Weak Sauce Post I Know

I know I haven't posted in forever....and I feel really bad about it....and as you will already be able to infer upon reading the title of this here blurb, this post is going to be no compensation. Oh well, in this small amount of time I do have I will attempt to catch you up on the recent happenings in our little world.

School is going well....our schedules are at times monstrous, but I'm sure you all know exactly how it is: ) My internship is awesome. It actually has me considering becoming trained and certified in doing forensic interviews with children who have been sexually abused (something I don't think I ever would have considered had I not been able to work with and observe my incredible supervisor, who by the way is awesome at what she does). I've heard things and read things that I never thought I would in my life time, but I'm so glad I get to be a part of helping kids get out of the situations that life often places them in. I also get to teach in home parenting, and am currently working with a lot of teen moms and single moms, which I love. People are amazing. My internship also has my heart hurting some moments when I think about how much I'm having to be away from baby girl. I hate that she has to be baby sat so much. I feel bad for my wonderful babysitters (especially since we don't have much to offer them $ wise), and I feel bad for little girl who has just recently begun crying when we leave her at the sitters now. I honestly have to keep telling myself that even though there are moments of doubt when doing this incredibly time consuming internship feels like it can't possible be the right thing for me to be doing, that in fact it is right and I (we) just have to keep moving forward and make the most out of it. Honestly, it's not that bad.....I just miss my Chad and Memers.


I baby sat my neighbor's two little boys this weekend, who are in fact two very cute little boys. But after a night of chasing them around trying to wipe their really runny noses (which was in all honesty making me pretty queezy), lifting them out of emyri's crib upon finding they'd somehow climbed in and were jumping their little hearts out....time and time again, and rushing the oldest one to the toilet upon finding he'd had a coughing fit and thrown up his recently consumed granola bars all over emyri's toy chair...

*I pause here in the list of happening to insert that while the oldest boy was continuing to throw up in the toilet while I stood over him, his little brother was right by my side pretending to throw up as well. He kept copying his brother's hurling sounds and saying "I threwd up, I threwd up". Emyri who has never witnessed an actual "throwing up" in her life so far was also crowding in as close as she could to see the action. Needless to say it was mayhem.

(list continued)...We ended the night with the oldest boy, (yes the one who had only moments earlier thrown up) ramming his tiny head into the corner of our entertainment center leaving a huge purple and white dent, that was just itching to bleed uncontrollably. At least it wasn't full bore bleeding, I told myself as I got him a wet washcloth to hold on the wound. And poor emyri was pretty much traumatized by the end of the night (heck, I was pretty much traumatized by the end of the night) but she was so worried about Jesse getting hurt that she just kept crying and crying and wouldn't let me put her down. So I felt terrible by the time their parents came to pick them up. "You're never going to want you're boys to come over again" I found myself saying as they carried their boys out the door.

Oh well, so I'm not the best baby sitter. I'm ok with that. So weak sauce post turned into a long weak sauce post, but hopefully you still found some enjoyment out of it. Just in case you didn't, I leave you with this fun little video emyri and I found the other day. Goo Goo Dolls + Elmo; who couldn't enjoy that!