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June 30, 2007

Lizzie's take on a classic

Lizzie was "leading music" with an imaginary class the other day in a rendition of "Be Careful Little Eyes What You See."
She sang through all the verses and ended with this one:

"Oh be careful little tongue what you taste, oh be careful little tongue what you taste. For the Father up above is looking down with love so be careful little tongue what you taste."

LOL!
I certainly hope this is not a response to my cooking!

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June 19, 2007

done

(Father's day)

Stick a fork in me, I'm done! (nice huh?)
I would like very much to crawl into bed and sleep for two days. I've been doing way more freelance than usual and it seems to be taking its toll. I've worked long hours on the computer over the last two weekends and on Monday started the layout of a 28 page paper which I am doing for a friend while she's on maternity leave. Luckily she hasn't left yet and has pretty much held my hand the whole time which has been awesome. It sort of feels like opening a puzzle box and not knowing if its going to be a 100 piece puzzle or a 1000 piece and if sometimes there might be pieces missing. That's what tackling this layout feels like. But I'm sure it will get done and it will all turn out way less painful than I thought, I'm bringing most of my torment on myself.
We will probably have lots of movie afternoons cause unfortunately I feel so brain fried that I have a hard time dealing with the girls. I feel sort of empty and dried out. But this will all be worth it when I have my newly built play room downstairs fully equipped with ikea storage and fun furniture for the girls. If I can just make it through this summer.
I'll be going to the high risk on Thursday and maybe if I get a good scan picture I'll post it here. I want to talk to them about letting me go as close to my due date as possible. They like to do the c-sections at 38 weeks so I don't go into labor on my own, but with Julia ending up in the NICU with breathing problems I am going to fight that one. So we'll see how close I can get it to Oct 20th. I want a really fat baby this time! I know I'm doing my part. LOL!

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June 14, 2007

Martha Stewart, you kill me!

If you know me well, you know that I can have a one track mind about things and lately my obsession has been the organization of my craft supplies and my office in general. I have several spools of ribbons that were spilling out into a drawer and several loose pieces as well. So I started looking online to check out my options of how to store ribbon- nerdy I know. So after a bit of googling and finding the old dowel rod hook method I decided to check with the craft queen herself and search at marthastewart.com. I actually found something very cool and have been trying since to figure out how to do it.

This ribbon organizer is made with a half round copper gutter. I went to home depot to look at gutters on Sat just to see if there was a scrap pile or if they would cut some and they didn't have half round and certainly no copper. Which is fine, since according to my online research it costs $70-$90 for a 10 ft length of copper gutter. This is what cracks me up about Martha's good things and various other crafts, she spends soooo much money. You either have to have some special spice that she flies in from India or a special rice paper only sold in Soho. But I guess in her defense great looking things are more expensive.
So I have not given up my quest, I will settle for aluminum but I definitely want the half round and not the other kind which is sold at home depot. I wonder how crazy it would sound to call a gutter company and ask if they have a scrap pile, "um, I only need about a yard of half round gutter for some ribbon storage, do you have a scrap pile?".
Maybe if I get a length of half round aluminum from home depot for under $15 and have it cut up I can sell parts of it to other obsessive crafters. :) I only want a yard or so.
So on with the searching, I will spend less than $10 total if it kills me and even that seems like a stretch. If I get the courage up to call a gutter company and not feel like a heel I'll post what the results are. lol Maybe I'll get my ribbon organizer yet!
(what a dork, see one track mind!)

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June 13, 2007

much improved

(this will be a more cheerful post I promise)
The week has gotten much better. We've spent hours at the pool and lots of time playing with friends. What is it about the summer that has kids antsy while in doors. We have much better days when we have plans, thats for sure.
We spent 3 hours at the pool on Tues. Here's my short commercial for the place- it is awesome!! I almost became a member when my close friends did but we felt it wasn't a good idea when we had a free membership at the Y and I could swim there. On their website they list the cost as $4 a person and I found out during their free swim weekend that the price has changed to $3 a person and 4yrs and under are free. This made my whole summer, I will NOT be driving to Hixson to swim at the outdoor Y pool, I'll be driving 5 minutes down the road to Moore Rd and swimming with friends. It rocks! The pool is enormous and whole center section is only 2.5 ft deep so it makes it a lot easier to watch more than one child. Everyone should come out and join us for the fun, we are loving it.
I have noticed that it doesn't matter how much sunblock I wear I am super sensitive to the sun. I'm pretty sure its a pregnancy hormone thing but I think I'll be cranking it up to 50 next time.

Pregnancy is going great and fairly uneventful. Andy saw her move through my shirt the other night, I was wondering if she could have possibly been shifting positions completely since it was unlike other movements. It was huge. Both Andy and I are so unsentimental about it all, we don't oh and ah, his response was- how weird! It is sort of alien like, kind of cracks me up. What can I say, at least both of us are like that. We're much better with the babies once they are on the outside.
I'll see the high risk next week and we'll chat about what the plan will be for the rest of the pregnancy. My regular ob is hoping we can back off the visits a bit since I've had two healthy pregnancies on the blood thinners, but we'll see what the high risk wants.

Here are the girls a week or so ago playing "slumber party" in the morning. They do really well sometimes playing together and were having an especially good time this morning. I can't wait till we can do our renovation in the garage and create a play room for them. We want to enclose half of our shot gun garage to make an extra room. I am looking forward to putting all their toys down there and just leaving the door open and encouraging them to spend lots of time down there! We're starting in August and our end goal is by the time the baby comes. I will really need this extra space. Work has been wicked busy for me but I've taken every job offered to put towards this renovation. I'm hoping there is left over ikea money to get some furniture and storage stuff to make the room that much more fun. I also want it carpeted and a new stair railing, we'll see how far the money goes. :)

I am feeling so not crafty lately, just exhausted and spent by the end of the day. I have a few dresses that are pleated and I could be smocking but I am so unmotivated. It's such a shame. At least I'm having another girl so the dresses I have that are a 2 and a 4 will work for Julia and the new baby eventually. : )
How pitiful, I think its time for ice cream!

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June 11, 2007

Another crummy monday

Oh how you frustrate me Monday- let me count the ways-
1. the girls bickered all morning and irritated me to no end, I rejoiced at lunch time to have something else to distract them with.
2. I dropped my PF Chang left overs all over the dining room when I was going to sit down. I was so looking forward to those and had to wipe up rice (quite a challenge on hard wood floors) and I mopped the floors for a second time today. (which in itself is more action than my floor has seen all month)
3. Put Julia down with the hopes of possibly still going to the pool after nap but giving up that dream as I continued to get more tired. Decided to skip the pool and mill wheat and make fresh rolls instead. Added a tablespoon of yeast instead of a teaspoon! Abandoned fresh roll idea.
4. Decided to wake Julia up to go to the pool and get the kids out of the house. Got everyone ready, received a phone call from Amy saying there was a swim meet and the pool was closing in 15 minutes. SCORE!
5. Tried to redirect the girls and ran an errand to drop off a file for work with intentions of coming home to make rolls still. Got home and realized there was not enough time for kneading and two risings so gave up on the rolls again.

Thank goodness Andy is coming home very soon, with store bought rolls and salad in a bag to help salvage my pitiful dinner.

(in hindsight this is quite a whiny post, just venting really. obviously we're all healthy and non of this was life threatening- just seriously frustrating!)

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June 6, 2007

afternoon ramblings

This afternoon when I picked Lizzie up from vbs she got really perturbed when we left because this little boy was holding the door open for us. She tried to stand next to him and help and he said, "boys can hold the door open for others, its nice to do." I commended him for being a gentleman and said he had such nice manners. Lizzie had a sour face for a while in the back seat and when I asked her what was wrong she stated, "I did not like that boy holding the door for me!" I told her it was very nice for someone to hold the door for us and its a nice thing for a boy to do. To which she responded, "girls can hold the door too!" The thing that was cracking me up is the depth of what she was saying without her meaning to. She was coming across as this little feminist even though I know she's just being a 3 yr old who didn't get to do what she wanted. It was a pretty humorous exchange.

Also while we were at the church some stranger rubbed my belly and asked how much longer I had to go. ICK- this is a NO RUB zone. Am I going to have to make up t-shirts with that printed on them or maybe I'll reach across and rub their stomach even if they aren't pregnant! Touching someone's belly is an invite ONLY. Then when I told her when I was due she proceeded to tell me her birthday was October 10th and I should try to have the baby on her birthday. Um, this is another thing that annoys me to no end. Any other special day requests so I can schedule my c-section around some stranger's birthday and not a day that works for my family and Doctor?

Hmmm I think its getting close to nap time cause I'm getting quite sassy and opinionated. The girls just emptied two decks of cards on the floor so I guess its time to dash.

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