katy and i spent a lot of time by ourselves today. it was nice. you may be thinking that ryan is a jerk for not being here with us or my family are all jerks.. seriously, they aren't. ryan and my 2 sisters and my brother and my mom were here for about 2 or 3 hours today. it was nice to spend time with them. but it's nice to spend 'alone' time with katy. we went for 3 walks. we sat by the window for most of the day. we've spent a lot of time bonding. and i love it!
The project I was working on failed. Major failed. I had dreams of make a new header and getting my brother-in-law to make me a new background because he's good with all that html stuff. But, it failed. So once I have even more time to spend on it I will.
This past week has been crazy. End of the marking period meant getting grades done. It was the first time I did it. Wow craziness. The phone calls because parents thought grades were wrong. CHECK YOUR KIDS' FOLDERS! I add a grade sheet in there every Friday. I put every paper in there with the grade on tap. I explain what was wrong about the wrong answer. I put the correct answer next to it. It was frustrating.
No one has been sick in our house, a first in awhile. I've been sneezing like crazy, but that's allergies. Some a-hole mowed their lawn. Thanks, jerk.
We only have 4 full weeks of school left. How sweet. It's somewhere around 30 days of school left! I didn't update the countdown on the board lately so I don't remember. All I can say is I can't wait. I can't wait for summer.
Next week I'm going to be seeing a sleep specialist for my abnormal sleep patterns. Did you know that in the United States their is only 4 psychiatrists that are certified/qualified to be a sleep disorder specialist in additon to being a psychiatrist? The doctor I'm seeing is one of those doctors! I won't lie, I'm a little nervous about it because I hate new doctors. I hate doctors. I hate specialists and having the higher copay. I'm sure that eventually I'll need a sleep study. Great, freakin' great. That excites me. Not. Especially the doctors for, you know, your feminine parts. I hate those appointments. Every year I dread the appointment. Every single year!
Every morning the first thing I hear is "How many more days until I go to kindergarten, Mommy?" Every single morning. I want to poke my eyeballs out with a pencil. Preston gets into everything. I can't wait until he realizes running into the gate does not work to get it down.
That's all for now, I'm tired.
My sister Caitlin cannot afford living on her own. Her boyfriend's parents won't take them in. I offered to take them in. Oh fuckk. What do I do know? where do they stay? that's four more people in my house. Oh well. She offered to help pay some bills but she just couldn't live on her own. Which is fine. I'll keep you updated
I shed a few tears. I turned my tassel and I'm officially a college graduate. Freaky to say. Details tomorrow. Maybe. I just want to enjoy my day with my family!
Christmas is right around the corner. I am almost done shopping. I have Abbie's stuff, Preston's stuff, Ryan's stuff, Mom and Dad's, sister's, brother,and nieces and nephews
I'm not completely done with Ryan. I'll finish him in the next week or so. I save money all year long which is why I can spend so much at the holiday. The total between everyone is $584.34.
I spent $87.15 on my sister Caitlin's family.
I spent 100.65 on my sister Jocelyn's family. I spent more because she has a bigger family.
I spent $50 on my brother Tyler.
I spent $50 on my parents.
I spent $86.60 on Ryan so far.
I spent $105.97 on Abbie and $103.97 on Preston.
I'll post pictures and details later. I got Preston and Abbie all clothing because they need it and will get toys from the rest of the family.
And, I got good deals on everything.
I can't think of anything to post about... so.. I'm going to just do a post on the love of my life, the father of two and the father figure of one, Ryan Cole.
We met in high school. Somewhere in our freshman/sophomore year. I had a boyfriend on and off and he had a girlfriend on and off. But we were friends. We ended up going to junior & senior prom together. I had a a boyfriend but he didn't like stuff like that. If I have ever sent you pictures from the prom, I think I said they were from our senior year.. That was wrong. It was junior year. Anyway, we were really close friends and shared almost everything with each other. We would talk late at night and he would listen to me while I was going through the hardest time in my life, my parents were fighting non-stop and almost got divorced, I recently learned I was pregnant, and a few other problems. He would come over every weekend and we would sit and watch movies together and if we would talk about our problems he would wipe away my tears and tell me it would be ok and give me a kiss on the forehead. Sometimes I felt like I was cheating on Adam, but in my heart I knew I wasn't, that we were only friends.
After we graduated high school we lost contact until we started college where we had almost all of our classes together. I really didn't talk to him much. Finally on May 23, 2007 we went out with friends. I had no clue he was going to be there. I was delighted when he was because I really wanted him in my life now that I didn't have a boyfriend. We went to his apartment that night since we had some drinks and didn't want to drive. We did the nasty and a month later we found out we were expecting our first child in March of '08 which we thought was a girl, then a boy, then a girl again, then a boy again. We just prepared for either. He was at my house almost everynight over the summer and in August we bought our first house together.
We spent the holidays with both of our families and I began to grow closer to his family and I felt like his sisters were my own. I loved them then and I love them now.
On February 25, 2008 we welcomed our first baby, Preston Cole who was born at 8:03pm after 12 hours of labor and 26 minutes of pushing. He was 7lbs 6oz and 20in long. He had a full head of hair and completely healthy. The arrival of our little baby boy was quite stressful on us being full time students in college and caused many fights that cause a 3 week split-up. We got back together. We have never been happier.
We spend all our time trying to give both Abbie and Preston a healthy, happy childhood. Abbie loves her little brother and is constantly giving him kisses.
On May 23rd we celebrated our 1 year anniversary together.
On Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 Ryan proposed to me. I said yes. We've had our handful of fights since then that almost resulted in a break-up.
Our life has been a roller coaster of good and bad, but we deal with it.
In october of 2008, we learned that we would be expecting our 2nd child together in May of '09. We're both in shock and a little freaked out. We'll learn to live life as a family of five and manage to make the best of it.
We spend all our time taking care of the kids, playing with them, and enjoying our peace and quiet at night.
We will both graduate from Penn State on December 20th, 2008 with a major in Music Education. I'm excited to finally be out and find a good job. I know, it's going to be hard to find one.
That's us. And well, we're boring.
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This has nothing at all to do with this post, but we gained 2 new cars this weekend. Since we will have 3 kids in car seats, Abbie in a booster seat, Preston, in a 'big boy' seat, and the baby in a baby car seat, we need a bigger car. His dad got a new car and we gained his old Ford Explorer.. it really isn't old. It's only 2 years old.. or something like that. And we got his brother's truck. I love it. So, we have 5 cars. Two in the garage, 2 in the driveway, and one in the garage out back. We plan to get rid of the truck and maybe his car. Not sure. But we only have one car payment to make so it's not that bad.
I realized tonight for the first time since i had preston that family time is good.
I haven't had the time to do anything with the whole family. I didn't have any softball games or practice at all. And, I got out of class early.
When I came home Ryan and I spent some time in the kitchen and made a nice dinner. A nice Italian dinner. It was super good.
Then, after that. We went in the family room and i laid on the floor with Abbie and Preston. Then, ryan came down. We were rolling around and goofing off and just having a good time.
Boy, did it feel good to have a 'family' night for the first time in almost two months. well, actually longer. Since before i was pregnant. Wow.. proabbly a year. and then watching preston laying on the floor giving us his 'social' smile. boy, it was great. if only i could have gotten pictures.
