SAHM vs WOHM

Being a working mommy is hard...someone else gets to see your child's development more than you at times. Someone else gets to see their first milestones sometimes.

I've felt guilty at times for working while Scoots is growing up. But we can't afford to have me stay at home. We need both of our incomes to make the ends meet. Sam makes pretty good money, far more than I do, but we do have a certain level where we like to live. If we want to eat out, we'll go do it. If I want to buy a new shirt, I do it. Sometimes the cash isn't always there, and unfortunately, credit cards are. But that's another topic....

Anyway, Veronica over at 5 Minutes for Parenting wrote this awesome post about working moms. Read it- you'll be glad you did. Here's a brief snippet:

The media-manufactured "Mommy Wars" tell us that mothers resent and judge each other. Sometimes we do. But sometimes we recognize that the world needs different people to make different choices. The truth is that as we all struggle to provide the best for our kids, we can't make it without each other. Your choices affect me, and mine affect you. We really are all in this together.

Strange paranoia

I don't know what the issue is, but for some reason I don't like to be on a different floor than Sam and Scooter if they are asleep. In the house we just moved out of, the bedrooms were upstairs and the living room was on the main floor. I HATED being downstairs if they were up in bed- watching TV, reading...pretty much anything.

I've always loved to sit and read at night when I can't sleep (well, pretty much anytime, not just when I can't sleep- I love to read!). Last night was one of those nights...after unpacking all evening, I just couldn't sleep. So I wandered out to the living room and snuggled onto the couch with a new book from the library. And was perfectly content, knowing that I was on the same floor as my boys.

Kailani's got more freebies!

An Island Life has posted another freebie- Flower Peddler Bath & Beauty is giving a $50 gift certificate to one lucky person! Go check them out and post which product you'd like to try on Kailani's blog.

Boy, with moving this weekend, I couldn't keep up with all of Kailani's giveaways!! She's got a great one from My Mommy's Bracelets- they are giving away one of their popular Baby Girl “Lil’ Princess” Bracelet to one lucky winner!

Here's a couple of my favorites:

...and here's the one they are giving away-

We're in!

We are finally in the house that we've owned for more than a month and have worked so hard on. We got moved in on Saturday!! We've still got some stuff at the other house that we are renting, but we are IN!!!

Scooter loves his room, and actually spends the whole night in there (rather than coming to our room and "snuggling" all night). Although, he's been playing pretty darn hard with the new friends lately, so that may have something to do with it. :)

We decided we moved in just in time- the neighbors in the cul-de-sac behind us had a huge block party- over 100 invites went out. Live music, dunk tank, yard games (horseshoes, ladder golf, beanbag toss), and TONS of yummy food- not to mention the two huge tanks of beverages, including the mystery beer cooler! Jello shots went around later, and margaritas in a bucket followed after that. We had a GREAT time!! Met lots of new people, and just reinforced our feeling sooooo good about living in E-Town!!

What Would You Do?

We (meaning Sam) loaned our router to a neighbor last spring (2007). We moved 1 1/2- 2 hours away from there in August. Said neighbor never returned the router, and honestly- I didn't know about it. Sam either forgot or neglected to mention it.

Anyway...almost a year later, we have purchased a new house. Sam needs the above mentioned router to do some work in the house. We knew this was a possibility when we started looking at houses in April. I called the neighbor and talked to the wife (aka, an old "friend" of mine- part of a girls group that we had). I told her then, in April, that we could meet them halfway or they could ship it to us. She said to call back and talk to her husband.

Well, I forgot until today, and it's finally starting to get under my skin. Sam refuses to do anything about it, and would be perfectly content to go buy a new one. Um...no!! This was from his grandpa (who has passed away), and besides- he does NOT need to go buy a new one when we already OWN one!!!

So I call today and talk briefly to my old friend. She lets me talk to hubby who was right there. Turns out that he is going to be heading to Burlington this Friday and can meet me about 35-40 minutes away from me, in Washington. That is, if the timing is right.

I mentioned, "Could you just ship it to us?" He said if the timing didn't work out to meet, then they would think about it.

What would you do?