Life with a Toddler

Damian just went home and me and justice took a long walk and took the lady down the street her mail like we do everyday. I am now working on my dinner and cleaning up to house since two boys trash it more than one does. I am tired and would like to take a nap but that will not happen, I know that. I also have not been sleeping well so I know even if I go to bed early it will not do much good.

Today was nice to sleep in for a little while. This does not happen in my house for me ever. Justice slept until almost 7:30 I was so excited, that I had forgotten that Damian would be here soon. Thank goodness my mom called and reminded me that Damian was on his way here to play for the day. Damian got here and I got cleaned up so that we could go and run some Avon books to customers, take Aaron his coffee and do a couple other errands. We are home now and Justice is down for his nap. Damian is watching TV so I am able to get some work done, but Damian keeps forgetting that Justice is asleep and starts being loud so I am not sure how long the nap today will last. Hopefully for a while because i have things to get done. I have already swept the floor, washed the kitchen table, emptied and refilled the dishwasher, started laundry, cleaned the bathroom, so that leaves, folding laundry, oh yeah I started dinner, so that is finishing dinner, putting laundry away, more dishes, and the list just goes on. Then also make time to cuddle with my son, play with my son, and take care of my sons needs. I think today is going to be a busy day. Oh yeah we need to go to walmart too, we need to get diapers. Not sure what else I need right this second but I will make a list before I go

Yesterday we headed to Bellingham after nap time to spend some time with my dad and my step mom. Justice had a blast playing with bubbles, running around, playing in the sand box, jumping on the trampoline, things that we don't do here much because my yard is not that big and there is not enough room for all the things that they have. I know for his birthday I would like to get a sand table and some things like that, but not the trampoline no room. We had so much fun while we were there since we do not get to go there as much as I would like, but I dropped what had to be done yesterday to go up there and it was well worth it. Justice was whiped out when we got home. He went to bed around 6:30 and I went to H and R block to redo our taxes since the lady that did them messed up oh well. I got home around 8:40 with dinner for me and Aaron and then Justice woke up. I went in to get him so I could rock with him for a few minuets so he would go back to sleep, but when I got in there we was shaking, something I have never seen before, I think he had a baby nightmare. I felt so bad for him. After a little while I got him back to sleep and then I went off to bed too.
Today we have made avon deliveries, dropped off info for doing fundraisers to some places, ate breakfast and lunch, cleaned the house, started laundry, taken shower (both of us) and taken Aaron a coffee at work. Justice is now down for his nap and I am working and thinking about what else needs to be done today. Nothing to fun just the same old things just on a different day.

Today we have been delivering Avon and hanging out in the car. While Justice's is napping today I am getting the info and starting getting things ready for the relay for life in Skagit county where I will have a booth with cookie lee and donating 20% of all proceeds back to the cancer society. I am so excited since there are many family and friends of mine that have or had cancer at one point in time. This is something that is close to home so I feel the urge to do this and the need. I am very excited, but a little scared since Justice will be having his first sleep over at this time since the relay is from 3 in the afternoon till 9 in the morning. He will be fine I know it is me who might not be. I guess this time had to come sometime. I will just miss putting him to bed and getting him up in the morning but I am alright with that or will have to be. This is a big step for me since I do not let any one have him for very long, but I know this time had to come at some point in his and my life. Aaron said that he wanted to come and hang out with me so that I was not there at night by myself so that is why Justice will be doing the sleep over.

This year we did not do anywhere for valentines day. I hate fighting the crowds and did not want to take two kids out to eat. We stayed home and bbqed that night. It was good food but way to cold for that kind of thing. My hubby got my a planted plant, really pretty, a card candy and money. It was good. We got the kids candy and cards this year, nothing to spectacular. It was fun
The next day I started not feeling well and that is the way I have felt now for two days. I hope that I start to feel better soon.

Today is my 50th post and I have not been doing this that long. I have found some wonderful other blogs that I have started to follow and won a wonderful basket yesterday from www.dontgivehimcrackers.blogspot.com. I love her blog and it is very fun to keep up to date on all of them
Ok so now on a more personal note. Tomorrow is valentine's day and I need to go shopping to get my little man something and Aaron something. Aaron will get Adina's when he goes out. This year I need to get Justice something good since he is older. I am also trying to start planning his second brithday party and it is going to be a big one since last year I did not get to do the big one, had to cancel the night before the party because he had the flu. It sucked so I am going to make up for it this year.

Justice is long asleep and I am going to do the same since it has been a long and busy day with lots of things accomplished. I hope to start working on potty training soon and taking away his binkie.

I decided today would be a good day to let Justice play with play dough for the first time. He had fun and it went wonderful. We played with it for about an hour and not that big of a mess to clean up which I was surprised about. My son not make a mess, that does not happen. Well he made up for the no mess with the play dough and threw his dinner on the floor which made a huge mess, then decided to unload the book shelf. Wow two messes in two minuets lucky momma. He will see how he likes throwing his dinner on the floor because he is not getting anything else to eat tonight he will have to wait until in the morning to eat breakfast which I do not think he is going to like very well, but I am getting really tired on picking his dinner up off the floor or matter of fast picking any of his meals off of the floor, I am not sure what else to do. I thought he would grow out of this but two years later he has not and it has only gotten worse. Well I need to get back to him before he throws over something else.

I love being a stay at home mom. I would not change this for the world. I love the diapers, runny noses, coughs, colds, the messes, the dishes, laundry, temper tantrums, the phone calls, the mail, the never ending cleaning, the driving around, the everything that has to do with being at home all the time. I also love running my at home businesses, Avon has been my business for 4 years now and recruiting my butt off has not really payed off so I turned to another business Cookie Lee Jewelry and I have only been with them a very short time, but in that time I absolutely love it . The more money I make to more chance I am able to stay home and raise my son myself and be here with Adina when she is here. I love everything that has to do with my life and would not give up or change a thing about it. Cookie Lee is wonderful because I can do home shows, office shows, trunk shows, or book parties and I make 50% on everything. This is a nice thing because it is not on the fact of how much I sell means I will make more. I also like the fact that I will get rewarded will if I do well. Where with Avon I busted my butt for not much. Don't get me wrong I love avon and would never give that up I am just adding to my life to do what needs to be done to make the money and make sure tha tI can be here with my little man all the time.
Justice I think might be getting sick he is a little warm today but not something that this mother can not handle.
I was going to write more but justice is waking up from his nap so I will blog again later.

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Today has been a good day. I have gotten a lot of work done, and little man has been happy and and angel today. Nothing new happening today other than new messes to clean up but that is all. Everyone I know has been coming down with the flu I am hoping that me and Justice do not since we were around all of these people. Lets just keep hoping that we stay healthy and happy. Aaron has been coming down with a cold but we have had that and are on the mend from that. Hopefully Aaron gets over it soon.

Today all around was just wonderful. I stayed home other than running to the bank. Me and Justice played most of the day and just hung around the house, we did go for a walk and when we started to head home it started to hail hard and the hail was big so I ran most of the way home since Justice was saying "momma head". I do not think he liked the hail on his head. Tomorrow I will be working from home and getting some other things done. Hopefully it will be just as wonderful of a day as it was today. Oh yeah I got Justice to say I love you a couple of days ago. He only said it once and will not say it again but at least I have heard it from my little man once. It was cute and it made me so happy and smiley inside. He said "I nun you" but I knew what he meant. Lately he has wanted to cuddle with me a lot and I really love it.

Ok so I use this to keep me updated on my life with justice but I also read some other blogs. There is one out there having an awesome baby shower with free prizes check it out.http://leeloublogs.blogspot.com/

Me and Justice got up in the morning and made our way up to bellingham for church, then off to grandma's house, then to my dad and sandy's then ended our day at my mom and don's. Justice played with the other kids, took his nap, ate and played some more. While I visited and worked like I do on every sunday. I am a family person so I love going to make my rounds and see everyone I just wish there was more time in the day or that I went up there more than just once a week. We got home and Justice saw the neighbor boys playing football in the street so he went and joined in for quite a while. It was fun to watch and those boys were so nice to let him play since they were way older but they are all so good with him.

I tried to get Justice to get a hair cut today, had the appointment made and when we showed up Justice wanted nothing to do with it. He would only sit in the chair for two seconds and then he wanted to go bye bye. He stood by the door and said truck because he did not want to be there. So no hair cut for my little man, his hair is really starting to get long and cover his ears, but we will have to wait and try again another day.
Today we are just hanging around the house and not doing much, I might go shopping to find me some shoes but not sure yet.
Oh yeah this morning I got in the shower and got out. Was in the bathroom getting ready, had not gotten dressed yet and Justice tore off his diaper and came in and peed on me and thought that was just the funniest thing ever. I know he did it on purpose but what can I do, at least pee is sterile and not something to grouse. Hopefully this is not something new that he is going to try to do all the time.

Today has been a normal day so far. I am working on trying to get some cookie lee parties set, home show or book shows, and doing the normal running around paying bills and depositing pay checks. Justice for those of you who do not know loves coffee and has since he was very little so I decided today when I went to get coffees I would get him his own peppermint hot chocolate and he loved it. I will have to do this more often for him. I love the time that I have with him but I know that someday he will not want to spend so much time with his momma but for now I will cherish every moment that we have together.

Today was one of those days that I wanted to sit down and do nothing all day, but that did not happen. I had Justice my wonderful son, Damian my awesome nephew and things to do. We had to go to walmart, take Aaron his coffee, take miss hazel her mail, make some deliveries and do the normal things of the day. While all along I wanted to come home and crawl into my bed and never get out, but that does not happen I am a mom, what mom do you know that gets to sleep in and do nothing some days. Well not at least this one. Sleeping in for me is 6:45 am. Justice likes to go to bed early and get up early and if I keep him up late he gets up even earlier.
Other than that our day was pretty normal. Nothing to excting. Tomorrow will be about the same with deliveries and so on.
I have been trying really hard to get my cookie lee business going which is taking more time at night but that is alright, I what I do because it means that I get to stay home with my little man.

I am writing something that I normally do not put on here since this is about my life with my son, but I thought I would tell the story of Justice. I got pregnant with a baby and after 4-5 months I lost the baby due to a miscarriage that was one of the hardest days of my life. I wanted my child so much and then it is gone. I cried and did not know what else to do, so my husband decided that we should go to Winthrop with a few friends to get my mind off of things and to try and have some fun since this was all going on during July. So we packed up my car and his truck with the boat behind and headed to Winthrop. We had a wonderful weekend and when we came home I found out that I was pregnant again. So I just lost a baby a week before and now I was pregnant again. I had mixed feelings because I did not want to loose another one and with choices I made when I was younger I was not sure if I was going to loose another one. The choices are not something that I am going to go into detail about because those are something that I am not proud of and wished never happened, but I can not change that now. So I went to the doctor like I am supposed to when I am pregnant and then found out that I had gestational diabetes. Wonderful something else to deal with, but it was something that I could control with a diet, which I did. The pregnancy went wonderful. I went to my eight month appointment exacutally to the day so Justice should have been born on April 6 well needless to say at this appointment I was dialated to three already, my doctor said in a week to two my son should be born, so I went home and tried to finish the last minuet things that needed to be done. Well that night at 11 my water broke and at 7:19 the next morning Justice celebrated his first birthday. I was scared since he was premature but that was alright since he was healthy and already at 6pound 7 ounces and like 21 inches long. He was perfect. The doctor said since he was premature that I would have to stay in the hospital for a minimum of 48 hours, but that was not the case they sent me home in less than 24. It was so wonderful to be able to come home and be with my son. Well that is my story and the rest is only memories.



I am thankful for my son and my wonderful family, with out them I would not be the person that I am today. My son has changed me in many ways that I am not sure if he will ever know how and why, but he is loved and cherished.
I am thankful for my husband for excepting me for who and what I am and not holding my past against me even the deep secrets that I have about some of it.

My son will be two next month and it is already showing with his temper and fits, today he decided that he was done eating his whipped cream that I had gotten him and covered my whole truck with it. Everyday it is something new but it is just something that I am getting used to and not something that makes me mad just a little frustrating sometimes. My son no matter what he does he is my perfect little angel, but do not get me wrong he can be a stinker and get into trouble, but what boy does not.

Ok so after the whole Binky melt down yesterday, we got home from going and buying a couple of new ones the little stinker went right to where he hid the other ones and got those ones too. My question is if he knew where they were all along why did he throw sucha fit about it?
Today is one of those normal days, avon, making food, changing diapers, naps, cuddling, laundry, dishes, making meals, working on cookie lee, cleaning house, bathrooms, picking up messes. If anyone out there thinks that us moms just sit on our butts all day long come to my house and see what life is like as a stay at home mom and working from home, It is not easy trying to do everythign and juggling your life but hay I do what I have to do to stay home with my little man.

today has pretty much sucked. My son has thrown fits about everything but most of alol he lost two of his binkies somewhere in the house and we could not find them anywhere. After about 45 mins. of crying hysterically I took him to the store and got two new ones. That worked for a little while but since they are not the same as what he had he is still mad and wants the other ones. I am ready to run away for some samity