I don't know for certain, but I think we may have landed in no-more-nap land. CP doesn't seem to really want to take a nap in the afternoons anymore and it leaves me both happy that she's moving on and sad that I don't get that breather in the afternoons that I sometimes need in order to get *anything* accomplished while it's light outside. We'll see.
So far, the SAHD thing is working out well here. There's plenty to do still and she is really enjoying the workbooks that we picked up from US Toy. They have everything there to homeschool a kid when you can't find a preschool that's worth a damn.
We should be closing on the house down the street soon. On hold for...wait...for...it...an appraisal. Oh, you can probably guess just how pleased that makes me. Screwed by appraiser bastards in Tucson, and now I have to wait on one here! Either way, we'll be in and blowing money on....uh, I mean fixing things in no time. We went to check on home insurance this week and the guy quoted me $1250 a year. Really. It's bad enough that health insurance has almost doubled for us here because you can't throw a rock without hitting a fat bastard with a cigarette hanging out of his/her/its mouth, but now we find out that our home insurance costs have more than doubled. It's got me clickin' my damned heels.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
Playing Catch Up
It seems that things have become a bit sloppy on the writing front, not to mention the house cleaning and general tidyness fronts, so I'll try to bring myself up to speed.
The holidays came and went around here with the anticipated level of craziness. Note to self: next year, buy CP cardboard boxes and dress-up clothes. It was as good to see everyone, as it is to be back to a somewhat normal schedule.
A few illnesses have come and gone. CP and the LW were laid up for a while a few weeks ago, but I sidestepped that bout of what we're now affectionately calling the "winter vomiting disorder"......until yesterday. There was no sidestepping yesterday....just trots.
We went to Science City to break in our new membership. CP loves it and we'll be headed back really soon. I don't think that there's anything in the whole place that she can screw up or break, well, except for the bunny. She really seems to like uncovering the bones over near the dinosaurs and it'll be funny to see what she thinks of the real Hughes 500 helicopter upstairs.
We're almost over all of the hurdles for the house down the street. The inspection's done and we're satisfied that it's a workable place to live. The basement isn't pretty, but the house is 90 years old and affordable. Find me another house down the street from grandparents for $650/mo and I'll kiss your ass and give you $10. Cant' wait for my parents to see the basement cracks and old woodwork - my dad will bitch until he's blue in the face. My brother couldn't believe that I was going to live in a house almost the size of his house for half of his mortgage payment.
The big news recently is that I'm back to doing the SAHD gig. It's really hard to find a preschool, or anything really, that isn't somehow affiliated with some skyfairy or another. We chose to avoid those places and took a shot on a "Montessori" in Olathe that turned out to be "Kindassori"...or "Maybessori"....in my book is was just "Ssori". I walked in one day and CP had been put into a room with 4 or 5 other kids who didn't seem like they were very good communicators. I asked the teacher why CP was separated out while the other 15-20 kids that she'd been playing with were in the other room. I was given various answers, ranging from "xxxx made the list of kids", or "I told your wife when you enrolled...", to "those are the 3.5yr olds", but they all seemed like complete bullshit, so we pulled her. It was tough for me not to tell the manager of the place what I thought of her right then and there.
I've hammered out a week of activities for CP and I to do and tomorrow is a Pump It Up day. She loves the place, but really loves it when Eli and Bananabelle show up like they did on Friday. Today was gymnastics class at Debbie Howard's and dance tonight at Gardner Dance. CP has options for every day, but we can fill in with sight words, puzzles and other things when something falls through. There's more stuff for me to do with her here than there was in T-town. We're working on getting one membership a month to different places. January was Science City, next month will be the Gardner Pool (gotta get in early) or WonderScope, and March will be the Zoo. I've been working on getting into a KCDads group here, but I seem to keep missing the play dates.... Eh...can't do it all.
Oh, and in between all of this, we picked up a Chambers 90C stove for the house. It's a white one like the pastel blue stove on the site. My grandmother has cooked on a 90B since my dad was a kid and it's awesome! The over/under griddle/broiler makes the best cinnamon toast ever.
I think that just about wraps it up
The holidays came and went around here with the anticipated level of craziness. Note to self: next year, buy CP cardboard boxes and dress-up clothes. It was as good to see everyone, as it is to be back to a somewhat normal schedule.
A few illnesses have come and gone. CP and the LW were laid up for a while a few weeks ago, but I sidestepped that bout of what we're now affectionately calling the "winter vomiting disorder"......until yesterday. There was no sidestepping yesterday....just trots.
We went to Science City to break in our new membership. CP loves it and we'll be headed back really soon. I don't think that there's anything in the whole place that she can screw up or break, well, except for the bunny. She really seems to like uncovering the bones over near the dinosaurs and it'll be funny to see what she thinks of the real Hughes 500 helicopter upstairs.
We're almost over all of the hurdles for the house down the street. The inspection's done and we're satisfied that it's a workable place to live. The basement isn't pretty, but the house is 90 years old and affordable. Find me another house down the street from grandparents for $650/mo and I'll kiss your ass and give you $10. Cant' wait for my parents to see the basement cracks and old woodwork - my dad will bitch until he's blue in the face. My brother couldn't believe that I was going to live in a house almost the size of his house for half of his mortgage payment.
The big news recently is that I'm back to doing the SAHD gig. It's really hard to find a preschool, or anything really, that isn't somehow affiliated with some skyfairy or another. We chose to avoid those places and took a shot on a "Montessori" in Olathe that turned out to be "Kindassori"...or "Maybessori"....in my book is was just "Ssori". I walked in one day and CP had been put into a room with 4 or 5 other kids who didn't seem like they were very good communicators. I asked the teacher why CP was separated out while the other 15-20 kids that she'd been playing with were in the other room. I was given various answers, ranging from "xxxx made the list of kids", or "I told your wife when you enrolled...", to "those are the 3.5yr olds", but they all seemed like complete bullshit, so we pulled her. It was tough for me not to tell the manager of the place what I thought of her right then and there.
I've hammered out a week of activities for CP and I to do and tomorrow is a Pump It Up day. She loves the place, but really loves it when Eli and Bananabelle show up like they did on Friday. Today was gymnastics class at Debbie Howard's and dance tonight at Gardner Dance. CP has options for every day, but we can fill in with sight words, puzzles and other things when something falls through. There's more stuff for me to do with her here than there was in T-town. We're working on getting one membership a month to different places. January was Science City, next month will be the Gardner Pool (gotta get in early) or WonderScope, and March will be the Zoo. I've been working on getting into a KCDads group here, but I seem to keep missing the play dates.... Eh...can't do it all.
Oh, and in between all of this, we picked up a Chambers 90C stove for the house. It's a white one like the pastel blue stove on the site. My grandmother has cooked on a 90B since my dad was a kid and it's awesome! The over/under griddle/broiler makes the best cinnamon toast ever.
I think that just about wraps it up
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