Family News

We’re getting caught up with pictures! At least, we’ve consolidated our on-line albums, so you can see the ones from 2004 now, and I’ve captioned 40 that Jay is working at getting uploading this evening.
So… Go check them out. They’re pretty fun.

I am a little disappointed.
Jay and I talked and had managed to get over the “weirdness” of paying someone to help with the house (with me being home full-time), and then we find that what we want/need, a cleaning service doesn’t do.
How weird is that?
It’s like this:
Jay is thinking about getting a snowmachine, which I [...]

We’ve been wading through the living room for more than a week now, so last night I sat down before bed and made a schedule outlining what would get done today.
I got all the clothes folded, a load of dishes run, the cabinet doors washed and bread made.
The girls each put away their own clothes [...]

Our family went to a wedding tonight, and on the way home we had a genuine (as in, exchanging ideas not just continually repeating the known) conversation with Natasha.
She talked about how pretty the bride’s dress was, and how the bridesmaid dresses were “just a little bit pretty.”
And at least twice (maybe three times) she [...]

Natasha hasn’t had an “accident” in over a week, is entirely self-sufficient in the bathroom, and is (proudly) wearing panties today.
Grandma Florie came home last night, and she and Natasha picked out some colorful new underwear, first stop from the airport.
We are all very pleased.
Melody wanted some of the “Curious George” character panties, but not [...]

We took him in to his appointment this morning (yes, on a Saturday), and after a great deal of fussing, squirming and enforced immobilization, the eye doctor told us the “deformation” Jay observed a couple months ago was completely benign.
It has a name, and the fellow wrote it down for us, but somewhere between then [...]

We have a new plan for family-wide shots (if we ever do them again):
The biggest child goes first. That way, if the remaining child(ren) is(are) distressed by the reaction of the first it’s a smaller body to restrain.
Natasha told the story to Mom this way: “Dad, and Mom, and I, and Muddidee all got [...]

We moved the fish tank from the yellow room into the master bedroom Thursday night.
Jay (accurately) saw it as a reasonable way to prevent me from getting a little tank for my desk.
He cleared my dresser after dinner, took out more than half the water in the tank and said he was ready for my [...]

Well, I’ve missed two Sundays in a row now.
Last week the girls were sick (Natasha had that fever I think I mentioned), and Melody had an awful sounding cough.
This week I (thankfully) didn’t have the fever but had everything else– the leaky nose, cough, sore throat, sneezes (I can’t remember sneezing so much in my [...]