past sicknesses and the holidays

Everyone is over their sicknesses for now… In the past 2.75 months Lola has had 2 ear infections and pink eye, and Luca has had a urinary tract infection. They both have sniffles/snotty noses right now but that is very normal! Actually, it is more normal than not normal. We missed Luca’s 6 month shots because she had a fever at the time, so I still need to get her in for those. It’s just a pain to schedule because I have to take off work to take her in first thing in the morning, and then take her to school. Basically I’m just lazy and haven’t gotten around to it yet! I know some people delay vaccines, but this is the first time I have not taken a kid in right on time for vaccines and it feels odd.

I can’t believe the holidays are coming up so quickly. Next week is November! Finances are a bit tight right now which is stressing me out. We thought the finances would work out better for us to switch the girls to full-time instead of part-time, but it’s turning out to be the opposite. And with the holiday’s approaching that stresses me out even more. I hate money (or lack there of) sometimes…There are things that I (we) do that we don’t need to and it’s getting to the point where we are going to start having to be annoying about it. For example: We only go out to eat once per week and don’t spend more than XX amount; we only spend XX at the grocery store each week; no buying anything that isn’t totally necessary, etc… I’m going on my annual girl’s trip next week and I will have to evaluate it for next year because it’s a chunk of money that we (I) don’t need to spend every year. What sucks is that we have been getting together yearly since 2006 and it’s the only time we see each other. I know people say that having lots of money can cause problems, but I feel like it would be the opposite for us and make us so much less stressed!  At least I can fit into all of my old clothing so I don’t need to buy anything new! Unfortunately that means that I’m wearing some pants that are seriously 8-10 years old. They are looking pretty ratty…oh well.

We are having family pictures taken next month (yes, I know, after my last paragraph I know this isn’t a necessity). The goal is to give out pictures as Christmas gifts and use for Christmas cards. I’m hoping everyone is healthy and we get at least one good family picture and one good picture of the girls. Getting 2 good pictures isn’t asking too much is it?

Luca is getting so big! She started crawling just after she turned 6 months (on October 13th to be exact). She is trying to pull up on everything she can get a hold of. Apparently she was trying to pull up on this chair at school…she tried and tried, and the next thing they knew she was asleep! She apparently wore herself out!