Bright Lights

I had such a great week with Jackson. I mean every day is a great day with him. This week though something was just special. He is always such a wonderful little boy but this week he just seemed perfect- lol. I think having a few days with him all to myself made me appreciate having such a loving little guy. He makes me feel like the most loved mommy ever.

Tonight Jackson and I went with my parents to see the lights at the Botanical Gardens. We let Jackson ride in the front seat while we drove through the park and he thought he was something special. He loved the spider web lights the most and made a point to tell me that I was probably scared because he knows how scared him Mommy is of spiders. If you know me then you know I AM TERRIFIED so it was cute to see him notice that I might be scared. He told me he would hold my hand. See... perfect little boy- isn't he?

Another really special thing is Jackson's relationship with my dad. They have the closest relationship I have ever seen a grandparent have with a child. They are best friends. Jackson knows my dad would do anything for him and I can tell he feels absolutely safe with my dad. They play for hours on end and my dad has the patience of a GOD! He calls my dad Pop Pop and I just adore how close they are.

Tonight Jackson is spending the night at my mom's house. I went to the grocery store after I left her house tonight and I felt like I was speed shopping without a little 2 year old trying to open everything and begging for a toy. I was in and out in like 30 minutes and only spent 60.00! If Jackson would have been there he would have cost me easily another 20.00 or so. So, now I am at home ALONE and Pretty Woman is on TV right now. So all in all it was a great day.

Although, Sarah and her little Hannah are sick so I am worried about them. I hope they are feeling better and ALL sleeping. It has been a rough December for those girls and sleep deprived December for Chad and all the girls. Feel better soon and you can call me in the middle of the night anytime- lol. Love ya.

Oh... and a little side note. I forgot to add the part where after we got back to my Mom's house and my dad and I were going to leave I couldn't find my camera. Not in the diaper bag, my purse, my dad's truck, the grass, my mom's house. NOWHERE! Which made no sense because I had it in the truck taking pictures at the lights. So we searched for over half an hour just for me to find it in the diaper bag which my mom and I had both searched over and over again. I should have taken a picture of my dad's face then- lol. Gotta love the Liz moments!!

So... tomorrow I start my 3 day stretch of work. 10am-10pm 3 days in a row. UGGGGH. I can do it, I can do it, I can do it.

House all to myself!

Yayyy... I have the house all to myself today and tomorrow! Anyone who knows me knows why I am jumping for joy. It is no secret that Jason and I are living together but not "together". We get along, have fun with Jackson and remain friends but are no longer a couple even though we are legally married. See where the roller coaster Liz header comes from? It might not be "normal" but we have made it work. I am actually looking for a place to rent and hope to move out once I find somewhere. He will continue to try and sell the house and we will try and still be the best parents we can be. Jackson of course is the one that suffers but we can't continue to live like we are and have him growing up thinking that is normal either. I think it is better now anyways because it no longer matters why we aren't together, who did what, etc. We have forgiven each other and now still have maintained the friendship we have always had. I mean I have known him 10 years this month. Crazy isn't it?

But anyways... he is at some truck thingie... so Jackson and I can spend a few days just the two of us. Jackson is playing cars right now and watching THOMAS! Ugggh damn Thomas the Train is like nails on a chalk board for me. The little man loves it though so what can I do? Watch and grind my teeth I guess- lol. I am starting to stress a little because I haven't Christmas shopped yet. Yeah, I am ridiculous! I plan on going this Tuesday because I have the day off from work. My dad will watch Jackson and hopefully I can just wipe it out all in one day. Every other year I could take Jackson with me and he would be clueless but not this year. This year it is time to play Santa- for real- hehe.

I am going to attach a few more pics to this post. These are December pics. You will see the wine glass that Jackson now has to drink out of with his dinner. His little friend in the pics is Sarah. Her mom works with me at the hospital and the kids are 2 weeks apart. They love playing together and he treats her so sweet. We all went together to see Santa yesterday. The other pics are just of us putting up the tree. Have a great day :)

Survived Santa!

Well.... Jackson went to little gym this morning. He was EXCELLENT! He played nice and the child that doesn't get along with him wasn't there so we had no issues! He danced and did lots of flips. It is too stinkin cute to watch! After Little Gym I dragged the child to Greenbrier Mall to get pictures taken with Santa. The entire way he told me, "I'm not gonna do it Mommy. I am not gonna see Santa!" So like any crazy mom I took him in the mall and bribed him with all sorts of foolishness just to get the kid on the man's lap. He started to cry but in the end sat on Santa's lap and had a half smile. So, I can't complain and I am pleased- haha. It really is sick what us moms do to our kids! We also got soaked in the pouring rain today... but hey we had fun and that's all that counts. Now for the rest of the day we are just going to play and relax!

Ok, I'll try this too!

Well, my friend Sarah decided to start blogging so I thought I would give this a shot as well. I like the idea of having a way to store memories of my son. Plus, I can see how it could be kind of therapeutic- haha. Anyone who knows me knows my life has been a roller coaster lately (notice the title... roller coaster liz). When I say lately, it's been this way for ohhhh about 2.5 years! Yep, I am serious.

Today Jackson and I just spent the day doing NOTHING around the house! After working the past 3 days straight (3 days in a row from 10am-10pm) and an hour drive each way I just felt like sitting around and crashing all day. So, we played trains and just had fun together. Then later tonight we drove around the neighborhood and just looked at Christmas lights. He had a blast doing that. It was really cute. It is adorable to see Christmas through the eyes of a 2 year old. Everything is so exciting as it should be. When he first started seeing Christmas lights he thought we were supposed to ring the doorbell and ask for candy. Guess Halloween was still on his mind!

Tomorrow we are going to Little Gym where I will triple cross my fingers that Jackson doesn't argue with the one little kid with the nutty parents who accused him of being a bully. I mean I can't help that my kid doesn't take crap even at 2. Haha- just kidding (sorta). Then we are going to take pics with Santa (should be interesting considering last year I had to sit on Santa's lap to get him even close to Santa). So... hope everyone has a good morning tomorrow. I am off to bed now!