If I have this blog I suppose I better write something on it, right?
Life lately: Adam has been working a lot! He is coming into the busy holiday season, and preparing to graduate too! Just a few more weeks and he is DONE with school! We’ll all be happy to have time together again.
We’re looking forward to a visit from the Crane’s before thanksgiving, and then one of my good friends is going to visit after Christmas. I’m super excited!
These past few months have been busy and a bit emotional. We moved to a bigger house. We lost two children in miscarriages. But we’re still here, still a strong family, and our God is amazing. I know some people don’t talk about miscarriages, but I don’t feel that way. I don’t want it to be a secret pain that we keep inside. At the same time, I’m not going to tell everyone I meet. But I think my readership here is quite small, and I don’t feel that it is a shameful thing that shouldn’t be talked about. We have two children who live with the Lord Jesus Christ at this very moment, and that is something to rejoice over. Don’t get me wrong, there have been many tears shed, but ultimately, we rest in God’s sovereignty.
In other news I have gotten pretty good at editing movies, and I’ve posted a few on facebook. I supposed I’ll put them on You Tube and then on here, but our good computer is having RAM issues at the moment, and I need to wait untill it is fixed before I do something like that.
So, I’m pretty meh about blogging lately. Its not because I have nothing to say, its just that I’ve been twitterfied. I update my facebook status frequently, and I twitter all day, but I just can’t muster the time/energy/brain power to write a blog post that makes much sense.
So last week I got a free facial, using the coupon that came in the mail. The lady who did my facial had amazing skin. I couldn’t figure out how old she was because her skin completely clear, dewy, and even. It was a bit taut and lined though. So after trying to convince me to buy a $100 Tj e of skin bleach, she recommended that I try a stand-alone daily sunscreen with high SPF. Although I use a moisturizer with SPF now, I definitely see the reason to upgrade: skin like mine that is prone to hyperpigmentation needs SPF, lest I undo any progress my night products have made. So I went to target and picked up a neutrogena SPF 70 sunscreen. I usually despise sunscreen because it is 1. Greasy 2. Drying and 3. Acne inducing. I have been using this product for almost a week now, and I’m noticing some significant redness. I can’t decide if my skin is protesting this or the backup moisturizer I have been using. The lady suggested I use a la Roche posay product, so I’m considering swapping something in my collection for that on MUA. Aside from the sunscreen issues. I broke out on my cheeks from the facial. I slhould have carried along my travel benzoyl peroxide for a post-facial insurance policy. Oh well.
Oh, snow day pics up at flickr, and a video up on facebook soon. Those things take forever to upload!
10:50am. Adam got back from his men’s thing a while ago, is now napping on the couch. He is getting over a nasty lingering cold, turned infection thing. He’s on Mucinex with cough suppressant, Amoxicillin and sudafed. It is not helping.
Charlotte just woke up. She was up late because we were out at dinner with a family from our church, and she needed to extra sleep. Also, she skipped her nap yesterday, and took a half-nap 4 hours too late. It was a busy day.
Now she’s singing to herself, and Adam’s awake. Time to go.
Time really flies! I just spend a few minutes reading some old posts, and I can’t believe how much life has changed!
I keep wondering how Charlotte got so old so quickly. She can’t possibly be 17 months old already! She is though, and she’s a great kid.
She has a mind of her own, and is starting to be very particular about what she wants. She insists on reading one book in particular which she calls “Dog Dogs.” She is saying a ton of words:
Mommy daddy cat dog bunny ear hand nose mouth tummy hair feet toes (totes) makeup (makes) bag car drive wheels gas truck beep vacuum (backy!) Aubrey (aaabeee!) Becky pretty Nemo (neemee!) fish see milk water (wayee) waffle (wawawa) mac and cheese (meeeese) pizza cheese coffee tea run walk jump (dumpy dumpy!) elephant (elffffft) monkey (muky) bug draw play doh blocks
and much, much more!
She also understands questions. I’ll say “What does a car do” and she says “Drive” and then I say “What goes in a car?” and she says “Gas!” Its all soo cute.
Lately life has been pretty normal. Work is normal for Adam, he’s keeping up with school and doing well. We’ve been traveling more than usual, but thats because we’ve had things to do up in nova each week. We’ve been involved at church too, so that is a bit time consuming.
So, today started really well. I resisted a box of donuts that were tempting me at Grandma’s house, and instead ate Special K and drank coffee while we drove home. The good day ended with we got home…
Adam accidentally locked Max in Charlotte’s bedroom (the bedroom we all sleep in) and he pooped/peed/vomited all over everything. We threw everything out because its basically impossible to clean cat pee out of a mattress. So we took one mattress to the dumpster at work (where, oddly enough, two kids were walking by and decided they wanted a cat pee soaked mattress so they hauled it away) and I went into mattress discounters and negotiated a great deal on a twin mattress for frog. $134 with tax for a brand new mattress! I used my technique for buying a car*. Then we had to go to target to get sheets because we didn’t have twin sheets. So we had to put the new mattress in the back room at TJs because we didn’t want to risk someone stealing it while we were in target. Then we bought sheets, picked the mattress back up and went home to set it all up.
It was a busy day!
*my car buying technique: figure out what you want, figure out a fair price, walk into dealership and say “I want this car for this price, I’ll give you 30 minutes starting now” In the case of the mattress, I walked in and said “I want a twin mattress for under $200.” She said she could give me one for $150 and I said “any cheaper?” and she called her boss and gave it to be for under $130 before tax.
There isn’t very much going on in our lives right now. Adam’s still working hard for the money, Charlotte is running around a learning more everyday. Patch is still alive. I gave him some petromalt, and that helped him. The cats have learned how to pull hay through the bars of Patch’s cage with their paws so they can eat it and vomit. Lovely.
I uploaded some pictures to Flickr.
We took frog to the children’s museum when they had snow one day and she absolutely hated it. I think she was upset that we made her get bundled up just to stand outside and touch yucky cold powdery stuff when she could have been running around playing with toys inside. Maybe when she is older we’ll get a good amount of snow that she can appreciate.
I’m kinda worried about Patch. We did a lot of driving this weekend, and since Patch needs daily hay, water, and lettuce, we take him with us. We had run out of litter so we left him in his travel cage until we could clean out his food/poop box. Patch was running out of patience with us though, and glared at us every time we passed by. So we let him out of his travel cage, and he ran up to his real cage and tried to get in. Then he ran over to the wall and peed on the carpet!! We also sprayed pee on Frog’s new chair, then peed in front of his cage! I couldn’t believe it, Patch has NEVER peed outside of his cage. Now he’s lying in his cage, and he keeps flopping down like he’s in pain. I’m worried that the stress of driving has messed up his gut, and he’s experiencing some GI stasis. So I’m monitoring his closely.
Lately I’ve noticed 2 disturbing things: my nails and bending and breaking easily and my hair is really dry and awful. This is really weird because up until recently I had never broken a nail, and I always had sort of nice hair. So I tried a new kind of hair mask: Yes to Carrots! I read about their stuff on another blog It seemed to work well, and I’m going to try using it again tonight.
There’s one big change happening at Adam’s work that we’re really happy about: the latest shift now ends at 10pm. Do you know what a HUGE deal that is? Adam has spent the last 10 years (7 with me) working at all hours of the day, and now the latest he will be home is around 11pm (they’ll probably stay late). Thats a huge deal, because we can go to bed before midnight!! I’m embracing this development with a few new resolutions: exercise more, go to bed at a reasonable hour, get up earlier.
