long time no post. things are well, thankfully, just busy! (too busy for caps, even!) we have started school again; brynn doesn't like hers, and danielle says hers is too easy so I have to give her extra work. the cat had some kind of reaction to a vaccine he got yesterday which he seems to be getting over; he was sluggish and sad. brynn is ( Read more... )

Erick's turning 40 at the end of this month. Anyone have any ideas to celebrate that don't involve a party or travel (his schedule is very iffy!!). Thanks!

Yes, I am still here; just been a little busy lately. Arianna arrived on June 29th, the day before my due date...which goes to show how I know nothing, since I was certain she would be at least a week late! And, I thank the Lord that He worked it out so that Erick got to be home that night; I was so worried he wouldn't be able to be home for a ( Read more... )

We went swimming today. It felt really nice to be in the water with the weightlessness of my giant baby belly! Then I felt even heavier when I first got out ( Read more... )

36 weeks. Yesterday I was having a mini-melt down. I am tired, trying to homeschool 3 kids (though here lately it's been two more often than 3 as C hasn't been doing his every day, which I don't feel too bad about as he doesn't have to yet, and he's doing really well with it), not sleeping much, trying to find us a new vehicle as we need one in the ( Read more... )

We saw the new Shrek on Saturday. It was a lot better than I thought it would be, with a couple of laugh-out-loud moments. We ended up seeing How to Train Your Dragon again on Monday with Erick's dad; still good. That was the first time we had all been to a movie with him, and Carter was actually pretty talkative to him; he used to be fairly ( Read more... )

http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml10/10234.html - toy dart set sold at family dollar

Today I am 33 weeks pregnant. And LARGE. Still sleeping pretty well; I've only been waking up once a night to pee thankfully (I realize I should insert a comma between "pee" and "thankfully", but sometimes I am very thankful at finally getting to pee!). Having some really weird and scary dreams some nights, though. Yikes ( Read more... )

Yesterday we got chased by a bull. Sort of. I'm sure it was not nearly as scary as it seemed, but at least Brynn, Carter and I are scared of cows now. Danielle seemed ok with it. Bulls are really big, mean looking animals, especially running towards you and then angrily staring at you as you cower behind a tree, with nowhere else to go!

Two of my favorite movie lines ( Read more... )