"Deer-in-headlights"

PURE INSANITY!! Is what this is!!! I am getting a sign that is telling me to just shut up and stop complaining about how horrible it has been trying to get moved in. Yeah... a HUGE sign! Ummm... We are moving again in May! I can't wrap my brain around it! I have just started wrapping my mind around living here in Simi Valley! Sigh... INSANE!!
If you want to know whats going on you can call me or email me, I don't want post exactly whats going on (contract reasons) until we have moved!! AHHHH!

Plans

Okay, I am about to go to Minnesota BALD!!! I am so stressed out I feel like pulling out my hair. But things are coming along. Currently we are packing, finding a place to live, figuring out that it is pretty much suicide driving up to Minnesota so we just bought plane tickets AND coming to terms that we will not have a Christmas. This trip alone will drain every penny and physical/mental energy I have. We have exactly ONE week before we must be out of our apartment so we will be homeless till something comes up!! SCARY... and we still don't have a home for our poor little kitties. We were going to take them but we are now flying so that is out of the question. SNIFF, SNIFF... So if anyone would like to babysit till April let me know.

As I am typing I am listening to Christmas music to help me stay in the Christmas spirit and the song, "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is on, how sad...

But on the plus side Tanner is doing GREAT! He has been sleeping when we need to be packing and when we need to brain storm.

Whose job is it, anyway?

Once upon a time in an office were four people. Their names were Everybody, Somebody, Nobody, and Anybody. When there was important work to be done, Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. When Nobody did it, Everybody got mad because it was Anybody's job. Everybody thought that Somebody would do it, but Nobody realized it wouldn't get done, so Nobody did it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done in the first place.

The Wilcox family has turned into this office!!! We expect the other person do clean up when we don't think it is our turn! So it has come down to this...

Now we have chore charts! We have tried them for a week, and so far so good. The daily chores take only 15 minutes to do IF you do not skip a day, and the weekly chores take 2 minutes. If you complete the whole sheet by the end of the week then you get a treat like a new outfit or a movie, but nothing too pricey. They are laminated so when the week is over we just wipe off the white-board-marker and switch charts.

Here are the rules:

1. Daily chores MUST be done every day.

2. Weekly chores can be done on any day of the week, as long as it is not done on Sunday (except FHE).

3. If you miss a day you may be saved my filling in the "Oops... I miss (such and such) day."

4. You must fill in what was completed or missed to get credit for that day.

We will see how long this lasts.

Do any of you guys have a good way of keeping up with your home?

Juggling Act

A couple weeks ago I went to my mom's house to stay the week so Steven could finished up his finals week in peace and quiet. Tanner had been crying non-stop every night, ALL night long.

I found out that Tanner was having a rough time because of the foods I was eating and also NOT eating. My friend told me to start drinking Fennel tea with every meal to help ease Tanner's upset tummy, and also was given some homeopathic colic tables that dissolve in his mouth to help calm him down when he has lost it or better yet when I can't calm him down. I did that for about a week and was really seeing great results. We were all sleeping through the night and doing great!

Then I started back up at work last Thursday. When I came home that afternoon I realized I felt like fainting!! I could not figure out what the heck was wrong! In the middle of that night while I was sleeping I got freaked-out awake, it felt like I was fainting or even falling down a cliff, in my sleep. I thought maybe I am so overwhelmed that my body is just rebelling! Tanner soon woke up after my episode of falling and he started crying so I fed him and changed him and did all that I could and he was still pretty upset. What to do!!!!!? What to do!!!!!? Luckily, Steven was done with school and was able to jump in to help.

I thought, "Okay something is not right!" I talked it out with Steven and realized that I had not been eating!!! I have been so overwhelmed with taking care of everything and stressing over Tanner that I forgot to take care of me! I am breast feeding him so my body was pulling out all the nutrients that Tanner needed from my body and left NONE for me! OH BILLY!!!!!! It is hard taking care of myself too!!! So I have been on top of my eating and making sure I get LOTS of protein and whole grains in EVERY meal or else I feel like I have hypoglycemia or something...

I figured that if I could find more time to sleep AND take care of myself I will be able to manage everything! :)

So the top two time consuming issues that needed to be resolved were:

1. To know when Tanner needed something BEFORE he cries

and

2. How to turn OFF his cries when all else fails

Stress, Stress, Stress!!!!!!

So to make a long story complete, these two videos are the saving grace to all my juggling acts.

THANK GOODNESS!!!!!!!! Tanner is a much happier baby now that I can help him and me! :)

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Cereal Annonymous

Hi, my name is Miranda Wilcox and I am a cerealaholic. I have been clean for about one week!
As some of you guys know I have been addicted to cereal for about 10 years.
It all started when I was in 10th grade, I would come home from school so hungry, so the fasted and yummiest thing to me was just one bowl of Honey Bunches of Oats. It started with just ONE bowl!!!!!!
But when I got married, Steven and I were hooked!! We are not big cookers so we would have Honey Nut Cheerios for breakfast, Life for lunch, and Frosted Mini Wheat's for Dinner. Years down the road we realized we were HUNGRY for healthy food!!
Our journey began one night when I snuck a bowl into our bedroom to scarfed it down like a mad women. Steven put his foot down and said, "We can't live like this anymore Miranda!!!" So I sadly put down the spoon and said, "Okay, lets call my mother."
My mother came over a couple weeks ago and opened our eyes to the many variety of foods that are out there!!! Now we are enjoying nice warm healthy meals that we can make on our own!! I am so grateful for my mother she is the best!!

I want to move!!!

I want to move soooo bad! I have had it with my neighbors! I come home today and they are BBQing right in front of our kitchen window!!!!!!! I went outside and said, "Are you guys going to be playing music because I have to get up early in the morning." They said,"Go to the back of your apartment with your baby and go to sleep!" I just felt like screaming! My neighbors are making me very upset and when Tanner comes and he is taking a nap and they wake him up, all hell is going to break loose! I don't know what to do! If I could I would move today but I physically CAN'T do it, and it is driving me NUTS!!!! Our cars have so many dings and scratches from the kids that play outside! I can't go to the manager because he is apart of all the noise. I don't know if I can hold out another year here!!!!!!! HELP!!!!!!!!

The final hours

Okay.... these are my final hours before the Flip Festival rehearsals start! This has been an on going project since January and now I have until 4:45 p.m. this evening to have it completed! I just have little nit picky stuff to do, I am pretty sure I will be smooth sailing once this thing starts! Yesterday I had to recount the tickets that were sold, just to make sure we have enough seating, and realized the number of spectators and athletes is a whopping 400 people!!!! That is my biggest concern but hey, they want a show I will give them a show!

I hired my little sister to take pictures for the event so after the two days of being M.IA from blogging I should have pictures posted of the show. Crazy!

When the show is done I will be able to concentrate on Tanner and get ready for him, finally. I have been so swamped with work that the only time I have to really think about being pregnant is when I am blogging! So thank heaven for blogging, otherwise I would have woke up after the show and freaked out and wondered how this whole thing happened! Just kidding I know EXACTLY how it happened. Hehehehe Everyone have a great day! I will see ya in 2 days! PEACE...

Can I be pulled anymore???

The last couple days I have been over doing myself! I think I am a pretty good little athlete but Tanner is proving me otherwise. I am putting on a gym show for my work coming up and I am spending extra hours at the gym just trying to get it all done by the 13th of June (this has been a project for me since January! :P). While at work yesterday all my teeth were in pain and my right arm  got numb, I knew right off the bat that I need to slow down!!! For those who don't know what that means for me, it meant that a panic attack was on the fritz. AHHHH.... last year for the show my buddy Christian put it on, and I was able to help her, here and there, in the background. Now I feel like pulling out my hair because I am all alone :( !!! I constantly have nightmares about it and, getting VERY possessive over everything (Christian, you know what I am talking about). Anyway, it will all be over in two weeks and then I can worry about my next project for work... LEAVING!!!! Well for maternity leave anyway...hehe

 I am now seeing the doctor twice a week, doing a test called the NST, Non Stress Test. It is a test to keep recored of his heart rate to make sure all is well. It is so cool to see the doctor twice a week and listen to Tanner's heart for 30 minutes!!! Every once and a while I feel like, "Okay, I am done now!" But then I read one of my friends blog who had her baby last week, and I changed my mind! I want Tanner to stay nice and comfy in my belly for a while, I am NOT ready for the whole shebang of labor. :/  So my physical and mental state is now pulled to its max!! Tanner is getting heavier and every once and a while, before I get up, I have to hold up by belly so he doesn't push on my bladder. My tummy keeps growing and it measures 44 inches around!! SO crazy... Oh and Steven has been so sweet to be keeping up with me (weight wise) so I do not feel so big! He would be so mad if he knew I wrote that! So we are a big happy family :)

Heavenly Father was watching over me!!

Yesterday morning I was making my usual hop, skip, and a jump to work. I was on the freeway going about 70ish. There was a smaller simi-truck in front of me. I had my ipod playing in my car and listening to church music  to help prepare me for the upcoming day. As I was driving, I saw this black pipe that was a little bit smaller than a yard stick, (AND the scary part was that it was shaped like a boomerang) drop out from under this truck! Only so much can go through your mind when you have less than a few seconds to react!! So when this pipe hit the floor is started spinning really fast as it was traveling across in my lane!!! I was able to think, "Okay, if I try to run my car right over it the pipe will hit my tire and get thrown up in my car, or I will run over it and my car could flip! So I knew I needed to get to the next lane. I jerked the steering wheel, then this dumb SUV was right next to me so I gently jerked back to avoid over steering. It was soooo smooth! Because of the two jerks the pipe spun right under my car and I MISSED the scary thing! My hands were so tight on the wheel and when I relaxed I did not want to get upset, I had so much stress built up that I just CRIED! I feel like this was a great miracle! I gave a mighty payer of thanks to my Heavenly Father for this blessing of protection!

It is time to relax!

The last couple months have been such a roller coaster emotionally. I have been away from my family for a while and it was starting to really wear down on me! Steven has been so busy in school that I just felt so alone out here in no mans land. Some nights I would take my cat captive and make her spend time with me. If you know my cat, she is not very social. Last weekend I went to my parents house to just get away from LA and it was the best weekend ever. I got out so many tears and emotions that I just feel so much better. I took my dog home (which is a big NONO for our apartment) and she just makes everything so much better. She has not lived with us for a little over 2 years and I miss her so much. It is so nice to have a warm body to sleep next to since Steven is forever doing homework. I hope I will be okay when I have to give her back next week. Just being a peace is my goal for the month!