Sunday, October 30, 2011

Back In The Saddle*

I have seriously neglected this blog the last couple of months.  I hate that.  I want to keep it going, it's an outlet for me and I enjoy doing it, but my life has been insane and I haven't had time to brush my teeth (I have been brushing, that's an exaggeration) let alone blog.  I'm going to try to get back on the saddle* and just open my mind see what comes out...

1.  A couple of weeks ago our nanny quit- again.  We had hired this nice young girl who the kids loved (but wasn't the sharpest crayon in the box) and she was doing a great job of keeping them entertained and not burning the house down.  One day out of the blue I got an email from her giving me the old 'It isn't you, it's me' line.  Who quits by email?!  Apparently nannies do because this is the second one in a row that took advantage of not having to show their face when they break up with me.  Here's the thing... I have wonderful children, and I'm not just saying that because I'm their mom, they really are respectful well behaved kids.  D isn't ever home, I know he's not the problem.  So I guess maybe it's me?  Was it too much to ask her to boil water for mac and cheese every now and then?  Was I asking too much to have her pick up play-doh off of the floor after the kids played with it so the dog wouldn't eat it and poop rainbow colors?  Apparently it was.  With my friends and families help I'm able to get through the end of the quarter and won't need to hire someone until after the holidays.  Someone send me a book on how to not hire a crappy nanny. Thanks.

2.  I'm taking Hungarian for my foreign language requirement- BECAUSE I'M A HUGE IDIOT!  It's so hard, I'm not even kidding.  The language isn't rooted in Latin and there are no correlations between the English and Hungarian language, so that's fun.  The only words that I can look at and know what they are immediately are telefon, komputer and ipod.  I'm 1/4 Magyar (Magyar=Hungarian for you non-Hungarian speaking dummies) and so I keep telling myself that if my people could speak this, I can speak it.  But then I come across a word like gyümölcs (fruit) and want to bang my head against the wall.  Of course slusszkulcs means car keys.  Of course it does.

3. Last but not least, we have a deployment coming up.  Obviously I'm not going to tell you when or where, but it's coming.  It was a surprise, and we aren't happy about it, but we're an Army family and so we'll deal with it just like all of the other military families do.  I've been super emo lately and I think that's added to not wanting to blog.  Mostly I want to sit and eat cheesy popcorn and feel sorry for myself... the cheesy popcorn came before the deployment, the feeling sorry for myself is new, though.  It's only been about a week since we found out, so I'm still processing it, but I'm getting better.  My friends and family have really been great, an ear to listen and a shoulder to cry on.  Oh the fun of being a grownup.  D has been out training so we've had to do some things that we usually do as a family without him... go to church, carve pumpkins, pick apples, do laundry (I'm afraid of the basement, the loading and unloading of the washer is his job).  In a way it's good that we're doing these things without him because it gives us a taste of what the deployment will be like, but it's still not fun. 

So that's all for now, the first blog back in the saddle*.  I'm going to try to blog every day.  I know that won't actually happen, but I need to aim high.  Sorry to end this one on a semi-depressing note, but that's my life right now, semi-depressing.  Here's a cute kid picture to cheer you up...

G and Sammy
*How many times did I write 'back in the saddle' on this post?  That's so dumb, I never say that in real life.