It's been a while since I've done the last blog post and I feel like such a slacker. But, the past 2 months have just been a bit chaotic for me to even think about sitting down and blogging. My husband was gone the entire month on November and that proved to be the biggest test for me as a mommy married to a soldier. I think I ended up having 2 mini meltdowns last month. I think it was just where I'm not used to taking care of Ethan all by myself since he has become completely mobile. I turned my head for two seconds and he had managed to make it from the livingroom to bathroom. He's like houdini.... On top of that, I'm just not the type of mom who can have someone else watch my child for an hour or so, no matter how tired and frustrated I am. I want to be with him at all times and I know that that isn't the best thing but I just can't seem to pry myself away from him. People keep telling me that I need "my time" but I'm finding it very difficult to take the time away from him. Maybe I'll get the hang of it in the near future.
I really didn't get a lot of my school work done in the month of November. When I would sit down and try to work on it after Ethan went to bed, I was too exhausted to even think about homework. There were a couple times that I tried to sit down and read a chapter and reread the same line like 5 times. I pretty much gave up on homework until after Josh got back.
He managed to get back just in time for our 1st wedding anniversary. The day he got back, Ethan and me kept him out of the house all day. We took Ethan to the mall to see Santa for the first time. He did so well, better then I expected. He sat on Santa's lap and smiled his cute lil smile and didn't even shed one tear. I think he evened managed to have a conversation with Santa while mommy and daddy were selecting which picture they wanted.
The next day, Josh and I left Ethan with Rah Rah and Grandpa Chuck to spend our anniversary together. I thought we had everything planned out really well until we started the day. The biggest mistake we made was going downtown clarksville for dinner and getting stuck in the middle of a parade. And when I say "stuck", I mean an hour and a half, missing the movie showing we bought tickets to earlier that day and having to buy new tickets for the hour later showing. The only thing we could do was laugh about it. Obviously we have no luck when it comes to our wedding day or anniversary dates. Let's see what next year brings....lol
Speaking of Christmas time, I got the tree up in the midst of all the chaos of November. Looking back, I have no idea how the tree even got put together so nicely. With Ethan crying in the background and me fighting to the lights off the tree to get the branches apart and then back on the tree afterwards! I can't believe the tree isn't in the front yard right now....HAHA! A few days after we got the tree up, I wanted to try and take a Christmas photo of Ethan in front of it. It ended up turning out so cute. We decided to use it as our Christmas cards this year.
That's about everything that I can think of to update everyone on the past two months. Sorry about the lack of photos in this blog, I'm typing it on our laptop and I don't have any photos on here. I will try and put some up in the next two weeks.
Until next time.....
