Stay At Home Mommies

Just to let all you stay at home mommies know, I have been laid off this winter.  My daughter is 2 years old, we are learning how to use the potty, trying to learn colours, and numbers and ABC's.  I love my daughter to death, but seriously stay at home mommying is not as it seems.  I'm sure to all you working mothers it would be a dream to be at home with  your child all the time.  It is not.  I really do enjoy the time I get with her in the winter since it is only for about 2 months, but I would never be able to be a stay at home mom forever, IT IS HARD!!  I find all I do is clean, clean, laundry, laundry, say No, cook, cook.....so not for me, I love cooking so that is not bad but honestly there is only so much cleaning you can do, but when you are home, you create more mess, and you see the mess more, therefore you clean more, and it drives me crazy.  I find it hard to get Alice into a routine, where the babysitter I have is amazing.  All the kids know, you only have your drink in the kitchen, food in the dining room, toys in the living room.  She has specific times for book time, quiet time, any toy time, outside time, nap time, lunch time, snack time. Yet, when Alice is home it is like there is no structure because I have to get my stuff done, go here, go there, and of course Alice comes with me, I don't have a choice so her day gets thrown off.  I think kids need structure so I really do try my best, but I think Anne (my babysitter) certainly has structure down pat. 
I guess I am trying to send out two messages here; to stay at home mommies, WOW, you women are amazing, you really have the toughest job!  To working mommies, you don't have to dream any more, trust me, not as it seems...lol

x mas time jerks

My b-day is in December b-4 Xmas, this yr was my big 3-0!! aah 30 already.  I had received a whole whack of scratch tickets, (yeah me) and for once i finally one.  i won around $50 on about 7 tickets.  I was pretty pumped until...trust me this gets good.  I stopped to get gas one day and i thought may as well get my tickets checked today, cash in some dough, smilin to myself, it was like free gas.  i go into the gas station, hand them my tickets, at the same time, a dude walks in behind me, i politely smile sheepishly (who want to wait behind tickets being scanned, but i am a customer to) and say "sorry".  this freak show starts rippin me a new one
" YEAH WELL, I'm not the one with a gambling problem, but it looks like you are, i am just trying to get to work, have you guys ever heard of work" (talking to me and the nice lady who was serving me, and there was another younger girl behind the counter talking with her boss, which you could tell was gonna serve him any minute) The nice lady serving me asks the young girl to please serve this gentleman (if you can believe it) and he starts again "you know..work??" the girl come up to serve him so he steps up beside me at the counter, and i looked at him and said "you're an a-hole, its Xmas time buddy come on"  and he says "yes i am an a-hole, i guess that is exactly what i am, i think something and i just say it, i say whatever comes to mind" my reply was "well maybe you should think about this and shut up sometimes" then you could tell he was a tiny little remorseful, looked at the guy behind him and starts (unfortunately) talking again this time to the guy behind him " i am so far behind in work because of this weather, know what i mean, r u behind in work?"  best part ever the guys behind him says "not enough to get upset about" lol so funny,  loved that guy right then!! seriously though, r u kidding me?? whatta jerk.  he musta got a rotten egg in his stocking!!!