terrible twos early

Crystal is trying to put Keira’s coat and hat and mittens on, and Keira is fighting like crazy with a smile on her face.
She is being a bit of a stinker.

It is hard not to smile or laugh at her but I know we can’t because it just makes her more goofy.

potty training Keira

Because her mother is a care giver of young children…and is potty training one of the little girls and the other one is already potty trained, Keira wants to be involved in it too.

She does go most nights without wetting in her diaper and last night her mother had her wear training pants on all night…and Keira didn’t wet herself.

She does have more accidents during the day then she does actually go in the toilet but….she is only 20 months old so……

Seems hard to believe my little sweet heart is getting old enough to be potty training.

If you are reading this……..

If you are reading this, then why aren’t you writing on your own blog?
Hello???????
I try and write nearly every day and my sister does pretty much write every day if she isn’t working.
But my daughter doesn’t write very often.!!!!
My brother doesn’t write much except about his chapter stories….

and my older sister doesn’t write that often either.
So….IF YOU ARE READING THIS…..and you know who you are!!!!!
Write on your blog!!!!!

a good day

it is strange to admit this but I have to say that today was a good day.
And to be honest with you I can’t even tell you when the last day I felt like I had a good day at work.
I have hated the job so much that I hated every aspect of it….but today was a good day….and I was busy and didn’t even mind being at work.
Strange huh?
But….most of the time I hate the job and hate everything about the job…but not today.
And I can’t even tell you why.
Except maybe that I’m feeling better emotionally and I’m assuming going to Florida in ten days has something to do with that….and I just feel like I’m getting answers from God.
Plus all my children are healthy and happy and Rick and I are too so….can’t ask for much then that huh?

job interview and wondering should I do it?????

I got a call tonight to set up a time for an interview with the University of Iowa in the housekeeping department.
The pay is less then what I make now and when I applied I had every intention of it being a second job, working Monday through Friday and having every weekend and holiday off like I do now.
The idea behind all of this is that I get this second job and work for a year or so and get out of this God awful dept we are in and then leave the school and keep working at the University.
I believe the position I applied for was either working three thirty  till midnight or five to one thirty am.
And while that would make me extremelly tired, I can see myself doing it for the good of getting out of dept.
So….now I just have to decide….should I do it?

it was painful

for months, probably closer to a year, we have had trouble with one of our cats urinating in places other then the litter box.
Jasper is his name and he is a beautiful cat in many ways…but needy and demanding in others.

well for a year or more we have been having problems with him going the bathroom in places he shouldn’t be
We took him to the vet and they ran tests for diabetes, lukeminia and other things.
All tests came back negetive.
However his urinating has only gotten worse and the whole house stinks of urine.
So today, even though it was and is very painful when I think about it, I took him to the vet and they put him to sleep.
I hated doing it, and yes it made me cry…..and it still makes me sad when I think of him.
BUT I know that putting him to sleep was a painless thing for him.
And we just couldn’t live with the smell from him

So while I will miss him….I know it was the thing to do.
Goodnight Jasper and be happy in Cat Heaven.

ten days and I will be in Florida.

we had another round of snow again yesterday.
Iowa City got three inches and we got two in WL.

anyway it just makes me want to go to Florida that much sooner.
but ten days from tomorrow I will be heading south.

Can’t wait to soak up some rays and just be in a warmer place.
of course coming back to Iowa in the middle of March might put a damper on things too.
But….guess that is the breaks right?

And then in five months we are going to go to Wyoming for a week so….that will be nice too.

nothing to say….. nothing going on

it is Monday night, my eldest son turned 27 today.
and we had supper and cake and ice cream.
they all  are gone now and Rick is flipping through the channels on the TV and I’m rambling about nothing at all.

Rick has “Friends” on and it is beyond stupid tonight.

but…as usual there really isn’t much going on so….guess we flip through the channels and deal with it.

Do I sound bored?
yes I am.
Guess it will be a early night to bed.

If…….

I have a question and I would like some input on it.
IF the love has died, do you stay in a marriage anyway?
I am on the fence in this situation.
A friend of mine is having this problem
She has been married for thirty years, and her children are grown.

Her husband has turned to a grouch and can’t have a nice thing to say about anything.
She has asked me for advice and I can’t give her any because I don’t know the answer.
So I ask you readers of my blog….what do you think?

The reason I am on the fence is because, he doesn’t beat her, he doesn’t cheat on her, he works full time and is a good provider.
He is clean and does a bit of the household chores.

But she doesn’t love him anymore.
They argue about everything and she just has no loving feelings for him.
She does worry about what their two sons  will say to her or how they will treat her if she divorces their father.

I try to point out the good things that she saw in him years ago when they dated and were first married…..but…she doesn’t want to think about those times because in her words, “He isn’t that man anymore”

So….my question is…..do you stay married to someone because you swore to till you are parted in death?
Or do you live your life for yourself and get out of a loveless marriage?
I would like to have other people’s opinion.
Thanks in advance

in two weeks

two weeks from today I will be in Sunny Florida.
I imagine we will be at the beach or doing something outside in the warm sunshine.
For seven days I will be out of this stinking Iowa cold and snow.
It will be very nice.
I’m still a bit leery of the drive back, driving a stick shift and the hours a day on the road but I know God will look after us and if something should happen, then it will be His will.
I put all my faith in my Dear Lord.

Two weeks still seems like a long time away but…..at least I can see the light at the end of this cold depressing Iowa tunnel.