Category: Crafts

I’m finally getting a few minutes to just sit down and relax. I’ve decided I’m just going to start updating already; no more waiting to see if I’ll have time to catch up on all the entries I’ve already missed. I will update those eventually, just not anytime soon. I still haven’t even written about Christmas or Alaethia’s 1st birthday, but I will!

I’m sitting outside in the cool breeze with Alaethia and Eenan, who are both swinging in their swings. It’s such a nice day out. I had an excellent day at work. Circulation was low for some reason (probably because teachers are busy helping kids cram for the TAKS) which I’m really glad about because I was so sleepy and tired. I had a chance to shelve all of yesterday’s left-over books (which weren’t many to begin with) and check for and stick labels onto the new books. I’m almost done with those, which I’m a little sad about. I really like doing the labels LOL.

I got to finish everything I needed to do so I actually got out on time. Well, at 3:05, but still. Once they finally install the time clocks, or whatever they’re called, I’m going to have to make sure I clock out on time. And go in on time for that matter, heh.

I picked up the boys, rushed home and then changed Alaethia to take her to the doctor to get her 1 year shots. I took her in the Friday before last, when she got sick with a horrible cold, and they went ahead and gave her her 1 year physical. They told me to take her back when she was feeling better to get her shots. We were in and out in less than half an hour, which is awesome considering we’re usually there 1 and a half hours.

Since it’d been six months since her last set of shots I was not prepared for the screaming and the tears. I had to hold down her arms and the nurse held her legs while she jabbed (yes, jabbed) the needles in. Ooy. It was awful. She didn’t do too bad though; she only screamed for about 5 seconds after each poke and got over it pretty quickly. I still gave her some Tylenol, just in case.

When I got home I got a chance to install Alaethia’s new toddler car seat into the Equinox. I bought it since Monday and barely had time to set it up today. Now she’ll be much more comfortable when we go out. She was enjoying watching Alice in Wonderland this past Sunday when Mario, the kids and I were on our way to Long John Silver’s for dinner. Got to get some cute educational DVDs for her!

Since I haven’t update in so long I haven’t mentioned just how brilliant my boys are. Jaylen’s reading at about 2nd grade level (he’s in Kinder) and can write and spell very well, with hardly any help when he has sentences for homework. Eenan’s also doing great. His conduct’s improved and he recently placed 2nd in Oral Reading and 3rd in Storytelling district-wide in UIL. I’m so proud of them :).

I’ve been incredibly tired all week. Well, since last week actually. I don’t know what came over me; Noelia convinced me to sign up for sewing classes with her at Life’s a Stitch. It’s only three classes, but they usually last two hours and I’m exhausted by the time I get home (half hour drive). I ended up staying up till 12:30am Tuesday night (Wednesday morning?) to finish up my “homework” from last week’s lesson: making my own pillowcase without help. I’m making matching Transformers pillowcases for the boys. Then I plan to make curtains (right now they have Pokemon ones in their Transformer-themed room. It’s pretty fun though. Our first lesson was making a pillowcase with piping and the one we had yesterday was how to make a quilted bag. We’re halfway done. Our homework is to sew our straps on the bad and then sew up the edges. Then next week we finish it up and start on the next lesson, which will be patterns. We’re going to learn to make pajama bottoms! Like I’m not obsessed with them enough already!

But yeah. I’ve been tired. What with the lessons, endless laundry, tons of stuff to do every day, hardly sleeping and finally getting over our colds (Alaethia and me) my body’s drained.

Which reminds me…I’ve got the white laundry to do, I need to make dinner, get the boys in the shower, get myself in the shower and try to work on my bag a little. No. I probably won’t do that. But I do have to read to the kids tonight. I promised Jaylen.

This entry was started, oh, about a week ago? With everything going on I’m totally behind on updating, so I figured I’d just upload what I have so far and continue with the rest of the entry tomorrow before I end up with a 10-page novel (who knows, I’m probably close already!).

(Started last Friday) The past week’s been a blur of doctor’s appointments and…stress.

Let me rewind. It thunder stormed, loudly, early morning of the 24th (Thursday). Both the boys got scared when there was a particularly earth-shaking bang of thunder, so they wanted to sleep in our bed. Since I was feeding Alaethia just at that moment I told them they’d have to go back to their beds because all 5 of us wouldn’t fit. I woke up in the morning to get them ready for school and freaked out when neither of them were in their beds. I go to the living room and find them lying on the couch, asleep together. Aww!

Aly turned 4 months old on the 24th. She started sitting up with assistance from her Boppy on that very day!

So far she has begun to grab for things, she constantly teething, sitting up, rubs her blanket on her face when she’s sleepy, sleeps in her crib all night, starting from 11pm or 12am to around 4 or 5am and then sleeps after that till 8 or 9am. THEN sleeps, most of the time, not always (like when I want to take a nap) till 11am. She’s showing signs of wanting to eat “big people food” (the poor thing just stares and stares when we’re eating!) and likes to drink water from cups.

It was also John’s birthday that day. He’d been not-so-subtlety hinting that he wanted me to bake him a cake, and since I was part of the reason his birthday was ruined last year, I obliged. We wanted to take him out to Kumori’s, a sushi place, but he changed his mind at the last minute, as always.

I started making everything around 4 pm. I had to go to Dollar General twice that day to get ingredients for the cake and enchiladas I was making. He got home from work and I took him to Circuit City, where they had the Tekken game for PSP that he was looking all over for. Went to Big Lots to get feminine products and since I felt embarrassed buying only pads (yes, at 25, married with 3 children I still feel odd buying Just Pads at stores) so I looked around the scrapbooking isle. Well, I ended up with scrapbooking supplies only since they didn’t have any kinds of pads I like.

We went next door to K-mart, where they only had crappy kinds of pads so I had to stop by Family Dollar on the way home, since it’s the only other store in the city and I didn’t want to go to Dollar General again for the third time that day. Needless to say, it felt like forever before we got home. Mario actually beat us home that time.

I was tired as hell, and then a little disappointed because John left with his friend and didn’t even eat the food or cake (that he MADE me make him) that I worked so hard on :(. He ate it the next day though, after he got back, so he was forgiven.

Eenan felt fine the next day, so he went to school. Jaylen, on the other hand, still felt really lethargic, didn’t want to eat a thing (hadn’t really eaten well since the day before in the afternoon) because of how bad his throat hurt, and had a fever of 102°. We took Jaylen to the doctor first thing that morning after Eenan left to school.

I had to go through all these calls and stuff since he’d already seen his primary doctor this month, all while poor Jaylen slept on the bench and Mario held Alaethia. The office had to get some kind of permission to allow their new doctor (Alaethia’s primary) to see him that day, or else we’d get charged full price for the doctor’s visits the boys had already had earlier during the week, which would have easily been at least $300.

They told me there was a lot of Strep Throat and Herpangina going around. Most of the kids they’d been seeing recently have had Strep or Herpangina. As soon as the nurse practioner, Edith, saw Jaylen she said, “Oh! He’s even got the Scarletina bumps. I can tell you right now he’s probably got Strep.”

I had honestly not noticed the bumps at all until that very moment. They were tiny and fine little bumps, almost like goosebumps. They’re called Scarletina, or Scarlet Fever, and very common with Strep. Edith prescribed some antibiotics and Mortin and sent us off. She said he should feel better in 24 hours.

We went to leave his prescription at H-E-B, then went straight to pick up Mario’s paycheck. Elda called as we were entering Palmview to let us know she’d already picked up Brandon, so we didn’t have to pick him up after school. I had a nagging feeling we should have just picked up Eenan early, too, to avoid having to rush to get him at 3:30, but thought, ‘Nah,’ so we just kept going. I’m not kidding you, not even 5 seconds later I get a call on my cell from the nurse that Eenan was in her office with a temperature of 101. I frantically called everyone–Jorge, Sonia, and Elda–to see who could pick him up for me until we got there. The nurse gave him some Tylenol with my permission and Elda went for him.

On the way back home we stopped by H-E-B to pick up Jaylen’s prescription and then Dollar General to get soups and Gatorade. Poor Jaylen kept mumbling, “I just wanna feel better…” I felt so bad for him :(.

The first thing we did when we got home was give him some warm soup and Gatorade. He took his medicine and felt so much better while eating his chicken and stars soup. It was such a relief to see him eat something, finally.

To be continued….

Got out of the shower a while ago and am now backing up my photos from December 2006 until now. I had this weird feeling, especially now that our Norton’s expired, that something bad might happen to my computer — like getting a virus — and I’d lose my precious photos. I’ve had it happen to me way too many times and I’ve learned my lesson!

Alaethia’s asleep right now (the boys have been asleep since 9:30, late for them even) and Mario’s out helping Eddie with something. I should be in bed too, taking advantage of her early nap, but this is my quiet time. Now I shall try and type as fast as I can since I probably just jinxed myself and she’ll be up any second!

It’s the start of a new week and the boys are already tired of school. They keep complaining more and more each morning but I keep trying to instill hope in them by counting down how many weeks of school are left. They don’t care.

I’ve been running on four hours of sleep all day. Alaethia didn’t fall asleep till 2:30am last night, it was awful. I skipped my morning nap with her completely in order to get my checkbook balanced. I hadn’t balanced it since March 9th — eek! We’re about $100 less than I hoped we were, but oh well. I was close.

I filled out the kids’ insurance renewals, which are a bit late. I hope I don’t have trouble turning them in. I was supposed to have sent them in 15 days after I received the letter but it’s been well over a month. I hate when I procrastinate!

Great. The darn CD drive won’t spit my Photo CD back out. It goes from showing me the green “Occupied” light to an angry red one when I push Eject. Stupid thing. I guess I’ll continue with my back ups tomorrow. *sigh*

I had a nice to-do list typed up, just so that I could stay on track.

1. Balance Checkbook
2. Fill out, have Mario sign, and have Mary fax boys’ insurance renewal.
3. Make copies of Saturday night’s pics for Yoanna, Jannet, and Mayra.
4. Go through cabinets and drawers in kitchen – get rid of stuff for garage sale.
5. Take Jaylen’s Jeep and toddler bed to storage.
6. Back up all December through March pictures onto CDs (- half-way done!)

1. Blog
2. Upload Matthew’s birthday pics
3. Scrapbook
4. Read

At least I’m doing 2 of the things on my 2nd, personal little list. I only got to read a chapter, but it’s all good. I’m reading Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella, which I can totally relate to. Just today — after John, Alaethia and I picked Jaylen up from school and went to Target — I was tempted by so many wonderful things and was creating justifications in my mind for why buying the things I wanted was okay! They were on sale!

But — and I’m so proud of myself — I held back, and with shaking hands placed everything back on the shelves and away from my debit card. So many scrapbooking things on sale *gulp*, but at least I don’t feel my heart sinking when I’m looking at my checkbook and most purchases were made by me, heh.

John finally got himself a damn TV. That’s why we went. We drove straight to my storage unit and got a whole bunch of junk out so that I could sort through it for the garage sale. I was so pumped about doing this garage sale, especially because I need want to get the boys some new dressers, a new microwave and new TV Table/entertainment center. All of our stuff is almost as old as how long we’ve been married — which will be 8 incredible years tomorrow :). After picking Eenan up from school and after he did his homework, I took both the boys to their room and we looked through every last toybox they had so they could get rid of old toys. They got rid of one tiny box, and that was it. The rest of the stuff is brand-new, so it’s not like I could force them to get rid of anything. We spent money on them!

Alaethia slept while we sorted through boxes and only woke up about 10 minutes before we were done. I think, for now, I’ll wait on the garage sale. It’s not like we absolutely need the dressers, microwave, or TV table. My eyes have been offended by our current ones’ terrible sight this long — what’s a few more weeks or months?

Oooh! And I received the pictures I ordered from Winkflash this afternoon so I cannot WAIT to start scrapbooking! I’m so excited :)!

It’ll be soothing to the awful cramps I will soon be subjected to. It was a glorious month and 2 weeks without a period, so I’m bracing myself for the pain I’m about to endure. I feel pain at the tops of my legs already, which is a weird thing that happens to me when that time of the month is creeping up.

Alaethia has her 2 month appointment tomorrow, for sure this time. They’re going to poke and prod my little baby! And I’ve been wanting to get her ears pierced too, but I need to make an appointment at the boys’ doctor’s office since they numb the ears and everything. I can’t believe she’s 2 months already! I was looking through pictures from last year yesterday and it was weird seeing pictures of us without her. It feels like she’s always been with us :).

Oh, and Mario told the family something surprising. During the Rosarios they kept asking him how he felt being a father of three, if he enjoyed being a dad to a daughter and if we were done having kids. Know what he said? He said he wanted us to have another girl. I know, WOW. At first I was in shock, and immediately crossed my legs, but after thinking about it — sure! I’d love to have another daughter! Of course, after I’ve spent enough time with Alaethia — maybe spacing them out like Alaethia and Jaylen are (almost 5 years). We’ve got the rest of our lives :).