Refreshed (sort of)

I had been looking forward to this past Saturday for over a month. A while ago, my dear friend Kelly asked me if I wanted to partake in a spa day with her before her baby #3 arrived. I double checked with Tom and then told her to sign me up! But at this time in September, the first available weekend that worked for us both was the first Saturday in November. After we made the appointment we laughed because Kelly would be 38 weeks pregnant. That's a huge belly!  We decided to make an entire day of it. We met for an early lunch, then off to our hour long body massages and hour long facials. Then we needed some massive amounts of caffeine to wake up before we headed to Archiver's for some scrapbooking. I decided to take on the huge task of actually making my Christmas cards this year. As my fingers were literally bleeding on my 90th card - I told myself I would never do this again. HA HA. All in all, it was SUCH a fun day! Kelly and I never really get to hang out without kids! The only thing that would have made yesterday the best day would have been if Kelly's water broke :-)

The past week or so both of my boys have been driving me crazy. Jack is in constant negotiating mode. Sometimes he is the best eater in the world, other times he won't eat a morsel of food ALL. DAY. LONG. Remember my last post about the amazing dinner I was making in the crock pot? It seriously turned out amazing! Almost like a holiday dinner. Jack took one look at it and said - I don't like this. I'm done. UGHHHH. I'm not a short order cook, so he sat at the table whining without food while Tom, Finn and I finished. It was so annoying. Then in Target last week while I was checking out, Jack sat on the floor playing with this stupid sucker that had batteries and was spinning around. I told him it was time to go home and eat lunch, let's go. He turned his selective hearing on and ignored me. So I crouched down, took the sucker from him, and made him stand up. He made his body go completely limp and started screaming. OMG. So I picked him up and carried him in the most awkward position possible while pushing the cart with Finn in it all the way out to our car, he was literally kicking and screaming. Oh and another really embarrassing thing that Jack has been doing is - he's been saying "who's that guy" to EVERYONE out in public. They could be a little girl, an elderly woman, a girl my age. Doesn't matter, everyone is a guy. He'll either say that - or he'll call the stranger Grandma or Grandpa. So embarrassing. Sometimes I just pretend like Jack didn't say anything and other times I will correct him.

Then there is Finn. He has a cold, is probably teething (when aren't kids), he's always on the go. I'm just so frustrated that I can't do some of the things that I did with Jack. Take for example sippy cups. When Jack was this age, we were putting his formula in sippy cups and got rid of the bottles. Finn just doesn't get it. He'll drink water out of them with dinner, but he won't drink his formula out of them. I know it's not that big of a deal, I'm just worried that we'll have a hard time getting him to drink whole milk when he turns one, and this boy needs all the fattening up he can get! PS - he's standing by himself a lot more, but I can tell just by how quickly he goes back down to his crawling that it's going to be a little while before he's walking. He just knows he can get there so much faster by crawling. And I'll be honest with you, I don't want him to walk anytime soon.

I'm kind of burnt out if you can't tell. Even though I had an amazing spa day on Saturday - I'm just feeling run down and worn out as a mom. I know it's normal and I'll snap out of it soon. Staying at home is just really hard.