Wanda's Awesomeness

Tonight, since I got home from work, I feel completely out of it.  Did I take some downers and I'm so stoned I can't remember?  Yes, I'm ridiculously tired, but that's nothing unusual.  Maybe I can get to bed earlier tonight since Jake's out for the evening.  ???  On a different note, our new daycare lady is having trouble getting everything ready to be open for business...apparently there are some new regulations or something that are really tripping her up.  Hopefully it all gets ironed out.  I feel bad for her, I know she's stressed.  Ah, well, I'm right there with her.  Jake is not working much at his main job, so is therefore not getting paid much.  Luckily, he is able to pick up some freelance design work for a friend, so that's a huge blessing.  We're thinking of selling our car and becoming a one-car family for awhile, so we can pay our taxes and hopefully get us through this rough spot.  However, Jake may have to find a new job if there's no business for the current one.  That really sucks.  So much for saving like crazy for a new house.  Good thing we wanted to downsize anyway, or we'd really be disappointed with the way things are going.  Hell, maybe we should just go ahead and put our house on the market, geez.  We've already looked all over the house to see what we can sell.  Not much luck there, unless we want to sell the kids.  Wonder how much we could get for them...   :)
Switching gears...have you ever stubbed your toe or whacked yourself somehow and been near tears and/or uttering expletives?  It takes a major undertaking just to gain control.  Then you summon the courage to look at your said injured body part, fully expecting it to be gone or at the very least, bleeding profusely, only to find no evidence whatsoever that anything ever happened.  This happened to me today.  I was squatting to look at something and rammed my knee into a cabinet.  There's barely even a red spot, although I was sure my kneecap would be dangling halfway out of my skin.   Maybe that's why I possibly drugged myself?!

Micah came into our room around 1:45am the other night...talking about ants.  The next morning she told Jake about her dream which was something like this:
There was a big red ant and it was biting me.  The little black ants were baby ones, and the other one was talking to me.  It was a blue ant.  And it was a big...big...big...big...ant.

Can I just say how much I am really starting to enjoy bicycling?  Jake and I went today, and the wind was really crazy.  We left from my parents' house and went down to 61st, then turned around and came back.  Going south the wind was sooo strong!!  It took us about 50 minutes to get to 61st, and then only about 25 minutes to get back.  We probably went about 10 miles, total.  With the wind and the sun on our backs, it was so fun.  Here are some pics (we are dorks):

Since our recent financial/tax woes have been boggin me down, I decided to try some things I've been wanting to try for awhile.  Those things are:  home-made laundry and dishwashing detergent.  Now I'm even more motivated to try them since they are RIDICULOUSLY CHEAP compared to the stuff you buy at the store.  I've also been wanting to do it (but I've been too lazy) because I've been hearing about all the chemicals in the store bought stuff (Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, phthalates, etc) that seep into your body when they come in contact with your skin.  The long-term effects of exposure to these are not looking good.  So now, I really have no reason not to.  I just need to get the stuff and set some time aside to do it.  I jacked a photo of my friend's homemade laundry soap and it looks interesting...

 
Last summer, I decided to try going 'no poo', which just means quitting shampoo on my hair, and it didn't work like I had hoped.  However, now I shampoo my hair every week or 2 and rinse it with water and baking soda every few days in between.  My hair is so oily that when I was shampooing it every day, it would be oily by the end of the day.  When I quit shampooing it, it adjusted and became much less oily.  My maternity leave was the perfect time to try it so I could stay home and hide my greasy head!!  Nowadays I'm really enjoying not spending the time on shampooing, etc every single day.  I still use conditioner, though, so I can manage to drag a comb through it.  I haven't bought a new bottle of shampoo since last summer!  When I run out, I'd like to get some Burt's Bees or something more natural, without all the chemicals and crap in it.  During my maternity leave I also decided to start using deoderant withOUT anti-perspirant.  (Poor Tate!)  The reasoning there was that I still felt stinky by the end of the day even when I did use the anti-perspirant.  I then found out about several people I know that don't even use the stuff, cause they don't need it.  So, after a couple sweaty weeks of using deoderant only, my body adjusted to that, too.  Success!  Maybe some day I'll be brave enough to make my own deoderant, too...

Does that make me a granola?  :)

I'm having one of those days.  Life has been tougher than usual lately.  Money issues, taxes, job stuff...and to top it off, the kids' daycare got shut down today.  I'm shocked.  I knew it was possible, but I guess I just really didn't believe it would happen.  And I'm so sad.  I just love those ladies.  And I can't help but feel a little bit responsible, since it was an issue involving Micah that shut it down.  She and two other kids got out of the fence last May, and crossed the street before the daycare staff found them and brought them back.  Yes, I know, scary, but I place no blame on daycare.  If you know my daughter at all, then you are probably not surprised she weaseled her way out.  Their fence was in need of replacing, and they were already in the process of replacing it.  They just didn't realize that there was a spot that was 'escapable'.  So anyway, Sapulpa Christian Daycare is no more.  I'm also realizing that our financial goals have been put on hold, which make them even more out of reach now.  I feel like time is slipping away, and there's nothing I can do.  Oh well, I need to renew my faith, and practice waiting on the Lord.  It was easy to ignore my spiritual issues when all was well, but it's days like this that really jar me.  I'm just thankful for this 'jarring', that it wasn't a worse one.  Thanks Jesus.  :)
This photo kinda sums up the day:

I started this account over a year ago, but have yet to blog. I guess I'm just thinking 'What's the point?' I have a feeling that I'll never keep up. But I do have some other journals, etc, going, so maybe with 2 kiddoes to brag about, there'll be plenty of material. Anywho, here we are, so here's the first post! Welcome!