HERE IS MY CURRENT TO DO LIST

KITCHEN:

• FINISH ELECTRICAL BOX COVER
• FINISH THE PAINTING THE KITCHEN
  
• REDECORATE THE TOP OF THE CABINET

LIVING ROOM:

• PUT TOGETHER MULTIMEDIA STAND---DONE
• PAINT
• HANG UP PICTURES

BEDROOM :

• PAINT
  
• HANG UP PICTURES
• BUILD PLATFORM BED OR MAKE HEAD BOARD CREATION FOR THE TIME BEING
• FIGURE OUT LIGHTING

OFFICE:

• UNPACK
• ORGANIZE
• HANG PHOTOS/WALL DECOR

BATHROOM:

• ORGANIZE
• HANG WALL DECOR

ENTRY WAY CLOSET

• ORGANIZE!

ODDS AND ENDS TO COMPLETE

• MAIL OUT KARA & HARLEYS BOX OF BABY ITEMS
• MAKE ENTRY WAY CHALKBOARD
  
• FINISH CHRISTMAS CARDS
• GIVE CINDY CANDLE HOLDER--DONE
• GIVE LORI EXTRA CURTAINS--DONE
• SEND FREE STUFF TO ASSOCIATES IN PEDIATRICS TO GET RID OF!--DONE

READ, READ, READ

Confession: I was the kid in high school and college that depended on sparknotes.com to get me the passing grade. It wasn't that I hated to sit down with a book. It was the fact that I'm a slow reader. I've struggled with reading quickly my whole life because I'll be reading and my mind will just drift right off the page. My mind ends up on something completely different.

Dominic can sit down with a book and read it cover to cover in two sittings. He convinced me that the only way I would be a stronger reader would be to just sit down with as many books as possible and read, read, read.

I failed to mention---I have to be able to relate to the book in some way to be able to finish it. I know silly. Right? I fell in love with Emily Griffins books. I've read them all so far and have moved on to Claire Cooks. I've read more books in the last 2 months than I have in the past 10 years.

I just ordered 4 new books. Yes, Four. I know hate being with a book to read. I ordered 3 of Claire Cooks books and Grieving for a child I never held. As Christmas nears and more friends announce their pregnancy's the more I miss my Baby E. I realized that I really haven't grieved for Baby E. I'm hoping this book with give me a little insight on the whats, whys and whens. I know I have those answers in my heart but sometimes seeing them elsewhere helps too.

Thanks blog for letting me ramble at 1:37am :O)

A Great Ending to a HARD week

Tuesday was the one year anniversary of Doc's fathers death. It is difficult having it so close to Thanksgiving when you really don't want to have to deal with it period. Doc hides every emotion regarding his parents deaths. I'm so heart broken for him. I know that as time passes the holidays will get better but we will never be able to celebrate those holidays like we like. period.

I was able to go into work late today. I didn't have to be there until 10:30 what a blessing! I got up at the normal time of 6:30 to take Walls out on our walk around the neighborhood. Fed him. Woke up Doc. He got into the shower while I put away dishes and got him Captain Crunch into a bowl for him. I began picking up the rest of our home. Missing our bedroom. Opps! Dom got ready for work. I kissed and hugged him goodbye. I jumped into the shower. Finished my morning routine and continued to pull our house together. Got Walls into his crate and got my coat on. Off to Walmart I went in search of Xbox 360 Guitar Hero World Tour and a remote control lightning Mcqueen car. But not before my stop at DD for a vanilla chai. Walmart was out of both. I managed to pick up 2 different CARS items for the nephew whose birthday I just remembered comes before Christmas (DAMN!). Got into line waited about 6 minutes and on my way I went. Off to Work Hi Ho. Boring/slow day. Met Doc for Positive Pie and it was DELISH! Off to the mall to go to Game Stop so Dominic could get a few more games--on sale. Home again to relax for the weekend.

Once home I found something that I have been wanting FOREVER! I love when friends remember stuff from long ago. All I kept saying what how I wanted a cute little knit Gap outfit for future child. Look what my Linda got me. That said outfit! Baby Ee will look great in it (once Baby Ee is conceived {wink}) .

Baby Ee's adorable outfit

Walls and Mommy

Santa's Rotty Reindeer

Sharing My Thanksgiving.

Doc and I had our first Thanksgiving in our new place. It was great it was the just the two of us and our furbaby Walls. We enjoyed our day by lounging in our pj's, cooking, sipping wine and decorating for Christmas. Yes, Christmas is hear at our house :0)

Our orange infused bird- Yum!

Note to self for next Thanksgiving: purchase roasting pan and carving utensils!

H*E*E got new Glasses! I'm so excited my eyes are finally feeling some much better :O)OH CHRISTMAS TREE .... OH CHRISTMAS TREE
Our Tree is almost completely decorated... will post another picture when complete.
While moving I dropped my box of decorations and all of my red glass bulbs broke. So I had to purchase new ones. I never thought to pick up the hangers too... SO tomorrow I will finish our tree.
Baby E's ornament.
Daddy picked it out for Baby E at Hallmark a few weeks back. My Sign is finally hung :O)

I love penguins.
Dom found me these see no evil, say no evil and hear no evil at Christmas Tree Shoppes. I just had to have them.

And of course I was in an antique store and spotted them tin sign... again I just had to have it!
My goal is to have one wall with just different random tin signs hung in our kitchen.
I found a very tired Santa Walls when I got home from work.

In Loving Memory of My Favortie Father!

In Loving Memory of Zoltan 1932-2007

I can't believe that tomorrow marks a year that Dad passed away.
There hasn't been a weekend that I haven't longed for breakfast at Maxi's in Waterbury or dinner at Waterbury Wings.
Or our nightly phone calls to make sure that he ate something delicious for dinner or Dad just checking up to make sure that the dogs were behaving.
I miss Dad's gold tooth that he showed with sincere smile.
I miss the nights of Dad and I ordering the same drink with dinner.
I miss Dad asking us when we would bless him with a grandchild.
Dad got his wish back in September---Our baby E is with mom and him.
I miss having Dad to talk to about well anything.
I miss hearing him and Dom laugh together.
I miss seeing Dad hold Dom's for just a second while sitting side by side in the recliner.
There's not much of anything that I don't miss when it is associated with Zoli--He was Dom's father and he became mine in such a short period of time.
I just wish that we had more time together---more holidays---more Sundays and the birth of his grandchild to share.
I miss you Dad.
I love you.
H.E.



A slide show that Dom made in memory of his father.

Some Photos to remember my DAD.

The Perfect Father.

SO LITTLE TIME

HERE IS MY CURRENT TO DO LIST

KITCHEN:

• FINISH ELECTRICAL BOX COVER
• FINISH THE PAINTING THE KITCHEN
  
• REDECORATE THE TOP OF THE CABINET

LIVING ROOM:

• PUT TOGETHER MULTIMEDIA STAND
• PAINT
• HANG UP PICTURES
• GIVE AWAY DOCS BEAN BAG (HAHA! SORRY HONEY---THERE JUST ISN'T ENOUGH ROOM)

BEDROOM :

• PAINT
  
• HANG UP PICTURES
• BUILD PLATFORM BED OR MAKE HEAD BOARD CREATION FOR THE TIME BEING
• FIGURE OUT LIGHTING

OFFICE:

• UNPACK
• ORGANIZE
• HANG PHOTOS/WALL DECOR

BATHROOM:

• ORGANIZE
• HANG WALL DECOR

ENTRY WAY CLOSET

• ORGANIZE!

ODDS AND ENDS TO COMPLETE

• MAIL OUT KARA & HARLEYS BOX OF BABY ITEMS
• MAKE ENTRY WAY CHALKBOARD
  
• FINISH CHRISTMAS CARDS
• GIVE CINDY CANDLE HOLDER
• GIVE LORI EXTRA CURTAINS
• SEND FREE STUFF TO ASSOCIATES IN PEDIATRICS TO GET RID OF!
  

I'VE BEEN TAGGED!

I was tagged by Mrs. Rotty . Being tagged is a FIRST for me... now I'm struggling to complete being tagged--I'm not very popular on thebump.com or by having people follow my blog so this is going to be a little bit more difficult then I originally thought!
Rules:
1. Link to the person who tagged you.
2. Share 7 random and/or weird facts about you.
3. Tag 7 random people at the end, and include links to their blogs.
4. Let each person know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blogs.

1. I can shop for anyone anyone anyone but my husband. I'm stressing about Christmas shopping for him. I already bought and gave him is big gift yesterday 11/13/08. An Xbox. Now for the rest.

2. I hate scrubbing folks, knives or spoons...oh and cups too! If they are beyond scrubable I throw them out. I refuse to take the flatware that we got as a wedding gift out of the box because I'm afraid I might be tempted to toss it.

3. I LOVE POST ITS. I have them all over my office at work and in each room in our home. I love making notes/lists. and the Canary yellow are my favorite followed up by the pepto pink:)

4. I love popping my husbands zits! I will harass him until he lets me. I get great joy out of driving him completely crazy!

5. I sleep with my contacts in more than anyone else I know. I have once left them in for 3 weeks without removing them to cleanse. It's the cheap girls version of laser eye surgery :) {note don't try it--it will bite you in the ass down the road} {I'm currently having major eye issues}

6. I can NOT use a tampon with an applicator. I'm not sure why but they scare me. I HAVE to use OB's.

7. My husband proposed to me after just three weeks of dating and we were married a eleven months later. I love him with all my heart! He completes me.

Tag your it: Hoping, Baby Caleb, Miss Mandy, Bada, Cate, Blair, Daydream

EYE ISSUEs

I have been battling bad eyes for over a week now. I'm fed up! It started out with me falling asleep with my contacts in. Saturday morning I woke up and let the dog out to have my left eye watering and extremely sensitive to the light. It went on all day Saturday and most of the day Sunday. By Sunday night I could watch TV but it would water consistently if the television was too bright. Monday I went to work and it didn't bother me to much but there was a constant pressure/pain behind the eye and my vision was foggy. I couldn't wear my contacts because I was afraid that maybe I had pink eye. So I wore my glasses for WAY to many days. The girls at work told me that I should really see a doctor because your eyesight is nothing to toy with. So I called my regular doctors because I didn't feel like making the hour and half drive to see my eye doctor. My usual doctor was out so I saw Dr. C. He did some test with dye and just an overall check of my lid to make sure there wasn't an infection. Dr. C recommended artificial tears to moisten my eye and call my eye doctor to get in them in case it should get worse. Once I got home I called Dr. K's office to schedule an appointment they wanted to see me right away. I got in at 10:15 the next morning. Once I got to the eye doctors he did the dye test only to figure out that I might have had a small infection but my body was doing an okay job of clearing it up. He also discovered that my prescription in my glasses has been incorrect all this time which could be why I had pressure/pain behind my eye. It might have been a migraine. So he gave me the correct prescription in contacts and sent me home to try them out for two weeks until I go back for my follow up appointment. My new contacts feel great and my vision is SO much better. However, today my right eye started to bother me. Just when I thought my eye issue was corrected my other is now bugging me. This time it's not that I can't see---I have a sty in my right eye. What a huge PITA! I have to place hot compresses on my eye until it goes away. Wish me luck with my eyes! I need all the luck I can get with these!

YES, WE CAN!

Mr. President.
I couldn't happier when I heard that you won.
I now have a sense that our great nation is in the hands of someone young, passionate and inspiring. You have the qualities that a lot of wish we could hold in ourselves.
Watching you speak last night was such a powerful moment in our history.
I knew in my heart that Senator McCain didn't stand a chance to win with the $2 bimbo by his side and I am happy that he didn't. Despite my opinion of Senator McCain he gave a great speech as well last night. He was the genuine guy that I remember from 2000. I hope he remains true to his heart and respecting you, Mr. President. You are now his President too!
We have a lot of issues that need to be taken care of here in the USA.
Our economy is in the pits. Peoples credit has floored because they are struggling--for the basics to survive. Young people are drowning in student loan debt and can't even imagine owning their own homes because they just can't afford it. Our seniors are having to choose between medicine and food.
Mr. President, my confidence is in your hands to help get us to a better place!

VOTE!

I voted for Obama! I never felt so much pride walking in and casting my vote for change! My vote to help turn this country around for the better. I will be so proud to watch him take his oath!