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Jan. 29, 2008
Pictures, Puking And (I can't think of another P word)... Oh My!
I'm going to back up a little first. You may or may not have noticed I haven't been taking many pictures lately- especially since becoming pregnant. I just haven't felt like doing *anything*! I *miss* taking pictures but just don't have the energy to do much else but the basic necessities.
And now I'm going to back WAY up here. We did NOT have a summer in 2007. We skipped it entirely! We have 2 seasons here- the rainy season, and 2 short months of "summer" (which temperature-wise is more like early spring or late fall in most places). Well, summer just did not exist last year. The rainy season just continued for those 2 months it's supposed to stop. It was such a bummer.
And now it's winter. And I've wanted nothing else but for it to SNOW! A good snow that lasts more than 24 hours. A snow that covers the ground and looks pretty- not one that the grass can poke through; not one that reveals just enough to make everything look dirty and messy.
I should be happy- this has been the driest January we've experienced here. We've had more sunny days this January that all of our other Januaries put together. But I'm not. It's gray and drab and ugly and ... well, gray around here. Nothing is very pretty this time of the year... until it snows. Then all turns white and magical and transforms into something new..... that and I've got a bunch of cute winter hats and sweaters and things for my children that I've been wanting to take pictures of them in.... in the SNOW. The weather has just not gone my way for a long time now.
Right now we have about 1/2 an inch of crusty hard icy snow on the ground. But it's patchy and isn't very pretty. It just looks messy. So when it started snowing today, I thought, forget it. This might be my last chance to get even a HINT of snow in a picture. I told my older 4 to keep working on their school work, put a sweater and hat on Josiah, threw on my shoes and a coat, grabbed my camera and out the door we went. And of course in the time it took us to do all of that, the snow was only falling at a rate of 4 snowflakes per acre per minute.
We found patches that made it look snowier than it really was and that's where we took our pictures. We had some fun too.
Trying to catch one of those snowflakes with his tongue?
Heard a dog bark:
Little Norwegian boy:
Such a stinker- does he look mischievous or what?!
Nothing exciting- it just felt good to get out of the house with two of my babies (Josiah and my camera).
So no sooner do I come in and start uploading pictures onto the computer do I hear someone, Millie, puking upstairs. Kenton was up there and he took care of it (what a guy!) but she's been sick all day since. So into sick-day mode we went- I told the rest of the children they had to do the important stuff- reading, math, Latin... and could skip most everything else. Later, Gracie started saying her stomach hurt. She's my "cry-wolf" girl so I never know if she's just wanting to get out of something, feeling sympathy pains, wanting the same attention as the sick kid or what. But I tell her to grab a bowl and lay down on the couch. What she didn't get done today she'll have to finish tomorrow (I kind of wondered if she was trying to get out of math too). About a half hour later SHE was puking. Oh boy.
Now I think my 2 older boys are done with this. Gabe was sick the morning after we got home from Seattle. He threw up a few times Saturday morning, laid around all day and then was fine. Last night around midnight Alek complained of intestinal symptoms and a stomach ache. This morning his stomach still hurt and he said he felt like he had the chills. He says his stomach still hurts but I think he's pretty much done with it too.
He's kind of like me that way- has a strong stomach. Don't hate me, but I've only thrown up ONCE during any of my pregnancies- and it wasn't even pregnancy related. It was in the last month of my pregnancy with Josiah & I contracted rotavirus from one of my children. That was (NOT) fun! And the time before that was the summer of 1990- I had a 24 hour flu bug (or could've been from the lobster I had eaten) and I swear I thought I was going to die.
Anyway, we'll see if Josiah's next.....
Alek read my title and said he thought of another P word for me... Pencil sharpener. Our electric pencil sharpener is our most used "appliance" in the house- and it stopped working today. So it's been a tragic day here. The thought of having to sharpen a pencil by hand is just, well, terrifying! Thankfully, Alek found a battery operated pencil sharpener that will do until Kenton can fix the electric one. Kenton? Are you reading this? The electric pencil sharpener needs you. Badly.
Never a dull moment.... |
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Jan. 29, 2008 - Thanks for stopping by my blog.
I hope your family is well soon. We had it last week. :(