My husband is beyond awesome!

 

Just the fact that my husband decided that while they were in the dark at work during a black out that he should walk around and menacingly flash people in the face with a flashlight while hitting a large stick in his hand and saying he was self designated  security officer was enough. But the fact that he when asked if he needed anything ordered for work supplies his answer was:

  Given the confusion following the recent power outage I’ve nominated myself as the Engineering Security Officer (ESO).  In my new capacity I require the following "office supplies".

Riot suit

Ballistic Riot Shield

TASER® X26C

Collapsable police baton

These will total about $6000, a small price to pay for continuity of security during these troubling times.

This is why my husband rocks and why I married the man. Who is bold enough to do this? Then the fact that his work understands him so well that HR sent it to the CFO so he could laugh as well is just beyond anything I have ever experienced.

I love you baby!

Is That Time I hear Ticking Away?

 

How is it possible that I have a little girl who will be three? I cannot believe that time flies so fast. I swear it was just so recently that I was counting the day’s till I first became a mom and now my little girl will start dance class. She is turning three and I just can not believe that this has happened so fast. Not to say that I am surprised she is in dance class because I signed her up however I just am amazed that she is old enough to go. Next will be preschool and I might as well just be looking for a job right now.

This brings me to another subject which is, what to do when the two kids get into school. I want to get into something that I can eventually work at a college so that when my kids go to college that I can have a discount through my job. Now that sounds so cheap like I don’t want to have to put aside a college fund which is not true I just think if I don’t have to spend that much on it if I can save some money. I guess I should start to research what my options are.

home invasion?

 

I am trying to figure out how I can, with a strait face, tell my children that on Christmas Eve we will make cookies and put socks up in anticipation of a home invasion by a fat man who really has no way of getting into the house and hoping he will know what our little hearts desire and leave them for us. I suppose that we can suspend some cognitive dissidence by writing letters addressed to “Santa Claus” at “the North Pole” I feel this is quite general so would adding in a gingerbread house with lots of very short people roaming around would help, Just saying. So after we are home invaded and our cookies are stolen by this unkempt man with an unruly beard he leaves us “presents” then escapes out of the house possibly damaging the fire place and roof with his enormous girth and heft. Not to mention that he must be a scientific genius having figured out how to make animals that are heavy and not aerodynamic to fly while pulling a sleigh his fat little body and enough gifts to give to the whole world. After leaving with a belly full of our milk and cookies, he and his magical menagerie he shouts and laughs as he is leaving. I ask you what kind of a message is this sending to our children?

To Each Their Own

 

I recently have loved watching Gordon Ramsay’s shows such as Kitchen Nightmares and I just enjoy his enthusiasm and honesty I guess you could say. He has had some cosmetic surgery and now there is just something about him. I do want to learn to cook better and expand my recipe horizons. I have started to watch all kinds of cooking shows and want to improve my bread skills which, if I do say so myself, are decent to begin with. I think that my husband starts to question what I see in him when I tell him that I find people like Gordon Ramsay, Allen Rickman, and Sam Elliot attractive. Oh well what can you say?

Parenthood

 

Being a stay at home mom did not come naturally to me. That being said I would not change it for the world. I was not the little girl playing mommy with baby dolls. I was Barbie with the corvette and big corporate job. I got married which was shocking to me as well and my husband said if we have kids I want you to stay home with them. He is a great man and he would stay home if I had a more lucrative job. Having a second child is a whole new level of parental stress. I have no idea how to get out of the house on time. Dressing two girls and me also making sure that diapers all all clean and hair is done is just time consuming. It is the small things that make it so worthwhile. When my little girl looks at me and says “I love you mama” or when she laughs really hard when her daddy laughs. I love my daughters and I am so glad that I have them.

Joy’s of potty training

 

My husband is a great father he is so interactive. We were at the store and my daughter has decided she wants to wear her underpants so in the middle of the store she says that she needs to go to the potty and I was taking care of the fussy baby so Bryan takes Venice to the men’s bathroom in the store. Later I find out the utter ciaos that ensues in said bathroom. So my husband is in a bathroom stall feeling like a molester because Venice is saying over and over “I want mom” so he is saying “we will go see her after you pee. Remember she is in the toys department waiting for us.” Which makes him sound like he is hiding something because of the detail of his description to her.  After a long time of no urine being expelled he takes her out to me and two minutes later she again states that she needs to go. I offered to take her but he did not want the fussy two month old. However he was never approached by anyone trying to save the child begging for her mother. I am unsure if that is a good thing overall. Well I think that potty training sucks! Running into a store with a two month old and a two year old while leaving the dog in a cold car and trying not to knock things down while running holding hands and flinging a car seat wildly around in attempts to not take out other kids walking by. I really think it would have been much easier if I had done all of this before having another child. Oh well I am sure that this too will pass. And if I am lucky I will get amnesia and not remember!

Helpful Hints from Heather

Here are a few things that I have learned in my vast thirty two years:

1. You must love yourself for if you don’t no one else truly can.

2. Marry a nerd. They will always cherish you.

3. If you choose to have a second child wait till the first one is potty trained.

4. If you make your decisions based on your moral code you don’t have regret.

5. Communicate openly with your spouse about everything from sex to money and the earlier you start in your relationship the less issues you will have.

6. Choosing your spouse should be the most selfish decision you ever make.

7. You can choose your reaction to all things that happen in your life or as my mother always said “you can go just as crazy as you let yourself”.

8. “Some people cause happiness wherever they go and others whenever they go”. Think it over.

9. Let those who you love know it often. Life is fragile.

10. Show people who you really are if they hang around they are good enough to know you.

Fishies!

 

We had a large glass bowl just hanging around and being a huge pain to store. So Bryan suggested that we put fish in it. I was at the store and I decided to get some fish and surprise Venice with them. It was the cutest thing ever, when I walked in and showed her she was so excited and said “oh thank you mamma!” She loves them so much she watches them and feeds them when we let her.

Christmas Decorations

 

This year we got a Christmas tree. In all the years that I have lived in  my own place including all the time that I have been married we have not decorated for holiday’s at all. I guess I do have to say that the first year we were married we thought we would try and make a home and get a real tree. We soon found out that we are not filled with the Christmas spirit. We got lights and opened the package but never put them on the tree. So after the holiday’s we finally got around to disposing of the real, dry and dead, tree in May. So we never put up a tree after that till now. Bryan and Venice were wandering around a store and he said she got so excited looking at the lights and decorations. We surprised Venice with a fake pre-lit tree on Thanksgiving and we are going to put lights on the porch. I cannot believe how much children change your life.

Bryan feels like he has a Christmas tradition, which his mother I am sure would not be happy about, he puts some picture on the top of the tree. Replacing the angel with icons such as Spiderman or the Hulk. So now that we have a tree and we are going to decorate it he put a picture of Patrick Swayze on top of our tree. I have to say I am such a patient wife.

Shout out to the love of my life.

My dearest Bryan,

We are rapidly approaching our five year anniversary and I just want you to know some of the reasons that I love you so much.

I love:

1. You are my best friend and I never tire of talking to you.
2. We both love road trips and no matter how long we are on the road we never fun out of things to say.
3. You are strong enough to let me be who I am and love and accept me.
4. You are more then I could ever have asked for as a father for my children.
5. That you play ponies with Venice and take her on buggie hunts and read her stories.
6. That you will do everything you can to make sure that we are taken care of and that I can stay home and raise our children.
7. That you love your girls so much.
8. The fact that you want me to have what makes me happy; you will drive your old car into the ground but let me have the one I want.
9. That sometimes before we go to sleep we end up talking for hours and laughing so hard tears come to my eyes.
10. I respect you.
11. You are an honorable man.
12. I love that you love my mother so much, as well as my family.
13. I know you will always be there for me.
14. That I feel as comfortable with you as I do alone.
15. You have been able to take on so much responsibility and enjoy it.
16. I love the way you look at me.
17. YOU!!