Mommathon

Colm went to the dentist for the first time today. If you have ever tried to give a cat a bath, that is about how well it went. I tried everything, but it boiled down to me leaving and letting the dental people do their job while he screamed his head off. I thought about just whisking him out of there and just forgetting the whole thing, but this is one of those times that you have to just do it. Shots hurt, but I don’t let him skip those. Taking naps isn’t a favorite activity either, but I don’t let him skip those either. I had to blink the tears away in the waiting room while I listened to him scream, but no one said being a mother was easy.

UPDATE: I noticed tonight while we were at preschool open house that he has broken blood vessels in his face from all of the screaming. Yep, that’s how bad it was.

We have a date…Friday, September 28 is the official day. We are so excited about the new house and can’t believe how quickly it has taken shape.

I LOVED the lights we picked out for our kitchen. Yes, LOVed…past tense. I loved them when they were hanging in the display room. Now that they are in our kitchen I don’t like them at all. They’re awful! They don’t go with our kitchen AT ALL! So, we went to the lighting store this weekend and picked out some different ones. The paint color in our bedroom and master bath is going to have to be redone as well. It is so hard to tell from those darn swatches! I was thinking we were getting kind of a warm sage green color. That’s not what we got. It’s more the color of a green apple. What makes it even worse is that our bathroom countertop is kind of a tan speckled color. The green apple and the tan speckled looks awful! We went to the Sherwin Williams store this weekend and are leaning towards more a warm mocha color now. I hope that is what it looks like when they actually put it on the walls.

I went to look at our house today and they tiled a bathroom that was supposed to have carpet in it! That’s a good mistake. 🙂

My kids aren’t huge dino fans, they like them as much as the next kid. They do, however, like this book. It is a cute and short story that rhymes about a T-Rex who busts into a dino cafe and stirs up some trouble. One of the other dinos uses her cell phone to call Terry Triceratops who shows up and saves the day. It also has a funny punchline which I won’t give away.

We went to back to school night tonight. We got to listen to Liam’s teacher talk about what their school year will look like. I am so excited. They are going to have so much fun this year and learn a lot while they are at it.

Don’t start negotiating move-in dates and have us get a bid from a contractor so he can do some painting if you have not even been approved for a loan that is large enough to purchase our house! We waited for a phone call all weekend saying there was a contract to sign when it turns out that the loan they had been approved for was $30,000 less than the asking price of our house. GRRRRR!

This is a quick read and a fun look back at growing up in the 80’s only with a twist. The twist is that the writer grew up in the 80’s and lived through Madonna, Cyndi Lauper and Martha Quinn, but she was a Vietnamese refugee who had been plunked down in Michigan with her father, her sister, her grandmother and not long after, her Mexican-American mother and step-sister.

I love that school starts at 8:35. That gives us plenty of time in the morning to get out the door. I hate feeling rushed, especially in the morning. It is just not a good way to start the day. The kids have time to eat breakfast, get dressed, etc. without me harping on them every five minutes to hurry up. Liam even has time to do his chores in the morning. It will be even better after we move because we will live even closer and won’t have to drive as far to get to school.

You have to make a lot of decisions as a parent. I think we made a great one this week. Colm is SO excited about going to school now that he is going to be in Ms. Jan’s class. He absolutely did not want to go to school a week ago. Now he is mad that he has to wait until September for school to start. Ms. Jan let us come take a sneak peek at her class today in an attempt to get Colm excited about school…it worked! What three year old doesn’t love Ms. Jan? I think she puts a spell on them. While eating his lunch today Colm told me he loved her. Already? Whatever, as long as you want to go to school. I think this has also had a positive effect on his potty issues. He wore his big boy pants all afternoon and evening and is sleeping in them right now. He did not have an accident the entire time! He knew he had to be potty trained for Montessori. So, he solved that problem by not doing it. If I don’t use the potty then I can’t go to Montessori. Now that that problem is solved, he can use the potty. It may be a coincidence, but I don’t think so. Smartypants!