Catching Up

Again?! I fell behind again, only this time I didn't even have the pictures to do the make up entries with. Shame on me for not following my own advice: carry your camera everywhere with you (which I do) and take pictures everyday (fail).

I'm so excited about Viggle (and it's sadly consumed a lot of my normal blogging time) and that it's been paying off. It's not much but we've already received $15 to Starbucks, $20 to fandango (The avengers and Hunger Games are in our future!), 2 months of Hulu plus, $20 to the apple store (which I'm sharing with the boys), and we have plenty of points to get several other things but we haven't decided what we want yet.
I have to admit, Viggle is the first thing that has distracted me from my online video game addiction. It's not a video game, but it does pay!

The car accident drama is consuming me as a person. It's more than I can handle (such lies they tell you!) so I finally went and hired a lawyer. I don't even care if I don't get a dime, I just need to not be stressed out over it when I have so many other things that I could be can stress over (babies, money, birthdays, health, vacations, school, summer, cleaning, planting and growing). It alarms me that Mr. Mann is still in pain, and of course it's frustrating to me that I'm still experiencing it as well. This should of been over a long time ago. We've done everything the doctors told us to do and yet still there's pain.

I've also been slacking with Little Lady's school. I don't want to make excuses, but I've just been in a bit of a funk and not been up to assembling her daily lessons. She's kept me on task a few times crying "I want to learn, Mommy!". I'm done slacking off and she's perfected all the easy stuff and she's come so far so quickly I don't think I was prepared for it.

On that note we're back to potty training as well.  Back in October she went a full week wearing only panties and didn't have a single accident. Even out in town she always told me when she had to go. We were so excited that she'd be fully trained before Thanksgiving. Then she just stopped. Refused to tell us, and only wanted to wear diapers. We haven't pushed it but it's time. Summers approaching and she's old enough. It's not nearly as easy this time around, but she's making good progress. The biggest hurdle this time is that she's not really telling us when she has to go, we have to remind her.

As for my beautiful garden: I hacked my fruit trees back to stubs but didn't have a saw to do it properly so now everything is almost worse than before (not possible). I desperately need to get a saw and have at it. I couldn't find it in me to juice and freeze any more lemons so I told my neighbor that all the fruit on my tree was going to be going to waste and he came and plucked it all before the newest blooms added to the fruit. I love my neighbors. My pea plants were thriving and producing delicious pods when the weather went wonky. Super hot to thunder storms and back again. My own negligence and the weather has fried them all. The ones we planted only a few weeks ago have been dug up by the neighborhood cats. Oh how I despise them sometimes.

Finally, in the last few weeks my mothers have been making the final plans for their month in Europe. I'm so excited for them and have been trying to help in any way I could. I do have some experience with packing very little for many days but mostly I've been trying to help them confidently document their adventures. Today (or yesterday for them I suppose) was their second day there and they are having a blast. I'm so happy they get to experience this and I can't wait to see all the pictures and help them record their stories.