The recent 3 1/2 feet of snow and my subsequent inability to access the outside world via my van was made worse by my lack of internet. I finally escaped, laid in the supplies again and am sitting in the grocery store's cafe where I can use their wifi so I can blog at least one time this week!
My husband escaped early on to help out with the snow removal. He has bartered his time to include two truck payments and possibly a grocery store gift card! The bad news is that I have been trapped in the house for days. My forced captivity has proven to me beyond a shadow of a doubt that I can never be a stay at home mom. Kudos to those moms who can. I know that I can not. Maybe if I had only one child, but MM was sick and could not go out to play so she was stuck inside running around and screaming. BJ is still having issues, so he screams 1/3 of the time anyway. Being stuck inside with the pair of them has really stretched my patience.
MM has decided that she will not go down for a nap without a fight, because she does not need naps anymore (followed by falling asleep for 2 hours). Additionally, MM has decided that she does not want to be potty trained. She will sit on the potty, do nothing, pull up her big girl panties and go pee in the corner of the living room. I will have to replace the carpet sooner than expected!
I will say, however, that I have done a lovely job with organizing my pantry, linen closet, and I've gotten 95% of my laundry done. My next job will be to go through my closet and get rid of clothes that do not fit or are maternity. I am not planning on having any more children, so those clothes can go to one of my co-workers who is planning on getting prego soon. The other clothes are clothes that are too big. I will see if anyone at work would like them and then I will take the rest to charity. I will be able to get rid of half of my clothes; however, I need to go shopping to get clothes that fit me. That is the problem with losing weight, if you don't have the money to invest in new clothes, don't lose weight! Where is TLC's What Not To Wear and their $5,000 when you need it!
One thing that I need to get (and am willing to invest a little money in) is my skin care products. I wear almost no make-up. Every once and a while I will wear something, but beyond lipstick, I usually am without. Andy does not care if I wear it and prefers that I am without, so it is easy to not wear it. My mom got me addicted to Clinque for my "beauty" regime. I wash with the soap, use toner and moisturize daily. I have been told that I do not look my age (not by my students who think I am 65) and I tell them it is because I moisturize daily and don't smoke. I still do not look as good as Michelle Dugger who has 19 children (how does she do it?), but I think that I look like I am about eight years younger (of course after this week of cabin fever, I think I have aged). Anywho, I love Clinique's Superdefense Moisturizer with SPF 25 and can make one jar last for six months so I guess it is worth the investment, plus my skin feels better for it.
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