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!!!!

The days are a blur

The days just fly by. Some days I don't even remember what day it is.

Jessica woke up today at 7am. I heard MAMA, crying, and ALL WET. So I knew I was in trouble. Jeff put on her diaper a little crooked and it wasn't covering what it should have been covering. So she was drenched, the sheets were drenched, what a thing to wake up to. So the laundry got started a little earlier than I would have liked it to.

I finally got all my pictures loaded onto the website, that took forever. I take way too many pictures. I always have trouble deciding which ones to actually print, which to just make collages of, and which ones I should really just hit delete on. I need more hard drive space. Between music and pictures I am running out. And I do back them up on DVD, but I like them all on the computer, so they can all be accessed quickly and easily.

Today was Gymboree, they had cornmeal in the play box, Jeff says the kids made a BIG MESS, hahaha! Jess loves her art class, I'm so glad I put her in it. If we want to play on the equipment we can just go to OPEN GYM times, although that is challenging taking the two of them. Maybe in January we'll try "fitness fun" and Jon will start level two then also.

While they were gone, I was able to do the dishes, sweep/mop floor, bring up all the clothes and put them away, vacuum the carpet, give Jon a bath and start feeding him his bottle. Time went by very fast. But I'm glad to get that all out of the way, and I'm glad Jon was pretty cooperative.

I actually got Jeff to participate in my "love letters" idea. I think it will be fun.

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.