I try really, really hard not to have one set of rules for one of my girls and a different set for the other but sometimes it’s really hard. It’s going to be even harder when Baby #3 comes into the mix. It’s not that I play favourites or willingly give one of them more or less scope for their actions but they are very different sometimes in terms of personality and intention.

Just now I was nibbling on a biscuit. Ahh, dry biscuits are my friends right now. This is the first pregnancy I have had morning sickness with and although it had faded for a while it seems to be back now. Natasha loves my biscuits while Angelica just pretends to love them to fit in with ‘the in crowd’. I generally break a biscuit in half, then in half again and give each of them a quarter but today Natasha decided this was unacceptable and swiped a whole (more…)

Birthday Season in our house is in full swing.  Poor Charlie, he is our outlier birthday.  Hopefully the next kid (or two) will have a birthday close to his so he doesn’t feel left out.  Of course he may like having his birthday far from everyone else as he won’t have to share a party with anyone.

Today is my birthday.  Everyone has that age where they just feel is OLD.  25 has always been that age for me, so I’m trying to come to terms with the fact that today I’m a quarter of a century old.  Yesterday Chris took me to Best Buy to buy my birthday gift.  A brand new laptop! And it’s a very nice laptop too!  Its a gaming laptop even though I’m not a gamer - so it will be able to handle everything I need it too, which is mostly web browsing, and homeschooling.  It has a built in webcam which will be really nice when Chris is deployed.  On Saturday Chris is taking me to the movies and out for lunch and dinner.

Tomorrow Charlie turns 3 months old! I can’t believe it’s already been 3 months.  He is such a happy baby - as long as he’s being held or played with.  It’s made homeschooling hard, but I figure (more…)

I had to take both Ryan and Belly in for shots this morning. Belly to get her finally started on them and Ryan to get caught up on his for school. Plus I needed to get a new copy of Ryan’s birth certificate for school also.

To start off, I got there at about 9:45, appointment was at 10. Waited for a close to 45 minutes, then they got called back for shots. When I was filling out their paperwork when I first got there I put in a request for Ryan’s birth certificate and the lady said to pick it up on my way out. Ryan did, well, ok with his shots. He fussed a little and cried some but it wasn’t too bad. At first Belly did great. The first three she took with just stiffening herself up but the last two she screamed bloody murder through. (I was informed those 2 burn a lot). All of that was finished up by about 11.

I went up to pay for Ryan’s birth certificate and pick up his official shot records and the new lady behind the counter told me (more…)

Bob came into our bedroom at 2:00 am ready to talk. Right then. At 2:00 am. He wanted to talk about protocol droids (How are they different than medical droids?), raspberry lemonade (How do they squeeze out the raspberries?), and his favorite 2:00 am topic, death.

“But if Meda was very old and got sick, how old (more…)

Allow me to introduce you to my two children, Monkey #1:

and Monkey #2:

More and more these days, my children are (more…)