I woke up this morning thinking it should be Friday morning. I can't believe I have to get up for work again tomorrow! It's been such a long week! Rich was off yesterday and today but he's back at it tomorrow morning bright and early! UGGGHHH! It'll be his first weekend working at the pd in years! I miss his old schedule. I have to say though as far as my job is going, it's good. It's nice to have a new supervisor and my old boss and I get along good now...lol. Alot of changes going on at work though and it's still alot of adjustments for all of us. Rich goes to mid-nights next week. I have mixed feelings about it. At first I was upset about him being gone all night but now I've decided that since he won't be waking me up at 430 am when he gets up and is getting ready for work, then I have get up and get the kids ready and myself ready for the day it may not be so bad. At least when he's on mid-nights i'll be able to sleep until 6 am. (that is if I can sleep while he's gone, I'm not sure of that yet) Either way we'll get through it, I have no choice! That darn baby of mine is so cute (both my kids are, but katie's more pretty than cute now that she's older and I she's a great kid!!) He is getting so big though and has started to get an attitude if he doesn't get his way. I see his dad coming out!!!! Hopefully this weekend since Rich will be working I can get some pics posted for you all on here, Facebook, and myspace! It's supposed to be cold here in Florida with high's in 60's. It just got back up into the 80's and now we're going back down!!

weight watchers

So I didn't go last week but last night I went and weighed in....I lost another two pounds bringing my total weight loss to 10.6 lbs! I'm so proud of myself and I am a firm believer in weight watchers. It takes some time to lose the weight, but I didn't gain it overnight either! Yeah me! Now I better get working!

End to a crazy week

Happy Saturday night everyone. This has been a busy and trying week for me as I adapt to Rich's work schedule. To make it harder, Thursday & Friday he had over time. Thursday he didn't get home until 930 (supposed to have been 6) and last night he worked from 5pm-230 am, it was his night off. He helped out the drug unit with a search warrant. The kids have been great though and I have a little mom guilt for being so cranky and tired these past few nights. But back to Rich's first day on road patrol. He had two arrest, one a minor drug arrest and the other one was huge, he caught a leader of an identity theft ring. This ring was through the whole state of Florida and he even found some blank checks belonging to someone in Colorado. It was a jam up job and I'm proud of him, ofcourse it sucked that it kept him out till 930 but what can you do. So far this weekend the only thing I've done is grocery shopped and cleaned house. I hope to get these brows waxed tomorrow but who knows. I have to say I did enjoy playing with the baby all day. He is getting so big. I bought him these crackers that disolve in his mouth as he chews him and he did really good. I was scared he'd choke because he don't take solid food very good. But he suprised me and ate them up. I finally learned how to get him to eat veggies. I have to put some on the spoon, then put some fruit on the front of the spoon. I have to trick him to take the bite....isn't great when he's only 8 months old and i can't get him to eat veggies already! It's my fault for introducing him to fruit to begin with I reckon. He had his other flu shot (babies get it in two parts) the first time he got sick with a little fever, but that next day he broke his first tooth so we weren't sure if it was the flu shot or the tooth that made him sick, we'll since he didn't get sick with this second flu shot, my bet is the tooth made him sick. So far he's only cut his bottom two. Still waiting for the others to start coming in. Oh and I was so proud of him, he didn't even cry when he got the shot. He wimpered when the nurse pulled the needle out and that was it. I thought for sure he'd scream when she stuck him, but he didn't. He's gonna be tough like Daddy (cause I'm a big wuss) Katie got good citizen at school. every couple of months each teacher picks one student out of their class to get it and they have a luncheon for the parents to attend and see the kids get the awards and then the special treat is the parents can check the kids out for the rest of the day if they want and it doesn't count against the students. So I brought katie burger king and watched her get her award. I'm so proud of that girl, first honor roll, now this. She's such a great kid! I felt bad for the kids at the luncheon whose parents didn't come. There were like 5 kids at a table together in the corner with a teacher that hung out to support them. It had to suck because there were about 35 other kids whose parents were sitting with them and had brought them lunch. I thank God I have a job that allows me to take time off to do stuff like that for my children. I imagine some of the parents that didn't come was because of work, it is in the middle of the day and I understand times are tough alot of people have to work and can't afford to take time off. Thank you RPD for understanding the importance of family and letting me take the rest of the day off to get katie out of school. (i took advantage of the time by getting richie his flu shot) Also one more thing, I'd like to note that after we took the baby to the doctor for his shot richard wanted a sunday and I stuck to my weight watchers and didn't get any ice cream, i had a bite of his and a bite of katie's but other than that i sat and watched them eat their ice cream! go me!

Cold

Ok, it's cold today. Maybe not cold like up north, but Florida cold. Tonight will be colder. I hate getting up in the morning and getting the car warmed up. Maybe if I keep my fingers crossed real tight we'll win the lotto and I can quit working...yeah right. Nothing is really going on here. Today is Rich's last day as a drug investigator and tomorrow morning at 6 am he will be working the beat on the streets of Rockvegas! Good luck Baby! Katie got A/B honor roll on her report card yesterday. She got it last report card too....I'm so proud of her. She got an A in science and in math.....she's doing better than I did in school. She woke up cranky this morning and started crying which made me yell and want to beat her, but I didn't I just yelled some more and walked away, she apoligized and then I felt bad so I was kissing her butt a little bit so I didn't feel like such a schmuck. Anyways no since in boring you any longer....until later!

Weekend

So I love watching Ultimate Showdown on Food Network, where the winner gets their recipe on the menu at TGIF's. On Friday night we went so I could try this mac & cheese that looked great, but I was disappointed. It wasn't very good. However, the hamburger Rich had that was on the show last week was yummy...and this is coming from one of the pickiest eaters I know. I don't like that TGIF changes the recipe, I think if they'd of kept the mac & cheese to the original it would have been great. What can you do...nothing....
Saturday was my Step-Mom's brother's "Celebration of Life" Tom Cook passed away right before Christmas. He was 42. It was such a great service and so many people came. I wish I would have known him better. I always liked Tom, but I only seen him at birthday parties. Listening to what everyone said about him really said alot about who he was and how great of a guy he was. Yeah, people always say good things about you after you pass, but you could tell Tom was truely a great guy. He is gone before his time and I know he will be missed by his family and friends. Tom had a cool job at the space center and traveled all over the world. He fished, surfed, ate Mexican and liked his beer....he would have gotten along great with us! What Tom did teach me by his passing is to live each day to the fullest and my new years resolution is to not let things bother me and try to be a happier person, drama free as I like to call it!
On Sunday we did our chores around the house...boring. But at least the Eagles LOST!!! YEAH!! Monday my Mom, Katie, and me went to Universal Studios. That was fun. We hadn't had a day just us in awhile, and it was past due. The weather was perfect...luckily no stinky tourist. And I mean luckily because if you've been there before you know that on the Men in Black ride they take 50 or more people and shove them into what you think is an elevator. (whether it really is or if it's just to take up time from the hour wait you have is beyond me) But anyhoo...you're stuck in this tiny room with people jammed in so close they're touching you, and in the summer it stinks so bad from people's funk! But today I noticed my nose is running and my head is stuffy, so thank you to whoever passed their cold to me yesterday at Universal Studios. Katie suffered a little trauma from 'Twister'. She bumbed her head on the rail when you drop at the end and it scared her. That ended our day...but if that was the worst that happened, then I'm not doing too bad. It really was a great day and I loved every minute of being with my Katie and my Mom.
So that was my weekend in a nutshell. Oh Rich went out for Todd's birthday Saturday night. I sat at home pouting that all my friends were out and I was home. But I'm working my attitude with my whole new years drama free thing.....it's going to take some time.

Positive feedback

Ok, so I've got some positive feedback from you guys that I've notified I was going to be a blogger...thank you! If you know me, you know I love to talk about myself. What started me in this is that I am a big fan of Deadliest Catch and I read up on it and I came across some blogs from people who live in Dutch Harbor Alaska and it's so intereseting to read about their life style. It's not only because of the DC, but because their life is so different than ours here in Florida. I became addicted to reading them. Then I thought about it and I realize that this is a good way to keep a journal of my life, and I can share it with my family and friends who I don't get to speak with on a regular basis. Welcome along as I share my journey of life as a Mother of a youngin' that's going to be a handfull and as I become what I call a "roadwife". (Is the wife of a hubby who is a police officer on road patrol) Roadwife's are the ones that are at parties alone because hubby is working. Please bare with me while I'll probably be venting (ALOT) as Rich starts his new adventure. Also this summer I hope to spend more time with my long time friend Lacy at the beach, on days Rich is off or my Mom is available to babysit....I plan on becoming a boogie board queen while she surfs on her long board! Then there's always the adventures of Rich and the baby to keep you up on. Rich just called me a little bit ago and the baby had went #2 so bad it was up his back to his shoulders and Rich was freaking out a little about how bad it was. He said he picked the baby up and heard swishy wishy and realized that wasn't in the diaper but on Rich's arm! I love that kid!

Pic of my baby boy

My first blog...

Ok, so I've been following blogs for awhile now but never understood the whole thing. Now whether anyone reads my blogs is another story. But at least I'll have a journal for myself. To get to know me, I live in Cocoa, Florida and I've been here since I was two...so I consider myself a central floridian. I have two kids and my husband is a pretty interesting character. I will have more later, I'm at work and I better get busy. (So I'm not starting off too intersting for a following)