Coffee Break 5/3/07

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Coffee Break 5/3/07
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Thu, 05-03-2007 - 7:43am

Happy Thursday, all!

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Thu, 05-03-2007 - 7:55am

Good Morning!


Glad you had a nice birthday Wendy!

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Thu, 05-03-2007 - 8:13am

That is so cool Wendy.

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Thu, 05-03-2007 - 9:37am
Good morning.

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Registered: 10-30-2005
Thu, 05-03-2007 - 9:49am

I am tired again, but I am going to get things done.

 

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Thu, 05-03-2007 - 10:31am

Wendy glad you had a good day yesterday

Kelly hoping that little one comes soon so you can rest a little more comfortably

Ana I am glad that your dad is doing better

I just have the usual mom things to do today. It is supposed to be nice all morning so I am hoping to get the dog room at least a little cleaned up since it is so dirty from all the mud the last few days. I also have to clean the fridge out today since trash day is tomorrow. Other than that I will just rool with it. IO also have to get out in the garage and try to find all the pieces to the puppy box since our babies are due anytime after Wednesday.

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Registered: 02-27-2007
Thu, 05-03-2007 - 2:34pm

Well, my entire morning got eaten up by a meeting down at DH's office with the financial planner guy...it was the third time my DH has met with him (first time for me) and so purchased some life insurance. I just HATE thinking about stuff like that, even though I know we have to...we don't even have wills made up yet. Having a baby just changes everything, suddenly you need life insurance and guardians in place and wills, ugh. I just kept knocking on wood the entire time the guy was saying "and so if you husband should die tomorrow...."

Got home from the meeting and fed Ellie lunch (she snacked on crackers and read stories like a little ANGEL during the meeting, don't you just LOVE IT when your kid behaves in public? whoohoo!), put her down for her nap, and now just spent the last hour and a half paying bills and going over the budget (now that we're adding a hefty insurance premium every month!)...how many of the rest of you handle all the family finances? That's how we work it here, he direct deposits those paychecks and really doesn't mess with anything beyond that. If he's going to buy something major he always checks with me first...but really he doesn't buy anything other than putting gas in his car, eating lunch out every now and then at work, but no major purchases at all. So it's all on me. I set up the Quicken program and the budget and I handle all the monthly expenses...and I do all the gift buying and vacation/trip planning...and I handle all the loan repayments...and the savings and investings, from retirement to education. And some days, like today, it just gives me a headache. It's a major responsibility...I sometimes wonder if DH has any idea how much time I spend keeping the money organized, keeping the budget on track and making sure we're saving enough each month etc. etc. etc.

Heh, can you tell I'm feeling unappreciated today?? I don't know, I took the baby into his office and there are all these people dressed in nicely pressed slacks and skirts and crisp buttondown shirts and blazers, sipping their starbucks and carrying clipboards and looking so purposeful and important and fullfilled. And there I am, pushing a stroller with a squeaky wheel, wearing what WAS a semi-nice outfit when I left the house (eddie bauer jeans and a purple cotton pullover shirt) but I ripped a hole in the front of the shirt wrestling the stroller out of the trunk (tiny rip, but still obvious) and ellie found a cookie in the crevice of her carseat and ended up smearing icing all over my jeans with her sticky little hands...I'm toting a sippy cup and this battered old stuffed monkey that she won't go anywhere without...and I just felt frumpy with my jellyroll of stubborn babyweight sloshing around my middle and my frizzy, flyaway hair yanked into a rubberband because I couldn't find a proper barrette in my hurry to get there on time.

Sorry, sorry this is turning into a novel...and I need to run because Ell is waking up...and thanks to those of you who are still reading at this point, lol. Anyway, just one of those days when I sometimes wonder why exactly I thought staying home was a good idea, heh. Have a good day everyone!

Krista
DD 17 months

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