Pieces of Us...

Bad News... - Tuesday, November 29, 2005

My computer crashed!!! And I didn't have the last couple of months of photos backed up yet. Including my vacation photos!!!! Damn! I had uploaded quite a few of them to Flickr. So I still have a few. But until I get my computer at home up and running again or buy a new one, I won't be able to do much updating. Not to mention I was sick all weekend and missed work yesterday. Not fun. I guess that's what I get for being gone for two weeks on vacation. At least I wasn't sick while we were on vacation.

Anyway, I'll update soon. My computer is at a friend's house and he is trying to salvage some of my stuff. Luckily I had bought a second hard drive to back up my music and pictures, but I hadn't backed anything up since September. So I've lost quite a bit. Hate to have to buy a new computer before Christmas. We'll see.

Anyway, I'm at work, so I better end for now. Hope to catch up with everyone soon.

Bad News... Monica; 9:16 AM 4 comments

Quick Note - Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Just wanted to say we are back safe and sound. We had an AWESOME time. Things are crazy at work and at home at the moment. I plan on writing a longer entry over the holiday weekend. I'm too pooped to head home to TN with the kids by myself for the holiday. So I should hopefully have plenty of time to put some pics up and write a detailed account of our trip over the weekend.

Hope you guys are doing great and I can't wait to get caught up on your journals!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!

Quick Note Monica; 9:55 AM 7 comments

We're Off! - Saturday, November 05, 2005

Kids are gone, I am packed, passports are packed.... We are ready to go! Yippee!! I didn't even get teary-eyed when I left the kids at the babysitters. I hate to admit it, but I was even a bit relieved. I'm such a bad mom. I know I am going to miss them terribly, but damn if I'm not looking forward to no melt downs, dirty diapers or cooking for two weeks.
Good news, I called our hotel in Ft. Lauderdale and their power and water is back on. She said no cable, but I think we can live 2 days without cable tv. Well at least I know I can. Not too sure about the hubby though. We won't get to Ft. Lauderdale until Thursday anyway, so hopefully things will be even better by then.

I did some last minute shopping today at the new Wal-Mart. Jonathan got a hair cut and I got a pedicure. Nothing like a fresh French manicure for your trip to the beach.

After that I went to Toys-R-Us and finished up my Christmas shopping for the kids. Aren't you jealous? Don't get excited though, because I haven't bought a single thing for anyone else besides the kids. They are the only ones that matter any way though, right?

Skyler and I went to see Chicken Little last night. I just have one thing to say... Awesome! It was a great kid's movie. Skyler loved it, I loved it, we both laughed our booties off. What more can you ask for. It was great.

I don't even know what to do with myself this evening. Everything is packed, all the clothes are washed up, the house is picked up, the kids are gone....the house is empty. It sure is quiet around here.

Well I think I will go upstairs and go through my packing list one more time to make sure I haven't forgotten anything. St. Thomas, Ft. Lauderdale, San Juan, Tortola, Antigua, Bahamas, here we come! We'll see you in two weeks!

We're Off! Monica; 7:27 PM 6 comments

Oh the Torture.... - Thursday, November 03, 2005

These next few days are just going to DRAG by. I can't believe we are leaving for our vacation on Sunday. Good God, I thought this day is never going to come.

Things have been going pretty crappy this week. Jonathan had another follow-up appointment with the doctor about his liver. Things aren't looking better. As a matter of a fact, they are a wee bit worse. Not much, but a wee bit. And then we found out some other news.... I'm not quite ready to share that one yet, but it just seems like more and more comes up each time we go to the doctor.

Jonathan is STILL in denial that ANYTHING is wrong with him. If I try and talk to him about it he gets all defensive and screams at me to shut up. I don't know if this is normal or what. I'm assuming a lot of men don't handle sickness/their health well, but he is really being weird about it. Maybe he thinks the more he denies it, then it will go away. I don't know. I told him I seriously think he needs to see a counselor about it. Because he won't even speak to me about it.

I picked up his new medicine last night and read most of the pamphlet about how he is supposed to use it. But he refused to even look at it. Finally this morning, I just had to explain it to him and tell him he needed to start taking it immediately. I feel like I am going to have to "hover over him" to get him to take the medicine. I mean if men don't want to be treated like a child, why do they act like a child sometimes? Geeze.

But I am going to put this out of my mind while we are on vacation. I don't want to even discuss all of this for the next couple of weeks. I know, be in denial, but I guess we have to deal with it somehow. Right now the only thing I want to think about is spending some quality time with my husband.

Jonathan has said he isn't even going to take his cell phone on vacation with him. He doesn't want his work to call him one single time. I mean if the place burns down, he'll find out when he gets home. So we are going to give his cell phone to my mom to keep while she has the kids. Of course, I will still have my cell phone (have to keep tabs on the kids). So if anyone calls for Jonathan on my cell phone, they will promptly be hung up on. It's not a problem while we are on the cruise. Our cell phones don't pick up anyway. But we have full service while in St. Thomas, so if Jonathan takes his cell phone, he will probably end up spending hours a day on the phone with his managers back at work.

I'm lucky, I don't have a job where I have to check in all the time. I should be fine until I get back. A couple of the girls at work will keep some of my things up while I'm gone. The rest of the stuff will just wait until I get back. I'm glad I don't have as much pressure at my job as Jonathan does. He needs this break worse than me, that's for sure.

Moving on to the kids. Skyler was sick yesterday. She woke up about 5:30 a.m. with a PIERCING scream. I mean it was so loud I jumped up out of bed like someone was abducting her or something. We both ran downstairs and were rewarded with a sight vomit all over her. In her hair, on her bed, running down her bed. It was not a pretty sight.

Now I don't know if you know this about me or not, but I have a very weak stomach. Skyler has also inherited this wonderful trait. So as soon as I smelled the puke, I was running for the bathroom myself. Now you may ask, "How can you be a good mom when you can't even stomach the sight of your own child's vomit?" Well just let me tell you people, I can't. If Jonathan is in the house, he normally handles this kind of situation (thank you Jesus for that). But he had a hard time himself with this one. He pulled her clothes off and I took her into the bathroom and started washing her down. After I had lost my dinner in the toilet, of course. And then I hear him in there gagging and going on. So he had to run to the bathroom and lose his cookies.

Luckily Chase slept through all of this. We never heard a peep out of him. So I took Skyler to Chase's babysitter and left her there. The babysitter said she felt pretty bad most of the day, but didn't throw up any more. So hopefully it was something she ate and not a virus coming on. We are hoping and praying. Nothing like leaving your sick children with a babysitter for two weeks while you go off cavorting around the world. I feel guilty enough as it is for leaving them for so long. I definitely hope they don't get sick while we are gone.

I must confess something.... I didn't take one single picture of Skyler in her Halloween costume. Oh dear Lord, shoot me now. What a horrible mom I am! It's just we went to Jonathan's doctor, got the news, ended up staying there like 3 hours. So it was already dark by the time we picked up the kids at the babysitters. We were having friends come over with their little boy to trick-or-treat in our neighborhood, so it was a mad dash to get home and get her dressed and out the door. I didn't even think about taking a picture. Is this going to scar her forever, her mother forgot to take a picture of her in her Cinderella costume? I certainly hope not! ;-)

Today is just dragging by. I don't know if I'm going to make it through one more day of work. Did I mention we haven't even begun our packing yet? Hell, we haven't even washed up the clothes yet. Nothing like waiting to the last minute to pack for a two week vacation. I do have my packing list all typed up though. So hopefully we will be alright. I guess we will wait and pack on Saturday after we have dropped the kids off at the babysitter's. You can't get anything done with them running around. I would put things into the suitcase and Skyler and Chase would probably pull them out. So we'll just wait until the house is all quiet to get things done. But I definitely need to start washing up the clothes. I do at least have the kids' suitcases all packed and ready to go.

I promised Skyler I would take her to see Chicken Little tomorrow night. I'm even kind of excited about going to see this movie. It looks really cute.

I'm not sure if I'll have time to do another entry before we leave Sunday morning. Our flight leaves at 7:25 a.m. So that means we will have to leave the house at like 5:00 a.m. to get to the airport in time for check-in, security, etc. Fun! We were originally flying out at 10:30 a.m., but when Jonathan won the trip to St. Thomas his company made our flights and have us flying out at 7:30 a.m. Yikes! Neither of us are morning people. Then not to mention we don't actually get to St. Thomas until 4:30 p.m. We have TWO layovers. Yes TWO! One in Orlando then another in Miami. Geeze. I guess that's what you get when your company makes your reservations.

Anyway, I've ran out of things to say. So hopefully if you don't hear from me this weekend, I will be back with lots of pics from our trip!

Oh the Torture.... Monica; 9:47 AM 3 comments

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