Happy New Year a little late!
January 3, 2008We had a fairly calm New Years this year. We went to our friends until about 11, which was the point where their daughter and Widget began to spend more time whining and crying than playing. We had hoped we could lull them to sleep with a movie but it was to no avail. We gave up, came home and were in bed a freckle past midnight.
We have tried to have a fairly calm week after all the Christmas festivities over the last few weeks. I did end up rearranging the living room furniture after we took the tree down, moving a bookcase into our room and shifting the tv into a corner so it is no longer the focal point of the room- not that it has reduced the amount of time the tv has been on! Something we need to work on 
I don’t generally make New Years resolutions because they are usually out the window within a month, although we are definitely going to be working on managing our finances better. We did start watching the Financial Peace University Bankruptcy course on Dave Ramsey’s site last night and I think we will get some very useful information from the course. It seems much better than the crappy online credit counseling we got in order to file.
I would also like to get Widget fully potty trained soon!! She drives me bonkers because she knows when she has to go but we have gotten nowhere with actually training. If she is bare bottomed, she will run to the potty and go (although she did pee in one of her snack bowls yesterday!). If I put underwear on her, she just pees in it like it is a diaper. Pullups just make her lazy, she never tries to use the potty while wearing a pullup. We have a little potty, we have a seat that goes on the big potty. We’ve tried stickers. We’ve tried bribes. We’ve tried treats. We’ve tried talking about how she will be able to go to school when she goes in the potty all the time, something she is always asking about. We praise her every time she goes. We tell her how her cousins uses the potty, how her friend uses the potty. Nothing is working. It may be the one thing that drives me insane *lol*
And now Widget would like to play video games. I regret the day I showed her them on the computer. She may become as addicted as I am to this darn thing 
*delurking*
Happy New Year.
*hugs* on potty “training”. My son was day time trained until 4 or night trained until…well we still have struggles…. He just wasn’t ready. The day he turned 3 he announced that poopy diapers were nasty and never had an accident after that (and never went in his diaper. ever. again.) He wasn’t ready for anything else. The weekend he turned 4 he announced that he was a big boy and was done with diapers. One day we used them. The next we didn’t. We had a few accidents (ie shopping excursions that went too long) but other wise he was “instantly” ready. He just took a really LONG time to be ready. My niece did almost exactly the same time. One day Widget will wake up and very likely be “ready”.
-Mary
oops. i mean my son wasn’t day time trained until 4…..