It was a cold rainy day in MI

Last night was hilarious. We've been doing that love letters thing, I talked about earlier. And one of my questions to him was on what day did we start going out. Of course Men have no idea on dates, so I said he could look it up in our old notes. Yes, we saved our old notes. After glancing through them last night, I'm thinking we should burn them. If the kids get a hold of them, they will think we are huge DORKS! I never laughed so much in all my life. We started to become friends in 11th grade. So towards the end we wrote a few notes, on August 10, 1994 we became a couple. And through out 12th grade we wrote notes to each other constantly. It slowed up once we were in college because we both had cars by then and just saw each other more. Hahhaa, that was a fun walk down memory lane.

Today it has rained all day, and it's cold outside. I went Christmas shopping, what a day to do it on. Of course the stores didn't have anything I wanted for Jeff, but I found all kinds of fun stuff for me, hahaha! But I constrained myself, christmas is coming, how do I know what I am getting. I might be getting "Flash Focus" and "Brainage 2", so I didn't buy them.

I'm reading a book by Peter Walsh called "It's all too much". I just started, but it's really a page turner. You have to imagine the life you want and make decisions on what's important and what's not. "Clutter sucks life away. It leaves you depressed, overwhelmed, lacking motivation, and unable to breathe." I highly recommend the book, even though I've only read the introduction so far. I think most of us have clutter issues and it would be worth a look at. I also got "How to organize just about everything" by Peter Walsh. It's a huge book, hopefully I can plow through it before it's due back at the library. I'm starting to rely on the library more. I certainly don't need to buy tons of books I will never read again.

I also got a book on Frontpage, and I have some on order about HTML. I do like webpage design. I also like graphic design programs like photoshop. If there were only more hours in the day to learn everything. Way back when I was in college, my degree was going to be in computer programming, but it turns out I just can't comprehend programming languages. I'm sure HTML will be the same way. I've tried studying it before, but didn't get far. Oh well. Add that to the other projects on my list of things to do, in my "spare time", hahaha!

Jess was so cute today. We were watching Yo Gabba Gabba and they were talking about healthy snacks to eat, and the one character wasn't eating his yogurt because he thought he wouldn't like it and they said how do you know you don't like something unless you try it, and lo and behold he liked it. Jess ran in the kitchen, wanted me to open the fridge so she could eat a yogurt, right then and there. Such a copycat off the tv, at least it's all good stuff we watch on there.

I threw both kids in the tub today to get it over with. Jess thought it was great to use her watering can to sprinkle Jon. He was very relaxed, obviously very very relaxed, he pooped, YUCK! That was the end of bath time!!!! At least he's still in the baby tub, so it was contained. Jess did that a few times when she was little. She even went through a time when she was about 18 months that she pooped every god blessed bath time, it was a pretty "shitty" time!!!!

Did I mention I hate being sick

What an awful night, I hardly slept, I hate being sick! I really hope we don't have to make a trip to the doctor's again. We'll see how the next two days go.

I think I have the only kids in the world that like to go to bed. I've never seen any like this. I'm not complaining, I am just shocked. Jon actually gets excited when it's time to go to bed. And even Jess is raring to go. Unbeliveable. They even are good nappers, usually.

I can't believe Jon drank over 32 oz. today, plus a jar of peas. It seemed like he wasn't drinking much all day, but all the little bits add up I guess. And he always drinks a lot before bed.

My top 10 list of bands/artists are (in no particular order):
Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Cher, Eminem, Faith Hill, Guns n’ Roses, Madonna, Metallica, Pink, Reba. As you can see I like a variety of music.

Oprah rules, clutter sucks, I'm sick and Jon likes peas

Oprah is a great person and has a great show. I don't always remember to turn the boob tube on at the 4 o'clock hour, but when I do, I usually find her shows to be quite informative.

I forgot to watch it yesterday, but today was a continuation and I was able to "catch up". It was about Compulsive Hoarders. This woman's house was trashed, filled with tons of STUFF. Peter Walsh stepped in, gotta love that dude. I wish he'd come to my house. I am no where near where the people that were on Oprah were, or when Peter does his show Clean Sweep, but I do have some issues with buying stuff I don't need and with getting stuff I don't use.

Clutter drives me nuts. I just have a hard time getting rid of something I paid money for. It's like I'd rather just have it collect dust, then give it or throw it away. I'm working on that. I love this house, and don't plan on moving for a long time, and we can make this 900 sq. ft. home work as long as we declutter it. Sounds easy, but it's very hard. I never know where to begin. I'm a shuffler, moving stuff from one area to another.

I'm getting sick. My throat hurts, sneezing and I just don't feel good. Ugh... I hate being sick. I hope no one else in the house gets sick.

We gave Jon peas this evening, he liked them much better than that rice cereal. He ate half a jar. I guess my boy is just going to be particular on what he eats, haha!

Jon's Doctor's appointment and visiting and love letters, OH MY!

Another day on blogspot, am 100% converted, not yet!

Today was Jon's 4 month appointment. He now weighs 15 pds 8 oz. and is 26 1/2 inches tall. 75% and 95% percentile. Jess got her flu shot, and Jon got 4 shots, ouch!!!! So they are all set for two more months. And low and behold my big boy rolled over today for the first time. When will it happen again, who knows, he did it twice. Both times from back to tummy, just like I thought he would, just sooner than I thought. I was of course too busy on the computer and missed it, but Jeff got to see it. I grabbed the camera at the tail end. OH well. Yeah Jonathan!

I visited with Ann & Logan today. He sure is growing up fast, I haven't seen them in a few months. He uses full sentences now, it's so cute! The kids play so well together, I wish we would get together more often. We've been trying for 3 weeks now, but Logan's been sick, poor little guy.

On Oprah today it was all about "The Greatest Love Story's We've Ever Told." It was pretty interesting. This is a synopsis from the website about one couple I thought was neat:

For 28 years, Patricia and Alton have given each other a romantic gift every night…a love letter! Open lines of communication in your marriage by journaling with your spouse. Start with these three steps.

1. Write about your day or where you are right now. (i.e. "Today was exhausting between all my meetings. I couldn't wait to get home to rest my feet.")
2. Focus on your spouse, starting with "I love you because…" (i.e. "I love you because…you wake up early every day to make me coffee before I get out of bed.")
3. Ask a question of your spouse. Take turns each day for who comes up with the question. It can be as simple as, "What's your favorite dessert?" to more probing like, "Tell me something about yourself that would surprise me." This should be used as the area that can get you talking to your spouse.

Take time after you've each finished your three-part journal entry to read your partner's thoughts and discuss. Remember to do this every night!

I think it is a pretty neat idea. I'd probably type it up or something, who needs millions of sheets of paper. Of course Jeff thinks it's stupid, he doesn't like to write, so of course that would be his reaction. It's not like we have a communication problem, we talk too much as it is. But I think a question/answer thing might be interesting, and be interesting to look back on.

Well, I have tons to do on the computer, like go through my pics and upload them.

More projects, Fall, my 28 month old, and Jon

Add blogging to my list of projects. I could dream up 500 different things to do on the computer and internet. I was on a fellow bloggers site and I saw a site meter and live traffic report. I was amazed, it logged where I was from, how long I was on there, etc. I thought that might be pretty cool. Live journal doesn't support that. I tried to figure it out in Word Press, that's another popular site I have buddy bloggers at, but couldn't so here I am on blogspot. There is so many different sites out there, this blogging is really a popular thing.

It was a beautiful day today, I took some fall pics of the kids outside. I wish we had more of this "fall weather" instead of the cold stuff we've had all month and what they are forecasting in the next few days, brrr. I even had Jon in the swing today, he liked it.

I can't believe my "baby girl" is 28 months today. Yes, I still refer to her in months, just on this special day (the 13th). And I make sure I take her picture every month on this day, and make a collage every 6 months. I know, I am photo crazy. I can't help it, both of them are so cute. What would my life be without them?


And that little boy of mine. I can't believe how well he is doing rolling to his side, it won't be long. I still can't believe the amount of drool he produces. In Jessica's words "Ewww, YUCK". He goes for his 4 months old appointment tomorrow. I'm sure he's close to 16 pds and I'm sure he's at least 26 inches. He sure is tall. I put a cute truck onesie on him that was in his closet, and I couldn't even button it. They sure do grow out of their clothes quickly at this age. We never even put this one on yet. He has so many clothes that most have only been warn once or twice. I go clothes crazy, it's a disease.



I really should go back to organizing itunes. I just got bored with it, and then got caught up with this blogging crap. Hopefully I like this site, we shall see.