So Cold!!!

I can definitely relate to So Midwestern as we are in the same state and county, and can attest that she is not making up the fact that it's colder than it's been all winter long and definitely for as long as I can remember, because it's been four years since I've even felt winter! The problem with this cold spell is that when it gets this cold our garage door refuses to raise higher than 2 feet. This normally isn't a problem for me because I don't really need to use it, except for today when I need to take the garbage out because my lovely husband didn't do it, which leads to my dumb moment I had this morning. So I tried to get the garage door to go up like 4 times and it just wouldn't budge. I was contemplating bringing the trash through the house but I just couldn't bring myself to do that just yet. I e-mailed my husband asking for suggestions, partly because I really want to get the trash put out and also because I want to remind him that he didn't do it this morning. This was his response: "Pull the orange emergency cord and push the garage door up on its own." DUH, oh yeah, forgot about that!!!!!!! So needless to say I definitely wasn't in critical thinking mode this morning and now I feel pretty silly!

Little man woke up really early this morning and I woke up at 5am when R got up and couldn't get back to sleep. We are both sleep deprived and hearing "mom" 100 times already this morning is really wearing on me. I think I'm definitely going to need a nap this afternoon. It's been so cold that we haven't gotten to play outside very much, but today we are going out just to kill some time and get some fresh air. I'm hoping the neighbor calls too and asks us for a playdate sometime soon! Hope everyone is warmer than us here in Michigan, if you are, enjoy it and send it our way!!!! :o)

Update: I found a place where it's worse than here. My mantra, "things could always be worse"

Eventful!

So we had a playdate at the neighbors house this morning and that was really fun because it got us out of the house. The windchill was zero today and so playing outside wasn't really an option. It makes the day go by so much quicker when we get together and let the kids play for a few hours, not to mention, it's interaction with another adult around my age that's also a SAHM, so we have a lot in common!

On to the really exciting part of the day......the fire on the stove! I know this is terrible but sometimes I put water on to boil and then run around and try to multi task to get a little more done in the day. Well R let something boil over the other day and didn't clean, I had totally forgot, and the burner started on fire. Little man said, "what's that smell" and I didn't think anything of it. Upon entering the kitchen there was a small, albeit growing fire on the stove. I tried a couple things and finally resorted to the fire extinguisher, which can I say make a huge mess. Needless to say the fire got put out and then I had a huge mess to clean up. I still managed to clean it all up, remake Little Man's dinner, and make our dinner all before 7pm when I had to start tutoring. The fire happened about 5:20pm so I was pretty happy.

On Friday we are going on an outing with the neighbor to this huge indoor play area so I'm pretty excited about that because it's been so cold playing outside hasn't really been an option, oh and it's also been raining, crazy weather!!!!! It will be nice to actually go somewhere during the week. Apparently, it's all kid friendly, parents just sit back and keep an eye on their kids, and there's just tons of equipment for them to play on. After that Little Man should be worn out and expended a lot of his energy.

One of these days I'm going to have to revisit my resolutions (goals) to see how I'm doing. I see the scheduled outage is about to begin so I'd better finish up here :o)