Thanks for the get better notes. I did lay in bed Sunday and Monday. Yesterday, not so well. So, today I'm taking it easier, although you really can't lay in bed all day with 5 kids (especially not when 2 of them are boys!). I'm feeling much better, thanks!
I took this video of Little Bit today. I've never tried to upload a video, so thought I'd attempt it. Make sure you watch until the end - it has an unexpected ending.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Monday, December 15, 2008
Sick
This will be short. I'm sick with mastitis. Please pray I get better quickly. I cannot be Mommy with this. I'm actually on antibiotics at this point - yuck!
Thursday, December 11, 2008
A Must Read
If you want a good laugh, please go read my friend's blog, Life by the Handful. Go. Read. Now.
Vacuuming
I had a strange dream last night. I dreamed that I was vacuuming the carpet in our basement and the carpet was covered with mashed potatoes, dirt and small sticks. The carpet was so bad I had to sweep the dirt up first and vacuum second. By the way, vacuums don't work on mashed potatoes very well (at least it didn't in my dream). I think I need to vacuum my carpet. I was sitting looking at it last night and thought I needed to vacuum, but seriously, mashed potatoes?
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Tree Pictures
Here is our back deck during the snow storm, the day Old Man and Dawn got the tree.
Quite a bit of snow on the truck!
I went outside, without a coat, just to take these pictures. They loved that I told them to stop walking and stand still in the freezing, blowing snow so I could snap a couple pictures! :-) You can see how high the snow is on their pants. Deep!
Now, for something totally unrelated, but funny. A couple days ago, Joseph said, "I really like our baby, but I don't think we should have any more." I replied, "Why not?" His answer, "because I don't want another annoying little brother." Nice. Very nice. Old Man asked me if I pointed out to him that that is how his sister's feel about him. No, I didn't.
Yesterday, Joseph says, "Mom, you could have another baby when Little Bit is one. And then another one when that one is one. And another when that one is one. And another and another and another. THEN we would have lots of kids in our family!" I said, "And we don't have lots of kids now?" His reply, "Mom, we ONLY have five!" To think that to him, 5 is not a lot of kids! To everyone else we have a huge amount! :-)
Apparently he is undecided as to whether we should have more kids or not.
Quite a bit of snow on the truck!
I went outside, without a coat, just to take these pictures. They loved that I told them to stop walking and stand still in the freezing, blowing snow so I could snap a couple pictures! :-) You can see how high the snow is on their pants. Deep!
Now, for something totally unrelated, but funny. A couple days ago, Joseph said, "I really like our baby, but I don't think we should have any more." I replied, "Why not?" His answer, "because I don't want another annoying little brother." Nice. Very nice. Old Man asked me if I pointed out to him that that is how his sister's feel about him. No, I didn't.
Yesterday, Joseph says, "Mom, you could have another baby when Little Bit is one. And then another one when that one is one. And another when that one is one. And another and another and another. THEN we would have lots of kids in our family!" I said, "And we don't have lots of kids now?" His reply, "Mom, we ONLY have five!" To think that to him, 5 is not a lot of kids! To everyone else we have a huge amount! :-)
Apparently he is undecided as to whether we should have more kids or not.
Friday, December 5, 2008
Getting our Christmas Tree
Let me preface this post by telling you that I have the cutest baby in my lap. She's smiling and cooing at me! I'll have to type fast!! :-)
Many years ago, back when Old Man and I were newlyweds, we had friends take us to chop down our Christmas Tree. Thus began our annual tradition of chopping down a Christmas tree. Sometimes I'm not sure whether I should thank them or curse them for this tradition. We've had all kinds of mishaps with our trees. The first mishap was with that first tree! Old Man's bow saw popped while he was cutting down the tree and he had a cut on his knuckle - down to the bone. But, seeing as it was Thanksgiving weekend, NO way did he get stitches. Gotta love those men. Oh, that's the other part of our tradition. We always get our tree on Thanksgiving weekend.
Seeing as this is "The Year of The Move", we've worked hard to keep our traditions for the kids. So they knew we were getting a tree and were soooo looking forward to it. We couldn't get the tree on Friday - too many other things going on. Saturday we were just too worn out to run out in the morning to the ONE place we found you can chop down trees (note - you can get them from the forest service here, you get a permit, treck around the mountains and get it that way - we figured that was a tad nuts with 5 kids in tow). We figured Sunday would work. We'd go to church and just run up to the tree place after church.
Checked the weather Saturday night - things looked great. Got up Sunday morning - snow. 4 or 5 inches and still coming down. The kids went out to play, I went out to take pictures. I came in and told Old Man that it was WAY too cold to take the baby out for the tree. We decided to send Dawn and Old Man only to get the tree. First they did the sensible thing and checked Home Depot. The trees weren't any good. So, despite the blizzard, they decided to drive half an hour further north to chop down a tree. I got numerous phone calls from Old Man telling me how bad the roads were and how many wrecks they were seeing. Apparently they walked through snow over Dawn's knees to the tree, had to dig the tree out of the snow and there was too much snow blowing for them to even take a picture! Hmmm, brilliant plan. On the way home, Old Man had to call me and ask me how to get home, since the road was blocked by a stuck 18-wheeler and a wreck. They were gone for over 5 hours to get this tree! The beauty of all this is that the tree isn't the best one we've ever gotten - probably one of the worse. It has 2 trunks! In order to even put it in the house, we had to cut the trunks apart and zip tie the trunks together. It won't fit in our normal tree holder, so it's in a large canning pot, held up by rocks, bricks and blocks of wood. And it's leaning. Badly. We will have to spend a large amount of time fixing it (again) this weekend.
Aren't traditions great???
(Confession: Ranee, you know how you wanted us to drive your truck? Old Man drove it to get the tree. He didn't wreck it. They did slide off the road once, but we're happy the four wheel drive works great! Old Man said he's probably going to have to buy it from you once he gets done driving it all over the place. Maybe we should take it to your folk's house soon!)
Many years ago, back when Old Man and I were newlyweds, we had friends take us to chop down our Christmas Tree. Thus began our annual tradition of chopping down a Christmas tree. Sometimes I'm not sure whether I should thank them or curse them for this tradition. We've had all kinds of mishaps with our trees. The first mishap was with that first tree! Old Man's bow saw popped while he was cutting down the tree and he had a cut on his knuckle - down to the bone. But, seeing as it was Thanksgiving weekend, NO way did he get stitches. Gotta love those men. Oh, that's the other part of our tradition. We always get our tree on Thanksgiving weekend.
Seeing as this is "The Year of The Move", we've worked hard to keep our traditions for the kids. So they knew we were getting a tree and were soooo looking forward to it. We couldn't get the tree on Friday - too many other things going on. Saturday we were just too worn out to run out in the morning to the ONE place we found you can chop down trees (note - you can get them from the forest service here, you get a permit, treck around the mountains and get it that way - we figured that was a tad nuts with 5 kids in tow). We figured Sunday would work. We'd go to church and just run up to the tree place after church.
Checked the weather Saturday night - things looked great. Got up Sunday morning - snow. 4 or 5 inches and still coming down. The kids went out to play, I went out to take pictures. I came in and told Old Man that it was WAY too cold to take the baby out for the tree. We decided to send Dawn and Old Man only to get the tree. First they did the sensible thing and checked Home Depot. The trees weren't any good. So, despite the blizzard, they decided to drive half an hour further north to chop down a tree. I got numerous phone calls from Old Man telling me how bad the roads were and how many wrecks they were seeing. Apparently they walked through snow over Dawn's knees to the tree, had to dig the tree out of the snow and there was too much snow blowing for them to even take a picture! Hmmm, brilliant plan. On the way home, Old Man had to call me and ask me how to get home, since the road was blocked by a stuck 18-wheeler and a wreck. They were gone for over 5 hours to get this tree! The beauty of all this is that the tree isn't the best one we've ever gotten - probably one of the worse. It has 2 trunks! In order to even put it in the house, we had to cut the trunks apart and zip tie the trunks together. It won't fit in our normal tree holder, so it's in a large canning pot, held up by rocks, bricks and blocks of wood. And it's leaning. Badly. We will have to spend a large amount of time fixing it (again) this weekend.
Aren't traditions great???
(Confession: Ranee, you know how you wanted us to drive your truck? Old Man drove it to get the tree. He didn't wreck it. They did slide off the road once, but we're happy the four wheel drive works great! Old Man said he's probably going to have to buy it from you once he gets done driving it all over the place. Maybe we should take it to your folk's house soon!)
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Puke (graphic - don't read if you have a strong gag reflex)
Now we have puke. It was nice to not have it on my birthday. At least she waited a couple days.
Yesterday, we had 4 out of 5 kids not feeling well. No puke, but just OFF, if you know what I mean. Anne actually had a low-grade fever and laid around all day. She didn't eat until about 4. Joseph kept saying his tummy hurt, but he was still torturing his little brother, so I couldn't take him too seriously. David had a NASTY diaper, so I knew something was going on with him. Little Bit was just plain fussy all day, very very unlike her. But Dawn, she was great! Felt good, went outside to play in the snow (we had a foot out there) and swing.
There was a tea planned last night for the ladies of the church. Since Anne wasn't feeling well, I took Dawn and Little Bit. The whole time I'm driving up there, I'm thinking "what am I doing? I am nuts!" Little Bit hates the car. Hates. The. Car. She screamed the entire way there (30 minutes) and even started spitting up because she was so upset. The roads were bad. Joy. The tea was very nice though, so it ended up fine. Around 8:45, Dawn came to me and said, "I don't feel good, I'm tired. Can we leave?"
The drive home was actually uneventful. Little Bit was so tired she actually slept! Praise GOD! Dawn was quiet. The roads were only bad in the residential areas and they were pretty empty.
Around 3:30 in the morning, Dawn started throwing up. She threw up every hour pretty much until about half an hour ago (it's 9 a.m. here). Around 6:30, she was loudly throwing up in the bathroom and the boys were on there bed, covering their ears, saying "she's still puking! Gross!" At some point later, she was throwing up again and David was standing in the bathroom. Every time she would make noise, he would gag. Then he would look in the toilet and gag. I kept telling him to leave the bathroom so he wouldn't puke too, but he just stood there gagging! WHATEVER!?!
Dawn is now sleeping peacefully. Hopefully she will wake up and feel much much better. Oh, and all the other kids seem to be feeling better today, so I guess it's just a 24 hour thing. Can't wait for my turn!! Yippee! NOT.
Yesterday, we had 4 out of 5 kids not feeling well. No puke, but just OFF, if you know what I mean. Anne actually had a low-grade fever and laid around all day. She didn't eat until about 4. Joseph kept saying his tummy hurt, but he was still torturing his little brother, so I couldn't take him too seriously. David had a NASTY diaper, so I knew something was going on with him. Little Bit was just plain fussy all day, very very unlike her. But Dawn, she was great! Felt good, went outside to play in the snow (we had a foot out there) and swing.
There was a tea planned last night for the ladies of the church. Since Anne wasn't feeling well, I took Dawn and Little Bit. The whole time I'm driving up there, I'm thinking "what am I doing? I am nuts!" Little Bit hates the car. Hates. The. Car. She screamed the entire way there (30 minutes) and even started spitting up because she was so upset. The roads were bad. Joy. The tea was very nice though, so it ended up fine. Around 8:45, Dawn came to me and said, "I don't feel good, I'm tired. Can we leave?"
The drive home was actually uneventful. Little Bit was so tired she actually slept! Praise GOD! Dawn was quiet. The roads were only bad in the residential areas and they were pretty empty.
Around 3:30 in the morning, Dawn started throwing up. She threw up every hour pretty much until about half an hour ago (it's 9 a.m. here). Around 6:30, she was loudly throwing up in the bathroom and the boys were on there bed, covering their ears, saying "she's still puking! Gross!" At some point later, she was throwing up again and David was standing in the bathroom. Every time she would make noise, he would gag. Then he would look in the toilet and gag. I kept telling him to leave the bathroom so he wouldn't puke too, but he just stood there gagging! WHATEVER!?!
Dawn is now sleeping peacefully. Hopefully she will wake up and feel much much better. Oh, and all the other kids seem to be feeling better today, so I guess it's just a 24 hour thing. Can't wait for my turn!! Yippee! NOT.
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