Wash it out!

I "googled" something I never would have thought about looking up until today. 'How to get Vicks Vapor Rub out of hair?'

Yep.

You may not have known this, vapor rub does not wash out of hair very well at all.

Last night, little girl A is sitting on her bed calling for her mommy. When daddy went to check on her I hear "Honey, you might want to see this!", which I think was followed by "You have a big mess to clean up." Well, I am thinking worst case scenario here, and since she has been potty trained for a year now this was not going to be good for her... or me. I go in there and she is covered in Baby Vicks Vapor Rub. There were big clumps of it all over her clothes, her arms, her hair, her bed, and her hand was still in the jar. (I should have taken a picture!)

So, not worst case, which was good.

Another positive, it cleared up her sinuses...and everyone else's in the house.

We, yes we, he helped even after saying I had a mess to clean up, got the girl cleaned and gave her a bath. Funny thing, her hair just looked like it was never going to dry and when she woke up in the morning it still looked wet. This stuff does not come out of hair!

I tried washing her hair again today, to no avail. Which led me to your friendly neighborhood Google search and a couple websites saying to wash hair in de-greasing dish soap and warm water. Well, why not? Here's hoping this works!

It did not.

Maybe I need to go and buy some Dawn tomorrow, that and baking soda. Baking soda was a suggestion from a friend tonight after Bible class. Hopefully something will work or it will eventually just wash out on its own.

Do you have any ideas, other than Dawn dish soap and baking soda?

~Lisa

For now, sweet girl's hair looks wet and greasy, which is apparently a very 'pullable' look. She was getting her hair pulled by her little sister who looks like she was really quite enjoying it.

Getting it Together

I mentioned in my last post that I needed to get it together, and while recognizing how blessed I am is important, I also really need to fix this mess. I've let my life overwhelm  me and have become utterly disorganized. It is just plain sad how bad it has gotten.

So here I am making an attempt of putting this place we call home into some sort of operating order.

I really just have no idea where to start. Laundry? No, that is just never-ending. Pick up toys? Nah, little girlie will just get them out again. Dust and vacuum? Too much trouble for tables and floors that will just get dirty again. Guess I'll have to hang out with my girls and teach them to be lazy. Okay, seriously now, I think I need a project that will actually show results. Maybe today I will start with cleaning out all the papers we have floating around. Scanner and trash bag, here I come!

Plus the appropriate amount of hang out time cause these girls are too adorable not to hang out with.

Do you have any good organizational ideas for the completely unorganized person? Would love to hear them.

~Lisa

Ugh, Life

As I sit here in my dirty tank top and yoga pants, holding a sleeping 4 month old, staring at a living room covered in mess, and envying a friend who does not have kids as I look at her Facebook page, I remind myself that I need to get it together. Maybe you have felt the same way. Your life is consumed with little kids and their messes and their needs and you just feel like you have lost yourself somewhere in all the chaos.

Yes, that's it, I'm lost.

I forget who I am, no, who I was. I am definitely not the same person I was 5 years ago, pre-husband and pre-children, I am completely changed. I remember spending hours fixing my hair or shopping for new pretty clothes for myself, doing what I wanted to do when I wanted to do it. Sure I worked, but I worked to support my own desires. Now? Well, now I'm lucky if I can manage a shower during the day. Even luckier if I can shower and put some mascara on. The best of days? A shower, little bit of makeup, and hair that doesn't look disastrous.

But, really, is that the best of days? No. Not at all. The best of days are the ones where I'm sitting on the couch in my dirty tank top and yoga pants, holding a sleeping 4 month old, staring at a living room covered in mess, and watching Bubble Guppies with my 2 year old. Comparing myself to a friend who seems to have it all because she isn't busy with little children is basically dumb. Yep, dumb. You see, I have it all! I know that even in my worst of times when I feel like pulling my hair out and asking for a straight jacket that I really do have everything there is worth having in this world.

God has blessed me with a loving husband and two beautiful little girls and I cannot imagine ever going back to the person I was before my life changed.

So, I guess "getting it together" really means just remembering how thankful I am for this chaos I'm living in.

Hope your day is equally as chaotic as mine, the good chaos, only the good. :)

~Lisa

Mornings

For about a week now I have been sleeping on the couch. No, I'm not in the proverbial dog house, I just cannot get comfortable enough to sleep in bed anymore. Or if I do fall asleep, I will wake up in excruciating hip pain and will be barely able to walk for half of the day. So, the couch it is. The couch is wonderful. I can bounce out of "bed" with almost no pain, wait, can women in their 3rd trimester bounce? Okay, let's reword that, I can roll out of bed with almost no pain! I can walk without looking like a 95 year old woman, make that a 95 year old pregnant woman. Did I mention it has been wonderful?

Obviously sleeping on the couch means my sweet husband was in bed alone, well, let's face it not alone, our sweet little girl refuses to sleep in her own bed so our bed it is. I really need to get that under control, but all I want to do right now is sleep at night, not take a toddler back to her room every time she gets up. I suppose I should just bite the bullet and forgo some sleep to get this done. Anyway, back to my sweet husband, after a couple nights he decided he wanted to sleep in the same room as me and dug out the air mattress and has been sleeping on that in the living room floor for a few nights. I know it cannot be the best night of sleep for him, yet I'm so thankful that he is doing this because I can still feel like we are sleeping together. 

With everyone sleeping in the living room, after sweet man goes to work in the morning I have been just sitting on the couch and catching up on Facebook, Pinterest, pregnancy boards, you name it. I could start cleaning up around the house, but then that would wake up sweet girl and I do not like dealing with a grouchy sweet girl at all. This girl is a handful when she hasn't gotten enough sleep, so much like her mommy she is. So I do believe I'll keep with my routine for a while longer, who knows, maybe one day soon (preferably before baby comes) I'll be able to sleep in bed again.

Hope your routines are a little more exciting than mine! 

~Lisa

Child

My sweet girl does so many wonderful things everyday. I'll post some of it on Facebook throughout the week, but it takes a lot of restraint not to tell everyone all the time how smart and sweet and silly she is. She really is amazing. Yes, I know, all mommies feel their children are amazing. I see nothing wrong with that. ;) What are some amazing things your children do or have done in the past?

This week girlie A has decided her favorite saying is "What's that? It sounds like... noise." It doesn't matter what it is, a truck outside, the tv, a car horn, it is all noise. Daddy snoring. All noise. At least she is right. Some of the things she comes up with really surprise me. The imaginations of children are amazing.

The husband and I are expecting our 2nd child in a few months and little girl is so excited about it all. She loves to hug and talk and sing to mommy's belly and will practice comforting her "babies". I am looking forward to seeing how she reacts to her baby sister come January.

~Lisa

Why?

I am not sure why it seems so difficult to write regular blog posts. Well, other than the fact that I don't really feel like I have all that much to say. Yet, here I am trying once again to entertain.

Things have been going great for our little family. Sweet Girl is 18 months old and as sweet as ever. Sometimes I wish I could clone her and have about 7 more, then she starts to throw a full body tantrum and I change my mind. Oh yes, the full body fits are fun to deal with and take a lot of skill on the parents' side. Not only are you trying to get your kid to stop the tantrum but you are also trying to keep the kid from hurting his or herself by banging their little heads on the floor/table/bed/wall/tub/concrete/you name it. I'm sure I never caused my mom so much trouble, she must have gotten this trait from her daddy. (I'm joking, of course.) Even despite the crazy Toddler Tantrums she is the most precious thing I've ever seen. Not biased at all here.

The past few weeks she has decided she wants to hug and kiss all.the.time. I love it! Her daddy loves it too. I see such sweetness and innocence in her and I hope she will always be that sweet and innocent.

Sweet Man and I made the decision before we even had little girl that we would homeschool her when the time comes. I have been thinking about it alot lately and trying to do a little research online for different curriculums and resources. It really is overwhelming! Now I most likely will not start anything with her until she is 3 or 4, so I have at least a year and half to get my head wrapped around the enormous responsibility this will be. Obviously, things could always change so it is not 100% definite that we will be homeschooling, but it is what we are planning on. If you have taught your children at home or have ever taken time to research the possibility you'll understand where I'm coming from when I say it is overwhelming. There is just so much information out there to weed through. I think, at least to start, what I need is curriculum that includes everything I would need for a year. Now to find a good one for preschool age. Again, I have a year and a half I just really like to be prepared.

So that is a tidbit of what has been on my mind lately. I hope your life is just as peachy.

~Lisa

Monday, Monday

It has been over a year since I worked out in the 'real world', but I still remember Mondays. Especially those Mondays after a nice long weekend. I know some people had today off since New Years day was on Sunday and your Monday will still come... tomorrow. Oh I remember how hard it was to get up those mornings and force myself to get ready and go to work. Then the day just seemed to drag on and on. Of course Monday is always the day that most everything seems to go wrong. It seems that everything just piles up over the weekend and waits for you to start your work day off and then it all falls on your lap. I don't miss 'real world' Mondays.

Mondays are now just any other day for me. I wake up to kiss my sweet husband goodbye as he leaves for work. Then I get to crawl back into my nice warm bed and sleep another hour and a half. I try to be up and about the house by 7:30 so I can get a little time in either cleaning or catching up on computer work before my sweet little one wakes up at 8:30. The funny thing about it is I actually wake up earlier now that I stay home than I did when I had to go to an office to work. I suppose it is that feeling of dread that kept me in bed all those years when I should have been getting ready for work. You know that feeling, I'm sure. It may not be for your job, you might actually love your job! But there is almost always something that we dread facing. Then it was going to work, now it is the pile of dishes in the sink. I really did enjoy working for the most part and I had a wonderful co-worker who I am happy to call my friend (and 2nd mother), but I always felt like something was missing. I don't have that feeling anymore. I feel like I am where I was meant to be and it is wonderful.

I hope your Monday was stress-free and relaxing!

~Lisa