5 years ago today, I kissed Daniel for the first time and we've been practically inseparable ever since! I remember the evening well...
Our friends Aaron and Nicole came to pick me up from my little yellow house in Belgrade and we were headed to the races. Once again, I crawled into the back seat and felt like a 3rd wheel. I didn't think too much of it, but it was always a thought that ran through my head in these moments. Nicole said she hoped I didn't mind but they had invited Daniel to meet us there. I was instantly relieved. Daniel and I had known each other for a little over a year and hung out lots. When I first met him he had a crazy girlfriend and so I never thought anything of him. I also didn't know they'd broken up 6 months after I met him. During the summer of 2005, we had camped lots and I was starting to look at him a bit differently...it was interesting. So, we drank several Miller Lites at the races and had a blast. We headed to the Belgrade Lounge for a little shuffle board and more beer. Aaron and Nicole conveniently made the teams so Daniel and I were on the same end of the table and the flirting and fun continued. We decided to go get some food and Daniel liked the glass he was drinking out of wanted to take it home so we went out the back door. He didn't end up stealing it, he left it on the outside fire escape. As we were waiting for Aaron and Nicole to pick us up, I looked at him and said, "I'm going to kiss you now". He said, "Okay!" It was an amazing kiss. I honestly do still remember the feeling I got in that moment. He melted my heart. I don't know if I fell in love with him right then, but it didn't take me long to know I was keeping this guy forever. We truly have been nearly inseparable and will continue to be. Daniel is such an amazing husband and father. He keeps me laughing and still melts my heart with his kisses!
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
The Men in my Life
The other day I heard Daniel playing with Kayla and he was saying, "This little piggy did something, this little piggy did something else. This little piggy did something, this little piggy did something else. And this little piggy went WEE WEE WEE all the way home!" I was laughing so hard. When I asked him what he was doing he said, "I don't know what all the other little piggys did, just the last one!" This is so classic Daniel. I love it.
I was telling my mom and dad that story today while we were having coffee and I nearly fell off my chair telling them. So funny. My mom and I both had tears in our eyes. Mom almost trumped me though...
They were at a stop light yesterday and my dad looked over at the car next to them and said, "Ruth! There's no one driving that car!" He looked again and just couldn't believe it. My mom said, "It's hooked up to that RV!" How funny is that?!
I love the men in my life. They keep me laughing and I love that! I will write a book one day about all the funny things they've done and continue to do!
I was telling my mom and dad that story today while we were having coffee and I nearly fell off my chair telling them. So funny. My mom and I both had tears in our eyes. Mom almost trumped me though...
They were at a stop light yesterday and my dad looked over at the car next to them and said, "Ruth! There's no one driving that car!" He looked again and just couldn't believe it. My mom said, "It's hooked up to that RV!" How funny is that?!
I love the men in my life. They keep me laughing and I love that! I will write a book one day about all the funny things they've done and continue to do!
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Age
I've never been one to worry about my age. My mom has always said that birthdays and being one year older is better than the alternative. Such great advice. My mom and dad have never had "age" issues either. I thank them for passing that down. I have been thinking a little more about age lately though...
Daniel and I haven't had a real serious discussion about having more kids. We know we want at least one more baby, but we are in no hurry to have another one anytime soon. My personal time line was something like when Kayla turns 3, we'll start thinking about another baby. Well, after hearing about a few pregnancies lately I asked Daniel when we would try again. Of course, Daniel doesn't think that far into the future and says, "that's for future Daniel and future Melana to figure out!" (gotta love How I Met Your Mother.) So I was doing some figuring and very suddenly realized that I'm 32 already. I SWEAR I thought I was 31 and turning 32 in January 2011. That's the most odd and disappointing feeling in the world! I think we may need to up my time line by a year. During my pregnancy with Kayla my doctor said more than once that she likes her patients to have babies before they turn 35 because once they hit 35 they're automatically categorized as "high risk". I don't need that stress added to my next pregnancy. I've never been disappointed in my age before, until now. Even so, it's not that I'm closer to 33 than 32, but that my biological clock seems to be ticking a little louder. Ugh! Once again I wish Daniel and I had met at least 2 years earlier, but Daniel reminds me that I didn't want to know him 2 years earlier. I'll take his word for it! :)
Age has also been front and center in our finances. Daniel and I took Financial Peace University by Dave Ramsey this spring and are on the road to being debt free. (Once again, I wish we would have figured this stuff out a few years earlier!) As I was doing some figuring though, I realized that by the time we are completely debt free and have our big emergency fund funded, I'll be 37, almost 38! That's odd! 38 is not old at all, but somehow when I still feel like I'm 25, 38 seems old. Do you know what I mean? It will seem even younger once I'm there, I'm sure!
So, age is a funny thing. It is truly something I've never put much thought into, but it sneaks up on a person, in thought and in reality!
Daniel and I haven't had a real serious discussion about having more kids. We know we want at least one more baby, but we are in no hurry to have another one anytime soon. My personal time line was something like when Kayla turns 3, we'll start thinking about another baby. Well, after hearing about a few pregnancies lately I asked Daniel when we would try again. Of course, Daniel doesn't think that far into the future and says, "that's for future Daniel and future Melana to figure out!" (gotta love How I Met Your Mother.) So I was doing some figuring and very suddenly realized that I'm 32 already. I SWEAR I thought I was 31 and turning 32 in January 2011. That's the most odd and disappointing feeling in the world! I think we may need to up my time line by a year. During my pregnancy with Kayla my doctor said more than once that she likes her patients to have babies before they turn 35 because once they hit 35 they're automatically categorized as "high risk". I don't need that stress added to my next pregnancy. I've never been disappointed in my age before, until now. Even so, it's not that I'm closer to 33 than 32, but that my biological clock seems to be ticking a little louder. Ugh! Once again I wish Daniel and I had met at least 2 years earlier, but Daniel reminds me that I didn't want to know him 2 years earlier. I'll take his word for it! :)
Age has also been front and center in our finances. Daniel and I took Financial Peace University by Dave Ramsey this spring and are on the road to being debt free. (Once again, I wish we would have figured this stuff out a few years earlier!) As I was doing some figuring though, I realized that by the time we are completely debt free and have our big emergency fund funded, I'll be 37, almost 38! That's odd! 38 is not old at all, but somehow when I still feel like I'm 25, 38 seems old. Do you know what I mean? It will seem even younger once I'm there, I'm sure!
So, age is a funny thing. It is truly something I've never put much thought into, but it sneaks up on a person, in thought and in reality!
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Kayla
I may be the worst mom ever! Kayla Jean is 9 1/2 months old and I have not blogged a single word since she was born. Oh well. I've had better things to do, I guess. To add to my new title of "worst mom ever" I have to admit that Kayla doesn't have a baby book. This realization will hopefully lead me to blog a little more. This way, one day, Kayla can log on and read all about her accomplishments. Will the internet and blogging still be this cool in 20 years?!
Instead of rehashing the last 9 1/2 months, I'll highlight a few things as of late. About 3 weeks ago, Kayla officially started army crawling everywhere. Jynx is no long safe from her. She just follows her around and I think it's hilarious. So far, she gets to where she wants to be (usually close to Jynx or her toys!), but stays in our living room. Since I've been back to work, we've just put her in the middle of our bed while we're getting ready and she just sits there and plays...no more. She sits there for about 5 minutes and then she's scooting to the edge of the bed to get closer. Scary stuff! Luckily we're literally 3 steps from the bed when we're in the bathroom.
TEETHING SUCKS! On Saturday Kayla was fussy. She had a temp and I thought it was the daycare gunk she gets every now and again. Nope. After 2 rather sleepless nights, a little tooth has started to pop through on the bottom. Now that it's through, she seems better. Oh my how I feel sorry for her though. Daniel and I stayed up with her until 1am on Monday morning just trying to make her comfortable. It just broke our hearts to see her scream, especially since she's not much of a crier normally. I think what bothers me most is that this was just the first tooth. We have a mouthful to go! Ugh!
Eating is so fun. Kayla has yet to try something she doesn't like. This makes it easy on mom and dad. We had really great intentions of making her baby food, but have found that it is not nearly as expensive to buy the jars as we thought it would be. We have been so blessed to have gotten a lot of hand-me-downs, or "handy downs" as Daniel thought they were called! :) Holly and Annie have made it so we have not had to buy hardly anything for her. It's been amazing. Thank you, even though I don't think either of you read my blog! :)
I had my first experience with Kayla pooping during her bath last night. I am surprised that I freaked out a little. Poop doesn't normally bother me, but somehow when it was dispersing in the bath water, I freaked! TMI?? Sorry! I'm sure there are many more of these incidents to come. She's so cute that all I can do is laugh!
Parenting is wonderful. It's cliche, I know. We've been blessed with a dang-near perfect baby and I know that helps. The love keeps growing and I keep telling myself to remember all these precious moments because every time I go to Wal-Mart I cringe (for many reasons) to think that someday our perfect little Kayla Jean may be (will be, I know) one of the kids throwing an almighty fit!!!! GOD HELP US!
Instead of rehashing the last 9 1/2 months, I'll highlight a few things as of late. About 3 weeks ago, Kayla officially started army crawling everywhere. Jynx is no long safe from her. She just follows her around and I think it's hilarious. So far, she gets to where she wants to be (usually close to Jynx or her toys!), but stays in our living room. Since I've been back to work, we've just put her in the middle of our bed while we're getting ready and she just sits there and plays...no more. She sits there for about 5 minutes and then she's scooting to the edge of the bed to get closer. Scary stuff! Luckily we're literally 3 steps from the bed when we're in the bathroom.
TEETHING SUCKS! On Saturday Kayla was fussy. She had a temp and I thought it was the daycare gunk she gets every now and again. Nope. After 2 rather sleepless nights, a little tooth has started to pop through on the bottom. Now that it's through, she seems better. Oh my how I feel sorry for her though. Daniel and I stayed up with her until 1am on Monday morning just trying to make her comfortable. It just broke our hearts to see her scream, especially since she's not much of a crier normally. I think what bothers me most is that this was just the first tooth. We have a mouthful to go! Ugh!
Eating is so fun. Kayla has yet to try something she doesn't like. This makes it easy on mom and dad. We had really great intentions of making her baby food, but have found that it is not nearly as expensive to buy the jars as we thought it would be. We have been so blessed to have gotten a lot of hand-me-downs, or "handy downs" as Daniel thought they were called! :) Holly and Annie have made it so we have not had to buy hardly anything for her. It's been amazing. Thank you, even though I don't think either of you read my blog! :)
I had my first experience with Kayla pooping during her bath last night. I am surprised that I freaked out a little. Poop doesn't normally bother me, but somehow when it was dispersing in the bath water, I freaked! TMI?? Sorry! I'm sure there are many more of these incidents to come. She's so cute that all I can do is laugh!
Parenting is wonderful. It's cliche, I know. We've been blessed with a dang-near perfect baby and I know that helps. The love keeps growing and I keep telling myself to remember all these precious moments because every time I go to Wal-Mart I cringe (for many reasons) to think that someday our perfect little Kayla Jean may be (will be, I know) one of the kids throwing an almighty fit!!!! GOD HELP US!
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