long time overdue

A lot has gone on since I last wrote. In fact I don't even know where to begin. I guess I should start off by saying this post started before mother's day weekend so It is all off on dates. I apologize for that.

Last week was pretty intense. Josh had to go to GA for training for FedEx and it was my first week of work. I didn't mention that Josh was gone to facebook or on here because I didn't want some surprise at my house while he was gone. Plus he took the computer so we could still talk and see each other via Skype. Which, I just have to say, must be the best invention since the iphone.

It was pretty stressful without Josh here, but I kind of liked it. I (and my mom) was amazed at how clean I can keep the house when there isn't a man in it lol. It isn't that he is unusually messy, it's just that since I didn't have anything to do, I cleaned. He got done early though and he was home Thursday afternoon and I got to see him after I got off work.

Work is up and down. I love the work but the work is crazy. I really need to be full-time to handle the work load but he thinks he doesn't have enough cases to keep me busy. Well maybe he doesn't have enough cases for a full-time paralegal, but he does have enough traffic for a full-time paralegal/receptionist. Seriously, I can't get any work done for answering phone calls, greeting clients, going to the post office and bank, and chasing after faxes. And the bad thing is that he thinks 24 hours a week is a perfect amount of time to do all this and work on 10 cases at one time. He complains about how unorganized his last paralegal was, but I am slowly starting to understand why the files are such a mess. No one, no matter how much experience (which she had a lot of) could do everything he wants done in 24 hours a week. Other than that though, I love the work I'm doing. I just have to get over this mommy brain and start remembering more things so I can stop being scolded every day.

So since I don't work Fridays and Josh got back early last week, we had a long weekend. It was like a mini vacation, except we didn't go anywhere. Friday we went to the park with the girl and had dinner with his dad. Saturday we did our grocery shopping and Sunday we went to church, had lunch, and then went shopping for work clothes. That was a pain again. I went to NY and comp. and found 4 shirts. Then we went to Khol's and I found absolutely nothing in my size. Then we went to Steinmart and I had the same problem. All I wanted to get my a high waisted pencil skirt and some pantyhose and new underwear. I got none of that. I really wanted to go to my favorite store (White House Black Market), but we ran out of time and had to get back so we could feed Delores and get the girls to bed. It was very frustrating. Josh and I joke that we have the same problem at different extremes. I have to go to expensive specialty stores because I'm so small and so does he because he is such a big guy. Huff.

Lydia is doing okay. She is still struggling with allergies and she is reacting to the dairy I'm eating again. I started introducing it last week into my diet and this week she started showing signs that she was having a reaction to it. So I'm back on a no dairy, no coffee diet. =( Other than those two things she is doing good. She weighs about 12 pounds now. She is sleeping about 10 hours at night and still eating about every 3 hours during the day. She isn't napping very well during the day but I think it's just because she is adjusting to me not being here 3 days a week.

Delores is about as good as a wild 16 month old can be. She is very whiny and spoiled and is having a hard time adjusting to me being gone. She is very clingy now and very demanding. She is testing how much she can get away with when my mom is watching her and honestly I can see her temperment and behavior going downhill fast. I'm afraid she's going to learn that whining and throwing fits are ways to get what she wants. I feel like we are slowly starting to became canidates for the Supernanny show.

This weekend we have a busy schedule once again. I was determined to finish doing my shopping because it is so frustrating to have to keep going out just to be let down. So I went to my store and then to Victoria's Secret and then I was done. After that I pick up his dad's truck and to Wendy's to get my man a large Frosty as a thank you for watching the girls while I did my thing. After I got back we went to TR for my Grandma's 86th birthday party/ Mother's day celebration. Then we are taking the truck over to my papa's vacant house and get their deep freezer for my 1350 ounces (and growing) of frozen breast milk. Then back home to put the girls to bed. Tomorrow we have church an lunch and then Josh is taking me out to dinner for mother's day. I refuse to relive the same Mother's day I had last year. Which had to have been the worst day of that year.