where to begin?
We are home from our MI vacation.
It was very relaxing. It was warm the day we got there and we swam. Sunday the sun was out and the kids swam, but I only got my ankles wet. Finding a huge ass leach swimming in the shallows was a bit of a buzz kill. There was the biggest spider I have ever seen in the wild on a tree in the yard. yeah, I'm a city girl.
Our oven did not work until Monday. That was ok, but I had brought little pre-measured "kits" of scone mixes and I discovered that I could make scones in a fry pan on the stove top. That worked in the pinch, but baking is definitely preferred. We did lots of just laying around. The cabin owner's parents were the caretakers because they summered there and they asked us a couple times if we wanted to take the kids out fishing, but really, we are just into being together and relaxing during a family vacation.
Josie discovered that she liked being read aloud to--not just picture books. We found the public library in this itty bitty town of Curtis, MI. I checked out the book My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett and it was a young enough story with just enough pictures that we breezed through that book quickly. We joked that we will collect library cards from all of our vacation spots! Josie also discovered that she enjoys charades. Riker tried to get everyone to guess "Indonesia" as his word, but he kept trying to get us to guess "do" instead of "dough" for the second syllabel and we were all scratching our heads. Josie's cute acting was for getting an ice cream cone and having the ice cream drop to the floor and then cleaning it up. I don't know where she got that! We had gone out for ice cream, but she successfully ate it all! (BTW she always orders chocolate given the choice, no extras or anything fancy)
My program has continued and I have maintained my 29 pound weight loss. I have recently committed to at least 30 minutes of exercise which I did not do yesterday, shit. I am hoping that next month my weight will have wiggled a little down.
We came home this past Saturday after accidentally taking a logging road for 1 1/2 hours before realizing the road was only getting narrower and now going north when we needed to head south--that was a little freaky! (again, I am a city girl!) Our answering machine was full of messages, two of which were from our foster care coordinator.
Long story short, on thursday, we are picking up our newest member--technically still a foster, but it looks like good tpr potential--a 16 month old little girl named Devonnah. So Josie will go to school this fall and I will have a little one at home.
I then come the moments like this: when hubby comes to bed and snores and I can't fall back asleep because I have the mom version of the cold that everyone passed around during vacation and I am awake and thinking of all the things I need to do to get the house ready for a little one again and then I think: what the hell am I thinking? I have hit my stride with our routine, my yoga, my life. . . and then I look at the photo I took of her to show the boys who were not able to meet her today and I think, just one more. She's got the little swollen belly from being malnournished. She seems healthy otherwise. Receiving home mom said she is whiny and throws tantrums, but she seems like a normal little freaked out little girl. I think reactions like separation anxiety mean she can form attachments and tantrums mean she is trying to understand her world and communicate. there is hope.
Josie is sleeping at a friend's Wednesday night so that we can take the boys and my mil and her hubby to the Bela Fleck concert. Pick up the baby Thursday. hubby is out of town today and friday. weekend home--but next weekend, is the madison moms' weekend. poor vonnie will have to learn to tread water fast. hubby will have his hands full. I still haven't bought the tickets to NY for me and garth because I am concerned about some overlap of hubby's work trip and our departure. hubby says to just go ahead and we will ask his mom, but I would rather know for sure, especially now that there is a baby.
we put karma down two days before we left for vacation. that was not a fun family venture. we had decided that Josie would understand it best if we took everyone along. garth held her and stood off a bit. riker cried at the door with his back to the dog. I sobbed and freaked when the meds gave her a convulsion. hubby was stoic but weapy. that really sucked. ginger has been my shadow. i think she misses karma.
ok, enough rambling and I did no cuts. sorry. this stupid thing tried to erase twice while I was typing. . . cutting will be something I will work on for next time.
It was very relaxing. It was warm the day we got there and we swam. Sunday the sun was out and the kids swam, but I only got my ankles wet. Finding a huge ass leach swimming in the shallows was a bit of a buzz kill. There was the biggest spider I have ever seen in the wild on a tree in the yard. yeah, I'm a city girl.
Our oven did not work until Monday. That was ok, but I had brought little pre-measured "kits" of scone mixes and I discovered that I could make scones in a fry pan on the stove top. That worked in the pinch, but baking is definitely preferred. We did lots of just laying around. The cabin owner's parents were the caretakers because they summered there and they asked us a couple times if we wanted to take the kids out fishing, but really, we are just into being together and relaxing during a family vacation.
Josie discovered that she liked being read aloud to--not just picture books. We found the public library in this itty bitty town of Curtis, MI. I checked out the book My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett and it was a young enough story with just enough pictures that we breezed through that book quickly. We joked that we will collect library cards from all of our vacation spots! Josie also discovered that she enjoys charades. Riker tried to get everyone to guess "Indonesia" as his word, but he kept trying to get us to guess "do" instead of "dough" for the second syllabel and we were all scratching our heads. Josie's cute acting was for getting an ice cream cone and having the ice cream drop to the floor and then cleaning it up. I don't know where she got that! We had gone out for ice cream, but she successfully ate it all! (BTW she always orders chocolate given the choice, no extras or anything fancy)
My program has continued and I have maintained my 29 pound weight loss. I have recently committed to at least 30 minutes of exercise which I did not do yesterday, shit. I am hoping that next month my weight will have wiggled a little down.
We came home this past Saturday after accidentally taking a logging road for 1 1/2 hours before realizing the road was only getting narrower and now going north when we needed to head south--that was a little freaky! (again, I am a city girl!) Our answering machine was full of messages, two of which were from our foster care coordinator.
Long story short, on thursday, we are picking up our newest member--technically still a foster, but it looks like good tpr potential--a 16 month old little girl named Devonnah. So Josie will go to school this fall and I will have a little one at home.
I then come the moments like this: when hubby comes to bed and snores and I can't fall back asleep because I have the mom version of the cold that everyone passed around during vacation and I am awake and thinking of all the things I need to do to get the house ready for a little one again and then I think: what the hell am I thinking? I have hit my stride with our routine, my yoga, my life. . . and then I look at the photo I took of her to show the boys who were not able to meet her today and I think, just one more. She's got the little swollen belly from being malnournished. She seems healthy otherwise. Receiving home mom said she is whiny and throws tantrums, but she seems like a normal little freaked out little girl. I think reactions like separation anxiety mean she can form attachments and tantrums mean she is trying to understand her world and communicate. there is hope.
Josie is sleeping at a friend's Wednesday night so that we can take the boys and my mil and her hubby to the Bela Fleck concert. Pick up the baby Thursday. hubby is out of town today and friday. weekend home--but next weekend, is the madison moms' weekend. poor vonnie will have to learn to tread water fast. hubby will have his hands full. I still haven't bought the tickets to NY for me and garth because I am concerned about some overlap of hubby's work trip and our departure. hubby says to just go ahead and we will ask his mom, but I would rather know for sure, especially now that there is a baby.
we put karma down two days before we left for vacation. that was not a fun family venture. we had decided that Josie would understand it best if we took everyone along. garth held her and stood off a bit. riker cried at the door with his back to the dog. I sobbed and freaked when the meds gave her a convulsion. hubby was stoic but weapy. that really sucked. ginger has been my shadow. i think she misses karma.
ok, enough rambling and I did no cuts. sorry. this stupid thing tried to erase twice while I was typing. . . cutting will be something I will work on for next time.