All better...finally!

That's right people, everyone in the Stiffie household is finally all better...well, we're back to what we were before, which is healthy in general, but we're still as weird as before. Mady isn't known fondly as "Miss Mady Sniffles" anymore, and Frank and I aren't the hacks anymore. We are finally all better, and ready for the warm weather to get here already!

Our weekend was fairly normal, by our standards. We did, however, manage to get out of the house and away for a while. We went to dinner and the movies with my best friend and her hubby. We saw The Last House on the Left. Let me deter you right now by saying that the previews were scarier than the movie itself was. I was quite unhappy, but at least we were out and socializing with other adults, so that was a plus.

I also talked to our neighbors. Actually, it was the owners daughter and son-in-law, but still. They are also pissed off with the guy on the corner that is trying to shut our water off. They are trying to sell their house, and having no water is NOT a selling point. But i have learned that they have an offer, they are just waiting for the home inspectors to get here and check it out so they can hopefully sell their house. I would like to know what they are getting for their house, but i think it's rude to just ask. I'd really like to know so i have an idea what we'll get for our house.

And lastly, why do men always think they have it harder than us women?! Let's take my dead hubby for example. He apparently thinks he is the only person who has to work in this house, and he is the only one who needs sleep. I am well aware that he has to get up early to go to work, but i would like some sleep sometimes too! We don't split the baby care 50/50 like we originally said we would. It's more like i do all the waking up and staying up and baby care sunday night through friday, and he takes friday night and saturday. Great! What he doesn't totally comprehend is that i have to stay awake with Mady until she falls asleep at night, then i have to get up with her when she cries at night (which isn't always, so i can't complain too to much), and then i get up with her in the morning and i stay up all day long (i don't get naps like i think he thinks i do), and then i have to do all my own stuff like making lunch, taking care of the baby, making dinner, going to work, and getting chores done. I think he thinks it's like a picinic everday for me, and i never get tired...especially not like he does. He just hates the thought of having to help me out sometimes, especially when it's after 7pm or he had a long day at work. Don't be surprised if i kill him one day.

A quickie...

A few things real quick, yet again, because i'm still pretty sick...

Frank called the lawyer "just to talk" and see what our options were. The lawyer pretty much said that that guy couldn't do that, and he was going to call him, and he would call us back. Good. I can't wait until this gets resolved. I do feel bad for the guy, it must suck to have to fork out that much money to fix a pipe and all, but don't punish me for other peoples doings, especially when i have a baby to take care of. Plus, you own the magistrate's office, you can't be that hard up for the money.

As some of you may already know, Mady is sucessfully rolling over as of today. She is like a machine. She did it about 10 times before i even went for the camera. I did manage to get it on video, thank goodness. I'm so proud of her!

My cold isn't really going away either. Don't get me wrong, i feel better than the "i want to die, shoot me shoot me shoot me, please" that i felt yesterday, but not 100% yet. I still have a stuffy head that won't go away with medicine. I can't taste my food, so eating sucks, and i'm not even very hungry. A plus and a minus from that fact, i'm down 5 pounds. But i miss my food.

May your cage in hell be extra firey...

Ok, i'm going to keep this short, as i'm very very very very sick and i just want to shoot myself right now.
If you remember a while back, we were having problems with the man from the corner and the water pipe issue. Well, we decided to just give in and pay. We were going to give him a good chunk of the money now, and then when our tax return comes in, we would give him the rest. Well, he's being a total @sshat!! He proceeded to tell Frank that nobody was returning his calls (cuz duh, nobody wants to pay you genious), and he plans to just get it fixed and shut off everyones water on the block until they pay. Well, Frank continued to tell him that we were going to pay, but he insisted he will still shut our water off. Wanna know why?! He told Frank that it was HIS responsibilty to get our two neighbors to pay the money, and we wouldn't get water until they paid him. Are you kidding me?! I have a 5 month old baby here @sshat! We're willing to pay, and you're telling us that we have to do your job! You have to be kidding me! So, Frank finally impressed me...he didn't give in like i thought he would...he said to the man "well, then we are going to be getting in touch with a lawyer, and we'll see what happens". I'm pretty sure that they lawyer will make him turn the water on to our house, as long as we are willing to pay of course, and then he will have to sue the other people to get his money. At least i hope that's how it goes, cuz we're screwed if it isn't. The neighbor right next to us doesn't live there anymore and they are trying to sell the house, so they aren't going to put any money into it until they absolutely have to, and the other neighbor is a landlord and has 4 tenants he will have to contend with, but he's a stubborn man and i think he'll fight it as long as he can. If we don't get the water, we'll be looking for a temporary house to be staying in until this all gets resolved. Any takers?!

He finally reigns supreme...

Well, we just got back from a day at the state wrestling championships. My school had 2 boys go down, and after everything was said and done, we came home with an 8th place finisher and a state champion. That's right people, Jon Fausey has finally done it! After 2 disappointing years finishing 2nd and 3rd (yes, that's right, those were DISAPPOINTMENTS to him), he finally captured that long awaited gold medal he so deserves. I know that the other kids in his bracket were very deserving too, don't get me wrong, but i'm with Jon everyday and i personally don't think there is a more deserving kid out there. He is in the top 5 of his class, he is extremely polite, he is multi-talented, and he's just a great person over all. Watching him wrestle, i was nervous, as if he were my own child. I guess that tells you how attached i am to the kids i work with.

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In other news, Mady is finally getting better. This, i'd like to think, is somehow my fault. I had talked to God the other day, and told him that he can give me Mady's cold 3x over if he would take it away from her...it was breaking my heart to hear her cough and sniffle. Well, i got my wish. Mady is well on the road to recovery, and i want to die. I didn't sleep well last night, i've been coughing up a storm, i'm freezing in the wonderful 70 degree weather (that's right people, it finally hit 70 here, but it's going back down to the 40s next week...short lived glory), and i even puked last night, which i haven't done in a very long time. It's ok though, i can take medicine to make me feel better, Mady can't.

Now it's baseball season, which finally means earlier nights and more time with my family. Oh, did i mention that i hate this whole turn the clocks ahead thing?! It's going to screw up Mady for a few days, i'm sure of it. Hopefully we can adjust pretty quickly.

Capt.Sicky coughs again...

We are currently experiencing Mady's first cold. This, by far, is the worst thing...not just for her, but for Frank and me as well. My heart is absolutely breaking watching her cough and sneeze. Her little eyes are all red and watery, her little nose is stuffy and running, and her little cough is so sad. It's all quite pathetic. I wish i could take her cold away from her and have it myself, but unfortunately, she'll have to go through this whole first cold thing eventually. We took her to the doctor, hoping to get some sort of prescribtion medicine to help her fight off these nasty germs that are infesting her whole body. After all, if either one of us were sick, we would do the same thing and the doctor would give us medicine. Well, no such luck here. The doctor said that it's not in her chest, it's just in her head, so we'd have to just ride it out. Ride it out!?!? This is my little baby here mister, and she is very sick, i need more than just "ride it out"! He said she would get worse today, tomorrow and friday, and she should start to go down the other side of the cold mountain around the weekend, and we should see her improvement by next friday...that's right people, over a week from now. My poor little girl has to suffer for over a week! I'm hoping that lots of formula and lots of sleep will help her fight this off better. My heart is totally broken watching her smile, even though she feels like crap. I've been giving her the baby tylenol to try to help keep the fever down and away, and to ease any pain she may have. I think it's working, but i can't be totally sure. I just can't wait until we get through this one, me and my heart both.

Another one bites the...cereal?

Yes, you read that correctly, i said cereal. Mady is now officially eating cereal...well, if you could even call what she's eating cereal. It's just 1tbsp of rice cereal and about 4-5tbsp formula, so it's extremely runny. So far so good though. She's taking to the spoon pretty well, too. She is still a bit confused as to why it won't give her more formula when she sucks on it, but i'm sure she'll get it sooner or later. My little girl is growing up so fast!

She was reaching for the spoon to get more

She kept sucking on the spoon

She made a mess of herself

She really enjoyed it

Not Me! Monday...

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This is a place where we can hash and re-hash all the not-so suzie homemaker-esk things that we have and haven't done this week. This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week. And feel free to join in!

I absolutely DID NOT spend almost 20min pulling out Mady's small clothes from the laundry that i wanted to "retire", only to forget what i was doing and put them back away with the other things. How would i forget anything, it's not like i have anything else to do!

I most definately DID NOT hurt myself putting together Mady's highchair. Putting things together, in our house at least, is Frank's job...so why would i be doing it?! And seriously, who hurts themselves on a plastic highchair?

I totally DID NOT under-estimate how fast the rice cereal would come out of the box, and end up dumping about 2 cups of it into her bowl instead of 2tbsp...and then try to scoop it all back up with the BABY SPOON and put it back into the box. I'm a whole lot smarter than that, thank goodness.

I absolutely DID NOT try to feed Mady her cereal (her very FIRST cereal) with one hand while trying to take pictures and videos of it with the other hand.

I most definately DID NOT get baby puke on my pants while i was out, and just wipe it with the burp cloth and go about doing what i was doing. That would be gross. I'm better than that. I hate when i get dirty.

I certainly DID NOT hear Mady wake herself up at about 2am and start crying, but i was so tired i decided to turn down the monitor and just let her whine for about 10min until she fell back asleep on her own. That would not be good mothering, and i love my child very much. I am very attentive to her every need.