Mistakes in Motherhood

Bobby forgot his work phone today at home after he came home for lunch. He immediately noticed, but did not want to turn around and get it. Well I ran upstairs to go to the bathroom; Matthew was watching the Wiggles and the baby (A., the girl I babysit) was sleeping in the swing so I figured I could run upstairs for a minute and it would be OK. When I came downstairs Matthew was holding Bobby’s phone saying “Bobby? Bobby?” so I looked at the call history and there had just been an outgoing call to the site manager where Bobby works.

I called Bobby who called the site manager to apologize. The site manager said he kept saying Bobby’s name over and over and he was trying to get him to say his own name. He was not upset about the call, he has 5 kids of his own and knows how precocious the little ones can be.

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I have always loved ties, I think they are beautiful and stylish and can make or break a suit. I grew up seeing my father wear a tie to work each morning, as a kid I used to open his tie drawer and admire the patterns and fabrics. When Bobby got out of the Army I was very excited to be able to help him shop for a suit and ties. In fact he let me pick out most of his ties because I have a good eye for that sort of thing. That is why I fell in love when I found these photos for Belisi.

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Last night at the mall we decided to try Ruby Tuesday’s, I got steak, Bobby got ribs, Austin got chicken, Christopher got shrimp, and Matthew got a grilled cheese. It was so funny because he picked up the sign “sandwich” last night and repeatedly kept signing “cheese sandwich”. He wanted cheese fries, so he would take fries and cram it between the bread and then pull out a french fry covered in cheese. He also kept asking for bites of our food and when I gave him a bite of my steak, he stole my fork.

First he used the fork to eat his fries, and it was hilarious watching him try to put it on the fork and then try to dip it in the little cup of ketchup. Then he decided sandwiches are probably better on a fork, so he put it on the fork. Then he decided to try grilled cheese dipped in ketchup; but that lost his interest pretty quick. We got some nice little laughs out of his funny dining habits, it is so funny how much better anything tastes on a fork, even fries.

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I have always appreciated the benefits of baby wearing. I still wear Matthew, even though he is almost two because I appreciate the closeness, knowing where is is at all times, being able to go about my business with my hands free, and wearing him in a good quality sling is SO much easier on the back & shoulders than carrying him in my arms. I also wear baby A., otherwise I would get nothing done. I have two slings, a ring sling similar to this one, and a front/back pack style similar to this one; but I have always loved the design of a Moby Wrap.

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In the spirit of confessing my downfalls over at my other blog HERE, I will tell you about an unfortunate incident that happened last night. I was prepping to shampoo my carpet, and was using some Nature’s Miracle stain and odor remover w/ automatic pump to pre-treat any suspicious spots believed to possibly be puppy spots that went unnoticed. Anyone who has seen this contraption knows it is a battery operated pump connected to a gallon jug of cleaner by a thin hose. After I was done cleaning I set it on the island in the kitchen and continued to clean.

After I was done shampooing, we left the house for a few hours to let the carpet dry and to take Bobby’s wedding ring to the jeweler to have it refinished (it is yellow gold plated with while gold and he keeps wearing off the plating and having a reaction to the yellow gold underneath). On the way out the door, Bobby realized he forgot his cell phone and ran inside to get it. I noticed he was taking a while to come back, but I did not think much of it. When he came out he looked at me and said “you broke my phone”. Of course I had NO CLUE what he was talking about. I did not notice, but his phone was on the island where I set the cleaner and the nozzle leaked on the counter onto his phone and shorted it out and ruined it. So while at the mall he picked up a new cell phone. They are SO expensive when you have to pay full price, yikes!

Anyways, I told him I would not strew the facts and to mention the fact that he leaves his phone there every day (I have never seen it there). He thinks it is my fault, I think it is nobodies fault, we both agree it is an accident and neither one of us is irritated. I think this was a big setup for him to get a new phone! Ok, I am joking, I know better than that.

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I swear it! Well I was blogging a huge long confession over at Mistakes in Motherhood but something happened right as I went to save and my host seems to be down because now I cannot get my website to load. I don’t think it managed to save before the crash either, so I am quite frustrated. For the last 2 days the Internet has been giving me nothing but trouble, which may be why I have been MIA lately.

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Ok, I am going to make this as easy to understand as possible, but it is complicated… I even got confused.

We have three banks, USAA- our primary bank, ENT- our local bank, and US Bank- where we have some savings.  On Jan 4th I wrote a check from US Bank, to ENT for cash to buy the puppy and for my mortgage payment.  However they told me they would have to hold half of the money until 1/9 and this was a bit concerning to me as my mortgage payment is due on 1/1 and would be late if received after 1/15.  I use on-line bill pay, so this is not usually an issue.

Since the beginning of the month I have been struggling with ENT trying to find a way they can transfer funds from ENT to USAA without a $15 wire transfer fee.  So I called USAA and they said they can do a cash advance off my ENT debit card to USAA and all would be fine.  Well I set up the transfer and after three failed attempts I call ENT to see why my card is being decline.  Apparently it can ONLY be used where it can be physically swiped… since USAA is in Texas and I am in Colorado that is not an option.  So USAA then suggests we do a direct debit with my ENT routing & account number.  So I do that, it goes through, and then two days later the money is pulled back out of my account.  USAA does not know why, ENT does not show record of this transaction so I ask them to verify the info I have for my account; the routing number is right, but my 8 digit account number that is on all my statements, all my transactions, and on-line is wrong.  Apparently the REAL account number has 4 digits before my account number and 1 digit after it… who knew!

Yesterday I go to balance my USAA account and notice I am short on money needed to pay the rest of my bills.  This does not make sense to me as my budget I made at the first of the month said we would have money left over for things like gas, groceries, and entertainment.  I was racking my brain thinking maybe I went overboard at Petsmart or something… and this is when I noticed a payment made out to my mortgage company dated on 1/5.  Crap!  Now I remember, I went ahead and paid the mortgage with the money set aside to pay all the other bills, just to be safe.  So now I have paid the mortgage twice and had only enough to cover half the bills without transferring more funds.  With all problems with the banks I got confused in the shuffle.

So I call ENT and ask them if they can stop the bill pay, and they say no, the check is in the mail (damn it, the one time THAT is the truth, and it’s the one time I don’t want it to be) and they tell me to call the mortgage company and ask them to tear up the check.  So I call them and they say that they cannot do that and call ENT back and request a stop-payment.  So I call back and pay my $25 and cancel the check, and then tell Bobby what I did.  We both agreed I was a dumb-ass and he has been razzing me for it for two days now.  He even threatened (in jest) to take over all the finances, but I told him no way, we would have a new PS3 and games, but the power bill would go unpaid and be shut off.

Anyways, this morning I paid all the bills, and all is fine, but boy do I feel stupid!  So there is my confession, what stupid things have you done?

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