Happy birthday to me :-)
I'll elaborate later on how it's been...
Saturday, August 25, 2007
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Hilarious Ebay Listing
I got this email from a friend, makes me feel like my life ain't so hard after all ~Amber
You may not want to buy any pokemon cards but read the description it is worth it! LOL!!!! I
have pasted the description below if the bidding is over and you can't read it....
On Aug-17-07 at 14:10:11 PDT, seller added the following information:
On Aug-21-07 at 13:37:48 PDT, seller added the following information:
On Aug-21-07 at 14:07:29 PDT, seller added the following information:
On Aug-21-07 at 23:03:41 PDT, seller added the following information:
You may not want to buy any pokemon cards but read the description it is worth it! LOL!!!! I
have pasted the description below if the bidding is over and you can't read it....
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130144061675&ru=http%3A%
I'm selling a bunch of Pokemon cards. Why? Because my kids sneaked them into my shopping cart while at the grocery store and I ended up buying them because I didn't notice they were there until we got home. How could I have possibly not noticed they were in my cart, you ask? Let me explain.
You haven’t lived until you’ve gone grocery shopping with six kids in tow. I would rather swim, covered in bait, through the English Channel, be a contestant on Fear Factor when they’re having pig brains for lunch, or do fourth grade math than to take my six kids to the grocery store. Because I absolutely detest grocery shopping, I tend to put it off as long as possible. There comes a time, however, when you’re peering into your fridge and thinking, ‘Hmmm, what can I make with ketchup, Italian dressing, and half an onion,’ that you decide you cannot avoid going to the grocery store any longer. Before beginning this most treacherous mission, I gather all the kids together and give them “The Lecture“.
“The Lecture“ goes like this…
MOM: “We have to go to the grocery store.”
KIDS: “Whine whine whine whine whine.“
MOM: “Hey, I don’t want to go either, but it’s either that or we’re eating cream of onion-ketchup soup and drinking Italian dressing for dinner tonight.”
KIDS: “Whine whine whine whine whine.“
MOM: “Now here are the rules: do not ask me for anything, do not poke the packages of meat in the butcher section, do not test the laws of physics and try to take out the bottom can in the pyramid shaped display, do not play baseball with oranges in the produce section, and most importantly, do not try to leave your brother at the store. Again.”
OK, the kids have been briefed. Time to go.
Once at the store, we grab not one, but two shopping carts. I wear the baby in a sling and the two little children sit in the carts while I push one cart and my oldest son pushes the other one. My oldest daughter is not allowed to push a cart. Ever. Why? Because the last time I let her push the cart, she smashed into my ankles so many times, my feet had to be amputated by the end of our shopping trip. This is not a good thing. You try running after a toddler with no feet sometime.
At this point, a woman looks at our two carts and asks me, “Are they all yours?” I answer good naturedly, “Yep!
“Oh my, you have your hands full.”
“Yes, I do, but it‘s fun!” I say smiling. I’ve heard all this before. In fact, I hear it every time I go anywhere with my brood.
We begin in the produce section where all these wonderfully, artistically arranged pyramids of fruit stand. There is something so irresistibly appealing about the apple on the bottom of the pile, that a child cannot help but try to touch it. Much like a bug to a zapper, the child is drawn to this piece of fruit. I turn around to the sounds of apples cascading down the display and onto the floor. Like Indiana Jones, there stands my son holding the all-consuming treasure that he just HAD to get and gazing at me with this dumbfounded look as if to say, “Did you see that??? Wow! I never thought that would happen!”
I give the offending child an exasperated sigh and say, “Didn’t I tell you, before we left, that I didn’t want you taking stuff from the bottom of the pile???”
“No. You said that you didn’t want us to take a can from the bottom of the pile. You didn’t say anything about apples.”
With superhuman effort, I resist the urge to send my child to the moon and instead focus on the positive - my child actually listened to me and remembered what I said!!! I make a mental note to be a little more specific the next time I give the kids The Grocery Store Lecture.
A little old man looks at all of us and says, “Are all of those your kids?”
Thinking about the apple incident, I reply, “Nope. They just started following me. I’ve never seen them before in my life.”
OK, now onto the bakery section where everything smells so good, I’m tempted to fill my cart with cookies and call it a day. Being on a perpetual diet, I try to hurry past the assortment of pies, cakes, breads, and pastries that have my children drooling. At this point the chorus of “Can we gets” begins.
“Can we get donuts?”
“No.”
“Can we get cupcakes?”
“No.”
“Can we get muffins?”
“No.”
“Can we get pie?”
“No.”
You’d think they’d catch on by this point, but no, they’re just getting started.
In the bakery, they’re giving away free samples of coffee cake and of course, my kids all take one. The toddler decides he doesn’t like it and proceeds to spit it out in my hand. (That’s what moms do. We put our hands in front of our children’s mouths so they can spit stuff into them. We’d rather carry around a handful of chewed up coffee cake, than to have the child spit it out onto the floor. I’m not sure why this is, but ask any mom and she’ll tell you the same.) Of course, there’s no garbage can around, so I continue shopping one-handed while searching for someplace to dispose of the regurgitated mess in my hand.
In the meat department, a mother with one small baby asks me, “Wow! Are all six yours?”
I answer her, “Yes, but I’m thinking of selling a couple of them.”
(Still searching for a garbage can at this point.)
Ok, after the meat department, my kids’ attention spans are spent. They’re done shopping at this point, but we aren’t even halfway through the store. This is about the time they like to start having shopping cart races. And who may I thank for teaching them this fun pastime? My seventh “child”, also known as my husband. While I’m picking out loaves of bread, the kids are running down the aisle behind the carts in an effort to get us kicked out of the store. I put to stop to that just as my son is about to crash head on into a giant cardboard cut-out of a Keebler elf stacked with packages of cookies.
Ah! Yes! I find a small trash can by the coffee machine in the cereal aisle and finally dump out the squishy contents of my hand. After standing in the cereal aisle for an hour and a half while the kids perused the various cereals, comparing the marshmallow and cheap, plastic toy content of each box, I broke down and let them each pick out a box. At any given time, we have twenty open boxes of cereal in my house.
As this is going on, my toddler is playing Houdini and maneuvering his little body out of the seat belt in an attempt to stand up in the cart. I’m amazed the kid made it to his second birthday without suffering a brain damaging head injury. In between trying to flip himself out of the cart, he sucks on the metal bars of the shopping cart. Mmmm, can you say “influenza”?
The shopping trip continues much like this. I break up fights between the kids now and then and stoop down to pick up items that the toddler has flung out of the cart. I desperately try to get everything on my list without adding too many other goodies to the carts.
Somehow I manage to complete my shopping in under four hours and head for the check-outs where my kids start in on a chorus of, “Can we have candy?” What evil minded person decided it would be a good idea to put a display of candy in the check-out lanes, right at a child’s eye level? Obviously someone who has never been shopping with children.
As I unload the carts, I notice many extra items that my kids have sneaked in the carts unbeknownst to me. I remove a box of Twinkies, a package of cupcakes, a bag of candy, and a can of cat food (we don’t even have a cat!). I somehow missed the box of Pokemon cards however and ended up purchasing them unbeknownst to me. As I pay for my purchases, the clerk looks at me, indicates my kids, and asks, “Are they all yours?”
Frustrated, exhausted from my trip, sick to my stomach from writing out a check for $289.53, dreading unloading all the groceries and putting them away and tired of hearing that question, I look at the clerk and answer her in my most sarcastic voice, “No. They’re not mine. I just go around the neighborhood gathering up kids to take to the grocery store because it’s so much more fun that way.”
So, up for auction is an opened (they ripped open the box on the way home from the store) package of Pokemon cards. There are 44 cards total. They're in perfect condition, as I took them away from the kiddos as soon as we got home from the store. Many of them say "Energy". I tried carrying them around with me, but they didn't work. I definitely didn't have any more energy than usual. One of them is shiny. There are a few creature-like things on many of them. One is called Pupitar. Hee hee hee Pupitar! (Oh no! My kids' sense of humor is rubbing off on me!) Anyway, I don't there's anything special about any of these cards, but I'm very much not an authority on Pokemon cards. I just know that I'm not letting my kids keep these as a reward for their sneakiness.
Shipping is FREE on this item. Insurance is optional, but once I drop the package at the post office, it is no longer my responsibility. For example, if my son decides to pour a bottle of glue into the envelope, or my daughter spills a glass of juice on the package, that’s my responsibility and I will fully refund your money. If, however, I take the envelope to the post office and a disgruntled mail carrier sets fire to it, a pack of wild dogs rip into it, or a mail sorting machine shreds it, it’s out of my hands, so you may want to add insurance. I will leave feedback for you as soon as I’ve received your payment. I will be happy to combine shipping on multiple items won within three days. This comes from a smoke-free, pet-free, child-filled home. Please ask me any questions before placing your bid. Happy bidding! :)
On Aug-17-07 at 14:10:11 PDT, seller added the following information:
Check out my other items!
On Aug-21-07 at 13:37:48 PDT, seller added the following information:
14,000 hits!!! Who would've thought? I just wanted to take a minute and say "thank you" to all the people who have taken the time to write me a comment! I certainly appreciate it! It sure is a nice treat waking up to a full box of compliments! I'm trying to answer each comment, but they're honestly coming in faster than I can type!
Many of you have asked if I have a blog. I do. It's mom2my6pack.blogspot.com
Many of you have suggested I write a book. I think I may just have to give that a try. If it ever comes to fruition, I'll post about it on my blog.
And $40.00??? What are you guys nuts? There's nothing special about these cards. Are you bidding on them thinking I'll be a famous author someday? :::laughing like a crazy lady over that one::: I'll give writing a shot, but from what I hear it isn't easy to get a book published. I probably have a better chance of losing ten pounds (and that ain't likely to happen!)
Anyway, again I want to say thank you for reading and passing this on. You've all just made my week! :)
On Aug-21-07 at 14:07:29 PDT, seller added the following information:
Oh yes - I forgot (big surprise there!) to say that apparently I can only post 101 comments. There are a lot of witty, interesting comments I'd like to put out there for everyone to read, but Ebay won't let me. :(
On Aug-21-07 at 23:03:41 PDT, seller added the following information:
I've had several people ask me how many watchers this auction has. As of 1:00am, it has 865.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Pregnancy Woes
(WARNING: Much belly-aching and woe-is-me to follow. You may not want to read) :-)
I had a leg cramp last night - very painful. If you haven't had one, it feels like your muscle is flexing to the very maximum capacity, and then spasms in the flexed position. It lasted about 2 minutes. Now my right calf feels like it got the workout of it's life and is very sore, and the left feels like it's threatening to have a cramp of it's own - although the symmetry would be nice, I'd rather not go through the pain and so I'm trying to prevent any further of these lovely gifts of pregnancy. My dad gets them regularly, so he has something that he takes that helps, until I get my hands on whatever it is that he uses - in the short term I'm drinking lots of water and eating cantaloupe that has lots of potassium in it.
I never get leg cramps except in the third trimester of pregnancies. Another predictable third trimester annoyance is carpal tunnel, which means I get to sleep with splints on my wrists. A new symptom for this pregnancy, similar to the carpal tunnel (both caused by water retention) is sciatica - which is bearable, except when I deliver newspapers. Of course the pay off for all this discomfort is definitely worth it. I just know that I feel big enough already and I still have 2 more months of growing left which is only going to make these symptoms more aggravated! Blech.
I had a leg cramp last night - very painful. If you haven't had one, it feels like your muscle is flexing to the very maximum capacity, and then spasms in the flexed position. It lasted about 2 minutes. Now my right calf feels like it got the workout of it's life and is very sore, and the left feels like it's threatening to have a cramp of it's own - although the symmetry would be nice, I'd rather not go through the pain and so I'm trying to prevent any further of these lovely gifts of pregnancy. My dad gets them regularly, so he has something that he takes that helps, until I get my hands on whatever it is that he uses - in the short term I'm drinking lots of water and eating cantaloupe that has lots of potassium in it.
I never get leg cramps except in the third trimester of pregnancies. Another predictable third trimester annoyance is carpal tunnel, which means I get to sleep with splints on my wrists. A new symptom for this pregnancy, similar to the carpal tunnel (both caused by water retention) is sciatica - which is bearable, except when I deliver newspapers. Of course the pay off for all this discomfort is definitely worth it. I just know that I feel big enough already and I still have 2 more months of growing left which is only going to make these symptoms more aggravated! Blech.
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Kid's Books
Sometime in May I started reading chapter books to Adrienne on a daily basis during Colette's naptimes (Colette doesn't have the attention span or understanding to be interested in them yet). Adrienne and I have really liked the books, so thought I would list them here:
This was the book (click here) that started us on the series, it's not a chapter book, but if you get into these, you might like it for fun.
We read all of these:
Prilla
Bess
Rani
Fira
Vidia
Beck
Lily
Tink
All eight of the above also come in box sets of four, which makes them a little cheaper. By the time we were done with the books above, we had figured out that the book that sets up the back story for all of them is this one:
Fairy Dust and the Quest For the Egg
It's longer than the others (30 chapters as opposed to the 10 in all the others), but I liked it the best (I actually shed a tear or two, but that may have had something to do with my being pregnant and hormonal) :-)
There are many more books in this series, but the ones I want to get the most aren't available yet, so we've switched to some different books:
When I was a kid in elementary school, two of my favorite authors were Judy Blume and Beverly Cleary. I haven't ready anything by them since I was a kid, and thought it would be fun to revisit them with Adrienne. So we got a box set of some of the Ramona books. So far of that box set we've read "Beezus and Ramona" and we're currently on "Ramona the Brave." And Adrienne is enjoying these just as much as the fairy books. They still get my seal of approval these many years later :-)
This was the book (click here) that started us on the series, it's not a chapter book, but if you get into these, you might like it for fun.
We read all of these:
Prilla
Bess
Rani
Fira
Vidia
Beck
Lily
Tink
All eight of the above also come in box sets of four, which makes them a little cheaper. By the time we were done with the books above, we had figured out that the book that sets up the back story for all of them is this one:
Fairy Dust and the Quest For the Egg
It's longer than the others (30 chapters as opposed to the 10 in all the others), but I liked it the best (I actually shed a tear or two, but that may have had something to do with my being pregnant and hormonal) :-)
There are many more books in this series, but the ones I want to get the most aren't available yet, so we've switched to some different books:
When I was a kid in elementary school, two of my favorite authors were Judy Blume and Beverly Cleary. I haven't ready anything by them since I was a kid, and thought it would be fun to revisit them with Adrienne. So we got a box set of some of the Ramona books. So far of that box set we've read "Beezus and Ramona" and we're currently on "Ramona the Brave." And Adrienne is enjoying these just as much as the fairy books. They still get my seal of approval these many years later :-)
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Craigslist
So today we made our 2nd and third Craigslist purchases for house related items. I mentioned the carpet before, and today we got an exterior door, and this soaking tub for the master bath:
I have some other pictures for the house I want to put up, but I have to go finish my paper route now! I would normally be done Saturday mornings, but they didn't have the papers at the drop at the usual midnight and when I got there at 7 a.m. there were still people there loading so they probably arrived about 6:30 a.m.! Because of this they are giving us until tomorrow morning. I got all but one route done this morning, and saved the most dangerous to do in the dark when I can see oncoming headlights and there would be less traffic. Lost track of it there, but my point was that I have other pictures to put up, but this one was easy to pull off the internet. Bye!
I have some other pictures for the house I want to put up, but I have to go finish my paper route now! I would normally be done Saturday mornings, but they didn't have the papers at the drop at the usual midnight and when I got there at 7 a.m. there were still people there loading so they probably arrived about 6:30 a.m.! Because of this they are giving us until tomorrow morning. I got all but one route done this morning, and saved the most dangerous to do in the dark when I can see oncoming headlights and there would be less traffic. Lost track of it there, but my point was that I have other pictures to put up, but this one was easy to pull off the internet. Bye!
Don't dumb it down
Last night the girls and I were going to a High School Musical 2 party, and before we went I wanted to feed the girls a little something since there would be snacks and dessert, but no dinner. So I bbq-ed a hamburger for the three of us to share – ½ for me, and ¼ each for the girls. Usually when we have burgers the girls get ½, so just to explain this departure from the norm I told Adrienne that since we would be having snacks at the party I was giving her ½ of a ½ of a hamburger – thinking that would make more sense to her than ¼. Her response? --- “You mean a quarter?”
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Adrienne & Colette
Colette has become very modest about using the bathroom and will tell me "No yook a'me" to get me to leave her alone. Reminds me of what I was told I said when I first wanted my privacy - "Get outta heayah."
My mom and dad were laughing over the similarities between a drawing Adrienne did of my mom, and one my dad did when they were first married 48 years ago (I can't believe they still have that little piece of paper!):
My mom and dad were laughing over the similarities between a drawing Adrienne did of my mom, and one my dad did when they were first married 48 years ago (I can't believe they still have that little piece of paper!):
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
House Update
Last week Mike and my dad did more framing on the inside walls downstairs, and also on the bonus room above the garage and the shop. They also got everything ready for the trusses to be put up on Thursday (that had been delivered early earlier in the week and were left on the ground by the truss company) - but Thursday came around and apparently they didn't have in their schedule that they were supposed to be there then, so after much heated correspondence by Mike, my mom, and dad they agreed to come out on Monday (this company has not been good with customer service - if anyone needs to know which truss company NOT to go with, ask me!). Here is a picture of the framing in the bonus room:
Another angle:
The trusses laying on the ground:
Looking down on the bonus room/shop from the top floor:
Monday Mike went back to work after six weeks taking leave without pay, but he took annual to come home early and help with the trusses being put up, here are the girls watching the action from the porch:
The crane:
The girls hamming it up:
The trusses up above the shop:
My dad gave us all a scare the day the trusses went up. He was helping with getting the trusses laid on the walls and I guess he lost his footing or track of where he was and fell 10 feet from the top floor to the main floor onto his back. Probably luckily he sort of ricocheted off of the stair railing and then to the kitchen wall before he landed on the hall floor. He was of course VERY very sore and had some bumps and bruises, but no major injuries or broken bones. Really amazing to everyone considering he's 67! So he's taking it easy this week (understandably) and Mike has been taking off early from work to work on getting the trusses up, so progress has slowed down quite a bit this week. Here is Mike working on the trusses above the dining room and master bedroom:
The sky above the house looked pretty:
Another angle (I was taking these from below, so sorry you can't see the trusses very well):
From the inside:
This was sort of funny. Mike had some BBQ sunflower seeds outside he was eating while working on the house and the bag got carried away by birds. So a few weeks later we started noticing these plants coming up on the freshly dug up dirt behind the shop. At first we couldn't tell what they were, but once they got big enough....Sunflowers! I wonder if they would have grown if there weren't the extra July/August rains.
I wonder if the seeds will be BBQ flavored :-)
Another angle:
The trusses laying on the ground:
Looking down on the bonus room/shop from the top floor:
Monday Mike went back to work after six weeks taking leave without pay, but he took annual to come home early and help with the trusses being put up, here are the girls watching the action from the porch:
The crane:
The girls hamming it up:
The trusses up above the shop:
My dad gave us all a scare the day the trusses went up. He was helping with getting the trusses laid on the walls and I guess he lost his footing or track of where he was and fell 10 feet from the top floor to the main floor onto his back. Probably luckily he sort of ricocheted off of the stair railing and then to the kitchen wall before he landed on the hall floor. He was of course VERY very sore and had some bumps and bruises, but no major injuries or broken bones. Really amazing to everyone considering he's 67! So he's taking it easy this week (understandably) and Mike has been taking off early from work to work on getting the trusses up, so progress has slowed down quite a bit this week. Here is Mike working on the trusses above the dining room and master bedroom:
The sky above the house looked pretty:
Another angle (I was taking these from below, so sorry you can't see the trusses very well):
From the inside:
This was sort of funny. Mike had some BBQ sunflower seeds outside he was eating while working on the house and the bag got carried away by birds. So a few weeks later we started noticing these plants coming up on the freshly dug up dirt behind the shop. At first we couldn't tell what they were, but once they got big enough....Sunflowers! I wonder if they would have grown if there weren't the extra July/August rains.
I wonder if the seeds will be BBQ flavored :-)
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Suggestions Please?
Original post - We have a few names that we're considering for this baby, but I would like some ideas...so please leave a comment with boy name ideas. Nothing too common because we have a common last name, but nothing to weird either. Right now the top two contenders are Jeremy and Nathaniel.
8/12/07 - We are liking Edward lately...we'll see if it pans out. Mike's middle name is Edward and I believe it's a family name on his side. I think we might have Edward on my side too, but I will have to check on that...I might be thinking of Gustav...I believe there are Gustav's in each of our families. By the way, Edward ranked 143 on Social Security's top 1000 list for last year, so not super common, although I'm sure there are many Edward Miller's out there, there probably aren't going to be as many in this generation because it has been declining in popularity over the years (it was #9 100 years ago).
8/16/07 - You can still feel free to give suggestions, but we're going with Edward for now.
8/12/07 - We are liking Edward lately...we'll see if it pans out. Mike's middle name is Edward and I believe it's a family name on his side. I think we might have Edward on my side too, but I will have to check on that...I might be thinking of Gustav...I believe there are Gustav's in each of our families. By the way, Edward ranked 143 on Social Security's top 1000 list for last year, so not super common, although I'm sure there are many Edward Miller's out there, there probably aren't going to be as many in this generation because it has been declining in popularity over the years (it was #9 100 years ago).
8/16/07 - You can still feel free to give suggestions, but we're going with Edward for now.
Thursday, August 9, 2007
Syllables and Similes
One day about 4 months ago or so I was driving along in the van with the girls and Adrienne says to me out of the blue "Let's talk about similes!" Wanting to encourage any kind of educational growth I say "Okay!"...then start to rack my brains trying to remember what a simile is. But no need because Adrienne immediately says "A cupcake is as sweet as honey!"
Also around within a few weeks of that conversation, for some reason I was explaining to Adrienne what a syllable is. So, we practiced a few words together and she accurately told me how many syllables were in each practice word. Then she is quiet and a few minutes later she informs me that the names of the people in our family total 8 syllables (That's for Adrienne, Colette, Mike, Amber).
Oh, and since some of my little notes about them are sort of random and hard to make a whole post about them, I'm going to throw in a random one here. Her favorite number for quite awhile starting probably around age 5? - not 3, not 14, not 100 - nope, her favorite number was 22,000,000.5!
Also around within a few weeks of that conversation, for some reason I was explaining to Adrienne what a syllable is. So, we practiced a few words together and she accurately told me how many syllables were in each practice word. Then she is quiet and a few minutes later she informs me that the names of the people in our family total 8 syllables (That's for Adrienne, Colette, Mike, Amber).
Oh, and since some of my little notes about them are sort of random and hard to make a whole post about them, I'm going to throw in a random one here. Her favorite number for quite awhile starting probably around age 5? - not 3, not 14, not 100 - nope, her favorite number was 22,000,000.5!
Last night...
Was weird. At about 7:00 p.m. our power went out, and as it did Mike was standing near the window and heard an explosion down on the street. Since it was still light out and there wasn't much to do without electricity, we went outside to wait (I had called the power company - they had someone out pretty quick). While we were waiting outside we heard down on the street below us some cars skidding and a crash. We live off a road that parallels a railroad track that parallels a freeway. It sounded so close I thought it was right at the bottom of the driveway on the road closest to us. We needed to get dinner anyway, so we drove out and found out that the accident was on the freeway, probably directly below our house as the crow flies. So hopefully it wasn't as bad as it could have been if the vehicles were going in opposite directions...there were many emergency vehicles out there by the time we drove by from the other side of the freeway, and the cars looked bad, but from what we could tell the people looked okay. But shortly later when we were at Wendy's drive-thru window we saw a medical helicopter fly right over Wendy's. I don't know if it was related to that crash or not...either way, we were witnessing all kinds of action for our usually fairly quiet area!
Oh...so we hung out at my parents for awhile and I kept calling home to see if the answering machine would pick up, but it never did, so we finally came home and went to bed. The power came on at 4 a.m. It had only affected 11 houses...lucky us! Actually I guess it was lucky that it wasn't during the time that Mike and my dad needed to work on the house...that time is valuable!
Oh...so we hung out at my parents for awhile and I kept calling home to see if the answering machine would pick up, but it never did, so we finally came home and went to bed. The power came on at 4 a.m. It had only affected 11 houses...lucky us! Actually I guess it was lucky that it wasn't during the time that Mike and my dad needed to work on the house...that time is valuable!
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
That explains it!
I mentioned a few posts ago that I had some OB tests done on Monday. There were a few flags on the blood test - one of them being that I am anemic. I am sort of relieved actually because my energy level has been really low...it's low anyway just from being pregnant in the third trimester, but it seemed a little excessive. So now that I know what the problem is I can do something about it and maybe get some more energy!
Today was one of those excessively tired days and I about felt like I was going to pass out before I got Colette to take a nap and I could lay down myself. Then I slept for 2 1/2 hours! I woke up to Colette sitting on a stool watching me...she just sat there silently watching me for the few minutes it took for me to get myself up. She's been doing that a lot lately...just watching me. I want to say it's cute, but it's sort of creepy (in an innocent way). She likes to watch me taking a bath, or cooking, or doing the laundry, or anything. She's probably just learning by observation, but I sort of feel like an attraction at times :-)
Today was one of those excessively tired days and I about felt like I was going to pass out before I got Colette to take a nap and I could lay down myself. Then I slept for 2 1/2 hours! I woke up to Colette sitting on a stool watching me...she just sat there silently watching me for the few minutes it took for me to get myself up. She's been doing that a lot lately...just watching me. I want to say it's cute, but it's sort of creepy (in an innocent way). She likes to watch me taking a bath, or cooking, or doing the laundry, or anything. She's probably just learning by observation, but I sort of feel like an attraction at times :-)
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
She's tough
So, I guess this isn't really "cute" or "funny", but just something about Colette that I have noticed and appreciated....as the title says, she's tough!
A few weeks ago she was pointing out two little bumps on her foot, and they looked to me like warts, so I thought I would buy some stuff to treat them. But I sort of forgot about it, and a week later she was complaining about the bumps, and since warts don't usually hurt I took a closer look and they were little slivers! They were right where she walks, so it must have been pretty uncomfortable having them in for so long, but that was the first she'd complained about them. So, I had to dig in (literally) to find them, and it took quite awhile, and I'm sure was very uncomfortable or painful, but finally pulled out the two whithered thorns. She was a trooper through the whole ordeal, and whimpered and squirmed, but didn't cry or scream and seemed to understand that I was trying to help her. Yesterday I took her to get a shot and she sort of groaned while the needle was in, but then was fine after it was over...during the time we were there (I was also there for some OB tests and had to hang around for an hour) we saw a few other little ones about her age leaving the injection room bawling. So I'm proud of her for that. Adrienne was the same way and fell and split her chin when she was about Colette's age and was brave and calm while they closed it up. Adrienne also asked me to take her to get her last shots before Kindergarten done to get it over with, which I thought was quite brave.
While I'm on the subject - we've been blessed to have only very minor sickness or injuries, but the very worst thing I've had to deal with in my mommy career thus far was when Colette had a UTI when she was 1...since she was in diapers they had to put in a catheter to get the urine to test, and it was SO horrible. She was screaming bloody murder and I had to be the one to hold her down.
A few weeks ago she was pointing out two little bumps on her foot, and they looked to me like warts, so I thought I would buy some stuff to treat them. But I sort of forgot about it, and a week later she was complaining about the bumps, and since warts don't usually hurt I took a closer look and they were little slivers! They were right where she walks, so it must have been pretty uncomfortable having them in for so long, but that was the first she'd complained about them. So, I had to dig in (literally) to find them, and it took quite awhile, and I'm sure was very uncomfortable or painful, but finally pulled out the two whithered thorns. She was a trooper through the whole ordeal, and whimpered and squirmed, but didn't cry or scream and seemed to understand that I was trying to help her. Yesterday I took her to get a shot and she sort of groaned while the needle was in, but then was fine after it was over...during the time we were there (I was also there for some OB tests and had to hang around for an hour) we saw a few other little ones about her age leaving the injection room bawling. So I'm proud of her for that. Adrienne was the same way and fell and split her chin when she was about Colette's age and was brave and calm while they closed it up. Adrienne also asked me to take her to get her last shots before Kindergarten done to get it over with, which I thought was quite brave.
While I'm on the subject - we've been blessed to have only very minor sickness or injuries, but the very worst thing I've had to deal with in my mommy career thus far was when Colette had a UTI when she was 1...since she was in diapers they had to put in a catheter to get the urine to test, and it was SO horrible. She was screaming bloody murder and I had to be the one to hold her down.
Sunday, August 5, 2007
What Not To Do...
...when you're mail is stolen? Take it out on the delivery girl! I'm just going to copy and paste what I wrote to my manager so I don't have to re-type.
I can’t remember when exactly, but sometime in the last 3-6 months I had a man on my route get paranoid when he saw me delivering to his stand because they had some problems with their mail getting stolen, and so he drove like a maniac blocking me in trying to “catch me”…when he found out what I was doing he was sorry…and so that was that. But then again last night he saw me delivering to his stand again, and then a few stands later he comes driving like a maniac again and blocking me in and gets out of the car (he almost looked like he was drunk kind of stumbling out of the car)…so again he sees that it’s me and I’m delivering papers. He apologizes but then makes excuses for his craziness which isn’t exactly comforting that he’s not going to be doing it again. So…question is – do I have to deliver to this stand if the people at the stand are going to be so paranoid whenever they see me delivering? There are about 4 papers on that stand and none of them are subscribers. I thought maybe I could bag their papers and drop them at the foot of the stand so I don’t have to stop…what do you think about that? Only thing is I think there’s one paper there that never gets picked up, so if I were to bag should I only drop 3 so that they all get picked up? Your thoughts? – Maybe this doesn’t sound like a big deal…I think it wouldn’t have been before but the accident last week has me pretty shaken up about driving in general…it just seems so easy to get in accidents, and I don’t need people chasing me down like that!
So, she told me not to deliver to that stand at all. Yeah, so I got in a car accident on July 24th...pretty much my fault (I feel like it was partially her fault, but it can't really be proved, so oh well). It really sucked - I was doing really well. I was a horrible driver my first 3 years or so of driving, but thought I'd improved quite a bit since then. I don't feel like going into it now, but basically it was sort of fluky that this happened - I wasn't distracted, or on the phone, or doing anything - I just didn't see her for some reason. It was pretty minor as far as there were no injuries, and our van only got a scratch on it and that was all (which is great because we have liability only, so we would have had to pay for repairs out of our pocket). Her car wasn't so good, but it could have been a lot worse and insurance will cover it all. Anyway, that's all I want to say about it for now, but I am just so nervous about driving now, which is hard when that's what I do to earn money!
Change of subject - Wow, that was quick! I put my Harry Potter book and Mike's Harry Potter audio books up for sale on Amazon last night and the book sold within an hour, and the audio books just sold this morning!
I can’t remember when exactly, but sometime in the last 3-6 months I had a man on my route get paranoid when he saw me delivering to his stand because they had some problems with their mail getting stolen, and so he drove like a maniac blocking me in trying to “catch me”…when he found out what I was doing he was sorry…and so that was that. But then again last night he saw me delivering to his stand again, and then a few stands later he comes driving like a maniac again and blocking me in and gets out of the car (he almost looked like he was drunk kind of stumbling out of the car)…so again he sees that it’s me and I’m delivering papers. He apologizes but then makes excuses for his craziness which isn’t exactly comforting that he’s not going to be doing it again. So…question is – do I have to deliver to this stand if the people at the stand are going to be so paranoid whenever they see me delivering? There are about 4 papers on that stand and none of them are subscribers. I thought maybe I could bag their papers and drop them at the foot of the stand so I don’t have to stop…what do you think about that? Only thing is I think there’s one paper there that never gets picked up, so if I were to bag should I only drop 3 so that they all get picked up? Your thoughts? – Maybe this doesn’t sound like a big deal…I think it wouldn’t have been before but the accident last week has me pretty shaken up about driving in general…it just seems so easy to get in accidents, and I don’t need people chasing me down like that!
So, she told me not to deliver to that stand at all. Yeah, so I got in a car accident on July 24th...pretty much my fault (I feel like it was partially her fault, but it can't really be proved, so oh well). It really sucked - I was doing really well. I was a horrible driver my first 3 years or so of driving, but thought I'd improved quite a bit since then. I don't feel like going into it now, but basically it was sort of fluky that this happened - I wasn't distracted, or on the phone, or doing anything - I just didn't see her for some reason. It was pretty minor as far as there were no injuries, and our van only got a scratch on it and that was all (which is great because we have liability only, so we would have had to pay for repairs out of our pocket). Her car wasn't so good, but it could have been a lot worse and insurance will cover it all. Anyway, that's all I want to say about it for now, but I am just so nervous about driving now, which is hard when that's what I do to earn money!
Change of subject - Wow, that was quick! I put my Harry Potter book and Mike's Harry Potter audio books up for sale on Amazon last night and the book sold within an hour, and the audio books just sold this morning!
About the girls
Colette is the master of giving people heart attacks. When she wakes up in the morning or from her nap and if I'm on the computer she sneaks up right next to me and yells "BOO!" I never hear her approaching because she's so little and light. She also has done that when I've been sleeping on the couch if I can't sleep in our bed (it's a pregnant thing) - gets right up next to my face when I'm dead asleep and yells "BOO!" Scares the puddin out of me, but I have to laugh at the same time.
I talked about Adrienne being pretty observant yesterday, here's another example. We were watching the Disney version of "Robin Hood" a few weeks ago, and she noticed that the crocodile character on "Robin Hood" was the same voice actor as the Indian Chief from "Peter Pan". Once she brought it up I thought she might be right and looked it up online and confirmed that she was indeed correct!
I talked about Adrienne being pretty observant yesterday, here's another example. We were watching the Disney version of "Robin Hood" a few weeks ago, and she noticed that the crocodile character on "Robin Hood" was the same voice actor as the Indian Chief from "Peter Pan". Once she brought it up I thought she might be right and looked it up online and confirmed that she was indeed correct!
Saturday, August 4, 2007
That was frustrating...
I got my haircut yesterday, and I think I like it, but haven't really tried styling it yet. I also had a dream yesterday morning that I had auburn hair again and liked it so decided to dye it again, but the kind that washes out after a month because I hate growing out roots. So I bought the dye yesterday and was all excited to put it in tonight...mixed everything up and applied it...halfway through I was reading about the upcoming steps and it mentioned conditioner. I had only noticed two bottles so started looking around for the missing conditioner bottle. I found a bottle in the bath toy box below the sink - and it was the step 1 bottle! I had mixed the conditioner (labeled step 3!) with the step 2 bottle and applied to my hair! I thought it was weird that it wasn't changing color :-p
P.S. Just noticed this is my 100th post!
P.S. Just noticed this is my 100th post!
I'm Back
So much for daily posts, huh? I just deleted a bunch of drafts of posts I was going to do. I need to keep my blogging to a minimum for who knows how long - it's starting to sink in how little time I have before the baby is here and how much there is to do before then, because I know from experience - if I think it is hard to get things done now, it is going to be so much harder when two kids becomes three! Since I have no inclination to nest in this current place, I need to just figure out the minimum of how we're going to live with 5 people in these 700 or so square feet for a couple months until the house done. The nesting I really want to do is in the house that isn't finished yet! But there is actually quite a bit that I can do in that direction. We have SO MUCH clutter that I need to go through - figure out what's going where in the new place, what's garbage, what needs to be sold or given away, etc. This will help our current situation and the future situation...if I can get some of the clutter out of here, it will make things more comfortable in the short term, and if I can get things organized that are going into the house, it will make moving in quicker and easier.
Aside from that project I will also be chasing the elusive state of being "caught up" on another long list of miscellaneous things, and also trying to help with building the house (or at least cleaning up the site) whenever possible. And Adrienne is starting Kindergarten in a month! This will hopefully help with all of the above because I will finally be forced into a schedule again and getting up to an alarm clock like most people - and hopefully the structure will help me to get more done. Plus one less child around for 4 hours will make things a little easier!
The one draft I did keep is the one about the girls because I am putting those things down to keep track of to tell them when they're older (as I've already said before)...if those posts don't interest you, then don't read!
So, a little story for today...
I was watching an episode of "Dawson's Creek" where Jen was going to be hosting a radio show with a live audience and Dr. Drew and Adam Corolla were the guests. She was worried that she would do badly, and when the show started it was off to a rocky start and there was a dead silence in the room. (I should have put this down when it happened, because now my memory is fuzzy...) So, Adrienne says "Why didn't they use the cricket sound - is it because it's a grown-up show and the cricket sound is for kid's shows?"
I was amused and impressed on different levels - I didn't realize she was even paying attention to the show, and not only was she paying attention, but paying attention enough to pick up on the awkward situation that warranted a cricket sound. And impressed that she noticed the cricket sound on her kid's shows in the first place. Maybe I just wasn't a very observant child, but some of the things she notices amazes me.
All right well...back to business. I'll probably be keeping my blogging related mostly to house progress and the girls.
Aside from that project I will also be chasing the elusive state of being "caught up" on another long list of miscellaneous things, and also trying to help with building the house (or at least cleaning up the site) whenever possible. And Adrienne is starting Kindergarten in a month! This will hopefully help with all of the above because I will finally be forced into a schedule again and getting up to an alarm clock like most people - and hopefully the structure will help me to get more done. Plus one less child around for 4 hours will make things a little easier!
The one draft I did keep is the one about the girls because I am putting those things down to keep track of to tell them when they're older (as I've already said before)...if those posts don't interest you, then don't read!
So, a little story for today...
I was watching an episode of "Dawson's Creek" where Jen was going to be hosting a radio show with a live audience and Dr. Drew and Adam Corolla were the guests. She was worried that she would do badly, and when the show started it was off to a rocky start and there was a dead silence in the room. (I should have put this down when it happened, because now my memory is fuzzy...) So, Adrienne says "Why didn't they use the cricket sound - is it because it's a grown-up show and the cricket sound is for kid's shows?"
I was amused and impressed on different levels - I didn't realize she was even paying attention to the show, and not only was she paying attention, but paying attention enough to pick up on the awkward situation that warranted a cricket sound. And impressed that she noticed the cricket sound on her kid's shows in the first place. Maybe I just wasn't a very observant child, but some of the things she notices amazes me.
All right well...back to business. I'll probably be keeping my blogging related mostly to house progress and the girls.
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