A to Z about me

BLogging the lazy way....I see favorite Bloggers doing these...and I decide to join.

You say, "Hey Jess. How about some real blogger content!?!?!"

The fact is....it would bore you. I gotta get more exciting. I work long days. Spend every other second with my sweet girl. Or planning/preparing/cleaning.

Throughout the days...I think, I should blog about that. By the time I am ready to post...I forgot what I was going to blog about. I'm working on making a list on paper...then trying to remember to have it with me when I have my computer around!

Here we GO!

A to Z Me!



A. Age: 28 (as of 9/12)
B. Bed Size: Queen
C. Chore you hate: cleaning
D. Dogs: Ginger 6 yr old Yellow Lab. Love her
E. Essential start to your day: snuggles from my baby girl.
F. Favorite Color: hmmmmm. to wear black. it's slimming. Otherwise, i love bright things. greens, yellows
G. Gold or Silver: Both. I would never say no to a precious medal :-)
H. Height:  5'6"
I. Instruments you play: for about two months in elementary school I tried joining band and learning the saxophone. I never learned to read music. FAIL
J. Job Title: Workshop Accountant. (nerd you say...yes) What do I do....much more than the title.
K. Kids: Presley!
L. Live: Southwest OHIO
M. Mother's Name: Marylou (one word)
N. Nicknames: Jess, Jessie
O. Overnight hospital stays: vertigo and baby
P. Pet Peeves: hubs clothes trail from the front door to the basement (where the laundry basket is.)....
Q. Quote from a Movie: ...........can't think of anything off the top of my head. I'm terrible with movies.
R. Right handed or Left handed: RIGHT
S. Siblings: 3 younger brothers. Love them!
T. Time to wake up: work days = 5am. weekends = 5am. Presley doesn't know the difference between workdays and weekends. But we are working on it.
U. Underwear: TMI. Seriously. :-) But yes, I wear them.
V. Vegetables you hate: .......broccoli. I love the taste. It hurts my stomach something fierce.
W. What makes you run late: My husband. He is terrible...forgetting things, one more time in the house. And I say, what do you need to do before we leave.......I'm ready. Then I say, lets go. he says...Oh wait....I need to do.........(grrr)
X. X-rays you have: sure. twice a year...and others I am sure. Not something that is very notable for me.
Y. Yummy food that you make: Everything that I make is delicious. Come over!
Z. Zoo animals: Panda Bears

IF....jumping on the bandwagon :-)

O.k., I've been seeing this on a few of my favorite blogs lately so I thought I would join in!

 

Fill in the blanks....

 

If I were to get pregnant again...I would be excited. Although, I'm not 100% "ready" for #2. Whenever it happens, I will get ready. Hubs has been wanting #2 since right after #1 arrived. He is so eager. (lord help us) I told him we would discuss it when I had been "unpregnant" as long as I was preggers. (Time has arrived) I went of BC a couple weeks ago. (end of last cycle). However, I haven't mentioned it to hubs. He would have me knocked up already.I'm almost ready for #2. But like in a couple months. Not this one. :-)

 

If I could have any job in the world...I'd be one of those people that gets paid to travel all over the world and test out vacation hotspots. Travel Journalist :-) ......or SAHM. Wait, can't I have both? Good thing this is a BIG IF....

 

If I had a day to myself...Sleep in. (Hello out there all you mamas). Get a massage. Get mani/pedi. Then take a nap.

 

If I could get married all over again...I loved every single second of my day. It was perfect. But, doing it all over........we'd skip it all. All the $$$$. We'd have kept our awesome vacation, but got married at the court house or alone in Vegas.

 

If I could live anywhere in the US...if, all my family could be with me then I want to move to the West coast, north of san diego. south of LA. Since, that will NEVER happen. I'd just like to move closer to my family. Right now they are over an hour away. I'm like to be 20-40 mins. If not closer :-) Miss not just being able to go over to moms for a couple hours after work.

 

If my girl would have been boy they would have been named...Patrick Wayne. (My dad's first name. Hubs, and his dad's Middle name)

 

If I could have any talent in the world....I'd be a genius and breeze through law school and be a high paid lawyer. (i'm a dork)

 

If you met me in real life...You'd really want to be my best friend. I'm awesome like that. :-)

 

If I could go back to school and get a different degree...Before even changing the degree, I would have gotten better grades. (silly girl...having so much fun). But, I should have gone straight to the business school, studied finance and got a MBA

 

If money was no object...I would have a house with a few acres. New vehicles. And I wouldn't work until the kids all were in school all day.

 

If I could meet one celebrity, it would be....hmmm. That's tough. I guess I want to spend the day with Michelle Obama. I'm not being political here, but she is the first-lady, a mom, fashionable and seems so nice! She likes margaritas and I think we would be fast friends.

 

If I could shop at only one store the rest of my life...I guess since Target is 40 min drive. (boo) I'd shop online with Amazon. I can get basically everything :-)

 

If we were to get another pet it would be...a fish. e.a.s.y. I love our dog. And so does Presley. But the hair! ugh!

 

If I could go on a trip right now...to the beach. We canceled our beach trip this fall. Not enough money right now. holidays are around the corner. Presley's first Bday!

 

If I had to choose between a house cleaner and a personal chef...house cleaner. I hate cleaning. Love cooking.

 

If I had the option of plastic surgery...this could get long. Some liposuction. Boob reduction. Tummy tuck. My face is good though! :-)

First Sleep Log, part I

Ok....we are a little late actually getting started. I thought Presley was coming down with another ear infection. As it turns out..so far it appears to just be teething. We also were out of town all weekend. Great trip, but not a time or place to start sleep logs.

So here we go- Bed Time Routine Log 9/7 Starts immediately after home from mini u.(this is not the exact sleep log from the book. That i have all ready in the car where i was last reading the book. but its pouring raining and I am not running outside. So I am just trying to document this evening as well as possible so i can translate into the right information. When I get the actual log in the AM)

5-6 :15pm: Get home, unpack. Snuggle. Talk. Play. Hugs. Kisses. Start grownup dinner and prep dinner snacks for P :-) Dinner for Presley.

6:15p: Bath Time/Play Time

6:25p: Get dressed, skins meds, lotions, creams :-)

6:35p - 6:55p: Dinnertime for "all". Presley hangs out in high chair with a lil bit of finger food and water -Mom and Dad eat dinner.

6:55p- Make bottle. Say night night to daddy. kisses. snuggles. hugs. (mom's turn for "putting u down" we share our special night turns with you :-)

7:00p-7:20p- Rock. Prayers. Snuggles. Kisses. About 2oz. Try to put her down 3 times partially awake but falling asleep. She screamed all times, and I got her back out and rocked and snuggled her. But she was slowly giving up. 4th...she was mostly asleep, but I laid her down and she rolled over and snuggled up like a frog.


Up next, Night Waking Log. I hope this doesn't start until after 4 or 5am tomorrow morning. Ha! Well technically tonight I am not supposed to start anything new...just document a typical night. The truth is when we are home our typical night is much like above. Bedtime routine we are decent at. But who knows...time will tell.

NIght Waking is a whole other issue in this house. We just can't hardly function in the middle of the night and cave to whatever her demand....90% of the time she sleeps just fine if you bring her to bed or if you let her sleep in your arms.(not an option). But there are always those nights where she wakes alot with you (teething)  - those are rough. But I have to say although I will probably get up to check on her alot when she stays in her bed all night...I will sleep better overall. It's hard to sleep comfortable with her in bed. I sleep so light. Matt too. So for the overall sleep in our house...she has to get back in her crib. my neck and back ache daily for sleeping posture.

Cheers to as few of those as possible.....red wine poured in a large glass. YUM. Then I better get to bed. :-)

New things....

September is my favorite month of the year! 


Well it's the month of my Bday! In 10 short days I will be 28. (shhh. don't tell) 

I'm so happy July and August are over. Not only did those months include a little bit of stress and a tiny bit of drama...They were SO hot. Additionally, I think in the 8.5 months lil Presley has been alive. It was the 2 worst months of sleep. (notice seriously lack of blogging). 


So I hope with a new season - the sleeping changes, and stress and drama falls to the wayside. Personally, I choose to believe that September 1 is the beginning of fall. (Although, I know its still 23 days away)- So for us...its a fresh start. 

Fall is my favorite season. However, its a reminder of how close winter is. Last year winter was a breeze. I had a newborn (12/16) and was on maternity leave till mid march. It was no problem to stay inside in the warmth and just wait for spring to arrive. When the days were nice we got out. if it was terribly snowy or cold. No worries we stayed in and it was perfect. my favorite winter of all time. Snuggled up with my new baby!


This winter I will have a TODDLER on my hands. And we will be craving the outdoors to run and release energy and to entertain - And I won't be on maternity leave so every single day we will have to brave the cold and snow as i take her to daycare and I head off to work. (booo!) 


But on a good note, my little girl will get her first snow and her first real Christmas. She was so tiny last year and not eating great. So Christmas was a blur for us last year. We can't wait to make our own traditions and celebrate with family.


Presley mastered a new skill yesterday. Going from crawling to sitting and sitting to crawling and back and forth. She also starting trying to pull up on things. She doesn't quite have the coordination in her legs yet. But she is one determined little girl. We keep saying it, but baby proofing is a must. We are going to be sorry if we don't get on that soon.


We have started our sleep logs. And are slowly starting some sleep training. Seriously, where is my perfect little sleeper? Please come back so mommy doesn't actually have to do this "sleeping training" business. I am too tired to even read the book. Sweet girl.....I love you and your snuggles- but you are the only one that sleeps good snuggled next to mommy and daddy. Remember when you and your crib were BFFs? :-)


I'm reading the No-Cry Sleep Solution. I really like it so far- HOWEVER, I will tell you, I think the author spends too much time criticizing the CIO method. I'm just not into making judgements about other people's choices. It's kind of a turn off for me when I read her saying how much against CIO she is. I'm not against it, but it's not for me. That's why i bought the book! Let's get to the good stuff lady and not spend so much time talking about other's choices!- waste of paper, and almost made me put her book down. (rant over, sorry) Anyway- I finally got thru that part of the book and I am to the part where we do sleep logs. The next part I think is solutions, etc. I can't WAIT to get to that. 

I'll try and post some of the sleep logs and what we are doing as far as training goes. That is, if we get sleep sometime soon!

Happy Weekend all. I don't have new pics to post. It's not been a good picture week. As in, where is my camera? Oh there it is!. Oh wait, the battery is dead. (repeat) 


We are heading to Lake Erie again this weekend with some family. Looking forward to our extended weekend and hoping that the rain holds off.


Next week should be the arrival of some cooler temps! Can't wait to get the windows open!