1. Move.
2. Write more.
3. Draw more.
4. Knit and crochet more.
5. Eat from home more.
Let's see how that goes.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Hallelujah!!!!
For Christmas we received a largish amount of money from a relative of Pat's. So guess what I just did? I ordered a new computer! Wahoooooooo! It'll be here in a couple of weeks.
I have nothing left to say.
I have nothing left to say.
Friday, December 25, 2009
Merry Christmas!
We have had a very good one. But it's 7:09pm now and I have no idea how that happened. One minute we were waking up to presents-opening and Santa-brought gifts and the next it was getting dark.
This Christmas I did a lot more cookie/fudge-making and a bit more on the homemade gifts front. It's because this year I'm not pregnant and miserable about it. And I made sure we had an activity every day of advent, which I definitely didn't do last year. We went ice skating and made ornaments and decorated gingerbread houses and made crystal snowflakes with borax. It was great! I'm so glad that we didn't have to worry about being packed and ready to move on top of all that.
The girls wanted me to write about what they got because they said they forgot what they got last year. So here goes. Jammies for X-mas eve, a pair of pants, a shirt, and a sweater for each kid, socks for each kid, Mario Bros. Wii for all, Ghostbusters for the Wii for all, Piktureka for all, a webkinz cat for Saren, the new Zelda game and Scribblenauts for Saren, a Waldorf-like doll for Harper, 2 books for Harper, 2 Littlest Pet Shops for Harper, sparkly shoes for Irina, two movies for Irina (Mamma Mia and Enchanted), a princess polly pocket for Irina, a Barbie for Irina, sewing boxes for Saren and Harper (with scissors, needles, thread, embroidery floss, yarn, crochet hooks, measuring tape, cloth, felt), The Princess and the Pea for Irina plus a playset like this one made by me to go with it, Dani Noir for myself and Saren and Harper, a wooden bowl and spoon for Silas plus some wacky plastic toys and a few handmade by me toys, and pens and paper and other stocking stuff. Oh, and the latest Harry Potter movie because now we can see it proper. Hope it's better without all the ridiculousness of the drive-in. And a new Christmas book for the Christmas book basket (tradition).
Yay! That was fun. We have spent the day at home just hanging out and playing some of our new games. That's just the way I like it. But next year I think I'll make a french toast casserole instead of a sausage-egg casserole thingy.
Merry Christmas!
This Christmas I did a lot more cookie/fudge-making and a bit more on the homemade gifts front. It's because this year I'm not pregnant and miserable about it. And I made sure we had an activity every day of advent, which I definitely didn't do last year. We went ice skating and made ornaments and decorated gingerbread houses and made crystal snowflakes with borax. It was great! I'm so glad that we didn't have to worry about being packed and ready to move on top of all that.
The girls wanted me to write about what they got because they said they forgot what they got last year. So here goes. Jammies for X-mas eve, a pair of pants, a shirt, and a sweater for each kid, socks for each kid, Mario Bros. Wii for all, Ghostbusters for the Wii for all, Piktureka for all, a webkinz cat for Saren, the new Zelda game and Scribblenauts for Saren, a Waldorf-like doll for Harper, 2 books for Harper, 2 Littlest Pet Shops for Harper, sparkly shoes for Irina, two movies for Irina (Mamma Mia and Enchanted), a princess polly pocket for Irina, a Barbie for Irina, sewing boxes for Saren and Harper (with scissors, needles, thread, embroidery floss, yarn, crochet hooks, measuring tape, cloth, felt), The Princess and the Pea for Irina plus a playset like this one made by me to go with it, Dani Noir for myself and Saren and Harper, a wooden bowl and spoon for Silas plus some wacky plastic toys and a few handmade by me toys, and pens and paper and other stocking stuff. Oh, and the latest Harry Potter movie because now we can see it proper. Hope it's better without all the ridiculousness of the drive-in. And a new Christmas book for the Christmas book basket (tradition).
Yay! That was fun. We have spent the day at home just hanging out and playing some of our new games. That's just the way I like it. But next year I think I'll make a french toast casserole instead of a sausage-egg casserole thingy.
Merry Christmas!
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Seven Months
Today Silas is seven months old. I find that hard to believe considering I'm still reeling from the fact that I went and had another baby. Calendars don't lie though, or so I've been led to believe. I think there's still a chance that he was born last week and that all this is some sort of elaborate hoax.
As on the day he was born, we are readying ourselves to watch an episode of Survivor. This time it's the penultimate episode of the season; when he was born it was the season finale. Silas tries hard to time his life according to Survivor milestones.
I was going to add a picture but it's 2 hours later and that hasn't happened, so I guess this blog will have to wait until February for photographic illustration with its posts.
Mr. Silas P's Wii Fit weight, seven months: 20.2 lbs
As on the day he was born, we are readying ourselves to watch an episode of Survivor. This time it's the penultimate episode of the season; when he was born it was the season finale. Silas tries hard to time his life according to Survivor milestones.
I was going to add a picture but it's 2 hours later and that hasn't happened, so I guess this blog will have to wait until February for photographic illustration with its posts.
Mr. Silas P's Wii Fit weight, seven months: 20.2 lbs
Saturday, December 05, 2009
Slammin' the pit fantastic
Pat has been blogging using this crappy computer, so I don't really know what my problem is. I guess I've been using it as an excuse to not blog. Which is fine. If I didn't want to blog, I didn't want to blog. I should get one of those blogging without obligation buttons. Or not.
So. Bunch of random crap. House stuff. Three times now we've gotten papers from the bank which say that "in not less than 60 days" our house may be sold. Which means that it *should* have said "in not less than 140 days" the first time, but whatever. Nobody ever led me to believe that banks are bastions of accuracy. Except that, wait, they are. When they're charging me $35 for a 5 cent overdraft. Never mind all that! That's not the point! The point is not even that they have sent us at least four copies of the same exact packet of papers (and one time, 8!) every single time that they send us these notices, thereby singlehandedly wiping out an entire forest every time they communicate with us. No. Not the point. The point is that we still don't have a date for the trustee sale, meaning we still don't know *exactly* when we need to get out of here.
For a while we were going to move out on the first of the year, regardless of whether we had received the trustee sale date, but in the last couple of days our future landlord asked if we would be okay with a Feb 1 move in date instead. First we said no, that we needed to get out of this house as soon as possible. After thinking about it a bit though, we decided that, yeah, maybe it would be beneficial to us to have another rent-free month in which we can save up money. Maybe it would be good to not have to move one week after the frenzy of Christmas. Maybe it wouldn't be such a bad thing to have to be in this house for one more month. So, our new move in date is Feb 1st, except that Feb 1st is Irina's birthday, so probably the day after that or the next. Unless he's ready before then and we are too, in which case it could be more like mid-Jan.
In the meantime, I've been packing, but probably not as diligently as I should be. I've been doing some Christmas shopping and some Christmas making. I made Silas's stocking over the course of a couple of days. It's made with white wool felt and has blue embroidered snowflakes and his name in blue embroidered cursive and I like it so much that I'm going to make similar ones for everyone else but in different colors. But not this year. Our tree, which is fake, has bit the dust after two measly years and it won't stay up straight. So I rigged up a yarn-and-tacks solution to keep it steady and every time we look at it we think of Curious George and his tree with a chair stuck in it. Curious George is, hands-down, the best children's television program on the air right now and I don't even have to have cable to see all that other crap to know it. Everyone should see the Curious George Christmas special right now. My kids opted out of park day to make sure they didn't miss it.
The never-ending saga of stray cats wandering into our lives continues. The latest is a beautiful orange adolescent boy-cat. Oh, I like him so much. But we've already found him a new home. He's not staying. Which is good. *Really*. He's going to go to a fellow unschooler's home, so that's especially good. It's always reassuring for the girls to know that a cat they've invested their emotions in is going to be well cared-for. A couple more months and presumably we won't have so many stray cats showing up. Right?
We've been doing an activity a day for our Christmas advent. We made cards and I think they look particularly nice this year. They're pop-ups! We cut snowflakes. Tonight we're going to the Ethel M Chocolate factory because they have a desert garden thingy that they always put a bajillion Christmas light all over. It wreaks havoc with my eyes, but that's okay. The kids like it. They also give out a free piece of chocolate when you go through the factory tour, which is totally boring. The tour is boring, not the chocolate. Chocolate is never boring. I've got some other good stuff planned.
Silas is scooting all over the place nowadays. He pushes himself around with his toes. He's been eating a few solids as well. He's had some applesauce and some mushed banana. He LOVES the banana and has been eating a half of one each morning. He's also become extremely clingy. I call him a mama magnet. It's getting very difficult to get anything done. I use the sling and the mei tai a lot, but that gets old pretty fast. I've been trying to prioritize what I want to get done while he's napping, but his 20 and 30 minute naps keep foiling my plans.
That's about all I've got. I'm going to attempt to blog more often, crappy computer be damned.
So. Bunch of random crap. House stuff. Three times now we've gotten papers from the bank which say that "in not less than 60 days" our house may be sold. Which means that it *should* have said "in not less than 140 days" the first time, but whatever. Nobody ever led me to believe that banks are bastions of accuracy. Except that, wait, they are. When they're charging me $35 for a 5 cent overdraft. Never mind all that! That's not the point! The point is not even that they have sent us at least four copies of the same exact packet of papers (and one time, 8!) every single time that they send us these notices, thereby singlehandedly wiping out an entire forest every time they communicate with us. No. Not the point. The point is that we still don't have a date for the trustee sale, meaning we still don't know *exactly* when we need to get out of here.
For a while we were going to move out on the first of the year, regardless of whether we had received the trustee sale date, but in the last couple of days our future landlord asked if we would be okay with a Feb 1 move in date instead. First we said no, that we needed to get out of this house as soon as possible. After thinking about it a bit though, we decided that, yeah, maybe it would be beneficial to us to have another rent-free month in which we can save up money. Maybe it would be good to not have to move one week after the frenzy of Christmas. Maybe it wouldn't be such a bad thing to have to be in this house for one more month. So, our new move in date is Feb 1st, except that Feb 1st is Irina's birthday, so probably the day after that or the next. Unless he's ready before then and we are too, in which case it could be more like mid-Jan.
In the meantime, I've been packing, but probably not as diligently as I should be. I've been doing some Christmas shopping and some Christmas making. I made Silas's stocking over the course of a couple of days. It's made with white wool felt and has blue embroidered snowflakes and his name in blue embroidered cursive and I like it so much that I'm going to make similar ones for everyone else but in different colors. But not this year. Our tree, which is fake, has bit the dust after two measly years and it won't stay up straight. So I rigged up a yarn-and-tacks solution to keep it steady and every time we look at it we think of Curious George and his tree with a chair stuck in it. Curious George is, hands-down, the best children's television program on the air right now and I don't even have to have cable to see all that other crap to know it. Everyone should see the Curious George Christmas special right now. My kids opted out of park day to make sure they didn't miss it.
The never-ending saga of stray cats wandering into our lives continues. The latest is a beautiful orange adolescent boy-cat. Oh, I like him so much. But we've already found him a new home. He's not staying. Which is good. *Really*. He's going to go to a fellow unschooler's home, so that's especially good. It's always reassuring for the girls to know that a cat they've invested their emotions in is going to be well cared-for. A couple more months and presumably we won't have so many stray cats showing up. Right?
We've been doing an activity a day for our Christmas advent. We made cards and I think they look particularly nice this year. They're pop-ups! We cut snowflakes. Tonight we're going to the Ethel M Chocolate factory because they have a desert garden thingy that they always put a bajillion Christmas light all over. It wreaks havoc with my eyes, but that's okay. The kids like it. They also give out a free piece of chocolate when you go through the factory tour, which is totally boring. The tour is boring, not the chocolate. Chocolate is never boring. I've got some other good stuff planned.
Silas is scooting all over the place nowadays. He pushes himself around with his toes. He's been eating a few solids as well. He's had some applesauce and some mushed banana. He LOVES the banana and has been eating a half of one each morning. He's also become extremely clingy. I call him a mama magnet. It's getting very difficult to get anything done. I use the sling and the mei tai a lot, but that gets old pretty fast. I've been trying to prioritize what I want to get done while he's napping, but his 20 and 30 minute naps keep foiling my plans.
That's about all I've got. I'm going to attempt to blog more often, crappy computer be damned.
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