Even though Ariel and I are going through a rough patch, I still go by and help when I can. Recently, within the last 10 days, Ariel's bro and his gf had their baby. A boy by the name of Levi, check your bible, weighing 7 lbs 6 oz and 20 in long arrived the 19th a little after 4 pm. His mom and daddy's side of the family was overjoyed at the new addition to the family, while his mom's side of the family was... shall we understate it with... less enthused. Needless to say, after 1 day back at her parents, she called and got us to help her move into the Bells house.
Linzy was excited at first to have Lindsay and Levi moving in, she gets overstimulated when more people are at the house and has been known to just run in circles due to the excitment. I noticed the first couple nights at how the change in attention was affecting her. I could tell that she 'noticed' that was no longer a focus of attention anymore, but she wasn't jealous yet. I came over the first couple days after work and helped out where I could the first couple of nights and then came back out on the weekend because I was called to help. Linzy was driving everyone up the wall, she was acting out all over the place because she wasn't getting the attention she was used to. With everything going on around there, no one had time to give her the attention she needed. So, I came out and kept her company and that seemed to help.
Ariel has been a wreck all week. Between the new baby drama, Linzy acting out, classes, being scheduled almost every night for work, Linzy's dad not being able to watch her, and Linzy's grandma, Joni, who runs a daycare and watches Linzy while Ariel is off at school, was off on vacation all week, Ariel was completely overwhelmed and stressed out. She had a couple good moments like when she took Linzy to an indoor inflateable fun park, they had those bouncy castles and slides, etc, where they both had a ball, and she got a few quiet moments to play her or her or hold baby Levi. But the stress outweighed the fun by a 5 to 1 ratio or more and Ariel was on the verge of a breakdown.
So... ya, not exactly an excitable few days, but here's hoping the next few days are a whole lot better....
Monday, March 29, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
Peanut Rolls
I am never around anymore when mom makes these delicious goodies, so I begged for the recipe. I wanted to be able to make them when I get a hankering for them and mom said they were difficult to make. No harm in trying though, right? First, I'd like to say in my defense that I wasn't exactly equipped for this undertaking. I had a small kitchen (i call it a mini-kitchenette), not a shred of experience making dessert icing from scratch, and no actual equipment.
I had to buy a grinder for the peanuts, a hand mixer, a 9x13 pan,a sifter, and of course the rest of the ingredients. Cost materials $60. A pain to expand my kitchen equipment, but necessary. I made the cake first, no real problem there, it came out nice and easy. I used a combo of wax paper and cooking spray on the pan so that when it cool I could just flip it onto a cutting board and it would come right out. I used a measuring tape to make sure I cut the cake evenly, using the cm side for easiest reading.
Then I made the icing from scratch and my mess. The icing has to be just the right consistancy or it won't work. Too thin and the nuts will fall off, too thick and the nuts won't adhere to it. Note: next time I make them I will start out mixing the icing by hand, the hand mixer made the powdered sugar explode. After you make the icing, you test it on a roll to make sure its right. My first try was a bit too thin in my opinion. You are supposed to add the milk a little at a time to avoid making it too thin. Obviously I wasn't careful enough, so I had to add more powdered sugar to thicken it up.
After thickening it up some, though probably not enough, I tried again and managed to get a good majority of the rolls done... except for 10 of them. I ran out of icing and had 10 left. So I'm going to have strawberries and sponge cake to eat later. Figuring out how to use the grinder was fun, it was electric and had too settings, low and high. Low didn't get it to the size I wanted and high for too long made it peanut butter. Fun finding that out, let me tell you.
All in all, they turned out quite well, the nurses and clerks at the health department were my guinea pigs and I didn't kill them. In fact, they loved them, so a small victory in my book. Not a major victory because, "They just don't taste like the ones mom makes."
I had to buy a grinder for the peanuts, a hand mixer, a 9x13 pan,a sifter, and of course the rest of the ingredients. Cost materials $60. A pain to expand my kitchen equipment, but necessary. I made the cake first, no real problem there, it came out nice and easy. I used a combo of wax paper and cooking spray on the pan so that when it cool I could just flip it onto a cutting board and it would come right out. I used a measuring tape to make sure I cut the cake evenly, using the cm side for easiest reading.
Then I made the icing from scratch and my mess. The icing has to be just the right consistancy or it won't work. Too thin and the nuts will fall off, too thick and the nuts won't adhere to it. Note: next time I make them I will start out mixing the icing by hand, the hand mixer made the powdered sugar explode. After you make the icing, you test it on a roll to make sure its right. My first try was a bit too thin in my opinion. You are supposed to add the milk a little at a time to avoid making it too thin. Obviously I wasn't careful enough, so I had to add more powdered sugar to thicken it up.
After thickening it up some, though probably not enough, I tried again and managed to get a good majority of the rolls done... except for 10 of them. I ran out of icing and had 10 left. So I'm going to have strawberries and sponge cake to eat later. Figuring out how to use the grinder was fun, it was electric and had too settings, low and high. Low didn't get it to the size I wanted and high for too long made it peanut butter. Fun finding that out, let me tell you.
All in all, they turned out quite well, the nurses and clerks at the health department were my guinea pigs and I didn't kill them. In fact, they loved them, so a small victory in my book. Not a major victory because, "They just don't taste like the ones mom makes."
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Stepping Back
Ariel and I have been having some problems kinda recently and we've decided to step back for a bit. Our engagement is off and I'm waiting on her to sort out her feelings. While I wait I'm trying to work on improving my ability to communicate more assertively. I realize that you all have been out of the loop, so I'll give a bit of backstory.
From when we got together almost 2 years ago through as recently as this past weekend, I have not communicated very well when I got upset about something and I would either act out, respond harshly, or turn the situation around on her during an arguement and make her feel like it was her fault. Other times, I have acted without thinking of her, like Christmas, she drove all the way out to spend time with me and my family and I run off to spend time with my cousin, who has repeatedly let me down in the past when he said he'd be coming over. Had I thought about it more that night before running off to a movie I would not have.
Ariel has just been laddened down with all the stress of having Linzy, a job, school, and my passive-aggressive behavior and is stressed to her limits. She sees how her life is going and when she looks to see her friends and others her age out and having fun without all her reponsibilities, I think she feels like life is just moving too fast for her. The thought of being 25, married, a house, 2 kids, and a full time job scares her. (no she's not pregnant, we planned to have a kid shortly after getting married and she would have been 23 when we got married.)
In Jan, Ariel couldn't take the added stress of our relationship anymore and asked me to give her some space, which I agreed to. Unfortunately, we didn't talk then, so nothing got resolved once again. A failure on both our parts. She was trying to sort things out and I was left wondering what was wrong and how to fix things. Because we didn't really talk to sort things out, I got a bit resentful about the situation and when Ariel tried to see me, I once again didn't think and let my frustration run the conversation, leaving Ariel once again upset with me and leaving me once again in the dark about so much that was going through her mind.
Finally, yesterday, I couldn't take it anymore. I had to talk to her. I went over to her place last night and we talked . I told her my concerns and what I've been thinking about lately and how much our relationship means to me. She finally started to open up more on what has been bothering her about these agruements and my behavior. As we talked I realised that she was right about so much of how I acted or reacted to some many situations. I was kind of surprised when she told me about a few of them because I never saw it from her point of view. I think I keep focusing on the next step in our lives and that I took our relationship for granted and didn't think to continue to build and strengthen our bonds, so that when we did disagree, she would feel comfortable talking it out with me. A big underlying theme to our problems is communication, both the wrong methods and the lack thereof.
I think we had a good discussion, though I know its not over yet, and we need to keep the communication line open. I regret that it took us this long to start addressing these problems. Just like I regret that it took her melting down to find out that the way I have acted has been making her miserable. As of now, we are going to try and talk more, Ariel is sorting out her feelings (this whole experience has left her drained and she's trying to find out what she wants), and me, well, I'll be going by a bookstore later to get a book on how to me a better communicator, I may even see a therapist sometime. I know now that I do need to adjust my behavior because I'm in a relationship.
From when we got together almost 2 years ago through as recently as this past weekend, I have not communicated very well when I got upset about something and I would either act out, respond harshly, or turn the situation around on her during an arguement and make her feel like it was her fault. Other times, I have acted without thinking of her, like Christmas, she drove all the way out to spend time with me and my family and I run off to spend time with my cousin, who has repeatedly let me down in the past when he said he'd be coming over. Had I thought about it more that night before running off to a movie I would not have.
Ariel has just been laddened down with all the stress of having Linzy, a job, school, and my passive-aggressive behavior and is stressed to her limits. She sees how her life is going and when she looks to see her friends and others her age out and having fun without all her reponsibilities, I think she feels like life is just moving too fast for her. The thought of being 25, married, a house, 2 kids, and a full time job scares her. (no she's not pregnant, we planned to have a kid shortly after getting married and she would have been 23 when we got married.)
In Jan, Ariel couldn't take the added stress of our relationship anymore and asked me to give her some space, which I agreed to. Unfortunately, we didn't talk then, so nothing got resolved once again. A failure on both our parts. She was trying to sort things out and I was left wondering what was wrong and how to fix things. Because we didn't really talk to sort things out, I got a bit resentful about the situation and when Ariel tried to see me, I once again didn't think and let my frustration run the conversation, leaving Ariel once again upset with me and leaving me once again in the dark about so much that was going through her mind.
Finally, yesterday, I couldn't take it anymore. I had to talk to her. I went over to her place last night and we talked . I told her my concerns and what I've been thinking about lately and how much our relationship means to me. She finally started to open up more on what has been bothering her about these agruements and my behavior. As we talked I realised that she was right about so much of how I acted or reacted to some many situations. I was kind of surprised when she told me about a few of them because I never saw it from her point of view. I think I keep focusing on the next step in our lives and that I took our relationship for granted and didn't think to continue to build and strengthen our bonds, so that when we did disagree, she would feel comfortable talking it out with me. A big underlying theme to our problems is communication, both the wrong methods and the lack thereof.
I think we had a good discussion, though I know its not over yet, and we need to keep the communication line open. I regret that it took us this long to start addressing these problems. Just like I regret that it took her melting down to find out that the way I have acted has been making her miserable. As of now, we are going to try and talk more, Ariel is sorting out her feelings (this whole experience has left her drained and she's trying to find out what she wants), and me, well, I'll be going by a bookstore later to get a book on how to me a better communicator, I may even see a therapist sometime. I know now that I do need to adjust my behavior because I'm in a relationship.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
February... Febrrrruarrrryy
Ya, cold. So cold that my previously $50-65 month electric bill was $140 last month... and my thermostat was set at 68, thank you very much. The coulprits: my sliding door to the balcony and the uninsulated pipes. The balcony door lets in a horrible draft in the winter and there's only a few things I can do about it. The water heater and the copper water pipes are uninsulated and so it wastes power trying to keep my water hot... i wondered why the hot water never lasted over 5 min in the shower.
Now that I've passed my RS exam and can keep my job, I can now study for my arborist exam so that I can put my degree to some use. Other than that, work is fine. Waiting for spring so that we can get back out into the septic installation inspections and such. I've been working out 3 times a week and increasing my reps monthly.... though its only been a little over a month since I started :P Not really looking too hard for a house right now. Just keeping my eyes peeled but not actively searching.
Ariel's been working a lot lately on the weekends, says her manager has it out for her because she keeps getting scheduled doubles. Other than that, I don't hear complain too much about classes, so I assume they're going alright.
Linzy has continued astounding us. She carries on conversations with us and amazes us at times with what she says, (as in the extent of her vocabulary, not in the depth of her observations.) She has taken to playing with her baby dolls a bit more now. Carrying them around with her, 'feeding' them, putting them to 'bed', etc. Much better than pushing them down the slide... or the stairs. She even takes them to the bathroom and sets them on her potty, so they can go too. She really enjoys us reading to her more and more now, sometimes she'll 'read' to us a book that we've read so many times it seems that she memorized the story. She's doing great.
Now that I've passed my RS exam and can keep my job, I can now study for my arborist exam so that I can put my degree to some use. Other than that, work is fine. Waiting for spring so that we can get back out into the septic installation inspections and such. I've been working out 3 times a week and increasing my reps monthly.... though its only been a little over a month since I started :P Not really looking too hard for a house right now. Just keeping my eyes peeled but not actively searching.
Ariel's been working a lot lately on the weekends, says her manager has it out for her because she keeps getting scheduled doubles. Other than that, I don't hear complain too much about classes, so I assume they're going alright.
Linzy has continued astounding us. She carries on conversations with us and amazes us at times with what she says, (as in the extent of her vocabulary, not in the depth of her observations.) She has taken to playing with her baby dolls a bit more now. Carrying them around with her, 'feeding' them, putting them to 'bed', etc. Much better than pushing them down the slide... or the stairs. She even takes them to the bathroom and sets them on her potty, so they can go too. She really enjoys us reading to her more and more now, sometimes she'll 'read' to us a book that we've read so many times it seems that she memorized the story. She's doing great.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Hello 2010
Well, I made it 1 year of blogging. I admit, it was tough at times to think of something to blog about, but I did it... with a little assistance for reminders.
Gatlinburg was great, great weather, great chalet, fun at the Aquarium, walking the streets, eating at new places, etc.... just didn't like the traffic.... before we got to Pigeon Forge we were in bumper to bumper traffic... seems we weren't the only ones who wanted to be in Gatlinburg for New Years. 2 hours and 20 miles later we made it to our chalet up on the ridge top... a good thing to because we were near delerious from the drive. We ate at new places, aka not our usual places, The Peddlar steakhouse, Bubba Gump seafood, and the Alamo steakhouse. We ate lunch and breakfast at the cabin. We enjoyed a backporch hot tub and a pool table inside.
We had an awesome view of the mountains and the nearby ski slope. It snowed 2 mornings in a row but the plows were diligent and we made it off the mountain. We had a good time roaming the shops on the strip and I even managed to get Ariel to go "mining" with me. (you know the stores that sell you a bucket of dirt and you sluice the dirt out to expose the rocks and gemstones.) We actually found quite a bit for gems. I sent a ruby off to get cut and polished and we kept the rest uncut for now. I think I'll get them done one at a time as finances allow. The day before we left, it was freezing outside so we went to the Aquarium and spent a few hours there. We got to see all kinds of aquatic life of course but the best part is taking the tunnel under the shark tanks. We got to get up close with sawfish tiger sharks, nurse sharks, stingrays, and giant see turtles with just a couple inches of reinforced glass between us. Awesome.
We returned home sunday to Evansville, Ariel pouting the last hour of driving because our trip was already over. Linzy is practically clinging to us because we were away for 4 days. She is having some trouble once again with the potty. She tells us she needs to go, we take her, then she says she dont have to go, and then less than 10 min later she pees her pants. (sighes) Or she doesn't tell us cause she dont want to stop playing and just stands there and pees.
First day back to work 2010, busy nonstop. I think people should sedate their pets for the holidays, less bites will happen. Ever try to hand auger a hole in frozen soil? P.I.T.A. (pain in the ass) I can't wait for the weekend....
Joe is coming out and we'll go snowboarding at Paoli. Good times.
Anywho, My Neww Years Resolutions:
1. Get back into shape more. - I haven't worked out as much since I left my travelling job and I've had a bit more fattening diet. Gotta get back into a less jiggly shape.
2. Give more. - I feel the need to give more, not just material things, but to give of myself more. In my labors and service where I can.
Gatlinburg was great, great weather, great chalet, fun at the Aquarium, walking the streets, eating at new places, etc.... just didn't like the traffic.... before we got to Pigeon Forge we were in bumper to bumper traffic... seems we weren't the only ones who wanted to be in Gatlinburg for New Years. 2 hours and 20 miles later we made it to our chalet up on the ridge top... a good thing to because we were near delerious from the drive. We ate at new places, aka not our usual places, The Peddlar steakhouse, Bubba Gump seafood, and the Alamo steakhouse. We ate lunch and breakfast at the cabin. We enjoyed a backporch hot tub and a pool table inside.
We had an awesome view of the mountains and the nearby ski slope. It snowed 2 mornings in a row but the plows were diligent and we made it off the mountain. We had a good time roaming the shops on the strip and I even managed to get Ariel to go "mining" with me. (you know the stores that sell you a bucket of dirt and you sluice the dirt out to expose the rocks and gemstones.) We actually found quite a bit for gems. I sent a ruby off to get cut and polished and we kept the rest uncut for now. I think I'll get them done one at a time as finances allow. The day before we left, it was freezing outside so we went to the Aquarium and spent a few hours there. We got to see all kinds of aquatic life of course but the best part is taking the tunnel under the shark tanks. We got to get up close with sawfish tiger sharks, nurse sharks, stingrays, and giant see turtles with just a couple inches of reinforced glass between us. Awesome.
We returned home sunday to Evansville, Ariel pouting the last hour of driving because our trip was already over. Linzy is practically clinging to us because we were away for 4 days. She is having some trouble once again with the potty. She tells us she needs to go, we take her, then she says she dont have to go, and then less than 10 min later she pees her pants. (sighes) Or she doesn't tell us cause she dont want to stop playing and just stands there and pees.
First day back to work 2010, busy nonstop. I think people should sedate their pets for the holidays, less bites will happen. Ever try to hand auger a hole in frozen soil? P.I.T.A. (pain in the ass) I can't wait for the weekend....
Joe is coming out and we'll go snowboarding at Paoli. Good times.
Anywho, My Neww Years Resolutions:
1. Get back into shape more. - I haven't worked out as much since I left my travelling job and I've had a bit more fattening diet. Gotta get back into a less jiggly shape.
2. Give more. - I feel the need to give more, not just material things, but to give of myself more. In my labors and service where I can.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Little less Stress Please...
Had lots of Stress earlier this month; I wasn't able to pass my exam that I needed to keep my job, my house deal ran into more snags, and christmas was fast approaching. Topping it off, because I wasn't having luck with my exam, I decided to study more and go see Ariel and Linzy less. This also added stress since Linzy was being a weenie all week teething (incisors).
So I unloaded stress by passing my exam yesterday (yay) so I get to keep my job(double yay) and I don't have to worry about studying all the time (triple yay) and get to go back to seeing Ariel and Linzy more (quadrople yay).
As for the house, the mold guys are trying to double the price of the work to be done, but my realestate agent has a signed contract from them for the first price they quoted me. So I'm letting my agent deal with them. We are trying to get another extension on the deal as well, since the mold guys are taking so long.
Ah Christmas time, a time of joy a time of stress...stress from trying to get presents delivered in time, stress from preparations, and stress from trying to find the right gifts. I think next year I will start shopping Nov. 1st....
Other news, Ariel got one of her friends who is a photography major to do our christmas pictures, due to bad timing with my schedule and Linzy getting feverish from teething, we didn't get as many as we would like, so we will be rescheduling for Jan. So, hopefully I will have some pics to send out a little later.
Linzy of course is in full blown terrible twos mode. She has a fit about anything and with her teething, she has been extra grumpy. Getting her down to naps is fast becoming impossible and just forgoing naps is worse. A cranky teething Linzy in her terrible twos is worse than just a Teething Linzy in her terrible twos. On the plus side she is still learning fast and I can distract her from her tantrums with just a few select words. "Ooo, Linzy look at this". I can point to a dust bunny and all the sudden its the most interesting thing in the room. Changing the subject always works to end her tantrum. Problem arises when she wants to play with the dust bunny...
See you soon.
So I unloaded stress by passing my exam yesterday (yay) so I get to keep my job(double yay) and I don't have to worry about studying all the time (triple yay) and get to go back to seeing Ariel and Linzy more (quadrople yay).
As for the house, the mold guys are trying to double the price of the work to be done, but my realestate agent has a signed contract from them for the first price they quoted me. So I'm letting my agent deal with them. We are trying to get another extension on the deal as well, since the mold guys are taking so long.
Ah Christmas time, a time of joy a time of stress...stress from trying to get presents delivered in time, stress from preparations, and stress from trying to find the right gifts. I think next year I will start shopping Nov. 1st....
Other news, Ariel got one of her friends who is a photography major to do our christmas pictures, due to bad timing with my schedule and Linzy getting feverish from teething, we didn't get as many as we would like, so we will be rescheduling for Jan. So, hopefully I will have some pics to send out a little later.
Linzy of course is in full blown terrible twos mode. She has a fit about anything and with her teething, she has been extra grumpy. Getting her down to naps is fast becoming impossible and just forgoing naps is worse. A cranky teething Linzy in her terrible twos is worse than just a Teething Linzy in her terrible twos. On the plus side she is still learning fast and I can distract her from her tantrums with just a few select words. "Ooo, Linzy look at this". I can point to a dust bunny and all the sudden its the most interesting thing in the room. Changing the subject always works to end her tantrum. Problem arises when she wants to play with the dust bunny...
See you soon.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Since we last... well, blogged...
Not too terribly much has happened since my last update. I purposefully waited til today to post becuase I knew I'd be recieving more news today. Where oh where to begin.... I'll start with the house... egad, the house.... its still tied up, the mold remediators just got the ok from the bank to do the work and now we have to wait for their schedule to open up. So ya, my plan to be moved in by January is out the window. I'll be lucky to close by Mid December.
Next up, my job.... egad again. I've been studying to take my RS exam so that I might keep my job, I have to pass the exam before my 1 year aniversary date, and I took it November 12. Today I walk into work to find that I failed... by 5%.... I now study more to try and get at least 14 more questions right the next time I take it on Dec. 3rd. Other than that, I just recieved an increase in my workload. See, there are 2 of us in the henderson office and we also have 1 guy come over once a week from Davies county to help out... rather we used to. Now with cost cutting in the state, we've done away with the extra help and the work has been divided between me and Tim, my coworker.... yay, more work...
Ariel is already in the Christmas mood... rather has been since 3 days after Halloween. She's decorated her parents house and has made comments about getting lights to put up on the house I don't have yet. She bugs me daily about a gift list, but I don't have time or space for presents. No room in the kitchen, no room in the closet, no time for dvds, no time for books... I might be a little spread thin... but I only do 3 things... see Ariel and Linzy, go to work, and go to bed... Anywho, her and Linzy are working on gift lists and I'll send them out when I can. Ariel has been tutoring 1st graders after class a few days a week as part of her degree. Her time ends in the next couple of weeks, but she thinks she will try and go see them even after that.
Linzy is a riot, a 1 baby army. She has been dry for at least a week straight now. Even sleeping with just panties on, she holds it in until we get her to the potty. We were at JCP the other day and she looked at me and said, "I need to go potty". So I picked her up and we ran to the nearest potty. She sings lots of nursery rhymes and at night she rambles to herself while she lays in bed waiting to fall asleep. I think she's practicing her words because she just knows them too well. We've been playing hide and seek lately in their basement, unfortunately, she has only one hiding spot, despite me showing her so very many. She does of course have her meltdowns still; when I don't carry her down the stairs, when I don't pick her up, when I don't let her go outside without proper clothes on, when I don't let her eat from my plate, when I.... seriously, I could keep going. Gotta love the terrible twos.
On a high note, Ariel and I are going to Gatlinburg for New Years. We'll be staying in a cabin on the mountainside close to a ski resort and placed just right, so we can watch the fireworks from the hottub on the porch. Ariel had the idea and we were lucky to find a cabin available that weekend. Hopefully I'll still have a job by then... :P gotta love my dry humor.
Next up, my job.... egad again. I've been studying to take my RS exam so that I might keep my job, I have to pass the exam before my 1 year aniversary date, and I took it November 12. Today I walk into work to find that I failed... by 5%.... I now study more to try and get at least 14 more questions right the next time I take it on Dec. 3rd. Other than that, I just recieved an increase in my workload. See, there are 2 of us in the henderson office and we also have 1 guy come over once a week from Davies county to help out... rather we used to. Now with cost cutting in the state, we've done away with the extra help and the work has been divided between me and Tim, my coworker.... yay, more work...
Ariel is already in the Christmas mood... rather has been since 3 days after Halloween. She's decorated her parents house and has made comments about getting lights to put up on the house I don't have yet. She bugs me daily about a gift list, but I don't have time or space for presents. No room in the kitchen, no room in the closet, no time for dvds, no time for books... I might be a little spread thin... but I only do 3 things... see Ariel and Linzy, go to work, and go to bed... Anywho, her and Linzy are working on gift lists and I'll send them out when I can. Ariel has been tutoring 1st graders after class a few days a week as part of her degree. Her time ends in the next couple of weeks, but she thinks she will try and go see them even after that.
Linzy is a riot, a 1 baby army. She has been dry for at least a week straight now. Even sleeping with just panties on, she holds it in until we get her to the potty. We were at JCP the other day and she looked at me and said, "I need to go potty". So I picked her up and we ran to the nearest potty. She sings lots of nursery rhymes and at night she rambles to herself while she lays in bed waiting to fall asleep. I think she's practicing her words because she just knows them too well. We've been playing hide and seek lately in their basement, unfortunately, she has only one hiding spot, despite me showing her so very many. She does of course have her meltdowns still; when I don't carry her down the stairs, when I don't pick her up, when I don't let her go outside without proper clothes on, when I don't let her eat from my plate, when I.... seriously, I could keep going. Gotta love the terrible twos.
On a high note, Ariel and I are going to Gatlinburg for New Years. We'll be staying in a cabin on the mountainside close to a ski resort and placed just right, so we can watch the fireworks from the hottub on the porch. Ariel had the idea and we were lucky to find a cabin available that weekend. Hopefully I'll still have a job by then... :P gotta love my dry humor.
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