Pregnancy clumsiness is nothing to scoff at. For me, it's a real thing.
This morning it began in epic proportions.
I accidentally knocked over Aftyn's full bowl
of cereal and milk with the gallon of milk I was attempting to lift up from the table.
She started to cry. I wanted to as well.
After apologizing profusely, I attempted to clean up the table but the floor was equally covered
in cereal and milk.
I'll get that later. Hopefully. Why don't we have a dog??
I dropped my spoon while getting my own bowl and spoon for my breakfast.
This is one of those mornings where I just know I better be careful because clearly my reflexes
stink and my reaction time is null.
Probably a good idea to just stay home. Good thing I don't have a vehicle to drive today.
Imagine the damage I could do!
Loving our ever changing, crazy, fantastic life
Friday, August 14, 2015
Thursday, August 6, 2015
A Good Pregnancy Post
Gotta have at least 1 pregnancy post as I approach the end this time around.
Today I am officially 9 months pregnant.
And I am totally feeling it.
Feeling it in the way that I can't drink too much water without feeling like I am WAY too full.
Feeling it in the way that my already dropped baby belly feels like I'm moving a too wide load much like a pallet truck would move a too full pallet.
Feeling it every time I lean down to help Mirren do anything on her level.
I am at the "I'm tired and this baby is zapping ALL my energy" stage.
And my often out of town husband isn't helping things because he's not here to make up for those moments when I am "just too tired".
That excuse has "no place in this dojo does it". "No sensei." (Name that movie)
Gotta pick up and carry on with dishes, laundry, dinners, lunches, breakfasts, trips to the
store, school registration, etc. no matter my energy level because I've got 3 kiddos who need me
to be doing my thing so they can do theirs.
*Sigh*.
Hard things make us stronger.
It's true.
And I will come out of this pregnancy with different strengths than I've had to develop in
other pregnancies.
And every pregnancy after this one will continue to help me develop new and awesome strengths
that I will continue to use.
There's your pep talk for the day.
Now go and conquer what feels impossible for you today.
Because you can do it too.
And you're probably doing it without being 9 months pregnant!
See, you got this!!
Monday, August 3, 2015
Ah Pictures
(I had just checked on her when I took this photo, which is why she was
reunited with her binky but still feeling sad for some unknown reason.)
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Recent Pictures - Hallelujah!!
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| Holy eyelashes - new camera |
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| Real smile! - new camera |
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| She wanted her own picture - new camera |
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| Emily |
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| May birthdays! - old camera |
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| Camping! - old camera |
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| She fell right into the water, luckily Dad was there to save her - old camera |
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| Zeke and Emily - new camera |
Monday, July 20, 2015
It's July 20th?!?
Well things have been settling right down around here.
Probably because I'm just getting tired and more and more pregnant.
33.5 weeks! Go me!
We've slowly been adjusting into our home, finding ways to tweak it to suit our needs better.
We just got a tv mount that frees up a whole corner of our front room.
LOVE!
Things we've been up to:
*a family reunion,
*helping with a garage sale for my sister,
*painted my kids dress-ups box,
*started swimming lessons,
*got a new awesome camera,
*finally bought a lens for it (you know, so I could actually take pictures),
*finding potty training nirvana (she isn't having accidents people! woot!)
*running my 1 mile at the track a few times a week (possibly hilarious to watch. I'll never know)
*got a new calling at church with Reed (16 year old Sunday School teachers, new adventure!)
*starting to pack my hospital bag (this whole "having a baby thing" is getting pretty real)
*finally starting the marble system back up this past week (HALLELUJAH! we've missed it)
*getting ready and excited for Aftyn to start kindergarten :)
That seems a pretty complete list. I might have missed a few little things but on the whole, this
is pretty much what we've been up to.
The most recent thing we've been up to is kittens. This past Friday while getting our little swimming pool ready for my kids to play in in our backyard, I found a cute little orange kitten by our fence.
It looked up at me through super goopy gross eyes and just looked pathetic. I took it inside, tried to make it comfortable, and made a run for the store for some kitten milk, a litter box and litter and some canned cat food and treats.
The kitten seemed to be gradually improving and then yesterday while I was outside picking up our backyard from our Saturday adventures out there, I found ANOTHER kitten! This one was black. I couldn't just leave it outside, because it too looked up at me rather pathetically and didn't even try to run. Sadly, within hours of bringing it inside, it was clear this cat was REALLY sick.
It started flopping over and then just laying there, almost as if it were fainting. 9 hours after bringing it inside, it died while sleeping in the little bed I had made it. We named him Zeke, although we have no idea if it was a boy or girl. Poor Zeke. He thankfully went very quickly and didn't suffer much. :( Now we're afraid that Emily, our orange cat who we also have no idea of its sex, is also sick with the same thing, I think it's FIP. I'll be taking it to the vet today so she won't have to suffer the way Zeke did if she does have it.
Having these kittens has been rather eye opening for us. Our kids have enjoyed having a kitten. Mirren is surprisingly gentle in her pets. Aftyn and Bronwyn loved having a pet to love on. The timing was just off though with us having a baby in only a few short weeks. We're grateful to have had the time we've had to love these kittens when they needed us. I sure hope this is the end of sick kittens being dropped off in my backyard. I don't want to go out there one day to find another one that I'd missed and it be dead. It's hard enough to know them while they were alive and then have them die. :(
UPDATE: Well, we don't know if this cat has FIP, but it does have an upper respiratory infection that we're giving it medicine for and hoping that maybe everything will go back to normal for it. It has started eating solid foods (!) and the medicine seems to be helping and it seems to have loads more energy just in the few hours since so as of right now, we're settling into the idea that Emily might stay with us a while longer. Maybe an entire lifetime! :)
Post Update: Oh the optimism. This afternoon, Emily died. We're glad she can finally feel better and we're glad that we were able to love her for the last few days. We will definitely miss her but we know her little spirit is in heaven and running and jumping like she should be. Bye Emily.
Probably because I'm just getting tired and more and more pregnant.
33.5 weeks! Go me!
We've slowly been adjusting into our home, finding ways to tweak it to suit our needs better.
We just got a tv mount that frees up a whole corner of our front room.
LOVE!
Things we've been up to:
*a family reunion,
*helping with a garage sale for my sister,
*painted my kids dress-ups box,
*started swimming lessons,
*got a new awesome camera,
*finally bought a lens for it (you know, so I could actually take pictures),
*finding potty training nirvana (she isn't having accidents people! woot!)
*running my 1 mile at the track a few times a week (possibly hilarious to watch. I'll never know)
*got a new calling at church with Reed (16 year old Sunday School teachers, new adventure!)
*starting to pack my hospital bag (this whole "having a baby thing" is getting pretty real)
*finally starting the marble system back up this past week (HALLELUJAH! we've missed it)
*getting ready and excited for Aftyn to start kindergarten :)
That seems a pretty complete list. I might have missed a few little things but on the whole, this
is pretty much what we've been up to.
The most recent thing we've been up to is kittens. This past Friday while getting our little swimming pool ready for my kids to play in in our backyard, I found a cute little orange kitten by our fence.
It looked up at me through super goopy gross eyes and just looked pathetic. I took it inside, tried to make it comfortable, and made a run for the store for some kitten milk, a litter box and litter and some canned cat food and treats.
The kitten seemed to be gradually improving and then yesterday while I was outside picking up our backyard from our Saturday adventures out there, I found ANOTHER kitten! This one was black. I couldn't just leave it outside, because it too looked up at me rather pathetically and didn't even try to run. Sadly, within hours of bringing it inside, it was clear this cat was REALLY sick.
It started flopping over and then just laying there, almost as if it were fainting. 9 hours after bringing it inside, it died while sleeping in the little bed I had made it. We named him Zeke, although we have no idea if it was a boy or girl. Poor Zeke. He thankfully went very quickly and didn't suffer much. :( Now we're afraid that Emily, our orange cat who we also have no idea of its sex, is also sick with the same thing, I think it's FIP. I'll be taking it to the vet today so she won't have to suffer the way Zeke did if she does have it.
Having these kittens has been rather eye opening for us. Our kids have enjoyed having a kitten. Mirren is surprisingly gentle in her pets. Aftyn and Bronwyn loved having a pet to love on. The timing was just off though with us having a baby in only a few short weeks. We're grateful to have had the time we've had to love these kittens when they needed us. I sure hope this is the end of sick kittens being dropped off in my backyard. I don't want to go out there one day to find another one that I'd missed and it be dead. It's hard enough to know them while they were alive and then have them die. :(
UPDATE: Well, we don't know if this cat has FIP, but it does have an upper respiratory infection that we're giving it medicine for and hoping that maybe everything will go back to normal for it. It has started eating solid foods (!) and the medicine seems to be helping and it seems to have loads more energy just in the few hours since so as of right now, we're settling into the idea that Emily might stay with us a while longer. Maybe an entire lifetime! :)
Post Update: Oh the optimism. This afternoon, Emily died. We're glad she can finally feel better and we're glad that we were able to love her for the last few days. We will definitely miss her but we know her little spirit is in heaven and running and jumping like she should be. Bye Emily.
Friday, June 26, 2015
Hang On
Well, about 3 weeks ago today I finally "finished" my painting of my house. (I'm not finishing painting my kitchen yet because I'm still trying to coax Reed into moving our cupboards up in our kitchen. Thoughts?) We planned an elaborately fun evening of pizza, a new movie and treats for all of us to enjoy in our finally finished house but first I spent the majority of day (until 7 pm) finishing the front room and half of the kitchen. And my kids were SUCH troopers and so patient with me while I sweated and painted my way through that day! We didn't even officially eat dinner until 8 and they were still patient and excited, just to be done and finally watch our very own copy of Frozen. :D We got them in bed by 10 and all in all I'd say that whole day was well worth it.
Since then, we've been trying to "fun" our way through the summer with the occasional trip to the park for free lunches, thrown in a parade, lots of shopping trips and a few afternoons spent running through the sprinklers.
In spite of it all, and maybe because of all that fun, I cannot seem to make my way through my to-do list. It just keeps growing and growing instead of diminishing in spite of all my efforts. Grrr.
That gets pretty frustrating but I'm still trying to push ahead and make dents a little at a time. This week, we found Aftyn's bunk bed for her room off Craigslist and got half of it set up for her! That was huge!! Now all of us are sleeping in real beds but unless I get on it, in a few weeks we'll have a little guy with a bassinet but no real crib. Ours needs a repaint job, not surprisingly after 3 other kiddos have used it and countless moves. It should be easy, it's just a matter of making headway on my to-do list. *Sigh*
It's been so hot lately that the beautiful flowers I got for cheap at Lowe's have all slowly been drying up in the hot afternoon sun. I keep watering them daily in the hopes that they'll surprise me and persevere through that hot hot sun. It's only June people! These little pansies should be relishing the cool mornings and evenings of the early part of summer!!
Aftyn lost her first 2 teeth this past Sunday and Monday and has been so excited about it. She's also having a lot of fun playing with the new gap in her lower front teeth. :) Luckily there are already 2 teeth coming quickly in to fill that gap so her time for play is limited there. LOL
Bronwyn is busy being Bronwyn. She loves to play and color and sing. She quotes movies and tv shows all the time, which just goes to show you we have been watching WAY too much tv so far this summer but it's been too hot outside and most of our toys are still boxed up over here. It won't always be this way so I guess she's just enjoying it while it lasts. Bronwyn loves Mirren and Mirren loves Bronwyn. Aftyn and Bronwyn are at the love/hate part of their lives. Today Aftyn hit Bronwyn with a doll so Bronwyn kicked Aftyn in the nose and gave her a bloody nose. *Sigh*
Mirren is still potty training. 6 weeks in and things are going predictably slowly but surely. This SO reminds me of when I potty trained Aftyn. We take it day by day and find something positive in each day. Mirren really surprises me sometimes and does so great at making sure all potties are currently going in the toilet but she's still spending a majority of her time on toilet duty. She'll get it eventually and that day will be awesome. We spend most of our day looking at a whole lot of naked Mirren. LOL Good thing she's got such cute buns. :) Mirren is currently loving animals and their sounds. Today she surprised me when I showed her a cow in a book and asked her what it said and she said "moo". She gets a kick out of ducks and kitties and dog dogs. She is saying so many words. She also repeats the girls all the time which can be quite funny. Tonight I asked the girls who needed to go potty, and Aftyn said "Me!". To which Mirren quickly repeated "me!" with a little smile on her face. Oh this girl. She makes us smile and laugh a lot. She's very affectionate and sweet and also is learning not to hit. Shocker at this age. LOL
I hit 30 weeks yesterday in my pregnancy. How did that happen? We're still pulling together the things we need for this little man, but have most of the main things covered like diapers, binkies, blankets, and a basic wardrobe for his first year of life. Because of my crazy life, it's hard to gauge if I'm ahead, behind or right on track in being prepared for him. Ha ha!!
Reed has been his normal amount of busy lately at work, which means we don't see a whole lot of him. Maybe that's why my to-do list isn't shrinking? His commute to work is literally killing us currently because it adds so much to the time that he's gone from home. We're considering setting up an office in our garage come fall and cooler temperatures just so we can see more of him and he can see less of the freeway between our home and his work office.
Since then, we've been trying to "fun" our way through the summer with the occasional trip to the park for free lunches, thrown in a parade, lots of shopping trips and a few afternoons spent running through the sprinklers.
In spite of it all, and maybe because of all that fun, I cannot seem to make my way through my to-do list. It just keeps growing and growing instead of diminishing in spite of all my efforts. Grrr.
That gets pretty frustrating but I'm still trying to push ahead and make dents a little at a time. This week, we found Aftyn's bunk bed for her room off Craigslist and got half of it set up for her! That was huge!! Now all of us are sleeping in real beds but unless I get on it, in a few weeks we'll have a little guy with a bassinet but no real crib. Ours needs a repaint job, not surprisingly after 3 other kiddos have used it and countless moves. It should be easy, it's just a matter of making headway on my to-do list. *Sigh*
It's been so hot lately that the beautiful flowers I got for cheap at Lowe's have all slowly been drying up in the hot afternoon sun. I keep watering them daily in the hopes that they'll surprise me and persevere through that hot hot sun. It's only June people! These little pansies should be relishing the cool mornings and evenings of the early part of summer!!
Aftyn lost her first 2 teeth this past Sunday and Monday and has been so excited about it. She's also having a lot of fun playing with the new gap in her lower front teeth. :) Luckily there are already 2 teeth coming quickly in to fill that gap so her time for play is limited there. LOL
Bronwyn is busy being Bronwyn. She loves to play and color and sing. She quotes movies and tv shows all the time, which just goes to show you we have been watching WAY too much tv so far this summer but it's been too hot outside and most of our toys are still boxed up over here. It won't always be this way so I guess she's just enjoying it while it lasts. Bronwyn loves Mirren and Mirren loves Bronwyn. Aftyn and Bronwyn are at the love/hate part of their lives. Today Aftyn hit Bronwyn with a doll so Bronwyn kicked Aftyn in the nose and gave her a bloody nose. *Sigh*
Mirren is still potty training. 6 weeks in and things are going predictably slowly but surely. This SO reminds me of when I potty trained Aftyn. We take it day by day and find something positive in each day. Mirren really surprises me sometimes and does so great at making sure all potties are currently going in the toilet but she's still spending a majority of her time on toilet duty. She'll get it eventually and that day will be awesome. We spend most of our day looking at a whole lot of naked Mirren. LOL Good thing she's got such cute buns. :) Mirren is currently loving animals and their sounds. Today she surprised me when I showed her a cow in a book and asked her what it said and she said "moo". She gets a kick out of ducks and kitties and dog dogs. She is saying so many words. She also repeats the girls all the time which can be quite funny. Tonight I asked the girls who needed to go potty, and Aftyn said "Me!". To which Mirren quickly repeated "me!" with a little smile on her face. Oh this girl. She makes us smile and laugh a lot. She's very affectionate and sweet and also is learning not to hit. Shocker at this age. LOL
I hit 30 weeks yesterday in my pregnancy. How did that happen? We're still pulling together the things we need for this little man, but have most of the main things covered like diapers, binkies, blankets, and a basic wardrobe for his first year of life. Because of my crazy life, it's hard to gauge if I'm ahead, behind or right on track in being prepared for him. Ha ha!!
Reed has been his normal amount of busy lately at work, which means we don't see a whole lot of him. Maybe that's why my to-do list isn't shrinking? His commute to work is literally killing us currently because it adds so much to the time that he's gone from home. We're considering setting up an office in our garage come fall and cooler temperatures just so we can see more of him and he can see less of the freeway between our home and his work office.
Friday, June 5, 2015
Painting with a picture
See that lovely color on the wall?
Yeah, I'm beginning to REALLY get tired of looking at it on my roller brush.
And this is not my house, I stole this picture from the internet.
Wouldn't it be nice to have a headboard that looked that lovely?
Almost done people.
Master bedroom and front room/kitchen combo left!
I can almost taste the finish line!! :)
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