Ahh, the smell of accomplishment...

Yup, that's right, that smell is blowing my way this time. I was dreading today. I had so much to do! I didn't want to wake up, for fear of getting lost in my list of things, or just collapsing. But i did it, and all of it! I went for my run, showered, fed my baby breakfast, did 2 loads of laundry, played with the baby for almost an hour, went grocery shopping (which those of you with children know, is very very difficult and time comsuming), ate lunch, did another load of laundry, fed my baby lunch, got dressed and made it to work 15 whole minutes early! This was seriously quite an accomplishing day for me. I am very happy with myself. And to end my day, i made dinner, fed the baby dinner, folded the last load of laundry, gave the baby a bath, changed my bathroom (the towels and shower curtain and all, i made it "April-y"), put away the dishes, and now i'm blogging! Whew! I'm going to sit down for a bit. I'll be back tomorrow :)

Ok, seriously now!

I've honest to God had enough of the water around here!
Tuesday, the private contractor had the water turned off to fix the pipe that is direct into our house...Wednesday, the water company had the water turned off to fix the main pipe out in the middle of the road...Now today, we have a mini flood in our basement! How could this happen after all this pipe fixing you may ask?! I asked the same thing.
Frank got up for work this morning at his usual 430am. He gets almost all dressed, but his jeans are still hanging in the basement. See, my dear husband is too lazy to go downstairs and bring them all up and put them away, he'd rather have to go all the way down to the basement EVERY MORNING to get a new pair of work jeans. Whatever, his walk not mine. But for once, i'm glad he did have to go down there. He went down to get his jeans and heard water running. Now, this is very unlikely in our basement. So he looked toward the back of the basement and saw a mini river starting. He walked toward the back of the basement and noticed that the wall was pretty much soaked half way up, and he could hear water rushing in the basement next door. Well, there is one spot where you can pretty much see over to the other basement, and he noticed a waterfall. Yup, that's right, i said waterfall, in their basement. So of course he realized that they had sprung a leak and were quickly flooding. He proceeds to come upstairs, wake me up, and ask me what to do. Like i have a clue here babe! My Uncle Jack is a plumber, so Frank says to me "Should i call Jack?", to which i reply "It's 445am, are you out of your mind?!". Of course, he realized that he must be, and decided that he would call at 7am, a more decent hour. But what he didn't realize at that time was that there was nothing Uncle Jack could do until we got in touch with the neighbors. For those of you who aren't familiar with our situation, to make a long story short, the neighbors are trying to sell the house for their mother who is in the hospital...and they live a decent drive away. Well, Frank used his brain (good job baby), and found the neighbors home phone number and called them to tell them what was going on so they could come and do something. Thank god that when he called them at 530AM, they were awake. They rushed here and shut the water off. They found someone who could fix everything that was wrong on their side, and they told us to check and see if anything was wrong on our side or if anything was ruined, and their insurance would cover it. They also thanked us profusely for calling them. Honestly though, it was to our benefit, so our basement wouldn't flood as well. But we were also doing the neighborly thing, they are really nice people. So needless to say, i am totally fed up with water at this point!

Yup, still dry!

Well, for the second day in a row, our water has been shut off for a period of time. This time it wasn't the guy on the corner though, it was the water company themselves. Apparently there was a leak in another part of the pipe, so they had to shut our water off and dig into the street up from our house. They told me that the water would be off around 930-10am, and would be back on around 130-2pm. Well, by 830am the water was off. Good that i had just finished working out and was in dire need of a shower. I had to sit around, stinky, all day long waiting for the water to come back on. It finally did around 12pm thank god. Just in time for me to shower, feed Mady and get dressed and go to work. Woo-Hoo!

Is it dry in here, or is it just me?!

Yesterday they shut my water off. No, not because i didn't pay my bill. It's because of the man on the corner. But it's not for good. They were fixing the pipe so it wouldn't leak, so they had to shut the water off to the whole block for about 4 hours. This is a hard thing to deal with when you have a 5 month old. I had to block up the kitchen and bathroom sinks so i could do simple things, like wash out her bottles, wash her face, brush my teeth, etc. At least it's fixed now though, and i don't have to hear about it ever again. I can say that with confidence because i'm sure we'll be moved by the time something happens again. Oh, and by the way, it's all still one pipe (for those of you following our drama). We had thought they would change it to 4 seperate pipes so we wouldn't have to go through this drama again, but they didn't. Whatever, i'm just happy it's done and over now.

Mady has become anti-sock lately. It's not that she doesn't like things on her feet, it's that she likes to grab her feet and put them in her mouth. When she does this, she tends to fall to the side and lose grip on her feet. Subsiquently, she doesn't let go of her socks as she loses grips and off comes the socks! Then the socks go right into her mouth, like everything else she can get a hold of, and they get soaked and we have to put dry socks on her feet so she doesn't freeze from her own drool!

Beads for baby...

Saturday, we went to the St Patty's Day parade as a family. It was quite fun, if i must say so myself. It was a bit chilly at first, but when the sun finally shone on our side of the parade route, it was quite nice. Mady was in her full glory, soaking up all the attention she possibly could. She was also entranced by all of the fire trucks and bands that were there. But her favorite things, by far, were the bagpipers. She is so much like her mommy :) One of the fire trucks that came by had a bunch of people handing out beads to people, and of course Mady got a strand. Needless to say, Frank wasn't too happy about that. "She's too young for beads, it'll give her a bad impression", is what he says to me. Like she flashed her diaper for those beads or something. I thought it was super cute, and she totally loved them! She was playing with them and having a great time. Then right at the end of the parade, she fell asleep in my arms. All in all it was a great day, i must say.

Not Me Monday ~ Postponed

Normally I do a Not Me! Monday post, and I know you all love it. Mckmama is the founder of this fab blog carnival, and I love participating.

Today I ask a favor instead. For those of you who follow Mckmama, you are aware of what is going on with Baby Stellan. For those of you that don't, I ask that you please go over to her blog, and catch up on what is happening.

A very brief recap of her story is that when Mckmama was pregnant, Stellan was found to have heart complications. Such severe complications, that the entire MckFamily were told by doctors that he would not survive to be born. Stellan WAS born, and not a single heart defect was found after his birth. Unfortunately, at not quite 5 months, they have returned. Stellan is in SVT, and his heart is enlarged. Doctors have told the family that his little body can't continue at this pace, so they must get his heart rate back to normal. The MckFamily needs your prayers right now.

So if you would all take the time that you would have used reading my blog, to say a little prayer for Stellan, that would be greatly appreciated. God bless you Stellan.

Harder than i gave it credit for...

Today was day 2 of my workout DVD. It's 30 days total, and you're supposed to go either 5 or 10 days and then take a day off, and do that until you hit the end. It's not the most challenging thing i've ever done, but let me tell you that those teeny tiny muscles that you never use but totally take for granted, yea, they are aching a bit today. I figure it's a good thing, no pain no gain ya know. I still can't wait to get out and go running already. Hurry up spring!

Tomorrow we're taking Mady to her very first parade, the St Patty's Day parade in Girardville. I love this parade. It's pretty long, you can drink beer on the street, there are bagpipers (those of you who dont know, i totally love bagpipers!), and everyone is celebrating! I'm just hoping that it's pretty nice out, so Mady doesn't freeze. I think we're going to take her jogger stroller AND the carrier, so that way we can just tote her around with us as we walk and talk. I'm hoping she loves the bagpipers as much as i do.