Dear Mr. Florida Congressman,

Why do you choose a Monday to raise the fees for EVERYTHING in the state of Florida? Why.... on a day that, my husband is out of town, I have no baby sitter, and my child didn't go to bed until 4 AM (making him the crankiest little fart ever)? I stood in your 70's wood paneled hallway waiting in line, then I stood in your crappy LITTLE office...in line, if you want to call it a line. It was more like a meandering, winding, snake like thing. It started in the middle of the room and wound around from the inside out.


Then I watched as every effing podunk hillbilly let every other effing podunk hillbilly they knew, cut in line with them. I listened as people complained about my crabby baby, and wondered how I dare take such a crabby little person out and make innocent people endure the whining and crying.....well guess what you hag...you are whining too...(as I roll my eyes, and wish my child would let out a stink that would clear the room).

Please for the LOVE OF GOD.....get some more over-paid, pissy employees, so that the next time you decide to raise the rates for tag renewals and drivers licences... people like me only have to wait an hour and a half, instead of the 3 hours that I waited today. It just made my craptastic day even more crappy.

Toodles,
Me

Nervousness

I am sitting here, shivering cold (simply because at night it has to be cold enough in here to hang several slabs of cow, or I can't sleep)....trying to wrap up a few projects that I have going for Wyatt's birthday. When it hit me....I feel like Saturday is a huge event, like a wedding or something. It's just my son's first birthday party. Not like the Pope will be attending or anything like that, but I am so damned nervous about it.

I feel overwhelmed, for a lack of better word. Like I am forgetting very important things. Grrrrr.....why can't I think clearly? I'm sure part of it is that AF decided to show up right before Richard came home from an out of town job, and has yet to go away, and that I am so tired. For some great reason, I can't sleep here lately (no matter how cold it is).

Richard's sister (Ginger) and his Mom, asked me if there was anything that I needed for Saturday. Ummm...probably, but I feel like my brain is in a jar on some shelf, not in my head. I couldn't think of anything...except for some sweet tea. Richard's Mom said that she would bring ice cream, which is GREAT :) since I hadn't even thought about ice cream. I sware, sometimes she gives me the best ideas, and reminds me of the stupid things that I forget. I love Richard's family....they are good to me, and to Wyatt. That's all I could ask for!

So begins the list making, or so continues the list making. I have started lists (notice the s at the end?? It's plural for list, meaning more than one) because I can't seem to get my thoughts together with just one. For some flipping reason, I found it necessary to make individual lists for certain places, or things. I.E. there is a list for the decorations, a list for the food, for the guests, for the gifts, what I need to get and from where...and each store has it's own list. Could I have made that any more complicated?......

......probably.

I did borrow a chafing dish and a tea urn from Ginger...I am sure there will be more things that I remember as the week goes on. She said to let her know if there is anything I forgot...but, she may regret that choice of words...her phone may be ringing off the hook later this week! She's done this before, I haven't.

Sheesh...I make it sound like I'm planning a ball for the President. Can we say...loosing our mind?

Never fails, my attempt at being organized turns into a big pile of crumpled paper laying on the table next to me. I guess that's why I normally find it better to fly by the seat of my pants!


Nightey night!

Changing names?

Wyatt is changing by leaps and bounds, and I have been toying around with changing the name of this blog to "Living with Wyatt" or "Wyatt's World".....you get the picture!

He has discovered that shaking his head from side to side means no, and he knows up and down (he will even point up or down)!  He will shake his little pointer finger at the dog and try to say "no no piggy".  His third tooth came in......FINALLY!  It seemed like it would be forever, but it's in about half way.  I think there are 2 more on the way in too.

It seems like all I have to do is blink...and he's learned something new, or grown another inch, or gotten another tooth. I love all of the new and exciting things he does, but in a way it makes me sad.  Sad that he's not really a baby any more.  I'm afraid that tomorrow I will wake up and it will be his first day of school, or he'll be riding a bike.  It just seems like childhood doesn't last very long any more.

I remember Grandma, in her bed at the hospital....after we knew that there was nothing that they could do, looking at Wyatt with tears in her eyes and simply saying..."I wonder who you'll be?" I was thinking about that last night, and that's when I realized, that we are still "Making Wyatt".  Every one around us in making him, all of his family, who loves him dearly. Even the strangers, who always tell him just how super cute he is! And I especially think about Grandma, who in a way is helping make him who he'll be, because she made me who I am! I will forever love her and be grateful for that.

I want to enjoy every moment with him, every experience.  I am so grateful that God entrusted us with him...I'm so glad that we have this chance, the chance to make a great human being!  That's why, for now...I am going to stick with "The Making of Wyatt".  We are still making him, making him the person he will be.

Thanks for listening to my ramblings...if you even made it this far!  I appreciate it :)

 

 

 

Wyatt and Grammy

My Mom is really goofy with wyatt.....but he loves every minute of it! We were at Granddaddy's and took these...it was the same time as the last pictures.

August 26, 2009

 

  

  

  

Run Forrest....Run!!!!

I think I am going to possibly scar Wyatt for life.  He's getting to the point where, if he even sees my camera...he crawls the other way as fast as he can.  These are the best of the last session we did.  I was trying different things, trying to get ready to do his birthday pictures...plus I wanted to try out my new bamboo floor, and I must say....I LOVE it!

August 5, 2009

More pictures?? Can it be??

So, I have been in a posting/photo editing mood today. Anything to avoid house work...right? This is my attempt at trying to catch up on what I've missed. I'll give the details as I go along!

At Nancy's lake ~ July 18

 

I got a couple of new (old ) chairs at the flea market and wanted to try them out.  He had just woke up  and I dragged him outside to snap a few shots!

July 21

 

This was one of the pictures for his birthday party invitation

July 27

 July 29

 

Hope you enjoy!

Boy am I tired...oh, and the 4th of July!

Holy moly!! This was a draft that I saved on the 7th of August! Shows ya how much extra time I have on my hands lately. Oh well...as my mother would say....better late than never.


Wyatt decided to go to bed early last night, so he was up around 4:00am, and didn't go back to sleep until around 5:30. For some unknown reason, I can't fall back asleep....so, I decided to work on and post some new pictures, starting with July 4th. Hope you enjoy.

At the parade

This goose was the funniest thing...his name is "Chicken" and he follows the bull and his owner anywhere they go....

At the lake with the Becks



At the fireworks
What did I do??