interesting adjusting to NY, celebrated my birthday today

[bekmae]

So it isn't Florida i can tell you that. it is funny, i know that when mark told me for the first time that we were going to be moving back to NY i was excited, very happy even to be moving back to the state of my childhood plus many years of young adulthood where i met mark and just basically call home. i was happy that my family was now only going to be 4 hours away driving instead of 2 days driving. i was looking forward to wearing sweaters and jeans again. mostly because the baby weight is not coming off as fast as i thought it would and it is much easier to bundle up a few extra pounds then to expose it in skirts and tank tops. i was thrilled that i would be able to show my daughter snow and how to properly play in it, even though she would be to young this winter and would have to wait till next before she even has the motor skills to make a snow angle.  i flung in the face of my poor husband how happy i was that he was moving me back to this place i thought held such magic for me........

                What was i thinking? i must have been delirious, insane even to think that moving back to this weather would be fun. i am cold and not only do i now have a hard time dresses for the winter ( all my winter things in storage don't fit, go figure) but i am having a hard time learning how much is too much or too little when it comes to bundling a 6 month old baby for the cold. so far i have half froze and over heated my daughter. not thinking that she needed to have a few layers i let her hands and legs get to cold on one outing. then the next time i went out i was panicked that i put her in this ridiculous one piece fuzzy thick outfit. poor thing was so drenched in sweat she broke out in pimples all over her back where she was sitting in the car seat where it doesn't breath properly in the first place. poor little girl. another thing i have had to readjust to and must have slipped my mind is how far apart things are here in the country. I moved to a very wooded spaced out part of NY. I love in between Buffalo and Rochester in a small town that you will miss if you blink. i live about 15 mins from the town limits. takes 25 to get to Walmart which is the only shopping i have unless i want to go 35 mins away to next town, where yes, they have a Target. 15 mins to pediatrician was a blesses and i will gladly take. hope they plow the roads well here. 

                   i can truly say now, with my head hung low in front of my husband who i taunted my love for NY in front of, hunny...i miss Florida.  we have decided that we are no longer going to look for a house in this area. we are putting together a savings account that we will put into on a regular basis to afford to buy a house in Florida and move our cold little butts back there within the next 5-6 years. mark needs to stick with this greenhouse and learn abit more and figure out what he can do in Florida to make a living. not too many greenhouses there growing tomatoes and seeing as my husband is a greenhouse grower we need to think on this  a bit longer. i am happy we have a goal now, we know where we want a permanent home now and i am willing to wait a bit to get it. save now to get a nice house later is fine with me. so for now i Will dream of those beaches and close shopping stores, and letting my daughter run around in her diaper if she so pleases. i will buy stock in sunblock if i don't have to bundle her up anymore.

 

     on a side note, i celebrated my 31st birtday today. it was very nice and relaxing. Rosemary behaved very well, acctually got good sleep the night before. Husband took me for a nice dinner and got my an icecream cake for home afterwards. i got much love and good wishes from all my family and friends and felt really good. now it is time to rest and fall alseep with my two loves in this world. jersey knitt sheets and my wonderful husband. xoxoxoxoxoxo goodnight all and hope everyone had a wonderful thanksgiving. now it is time to get ready for Santa. can't wait to put light out.

[heidi_val]

Nov. 28, 2009 at 7:19 AM

aww, you'll get used to the cold.