Christmas cards
I finally finished them and I have them sitting on the table next to me, in their sealed envelopes, all ready to be dropped off at the post office tomorrow. Thats after Viktor stops by the post office and gets some additional postage for half of them. But at least they’re done. With the kids pictures taken so late, I already knew that my family in Lithuania will get them after Christmas, and I even told them that. But hey, better later than never! I also thought that family and friends that are out here, will also be getting them after Christmas. But not anymore, they should get them by Saturday, hopefully! I’m just so happy they are done!
No time, no time, no time
Seriously, I wish the day would have more than 24 hours, or that we would only need a couple hours of sleep and the kids would sleep for 12 hours or more. Wishful thinking, huh? During the day I can’t really get anything done. There is Lukas always crying or whining for one reason or another, and lately it seems like that he is whining ALL day long. And then there are the tantrums for every single thing: he wants this juice, he wants the other juice, he wants a yeallow cup and then a blue cup, he wants to watch this DVD, he wants to watch that one, he wants me to pull the cars out from under the bed (which I stopped doing it, because he throws them there on purpose, I let Viktor deal with that), he wants me to build a choo choo with him with his gazilion of cars that he has, he wants to go outside and blow bubbles, he wants to drink a cup of milk almost every hour, he wants to always have his paci, he wants to he wants to he wants to, and when I say NO to any of the things, most of the time there will be crying and whining and the tantrums begin. Recently I learned that as soon as he starts crying I just take him to the other room, close the door and let him be there all byhimself, and tell him that he can get out AFTER he stopped crying.
And then there is Ava, that is starting to crawl, and while she is doing it very slowly, she gets frustrated and starts crying. Other times she will be sitting up and once in a while she will fall down and then there is more crying.
So during the day I don’t really have the time to do anything, or if I start doing something, I won’t have enough time to finish it. And at the end of the day I’m just so tired, that all I want to do is sit at the computer and reas my favorite websites, and by the time I finish reading a few of them, its time to go to bed because usually it will be around midnight, and that leaves me with no time to blog. Some days I even forget to eat. Like today, when Viktor came home a little after 4 I started feeling all sick and I remembered that all I had today was 2 cups of coffee in the morning and a slice of bread with butter on top. No wonder I was feeling sick at 4.
Now that Viktor’s school is over (until sometime in January), he will be home more and hopefull that will help me to find some time to do things while he plays with the kids.
Goodies
Well we finally heard from my mother-in-law and brother-in-law on Sunday. When they went to his work and found a gazillion of messages on his phone, he called us. And they are doing ok. No power, no phone, no cell phone, no refrigerator, but they’re doing ok. Thank God for the fireplaces. Thats how they’ve been staying warm. Their food is outside in a cooler, since it is cold enough outside to keep the food cool. They said they won’t get the power back until about Thursday, just in time for Holidays.
Today I baked a traditional Lithuanian Christmas Eve/Christmas dish – Slizikai. Ingridiens: yeast, flour, poppy seeds, sugar, salt, milk. It turned out prety good, just not as sweet as I would want them to be. My mom told me to pour about a glass of sugar (for the amount I was making), but a glass just seemed too much. I should have listened to her. Here is a picture of raw and then baked:
We are worried!
It’s been rainy, and stormy, and windy up in Washington, and we haven’t heard anything from my mother-in-law or brother-in-law since Thursday. Thats when their power went out and we haven’t heard since. We’ve been calling the cellphone and the voicemail picks up right away, the house and it shows the disconnected signal, kind of like busy, but beeps faster, and the work number also goes directly to the voicemail.
It could be that they’re just stuck at home with no power, no heat, no phones. We are just so worried about them.
It is still missing
Yup, so my package is officially missing! And you know how pissed I am?! I talked to the company and FedEx yesterday, and they just can not find it. Somebody had to take it, how could it be lost. It’s not a small box that would get barried somewhere. They better overnight it for me know, so that I get it on time. Anyway, I thought I woild let you all know.
A missing package
So on December 5th I ordered something online and it was going to be sent to me by FedEx. I was supposed to get the package yesterday, but as of today I still have not received it. I called the company and they gave me a tracking number, so I go on FedEx website and check, and it says that it was received at a local FedEx facility early yesterday morning. This morning I call them up to check the status of my order, and this guy Sergio checked it and he could not find it. He took my number and was going to call me as soon as he knows where it is. Well I’m inpatient and concerned, so I call again a few hours later, this time I talked to a lady. She put me on hold while she contacted the delivery guy, and was advised that the delivery guy has so many packages that he does not know if he has it or not. How can this be?! Shouldn’t it be scanned before it went on a truck? So I call again in the evening, talked to Sergio, and he said the same thing, that he is not sure where the package is. he said that the first delivery guy did not have it. So he contacts the other delivery guy, and it seems that he also does not have it in his truck. He says that maybe it was placed on another truck. Maybe?! Then he said that tomorrow first thing in the morning he will check all the trucks and call me back at 10 am to let me know. And if it doesn’t show up, I will have to contact the company where I order it, they will have to do a claim, and only then will I get my replacement sent to me. I’m soooo MAD!!! The reason I ordered it earlier is that I get it in time for Christmas, since it is a Christmas gift. GGGRRRRRRRR!!!!!
Christmas Tree
I did ended up going out today, well we all did, and we got a Christmas Tree. Our first real Christmas Tree. We just dorve down the street to Home Depot and picked one out. For some reason, Lukas was very afraid of the trees at first. He wanted to be carried, but then we told him that he has to walk, so then he wanted to hold the hand. But then he got comfortable and was walking all byhimself. We walked back and forth several times looking at all the tall trees, but then decided to go with a smaller one, like we planned at first. We just don’t have the room for the big one. And tomorrow will be Christmas Tree decorating day.
Sleepy
From the minute I got up today, I’ve been so sleepy. I could probably fall asleep and sleep for like 2 days. I had my morning coffee, then a soda, tried cleaning, decorating for Christmas and nothing was helping me to snap out of my sleepiness. At least I have laundry going. And the rest of the day I just stared at the computer and read things. Even though I still have to finish picking pictures out for the calendar and for the Christmas card, but tadya I’m just not motivated to do that at all. But on the good side, it’s only 4pm now, so I still have a lot of time left till the day is over. But who knows what happens if I don’t snap out of my sleepiness. Ah, the bed sounds good now. 
On a happier note
I did get to go out today, with a friend. First had a delicious Ultimate Mudslide at TGIF, then went and saw a movie The Holiday. It is such a great movie! A total chick flick. So girls, go see it!
Then when I got home, Viktor told me that when he was trying to put Lukas down for a nap, Lukas was saying potty potty, so Viktor put him on a potty and Lukas peed in it. It was the first time that he actually wanted to sit on in. Before we usually had to beg for him to sit on it. Then at night time Lukas again said potty, and again we put him on it and he peed in it again! I’m sooo happy!! 
Well, maybe I shouldn’t be yet, because tomorrow its a new day and it all might change. But just the fact that he wasn’t fighting back to sit on a potty, and HE was the one that asked to sit on it, made me happy. Who knew that I would be so happy when my child would sit on a potty, and now that he went pee in it, I’m in 7th Heaven!
Night seven
Well tonight it would have been the 7th night that we are trying to put Lukas to sleep by himself. And as usual, we all went upstairs, put jammies on, red a few books, kissed Lukas goodnight, tucked him in and left the room. He only cried for about a minute, maybe two. And then he started walking out of his room again. Viktor goes up for the 100th and comes right down and tells me to go upstairs. As I start walking up the stairs, I see there is a light coming out of his room, and when I walk into the room I see Lukas standing by his closet door, pointing to one of his shirts and saying “Shirt”. What he meant was that he wanted me to put that shirt on him. He is just getting smarter and smarter every day! So I lay him back down and there he goes with the crying again and is still coming out of his room. Sooooo…..
After 40 minutes of Lukas coming out of his room, Viktor gives up!!! WTH!!! Today it would’ve been only our 7th day. He told me that he was going to go up and lay down with him till he falls asleep. I told him if he does that, then HE ALWAYS will have to go and lay down with him @ 9pm. And Viktor said OK. We’ll see! And I can guarantee you all that THAT won’t happen, because there are days when Viktor comes home from school at 9:30 pm if not later.
When Lukas was about 6-7 months old, I tried doing the cry-it-out, but Viktor was the one that couldn’t do it (yes, it was very hard for me too to listen to him cry, but I was willing) and that was the reason we were sleeping with Lukas. So this time I wanted to try it again and Viktor agreed. And then after ONLY 7 days (not even) he gives up. Argh, I’m so mad!! It was a very long week, I haven’t been in my greatest mood because of it, and now just to throw it all out the window? And then Lukas had to cry for 7 nights, and for what?!?! I really don’t understand men!
Viktor’s excuse for doing that was because I bought a book ‘the no-cry sleep solution for toddlers and preschoolers’ and they had a different method of putting kids down, with no crying. Which it would be ok if we would have tried what we have started for at least 2 weeks if not longer, not 7 days! Argh…..I could go on and on about it.
ETA: so tonight Lukas fell asleep @ 11pm. with Viktor laying next to him of course.
Viktor goes on the computer, then comes to me and sayd that on Baby Center it sayd not to let toddlers cry before they go to bed, because it inreases their something and that will make them to stay up longer.
Whatever, don’t even talk to me, I’ve had a looooong week!
