Littles are tucked into bed after eating thin crust pizza for supper, chasing each other with toothbrushes and reading in bed together.  whew ( Read more... )

* I pumped gas for my former high school teacher who now has a snooty job with the school district.  Yup, I didn't amount to much.  Aren't you proud?

* scoop tacos for supper last night, one of the few meals we all really like.  Using chips instead of utensils for supper is a novelty. [hmm, I thought I had the recipe on my blog already, apparently ( Read more... )

Little girls, SLEEPING.

Laminate floors in the kitchen and living room, DONE!

Three brand new birthy, midwifery memoirs that arrived in the mail today.

A borrowed stack of Harry Potter movies.  I'm reading book #2 now.

I have coke zero on ice, a thick bar of non-Nestle milk chocolate, and some blessed peace and quiet in the cool basement to watch Harry ( Read more... )

Two of my Aunts are here for our town's centennial celebration.  Adding crazy to the chaos is fun :-P

Last night, at dusk, our local library sponsored an outdoor movie, put on by freshaircinema.ca   They had an 800 square foot inflatable movie screen, 4000 watts of surround sound, and a baseball diamond full of people sitting in folding lawn chairs ( Read more... )

* Tonight I emailed the clinical dean of my school to ask for help and advice about securing another clinical placement.   As much as I know I need to do this, I'm resisting the idea of leaving my family and going to the US again.

* Tomorrow I will contact a midwife/practice in SLC and hound ask her for the opportunity to get some primary births.  I ( Read more... )

Boxing Day was very quiet and relaxing around here.  I watched a couple of movies with the kids and spent most of the morning on my laptop looking at possibilities for short term (and permanent) clinical placements in the US.  When my mind got overloaded with choices, decisions, and possibilities, I got ready for work.

Work last night was a bit ( Read more... )

After supper tonight I made a big batch of pumpkin oatmeal cookies while the Littles had a bath.  After both girls were fresh from the bath and cookies were fresh from the oven, Jack and I took them downstairs to watch "Shrek the Halls".  None of us had ever seen it before and it was pretty funny!  Even Charlotte sat still and watched it, snuggled ( Read more... )

The best things about my birthday:

* Jack wishing me a good and proper "Happy Birthday" just after midnight last night

* Answering the phone this morning and hearing my mom sing "Happy Birthday" to me

* Taking a big stack of parcels and packages to the post office.   Is there anything better than parcels in the mail?

* Taking Julia and her best friend ( Read more... )

Whole wheat banana pancakes for breakfast, that even Julia ate.

Uninterrupted conversation with Jack in the van when I drove him to where he parked the semi last night.

Free coffee spiked with hot chocolate from where I work.

Kim's promise to bake more pumpkin oatmeal cookies this afternoon, and babysit while I work on my paper.

Charlotte in a super ( Read more... )

Nothing going on for me tonight so I'm watching "Monster's Inc." while I work on Midwifery Support Skills, a course about supporting women in childbirth who have been sexually abused.

Liz called tonight and told me that we would be going to Zion National park on Saturday, provided we don't have any births of course, and on Monday night she's ( Read more... )