7 Quick Takes

1. 2012 is just around the corner!  That means it's almost time for me to set a new book reading goal at Good Reads.  Last year, my goal was 36 books.  I read...22.  Ouch.  Well, what can I say, I have four children!  I think I'll shoot for 30 this year.  
2. Speaking of books, give me some suggestions!  Right now I'm reading Little Women, which I've never read before, though I've seen the movie (rare thing for me, I normally read the book first...but Little Women is REALLY LONG...)  I'm also up to book #6 in the Wheel of Time series (fantasy) and book #3 in the Dresden Files series (fantasy/mystery).  I'm pretty much up for anything, book-wise!
3. We had a wonderful Christmas!  The children loved their gifts, and my mother and brother spent the day with us.  As a bonus, all four of my children behaved themselves at Mass (together...at the same time...) and for good measure, as we were leaving, our 6 year old turned around and yelled "Happy birthday, Jesus!"
4. I could use prayers for my health.  I've been dealing with menorrhagia (extremely heavy periods) for many years, but every cycle is worse and worse, and many of the conventional treatments are not compatible with our views on life, so treating it isn't easy (and it has far surpassed the point where "just living with it" is even remotely a possibility.  I won't go TMI, but I will just unequivocally say that it is absolutely debilitating for me to the point I'm severely depressed before and during my period).  I go back to the OB in February, I hope to finish ruling out underlying causes.
5. My number one "resolution" for the new year is LOSE WEIGHT!  I lost a large amount of weight after I had our second child (over 80 pounds), and unfortunately, over the last few years I've gained it all back, and then same.  It's frustrating to have to start all over, but I've done it before and I know I can do it again.
6. I sadly found out that the rescue we adopted our pug from a couple years ago had all of their dogs seized!  To be fair, I did feel that they had too many dogs in a small space, but I also think they were kind-hearted people who got in over their heads.  We adore our little pug, and I hope everything works out for them and the dogs that were taken.
7. This will be the first NYE in 7 years that I haven't been pregnant and/or nursing (Finn weaned at 13 months, which I wasn't expecting, since his sisters nursed for over 2 years!)  I don't plan on getting drunk (yuck!) but grandma is going to take the little kids so we can have a few friends over for the evening.  Have a fun and safe NYE, and don't forget that New Year's day is a Holy Day of Obligation (plus a Sunday, so you should be at Mass, anyway!)

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1. I was very heartbroken to hear the news that the Duggar's unborn baby had passed away.  Although I have significant theological differences with the Duggar family, I really admire and respect them.  I know how painful loss is, and having experienced a second trimester loss myself, I can't imagine going through that pain in the public eye, with the kind of hatred that is spewed at them.  Their baby and family are in my prayers.
2. My little guy sure is getting big.  He's coming up on 14 months old, and he's just so funny and such a joy!  I love watching him explore and learn.
3. So I thought my husband and I had compromised on when to put the tree up (December 17).  But apparently this was forgotten, as it's sitting next to me.  Hmm....
4. Speaking of which, what is the difference between a family room and living room?  We actually have two rooms like that now, so I don't know which is which!  (AND we have a dining room!  Space!  I love it!)
5. Further thoughts on Christmas trees, what on earth is the point of decorating one when you have small children?  The tree looked nice for about 5 minutes.  Now half the ornaments are missing, and the other half are all on the top half of the tree, where little hands can't reach.  I said it looks silly, dh says it just looks like we have kids!
6. My 3 year old (4 in March!!) really enjoys going to a local Christian pre-school, but for various reasons, I'll be doing her next year of pre-school at home.  Although I tend to dread the thought of doing pre-school and Kindergarten at home, largely because I hate doing kids' crafts and songs (I know, that sounds horrible, but it's true!) but I'm actually looking forward to it.  Firstly, I feel kind of lost without homeschooling anyone, and secondly, she's very bright, so it will be interesting to see how she takes to homeschooling.
7. I haven't knitted or crocheted anything in a couple of years!  I miss it, and hope to dig out my knitting supplies this weekend and work on something.

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1. Riley, our 6 year old with special needs, can write an "R" all by herself!  I'm so proud of her.  Her vision and fine motor skills are both extremely poor, so I was quite surprised.  I can't say enough how much I love her school and how wonderful they've been for her.
2. Speaking of Riley, she had eye surgery October 14th to correct her strabismus (eye turning out).  The first day of surgery was really hard on her, but by the next morning she was pretty much her old self.  It's been about two and a half weeks now, and her eye looks great, so nice and straight!
3. While we're on a Riley roll, I might as well add in that putting her on Strattera for her ADHD is probably one of the best decisions we've ever made.  It's been absolutely wonderful for her, and she has made significant academic progress since starting it.  Her personality is exactly the same (no "zombification" at all), she's just able to stay relatively calm and focus and listen.
4. Other news- We closed on our house!  Yay!  No more dealing with grumpy underwriters and appraisers!  We still have about 12 more days before we can move in (she asked for up to 2 weeks after closing to get all her stuff out) but at least there's an end in sight!  I can't wait to move in :)
5. We are blessed to live near the historic Tippecanoe Battlefield, a site that was pivotal in the fighting between Natives and settlers.  My husbands parents (now deceased) were history buffs and re-enactors, and late 18th/early 19th century is the era they portrayed (my family and his sister's family try to carry this on!)  Anyway, there used to be many re-enactments out there that their family participated in, and this weekend marks the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Tippecanoe.  There's going to be a re-enactment in honor of the battle, so that's where you'll find us this Saturday!  Possible in our period clothing, if I can find it buried in our storage unit :)
6. I am having a Demarle at Home party at the new house November 21!  If anyone local is interested, I need your address to send out invitations.
7. Because of my awful carb addiction, I've been eating low-carb for the last two weeks, and have lost 9 pounds so far!  Many more to go, but it's a start!

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1. I think at this point, roughly 90% of my blog is 7 Quick Takes.  Does this signify a lack of dedication on my part, or what?  Oh, well.
2. Packing, packing, packing.  For some reason, I decided we should just hand over the house the day we close, instead of taking the 30 extra days they had offered (which would have included putting 1K into escrow since we'd technically be, you know, living in someone else's house).  Of course, that means I have to have my house empty the day we move.  Even though I won't have another house to move in to until the same day.  So storage unit, it is!
3. So...back in March we traded in our old van (it was coming up on 200K miles and getting rather clunky).  Our DMV has bizarre hours, my husband works 3rd shift, 12 hour days..long story short, we finally got around to doing our title, registration, and plate renewal today.  Which ah, basically just ate up half the money I had set aside for our earnest money.  Oops.  
4. School started last week.  It feels strange not to be homeschooling anyone this year.  People keep asking me if I'm "enjoying" having both the older kids in school, but honestly, I've been so busy I haven't really noticed!  Between packing I work from home (auditing calls for a call center) and take care of the little ones.  I feel just as busy as before, truthfully.
5. Dd2 was diagnosed with ADHD by her neurologist (who has literally been seeing her since she was born- he was the neurologist that saw her in the NICU).  After a failed attempt at a sleep study, we started her on Strattera.  And no, I'm not interested at all in anyone's opinion on ADHD or how to treat it (yet the few people I've told seem to think I'm pining away for their opinion, including an aunt who basically said I'm just a horrible mother who lets her run wild, among other things).
6. I've decided to start taking violin lessons alongside dd1.  Yeah, I'm a gigantic nerd.  It's never too late to learn, right?  
7. Finn is 10.5 months old.  Cruising, starting to talk, generally being a big boy and breaking my heart because I want him to stay little forever.  I realized this morning that although I've taken plenty of pictures of him, I've yet to have any sent over to be developed.  Come to think of it, I have easily hundreds of pictures spanning the last decade (did I mention dd1 turned 10 this month?!) that need printed out and put into photo albums.

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Well, since I haven't done a "real" post for awhile, let's just do 7 Quick Takes, okay?

1. It's 4-H fair week.  Also known as the third circle of Hell.  I dropped the ball and did not get dd1's foods project in on time (I thought it was due Thursday; it was actually due Wednesday).  I sat in the bathroom and sobbed for a good 10 minutes because obviously, I'm a horrible mother.  I hate 4-H and we're not doing it next year unless she REALLY REALLY REALLY wants to.  And even then I think we won't.
2. Dds 1-3 are taking swim lessons at the city pool and having a blast.  And they've done a great job with dd2 and her special needs.  Dd2 is also doing a 5 week physical activity program for kids with special needs through Purdue University (Pete's Pals).  It's great!  Every Wednesday she gets to do an hour of gym time and then an hour of swimming with her own physical therapist.  She adorably refers to it as "Pizza Pals."
3. Speaking of dd2, yesterday was her birthday!  She is now 6 years old.  I never could have imagined when she was born that she would be doing so well.  Yesterday was also Bl. Kateri's feast day, and we are still asking her for her intercessory prayers!  If you are praying along with us for a miracle, please let me know!  She will also be having her eye surgery in September, and she lost both her front teeth last week!
4. My little boy is doing great, he is 9 months old now.  He's starting to sleep more at night, which is nice because I've been feeling chronically sleep deprived.  I think he'll walk later than dd1 and dd3 did, but considering they were walking at 10 and 11 months, that's okay with me!  He had a WBV yesterday and he's 16lbs 12oz, so he gained but did fall from the 50th percentile to the 3rd.  BUT, he grew 3 inches and he's much more active than he was at his 6 month visit, so I'm not concerned.
5. I was supposed to go to the local roller derby match with a girlfriend this weekend, but she broke her foot!  I very rarely go do anything that doesn't involve the kids, which is fine, but since it's a rare occasion, I was really looking forward to it.  I think I might go see the new Harry Potter movie with my mom, instead!
6. I've been obsessively checking the house we love...still has had no offers, and my real estate agent said we are the only ones who have even looked at it recently.  We can't put an offer in until the beginning of August (we fell a couple of payments behind on our mortgage when dh lost his job, and we have to have a year of no late payments to get pre-approved, which will be this August!)  Oh well, I try to keep in mind that God will take us where He wants to be and not stress too much over it!
7. I've been waiting on a small check from my SIL, and was disappointed when I got the mail yesterday and it hadn't arrived yet.  BUT...I did have a LARGE check for escrow overpayment from our mortgage company!  What a blessing!  Dh has been working 4 days on 4 days off (12 hour shifts) and this month the pay cycle is weird because he has to work on the weekends, so his checks were significantly smaller.  I hadn't prepared for that so we were behind (but for the first time this year!) on bills.  So now we are all squared away with a little left over, yay!

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1.  I am LOVING the weather!  So nice to be able to open up the windows and get outside.
2. Dd1 has her evaluation up at the school next week.  I know that overall she's on target, but she's not the best test taker.  
3. Dd3 is 3 years old and boy, is she a handful!  So funny because she was such an easy baby- she never cried, hardly fussed, she was always happy and cheerful.  She's really making up for lost time!  She keeps me on my toes, but I just love her to pieces.
4. Dh says his boss is happy with how he's doing.  Another 4 weeks or so and we should know if they are going to keep him on permanently.
5. My two nephews will have their First Holy Communion next month, which is a great excuse to get out to Ohio to see my sister-in-law and her family.  They haven't met Finnegan yet, so that will be wonderful!
6. Holy Week starts this Sunday with Palm Sunday.  I love Holy Week, so I'm very excited.
7. I've lost a few pounds at Curves already, which helping me to get my motivation for eating better back.

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• Our parish does Stations of the Cross every Friday during Lent, which for some reason, I've only remembered to go to once!  Let's hope I remember to go tonight, I think it's a wonderful devotion, and I really enjoy doing it.
• My chickens are in their new home!  I'm sure they'll enjoy it, but we will miss them, especially little Bessie.  
• I'm reading Solace in Suffering, writings of Thomas a Kempis for my reviewer program, very good and appropriate for the Lenten season.  I should have a review up soon!
• Finn is getting big!  He's 5.5 months old now.  I love him bunches.  (His sitting on my lap chattering away and slobbering on my arm as I type).  His sisters are pretty enamored with him, too.
• I renewed my Curves membership!  I had great results with them before, and only quit to help save money.  It's frustrating how much weight I've got to lose, after working so hard after dd2 to lose it, but it will come off (I hope!!)
• I also started reading the Wheel of Time series (fantasy genre, if you're unfamiliar!)  I'm almost done with the second book, I really enjoy the series so far.
• Ready for this cold to be OVER!  I'm sick of it!  I want some spring weather!  I want to get my garden tilled and planted, and put away winter coats!  Bah!

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• I'm trying to limit my internet time significantly (an hour or less a day) for Lent.  Not that you should notice, since I'm an awful blogger to begin with!
• I picked up my 1/2 hog order from the local organic farm!  Quite a bit of piggy, for around $350 total.
• Sadly, however, I forgot that I had placed an order for 22 meat birds...oops!  No way could I fit any chicken in to my freezer, is is packed with pork!  So, I canceled my chicken order.  I'll just buy some direct from the farm this year, and try to figure out what to do for next year (I really don't have the room for another freezer!)
• My little guy is getting big!  5 months old tomorrow :)  I've had a tough time adjusting to having 4 children, but he sure makes it all worth it.
• I finished the first book in the Wheel of Time series, and loved it.  Already on book two.
• Dh loves his new job, and it's going well.  He's still a temp through ManPower right now, so I won't truly relax until he's hired on permanently, which will probably be 2 more months, as they have a 90 day contract with MP.  I can't wait for health insurance, and it will be $4.50 more an hour!
• My oldest is still very much wanting to go to public school next year, so that is on my heart.  I definitely do not want her to going to public school for middle and high school, so if she's going to go, 4th and 5th grades are her last chance.  So much to think and pray about!

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1. It SNOWED here on December 1st!  Yes it did!  It was only a dusting, but still.  I love the snow, at least the first few snowfalls.  By the end of January I'm usually over it.
2. I do SwagBucks and use my SB to get $5 Amazon egift cards.  I've been doing it for about 5 months and netted $40 in gift cards!  (And this is just with casual use, you can earn much more depending on how much you do).  If you're interested, check them out through my referral link; I get SB when you search and win!
3. Speaking of my Amazon gift cards, I used my current balance to buy Eat Fat, Lose Fat, a "diet" book based on traditional foods.  I'm excited to get it and see if it helps me shed the last of the baby weight!  (Irony alert- as I'm typing this I'm drinking a "cappuccino" from the gas station and eating mini frosted donuts...ahem)
4. I've been attending Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) once a month, sponsored through Una Voce.  I love it, I only wish it were offered every Sunday!  A traditional parish nearby would be even better.  Ah well, maybe someday?  I'm surprised at how much my 9 year old enjoys it, I was afraid she would think it was boring.  When we went in last Sunday, she saw 2 candles on the altar and exclaimed "Yay!  That means quiet (Low) Mass!)  For some reason, Low Mass is her favorite!  Maybe a lesson that we don't need electric guitars and shouting to get kids engaged in the Mass.
5. I'm finally on the last book of the Dark Tower series!  I've been working on reading the series all year.  Interesting series, but I can see the difference between what was written back when he was still a drunk, and what was written after his accident and sobering up!
6. I'm so happy Advent is here!  I love this time of year.  Though I find it difficult to really separate Advent and Christmas for my kids.  Dd1 and dh have been harassing me to put up the tree, but I'm holding firm and trying to get them to wait until December 17th when the O Antiphons start (I'd prefer to wait until Christmas Eve, but I'm compromising!)
7. I'll be purchasing next year's curricula in a couple of month, so I'm starting to ponder what I want to do next year.  Right now I'm thinking mostly about math.  CHC has you do MCP until 4th grade, and then switch to Saxon.  But no one seems to like Saxon!  So I'm not sure what I'll do.  I'm considering looking into Rod and Staff, any experiences to share?

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1. My little man is 10 days old!  It just zips right by.  I forgot how much I love newborns.  It seems like a lot of people don't like the newborn stage, but I eat it up.  I love all the little noises and faces they make, how little and sweet they are!
2. I took a book with me to the hospital...Song of Susannah, the 6th book in the Dark Tower series by Stephen King.  The nurses thought that was weird.  
3. We decided to sell 5 of our hens to some friends.  That will leave me with 4, which should be plenty!  I just have too many, my little coop isn't big enough and I have more eggs than I could possibly use.
4. I am SO happy that fall is finally here!  Have I mentioned lately how much I HATE summer?  Because I do.  I hate it.  Fall, on the other hand, I totally adore.  And I like winter a bunch, too.  Spring is meh.
5. I can't wait until I feel well enough to start cooking again.  I appreciate dh taking care of everything around the house, but he can't cook to save his life, and I can't handle much more boxed/frozen/processed food.  Gah!
6. Finn has an appointment with the Holy Spirit this Saturday!  We didn't get around to getting dd3 baptized until she was a few months old, so I'm glad we're on top of it this time.
7. Riley is LOVING school.  I'm glad we decided to send her, it's been really good for her and they really care a lot about her.  We have her IEP meeting on Monday, I'm going to request a full time aide for her, she could really use one.  Right now the special ed teacher and her aide are in and out assisting her, but they have other kids to attend to and she really needs her own helper.

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1. Thanks for all the congratulations on our baby BOY!  I'm still in shock!  I bought him a newborn sleeper, brown with animals, so very boyish...I never thought I'd be doing that!  I also scored him 4 pairs of babylegs and 4 pairs of socks dirt cheap (babylegs was having a 40% discount on orders of $40 or more, not sure if they're still doing it or if it was a one day thing.  Coupon code was FORTY, if you want to try!)  Yes, I'm having fun shopping for stuff that's not pink :)
2. We butchered the last of our meat birds last Saturday!  It's nice having a freezer full of "organic, free range" chicken.  If dh ever gets around to building an actual coop (we just have a pen with tarping for protection from the elements right now), I'd like to order another 25 or so to be butchered before winter.  Still waiting on eggs, we've got about another month before my girls start laying.  I'm so excited!
3. I just finished reading From Atheism to Catholicism last night, I'll have the review up within the next few days (I hope!)  It was an interesting book.
4. Just a few more weeks left of school!  Dd2's pre-school ends June 3rd, and dd1 (homeschooled) will be done the same week.  I didn't actually plan her school year out, it just happened to work out that way.  Since I'm moving away more from CHC I'm planning out next year myself (instead of using their lesson plans).  Since dd2 will be in public school for Kindergarten, I did use their calendar for planning our school year.  That way, they'll have the same days off.
5. We got our garden planted.  As usual, I overbought on seeds and ran out of room!  Which is saying something, considering it's over 600sq ft.  I still need to do herbs in planters, and I think I'll try watermelon and cantaloupe in pots, too, and just let them spill out the sides.
6. Once school is over, dd1 and I need to get started on her 4h projects.  This is her first year, she really wanted to show chickens so I went ahead and put her down as 3rd grade (2nd grade is mini-4h, which she said sounded "boring").  Since we homeschool, I chose curriculum according to her abilities, and not by grade level.  Technically this year was "2nd" grade, but only because she went to 2 years of preK and Kindergarten at a Catholic school, so going on that timeline, she's 2nd grade.  But she does a lot of things at a 3rd grade (or higher) level.  
7. Oh, I'm finally at the point in pregnancy where I want to eat breakfast.  Normally I never eat until 11am or later, breakfast has always made me queasy (pregnant or not!)  It usually takes me till halfway through to develop an appetite for breakfast.  Hard to believe I'm halfway through the pregnancy already!

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1. My pregnancy is going well so far, 13w2d!  That's pretty much second trimester.  I had a prenatal appointment Wednesday and they found the heart beat.  I have a doppler I use at home, but it was nice to have validation from someone else that there's a baby in there.
2. We butchered our 6 pullets (females) last Thursday with the help of our neighbors (who actually know what they're doing!)  So now I just have 6 males that will be ready in another week or two.  Tyson and decided we really need to get a small second chest freezer just for meat! 
3. After much praying we decided not to continue our special needs daughter in public school next year.  I think the developmental pre-school she's gone to for the last two years has been great for her, but I really don't see any benefits (but lots of negatives) to putting her in a regular kindergarten next year.  I'd love to send her to the school for the blind in Indy, but unfortunately that's 1.5 hours away, so it's not possible right now.  So at any rate, I'll be homeschooling her next year, too.  We'll use CHC with a lot of homemade stuff for her to aid in her vision problems.
4. Speaking of dd2 and the school for the blind, she had an evaluation with them on Wednesday, so I hope to hear back from them soon.  They'll be able to give me a better idea of what kind of help she needs (like what size large print, braille, etc).  I actually have been signing her up for children's braille programs, so we've got a handful of braille books I've introduced her to.  
5. I need to get a hold of the guy that tills my garden and get that done soon!  I'm going to have him expand it some for me, too.  Now that I've gotten dh interested I've got enough help to take on more.  And I've finally bought a pressure canner, so I'm super excited to try that out.
6. Speaking of dh, the 6th was our 9th wedding anniversary!  It's kind of odd being 27 and married for nearly a decade!  For my anniversary gift we're having my wedding set fixed- engagement ring is getting cleaned and resized and a bent prong is getting fixed, then I'm having a plain white gold band contoured to it and then welded together.  Very excited to get it all done!
7. Our little pug Oliver kept having seizures (sometimes twice a day) so we had to put him on phenobarbitol.  Thankfully it seems to be doing its job, he hasn't had any seizures since we started.  Kind of funny though because that's the same medication that dd2 was put on after she was born to control her seizures!

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Well, number one on the list is the biggest! You might have noticed the widget on the side of my blog- we're expecting baby #4! He or she is due sometime in April '10. I'll make a solo post on that later, but after the pregnancy loss in May, we appreciate prayers for a healthy pregnancy!



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Remind me never to plant two rows of zucchini again. I don't know what I was thinking. I have zucchini out the wazoo, it's absurd. My freezer is full of bags of shredded zucchini and we've been eating it in various forms every day. I am, quite frankly, getting sick of it!! The good news is I think the plants are nearly done producing. Praise the Lord.


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World Breastfeeding Week ends today! I'm a La Leche League Leader, so I've doing booths at the local WIC celebrations. The girls got to have fun at our neighbor's house (they adore her, we're friends, and she babysits, win-win situation!) while I was gone. It's a nice way to connect with other "professionals" in the community and with nursing and pregnant moms.


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I canned 5 pints of sweet relish last night, and my house reeks of it. Oh well, at least it's a pleasant smell! The recipe I used also has bell peppers in it, so it's a slightly spicy relish. Very yummy! I'm going to do another round of dill pickle spears today or tomorrow. I'm hoping to utilize my parish kitchen soon to can some things, so I can sell them at the local farmers' market and make some money!


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I think the baby is finally going to get moved into her own room this weekend. I hope. At the very least I hope my husband gets the computer moved out! We still need to paint the room and have the carpet cleaned. Sigh. Maybe next weekend is more realistic. She and I are both very light sleepers, room sharing is just not working out for us anymore!


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My husband finally got around to signing up for courses at the local community college. He has issues with fear of failure, so I'm very proud of him. He'll only be able to take a couple classes at a time, but hopefully it will lead to him being able to get a higher paying job (or at least moving up at his current job!)


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We've been having trouble with ants this year and it's driving me nuts! We keep spraying and laying down ant traps and it helps some, but not enough. Gah. At least it's mostly little ones, but ick!

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1. 3 days in to Lent and I'm already frustrated! I wanted to read along with the daily meditations in the Word Among Us, but by the time the kids fall asleep I've usually passed out on the couch. Ah well. My 3 year old has pre-k today, if my 7 year old and I get school done by then, hopefully I can get the baby to take a nap and catch up. (What was that? Read with the kids awake? LOL. If only...)
2. My brother is coming up for the weekend and my house is a mess. Also, he's a very liberal Obama supporter. So it should be interesting. I intend to deflect political discourse with the Wii.
3. In a desperate attempt to lose the last 15ish pounds of baby weight before she turns 1, I'm trying Slim Fast (okay, Slim Rite, the generic Kroger brand). I know, I know. That's kind of stupid. But as I said...desperate.
4. I've started reading a book on Thomas Jefferson and some fancy dinner he gave that apparently changed the course of the country. The history nerd in me is ecstatic. I can't get enough of that kind of thing.
   
5. The baby is currently tearing through the computer room and I'm letting her just so I can get a few minutes on the computer. Usually she's in my lap bouncing and trying to climb onto the desk, so I'll take what I can get. Now my 3 year old is joining in. This could get ugly. Could? Who am I kidding. WILL.
6. I've been growing increasingly concerned that the world is going to come to an end. Let's just say I'm very glad I have basic self-sufficiency skills like canning and gardening.
7. Also, if the economy does completely tank and the world goes nuts, I project that only the cockroaches and the historical re-enactors will survive. Hey, that could be kind of cool...remake a world where stays and petticoats and practical multi-functional aprons once again reign supreme!