Tales From Blogger Slackerdom

I’m here and plan to be back more regularly now that school is almost over.  I am done as a student but still have about a week left as a teacher and am anxious to be finished and not at all excited about reading final essays. 

Life has been crazy, busy and lazy all at the same time.  I know that sounds a little contradictory to many of you, but trust me it is true.  Things here at Che Finley have been buzzing along.  The past few weekends have been hectic–New Orleans, Bill’s golf weekend, then we had my mom’s birthday, a wedding and mothers day this past weekend. 

I am feeling a bit overwhelmed at all I want to get done these few weeks I have off before I start my JOB on June 1.  In case you can’t feel my excitement–let me just say I. AM. VERY. VERY. VERY. EXCITED.  I can hardly stand it.  I am going to check out a daycare possibility for the kids that is close to Noah’s future school and is a place Zoë can continue at until she goes to school.  I am hoping it works out–as the price is right and that isn’t always a good thing.  I’ll report more on that later. 

I want to organize the office space and clean up a little so that the space is functional for me when I decide to work form home. 

SAD NEWS–Team Finley will not be able to attend Wannafest this year.  Sorry fellow Wannafesters–we are traveling so much this year that we just can’t afford the over $1200 in airfare for us to fly to Seattle.  We had been hoping to use miles but we’d need 200,000 miles and that just isn’t happening.  I am so sad, but we are so going next year.  This  year we have a trip nearly every month from March-September and we are strapped $$$$ at this point.  Add to that Noah’s exorbitantly expensive private school and we just can’t make it all work.  We will miss seeing all of you.  But I did read that Hayat and Kiya’s new house has guest quarters…

I have been working out and am feeling really good physically–a little sore because my trainer often busts my ass but he also reminds me that that is what I am paying him for.  He rocks. 

Noah is officially in a big boy bed.  His twin bed came yesterday–he picked it out and it was the tallest one–he loves mommy and daddy’s big bed and wanted one of his own.  So, we’ll see how that is goes.  He loves the bed but last night we had some thunder and it woke him up and he ended up in our room again.  We’ll keep working on that. 

I am looking for any sage wisdom for getting my little man to poop on the potty.  We have the peeing thing down 99.9% of the time but we are at a big old O for pooping.  It’s frustrating.  I have until aug 27th for him to be 100% potty trained and I fear the time is going to go too fast.  So any tips/tricks would be great. 

Zoë is a pistol and is getting more ornery every day.  But she is so cute that it’s often okay.

Sorry for the randomness but Slackerdom provides only that.

3 thoughts on “Tales From Blogger Slackerdom

  1. You will all be soooo missed at Wannafest, but I totally understand.
    Re: pooping in the potty…have you tried taking him to the toilet & dumping the poop out of the pull-up into the toilet and making a big deal of the sharks swimming in the pool (in other words sink to grade school boy humor) and explaining that how that’s where it belongs & then saying goodbye as he flushes? Is there a special favorite treat you could give him only if he poops in the toilet (Alijah’s was Yorkshire mints).

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  2. I know, I’m not sure that we’ll be able to swing Wannafest this year either. Maybe we should meet in Iowa and camp. I’ll bring the bug-spray (-:

    I love Noah’s head!!!!!

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  3. The potty thing? Is there a fear or is he simply not recognizing the urge to go? I hope it all works well for him…and for you.

    I worked in child care for years before i started teaching. I understand your thoughts that low prices don’t always mean quality. and in care for our loved ones, that’s a top issue.

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