We were visiting my parents on Saturday to grill out and just enjoy the beautiful Memorial Day weekend. The weather was perfect so after lunch, we went for a walk to go put flowers on my Grandma Henke and Grandpa Pauly's graves.
During the walk, my sister was trying to get my brother, Robert, to tell me what happened to him at school recently. I was intrigued. Apparently the drug dogs were at the high school, like they are every year. Robert is just finishing up his junior year at New Holstein. Anyway, I know that my brother does not do drugs at all and was seriously surprised when he said that the dogs stopped at his locker and he was called to the office. It turned out that there was something fishy in his backpack..... MOLD! Robert had let some sort of food go bad and never smelled it to even realize there was something nasty growing in there. You want to know how long it had been in his backpack? If it was there since 8th grade like he said.... that puts it at around 3, maybe 4 years. DISGUSTING!!!
The office did call my parents about the situation. I don't know if it was before or after they realized it was only mold in the backpack. I think it's kind of funny, but am relieved that my brother didn't have anything else hiding in his locker. THE END.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Sunday, May 30, 2010
I love my hubby :-)
Tim had off on Friday as a mandatory furlough day so he decided to keep the kids home from daycare too. I was a little skeptical because he hasn't really watched both kids for an extended period of time. Also, outside of daycare, I don't know that I've left Sonya alone with him for more than 2.5 hours. Well... they survived. :-) Tim was able to get a few things done around the house too which was nice. I didn't even call him during my breaks which I thought I might need to do. haha! Before I left the house that morning, I asked Tim to take a picture of Sonya and email it to me at work. I was mostly just joking and didn't expect him to do it... but he did! Below is a pic of Sonya enjoying tummy time .... and the beginnings of a musical prodigy!
Love my baby girl!
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Time flies by...
I haven't have much time to blog lately .... sorry to my readers. I know you're looking forward to the next parts of my "story."
Work was really tough on Monday. I wanted to cry all day, but I made it through the week. By Friday, I wasn't even thinking about the kids much and felt like I was getting things accomplished. It probably helps knowing that the end is in sight.
We had a blast yesterday despite Caleb's moodiness lately. I don't know what to do with the boy. Hopefully it's just him adjusting to going back to daycare and not being at home with mommy all the time. We went to lots of parks and were outside a ton. Now, he's begging us... or rather.. "telling" us we're going to the park.
Anyway... yesterday, we went to Green Bay for a birthday party for one of my co-worker's sons. The food was great and I got to talk to another co-worker's wife whom I haven't seen in a while. Since Caleb was getting antsy and didn't have any older kids to really play with, we left a little early to go to Tim's aunt and uncle's house which was about 10 minutes away.
The kids all ran around the yard chasing each other and tackling Tim. We grilled out for supper. The weather was absolutely PERFECT! After dinner, I braided Hana and Erin's hair. Then Amy and Fritz watched the kids while Tim and I went for a walk. It was nice to have some time without the kids... we actually could talk to each other! Tim still has a dream of buying two yurts and having some sort of a tunnel connecting them. (This is instead of buying a house).
While walking, we passed the Suamico Elementary school, where the girls go, and they had hurdles out by the soccer field. Let's just say... Tim was a kid again. He was trying to show off and did the hurdles while I watched. I attempted to do them, but my flip flops weren't the best shoes to do that. Towards the end of the walk, I was pretending that my feet hurt and made Tim give me a piggy-back ride.. for a few feet. lol... Then we raced that last block back to his aunt and uncles house. (He won.... but I blame it on the flip flops).
On our way home, Caleb clunked out so we stopped at McD's for a Reeses' McFlurry for me while I nursed Sonya one more time. I think we just crashed into bed as soon as we got home, which was 10:00pm. It was a long day... but fun!
Work was really tough on Monday. I wanted to cry all day, but I made it through the week. By Friday, I wasn't even thinking about the kids much and felt like I was getting things accomplished. It probably helps knowing that the end is in sight.
We had a blast yesterday despite Caleb's moodiness lately. I don't know what to do with the boy. Hopefully it's just him adjusting to going back to daycare and not being at home with mommy all the time. We went to lots of parks and were outside a ton. Now, he's begging us... or rather.. "telling" us we're going to the park.
Anyway... yesterday, we went to Green Bay for a birthday party for one of my co-worker's sons. The food was great and I got to talk to another co-worker's wife whom I haven't seen in a while. Since Caleb was getting antsy and didn't have any older kids to really play with, we left a little early to go to Tim's aunt and uncle's house which was about 10 minutes away.
The kids all ran around the yard chasing each other and tackling Tim. We grilled out for supper. The weather was absolutely PERFECT! After dinner, I braided Hana and Erin's hair. Then Amy and Fritz watched the kids while Tim and I went for a walk. It was nice to have some time without the kids... we actually could talk to each other! Tim still has a dream of buying two yurts and having some sort of a tunnel connecting them. (This is instead of buying a house).
While walking, we passed the Suamico Elementary school, where the girls go, and they had hurdles out by the soccer field. Let's just say... Tim was a kid again. He was trying to show off and did the hurdles while I watched. I attempted to do them, but my flip flops weren't the best shoes to do that. Towards the end of the walk, I was pretending that my feet hurt and made Tim give me a piggy-back ride.. for a few feet. lol... Then we raced that last block back to his aunt and uncles house. (He won.... but I blame it on the flip flops).
On our way home, Caleb clunked out so we stopped at McD's for a Reeses' McFlurry for me while I nursed Sonya one more time. I think we just crashed into bed as soon as we got home, which was 10:00pm. It was a long day... but fun!
Friday, May 14, 2010
First days back at work
Well, I went back to work on Wednesday. I think more than anything, I was tired out. I really wanted a nap. I was even too tired to really miss my baby. The day went by fairly quickly. Luckily, there were only 650 or so emails to go through. So it took me all morning just to sift through and delete the unimportant emails and then all afternoon to try and retain any new information that I had missed in the past 3 months.
By the time I got home, I was so exhausted. After feeding Sonya and eating dinner, I completely crashed. My head was pounding from staring at my computer at work all day so I think the tylenol helped me sleep a little better. I was so blessed that Sonya was tired enough to fall asleep at 6:30pm and sleep until midnight when she ate and clunked out again. Through the night, I ended up getting 10, yes 10!, hours of wonderful sleep. I felt so refreshed on Thursday morning.
Thursday wasn't as exciting. There were a few compliance modules that I had to complete from the time I was gone and I did a brief outline of my goals for the year since we have to plug those into our Performance Review program and then assess ourselves at the end of the year. I took a few phone calls and roamed a bit. Roaming at my job doesn't mean that I get up and just walk around. Nope.. I just sit at my desk and wait for people to send me instant messages or approach my desk with questions about customer accounts. Occasionally I get an escalated call. I might be strange, but I almost get a kind of "high" off of turning a customer's attitude around and having them thank me in the end instead of screaming at me. It's nice. :-) Since I had some free time while roaming, I started translating the new 1-pg application into Spanish.
Today... it was SLOW! There weren't that many calls. I roamed all morning and actually finished the Spanish application so it's ready to be proofed. I even completed the compliance modules for the month of May. By the end of the day, I was ready for it to be over. Thank goodness I had my Girl Scout cookies to help me through the day! I had bought them from a co-worker before I went on maternity leave so she just delivered them to me at my desk today. :-)
Well.. that's about it. Sonya is doing well at daycare. I guess I stressed out about nothing! ... I'd be less stressed if I had more time to express milk at work though. But.. other than that, things are good.
Over and out... time for bed!
By the time I got home, I was so exhausted. After feeding Sonya and eating dinner, I completely crashed. My head was pounding from staring at my computer at work all day so I think the tylenol helped me sleep a little better. I was so blessed that Sonya was tired enough to fall asleep at 6:30pm and sleep until midnight when she ate and clunked out again. Through the night, I ended up getting 10, yes 10!, hours of wonderful sleep. I felt so refreshed on Thursday morning.
Thursday wasn't as exciting. There were a few compliance modules that I had to complete from the time I was gone and I did a brief outline of my goals for the year since we have to plug those into our Performance Review program and then assess ourselves at the end of the year. I took a few phone calls and roamed a bit. Roaming at my job doesn't mean that I get up and just walk around. Nope.. I just sit at my desk and wait for people to send me instant messages or approach my desk with questions about customer accounts. Occasionally I get an escalated call. I might be strange, but I almost get a kind of "high" off of turning a customer's attitude around and having them thank me in the end instead of screaming at me. It's nice. :-) Since I had some free time while roaming, I started translating the new 1-pg application into Spanish.
Today... it was SLOW! There weren't that many calls. I roamed all morning and actually finished the Spanish application so it's ready to be proofed. I even completed the compliance modules for the month of May. By the end of the day, I was ready for it to be over. Thank goodness I had my Girl Scout cookies to help me through the day! I had bought them from a co-worker before I went on maternity leave so she just delivered them to me at my desk today. :-)
Well.. that's about it. Sonya is doing well at daycare. I guess I stressed out about nothing! ... I'd be less stressed if I had more time to express milk at work though. But.. other than that, things are good.
Over and out... time for bed!
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Baby dedication
My dear Sonya was dedicated today.
Praise God for family and friends!
Since we were all dressed up, we took some family photos.
I wish we had thought of taking them while relatives were here to use the camera.
Thank goodness for timers!
Monday, April 26, 2010
Paper Mache Project
MATERIALS
1 part flour : 3 parts water
balloon
newspaper strips
"Gluing" the newspaper strips onto the balloon with the paper mache paste
"Rambo" and his balloon covered with paper mache newspaper (2 layers)
So proud of his project!
Started to decorate using tissue paper, paint, and construction paper
The finished products! (Can you tell which one is Caleb's?)
The finished products! (Can you tell which one is Caleb's?)
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Lovely day in the life of Michelle...
It seems like I never get a lot of time to blog and that I end up doing parts of sentences here and there ... so it takes me an entire day to actually write something. Well.. this doesn't count because I can kind of type whatever and it's a lot faster than when I'm writing something more thoughtful.
Yesterday, I had to get up a little earlier to take my car in for an oil change. We go to C& M Auto which is barely a block away from the apartment. They have a set-up where you get a punch card and if you get 5 oil changes there, the 6th one is FREE! I like free. :-) Our tire rotation was also free because we bought our tires from them. :-) So I packed the kids in the car and drove over. Then we walked back home to eat breakfast.
Caleb and I spent the morning working on our paper mache project. It's almost done. I have some pictures of it, but will wait until it's finished before posting those. I've really enjoyed being able to spend time with him doing something creative. I know he's been having fun too! It's so hard though because it takes much longer to complete a project with lots of interruptions from a hungry or poopy Sonya. lol...
I was pretty exhausted after lunch so I let Caleb watch part of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and tried to doze off. I hoped he would fall asleep and take a nap too. That didn't happen ... oh well. While I was in a half-asleep state, Charlie from the auto shop called to let me know the car was done. Caleb answered the phone of course. "What's your name?" .. haha.. He looked a little puzzled when the other side of the phone responded, "Charlie, from C&M Auto." I don't think he had any clue who it was. At least I could kind of hear who was on the phone and had been expecting a call from him. It's been a challenge with that boy because he likes to answer the phone, but not give the phone to mommy. Finally, he gave me the phone after a few promptings. Charlie was funny and said, "So, you have someone screening your calls?" lol... "Yup."
Since Caleb wasn't napping, I figured we could go walk over and pick up my car. While I was getting Sonya ready, Caleb was holding open the outside door for me. It was really sweet, but I wasn't even down the stairs yet and we were going to be using the back door. I told him to shut that door and come over by where I had the stroller... and that's when I heard.. "Mom.." in a tone that sounded like he needed help. The door is a little heavy and has a spring-loaded sort of effect to close. Anyway, I didn't get there in time and Caleb got his finger smashed. I don't know how deep the cut was, but I took him back inside the apartment to wash it off and put a band-aid on it. He hardly ever cries when he's hurt; such a tough little man. But this time was different. He was wailing...poor guy. I convinced him to come along to get the car. He cried the whole way and finally stopped when we walked in the door. I'm hoping he didn't break his finger, but I don't think he did because he hasn't complained since. Well... I changed his band-aid last night and he started crying again. I'm not sure if it was pain or just the memory of pain.
Anyway, we went to St. Vinnie's after we got the car and I found some Fisher Price children's roller skates for $2. So excited! Now he can practice a little and we won't have to spend a bunch of money at Skateland to try and teach him.
Since Caleb was all tuckered out with th day's events, he fell asleep on the couch at 5:00. I told Tim to let him sleep because then we could eat a nice quiet meal without all his constant, "Mommy, mommy, mommy...", "Why?", "What's that?" It's cute that he likes to talk and is so curious, but it drives me insane sometimes. After we ate, I tried waking Caleb up, but he was out like a light. Even Sonya's cries didn't wake him. Once Tim got him up, he kept falling asleep and didn't want to go to the library (which he usually loves to do.) So Tim left and I convinced Caleb to eat some supper. I bribed him with the promise of going to Culver's. I've never seen a little boy eat so fast. Normally, he's a putzy slow eater. Well, he ate everything on his plate and we met Tim for ice cream. Yum!
After we got home, I checked out the children's Tae Bo video that Tim got from the library. Man, that's one heck of a workout! I'm not sure Caleb was too impressed though. Oh well...
This morning had its out twist of events. Tim noticed that there were some fraudulent charges on one of our credit cards. At least the two charges only added up to $30 or so and only happened 2 days ago so we can get a jump start on the whole thing, but STILL! We're getting our card blocked while they investigate and new cards are in the mail. Thank goodness Tim checks our finances and accounts on a regular basis! (*Call centers are much easier to reach at 6 in the morning... lol*)
To end this on a funny note... Tim went to wake up Caleb since Tuesdays are the days that he goes to daycare. He wasn't in his room. Somehow he managed to make it to the couch in the middle of the night.
Conversation when he woke up..
Tim: What time did you get up?
Caleb: 2:00 (he can read our digital clocks)
Tim: Why did you come out here?
Caleb: My room was being crazy. (Such a strange little boy... lol)
That's all for now. I should probably get dressed. :)
Yesterday, I had to get up a little earlier to take my car in for an oil change. We go to C& M Auto which is barely a block away from the apartment. They have a set-up where you get a punch card and if you get 5 oil changes there, the 6th one is FREE! I like free. :-) Our tire rotation was also free because we bought our tires from them. :-) So I packed the kids in the car and drove over. Then we walked back home to eat breakfast.
Caleb and I spent the morning working on our paper mache project. It's almost done. I have some pictures of it, but will wait until it's finished before posting those. I've really enjoyed being able to spend time with him doing something creative. I know he's been having fun too! It's so hard though because it takes much longer to complete a project with lots of interruptions from a hungry or poopy Sonya. lol...
I was pretty exhausted after lunch so I let Caleb watch part of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and tried to doze off. I hoped he would fall asleep and take a nap too. That didn't happen ... oh well. While I was in a half-asleep state, Charlie from the auto shop called to let me know the car was done. Caleb answered the phone of course. "What's your name?" .. haha.. He looked a little puzzled when the other side of the phone responded, "Charlie, from C&M Auto." I don't think he had any clue who it was. At least I could kind of hear who was on the phone and had been expecting a call from him. It's been a challenge with that boy because he likes to answer the phone, but not give the phone to mommy. Finally, he gave me the phone after a few promptings. Charlie was funny and said, "So, you have someone screening your calls?" lol... "Yup."
Since Caleb wasn't napping, I figured we could go walk over and pick up my car. While I was getting Sonya ready, Caleb was holding open the outside door for me. It was really sweet, but I wasn't even down the stairs yet and we were going to be using the back door. I told him to shut that door and come over by where I had the stroller... and that's when I heard.. "Mom.." in a tone that sounded like he needed help. The door is a little heavy and has a spring-loaded sort of effect to close. Anyway, I didn't get there in time and Caleb got his finger smashed. I don't know how deep the cut was, but I took him back inside the apartment to wash it off and put a band-aid on it. He hardly ever cries when he's hurt; such a tough little man. But this time was different. He was wailing...poor guy. I convinced him to come along to get the car. He cried the whole way and finally stopped when we walked in the door. I'm hoping he didn't break his finger, but I don't think he did because he hasn't complained since. Well... I changed his band-aid last night and he started crying again. I'm not sure if it was pain or just the memory of pain.
Anyway, we went to St. Vinnie's after we got the car and I found some Fisher Price children's roller skates for $2. So excited! Now he can practice a little and we won't have to spend a bunch of money at Skateland to try and teach him.
Since Caleb was all tuckered out with th day's events, he fell asleep on the couch at 5:00. I told Tim to let him sleep because then we could eat a nice quiet meal without all his constant, "Mommy, mommy, mommy...", "Why?", "What's that?" It's cute that he likes to talk and is so curious, but it drives me insane sometimes. After we ate, I tried waking Caleb up, but he was out like a light. Even Sonya's cries didn't wake him. Once Tim got him up, he kept falling asleep and didn't want to go to the library (which he usually loves to do.) So Tim left and I convinced Caleb to eat some supper. I bribed him with the promise of going to Culver's. I've never seen a little boy eat so fast. Normally, he's a putzy slow eater. Well, he ate everything on his plate and we met Tim for ice cream. Yum!
After we got home, I checked out the children's Tae Bo video that Tim got from the library. Man, that's one heck of a workout! I'm not sure Caleb was too impressed though. Oh well...
This morning had its out twist of events. Tim noticed that there were some fraudulent charges on one of our credit cards. At least the two charges only added up to $30 or so and only happened 2 days ago so we can get a jump start on the whole thing, but STILL! We're getting our card blocked while they investigate and new cards are in the mail. Thank goodness Tim checks our finances and accounts on a regular basis! (*Call centers are much easier to reach at 6 in the morning... lol*)
To end this on a funny note... Tim went to wake up Caleb since Tuesdays are the days that he goes to daycare. He wasn't in his room. Somehow he managed to make it to the couch in the middle of the night.
Conversation when he woke up..
Tim: What time did you get up?
Caleb: 2:00 (he can read our digital clocks)
Tim: Why did you come out here?
Caleb: My room was being crazy. (Such a strange little boy... lol)
That's all for now. I should probably get dressed. :)
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