Ten On Tuesday

1. Today was rough. Lots of questioning what the hell we are doing and lots of stress over everything happening so quickly. We can't control so much of what is happening, i.e. when our house sells, and it is driving us insane. I don't like being unorganized and living without some sort of plan in place, but none of that is possible currently. I feel confident we made the right decision, but it seems like it is going to take quite a bit of time to get everything settled and I hate it.

2. Making today worse was the fact that the boys had to go to daycare since there was going to be an agent open house here during their nap time and I had lots of errands to run. Errands without the boys seem terribly lonely and depressing now. The thought of a Target trip alone use to seem like such a vacation, but today all my shopping seemed sad and lonely without my smiling boys to keep me company. Which brings me back to the question I ask so frequently, what did I do before I had kids?

3. So I left a few details out of yesterdays update on Rowan. First of all he is officially cruising as of today. He cruised from the couch to the coffee table and back on Zach's leg this evening and in between plastic storage containers downstairs. Also, we have officially entered the not so fun stage where he gets into everything, is easily lost, and with all this cruising and investigating comes a lot of falling and head bonks. As we like to say in the pediatric nursing world "when you cruise, you bruise."

Yeah I remember this phase, it's rough.

4.Yesterday marked a huge day in Zane's life. A little back story. When Grandma came up to watch the boys she brought Curious George's Halloween DVD. Since then Zane has been completely obsessed with Curious George. He pretends to be Curious George all day, Zach and I are Yellow Hat, and he gets very angry when we don't refer to him as Curious George while he is pretending to be him. Jump forward to yesterday at the resale shop. I was looking for baby Cardinals clothes when I hear Zane scream bloody murder from across the store, "Mom, it Curious George." Best day of his life, eight dollars later he was the proud owner of this, amazing costume.

This has led to endless entertainment and many more fights over me not calling him Curious George all the time. I told him he could be Curious George for Halloween and he told me next year he would be Curious George, but this year he was going to be a cowboy. Fair enough!

5. After lots of shopping and dropping unnecessary amounts of cash, we are all fully prepared for the Cardinals World Series run. Both boys now have shirts and I have an STL hoodie at long last. I'm fully prepared to buy everybody World Series Champion shirts next week after they win their 12th World Series Championship. GO CARDS!!! (I'm hoping we clinch this before game seven because game seven would fall on Halloween, which would be less than ideal.)

6. Since I never got around to blogging about the beautiful wedding I went to last weekend I will show some party pics here. We all had a blast dancing the night away and hanging out with my amazing SLCH friends. I am going to miss these ladies so so much!!

Me, Allie, Maggie, and Michelle the night before the wedding. Too much fun!

 Michelle, Me, Becky, Maggie, Brandy, Emily, Angie, Ashley, and Allie, the whole Children's crew.

Amy, my former life couch, in from Denver for the celebrations. Love her!

7. This past weekend was my last weekend at Children's. My weekend was where I made  my first friends there and where I really started to feel at home. Those girls became my closest friends and we always manage to make our weekend fun, with lots of pot lucks, and celebrations of random things. I've learned so much from those ladies, and though I won't miss working weekends, I will miss the B weekend crew. They had a going away party for me and I gave away all my nursing possessions. Friday is my last day, which is going to be terribly bitter sweet. Hopefully I can hold it together. Thanks Weekend B for my party and all your love and well wishes.

 I willed Ashley my RN badge and presented it to her in a ceremony, complete with a heartfelt speech and all. See it isn't all crying and sadness at our work, but there is a lot of that as well.

Michelle, after receiving my prize possessions of scissors and  my pin light. Both were autographed, so when I make it big she can retire.

8. Packing is all done except the last minute stuff. The plan as it stands is that we drive away from the STL Wednesday morning. Sunday evening is my going away bash and Monday evening is Zach's. I have a lot of anxiety about leaving our house here unattended and not sold. I am not quite sure how the packing process will go and am utterly terrified of the 8-10hr car ride with little Rowan who HATES his car seat. Did I mention the stress level is high around here. I'm requesting lots of prayers for our upcoming week. 

9. In other news from our house our current battle is that Zane thinks he should watch TV all day long, which is not a choice. This is probably due to his lack of toys currently, but it is leading to lots of meltdowns and lots of timeouts from throwing fits. He does have toys and books, but they are all in bins or closets so basically they might as well not exist in Zane's world. I cannot wait to get back to some since of normal. If only I knew when that would be.

10. On that same note, I am beyond tired of having to keep my house spotless all the time, only to have no one come look at it. Usually we will leave at the drop of a hat for a trip to the park, library, or Target. But now every time we leave the house it's thirty minutes of pulling the house together before we leave. I will either be much cleaner/organized or never clean my house again in our next house. One more week!!!!!! AAAAHHHHHHHH Scared!!!!!