Random Thoughts

So exactly one week ago, I was sitting with friends, and they were discussing how to make time-outs effective. I had to admit that it had honestly been a couple months since Lillie had had a time-out. She's been great lately, so fun and goofy, playful and loving.

But since that conversation, Lillie has had more than her share of time-outs. She has hit DESTRUCTO mode! Just right now, Eric brought me my broken glasses, part of the aftermath of Hurricane Lillie (Great I don't have the money to replace those, plus my prescription is expired, so tack on another $75 to the cost of the glasses). She runs through the house pulling down as many books (tearing out handfuls of pages), then moves to the dvds and pulls them all off the rack, then heads to my purse, emptying it's contents and opens my wallet and pulls out everything inside it, etc, etc. It goes on and on, she just goes from room to room ripping everything to shreds. She doesn't play with her toys anymore, because she's so busy ruining everything else. I spend all my time cleaning up her messes! AAAAAHHHHHH!

Eric has been studying like crazy for his part 1 dental boards. Which means I never see him. I spend a lot of the day and night alone or trying to survive the terror named Lillie (refer to the paragraph above).

But, we are heading up to WA to visit my family while Eric finishes up studying and takes his exam and then we'll drive to Yellowstone and have a little vacation before returning here. So there are fun times ahead, I haven't been home in 7 mos. I have never been more excited to go... except that we are driving! 20+ hours of straight driving. This is going to be interesting.