Busy Month

It's been a crazy month and I just haven't had time to update this thing. So, I'm taking my lunch hour to post an update.

Right after the last blog entry, I had to go on a business trip for 4 days without my honey and my munchkin....which also means those two were home alone without me. :) I knew Doug would step up to the plate, but I was still a little nervous. Apparently, my nerves were completely mis-placed. Doug did awesome...Danika arrived at daycare on time every day, in a matching outfit, with a spare matching outfit and bottle packed in her bag without any glitches. She was clean, happy, and the house was all good when I got home. I was so proud! However, Danika was not so impressed. It only took those four days for her to decide I was a traitor who had left her and she permanently removed "ma-ma" from her vocabulary. When I showed up to pick her up from daycare, the little critter turned away from me and buried her head. She pushed away when I tried to pick her up, and it took about 2 weeks for her to "forgive" me. She has a SERIOUS grudge issue!

"No....I don't think I want to talk to you right now. Go away."

"Okay...if you insist....you can take my picture. But I still don't like you."

"Pancakes? Do I smell pancakes? I might consider forgiving you for some of those..."

My mom came at the beginning of the month to rescue me from my insanity and to help me regain control of my life. Well...actually she came to help me clean out my basement, but that one task accomplished those much larger ones. Between working full-time, trying to take care of a kiddo, and trying to keep a household running, I was starting to have a complete melt-down. I just sometimes feel like such a failure that I can't keep it all up...and then that triggers all sorts of insane and unjustified emotions that just bury me. I just want to crawl in bed and hide my head and avoid all of it because I can't imagine how to even start when I get that far behind and that emotionally distraught. So...I did what all reasonable women do when they can't cope....I called my mommy. She came for a long weekend and helped me get a grip. When she left I had a cleaned out basement, room to store the baby stuff that has been piling up, a plan for dealing with the rest of the house, and the hope that I was going to make it after all. Thanks mom! I love you!





The weekend in mid-November, we went to an event that Doug and I have decided will be a family tradition for us. A small town about an hour away (Franklin, PA) hosts an Annual Christmas Parade...but the parade is so fun because it is after dark and all the floats are lit up with tons of lights. The parade runs right through the center of this cute little town...and when it is done, they have this wonderful lights/fireworks show that is set to Christmas music. We went last year and loved it...so we took Danika this year. It was rainy, which made it much less fun than last year, but it was still pretty great. We bundled her all up and stuffed her in her stroller...it was hilarious. And she was fascinated by it all. She just watched everyone and everything...and she couldn't be distracted from the fireworks once they started...she thought that was pretty cool.

Danika all bundled for the parade and fireworks.

This past weekend, we had a full house for Thanksgiving. It was a wonderful, wonderful Thanksgiving. My parents, Joanie, Cory and Brock all stayed with us in our tiny house. And it was just perfect. Doug and I celebrated Thanksgiving Day with his family....we will be home in LC for Christmas, so Thanksgiving is a Bierer celebration this year. But...my family was there when we got home and we all just got to spend some fun time together. It was a wonderful visit.

And, last but certainly not least...yesterday was the first day of gun season for deer. Doug and all the other able-bodied men in the Bierer family are out freezing their wet little hind-ends off out in the woods trying to kill that elusive giant buck. The rain has made it a less-than perfect start to the season, but I'm sure they are having a blast anyway. I will never understand how they call any of that fun...but at least I don't have to go sit in the woods with him. :)