Who knew I could paint stripes!?

It's official!! We've moved to the middle of nowhere and I can now stay at home with my son. We sold our house in the "city" in a week and a half and bought a $40,000 house in our hometown. So now, I am stuck in a small town. The nearest Starbucks is an hour away. Heck, the nearest fast food is 30 minutes away. But, I get to spend my day trying to be a housewife with a toddler trying even harder to get attention. I now bake HOMEMADE bread!! hehe I bake bars and other treats for fun and to compensate for that, I exercise while my angel is napping. What a contrast. I still do not keep a perfect house, but it's a lot better. I spend my afternoon making sure supper is ready when my husband walks in the door. Only to have him finish supper and either sit on the couch or head to the bathroom. Makes me feel appreciated. He does occasionally tease me about "painting stripes" when he talks to me on the phone during the day. Believe it or not, he is not referring to me redecorating the house. For years, this term has been used on his mother. The woman cannot sit down. She does more housework in the hour after she gets up in the morning, than i ever do in a week! She is amazing! So, for him to tell me I'm "painting stripes" is the biggest compliment I could ever receive. **sigh**

Yeah, I'm the mom, so what?

So last night, as I was laying on the living room floor trying to sleep with my son, I thought to myself "Why am I the one that gave up a nice bed to try and get him to sleep? Why is it automatically my job?" As I lay there I thought to myself, it took the both of us to make this wonderful child but I had to push this child out of my body, walk around sore for a week, bleed for 2 months, breastfeed for going on a year now, and on top of all that, I have night duty too? Yeah that seems fair.

Who needs toys when I can have rawhide?!

Why is it that when a child is surrounded by toys, they choose to play with anything and everything else? My son, for instance, is at the moment mesmerized by a box of paperclips. He doesn't even have the box open, but instead is shaking and touching the box. I think toymakers should reconsider the toys they make and start making toy leaves, toy paper, and toy rawhides for kids. I'm sure that they could even be made without lead paint. I know I'd buy them because those are some of Ashton's favorite things to try to play with and put in his mouth. It's amazing how much of a struggle it is to pry things out of those little fingers.