A quick one until later

I haven't posted in a few days, and I thought maybe I should get on it! Today was a fairly long day filled with house cleaning and laundry...you know, the fun stuff. I felt like a crack head running around vacuuming any speck of anything. I guess you could say I needed an outlet.

Christmas is fast approaching and I still have to BEGIN my shopping.. I have gotten a few things here and there as far as stocking stuffers, but nothing major. I don't even know where to start. I will be working on a very limited budget, so I think I am going to have to be pretty creative. I may do cookies for some people and beyond that I am not sure. If I had the time- or energy for that matter, I would do cute little scrapbooks for the Grandmas in my life, but time is short... Maybe just some framed Kyleigh pictures will do the trick? Everyone is always telling me they need new ones.

As I write this blog, my child (who should be sleeping) is pointing to various parts of my laptop saying "Uts dis?" Haha she is definitely in the curious stage. She wants to know what everything is, and once you tell her she will go around in hunt for "OH! Mooorre!" I love teaching her things and showing her new parts of the world. Her new favorite are all of the Missmiss (Christmas) lights. As I do my usual running around I try to go ultra slow next to all of the lit up houses to let her ohh and ahh at them. She just can't get enough!

Well speaking of having enough, it is far past bed time so I need to wrangle up this crazy girl and put her in bed! Hope everyone is doing well!

P.S. I am proud to say that I am still going strong with my anti-facebook challenge!! Yay!

It just wouldn't die!

So, today I was talking to my friend about how I had deleted my Facebook account and he tells me that it still showed up on his account as active. ??? I guess they don't want you to go so they give you several "deactivations" to think about it. Well I win this time Facebook! Hahaha! 

I finally am getting sound sleep again (at least in the past two days). The past couple of weeks I have been sleeping 3, maybe 4, hours a night and it just was not enough. I discovered that this was because essentially I was doing too much and chasing my tail so much that it was starting to overrule everything. No more of that. I can only do what I can do, and I have to learn to be happy with that. 

Went for a walk tonight, and it was nice. I have been talking to more people about the fact I go walking at night and they have successfully rendered me paranoid about it. The whole time I was out tonight I kept looking over my shoulder and all around like a crazy person. But it is better to be safe than sorry! Needless to say, tonight we were safe and not sorry! :o) Little one fell asleep with her warm bottle of milk (Yes, I said bottle. Yes, I know she is 18 months old and shouldn't have one, but that is for a whole other post). When we got home I decided to take some Mommy time and write in my journal, which eventually lead to the post you are  now reading. 

This is a walk photo from a couple of weeks ago when it was much warmer! She is in love with her stroller! Tonight when I put her in she put her arms behind her head and got all comfy! Cutest thing ever!! 

Tomorrow I am going on a little girl stocking mission. I have my daughter and my roommates daughter who need stockings and I have it in my head that they will have the perfect Princess ones! :o) I am so excited to see Kyleigh's face on Christmas, since this is the first one she will actually understand more of what is happening! 

Well I think it is time to get some rest for my mission tomorrow! Have a good day all! :o)

What?! No Facebook?? Is hell frozen??

So, after thinking about this for about a week, I have decided that I will be deactivating my Facebook account for a while (goal: 2011!). I think I am on the thing way too much (and I am sure my family would agree), so it is time to refocus on what is important in my life. It is time to focus 100% on my daughter and myself. I am on a very intense journey of getting to know myself.. This is very necessary.

I want to understand why I do the things I do, and how to break patterns in my life that I am unhappy with.  I want to re-focus on the positive in my life and learn to appreciate what I have. I will always strive for more, but I don't want to let myself feel like I have to "keep up with the Jones." This is another reason for deleting the Facebook. Is it really necessary to have all of these friends on there that I don't speak to in "real life"? I don't think so.

Well on to the fun stuff. :o)

I am now a brunette for the first time in my life! I am loving it!

Kyleigh has started doing this little thing where I ask her "Are you the cutest little girl ever?" and she replies "Ever!" I love it! She cracks me up with the things she says, and at 19 months she is starting to say a lot! She points to everything and either tells me what it is or asks me what it is. She is so smart! She is my "big helper" no matter what chore I am doing she will come up and say "I hep yhuu" If I am sweeping she points to the little pile and says "EEEWWW duhhrrteee"

I think that is enough for now! I imagine I will be on here much more now that I won't have a Facebook!