Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down - 2012 #13

Trying very hard to stay positive this week, but if anything else happens I don't know what I'm going to do. So we'll start with my very short list of ups followed by a long list of downs :(

Up:

• I've gotten a lot of cleaning done this week and have a pretty good stack of stuff to get rid of! It always make me feel better to clean out a space and not have it look so crowded.
• Kennedy started eating baby food today! I would normally wait 'til closer to six months, but this girl has been showing that she is more than ready. Sure enough I was right, she's a pro. Here she is enjoying her green beans!

Down:

• So this is going to be more of a paragraph than a bullet point! The week started off pretty bad. On Tuesday night we went to a spouse's meeting that we quickly had to leave early from because Jackson couldn't stop screaming/crying. Wednesday and Thursday Jackson has some type of stomach bug thing and had horrible diarrhea; the kind that requires baths and outfit changes. Friday was a fairly normal day, but then there came Saturday. Every single thing set Jackson off into some type of tantrum. When I told him he had to go to bed early he started throwing another fit and went limp. I literally drug him up the stairs to put him in bed. Then he thought he could put off bedtime by taking forever to pick out his books. I put an end to that and just put him in bed and said good night! Shortly after I put Jackson to bed, Kennedy decided to scream like no other. She was not wanting to take her bottle and wouldn't stop screaming. I literally went out into the garage and sat in the car to feed her so she wouldn't wake Jackson up. Then she vomited her entire bottle on me and while I was trying to get back into the house to clean us up the door knob slammed into my hip bone - so painful. Finally, after changing us both, it took an hour of walking around with Kennedy to get her to sleep. So far today...Jackson was horrible in church. He kept running away from me, crawling under the pews and throwing his milk. After we got home from church I put Kennedy on the floor to play. Jackson proceeded to open a drawer and hit her square in the head with it. Then while I was feeding Kennedy he decided to use 4 different walls upstairs as a canvas for his artwork. SERIOUSLY! The kids doesn't even color 2 lines when you give him paper, but give him a wall and away he goes. Oh, I forgot to mention that Jackson also locked me out of the house twice this week. Once when I was taking out the trash and another time when the maintenance man was re-lighting our hot water heater. Thankfully I either had keys or another door was open. Please, Please pray for my patience and sanity.
• While feeling sorry for myself this week I realized that in the past year Mike has only been home one full month - October. Probably the only reason he was home that full month was due to the mandatory 2 week reconstitution leave after his deployment and the birth of Kennedy. So hard to have a family with a piece always missing out on the action.

Favorite Thing:

The whole line of Magic Erasers! I love them all - the normal one, bathroom and kitchen ones too. Thankfully they work really well on crayon!

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