say why not. Do it now before it is too late. I read that on my Aunt's blog. She is right. Do it now before's too late. Next thing you know you will be 90 and wondering when you were ever going to get to that "to do list." Life is too short to sit around wishing, hoping and praying for things to happen or saying you will do it tomorrow. Do it right now.
Everyone please help support my mom and Steve in there quest to quit smoking. They both agreed that they were going to quit smoking together. I am proud of them for finally making this change to have a healther life. It has only taken me 27 years to get my mom to quit. I say 27 years because in kindergarden, I remember coming home and telling my mom to quit because she was going to die. She said she couldn't stop smoking because she was addicted to it and she told me never to start. I think that was what clicked for me. I was really sad for her that she couldn't stop. I wish everyone who smokes would stop. It is so gross. I really notice it more now that Maddie is here. I don't like anyone to be near her when they even smell like smoke. Some people you can get second hand smoke just from their clothes or their breath. Espeically those that smoke in their homes or cars. Yuck people. Just quit already. They should increase the tax on cigerates 2000%. Make a one pack cost $20. That would stop most from smoking and the rest that didn't we could pay back the trillion dollars the Obama just spent.
How has everyone been? Email me your updates, I would love to hear what is going on in your world. kateweiland@wildblue.net (home) kdweiland@sundt.com (work).
