Whew

Quite a day so far.  I got up at 9, and I was going to go back to bed, but realized that I needed to find out when my WIC appointment was today, because I also needed to be at Shabree’s school, which at that point, I wasn’t sure when.  They were decorating cookies.  So I came downstairs, and Jerry had called and found out the cookie thing was at noon…well, I got my purse out the van, and my WIC appt was at 12:55… um, nothing doing.  So I called WIC, and they moved my appt back to 10:45, whoohoo.  We had discussed going to the food closet, we completely missed last month, which was fine… but we like to get diapers and formula, so we’ll have extra.  So I got Bec up, and she and I went to the food closet.  Well, we got there, and they didn’t open until 10.  Some rather nice older ladies came up behind us, and by the time they opened, the ladies were in front of us, so I very politely asked if I might have my spot back, since I had an appointment to get to.  They very nicely gave me my spot back.  I really wouldn’t have minded giving them the spot, if I hadn’t had the time crunch.  I didn’t have either of the babies, since they had been asleep when Bec and I left, but I’d called WIC to see if I needed to bring them, and I didn’t, so as soon as we left the food closet, we went to WIC.  Oh, I almost forgot, we got hamburger from the food closet!  YEA!  We hardly ever eat hamburger these days, just turkey burger.  I don’t mind the turkey at all, but it’s nice to have hamburger.  I do watch for sales on beef, so it’s not like we’re honestly going without.  We have a few steaks left out in the freezer.  It’s just nice to get hamburger.  I hardly ever buy it, because I feel like 2 dollars a pound is too much to pay.  Though… it’s getting to where that’s pretty normal.  So we went to WIC, and I actually had ALL the paperwork filled out for the girls, finally, and I had Alex’s shot records… for once, I was good to go.  So they gave me two months worth of checks… now the ONLY problem with that is that I’m getting apple and orange juice, and I just don’t WANT that much apple and orange juice.  That’s something I’ll have to fix in Feb.  I guess I’m going for a class… a breastfeeding support group actually.  I’ve only ever gone to one… I usually meet up with the lactation consultant in lieu of.  And there’s not much they can tell me that’s new anymore.  But my milk is down, so I’m going to see what else I might do, other than what I’m doing already and what I have the ability TO do.  So then we went to the Prime Time nutrition store, got a bunch of the WIC checks "cashed" and got 3 cans of beans extra (which is why I go there… I never turn down free food.  Ever.)  I didn’t get milk, eggs, or cheese, because we just got that in our last trip.  But I got everything else.  So we came home, put some stuff away, I pumped and ate (I’d called Jerry on my way home and asked him if he’d make me a ham, egg and cheese sandwich, which he was happy to do, so I ate it while I pumped.)  Then I got some pants on Sammi, and we headed over to Shabree’s school.  That lasted an hour, we made a bunch of cookies… I didn’t make any, because I was too busy putting green frosting on everyone’s cookies.  I’d outline the cookie for them, so it wouldn’t go to waste.  It was a can of frosting, and I knew some kid would accidentally over-do it, though I gotta say, no one did.  They had a ton of cookies, and a ton of frosting, and since we donated a bunch of toppings, a ton of toppings, lol.  It was fun.  Becca helped Sammi, and I sort of helped Shabree when I wasn’t doing frosting for the other kids.  Then we came home, and I nursed Alex to sleep.  Then fed Sammi, and ate myself, then had Bec put Sammi down for a nap.  Then called the honeybaked ham store, and arranged to get a large spiral cut ham to use up the last of our gift certificates… it’ll be too much, but we’ll freeze the rest.  I’d rather have the ham than the side dishes.  I don’t want them to do ALL the work, esp considering I’d rather have the ham.  I LOVE our side dishes anyway.  So I need to go pick that up tonight, or tomorrow.  Probably tomorrow at this point.  I’ve got to get to wrapping presents, though Syd and Shabree offered to wrap Sammi’s and Alex’s… we also need to FINALLY decorate our tree already!  It’s up, it’s been up.  Bec just wants to string lights on it so we don’t have to put them all away after Christmas.  Since most of my favorite decorations bit the dust about 3 years ago, I don’t think I mind that idea.  I don’t know… it doesn’t quite seem right, but honestly… I’m kind of with her.

Well, I should get to cleaning, and I’ve got to pump, can’t type while I pump.  Oh, and I need to do a hard drive cleaning again.  I burned another DVD, so have to trash everything I burned.  I’ve really got to get all my scrap stuff burned to DVD so I can initialize this computer.  I have NO idea what’s going on with the oil deal either, so have to ask Jerry about that.  Probably a big, fat, hairy, NOTHING… grr.  Figures.  He thinks this other deal that he has control of will close, but that one’s been in the works for 8 months now?  So we’ll see about that.

Oh, I have to go anyway… Shabree went and got herself "stuck" under a chair, AGAIN…. you’d think she’d learn.