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Here it is, one of my favorite times of year. Kids all dressed up, cute or scary. Adults getting dressed up to basically relive being a kid. And candy. Lots of candy everywhere. Kids knocking on doors asking for candy. And it's expected, not considered begging.
Jessica is going to be a fairy and Erica a pumpkin.
Okay, so maybe it's just an excuse to dree them up all cute and silly and take pictures. I can live with that too.
Well, Piglet is just 8 and half months old, but one couldn't guess it by her size and actions. She's wearing 12 month + clothes. She's standing and cruising around the tables and chairs. She delights in pulling herself up on anything and any one who will be still enough to let her. And now she is really making a good start on solid foods. I was impressed with the way she could gum a cracker or Nilla wafer into mush. Poor girl has no teeth yet. Not even nubbins. However, that doesn't stop her from putting anything into her mouth to test it as a food possibility. So tonight I thought I'd try her out on some peas and carrots. She did great! Well, let me qualify that a bit. She did a remarkable job of picking then up and putting them in her mouth. She actually picked up individual peas and got them to her mouth without mushing them. I am horrible impressed with the fine motor skills. But, then she tasted the vegetables. And being that she is my daughter, quickly lost interst in the whole expierment.
Oh well. We'll keep trying. But I don't know how you make any vegetable as good as fruit loops or frosted cheerios.
Over the last couple of years, I've gone back and forth about beating myself up about being a stay at home mom whose kids are in full time day care. Yeah, I'm a bit spoiled that way. But then I owned up to the fact that really, I'm a pretty decent housewife, just a crappy stay at home "mom". Don't see the difference? It's the kids! As a housewife I clean, cook, do laundry, shopping, minor household repairs, change lightbulbs, clean out closets, vaccuum, mop, dust, take out the trash -- you know all those types of chores. Now, add in the mom part with kids at home you have to add in all the rest. Diapers, entertaining, educating, totting them around, settling arguments, putting down for naps, feeding lunch and snacks, all that stuff that i really am just not up for doing ALL day long. My hat is off to those of you that do it. And I am in awe of those of you who even make it look easy.
But I have come to the realization, whether anybody wants to acknowledge it or not, that I do indeed work with the girls at least a full 8 hour day -- everyday. I just do it in a split shift. I do three hours in the morning from 5:30 - 8:30 am. Then I put in another 5 hours from about 4:00 pm - 9:00 (or later). Which means all the house wife stuff in the middle of the day is extra. And the weekends when I do it all together?? Well, I think that should be considered overtime. I certainly can't just say .. Nah, I'm taking the day the off. And the whole simple "wife" role seems non-exsistent when so overshadowed.
Maybe I'm just justifying why I'm not going back to work full time. The thought of doing all that on top of a job outside of the home which would require a wardrobe and makeup and commuting and tolerating other people....i don't think there is enough anti - anxiety medication available to make me cope.
Well, it's off to the kitchen. And those bathrooms are calling out my name rather loudly today.
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