I have a lot to be greatful for. How about you?
1. My husband and I are getting along. We are heading off tension before it becomes toxic discussion / arguments. Last night while I was sad he came over and kissed and hugged me; he did all the housework as well. Thank you, thank you, thank you for sweetness between us.
2. My kids and I are getting along well. They are out of their (minimal) school programs and I'm home with them all the time, so this is no mean feat. For the most part, I have been gentle with them. At the end of the day they still seek me out for cuddles and time together. At night Nels quietly sneaks into bed with me. My daughter spontaneously, several times a day, tells me she loves me.
3. Yesterday the kids and I took a bus trip to visit Ralph at work. My kids are enjoying the bus and both of them are reading (Sophie can read most everything; Nels attempts to follow suit).
4. Last night my homemade pizza turned out perfectly! I can make pizza from scratch! Yay for me. If you only knew how terrified I used to be of yeast breads!
5. I've been taking the kids on walks, swimming, biking daily. We are about to bike for groceries then go to the park. I am a little lonely without a girlfriend to so this stuff with, but I'm hanging in there.
6. Tonight I'm making carribbean chickpea and potato curry, tomato choka, and naan. I know my husband and kids will be appreciative of the dinner, and I'm excited to try something new!
7. I've been exfoliating and lotioning (my spell-checker tells me neither of those are real words). My skin is actually soft and shiny. I realize that as I get older my body and skin are different - mainly I need so, so, so much moisture! I feel really amazing starting to respect my maturing body and knowing what it needs.
Any grats to share, ladies?
"Macaroni - let me finish! - salad."
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1. My husband fell off a ladder at work & only broke his wrist and not anything else. I have good insurance and he was at the hospital where I work, stayed the night on the floor where I work and is quietly resting in a percocet induced haze at home now. Glad he is home and doing ok, also that he may still be able to eek out a living while he heals. and that we are on vacation soon so he will have a respite.
2. My cat was killed last night by a truck and I am glad that the stranger who watched it kept her mangled body and called us in the morning to tell us how sorry he was and to return her collar. that was very nice of him and I am touched that he went out of his way to save us grief ( especially since we were in the ER all last night).
DH & rhythm are actually taking the loss of our sweet Remedios the beauty pretty well & it is a good lesson for Rhythm to stay the fuck outta the street. There was a child in ER last night who was hit by a truck and really got hurt pretty bad so staying out of the street is weighing heavily on our minds lately.
3. Despite all this drama, I actually made it to the gym.
4. My MIL is ordering out & we will go to her house for dinner since my house is is squalor today with gloomy forcast of a good cleaning streak and I'd die of embarassment if above mentioned MIL were to step one toe in my house in this state.
5. The iodine I spilled while cleaning up DH's foot wounds on my recently re-finished wood floors is not coming out AT ALL but the color is quite lovely and if all else fails, he says we can just buy a gallon of iodine & restain the whole damn house to match 
6. I am heading in to take a much needed nap with my sweet boys and worry about my dishes and laundry someother time.
About your number five- I actualy did do something like that once- I got shoe polish all over a ten thousand dollar oriental rug that belonged to my dad, it was bold earthtones, and cream, so I cleaned it up as effeciantly as I could, but the cream colored parts where the polish was turned a nice malted brown, and it was really obvios because it was a big part in the middle, so I dumped shoe polish on the rest of the rug and low and behold it worked and he never ever noticed,YEsSssssss!!!
I don't feel bad, that what he gets for leaving a 25 year old woman unattended, right?
"I don't feel bad, that what he gets for leaving a 25 year old woman unattended, right?" made me laugh my ass off. There have been more than a few similar incidents in my dealings with my father's all-too-expensive furnishings.
spill of 2 oz red food dye on MIL's pristine pale colored travertine floors or my red sparkly nail polish on her millenium shag rug that I literally cut out to spare myself endless cleaning. How do I get myself into these predicaments? & the fun of getting out of them is priceless.
I have been accident prone, clumsy and unable to eat anything without getting it on my clothes my whole life. Ughhh, I am finaly giving up bleach, not because I am earth friendly, not because of my repiratory system, but because I can never manage to use the tiniest amount without getting it on my clothes, and that gets me really really mad. I ruined my only comfy bohemian, flowing goes with everything skirt- a thrift store find, and I am anal about that kind of thing, I know the bleachmark or stain is there and its not the same anymore. I've tried dying over bleach marks or cooking oil stains and it never works. will I ever outgrow this?
He is clumsy too, and so are my sisters - so it is totally genetic and, alas, I don't think one ever grows out of it compltely. I think we just learn to manage our clumsiness better (like wearing patterns and learning how to silk-screen to cleverly cover-up stains (this is on my to-do list). I also never bleach for the same reason, I remember in high school I had this great Smashing Pumpkins tee that I would have to use a sharpie on every time I wore it to fill in all the bleach spots.
Currently there are coffee stains on every one of my very few maternity tees (except the black one - there's a grease stain on that one) - I am throughly bummed, but coming to accept this as my reality.
I thought I was the only one.
I have a serious complex about it, like people are noticing all of the spots, stains, tears etc.
sigh.
So I am also thankful that I sucked it up and did not actually take that nap. Instead, I cleaned out my fridge, did those dishes, put away laundry, did another load and washed my kitchen floors and THIS made me happy. Next.... The bathroom. Having a fairly tidy house will make the weekend ( in which I work Fri/Sat/Sun) a helluva lot more bearable for everyone, especially since tabitha tittlemouse ( MIL) may want to drop in to care for her gimpy son at any given moment while I am at work.
I met Velma yesterday. I also met the most gorgeous ten year old child in my life, that just happened to be insanely( almost freakishly) intelligent. Its reassuring and rare to bump into smart people that are into cool things that aren't excruciatingly arrogant or float in on some self righteous pedastal they have put themselves on, I like opinionated people that can be gentle and not smug, its refreshing.
I got a phat ass blender last night, so now I can make blueberry smoothies every morning seeing as blueberries are way too expensive to eat raw daily and yet they are really recommended as a staple in a healthy diet. so heres the recipe by the way, it makes two servngs:
About a cup and a half of soy or rice or cow milk
One container of yogurt- I used raspberry but I should have been using one cup of plain yogurt
One frozen banana
about one cup frozen bluberries
Two heaping teaspoons flax seeds ( i did ground)
tablespoon of honey
this is better than ice cream, I promise you and a great way to start the day, especialy if you are like me and wake up delirious with low blood sugar but with not so much of an appetite. Your kids will love it...
Six more days until I pick up Natalie and Sophia from the airport! YAAAAAAAYYYYYY! One of my best friends is up and MOVING to Portland so I get the best of both worlds!!
My landlord apologized for snapping at me. that makes me feel lots better!
I am almost done carrying this baby and I only gained ten pounds.
My two year old turd got away from me at the park last night for five minutes and I found her and i was looking at her sitting on my bed last night, naked with her long spiral curls wet from the bath and I was so grateful that she is here with me. I have determined that the worst thing in the world would have one of my kids kidnapped, so I have convinced myself its going to happen, NO I really have its so terrifying to me, so I was actualy suprised to find her. And I sat there staring at her in awe and she smiled back alot.
She is now just whining and crying when I bathe her ( last night she actualy got in the tub herself!!) instead of literaly ripping out her won hair and screaming like shes about to be tortured. Such good news!
I am so grateful I don't have to work. I mean it. A thousand times over. I don't know how the moms that do it pull it off, I am so lucky that I can be with my kids 24 hours a day, don't have to put them in daycare, don't have only three hours a night with them, oh my God do I love the SAHM thing, I don't even care how people feel about it because I feel like I'm getting away with something fantastic and there is nothing in the world that I would rather be doing than trying to clean a house all day everyday in vain while not screaming at these two evil rotten children! Its exhausting, and it pays horribly and its 2 oclock or so and I haven't gotten around to brushing my teeth, but theres this stubby blonde haired toddler that just came up to me while I was typing this, wearing nothing but my tank top she somehow managed to hang around her neck. She just said something in gibberish, and I reached down to squeeze her naked buttcheek. She responded, "Thank you." and walked away. How much cuter is that?
my tooth hurts
Dave is being pissy
Bug is messing with the computer as I am typing
I have veggie booty in my bra because my toddler was feeding me
I wanted to get out and fly our new 3d kite all afternoon but it was all rain threatenie so we stayed in. Now I have the inside all day head fuzzies
Okay and I do have some things to be happy about
My crochet skills are improving
I found a beautiful white vintage pyrex milk glass divided veggie dish at sally annes for $5
I had an opportunity to clean and organize the fridge today. It looks nice & there isn't anything in there now past it's date.
Bug and I had fun this afternoon singing~he's happy & he knows it, I can tell cause he stomps his feet.
1 - Went to the zoo with Henry and her babe yesterday and had a great time.
2 - Went for lunch this afternoon with a woman who has "known me since before I was born" and whom I have not seen in 20+ years. We had a great time even as Sebastian terrorized the lovely restaurant she took us to. She then took us to a great park where we talked and played with only a minor injury to report. Did I mention she payed for everything, including my parking because I flaked and forgot my purse full of change was, in fact, full of Canadian coins.
3 - A trip to Pike Place market including the requisite stop at Starb*cks. Came home with a lovely minted lemongrass soap, a woodcut print for a baby-friend's first birthday (he is a second son and so needs no clothing or toys, and after realising I did not have the time or energy to sew the gift I had planned upn our return home, this seemed a perfectly fitting stand-in), a tie-dye shirt for Sebastian and an iron-on transfer of a ghost with a mullet that will go on a patch and be sewn onto the tie-dyed shirt.
4 - Sebastian's excitement over his new potty.
5 - Sebastian slept in until 8:00, after which we enjoyed a free continental breakfast (sadly we only discovered it this morning).
6 - Everything being so close by that we have barely used any gas this week (other than the obvious drive here and tomorrow's drive home).
7 - The artist who made the woodcut print we purchased at the market who was so sweet and fun, and genuinely thanked us for coming by and talking to him. I love stuff like that! He told us a great story about mowing his lawn and watching butterflies rise out of the grass like some strange dream. He also wrapped the picture up beautifully, ready for giving.
8 - The from-scratch pizza I am going to make next week, mmmmmmm
9 - The fact that when I return home tomorrow evening my house will be clean and tidy and the weekend will be laid-back and relaxed.
10 - Ten-plus minutes of hugs and tickles and kisses between typing the last grat and this one.
1. It is my wedding anniversary today and it is always nice to think back about that day, as cheesy as it sounds. The kids gave me a shit day today but DH wrote me the most lovely card I've ever recieved and that fixed everything.
2. I signed myself up for a private knitting lesson on Saturday. I have all of my grandmother's needles and I can't let them sit idle anymore. Besides, I'm getting a bit tired of stitching and am very excited for my lesson on Saturday.
3. Went to one of the four coffee shops within walking distance from the house with the girls today, which we have not been to in quite some time. I'm really trying to wean myself off of coffee with this baby and I've given up. Anyways, we went in and all the young, artsy, indie employees were so excited to see the girls. I never thought they even recognized us, as they never acknowledged us but the shop was empty and they were falling all over the girls. It is nice to have that small sense of community, even if it is so small. Ava was eating up all the attention, which is extremely rare for her.
4. No pudge brownies. The girls can not have dairy so it is hard to find mixes that are dairy-free, but alas, I found one that is lower in fat and dairy free; instead of adding yogurt, I add applesauce and they are so sumptously good, I'm drooling about it now.
5. DH's new job. He received a substantial pay raise which allowed me to buy a nice cleanser and moisturizer from Origins last night. This is huge for me, as I worked for Chanel to put myself through college and got all there free shit; there is a reason it is so damn expensive, it works. It was nice to get a little TLC last night. Also, I finally broke down and bought some maternity clothes,as I can not hide my busting buttons anymore. I found some really cute stuff, which takes my dowdy feeling away.
6. My dogs. They drive me crazy but after reading rhythmmama's grats, I realized I would be absolutely devastated if anything happened to them. Okay, I'm lying, I think about this probably once a day, but I was in tears thinking about it. They are so much work but they force me to get out each day and walk, love me unconditionally (even when I take out my harshness on them, and not the kids), and love the girls so much. Also, my kids are very respectful and loving to all animals, something that is super important to me.
7. My CSA farm share. The lettuce is so damn good, I am eating two salads a day. This is also helping with pregnancy symptoms, which I am so grateful for. I never thought heading to a stinky farm every Wednesday would bring me such happiness. This Wednesday, Ava sat on the ground by the pig fence and talked to the pigs for five minutes. I could only hear bits and pieces but it started out as:
"Hi, my name is Ava. I'm going to be three in two weeks. And that is my tent over there." (Her party is at the farm this year, hay ride included!)
which we actually celebrate more often than our wedding anniversary because the date is so easy to remember!
Happy anniversary!
"Macaroni - let me finish! - salad."
tonight I feel like sharing
Perhaps its because
1. Cosmopolitan with dinner - so good....
2. DH is home tonight after three nights in a row of not getting home before 11
3. Said DH is bathing DS upstairs while mama rests and they are having so much fun
4. Sermon written already
5. DH has a good job lead that makes him happy
6. I made a kick-ass stove top casulet that not only was delicious but practically calorie free
7. Gym every day this week!
Time to read stories 8 to my cozy boy
9. Prayer life is back on track
Gotta go..
* edited because my 8 in parenthesis came out as: (
Damn smilie faces.
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You are awesome.
I am so sorry about the loss of your sweet pet kitty. That is just painful. I lost a cat on my birthday this year and a neighbor also did something very sweet with regards to informing us.
I hope your husband mends soon!
"Macaroni - let me finish! - salad."