What I am learning as a mom to be...

So I am not professing to be an expert, but this has been a topic of conversation for me whenever I speak to my friends/family about becoming a mom. How do you keep your sanity? How do you set the rules without being a hitler? How do you keep your child from being exposed to things he/she doesn't need to be exposed to without resorting to locking them in their closets/rooms?

I mean the list goes on and on... I am sure this is a thought process for most new time moms and dads.

I thought of this again today when I was standing outside the hotel fuming mad. Who taught these people how to survive as an adult? Did no one teach them that when an alarm goes off you leave your stuff and just get out? I remember talking about this in our home and at school. I started to think more about how much we have ahead of us as far as teaching our little one survival skills 101. What a responsibility!

I think my biggest goal is to raise a socially smart, manner conscious, respectful, intelligent little girl. Is that too big of a goal?

okay I am done... :)

Catching Up...

Well we basically suck at keeping up to date on this blog. Hopefully when our little "peanut" comes I will be better about it. :)




This week and next week we are in Vegas for Stephen's job. We are staying at a Holiday Inn Express by Nellis Air Force Base. What a difference from Utah! This town is so touristy even if you aren't on the strip.


This morning at about 545 Stephen left for work. I was just drifting back to sleep which, as you know if you have ever been 7 months pregnant, is not the easiest thing to do. At 645 I woke up to a blaring, and I mean BLARING, fire alarm. So I grabbed my phone and the room key quickly and headed out to the stairs. I was half awake and cursing the stupid alarm, stumbling down the stairs while calling stephen. I will not post the words I used when I spoke to him but it wasn't pretty...

The funny thing about Fire Alarms is, they are super annoying and loud on purpose... they are there for your protection. I walked around to the front of the hotel to find one person sitting on a bench in front with probably 15 to 20 cars parked in the lot. That was it.. me and one person. Then one other couple came out of a side door looking as sleepy and pissed off as I was. so in this 3 level hotel with 20 plus cars in the parking lot 4 people paid attention to the stupid alarm. It finally shut off after about 20 minutes outside. I walked into the lobby to find 2 employees back in a room which I am sure was a power/fuse room. I just continued to my room thinkin it was a false alarm. I smelt burning toast which made me believe that was the trigger (free continental breakfast every morning). As I was walking to my room I saw 2 guys sitting at tables in the lobby and laughing at all 4 of us walking back to our rooms. As I walked down the hall to the elevator I heard shuffling in rooms as I passed. It just made me laugh to myself thinking if this was really a fire those people would have been in their rooms ignoring the "fire."

So this leads me to my next point in this awfully long post... what I want to teach peanut when she is old enough.....