I’m definitely there…

So…you know that place where you know you need to / have to work full-time meets that place where you’re pregnant, tired, and just want to be a stay at home mommy at least until your babies have started school…I’m definitely there…

I usually love working…I love doing what I do…I love helping Soldiers get what they need accomplished and if there are any problems Soldiers, I love doing my job to get rid of them.  (I know, it sounds harsh, but I can’t help it, it’s the truth and I love kicking them out if they don’t want to be a part of our great Army.)  Notice, I said I “USUALLY” love working. 

Lately though, I have been so tired, I’m sure because I’m pregnant, and I take care of my 6 month old son after work, during the night if he wakes up, and then of course in the morning before daycare.  Now-a-days I just want to stay home all day with my little boy, cuddle with him in the mornings as he is waking up, feed him breakfast, lunch, dinner, & bottles, sing him songs, read him books, play with him and all of his little toys…make him laugh, hear him “talk”….I just want to stay at home and take care of him…

Our daycare rates just went up, thanks to my raise this year…so, I kind of have to work, or I could just stop working, then we wouldn’t have to worry about paying for daycare….that would be so nice.

My little baby boy just graduated to room 7, which is the 6 – 12 month old room…he is getting so big and growing so fast…I wanted to cry when I looked at all the pictures they gave me from his old room, room 2…Today is his first day in room 7…

Right now he is probably the youngest baby in the room.  When I dropped him off this morning, there was one other baby in there, he was 8 months old and crawling around everywhere…Riley can’t crawl yet, and he can’t sit up unassisted yet either, so he’s got to catch up with the other little guy in there…The teacher, Miss Michelle had a little seat in the floor for Riley, but it didn’t have a front on it, just a back, so when he leaned forward to get a toy, he fell over sideways, and his head kind of went into the box of toys…He didn’t cry, because he hardly ever cries, he just stayed there until Miss Michelle sat him upright again, which was only a second or two after he fell…His tush is still a little round, so he can’t really balance that well on it…

Anyway, They are going to start feeding him foods…I have been feeding him foods for the past week or so..we have to feed our babies new foods at home for 5 days before daycare will feed them that way we can see if there is going to be any negative reactions to anything…So far, there have been no negative reactions…thank goodness!

Anyway, used to I would blog about work, but now I don’t really have any interest in what I do at work, I just miss my baby while I’m supposed to be working….I hate it, I’m miserable…I want to quit doing the full time thing, and just go back to doing the weekend thing once a month…I want to be a Mommy first, and a Soldier second…Sue me, I would rather spend time with my son than with ungrateful, disrespectful, irritating idiots…

I want to go to daycare, pick up my little boy, and just go home.

Have I complained recently?

OK, so I know I haven’t blogged a lot lately.  Mainly because I have a five month old baby, and my high-speed internet isn’t as high speed as i would like it to be…Any-who, because I haven’t blogged as of late like I used to, I have decided that it is time for me to bitch, moan, and complain about my job…or rather the people that think i work for them at my job…

I am still in the Army.  I have no civilian job, I work full time for my Army Unit.  I love being in the Army.  The Army gives me some good friends, most that will last a lifetime, it gives me an extended family, it gives me job security (which with today’s economy security in your job is practically priceless,) and it gives me something to talk about with people.  Whether it be complaining or praising…

So, I am my Brigade’s Paralegal Non-Commissioned Officer In Charge (NCOIC).  I work for the Brigade Commander and in his absence I work for the SSA (who, on the military side, is my Battalion Sergeant Major)  I don’t work for anyone in the friggin S1 Shop.  (the S1 Shop is the office where all the human resource, personnel, and administration work is done)

I work directly for the Colonel or his representative, not a friggin Warrant Officer that thinks she is king shit on turd hill, not the SAS, not the HR SGT, NO ONE BUT THE COL OR HIS REP!

This WO1 continues to think, or act as if she thinks, I work for her.  She tells me I need to give her updates instead of leaving her out of the loop about what I’m doing and the status of all the packets I’m working.  She asks me, “Do you understand what I mean when I tell you that I need updates?”  I want to tell her to go eat shit, or crawl into a whole and sit there until someone lets her know it’s OK to come out…I want to tell her to go f*ck herself.  Do I understand….is she friggin serious?!?!?

She thinks I give everyone updates except her, when in actuality, I don’t give anyone updates until something is completed, or changed in some way.  I don’t feel like it’s necessary to tell her that 1 day has passed since I mailed something out or that 2 days have passed since I last gave her the same f*cking update I gave her 2 days ago.  It’s a waste of time and makes the work I’m doing seem monotonous.

I just wish she would shut her fat f*cking mouth and let me work the way I know how, and the way I’m supposed to.  It’s Micro-Managing at it’s worst.  She also feels it necessary to tell me when her deadlines are.  I want to tell her that I don’t give a f*ck when her damn deadlines are, I have my own to worry about and if she hasn’t noticed I don’t try to burden her with mine so please do me the courtesy of not trying to burden me with hers.

I hate it when people that are not my boss act as if they are.  Like they have some major influence in or on what I do or do not do.  I want to take this time out and tell her to kiss my tush!

Thank You for letting me vent!  Until next time~~Happy  Blogging!

Beautiful Baby!!!

Ok, so my mother-in-law asked me & my husband a few months ago if we had thought about entering our son into the Photogenic category in our town’s pageant.  I of course said no, and that I disagreed with parents putting their children in pageants when the child is too young to be able to say they want to or they don’t want to.  I think it should be up to the child, not up to the parents.  When I told her that, she quickly informed me that all I would have to do is enter a photo, and that my baby wouldn’t even have to be present the night of the pageant, as long as they had his picture.  She told me she would pay the entry fee and she would take care of everything, the only thing I had to do is pick out a picture, professional or snap-shot, and give it to her to enter.

So, I gave in…Since he didn’t have to be there, except in a frame…

Well, the pageant was on March 7, 2009.  We entered a photo that we had taken for his 3 month picture(s).  He has a big smile, and is wearing the cutest little striped outfit with a wolf face on the chest…He looks perfect!!  Wouldn’t ya know, my baby won the photogenic category!  My mother-in-law told me the title he received, it’s something like “Little Prince” or something similar….anyway, He won a trophy and his picture will be in our town’s newspaper.  I am so proud!

I feel a little hypocritical because of the way I really feel about pageants, but I can’t help it…I think that entering a picture is a smidge different than actually making your child parade around on a stage all dressed up and made up.  We just entered a picture that we had already had taken-before we even had knowledge of the pageant, so…am I really a hypocrit or is it just my defiance against pageants poking through??

Oh well, who cares, I just really wanted to share the fact that my baby boy won most photogenic!!!  YAY!!!

My Little Boy!!!

Here are some recent pictures of my little boy…I think he is hands down the cutest baby in the world!!  Of course, I am biased…But, really, can you blame me????

In a couple of the pictures, he has a pink frog, I bought it for him for Valentine’s Day, and because it is so soft, it is his favorite toy….It’s so funny to see him get excited about me giving him this frog, so he can immediately put the frog feet in his mouth and the little eye bump things too…it is too cute!!!

The plaid base ball hat is his first baseball hat….I think he looks adorable in this hat, he also has some beanie’s that he wears when we go outside when the wind is blowing so his ears can be covered up and his head can stay warm…

He loves to jump in his jumper…He just bounces in it for as long as we let him….It’s very good exercise!  Plus, it has so many different toys and lights and songs that it makes it exciting all of the time!!!

He is amazing!!!  I love him so much!!!