I guess I haven't had much to say lately? Matt and Maddy went to the farm again on Monday! They had a really nice time. Of course she went on all the slides again. She really seemed to like the goats this time around. I love the picture of her above! Matt did a great job with pictures and video at the farm. I loved looking at them when he got home. (Speaking of pictures, I'm so glad we have that camera. Matt talked me into it right before Maddy was born and I balked at it, saying we already had a digital one. Well, I wouldn't be without it, honestly. It's not the 'best' camera out there, but it fits in my purse, is easy to use, takes good pictures and I get video from it, too.) Maddy came home with two more pumpkins (one for each paying admission). Now we have/had four mini pumpkins! While they were gone I picked up the house a bit and did some laundry. It was first real venture out of bed since I pulled my back. Matt came home and immediately noticed how much I had done and started giving me grief over doing too much. :) Oh well. I wanted to limber it up a bit, even if it's on my own time and my own terms!
I spent a lot of Monday reading magazines. There's only so much internet out there that's interesting at least. So I've been pretty impressed that I've gone through most of them now. You have no idea how many I had piling up around here. It was ridiculous. Of course, I let a lot of the subscriptions expire. I think I only have two now? Maybe three...but not many.
I do find it funny. I was reading one of my mom's group board and they were talking about a family friendly magazines for ideas for kids that not Parents because their kids have kind of outgrown it. My first thought was, "Errr...If I have time to sit down and page through a magazine, I don't want to read about kid stuff!" HA! Anyway, I DO actually still get Parents magazine but would much prefer to read Self or Readers Digest.
Yesterday, Matt went into work for a half day. I let him sleep in. He was just exhausted from being oncall for both Maddy and I for 24/7 since Saturday AM. After we were all up and ready to go, Matt made a quick run to the grocery store for me (lifting bags isn't the best idea). Off to work he went! By then it was almost time for nap! I made dinner and Matt and Maddy went outside. Maddy played while Matt mowed the lawn. However, she was a great helper, too. She helped Matt move the downspout plastic catchers under each downspout as he was coming to them. It was really cute. Matt also carpet cleaned the downstairs but that wound up taking a while and Maddy was late for bed again. Sigh. It took her a while to go to sleep.
Joe is having accidents. It's really not good. I don't know if it deals with his diabetes or what, but he is not controlling his bladder very well. I may need to call the vet and see what they have to say, but until then we're going to lock him in with his food and litter box at feeding time to see if that helps any. Right now he's locked in with just the food and no litter box. But I think he feels the urge to go while locked in (I can't let him out, he goes straight for Ruthie's food) and can't hold it. Anyway, we'll give this a shot and see how it goes. He's not that old, so...?
I woke up this morning feeling pretty tender in my back. After all, yesterday was the first day in quite a while that I've been on my feet. It didn't stop me from trying to limber it up. I did a lot more laundry, cleaned the bathrooms and straightened up around the house. Then Maddy and I made mulled apple cider with apple juice and mulling spices in the crockpot. We also took the 4 pumpkins from the farm and opened them up, took out the seeds and baked them with salt and butter. I just LOVE fall stuff! All that took until nap time.
I don't know what I'm going to do about nap time. I haven't been sleeping well at night so the naps are really nice for me. Plus, it gets me off my feet for a while. However, I think I'm not sleeping well because I'm sleeping during the day. So today I stayed up and am in a recliner in our sitting room while Maddy sleeps across the way in our bed. It took her a bit longer to fall asleep, but she still did fine. Plus, I still put my feet up and get some me time (I am also listening to my iPod shuffle) as well. If I sleep better I may start going to this instead of napping. We'll see.
Ok, off to finish off another magazine or two! I only have four left.