Walking Backwards

Why is play-doh so difficult to make? Ok, I shouldn't say so difficult to make, but the color is really hard to get right. I tried to make red play-doh today and came out with this unusual meat-colored concoction. I had previously tried blue, but ended up with light teal. It doesn't matter how much food coloring you add either; you are just going to darken the shade of weirdness. I would buy the stuff that comes pre-made in cans, after all its less than a dollar, but I am more comfortable with the homemade variety of anything my son is probably going to put in his mouth. I suppose the color doesn't matter to an eighteen month-old, but all my creations don't seem as bright and cheery as I'd like them to be.


Nicholas has taken to tantruming regularly. He does have a set of lungs on him too and knows how to use them. I had to leave the fabric store today because he just could not accept the fact that I would not buy him the gigantic bag of plastic Easter eggs that he kept dragging behind him. I'm worried that I am not going to be able to ever get anything done again because I always have to take Nicholas with me where ever I go. Joe is home very little and when he is, he complains about running errands the whole time we are doing them so it is just not worth it. I guess I am just going to have to suck it up and handle the angry glares of the other customers. I hope they understand that he is just a baby and this is the way babies behave sometimes. After all, we all have bad days sometimes.


I need to re-do our budget. I have yet to figure out where all of our money has been going recently, but it has been going. We have essentially eliminated eating out and I rarely buy anything, so I just don't get it. I did spend some money getting home improvement items, but that shouldn't be as significant a dent into our checking account as we seem to be having. We are getting all of our paperwork together to do our taxes tomorrow, so I should probably look into everything then. This has me really worried because we were cutting it close financially when we first moved in to this house and we need to watch every penny closely for the next few years. At least our bills are getting paid off, we just might not have the money to do anything for the next three years. Mentioning which, when did hotels at the coast get so expensive during the off-season? The only way we are going to be able to go is if we have a nice tax-return.


I know I shouldn't complain as we live fairly comfortably and never have to worry about having our electricity turned off. I am just whiney tonight I guess. I don't know why I'm so cranky.