A friend in Grannie

I love these girls. I hope Ella finds a friend in me like I have in my mom. Grannie is hands down one of my favorite and most trusted people.

QOTD

"It my eyes. Eye hurt Mommy." ~ Fara

Poor little thing. She woke up this morning with her glues gooped shut.

Grrrrrr. Cold and flu season be gone!

Young Love

My boy says he has picked his mate. He informed over lunch yesterday that his best girl wasn't at school that day. He went on to explain that he really missed her and that he will probably marry her at someday. My little guy is already talking about marriage?
This is someone that does not grasp the difference between one hour, one day, and one week. Let alone the amount of time that will have to pass before he is ready for marriage. I tried to explain that there are so many more girls that he will meet in the next twenty years. He replied, "But Mom, I love her."

Oh man.! He's got it bad.

QOTD

"Wyeth, there are 20,000 Legos on the family room floor." ~Me
"I think you mean eleventeen." ~ Wyeth

Smartass!

K-Y Touch

When K-Y Touch massage oils came out, I received a variety pack of mini bottles in a gift (I can't remember from whom, which is interesting since it seems like quite an intimate gift.)
So not being one to enjoy massaging my partner, the bottles have been shoved in the back of my night-stand drawer for several years. I would have preferred they stay there...forever. My girls had other plans. They pulled out all five or six bottles and spilled them...in their throats, down the front of their clothes, on the floor, and on several bills from my night-stand. I was first concerned with their clothes. That stuff is oily and I didn't want it to stain. But then it occurred to me that it was made to get all over the sheets. Duh.
So, I guess the only thing I have to worry about is the bills. You think Alltel will know what that is all over the bill? Surely they have seen worse?

Ready?

Stream of conscious to follow...
I am not sure there ever will come a time when I don't want to be pregnant. Don't get me wrong, I was super ready for a break after having only five months between my pregnancies with the girls. And who isn't ready for a pregnancy to be over by the 40th week? Pleeeaaase.
But with all that being said, there is something so exciting about the news that you are having a baby. I love it. The mystery of something growing is your body is unbelievable. Is it a boy or a girl? Will this new little person be more like Tom or me? Who will this person be?
My daydreams have been more and more about a little baby... a baby for Fara to be a big sister to. I have three children and I often question whether I actually understand the magnitude of bringing a person into this world. Our culture sends some major mixed messages about what it means to have a baby. Young people are suppose to abstain from sexual relationships in order to avoid having a baby. Yet if a women waits "too long" to have a child, she is faced with years of questions and when and if she wants to have a baby.
I completely respect women who don't feel like they were put this Earth to make babies. And while I want to accomplish more than just having babies, pregnancy and babies is one of the highlights of my life. Having babies isn't the smoothest of my accomplishments. Wyeth's labor was ridiculously long, I had some crazy bleeding with Ella, and Fara's pregnancy involved a complete placenta pivia with an exciting three week hospital stay. However, God has blessed me with perfect babies, and I want the streak to continue.
We are still looking at the beginning of the year as our conception date goal, so there is still some time. But, for the record, I am feeling ready.

QOTD

"Mommy, I pooped and now I need a smarshmallow for me." ~Ella

The word smarshmallow out of Ella's mouth is to die for!