Last day of November!! Most of the day was pretty gloomy and a bit rainy, but the sun did try to peek out at times. Katie went off to school this morning then Brad to work. I eventually got little mister up for his diaper change and bottle then we loaded up and went to get Katie’s meds from the pharmacy then came back for his oatmeal+fruit then NAP for both of us. It was usual business after that… nap, lunch, get ready to go get Katie from the bus stop. Needed a few things from the store so came back with Katie, fed her and Ben then it was off to the store! Tried to make it a shorter trip to get back for Ben’s afternoon nap.

Katie became a grumpy whiney girl when we got home. Not sure if she was over tired or just upset because I was trying to help her figure out math stuff. She’s been doing well with math practice at home lately but now they are dealing with bigger numbers in division and it’s sort of throwing her off, but I told her that it’s JUST like we’ve been doing … just with bigger numbers and more guess work to see what numbers will work to solve the problem. I had to help her, get dinner started, check her work, Brad came home then it was time to make Ben’s bottle. It’s been a very busy evening and I was glad when both kids were in bed! I left a little after 9pm, since our upstairs neighbor needed a ride home from work. We also watched latest episodes of Chicago Med and PD.. both awesome episodes. Both shows never disappoint!! And the show This is Us is a show I would highly recommend! Watched that last night for their fall finale.

FINALLY updated some info on this site, lol. Been meaning to for a long time. I’d like a new layout.. but dunno when I actually will be able to. I also started uploading pictures from earlier this year to my Flickr, which I’ve also been meaning to do. So many things I’d like to do and get done so I’m trying to work on one thing at a time. I used to have more time to site and work on website coding and layouts. Just feels like I never have time but that’s how it goes! I did like getting out and about a few times today. AND TOMORROW IS FRIDAY!!! Woohoo! Hopefully we’ll have a good time this weekend.

Time to finish my cereal and maybe play a little LOTRO! Have a good one.

Our little man turned 9 months old today!!!

This is gonna be a short post but wanted to have something here for today. In fact, they may all be short posts- maybe.

Katie has been so good so far this week and did great with her math practice for homework!

Umm, folded some laundry this evening and put on another load before I went out to Kroger with my aunt then came back and sat and talked to Mom for a long while.

Came back home right before Ben went to bed and then played my game for a bit then watched vlogs on YouTube! About to get a bath and bed in a bit.

Sending good vibes to ya! =)

If I’m gonna keep my site then I need to get back consistent with blogging so here goes another attempt- lol.

Our Benjamin will be NINE MONTHS tomorrow… cannot believe it. He can say “da-da”, “ma-ma” and other little babbles. He loves to eat, naps twice a day, but is very flexible! which really helps with coming and going. He has been sitting up since… almost 6 months? Don’t remember. He started pulling up sometime after 7 months and his first tooth was barely poking through last week and now he has both bottom front teeth poking through!

Back up to Halloween and Brad dressed as a murderous butcher for work lol and they were afraid his costume was too scary for the kids that were coming for the work Halloween party so he changed. I even dressed up!! Brad made me a blood splattered t-shirt, painted my face a little, I had a masquerade mask, a red tutu, and black leggings, plus my boots – so that Friday before Halloween we all went to Brad’s work for that but Katie had gotten into a lot of trouble that week so she didn’t get much and she sulked the ENTIRE TIME. We had also went to our church’s trunk or treat that Wednesday. Oh, Katie dressed as a power ranger!

On Halloween people in our apartment building had been wondering about our upstairs neighbor, since we hadn’t seen or heard from him since that last Friday. 2 guys showed up when I got home from the store the morning of Halloween asking If I knew him- said they were coming to check on him because he hadn’t been at work. Long story short- cops came to go into his apartment and he was found dead. =( Not sure what happened but knew he wasn’t in the best health the last few years. He had no family!!! =( Just his cat.

Mom is still not doing that well. Another long story short- she got addicted to pain pills then didn’t have any and suffered withdrawals and ended up with loose bowels that made a mess from the bathroom to her chair and my aunt found her sitting in it… yeah… so she’s better now but my goodness. Hoping we can get her up and moving more because she reallly needs to do that.

So proud of Brad and all his hard work at his job!!! He actually recently has met monthly goals and got a BIG bonus and then met a monthly goal and got another BIG bonus!! He is awesome. We went to visit his mom and sisters for Thanksgiving and that was fun. It was good to see everyone! We went to his cousin’s house on Thanksgiving day. Me, Brad, Katie, and his youngest sister were playing football and Brad went to throw the ball at one point and I didn’t know it… BAM. Right to the cheek bone. Ouch. I already had a headache so it made it 100x worse… that it made me cry and I’m very pain tolerant so that tells you how much it made it hurt. We stayed Wednesday until Friday and I’m so proud of myself- for the first time since we’ve made trips out of state… I drove the whole way home!!!! About 4 hours and my shoulders were NUMB and so my right foot but Brad said I did excellent! I’m super happy with how far I’ve come with driving since I got my license. WOOP.

I had this idea for my birthday in March that I wanted a different computer desk and a bigger computer monitor but Brad got his bonus and said when we got home Friday that we could maybe go Saturday to look for the desk and monitor! We couldn’t find the right desk at the stores we were going to BUT we decided to just adjust my current desk and take off the top hutch part and it’s perfect! Then! We went to the Micro center and I got a brand new Asus 32 inch computer monitor and now I have dual monitors like Brad, which is awesome. Never had a 32 inch monitor, lol. LOVE IT.

Trying to decide where and when to put up our christmas tree… hmmm. That’s pretty much a run down of our stuff lately! I’ll update little highlights if I remember more.

Benjamin is not happy so better go fix his bedtime bottle and get him ready for sleep!