Hello all.  Just wishing everyone the best for their chosen celebration at this time ( Read more... )

Hi all.  Been doing well.  Oriana is really growing!  She smiles almost all the time and it shines through her eyes at you and just makes the heart melt ( Read more... )

Thanks, all ( Read more... )

...GIRL!

Went into labor on Thursday morning (3:30) and waited to time the contractions a while before waking people (very nearly a mistake).  Spouse apparently didn't believe baby coming or would be as fast as all our other babies, because he opted to stay and go to work while my mom drove me in to the hospital.  His loss.  Mom was very pleased to ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is May's birthday.  She is turning four.  : )

Despite her do-it-herself haircut, she is still cute, though demanding.  We need to work on that a bit more - making requests rather than demands.

I had a revelation today.  I am afraid.  I have never really been afraid in my life.  I've felt panic and all, like when you think you'll get  in a ( Read more... )

So after my mom lecturing me about how I shouldn;t be so upset about the hair incident and to "get over" being mad, and my husband laughing on the phone that all four-year-olds cut their hair, things got better after the kids got home ( Read more... )

Yesterday was...interesting.

Let's just say that I think the end of pregnancy attitude, winter cold and dark, and being cooped up with too many people in too small a space is getting to me and everybody else (obviously pregnancy doesn't affect them, but the rest does).  In short, yesterday was host to some minor, yet volatile, outbursts and ( Read more... )

Went to pregnancy doc appointment.  All is fine.  Docto had audacity to suggest that one of my pregnancy isseus was an MS issue anmd I very tactfully kept from telling her she was a moron and knew nothing about MS so shut up.  See?  I've learneed some tact and diplomacy, just took me 30+ years.

Next appointment is next Friday.  It would be in two ( Read more... )

First, I am against the mistreatment of animals, but the folks that are activists need to focus on the farms doing the crime, not bully everyone else.  I especially like Wier's points about taking care of people and that all skaters are wearing cows:

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/news?slug=ap-weir-fur&prov=ap&type=lgns

I'm rewriting the list, ( Read more... )

First, I confessed my evil act to spouse the next day while he was in the tub, explaining the action and activity after and he didn't seem to mind at all.  In fact, he later called our teenager on it and received a cover-up response that neither of us believed but let pass.  Was amusing.  Anyway, I continued to unplug the modem/router the rest of ( Read more... )