And by boys, I mean 2 and 4 years old. LOL Get your mind out of the gutter!
Ok, so I decided to take a road trip with my boys to Ohio to see some friends. Meeting them was great. But the whole trip was one huge lesson after another.
First – bring snacks and drinks with you in a cooler. Amongst these snacks should be plain old milk. Did you know that they now make vanilla-flavored milk???? Yeah, they do. Found out that mistake when my 2-year-old wanted his bottle and apparently, I bought POISON. LOL Thought it was milk. It was sugar milk.
Second – if you are not going to stay with family or friends, bring TOYS. Otherwise anything in the hotel room becomes a toy. very frustrating to hang up the telephone about 500 times in less than 24 hours.
Third – If your children are curious, they will not go to sleep unless the lights are off and there are no distractions. So, mommy can not read a book, watch tv, watch podcasts on my touch, or crochet. No, I had to lie in bed awake in the dark. I was so completely bored.
Fourth – Make sure to check the diaper on the 2-year-old at every stop. Especially when the stops are 20-30 miles (minutes) in between. Zach had wet pants. I hadn’t checked and screamed for 25 minutes until I could stop again. Granted this was the same time as the vanilla flavored milk incident.
Fifth – It’s best to keep adult to child ratio to one on one. LOL
Overall, it was a good trip. Not restful at all. Not very relaxing for me. But I got to meet my friends and enjoy some good beer and food. That’s good enough for me 
So, part of my New Years’ Resolution is to lose weight. I’m working on it. I need to work out. I’m not opposed to the working out. It’s getting the kids dropped off to the Kids’ Zone. They don’t like it there and cry when I drop them off. Makes me feel like shit. I’ve tried different times of the day. Soon, I’m just going to try going when Dan gets home so that the kids don’t go to the room. It’s annoying. Or I’m just going to tell them to suck it up. I mean, how bad can it be to have a whole room full of toys!!!!????
The other part of the resolution is to work on the house. That mostly includes organization. And most of that work falls on my husband. He’s building built-ins, bookshelves, and other handy work to make the cabinets. Then the organization is up to me.
I’m also going to get more scrapbooking done. I’m as far behind as ever and I need to get going. I got more scrapbooking done last year than the year before. And getting the cricut from my husband will make it easier to scrap at home without the need to buy titles and die-cuts at the store. I should be able to create almost any page I want now. LOL We’ll see.
So, we’ll see how those go. The third is to try to conceive our third child. And we really hope for a girl. I know you’re only supposed to hope for healthy, but I really want to be a mommy to a girl.
So, part of my New Years’ Resolution is to lose weight. I’m working on it. I need to work out. I’m not opposed to the working out. It’s getting the kids dropped off to the Kids’ Zone. They don’t like it there and cry when I drop them off. Makes me feel like shit. I’ve tried different times of the day. Soon, I’m just going to try going when Dan gets home so that the kids don’t go to the room. It’s annoying. Or I’m just going to tell them to suck it up. I mean, how bad can it be to have a whole room full of toys!!!!????
The other part of the resolution is to work on the house. That mostly includes organization. And most of that work falls on my husband. He’s building built-ins, bookshelves, and other handy work to make the cabinets. Then the organization is up to me.
I’m also going to get more scrapbooking done. I’m as far behind as ever and I need to get going. I got more scrapbooking done last year than the year before. And getting the cricut from my husband will make it easier to scrap at home without the need to buy titles and die-cuts at the store. I should be able to create almost any page I want now. LOL We’ll see.
So, we’ll see how those go. The third is to try to conceive our third child. And we really hope for a girl. I know you’re only supposed to hope for healthy, but I really want to be a mommy to a girl.
