I took Ashley to the doctor on Wednesday. She ended up having an ear infection and sinus gook. She's on an antibotic. It seems to really be helping. Thank God! : )

That was a really fun day. (not!) Steve was sick Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday. So, Wednesday, I made an appointment for Ashley @ 11:15 and Steve @ 11:30. I had to drop Ashley off at Leslie's, Matt off at school, go to work for a couple of hours. I had a 10-10:30 meeting with the big boss & the new media guy to bring him up to speed on what I do with some education seminars, then I had to bolt @ 10:30 and haul ass to get back home, pick up Ash, pick up Steve, then get them to the doctor. We actually got there @ 11:35, so we were late. The peditrician expected me to be late and just told me to get there as I could and they'd work her in. They are really great. Steve ended up having something of a viral nature and they couldn't do crap for that. So, I took everyone back to their respective locations (Ash to Leslie, Steve to the couch at home) and I continue to haul ass back to work for a 2-3 meeting with the big boss and a bunch of other people about redoing our seminars, which means....more work for me.

I really wonder how I'm supposed to do it all. I still have not recovered from the National Education Conference, I have 14 rosters waiting to be processed from seminars from 10/23-11/10, and I'm supposed to work on CPA seminars for a guy in CA, recreate the existing seminars in my spare time, test the new website for the big boss's....how am I going to make all this work? I'm one person....doing the job of at least 3 if not 4 people. I hope I find the strength from somewhere.

On a good note...Matt asked to get his hair cut last week. : ) I didn't have to threaten, bribe or blackmail to get it done this time and he looks so absolutely adorable! He is however, sort of grounded after his latest progress report for this semester. He is failing one class and has a d in another. This after the kid almost made the honor roll first semester? I'm going to hit this kid where it hurts....the cell phone will be mine if he doesn't get those grades back up where they should be....I'm such a mean mom. :( So is life. : )

Had a nice dinner tonight with my husband and my best friend from high school & her husband. Planned on going to my 20 year class reunion afterward, but my husband decided he didn't want to go and so we went home. : ( I was really looking forward to going and checking out who was there, but now I'm at home logged in to work and feeling a little sad because I didn't get to go. :(

My baby girl was up most of the night. She has a bad cold right now and didn't sleep well at all. She cuddled up to mommy and decided 3:00 am was a really good play time and noggin time. Logan had a bad dream and ended up cuddled up in bed with us too which just fired up sissy and she wanted to sit on his head. My husband went to sleep in Matt's room because he wanted to actually get some sleep and they had the IU/Wisconsin football game to go to earlier today.

I got to hang out with my favorite girl all day and catch up on all my favorite noggin shows with her and read her books and not go to my 20 year class reunion.

Did I mention that I was bummed that I didn't get to go to my reunion..... : (

So I'm sitting here on this historic day and just ready for the whole election thing to be over with. I'm so over all the bashing and crap. Just announce that Obama is president and move on.

This was a heck of a day at work. I was off Friday and ended up taking off yesterday as well because Leslie (my babysitter) and her son Brady were sick and she couldn't keep Ash. I tried to work from home, that lasted about an hour, until Ash woke up. She wasn't quite so willing to share mommy with work/computer. So, play with the baby I must. What a sacrifice!

I just can not get enough of that kid! Yesterday we mastered our blowing kisses skills. She's got it down now. Look out world, the heartbreaker is on the loose. She has been taking more and more steps, but I'm telling ya, this kid needs a crash helmet, she bounces into everything. (mommy's coordination, I'm sure)

I had a wonderful dinner with my loving husband on Saturday night, just the two of us. It was really nice. We then went and walked around at different stores that I wanted to look at. He even let me browse through Once Upon a Child. If that ain't love, I don't know what is. He's a good guy. (now if we could just do something about the crap with the last ex....)

Should I even get started on this? Probably not a good idea. I'll just say that I do not for the life of me understand how someone can have kids and be away from them so much and it not bother them? I never will understand how you can pass your kids off EVERY WEEKEND, and still have excuses why you can't get them at the end of the weekend and only be worried about yourself and living your life like you have NO OBLIGATIONS WHAT SO EVER! Okay, off my soap box now, because once I get going on this, it could be a novel in itself. (the glass is half full, not half empty....keep talking myself through it--I'm positive now!)

I've did a few hours of work from home tonight and I've been on this computer way too much tonight and my butt is going numb, so it's time to get the heck off of this computer!

Until my next rant..... : )

Check out my little bumble bee for her first halloween. : )

I can not believe that it's November! I know everyone says that, but it this whole year has really just creeped away from me.

My mom had a garage sale yesterday and today and I put Ashley's basinet, acvity bouncer, old baby/pumpkin car seat, 7 bags of baby clothes, her activity mat, basically anything she wasn't using anymore and it all sold. I made about $52 from the stuff. Most of the baby clothes I pretty much gave away. There was this really nice lady who found out this couple was having a baby and they didn't have anything and even less money, so she was trying to get some stuff together for them, so I couldn't help but cut her deals (almost steals) on the stuff. In the end, I had one of those moments where my heart ached for just a second seeing all of her stuff go. But it was just taking up space and it's good that it goes to people who will use it and I made a little money off of it. (less I owe to mom and dad for the Florida trip)

Yesterday was really sad. I was on my way home from picking up Steve from downtown and there was a train stopped on the tracks in town. It had hit someone and the person died. It wasn't a very pretty site and the train was blocking most of crossings so we had to go back to almost Woodbury to get across the tracks. I swear I was in tears just seeing the people on the tracks trying to clean up the scene. There were 4 engines and two of them had to be moved because the body was underneath the 2nd engine. They ended up holding up tarps around the area while they tried to remove the body. It was so sad. They said he was just in town staying with his sister and was on some kind of medication for dementia or something, so they aren't sure if he had been drinking or if he just didn't hear the train. The conductor tried to get the man to move out of the way and he didn't. It just made me very sad. :(