I hope next year I’m more into the holidays. I haven’t been for some time now maybe because my husband doesn’t like them due to his job. He delivers pastries for a high end pastry company and is extremely busy around the holidays. Now that GM is almost a year old I really have to get more in the spirit for his benefit.
Sunday I will be entertaining the in-laws. I’m We’re really not into entertaining. Or at least not used to it. Even though it’s not that much we have told our families that we won’t be traveling for a while to visit because we can’t afford to spend our money on gas. Once I go back to work we’ll have more money to spend of stuff like that, but for the next little while we’re going to be really strapped. So with that said his family is coming to us for Easter this year. His mom is still cooking the turkey (thank goodness), but we’ll be responsible for everything else. It should work out better anyways because this way I don’t have to lug all GM’s stuff with us and he might actually nap since he’ll be in familiar surroundings.

What an absolutely glorious day it was today. I’m so glad I decided to get myself out of the house or I would never have known just how beautiful it was out. I’m not exactly sure of the temperature, but I think it was like 5 or 6°C with the sun shining brightly. Hubby called from the road (as he does numerous times a day) and we discussed how nice it was outside. He said he heard on the radio that we’ve had so much snow this year that the giant snowbergs that have accumulated in mall parking lots won’t even have melted by the end of the summer. Wow, wouldn’t that be sight in July? A big pile of leftover snow. So anyway, I had mentioned to hubby that there was an outfit for baby D at Wal-Mart that I was lusting after (yes, you can lust after baby clothes), but that the price was keeping me from buying it. He didn’t think it was too much to pay, so that was the go ahead I needed. Since we are going to London tomorrow for my Mum’s birthday celebration (it should have been last weekend but was postponed due to weather) I thought that would be a great reason to have a new outfit for baby D. Never being one to manage just going to Wal-Mart for the one thing I wanted to buy I ended up also getting him a 2-pack of pjs for when the weather gets a bit warmer and a striped t-shirt and pants.

After what appears to be a very long time I have returned. In fact I have been around since I moved, I just decided to get a different domain name. I missed this old domain though, and am going to attempt to blog on 2 different domains. I am interested in PayPerPost and thought this might be a good place to start.
In my absence I have managed to move (though it was horrible and I’d prefer not to relive it) and carry on with my dread of returning to work. In fact I have managed to extend my maternity leave. So instead of returning to work on April 16th, hubby and I have decided that I will go back for the last 2 weeks of the school year while he takes 2 weeks off to stay home with GM. Of course this extension will be without pay so we’ll be hurting for money for a while. It’s certainly better (for my sanity for sure) than paying to put GM in daycare when I’m not ready for him to go. Besides I’ve come across a very strange dilemma. In searching for daycare I’ve noticed a trend to only take infants 16-18 months old. If you only get 12 months maternity leave what the hell are mothers doing with their babies in the interim?! I think this will be the best thing for everyone … except my Dad. He will absolutely flip when he finds out that I’m going to be off with no money coming in. I suppose I should tell him sooner or later, but I’m so not looking forward to that conversation!
So while i am off work I am hoping to make a little extra cash via PayPerPost and maybe selling Regal Catalogue items.

So I’ve been away visiting my Mum with the little guy. I’ve gotta say it’s so relaxing being away from the apartment and it’s many stresses. Not to mention the fact that I have an extra set of hands when the baby needs something. We managed to visit all Mum’s friends and show off Goober Monster to everyone. We even got out to London and visited with my Gran. It’s so cute, since my Mum is Gran to GM, my Gran decided she wanted the title of “Great” for him.
Upon returning I spent 4 hours in traffic to complete a usual 2 hour trek. Needless to say I was a weensie bit cranky when I finally got home. And of course I found that Retard was not exactly “normal”. He hasn’t had a drink since he was assessed and scared straight on August 28th, which is amazing. However to keep him from drinking he is taking Valium which gives him some of the same characteristics as when he’s drinking. Today though he was 100% unaltered (okay he had a couple of smokes – another thing he’s supposed to have quit) which was totally amazing. It was so nice to be able to trust him with the baby and just relax. I felt the knots in my stomach finally uncurl just that little bit. I really need this to continue and hopefully the fuss I made about how great it was to see him again will get the idea across.
Since I’m feeling slightly random (as is probably obvious from my disjointed entry above), why not do a random meme?

randomness…feed your mind and your blog
week of sept 23: do you prefer…

1. day or night? night
2. chocolate or vanilla? vanilla
3. coffee or tea? neither – iced or chinese tea
4. renting a movie and staying home or going out to the theater? staying home
5. regular books or audio books? regular
6. driving to a faroff destination or just taking an airplane? ROADTRIP!!
7. hamburger or hotdogs? burgers
8. listening to music or watching tv? tunes & computer
9. Desperate Housewives or Survivor? (both are tv shows)<– duh! Survivor
10. homecooked meal or fancy restaurant? not-so-fancy restaurant