Thursday, March 29, 2007

Grandma is out taking Adriel for a walk, so I thought I'd take the opportunity to post. She was a little bit bossy about me not putting mittens on him which annoyed me some. I tried to put them on him. They're the kind with a string attached to them and it was a fight to stuff his chubby paws in, and he cried . Then it was a struggle to get it through his jacket sleeve. He pushed and pushed and it just would not fit. He was crying, and at that point I decided it simply wasnt worth it. Then Ann showed up and told me he should wear his mittens. I explained that I tried and it was too much trouble. "Well then you just get through it" she said to me. I've taken him on many walks with out mittens before, he'll be fine. Plus he likes using his hands. Yesterday she informed me that Kyle and I live like slobs. She thinks it should be ok for her to just say things like that to me. It hurt my feelings because I try hard to keep my house clean, and yesterday was a busy day for me because I left to help Mom clean. And who feels like cleaning after spending a good four hours cleaning someone else's mess? Oh well.
I must say though, I have thought about that comment several times since she said it. I thought about it before bed. I thought about it when I woke up. I made a plan today. Im trying to get more organised in my cleaning. I made up a schedule for myself, and plan on including Kyle in it too. Im not a slob. Thats all there is to it, and I dont want to let her negative view of me affect me in negative ways.
Other than that, its been a good day. I really do enjoy being at home with Adriel. Im worried about going back to work. Im going to work in a salon that one of my friends from the cutting room opened in December. She's really nice and I know it will be fun to work with her. She's understanding of my circumstances and knows that I need a lax schedule. I plan on working hours that Kyle can watch Adriel and sometimes Ann will too. I've learned a lot in the past year about being a mom, and a homemaker. It didnt all come at once, and as you can see im still getting it together. Its a refining process for me. I started out feeling like I couldnt do anything, to slowly getting more organized about different things, like cooking, and laundry, and stuff. But there's room for improvement and Im worried about going downhill once I've started working. There will be many benefits from me going back to work too though. Like, Im still a new stylist and I have lots to learn, so it will be good for me to work with peers, and gain more clientele. And, I will be able to go on maternity leave again with our next baby, which will be nice, and we could really use the extra income. And of course the working conditions should be much better than working at the cutting room. ok ok, enough about boring things.
Im sore today. I didnt get to the gym much last week due to our visit to Vancouver, so for some reason Im sore this week. The class on Tuesday did seem particularly hard to me. My legs were shaking when I left and even just pushing the clutch down was hard. Mostly just my leg muscles hurt, but they are the worst ones to be sore! It always makes me wonder if thats what it feels like to be old....


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Sarahstottle posted @ 2:58 PM


Sunday, March 25, 2007
Sandwiches are beautiful, sandwiches are fine...
Look at that, Im on a roll. Its easier to write when I dont wait a long time because there's less to catch up on, and I dont feel as overwhelmed by it.


Kyle had to leave right after church today to go to the Qualicum branch council meeting. It was kind of a bother seeing as we were just out there last week. Oh well. He's on the high council I suppose I should get used to him not being around much on Sundays. I came home and made a sandwich. Sometimes a sandwich can seem like a boring thing to eat. But they can be sooo good.


Adriel was supposed to be sleeping but he played in his crib instead, so I got him up. He's been doing this grunty thing at me lately when I have food and he wants some. Its funny. He also does this scrunchy nose face, and he makes it a lot at strangers when they talk to him. He's just too cute.

Church was good today. It's always good though, in my opinion.
Last night for sister movie night we watch the holiday. It was good. There were some touching parts that brought a tear or two to my eyes. When brent came home we watched the end with us. He's rarely interested in what we're watching. Im excited to watch it again with Kyle.
Im lucky. I have so many blessings, and so many things to be grateful for. I want to do better, be a better mom and a better wife, a better friend. Those are some of the feelings I had at church.
I should go and feed Adriel some lunch. I wanted to let you all know that his sleeping habits have gotten a lot better. Sometimes he sleeps right through the night and other times he'll only wake up once. He's sleeping in more too. No more wide awakenings at 5:30. Thank goodness. Ok sort of an all over the place post, but that's the way it is with me.

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Sarahstottle posted @ 12:58 PM


Friday, March 23, 2007
"Sisterhood is sistergood" - Laura Clarke
This week Katie and I went to Vancouver to visit Laura. Basically I weasled my way into going. Originally it was supposed to just be Katie. Here are some of the hilights of the trip

On the ferry ride over Adriel entertained us with his sillyness. He got stuck between the chair and the wall in a really small space. It was rather cute of him. Here he looks happy, but he wasnt for long. As soon as he figured out how stuck he was, it wasnt fun for him any more.





























He was quite occupied with the whitespot cup and chewed right through the bottom. I kept having to fish pieces of it out of his mouth. We thought the view of his little teeth clamping down on the cup was funny. It was a hard one to catch because he kept biting over and over. ha ha.





When Laura picked us up from the ferry we agreed to go to whole foods. It was, afterall, a tradition of ours and we were excited to let Katie in on it. We got tandoori salmon nuggets and pizza and panini's and desserts (one was a Bethknee kind. You would have picked it Bethany for our tradition. ) oh yeah and a really good chicken salad with asparagus among other things. It turned out to be a rather expensive dinner as whole foods tends to be expensive. Theres just too many yummy things to choose from though. They dont make it easy on you.



Laura told Katie concerning her allergy to cats that she'd properly do the thing that she didnt do properly for me when I came before- and as a result suffered horribly. Funny she never mentioned to me that things could have been done about it. Instead she let me suffer. Sometimes she has no heart.



We went home and I gave adriel a bath. Just as I was sitting down on the ledge the shower curtain came crashing down on me. I realized afterwards that it was because I sat on part of it. Woops. Then for some reason unknown to me, Adriel was terrified of being in the bath. So I had to get in with him.



Then we started to watch stranger than fiction. Katie and I were both tired but Laura wouldnt let us go to sleep- another example of her black heart shining through. I managed to stay awake but Katie kept slipping away. Her chair was positioned quite close to the tv because she forgot her glasses and her contacts were bugging her and she had to take them out. Little did I know that a thing so simple as Katie forgetting her glasses would cause me some personal stress...



Laura made us watch to a certain part, which was a good part- I'll give her and her black heart the credit when its rightly earned, however Katie was asleep and didnt get to enjoy it. I slept in Elicias room with my boy and Katie and Laura slept together in Laura's room.



In the morning we took Laura to work. It was decided that I would be the one driving (which I never like to do in Vancouver if I can avoid it) thanks to Katie and her contacts. We decided on the way to work that Katie and I would go to Ikea until Laura needed Adriel for her show and tell. well well well. Laura gave us confusing directions and we ended up asking a guy. He told us a completely different way. Once we got there though it was closed. For some reason I was under the impression that Ikea's open early. No siree bob. So we decided to make our way back to Laura's work (our time was running out anyhow) All the while we were very aware that we need to find a gas station. We had a little bit of time so we wandered down busy street after busy street looking and expecting to find one SOMEWHERE!!! We did find one, and just as we pulled in, realized that it was all pyloned off because they were refilling with gas or something.We were almost out of time when we decided to just go back to laura's work. It was too late. We ran out of gas on quite a busy street with no where to pull over. I had to stop at an intersection and then Katie got out to push. We were in a panic. Neither of us had ran out of gas before. She pushed us surprisingly far on her own. However, even around the corner, there was no where near to pull over. By the way, both of us had just woken up prior to this, although Katie put her jeans on, I was wearing my pajamma bottoms that were too short. I told Katie to go into the car dealership and ask for some guys to help push us. When she went in and explained the situation, the guy wordlessly left the room, and came back with a Jerry can in hand and filled us up some. It was a lifesaver! We went back to Larua's work where they were all waiting for us. I was suddenly embarrassed. All eyes on us, me with my bedhead and pj's that only made it down to my ankles. To top it off Adriel smelled like pooh. At least everyone thought he was cute. Should have just let laura show Dave, whom she was orifinally going to bring in for show and tell. Oh well.



We went back to the apartment, and had breakfast. Katie made a yummy bagel with aged cheddar and we watched the rest of stranger than fiction. It was quite good. Adriel played the whole time with the cat toys and the cat box thing. This caused the cats to be interested in their toys too. By the time he was done, his fleece jammies were covered in hair. He went down for a nap



I showered and got ready. Its always fun to try out laura's make up while im at her house. After I was dolled up, I moved to the living room to get started on Katie. She was doing Lauras taxes which date back to 1995. I flat ironed her hair. It was weird to see Katie with straight hair. Once I was done we decided that it didnt do much for her little face because it made her hair so much longer and it dragged her face down. Something we fixed with a cute headband of Laura's. She then went on to test out some more of Laura's makeup. After helping ourselves to the makeup we mosied on into Laura's room and started looking through her jewlery. She has an abundance of cute accessories. We tried on different things til we found what was right for our "looks."


Then we ventured out. We ate at the donair place first. YUMZORS. It wasnt my first time, but still i had forgotten quite how yummy it really was. Katie was face to face with smouldering eyes for her first time, although it had been a while I was a little confused about which guy it was. We didnt have the same affect on him as Laura clearly did anyway. His smouldering wasnt turned on high for us. Just a little bit of a singe.



Our plan was to go to metrotown where I bought my heart shirt. We went the wrong way. Once again I was driving. Katie was directing. We found ourselves among beautiful mansions, but no metrotown. Once we figured it out and were back on course, we hit really bad traffic due to construction. We were running out of time again. We finally decided to go to Ikea instead. A LONG LONG time after, we got there. I love going through Ikea. We went to the kids section first and I found the changing table I want. I even changed adriel on it, only to discover that I had forgotten to restock my diaper bag with diapers before we left. I thought that it was going to be a big problem but they just so happen to give out free diapers at the children's play area. That was a relief. We found many a pretty light, duvet covers, the perfect chair for Laura's room, and of course bought some cookies. One roll of chocolate hazelnut ones called Ballerina and a roll of raspberry jelly cream ones that we pronounced sin-go-walla. This offended Laura later on. On the way to pick Laura up from work, Adriel was getting fussy and I knew it was because he was hungry, so he had his first cookie. I just gave him the whole thing. I knew it would be messy, but I had no idea it would be that bad. His face was covered. There was chocolate all over his jacket and his carseat. His hands were coated in a paste of chocolate and crumbs, and he LOVED it!!! of course. Cleaning him up contributed to us being late picking Laura up from work. Sorry Laura.














We then went to the Japanese dollar store. We spent a LONG time there. I bought some shi-tew and a cool pen and some doube sided tape because they have good stuff and you never know when you may need some. Katie searched and searched for a gift for her girls but nother Laura and I pointed out was good enough. Laura found an animal that was japaneseish looking (because Katie wanted it to have a Japanese look to it) and just held it up and waved it around hoping that Katie would spot it from where she was located in the store and want to get it. It didnt work. Laura found several nice notebooks to buy, and I learned that she digs a good notebook, and that she cant have too many of them.

From there we went to the threading place where Laura and Katie had their eyebrows nicely shaped. Adriel fell asleep in the car. We decided on the fish cafe to eat. It was good. We got a platter. It was here that I took pictures of Katie and Laura together. The first one Laura protested that her head always looks so big next to Katies, so I took another. I pointed out to Katie that she has a pretty smile and doesnt need to shy away from the camera so much. She argued that she has a tendancy to look "sinewy". Whatever. Later she complained that it didnt match the rest of her body. "You want to look sinewy all over?"















We got home just in time for Survivor. It was somewhat satisfying too. Then Laura and Katie did more taxes together while I put Adriel to bed. I was exhausted. We all went to bed.

Early in the morning we got up and Laura drove us to the ferry before work. We listened to Laura loves oddity. It was a good one. We had a nice time. In the words of laura: Sisterhood is sistergood. I love spending time with my sisters. It was nice to spend time with Katie too. She's usually quite busy around here.

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Sarahstottle posted @ 1:53 PM


Thursday, March 08, 2007
Sleep Deprived
Im sorry but I just need to rant so bear with me.
Im so tired. Adriel has been waking up so much in the night lately. Its been so frusterating. I havent had a full night's rest in SO long and Im tired of it. SO tired of it. I know that its mostly my fault because the way he falls asleep is by nursing and I want to change that, but I dont know how. I dont know where to draw the line about letting him cry, or if I should pick him up, or WHAT I should do. I dont have a clue. I just feel so overhwhelmed by it all. Kyle isnt much help either. He offers his opinion and gets upset with me if I dont agree. He said he'll get up with him on the nights where he doesnt have to work the next day. I just feel so frusterated, and he doesnt understand. Im losing my mind. Everyone who knows me knows that I need my sleep. I pray and pray and pray so desparately but it doesnt do any good. Heavenly Father isnt going to just fix this for me I have to do it myself. I just dont know how. I wish I had known before the bad habits I was drilling into Adriel. I want it to END!!!! All the things I read say that babies should be sleeping twelve hours a night by the time they're Adriel's age. He's not even sleeping that much put together. Not only is he going to bed between 9 and 10, but he's waking up ever two hours at least (sometimes it's ever hour or half hour) and then he's wide awaking and rearing to go by 5:30 in the morning. Im going to have a mental break down if this continues. I cant do it. I cant be a mom apparantly. I need help.

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Sarahstottle posted @ 11:39 AM


Friday, March 02, 2007
Ugggh sick
I just keep getting sickness after sickness it seems. I still feel like I was just over the last really bad cold I had. Then on Monday I had the 24 hour flu. It was unpleasant as flus tend to be. But then I was feeling better. Not so much with Adriel though. He was waking up almost every hour in the night and getting mad that he couldnt breathe due to a stuffed up nose. I soon begun to feel what he was feeling, and now here we are, both sick with a yucky cold. He has become increasingly more and more needy. Even when Im holding him he's upset and and uncomfortable and squirming and taking it out on me- which tries my patience. We've been sleeping out on the pull out couch because I dont have the heart to make Kyle get up in the middle of the night. He always has such a bad sleep when he does and then I have another grump to deal with.

So that's whats been going on in my life. Hes crying so I should get back to him. Just to let you all know, Esther's started a blog and this is her address estherjclarke.blogspot.com.

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