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a nail biting day I really need to get organized or I'll lose it. I am not a neat freak but I do like to have a place for everything and everything in its place. And my days fly by before I can even begin to tackle the kinds of things I need to. I have already bitched and moaned in previous posts about the lack of time to do the things I need to do daily, involving paying bills, dishes, dinner, cleaning, and BABY. But there are also plenty of things that are not on that list that should be. I have so much shit I want to give to goodwill, sell on ebay, recycle or throw. And I have stuff that needs to be stored in a far more organized fashion - in a way that makes everything more accessible to me. I want to buy storage bins, the 70 quart jobbies that you can throw seasonal clothes and other stuff in and feel that you're more organized almost instantaneously. I did some investigating and could not believe how much it costs to ship these babies. I usually buy everything at Amazon because it's free shipping after the first $25 spent. But they don't have the ones I'm looking for. Target does and like I said, it's outrageous what they want to charge me ($15 plus tax). So I'm going to keep checking back on Amazon and see if they get what I'm looking for in stock, or keep searching google for a retailer that offers free shipping and has something like them. *** It's funny, I thought my husband would be ecstatic about the greencard but he was relatively laid back about the whole thing. I know that his main concern right now is money. We don't have enough to go to Greece right now. It's not so much that we don't have the money, it's that we can't justify spending it. With me being out of work and my husband not getting any paid vacation time, the longer we are gone the more money we lose. Oh and did I forget to mention the cost of flying to Greece - not to mention how weak the US dollar is! We give $1,000 and if we're lucky we get 600 euros. I'm disgusted with the state of our economy. And then at the very top of our list of concerns, above even the money is the baby. He's still having sleep problems, tummy problems, and with his teeth starting to come in he is very unpredictable as far as temperment. Being stuck on a plane for more than eight hours would be a horror show. So we've decided to wait it out. Probably go after his first birthday some time in the fall. I feel bad for my husband given the fact that it's been ten years and he's been waiting and waiting for this damn thing to go through, but he doesn't seem so bothered about it. He figures what's another year anyway. **** I know that my site is a bit on the "busy" side. Too many distractions in the side bars. Too many bells and whistles. Do you think it's too much? Tell me the truth. I get carried away and obsess. I change the damn thing around every day trying to get it to be perfect, but it's a viscious circle, one I don't really have the time to be going around in. ***** Every day I seem to meet another incredible mommy blogger who has a sick child, like SASSE BABIES, and EXPANDING THE MINDSCAPE, and GIRL FOR ALL STATUS but somehow manages to stay positive. And yet here I am complaining about lack of time to get organized. Reading them puts things in perspective and also makes me feel so incredibly grateful. ***** Took the baby to the doctor today for checkup and shots. Doc says his teeth are on the verge of breaking through. I could have told HIM that. I could tell because he's been growing increasingly restless, sleeping less and crying a lot. Also I can feel the teeth under the surface with my finger and when he breastfeeds...ouch. Poor little guy was already a mess before the shots, so you can just imagine the sound of his screams when on top of his teething pain he had to endure not one but two needles in his thighs. I always feel so incredibly guilty about subjecting him to this. Oh and the other day I accidentally stuck my finger in his eye and you cannot believe the guilt I felt...I still feel it. I must have told myself ten times what a horrible mother I was for doing this. It wouldn't have been so bad if I hadn't made him cry, but he looked at me as to say, "You mean, mean mommie why did you do that to me." Thank god I keep my nails short. Ok, I don't exactly keep them short, I bite them. Regardless it made me think of all the mothers who keep their nails long and manicured. How do you do it without causing physical damage to your baby on a daily basis? Today is definitely a nail biter. I haven't gotten one thing done around the house. The only thing I've managed to do is write this entry. The rest of my time is devoted to calming my son who really needs me right now. The hell with the house...it can wait. Love Rose
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