January 1. I don’t usually think much of the start of a new year. Just another day, and all. I’m trying something though. I didn’t realize almost a year had gone by since my last post, and it makes me sad to think about how little I am documenting about my kids’ lives. There are a lot of food blogs I’ve discovered lately, and between those and the “mommy” blogs, I want to spend a couple evenings a week catching up on that stuff. I’ve discovered the Google Reader gem, and time will tell if it will keep me in the blogsphere enough to keep my own updated.

I’ll have to update with some pictures when I get around to organizing them (that’s a whole other issue) and uploading to Photobucket. In a nutshell, here’s what has been happening. I went back to work full-time last March, and I have had a love/hate relationship with it. I get to work from home, which I also have a love/hate thing with. :) It has been very busy, leaving me no time for anything else during the day except work. I guess that’s the point of having a full-time job (wink wink) but that leaves a whole lot of stuff to get done in the evenings and weekends. Sarah is in a Montessori school, which is where Jenna was before she started Kindergarten. She likes Kindergarten–in fact, since she’s been out of school for Christmas, she keeps asking when she gets to go back. I have loved spending this week with them, but I have to admit I am looking forward to the silence I have while working all day. Not looking forward to the work that awaits, but I can’t have one without the other!

I am very happy to report that Sarah has not been crying nearly as much as she used to. She used to cry all the time. ALL.THE.TIME. About everything. About nothing. She still has her tantrums and whines all the time, but she is better about keeping the crying more to a normal 2-year-old level. Now that she’ll be 3 in a couple of weeks, I’m curious about what that will bring. She just got glasses and that poor thing has eyes almost as bad as her mama. They are thick and she is far-sighted, so they magnify her eyes. She doesn’t like to keep them on at home much, but she does fine at school and most other places. Her eyes are crossed without them, which is how we knew she needed them, but I pray she grows out of that. We have her follow-up visit soon, so hopefully he’ll say things are progressing as they should be.

Jenna is much more fun. I am not wired for toddlers. I prefer kids who don’t test everything, and (for the most part) do what they’re supposed to. Don’t get me wrong–she does not listen too well and she “forgets” on a daily basis to do what we ask, and there are times she blatantly disobeys. But mostly she is a regular, good kid who loves dresses, candy (or any dessert), unicorns, playing outside, barbies, and winning everything. We need to work on her losing skills. :) It’s funny–she is not much of a girly girl in the way she acts and behaves, but that girl refuses to wear anything but a dress or a skirt. It’s been cold so I just get her to wear leggings with her dresses or skirts. Sometimes she looks kinda silly, but it’s better than the tears and fits we get in the 30 minutes of trying to get dressed every morning if we try to make her wear pants. It’s crazy, but she is who she is. One of our good friends recently referred to her as the energizer bunny. She keeps going and going. She has unlimited energy, which will be great for her later, but right now it’s pretty annoying. She hasn’t taken a nap in years, and often we have to make her sit in a chair for a few minutes just to calm down. She can get pretty out of control, as if she’s always on a sugar high. Fortunately, she has started sleeping late though (as in, we often have to wake her up at 6:30 on school days). Unfortunately, it’s usually her sister who wakes her up. Sarah wakes up around 5:30 every day and is ready to go. Bleh, I am so ready for this phase to pass and I hope it will, but it’s been going on for 5-6 months. I am super lucky to have a morning person for a husband. Which is great because I could not be less of a morning person. He gets up with her/them when appropriate, and I get to stay in bed a little longer. Usually don’t sleep because of the noise factor, but how great to be able to stay in my warm bed. Ahhh.

So that was a little longer than the brief post I thought it would be, but I really do need to document my poor girls’ lives so I can remember later. I can’t usually remember what I had for breakfast the day before, so chances are slim I will remember 10 years from now how old Jenna was when she lost her first tooth. Sigh. (5 1/2, by the way)

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