Ketchup…errr I mean CATCH UP! ;-)

I’m playing catch up {{eternally}} once again… I always thought I’d start this blog and have a couple entries a week and one day I’d publish them into a wonderful book for my children to read one day. I may even have to publish a book a year because there would be so much! Hmmm, wrong! I do still hope to publish my random posts and thoughts for my boys to look back on but that’s what it has become…a hobby I devote minutes to here and there when I can find some to spare. I’m okay with this! ;-)
Today I’m obsessing over my performance review at work. My manager has to have them done by tomorrow but for whatever reason, has pushed mine back til’ tmrw at noon! Why?! He completed one of my co-workers this morning...that received a high rating! Does that mean he’s leaving the low rater reviews for later?! I really despise the fact that I can literally drive myself crazy! Ugh. Clearly, I have an issue with patience… problem admitted. OK, I’m also a tiny bit OCD… I usually don’t fret too much over a review but I feel like since I’ve been back from maternity leave, I’ve been pretty solo in my job. I came back from leave under a new manager, who is extremely overloaded and therefore has little time to hand out feedback, etc. Bottom line, I don’t know him! No news is good news, right?! I keep telling myself that… *sigh* I’ll have to blog tmrw about the outcome. Stay tuned…
Other current life things… Jude’s birthday party is this Saturday! How is he already almost 2?! It just cannot be! Perhaps that is why I haven’t really planned much?? Oh yeah, mother of the year award right here…NOT! I was so spot on with his first birthday! I planned months in advance! This year…Costco cake & pizzas, bounce house, friends and family and call it a successful day! Lord help me! Joel is already over 7 months…before I know it his birthday will be here and gone. SOMEBODY STOP THE CLOCK!!
Foot surgery! I have a fractured toe. I walk the factory most days at work = ouch! I’ve actually had the fracture for almost a year and a half now but I’ve put off going to see a doctor. I finally bucked up and verdict is surgery. Minor…but in a boot for 3 weeks. Ew! The bright side is, I’ll be home! Wahoo! I won’t be returning to work til’ the 16th of January.
Let’s see…what else? OH! 2 of my sister in laws are pregnant! Yep, 2 of them! My “local SNL” is due April 29th (Joel’s bday!!) and my “Maryland SNL” is due in March! Local finds out what she’s having on the 13th! Happens to be the day of my surgery but I will be texting/calling as soon as I’m conscious. I feel like it’s a boy. :) Maryland finds out December 23rd…what a wonderful Christmas they’ll have dreaming! :)
Baby Timothy is home from the hospital!! I haven’t written about our wonderful friend and “cousin in law” {{not sure what her technical fam name would be??}} Jacqueline having her baby 9 weeks early!! INTENSE!! She was watching the boys and had planned to thru December 23rd. Apparently God had other plans! ;-) She called me a little over a month ago in the middle of the night to alert that she would not be over the next day to watch the boys because she was possibly in labor and headed to the hospital! I think I replied something like “okay, be safe and keep in touch”…who says that?! I was still half asleep! [[shaking my head]] Turns out she WAS indeed in labor and precious baby Timothy was born later that night! He stayed in the hospital just at a month, which in itself is a miracle! It’s hard for me to think that he still isn’t “due” for almost a month and he’s already been out of womb over a month! WOW! God is amazing!! We love Paul and Jacqueline and can’t wait to meet Timothy!! He’s still so new that we haven’t been able to go see him just yet. I did get a report from my Aunt that their pediatrician said he is almost 7 lbs and totally healthy! Again, Praise God!!
So…since Jacqueline did have Tiny Timothy so early, the boys went back to daycare much earlier than planned. Thankfully Building Blocks had an opening in both classrooms and the boys are getting back into a “wake up and go to school” routine. We miss Jac so very much! You just take for granted what you have until it’s gone… human nature. I did know we had it good but really, she was a gem! I enjoyed having her around as much as the boys did! That being said, I’m very thankful that BOTH boy’s teachers are super sweet and I really do enjoy them all. The only reason I hate that they are going is EAR INFECTIONS and WINTER CRUD! Be gone winter germ monster! I cannot seem to beat him…as soon as one cold/infection clears, another comes along. *sigh*
December checklist…
House decorated, check! Lights on outside of house, check! Santa pics of boys, check! Presents purchased and wrapped, check! Trial batch of cowboy cookies made and devoured, check! Travel plans with family made and confirmed, check! I love Christmas!!
That’s all the minutes I got today! Hoping to find some more to share/update pics this week! And if there's typos, forgive! Again...minutes up, no time to proof-read!
Much Love,
Brooke