Tuesday, August 28, 2007

The Ick, a Raise and a Vacay

I came down with the ick today, feeling much like Andrea described in her post last week. It meant a day on the couch for me resting with good old Arthur the Faithful Chihuahua and consuming as many Slo-Melt popsicles as humanly possible in an attempt to quelch my burning throat. I'm pretty sure it is just a cold as Jonathan had one this weekend but it is definitely no fun regardless. There is always something about having a cold in the middle of the summer that just seems not right!

But on to happier news. Just recently, my boss came into my office and asked me to tell him my annual salary. I did and and he left my office. About thirty seconds later, he returned and told me that he was really happy with the work I've been doing, taking on extra responsibility and all that jazz, summing up the whole thing with a raise. It is actually a decent raise, too, and I am pretty pumped about it since I always love more money and it was fun since it happened randomly.

Happily, one of the things this raise means is VACATION. That's right, folks, in just over a week, we will be heading to the Outer Banks for a week of fun in the sun. And hopefully no hurricanes or the gazillion frogs that accompanied us on vacation last year. The opportunity just fell into our laps and we were fortunate to be able to take advantage of it. I am SO looking forward to seeing Jonathan on the beach! As I have been lax on my picture taking for the last week due to being in Nashville (which was awesome, by the way) and then being sick, this is the perfect opportunity for me to post a pic or two of our vacation last year, pre-blog:



We have our own pool this year rather than having to drag all of our stuff to the community pool, so I hope for more photo ops like this one...



...and less rain so we will have less of this:



And, since I have not posted for a while, some random thoughts:

Last week while in Nashville, I found the absolute cutest boots for Jonathan. As he will not hold still long enough while wearing them for me to get a picture of them actually on his feet, this is what they look like. I wanted to buy him "real" boots, but I just couldn't see spending $70.00 on them. Besides, Jonathan is a Toddler Size 6 at best and I'm not sure they make the real deal quite that small.

While I was home sick today, I was watching the news and saw a story about a mother in Indiana reunited with her 15 month old daughter. As you would imagine, there was a lot of crying and God-thanking but then the newscaster cut in with the story, explaining that the toddler was locked in a vacant building and this happened because the mother and father do not live together and were confused. Huh? Was that really supposed to make sense? You can read the story here.

Kimberly completely inspired me to get onboard with the Halloween costume decision making and I think Jonathan is going to be Elmo. Jonathan, in addition to his love of Thomas and a renewed adoration of The Wiggles, has developed feelings for the somewhat irritating red furry Sesame Street character. As I feel very strongly that he would LOVE to dress up like Elmo rather than wearing one of the really cute costumes I was eying at Gymboree (he was a skeleton last year, just like they have this year), I think I'm just going to go with it. I really like this costume, but I think I will go with this one since it is not as expensive and, more importantly, because I suspect my child may catch on fire if he were to wear the full body version. I'm hoping to find one on E-bay!

6 comments:

Susie PSU said...

The pictures you post crack me up! Hooray for the raise!! MY raise this year was ALMOST a whole - hold your breath - $20 a MONTH!! WOO HOO!! Chris wonders where we should apply it in the budget...
He cracks me up, too.

We want beach pictures!!

Shana-Lynn said...

Congrats on the raise, that is so awesome! I wonder if I could get a raise? Do SAH moms get raises??;-) I wish we would.

I can't wait to see pictures from your vacation. That is totally exciting. I want to go too.

Kimberly said...

YAY raise!!!! It will be sooo different at the beach with Jonathan this year. He'll have a BLAST!

Love the boots! They do sell the real deal in infant sizes, ya just gotta be able to track them down, I've had my eyes on these babies for a LONG time: Boots

And one more thing...Jonathan is going to make the cutest Elmo ever!

TwinMommyLawchick said...

Target has toddler sized boots for like $15, and they are super cute! My mom already bought a pink pair for Emma. Not sure if they have boys ones though...Ethan's more the work boot type.

I read that article and I think the whole family are idiots. Geez.

Have a great vacation!

Kara Lewis said...

I can't see the picture of the boots, because, you know, I'm at work, and Big Brother is watching and all . . . BUT:

Did Jonathan get red cowboy boots? Before me? (sniff, sniff)

Janice said...

Haurray for the raise and vacation!!! I love the Outerbanks!!! We rented a huge house a couple of years ago right on the beach and it was just amazing! I know you guys will have a great time again!

Ditto what Kim said - Jonathan is going to be the most adorable Elmo!!!