I now have implemented the Pregnant WADDLE walk into my repetoire! I dropped off the boys at my friend Debbie’s this morning and she was cracking up as I hobbled up the front walkway to the door. I swear this baby is just going to fall out. I’m thinking I may need to start crawling just to get around – wouldn’t that be hilarious!
I was up in the night several times with Brigs, he just wouldn’t settle at all due to his cough and cold right now. I finally got into bed but the wind was just wild outside and our screen doors were banging against the house so loudly I was sure it was keeping not only me awake but all of our neighbours. I asked Nathan if he could please run downstairs and close the screen doors to which is response was. “I’m going right now, I’m on my way” – 15 minutes passed and he didn’t budge. I rolled over and asked him again and his reply was “Honey I’m working on it.” …3 minutes pass
“NATHAN! Honey seriously could you please go close those doors they are driving me nuts and I’ve been up and down the stairs like 7 times already”.
“Daria, I think it would be better if I just worked on it on Saturday” he says “I’m in the middle of all this work right now and it’s just not working out. Is Saturday ok with you?”
“Nate, you mean you want me to wait until Saturday for you to take your butt out of bed and close the door???” I said giggling.
“I’m on the phone now honey, let’s talk about it on Friday” he says in reply.
Needless to say I pulled my own butt out of bed and closed the doors!!!
Attention Nathan’s family members – do you have stories to share about Nathan talking in his sleep to you? I know that he comes from a long line of sleep talkers but man the guy can carry on a whole conversation and I’m never really sure if he’s asleep or just being impossible. LOL!
Well I guess I am not considered a crash test dummy by my kids. Yesterday while in the car little Joshy saw another car ahead of us and yelled “Look out mommy. Watch out!” Dylan then patted his shoulder and said “It’s ok Joshy, Mom’s a Professional!!”
This last weekend was so much fun! In Canada it is our Thanksgiving and our family decided to celebrate it on Saturday so we’d have a few days to lounge about and eat turkey and left overs and take naps! My parents drove out to see us over the weekend and the little boys were in heaven, Nan brought tons of fun things for them to play with and do – umm did I mention that she brought homemade pies too?? My Mom is a master at making perfect pastry and to me this weekend was no exception. We laughed and talked and played and it was beautiful weather to boot so all in all it was a great weekend. Mom and Auntie Elaine worked hard on the meal as I had a few scarey blackouts due to my pregnancy and had to stay in bed or pretty close to it. It was such a special time to have my Aunt and Uncle join us for dinner as well in our home. We have so much to be thankful for in our lives, we feel so blessed and love having a day to really focus and reflect on what’s important to us. Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
Ebay’s Children boutique couture clothing & accessory designers’ have united together again for the 2nd Annual ‘Designing For A Cure’ Breast Cancer Charity Auctions. 100% of the money raised in these auctions will go to breast cancer research, so we encourage you to bid high and bid often, because you aren’t just bidding for an item, you are bidding for a cure! Last year we united to raise over 12 thousand dollars for breast cancer charities. I’m thrilled to participate in this amazing event again this year. Please click the logo to view all the amazing Boutique auctions going on right now!
Here’s the set I designed and have up for auction!
Well everyone I’m 32 weeks and 1 day pregnant and my feet have started to swell. This isn’t a new phenomenon for me, but typically it happens sooner in my pregnancies. My left foot and ankle like to swell up and get huge! Oh I hate it, and I have been off my feet quite a bit today but it’s not helping. I’ve tried elevating but as soon as I put my feet down the fluid goes right back into my ankle. I’m finding that I’m getting breathless much easier these days and it doesn’t help that we have so many stairs in our home. Nathan loves the stairs though because he says that I look really great right now since I have to run up and down them all day after the kids or to get the phone. I’m tickled that I am not gaining weight in my face or body yet, I just pretty much have this really cute protruding tummy and look normal otherwise -well except for the ankle now!! 
I usually have gained fullness in my face and stuff but I guess I’m just lucky so far. Anyway, I know that I need Nathan to take some preggo shots of me soon while I still feel cute! The next few weeks are going to be interesting for sure, it’s going by really fast now and I admit that I’m a bit scared to have a new baby when I already have three little boys at home. I’m sure they’ll love him to bits though and hopefully this baby will turn so we don’t have to go down the c-section path to delivery. I go to my doctor today for my check up so we’ll see if junior has decided to turn or not. I hope so!!!!!
Joshy just ran up and sat on my lap. He took my face in his hands and pushed my cheeks forward to make a big fish kissy face …”MOMMY!!! I FOUND NEMO!!” he said. He totally cracked me up.
To every thing turn, turn, turn,
there is a season turn, turn, turn…
a time to be quiet, a time to yell,
a time to be kind, a time to plant fear in the hearts of your children
Yesterday was one of those such moments. I was sitting on the couch watching the last two minutes of a show I was engrossed in, when Joshy runs up to me and yells “Mommy, put on Potter!! I want to watch Potter!”
“I’m sorry Joshy you have to wait, and you have to say please.” I said
Then it arrived – bubbling up inside of him like a aggressively shaken can of pop…….
Foot stomp, growly look and a booming exclamation of “SHUT UP MOM!!”
Need I say more? It was one of those tender moments I like to refer to as a “NIP it in the BUD experince”. Needless to say the look that I gave him shot pure terror into his little 3 year old heart because he screamed like a banshie and took off as fast as his little legs could carry him. I lept up off of the couch (preggo belly and all) and took off after him, but the little guy was just too fast for my pregnant frame. He ran faster than I’ve ever seen him move and once he was safely out of my reach he looked up the basement stairs at me, smiled his dazzling smile and said in the sweetest voice “Sorry Mommy, Sorry.”
All I can say is he’s fortunate that he’s been blessed with athletic agility, and a sweet innocent face.
My good friend Debbie and her kids had our whole family over for dinner on Saturday afternoon. I was looking so forward to spending some time with them and was thinking about how nice it would be to not have to cook that day either. Well, were we ever in for a treat!! Debbie slaved away in the kitchen and made us a phenomenal meal – Nathan and I were so impressed! She made one of my favorite appetizer – amazing spinach dip with bread, raspberry punch with ginger ale, pork roast, potatoes, green beans, 3 different kinds of salads, gravy! And to top it off she had two different kinds of cake for dessert with strawberries and whipped cream. The girl totally outdid herself and it was so appreciated. We had Debbie and the kids over to our house a while ago for dinner but I think I served a big casserole and cookies w/ice cream for dessert – no where near the amount of dishes that she made for us. WHAT A TREAT!!!!!!!! I’ve been put to shame – lol!!
I have a business where I make handmade boutique children’s clothing. One of the items that I am making as a custom order requires a satin stitch applique. I am so ticked off at my sewing machine I could cry. It’s just totally messing up and skipping stitches. I assume it needs another tension adjustment but they will need to keep my machine for several days…I can’t live without it for that long, I have a ton of orders to fill and I’m going to throw this machine out the window. SOMEBODY hold me back!!!
I went out last night and picked up an inexpensive sewing machine at Walmart thinking that I could function with it for the next few days while my good machine is being tuned. I also thought having a second machine around would be smart. Well the machine is junky so I’m taking it back. I think I’ll just go back to bed and dream of a world where sewing machines are always the correct setting and tension with no adjustments required. Now that would be heaven!
