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Aug. 16, 2008
Can Someone Please Tell Me Where I Left My Brain?
Life has been BUSY! I'm going to try and recap a few things.
My niece from CA was here visiting for a week and we spent some time with her.
Our weather has been incredibly nice this summer so we've spent some time enjoying it. And actually today was a bit TOO warm. You see, we don't have an A/C. Three hundred sixty three days of the year we don't need one. But today we did. It got to at least 90 degrees today. Inside our house the main level was 81 degrees, but upstairs, our bedroom, the hottest room in the house (hey! I know what you were just thinking! hee-hee!), was probably 85 or so. And the thing is, my hubby was trying to sleep! He eventually ended up sleeping in the storage closet in our basement. It was much cooler in there.
I decided to take the children to the lake today. By myself. All six of them, none of whom have had swimming lessons (although the older 3 can swim pretty good). And I have to admit, it was NICE. It felt so good being out there and the children mostly obeyed. Josiah got 4 or 5 time outs, but I was being overly strict, considering the situation. Lots of people were out today but I found a parking spot practically right behind a shady tree where I had a very good view of the swimming area. I told them where their boundaries were and what I expected of them and they were all really good. The baby was flashing me her contagious, sweet lil' smile and was very content laying on my lap, attempting to get her fist into her mouth. Then she napped for a while.
I was just sitting there, relaxing in a lounge chair under the shade of a huge western red cedar, with the breeze off of one of the prettiest lakes I've ever seen cooling me now and then thinking, "Why, when we only live 15 minutes away, is this the first time I've taken my children here to swim (by myself)?" and just kind of pondered on that for a while. And then it hit me. It's because we rarely have days this warm! In fact, today was the first day this summer I actually put on a pair of shorts! The lake water is COLD, VERY cold, and you wouldn't really want to swim in it unless it was HOT, and HOT it was today! But I have decided to take advantage of any remaining HOT days we have and take them down to the lake, at least a few more times. It's an ideal spot for children anyway- they have to walk out pretty far before the water even hits their waste.
And speaking of taking a bunch of children somewhere by oneself, after the recent county fair incident in which Kenton lost Emilia in the 15 minutes I was off nursing the baby in a quiet corner of an exhibit hall, I don't think I want Kenton taking them to the lake by HIMself. Anywhere actually. Ever. But we won't talk about that.
And speaking of the fair, I entered four pictures and won first place for the sunset picture of four of my silhouetted children dancing around. I was surprised that one won, but I'll take it!
And back to today... to the part where I lost my brain... although I'm quite sure that could've happened a lot longer ago than today... We got back from the lake and we were a bit thirsty. I decided to make us blended chocolate chip drinks but I was trying to hurry because the baby was waiting for me to get her out of her car seat. She wasn't crying or anything but she had been so good at the lake, I wanted to be done before she started grumping. Alek and Gabe were asking me questions and I was a bit distracted.
So I make our drinks, pass them out, get the baby out of the car seat, get my drink, and head downstairs to nurse the baby in cooler temperatures. I took a sip of my drink and felt something hard. I thought it was either a chocolate chip or a small piece of ice but I couldn't break it up with my teeth. I took it out & threw it in the trash & took another sip, only to find the same thing happen again. I swirled my spoon around in the cup and noticed there were little bits of glass or plastic or *something* in the cup! Alek was the only one who had started drinking his and he had noticed it right away too. I got out a strainer and poured my drink through it only to find several plastic shards of unknown origin. So all drinks immediately got dumped down the sink.
I questioned Alek to see if he'd put any strange objects into our ice maker recently, which wouldn't be at all surprising. He's always freezing weird things. We've had some strange objects drop into our cups from the ice dispenser before. I figured something he put in there could've dropped into the glass measuring cup I used to pour the ice into the blender. He admitted to putting a Gatorade in there. The Gatorade was called Glacier Freeze after all and he didn't think it was appropriate for something named as such to be in liquid form. But, he said, it wasn't cracked or anything when he took it out.
Next, I took the blender apart to make sure the blades weren't hitting the sides of the container and shredding plastic off of that. Nope, the blender and all its parts were intact.
And then the only other option hit me upside the head. No. I didn't. Did I?
"Did I blend the plastic scoop? I didn't blend the SCOOP, did I?" I questioned aloud, which piqued the interest of surrounding children.
I quickly opened the cabinet door, pulled out the drink mix, took off the lid and peered inside. No plastic scoop. I did. I blended it. Ice cubes, milk, drink mix.... and a plastic scoop. All into the blender. And Alek & I drank some of it.
My children found it quite humorous that mom screwed up pretty good and I was quite in shock at the mishap. Oh my... where is my brain?
And lastly to this eclectic post, I'm going to add some pictures of Julianna- the ones I had planned to add when I wrote up a one-month-old-Julianna-update post. She's over six weeks old now so it's a bit late for a one month post. Maybe I'll try for a 2 month old post. I'll just say her birth weight was 7-5 and a couple of days ago she was 10-7 when I weighed her. She's sweet and smiley and I love her and am so thankful for her.
A little bit worried here.
I love this one of big sis smooching Julianna's cheek while she's caught mid-smile. BTW, see those two white dots by her left eye? It looks like newborn acne... what is it?! She's had those since the day she was born!:
Mamacita y su hermana:
Another:
I love this one:
Mid-yawn:
Millie's turn, not quite as proficient in the head-supporting department as big sis:
And one of just Millie, who was quite done with pictures. Can you tell?
And please, if you find my brain, get it to me ASAP. I function much better with it. Thanks. |
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Aug. 17, 2008 - Untitled Comment
I've had days like that, too, and my kids sometimes wonder if I ever did have a brain to lose!
Such are the joys of six children - losing brains goes with the territory.
Congratulations on your picture winning an award. You should enter a lot of competitions - you would need a trophy case then to hold them all.
I love the pictures of the baby in the brown effect (I forget what you call that - it's not black and white - oh, I think it's coming to me now - sepia? Something like that?)
I also love the pictures of your girls in pink holding them. I love, love, the long blonde straight hair. They look so angelic.
You ARE brave for taking six (young) children to the lake and with a baby! Call me Super Wimp! I've never been courageous enough to even THINK about doing that without husband in tow!
Antoinette