So far 2010 has been been 30 days of serious decision making. 

Firstly, Beanz and I have decided to start our own business doing something that we really know nothing about but have a lot of fun doing.  We have started up an event planning business.  And by July we are going to be certified wedding planners.  So far we have done three birthday parties and we have gotten some compliments on our work.  We are still working on getting our name out there but we are hoping that this is something that works out because we really enjoy doing it.

Next, I am going to get another vehicle.  I am going to give the Impala back to work and look into getting something that I would own.  We need more room now so I am thinking that we look into getting an SUV.

Lastly, I am working on getting out of debt.  I am setting up a savings plan through work and working on reducing credit card debt.  Also, I have been looking into online life insurance because after everything that happened at the end of last year I want to make sure that my family is taken care of if anything ever happened to me.

Millhouse and I have been working together for a long time to lose weight.  He is doing better than I am when he stays on course.  There are some days when he falls off the wagon big time but then there are weeks when he is really, really good.  He works hard and you can see the weight just fall away.

As of late, it appears that he has hit a plateau, but he is working to get over it.  He is looking into enzyte which I am not too keen about but I will help him get over this plateau.

I am watching the Biggest Loser.  This show always makes me think that large weight loss is so easy and I am really beginning to question if what they are showing is real.  I have started researching the past contestants on the show and almost half of them have gained back significant weight since leaving the show and I find that so sad.  I equate the show to the same catergory as diet-pill reviews.  All diet pills have initial success but the weight always comes back, I am beginning to think that the same thing lies true for the Biggest Loser.

On Thursday, Millhouse and I are going in to meet with Maks teacher for report card day.  I always have mixed feelings about going into Maks’ report card meetings. 

I know that all kids learn at their own pace and that I should not be comparing him to the other kids.  Some kids are better at creative things, others are more analytical and Maks will develop at his own pace.  But I am also unease about taking some of Maks’ teachers seriously.  There are a couple of his teachers that are right out of school, I bet they still use Oxyclean or some other acne medicine, and I find it so hard to take them seriously. 

I know that I shouldn’t think like that.  But I really can’t help it.  In my head I am thinking I have a child telling me about my child and I can’t seem to get past that.

Maks is turning into quite the backside driver.  Whenever we are in the car he will tell me when to go, when to stop, that I should be going faster, and that I should drive over the cars to get to where we are going faster.  And he is adamant about telling me what to do.

I can’t believe how bossy he is getting when it comes to driving.  But he did make me realize that my car wasn’t picking up speed like it used to.  So I am going to take my car in to have the AC filter checked out because I think that it might be causing my car to run slower than it should.  I hope that it is not a big repair because I miss my car when I don’t have it.

I want to have another child. 

Millhouse would like to have another child. 

No one ever said that the child had to be our biological child. 

A friend of mine emailed me today because she and her husband are in the process of adopting a little boy and she wanted to know if adoption would be something that our family would be interested in.  Apparently the agency that she is using has a lot of little girls that need home and she immediately thought of us. 

My initial reaction to the email was to tell her that we are not interested.  And that is what I did.  I thought that as much as this come be something that could complete our family, I was certain that Millhouse would be against it.  So I said no. 

Then tonight I came home and told Millhouse about the email and he reacted in a way I never expected.  

He’s interested. 

We have a lot of research to do.  There are a lot of people that we have to talk to and find out how exactly we would go through the process of adoption.  It’s a very long road that we are looking into walking but for the first time in a long time….I’m hopeful.

At the beginning of every month the daycare sends home a newsletter and calendar.  I usually go through both to make sure that I know what is going on in Maks’ adventures at daycare.  But for some reason this month I missed the line that said that they were starting to do letter week. 

At the beginning of every week, us parents have to bring in pictures of things that start with the letter of the week.  I like the slacker that I am when it comes to the daycare haven’t been.  But in my defense I hadn’t seen any other parents handing in pictures either until Monday. 

On Monday it seemed like every other parent brought in pictures for the letter A and I was there empty handed.  Instead of playing it off like I knew what was going on and I was rebelling against the daycare again, I asked about it.  Mean teacher Kay, who is now being really nice and I think she may be reading this blog, actually explained the program to me and on Tuesday Maks took in some pictures of airplanes and anchors. 

Now I got these pictures from the grocery store flyers.  Kay suggested that next time I use pictures from magazines as they stand out more on the letter board.  I can accommodate this the only thing is the only magazines I read are gossip rags like People and Star and I don’t think that the pictures I can get from those magazines are appropriate for Maks’ class.  I don’t really read parenting magazines.  I did when Maks was first born but my subscription ended when he was a year old and I never renewed it.  I may have to look into getting another subscription for the sole purpose of letter of the week.  Because I mean for W I could take a picture of weight loss products and for A I could take a picture of Angelina Jolie but neither of these seem very appropriate.

This is how our mornings are supposed to go: 

5:15am:  alarm goes off and radio turns on.  At that time in the morning there is no music just infomercials about the best ways to lose weight. 

5:30am:  after laying in bed awake but not sleeping Millhouse gets up, takes a shower and gets ready. 

6:00am:  Millhouse wakes me up and I take a shower & get ready. 

6:30am:  Millhouse wakes up.  Millhouse & I get him ready and we all have breakfast. 

7am:  off we go merrily on our way. 

This is how our mornings actually go: 

5:15am:  alarm goes off and radio turns on.  Millhouse gets up and resets it for 6:15am. 

6:15am:  alarm goes off again.  Millhouse gets up in a panic and jumps in the shower. 

6:30am:  I attempt to wake Maks up only to be greeted by a kimono dragon disguised as my child. 

6:45am:  I jump in the shower and leave Millhouse with the task of getting the wolverine that is masquerading as Maks dressed. 

7:15am:  mad scramble for shoes, coats, lunch bags and coffee cups as we dash out of the house. 

No wonder we’re always so tired.

The daycare has implemented a new program in which all of your child’s possessions must be labeled, before the labels were limited to outerwear, shoes and backpacks.  Now everything from hats to spare socks have to be labeled.  

Now the daycare rules and I never really get along and I didn’t label all Maks stuff.  I am kind of a rebel when it comes to the daycare rules and I think that some of them are just the daycare ladies trying to flex some muscle.  Well the daycare ladies didn’t appreciate my attempt at rebellion and gave me a bagful of Maks stuff back and told me not to bring it back until everything was labeled.      

So I had to jump off phenterminereview.com and start looking up personalized backpacks and clothing labels for kids and I found an entire website dedicated to labels.  Apparently my daycare is not the only one that is label crazy.  Who knew?  So I ordered 75 personalized labels that attach to clothing tags for $20.  Which I thought was pretty reasonable.  I could have gotten iron on labels which were cheaper but I don’t iron so that wouldn’t have worked. 

Now I am off to attach labels to every single piece of clothing that Maks owns.

Maks has learned to kiss.  Before his kiss was a tilt of the cheek so you could kiss him or this mouth wide open cheek licking that sometimes ended in a bite.  He has now mastered the art of puckering and he kisses on the lips. 

This worries me.  Maks mastering the art of kissing isn’t what worries me.  I am worried that he will use this new found knowledge at the daycare…..on Miranda…..in the corner and I will end up in the office explaining his innocence once again. 

I am really hoping that he and Miranda keep there relationship limited to hugging hello and goodbye but if it moves up a notch to kissing, Miranda’s mommy and I will be spending a lot of time in the office and I am going to need a boatload of wrinkle lotion because this is stressing me out!

P.S.  for those of you that know Miranda is Maks’ love.  They have been a couple since Maks was 14 months and Miranda was 12 months.  They have been inseparable since then and are absolutely miserable without each other.  And yes, Miranda’s mommy and I have been called into the office before because they used to like to hug each other in the corner on occasion when they were both in the toddler room.