Vacation-now

So I didn't have a connection in VA. So I just typed my blogs up on the computer each day. Here is the blog from the day we left on 12/26-1/1

12/26/08 1:56 PM

So this is the first time I have been able to take a seat and write. I am actually on the train as I type, not on the internet though. I wish the train had wifi that would of been a lifesaver for me. ha ha. Anyway so we are on the train to VA! We are super excited to go see grandma. The train was about 30 mins late, and now we are sitting at another train station because a girl dislocated her shoulder trying to lift her back to the over head.

So Christmas! It was a great day. The girls slept til about 9ish. I could not believe how many damn presents were actually under the tree. I didn't realize so much was bought for them. They are such spoiled brats. LOL I mean granted everything was from myself, my mom, Steph (my best friend) and my Aunt Tina brought her presents up too.

When Madi came down she kept saying "Oh my gosh". It was so cute. To see her excited was great. Same with Kiarah when she saw all the gifts she was super excited. It took them about an hour to get through everything. This is what they got.

Kiarah-
-The whole collection of Junie B Jones
-A thing to make butterflies for her room
-Disney Sing it
-3 pairs of PJS
-Tinkerbell book
-5 Ready Freddy books
-Dancing with the stars wii game
-2 outfits from Steph
-2 outfits from Tina
-mp3 player
-2 different Hannah Montana board games
-Karaoke
-a dance mat (like DDR)
-Guitar Hero World Tour
-Bingo
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-A thing to make a dream catcher
-300 piece HSM puzzle
-Hannah and Lily dolls
-2 webkinz
-2 pairs of crocs...HSM & Tinkerbell
-Sleep over bag. which has a sleeping bag, flash light, night light, pillow and a thing to keep it all in
-Some more clothes from the Gap and Walmart
-A coat
-Rubiks Cube revolution
I think that was majority of it.
Madison
-Power wheel quad
-guitar
-shopping cart with food
-Bilingual doll that teaches spanish
-Night Time Dora
-Clothes
-Dora's little twin brother and sister
-Broom
-2 vacuums a little devil one, and one of those playskool ones
-3 pairs of Dora panties, 3 pr of Tinkerbell panties
-doll stroller that came with a doll
I can't even remember what else she got. She wasn't worried about anything about the quad. LOL

We had ham for dinner. It was good.
I can't believe how fast Christmas came and went and that next week is already the end of the year. It flies man, its nuts. For New Years Eve I got a babysitter. I am super excited about that!!! LOL. I am going to be going to my parents best friends house. My mom will be coming to pick me up at the train station around 4/5. We have to rush home so I can feed the kids, hope in the shower and get ready. I have really never gone out on NYE. I mean I always went to Steph's house but there are going to be tons of people there because its also Dj's bday. So I am definitly looking forward to going to the party. Taylor (my neighbors daughter) will be coming to sit with the girls. And I believe she is going to spend the night. Should be nice!
Ok so I am going to end it here. I have to get Kiarah an orange and I think Im going to go read Twilight, I am trying to finish it while we are at Grandmas. I probably won't have ot bother with the girls much because Grandma is going to want to spend as much time as she can in the next 6 days.

12/27/08 11:45 PM

So we are in Va. Its nice. Our train was a half an hour late. We got here and ate right away because we were starving. Madi was iffy about Gloria (grandma) and Helen (great grandma). It took her a moment to get used to them. But once she was she was fine, and now won’t leave them alone. We called it a night fairly early last night.

Today I got to sleep in til about 9. We ate waffles this morning for breakfast. And then we just hung out around the house for a little while. Then I hopped in the shower so we can go out to eat for lunch. We went to to Golden Corral. But of course that went right through me. Damn the gall bladder needing to be removed. Well anyway so we went to the mall to walk around. I ended up feeling sick again, but after awhile I was ok again. I bought Kiarah a new pair of headphones because the one she got with her MP3 hurt her ear. And I got her a little speaker thing that plugs into the headphone jack. I got them at KB Toys. I spent $4 and change for both because the store was going out of business. After that we went to Gymboree looking for a plain white cami, they didn’t have any. We stopped at Journey’s and I need to order Kiarah a pair of sneakers now. LOL She saw these mid top DC’s she wants. They were super cute. So when I get paid again I will get them for her. We went to Old Navy after and they didn’t have any cami’s either. Then we decided to leave because my stomach was just ick. I stopped at Kmart to get some pepto, and felt better almost immediately.

When we got back to the house we didn’t do much. I hopped on Gloria’s computer to check my mail. I also had to call Amtrak because I was almost positive I lost our tickets. I had noticed last night I couldn’t find them. They said there was no way they could help me because tickets are like money. Thankfully I found them though. They were in a zippered part of the computer bag, I don’t even remember putting them there. Gloria made lamb, broccoli, corn, and mashed taters for dinner. It was good. Kiarah ate almost most of it, and Madi picked at it. The rest of the night was relaxing. I played a game on my computer, and Kiarah listened to her MP3, Madi colored. I should have been reading but that didn’t happen. LOL Madi didn’t fall asleep until around 10 because she had a late nap and slept until 5:30 ish. Kiarah was on the computer til 11 playing a game, and knocked out at 11:15. I sat here watching the Notebook J Of course I cried. HA HA.

Tomorrow I believe we are going to go to Walmart. I need some detangler spray for the girls hair, and Madi needs diapers. That’s really it. Til next time!! J

12/28/08 10:29 PM

Today the girls met one of their cousins and her daughter. Dana is Taylor’s first cousin. She came down to visit from MD. Her daughter is 6 months older than Madi. They hit it off pretty good and Kiarah wouldn’t leave Dana alone. LOL. Earlier in the day we went shopping to get some food the girls and I like and I had to get a few things at walmart. I bought New Moon. I am still reading Twilight though. Its so addicting but to find the time to read with Madi is pretty hard.

12/29/08 11:08 PM

I can’t believe we leave in a few days. This trip went by mighty fast. Shit Im complaining about the trip going by fast, what about the year. Where did 2008 go? Anyway so today we went out to eat at some place named Shoney’s not impressive. The food was pretty gross. I was careful what I ate too because I was afraid I was going to have a day like Saturday. LOL I still felt kinda sick when we left so we went home for a bit, Madi slept and I just laid down with her. About an hour in a half after we left again. I wasn’t sure where we were going though. We ended up at Chuck E Cheese. This was my first time ever going too. I have heard so many horror stories about CEC and even Gloria was hesitant to go. But it was so clean!! The crown was small so I didn’t get a headache like I thought I would. LOL. The girls had a blast. Madi had so much fun playing the games too. She got pissed when she ran out of tokens. I definitly want to make a trip there sometime at the end of Jan-mid Feb.

12/30/08 11:47 PM

Today Gloria took us to see Richmond. The city is ok. Its kinda dirty thought, but there are a lot of nice areas. We went to some whole foods store and got some hot food which was yummy. LOL We went back to the house and made spagetti and sauce. And then at 7:15 Gloria and Kiarah went to the train station to go get Tajia (Taylor’s niece). It was nice to see her. I haven’t seen her since 2007. Madi took to her really well and wouldn’t leave her alone. I can’t believe we leave tomorrow!!

1/1/2009 9:43 AM

So it’s 2009. Can you believe it? I can’t, I’m still wondering where it has gone. I just now thought about Madi turning 2 in 2 ½ months. Blah! LOL. Anyway so yesterday was very annoying. We get to the train station at about 12:45, I go in the station to check the big pieces of luggage first. And the dude tells me the train is late! Blah. Ok so I am thinking half hour maybe 45 mins. Nope 1-2 hrs! I then got hot and agitated. I just wanted to be home at this point. Madi has drove me up the wall the last few days because she was out of her environment and I was so sick of her screaming. So I go back to the car and tell Gloria. We then decided to drive down the street. We go to some shopping center and I get my eye brows waxed and then we just chit chatted. The time went by faster than I expected. We go back at 2 and the guy tells me the train should arrive at 2:35. Ok fine. I check the car seats and then come back for the carry ons, and kids. We say good bye and go inside. Of course my kids can’t sit still though.

The train comes at 2:47. We get on and get settled and all was ok. They started watching a movie on the laptop and then ate. It was an ok ride for the most part until Madison got annoyed and didn’t want to sit anymore. Which I don’t blame her for. We made it though, arrived into Raleigh at 6:15. Then by the time we got our luggage got the car seats in the car we got home at 7:02...only 17 mins away…not bad. So I made waffles for Kiarah, and heated up some baked mac and cheese for Madison. Then had to rush to get dressed. Waited for my aunt to get out of the shower, then I got in and got dressed and by the time I was doing my make up and hair the sitter was here. I think we left around 8. We went up to my parent’s best friends house for his 40th bday and NYE Bash. It was fun. There were tons of people there. At 11 we left though because Madi wouldn’t go to sleep. So I went home put her to bed and then we went over to a neighbors house. We had a blast. I just love drunk people. LOL. I have tons of pics I will probably eventually post. Being that I hate to post pics on this site who knows when that will actually be though. LOL. That’s it. Its almost 10 Im still in bed. Yay for sleeping/laying in. But I will be getting up in a few mins to eat. Then I have to put all my shit away. BLAH! Oh and to top off my NY my fucking jerk of a dog ate one of Madi’s sneakers!! They were my favorite and the only one that freaking fit. I was so pissed. Im mad at my mom too because she left him out of his crate last night. But then its my fault for leaving them laying around. Even though her sneakers were laying next to my moms sneakers. He was just mad that no one was home and then decided to eat the sneakers. So now she has to wear her crocs until I get paid in 2 wks to go buy some. Good thing she loves her crocs! And you know I probably wouldn’t care as much had they not been the only sneakers that fit. 1 pair are too small and they hurt to walk in, and another pair are too big. She has boots but she can’t wear those with everything. Well now I guess she will get the DC’s we saw the other day. LOL