Cursed beast! Have at you!

Emails exchanged with husband at work:


Me: I hope you have a great morning. I have pirates and dinosaurs to contend with. And laundry.


Him: You are a mighty warrior to fight off those type of things.  What is this laundry you speak of??  I have been to many a land and never encountered a beast called this.


Me: Laundry is the fiercest of mythical beasts. It grows and grows until it overwhelms you. And should you defeat it once, it will only keep coming back.


Him: That doth sound fierce.Thou must be a cunning warrior full of endurance and stamina.




And yes. We have random conversations via email and text all the time. :-)

Little Einstein-ism

Lucy is knocking on the headboard of my bed while I'm trying to catnap.
Me: Lucy! Stop!
More knocking, only a little softer.
Me: LUCY! No more knocking!
Lucy: But Mommy, it's not FORTISSIMO, it's PIANISSIMO. See? More soft knocking. Pianissimo means SOFT, Mommy. Quietly.

Well then. Excuse me while I pull the blankets over my head and laugh!

Best Christmas Present EVER!

I'm SO excited I got one of my gifts SUPER early this year. :-) I got... my laptop repaired!!!!!!!!

I am over the moon about it! We found out a while back that it would be way out of budget to fix it - around $300 - and it's too nice of a laptop - around $1000 - to just say "Oh, well" and light it up with bullets like we did the last one. Seriously. That's how we got rid of it. It's amazing what a shotgun can do to a laptop...but I digress.

Anyway. We didn't even know what was wrong with the STUPID thing, just that it fell from about three feet high and then when we turned it on it blinked out again right away. Bummer, dude.

I've been without my amazing piece of machinery for FOUR MONTHS. That's way too long to be chained to a desktop, in my opinion. My birthday present, an iPod Touch, alleviated some of the pain but really the separation was just too long.

For my special Christmas surprise, Skye got his brother to do the repair. It took HOURS and HOURS of hard word - THANK YOU CHASE!!!!!!!!!!!! - but now it works!!! It turns out our laptop had two hard drives, and one of them CRASHED AND BURNED. It happened to be the one we were running off of. So, BIL tweaked and twiddled and got the other hard drive to take over and now it WORKS.

I'm beyond ecstatic!!! I feel like a piece of my brain has been given back!

WOOHOO!!!!!!!

Lucy-ism and...

Ism: "Well, when I was a daddy, I was a big tall man too!"

Ism: "Mommy, I wish your husband would come home. Right now. I miss your husband."



And... the other day we were getting ready to leave the house. Lucy went outside with her coat on to wait in the back yard. A few minutes later I heard her yelling, "Help me!" I opened the back door to see her looking straight up at the sky saying, "Help me, Jesus!!!"

Alarmed, I asked why she needed Jesus's help.

"My coat isn't buttoned."

I laughed and said, "So you were asking Jesus to come button it?"

"Yes."

"Well, he sent me to help instead." Coat buttoned. Child happy. Mommy went inside to laugh.

Every woman should read this

I get a lot of flack for the natural-birth option that I prefer. I get a lot of rolled eyes. I have had an OB/GYN tell me I was negligent, uninformed, and STUPID for wanting unmedicated labor and delivery.

Please, please, please read THIS and pass it on to other mothers and family. Please?

My own mother experienced a birth where her OB/GYN told her, afterward, that HE would not have been able to save her life. He told her very clearly if he had been attending her, due to procedures and the unforeseen circumstances, she would have died. Who saved her? Midwives.

Ask midwives at birthing centers what the mortality rate of their infants is...go ahead. Then ask your local hospital. Guess what? For NORMAL births, it's lower risk to go with the midwife.

I also recommend reading the book, "Your Best Birth: Know All Your Options...." It is an advocate for women, for birth itself, and gives great perspectives. It is NOT at "you must go natural" book, it actually lists all the positive choices for both hospital and midwives, medicated and unmedicated. A woman should know her options and go in to birth with her head on straight, knowing the experience she wants and getting it.

Stepping off the soap box....