I shouldn’t be posting right now. I should be having a shower and going to bed. But I just need to say this…
Last night was a short night of sleep, so the hours that I got were of the really deep, intense kind. At one point I woke up for just a few seconds with [...]
Luke and I were at the doctor this morning. By the time we got bread from the bakery next door and went to get Olivia who was with my mom and grandpa down at his house (and picked up a few more treasures from there), it was almost lunchtime. So we drove the couple blocks [...]
In the spirit of The Business of Being Born (and, yes, I did mostly enjoy my Wendy’s guilt-free while watching the dvd tonight), I thought I’d post this picture of one of the moments from my labour with Olivia. I’d call it one of my “favourite” moments, but her entire birth was so good that [...]
On Christmas Eve Marc gave me six vouchers for “late night food-craving runs”. I am to present Marc with a voucher when I want him to go get my craving of the moment and he will get it and then ceremoniously tear up the voucher into tiny little pieces, never to be used again. Before [...]
My granny and I spent a lot of my childhood rocking in the big, soft, half broken (because it feels like you’re going to tip over when you rock back) chair that now sits in my living room. As we sat there with our feet up, I’d notice granny’s feet. I always remember that granny’s [...]
Yesterday was a strange day, filled with all sorts of strange feelings, none of which really made sense to me. They just made me very confused and kind of sad, I guess. I’d taken the book The Shack out of the church library the Sunday before and figured I better start reading it since it’s [...]
Marc asked me at lunch today if he placed too high expectations upon me. My response was, “What expectations?” Marc really is so laid back that I never really thought of him as having any expectations for me. Then I thought about it for a minute, and realized he does have expectations — ones that [...]
So I could get to work eradicating the fruit flies, I set up our portable dvd player on a little stool in the kitchen the other day. Olivia’s started enjoying Baby Einstein a few months back and now she even sings a bit of the Dora them-song (we woke up to her singin it in [...]
It’s 7:35pm. I’ve just bathed the kids, read them a story, and put them to bed. It sounds so sweet. Except for all the yelling. Marc’s at the church for a meeting. It started at 7:00pm. I don’t expect him home until 11pm. So, that gives me several hours of time to myself (if Luke [...]
Once you have more than one kid, you tend to let certain things slide a bit. Especially in the way of food. Your first child is not allowed to have anything but homemade baby food. Your second gets it out of a jar made by Heinz. Your third, once they can chew, is eating McDonalds [...]