No matter what I stop doing to make my life less hectic, it's always hectic.

Today is WW day, so I had to go to my aunt's house to drop off some scrapbook stuff for her and her daughters, then to my parents, then to WW, then to get something to eat, then to my parents to get Joey and then home. It's 10pm when I get home! How frustrating!

I didn't gain or lose today at ww. Stayed the same.

Caroline and I booked our tours and 2 spa treatments yesterday for our cruise. I'm excited about it. In Puerto Varata (sp?) Joe and I are doing a nature/hike expedition in the rain forest, then in Mazitlan we are doing a tour with Mazitlan Frank and we are excited about it. It's about the heart of Mazitlan. In Cabo - we aren't sure yet. I think I want to do a charter fishing trip! That would be awesome to catch a 2 food fish!

Lori cancelled plans on me for tomorrow because they are painting Jeff's house. She was going to come over and scrapbook.

My brother is coming over for a little while. We are paying him to put up two ceiling fans and put a newer back screen door on the house. The one we have is crap. You have to slam it 5 times for it to shut.

I made Applebee's Chicken Fajita rollups from www.topsecretrecipes.com and it turned out awesome! Just like the restuarant though it asked for 500 ingredients - it will still good.

Gotta go to bed soon. I'm tired!

I've been off since Wednesday sick with Joey. Today was my scheduled day off. It started with a quarter to 7am page from a co-worker to help get something fixed. See - the pager never stops.

So I slept until 8am when Joey woke up. I had a 10am eye appt so I needed to get him ready. He was being ok, and then a little stinker at times this morning. I finally said in the middle of his tantrum, do you want to go to school? He stopped, looked at me, and ran for the door. I guess he had enough of me this week! LOL

I dropped him off at school and he was happy to be there. I went to my eye appt which went well. She had to dialate my eyes so I had to wear those funky shades out of the office.

So I went home. I got some recipes printed off for dinners this week. I went to the store and bought it out - and we had just gone grocery shopping this weekend!

I went home and unloaded the groceries and then went to pick up Joey. It's 1pm. Dena says that he was so happy today, he's talking non-stop, and that it seems like he grew a few inches. I guess I'll have to measure him now! Joey's happy to be home. At 2 I put him down for a nap. He was acting tired.

I pitter pattered around for a bit and then laid down too around 3. Joey slept until 4 so I got an hour nap in.

We then just played, I cleaned a bit (what a surprise), I fed Joey, you know - the same old stuff.
Tonight I made dinner - Cajun Skillet Chicken with tomatoes. Joe gets home and says he's not excited about it but will try it. So I cook up this recipe, some pasta and some corn I got at the store. Dinner is ready and Joe tries it and really likes it. He even ate the tomatoes since they were in the topping. It was spicy - no wonder he liked it - and I liked it too! We gave some chicken without the topping on it to Joey, and he got this look like, OMG, and then started to cry. I guess it WAS spicy. I gave him his drink and told him to drink it and he threw it. I picked it back up I said drink your juice and he finally took it and chugged almost the whole thing. Poor kid. He wanted chicken so bad that I warmed up a few chicken nuggets - that made him happy.

Here are some photos from last week around Wed/Thur - we went to Target and got Joey his first Thomas the train replicas and that's all he played with. The one of him and me is right after he got out of the tub - playing with his Thomas the train toys. The one of him sleeping is from this weekend. Instead of putting his head on the pillow, he puts his whole body on it. He sleeps all over his bed. I bet he will never grow out of a crib!

It’s been a week since I last updated. Yeah, I know – that’s bad. I’ve been sick all week. I got this nasty virus on Thursday August 11^th, and today’s Sunday the 21^st and I’m still sick and NO BETTER! Joey’s the same way – he got sick around the same time and he’s still sick too. I guess both of us are going to the Dr’s tomorrow to get on antibiotics. I think antibiotics are overused and I do not like to take them, and do not like Joey taking them…but I missed 3 days of work last week because both Joey and I were sick and we still aren’t better! We had a bad sore throat, then got super congested and it hasn’t gone away. You know, the crap that settles in your throat at night and you have to cough out? Then I’m hacking all day long – cough cough cough and it sounds like I’m dying! Well then it’s like that all day long…and you know you have a major infection raging! Joey even had another temp yesterday!! He had a temp last Tuesday - Thursday and that’s why I stayed home with him. So why does he have it again yesterday? So anyhow, again, we are going to the dr. tomorrow, if they can fit us in. I guess we’ll see what they have to say. I have an eye appt tomorrow and I need to take him to daycare for an hour or so and then probably while I go to the Dr’s.

Right now we are on our way home from a weekend at Grandma’s house. My pager just went off and I don’t know why. I don’t think I have gotten through a weekend without that darn thing going off!!! I can’t get to the pager while we are in the car, and even if I could, I’m not even in a position to fix any problems – I’m in a car!

So this weekend on Saturday we went to Birch Run so I could return 2 skirts that I bought online from Coldwater Creek. So I went to look at this skirt in the store, and they wanted $49.99 for it and I got it for $19.99 online. You have to be freaking kidding me! I am NOT going to buy anything from that store anymore! Shopping online is sooo much cheaper!

So afterwards Joe and I were talking about getting something to eat. Grandma was watching Joey… so we decided we wanted Red Lobster. We hadn’t eaten there in a long time and it’s one of our favorite restaurants. So we drove to Saginaw to eat there and had a wonderful meal. Their coconut shrimp is excellent. I have to find out how to make it. I also had their fettuccini shrimp alfredo. That was excellent too! I just love eating there! So we had a good date night. We went grocery shopping afterwards. I needed to buy some beef broth for French onion soup that I was making the next day.

Sunday I slept in (thank you grandma and grandpa!!) and then I woke up and grandma made us breakfast! Joe and I then started making the French Onion Soup. It’s soooo good and easy to make. You crock pot it for 5 hours or so and then add French bread and cheese during the last ½ hour of cooking and it melts and makes an awesome soup. I took a nap when Joey did and when I woke up, Joe had said he already had 3 bowls of it and wanted a fourth bowl but he didn’t want to eat it all. He loves it as much as I do!

I stepped down from one of my design teams this weekend – Scrapaddict. There is just too much going on. I’ve been really stressed lately. I work 45 hours a week, sometimes more because I have to work a weekend here or there or do after hours support. Then that cuts out on even more time I have with Joey… Then I sell Avon, I workout a few times a week, I like having a clean house so I clean a lot, I like playing with Joey and spending time with Joe, I like to cook, I like to sleep (which I have NOT gotten enough of lately and it’s been killing me – I usually sleep 11pm to 5am!)… so I had to cut back. I decided that I needed more weekend time and me time so I am not going to do design work for Scrapaddict anymore (and I hated giving that up!) and not selling Avon anymore. I sell it right now for our local Curves and it’s too much of a hassle to sell, and do orders, send stuff back. I just don’t enjoy it – you know?

A funny thing happened this week. Joey has these blocks called Peek a blocks. They have things in the block – they are clear and having bananas, monkeys, different things in them. Well he came running to me with one and started almost crying and practically threw it at me. I took a look at it and it had fruit loops cereal in it and a bowl – of course they are plastic but Joey didn’t know any better. He wanted them out of there! So I had to take him in the room and give him some cereal to munch on. I explained to him they are not real and they are plastic but I’m not so sure he understood that!

Let’s see – he’s been trying to say Grandma and Grandpa. He saw a horse today and said moo. We told him no, the horses say Neigh…and he said neigh too! He says spaghetti but it’s more like sgetti and it’s so cute. He tries to say blueberries. It’s his favorite thing to eat. He’s a climbing monster lately. He climbs into his high chair all the time now.

I gained .6 at WW this week. I have to watch how much I gain because if I keep my weight in check, I don’t have to pay at the end of the 6 weeks. It would be nice to not pay for WW! I do believe I have been eating pretty badly this week. I’ll really have to watch it the rest of this week.