A Blah Day 7-3-06

Monday, July 03, 2006

A Blah Day We are going on vacation tomorrow. By "we" I mean my husband and I, no child. I should be so excited, but for some reason I feel kind of down. Not necessarily about the trip, but just in general. I will not be so prideful as to not admit that my husband has accused me these past few days of having an extended bout of PMS. I have felt somewhat moody, but I cannot lay my hand on what exactly is my problem. Oh well, hopefully my vacation will heal it. It better...my husband doesn't get much vacation time and for me to ruin this time would be a crime. Anyway, we are going up to Northern Michigan...touring Mackinaw Island, going across Mackinaw Bridge and visiting a little lake town called Harbor Springs. It should be relaxing and fun, and even more so because it will be just us which hasn't happened...well, in 2.8 years. This weekend was quite uneventful. Friday night we went to the beach and it was a GORGEOUS night. Saturday we worked around the house and then went to the mall and out to dinner...and Landon was not so well behaved...for any of it. Sunday we went to yet another new church...and knew quite quickly it was not going to work either (that leaves us with 3 options, none of which we love...all of which we have visited numerous times). Then we worked around the yard and last evening, my parents came up and we got burgers and took them to the beach for the evening. It always means so much to me when they come up here. But, again, Landon was terrible. In fact, I cannot tell you the last time that he behaved as poorly as he did last night. I am sure this is some new phase, but man are my patience thin. He was so mouthy and defiant last night that it was truly embarrassing and humbling and maddening all at the same time. I almost felt like I did not know him...he was that bad. Gotta love the phases we go through with our children, one ends and another begins. He was better this morning, but his defiance is still really evident. However, when we were driving back from the store this morning and he said to me, "Mommy, stop talking...be quiet, I just need a break for a little while." I was not mad at all...in fact, I wanted to burst into tears bc he learned that from me. This weekend at some point he was whining, whining, whining. whining....you get the point and I said those exact words to him. To hear them told back to me made me feel like a terrible mother. Sometimes I know that I do not say the right things to him, and I certainly do not always have the right tone to my voice. This was a very tangible reminder that I need to be very careful of what I say to him and how I say it. I am not sure that I should be telling my child to stop talking...and probably not in the manner I told him to do that either. So there you are, I am humbled. Here is a picture of our newly painted table. I would put a before and after picture except that I only get 10 a month and I don't want to use 2 already...so you will just have to trust me when I say that it has made a DRAMATIC difference and was worth every penny of the $25 we spent on paint. And since everyone keeps asking us: Yes, we painted the leaves (sp?) too!" I am not sure why so many people have asked us that...as if we would leave the two of them nasty brown...that would not look ridiculous at all with our black, would it? We do still need to distress it around the rims, but you can get the general feel for what it did. Our chairs are quite ornate and the paint really subdued that a lot! Plus we took all of the leaves out so it is small and round (we had it oval before with one leaf in it), and we like it much better this way! So anyway...here it is... Well...bye to all of you! Have a great week!