Green Day! [no, not the band]

ya know, i'm happy to move on from that ridiculous mess to more happy times of life! Thanks for everyone's support with that yucky situation. Reallly, the whole thing was quite unnecessary!

ANY- WAY!

Andrew got a new job! He works at Kolob Rehab Center (aka: care center, rest home, place for old people) as a Physical Therapist's Aide. Not Assistant, but aide. Really I think he's and aide's aide, but he gets real mad when i tell him that! If he works there for 2 years being a little gopher boy (go for this, go for that), they'll pay for his schooling. And he's going to school to be a physical therapist's Assistant (PTA). He works there with our bro-in-law who was the one to hook him up with that job in the first place. (thanks , tyler!) Tyler is a PTA. It's a great job for him to have because he's choosing this as his career, and before now he's never set foot in any health care type setting. He likes his job so far, I think. He's not Mr. Talkative, so when I am able to pry it out of him, he does say that he enjoys it. Which is SOOO GOOD.  He's used to doing break-your-back really physical work, so this has been interesting for him. I'm not looking forward to him becoming a softy preppy guy with soft hands and no muscles.. BUT thats why he still works at Walmart DC! Yes, so that would total 7 days a week! Lucky, lucky andrew. bah, I feel so bad. But he can't quit this new job, because it's his future, and it would be really stupid to quit the DC because , well lets say, he's making quite a bit an hour & it's taken him awhile and a few raises to get up to that point...

SO, what does this mean?

It means that Jax & I stay home together all day long.

But this is week 2 of it, and I can now say that I've come to grips with these three things:

-I am a full-time stay at home all day long Mom.

-I am a full-time stay at home all day long Mom with no car.

-I am a full-time stay at home all day long Mom with no car & a toddler who recently gave up nap-time.

Last week was pure hell. I'm not gonna lie. By the end of it, both Jax & I basically hated eachother.I would watch the clock until 5:00. And when andrew got home,  I would either be a crying mess , or red with rage, or ready to leave my life in this country and catch the next train to Mexico. Or all three.

I cannot say I'm completely over any of those feelings. If I unexpectedly disappear, you'll know why.

I've learned a little though. Not a lot, yet.

I've learned: 

-Watching movies all day is not healthy for either one of us.

-I cannot and probably will not get ANY photography work done during the hours 8-5.

-Toddlers will fight EVERYTHING. And the best solution is not time-out 20 times a day. I'ts IGNORING them. I knew this, but it's like I forgot it. When he starts pulling his fits, I go do the dishes and sing a song, so he can realize he has NO effect on me.

-I will always have a bathroom friend. Fighting it just isn't worth it.

-The house can't always be clean. I know I want it to be, but toddlers make messes , and stressing about it is just stupid.

-You have to get creative. Jax and I walk to the Library for story time twice a week. We try to walk to the park once a week. Yesterday we went on a bike ride together, he rode his, I rode mine. We got a bird feeder from our friend Kim, & jax loves to watch them eat. I get a blanket and lay on the grass while Jax plays outside. When the weather is bad NONE of these things apply. That's when the days never end.

So, theres a little re-cap of the past week if anyone cared.

But here's something a little more interesting, I hope:

ST. PATRICKS DAY! 

Here's how the day started..well this was more of a brunch cause I'm a little bit of a lazy butt.

Oh yeah, I forgot, blogger doesn't like to let me write in between pictures anymore, so there will be none of that. 

These pictures of the green breakfast make me feel a little sick, because I'll admit it, it wasn't that good. But, I think I get cool mom points at least.  Even Jaxon was  impressed, can you believe it? Not me. Yeah he had like 7 bites! Willingly! No forcing or bribing, fights or time-outs. Just pure desire to eat this odd looking food. 

Next, because we were outrageously bored, I drew hearts, and we colored them green, cut them out and glued them together to make shamrocks! Jax loves to color & glue things.

Next, him and I got our bikes and went on a bike ride together. He did really well. He just followed what I did and pedaled his little legs off. Funny thing is, he wasn't even tired after!

Then we laid on the grass together and soaked up some rays. It was deliciously warm and sunny.

Then Andrew came home and this is where the true holiday celebration starts. Its tradition (ever  since we started dating) , to do a green dinner. This year andrew got creative and did shish-ka-bobs. He turned on some irish music and we had a gay ol' time in the kitchen together dyeing everything we could get our fingers on, GREEN. 

then to celebrate even further, we invited some friends over and had dinner! This is when I accidently stopped taking pictures. WHAT? yeah. Andy took one there at the bottom. We watched Idol (Goodbye , Lacey :(  ) , then played catch phrase. It was grand.

Hope you had a happy st. patricks day!