Random Thoughts!

Just have a few quiet minutes to think about a few things right now since Ray isn't home yet and Kenley is napping.  It's kinda wierd and I don't really know what to do with myself!  Usually during a time like this I would be cleaning like a madwoman!  I will be the first to admit that I am a neat freak.  I can not stand it when my house is not clean and everything is in its place.  I realize I will have to get over this as Kenley gets older and all her toys start invading the house, but right now I think I'm doing a pretty good job about keeping things neat.  So, back to my point-the reason I am not cleaning right now is because I am having a cleaning lady come next week!  I am so beyond excited about this that it is kind of sick.

I've had a few hard weeks at work and have cried several times over being away from my baby.  I'm sure every working mom understands.  I think these few weeks have been especially difficult because I have a few students that are driving me nuts that make it harder to go to work.  Plus, Kenley has been so tired a few days that she has been going to bed before 7:00!  I hate it because then it is like I only get to see her for 2 hours a day.  I'll keep wishing to win the lottery....(guess I better start playing!)

Halloween is on Monday and I'm excited to dress Kenley up.  She's going to be a pink elephant.  I'm sure I'll take lots of pictures, if we can get her to keep the costume on for a few minutes.  We're just going to take her to a few of the neighbor's houses, and then Ray and I will eat the candy :)  It's pretty crazy that this is basically the start to the holidays.  It gets me pretty excited to start thinking about decorating the house and buying gifts!  I'm hoping our house will be even more festive than it was last year because I have been accumulating decorations over the past year.  I'm sure Ray will be thrilled when he realizes everything he has to help me put up!  I think I get this from my mom because she always went all out for Christmas.  Growing up, we even had Christmas decorations in the bathrooms! 

SO looking forward to the weekend! 

October

The past few weeks have gone by so fast, I haven't even have time to blog at all.  I had to look at my last post to see what was going on then and realized it has been almost a month!  Today Kenley is officially 10 months old!  She is really cruising around now crawling everywhere and getting into everything!  She also got another tooth, so she is up to 5 now.  Part of the reason I haven't blogged is because for a few weeks we have all been passing around a cold!  I had kind of a bad week and between being sick, and the cold dreary weather I was just kinda cranky all week. Unfortunately, I ended up being sick on my birthday.  Kenley had been sick a few days before and Ray and I took off the day of my birthday planning to do something fun, but then I got sick.  Now, two weeks later Kenley seemed unable to get rid of it so I finally took her to the doctor and found out she had an ear and sinus infection. It didn't seem to bother her too much, and for the most part she has been her happy, playful self.  She's already getting a lot better from being on medicine the past few days. 
On a positive note, this week has been much better.  I am so excited to enjoy this beautiful weather and even more excited that I have a 3 day weekend! I took Kenley out in the jogging stroller and could have stayed out there all day.  I know I better enjoy these warm days because it could be snowing in a few weeks. My parents are going to babysit Kenley tonight so that I can go get a massage, and then Ray and I are going out for a date night.  We are also getting new carpeting put in our lower level right now.  It seems like the weekend is off to a great start!