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10月29日 A LetterDear Elijah,
How can I begin to tell you how much you have changed my life. I'm not sure how I survived before without your cooing noises in the early morning hours, your crazy, lovely mop of brown hair that smells so sweet, or your big toothless grin. Each day is a little bit brighter and a little bit sweeter because you are in it. I love the way your socks flop on your feet because you pull on them and attempt to stick your toes into your mouth or the way your belly sticks out after a satisfying meal of chicken with vegetables, sweet potatoes, and applesauce. I hope you always adore your light-up clown, G-raffe, and the book Barnyard Dance. You melt my heart when you try to "sing" along with music and when I sing "Fly me to the Moon" to you. I know that you will continue to grow and change and I think of all of the wonderful things that you have yet to experience...Walking, forming words, ice cream, bike rides, grass beaneth your feet, a funny movie. I wonder what your hopes and dreams will be and what you will be passionate about. I also know that there are sad and scary things ahead of you and I wish that I could shelter you from them all, but, I can't...However, I will be here for you whenever the road gets hard and the world closes in. There is nothing that you could do that will change the way I feel about you...I love you. So let's just take each day and fill it with as much as we can and squeeze as much living out as possible.
I love you Little Man.
Mama 10月26日 Sweet October, where have ye gone?The Pumpkin Patch was indeed an adventure...the only way I can really describe it would be to say that this would be what Walt Disney would have dreamed up if he had decided to create a pumkin patch. At first I was charmed by the goats, the great mounds of colorful pumkins and bush after bush of purple, yellow, and white mums...however, the crowds and the dust began to take their toll and the ginormousness (yes, it diserves the creation of a new word) of the place was too much. I quickly tired out. But the cousins seemed to enjoy themselves and I'm sure Elijah would have if he had been old enough to do the activities. Aunt Angie did take him around on the kiddy tricycle track, twice, which he adored! Everytime she would slow down or stop he would kick his legs back an forth as if to say, "Don't stop! Keep going!" So I guess I should amend my previous statement, he did enjoy himself.
Illness has come and gone at our house. I was down for the count for most of this week, but I am now up and feeling much better. Elijah and David have also been under the weather, but are better as well.
After awakening at 1pm yesterday afternoon feeling much better and filled with a sudden urge to get up and do something I knew that I was on the mend. So I baked. There is no better confirmation of solid well-being then to make some warm, moist, goodie to fill you with the joy of being alive. I had four very sad looking apples that were nearly ready for the rubbish bin, but, it has been my goal to mend my chronic, western, food wasting ways and use up things. Food does not grow on trees...no wait, some does, but, the money to buy the food does not and therefore, the food should not be squandered...whew! At least that is what I have been working really hard on. So I put those apples to work in a moist apple cake from one of my Moosewood cookbooks. It was really quite good. And David seemed to like it as well.
Have a delightful weekend my friends full of happiness and baking! 10月22日 A Day in the LIfeOnce again, I always have the grandest of intentions when it comes to this blog. I think of things all the time that I want to share and then the daily needs of life step in and the grand intentions slip by the wayside.
Here is a typical weekday for us:
Wake-up - 5:30am
Get ready/eat breakfast - 6:00am
Wake-up Elijah/feed him - 6:15am
Dress him/try to tame his wild hair/ herd bottles, lunch, coats, keys, and any other needs - 6:30am
Out the door - 6:45am
Drop Elijah at Daycare - 7:00am
Arrive at work - 7:50am
Work, work, work (Although drudgery it is not) until 4:30pm
Skip back to the car
Pick up Little Man - 5:30pm
Drive home
Make dinner - 6:00pm
Clean-up - 7:30pm
Play, bathe, read, cuddle
Bedtime for Little E - 8:00pm
Spend some time with David maybe watching shows or putzing around
Get bottles and various other asundries ready
Shower - 9:30pm
Sleep
Repeat X 5
By Friday I am always a little worn out, but, I am starting to a have a little bit easier time with the early rising.
Weekends are spent doing things we don't get done during the week as well as just hanging out as a family. I also plan our menus every two weeks and go grocery shopping. This makes it ever so much more easy to have good meals on the table during the week. Plus, I have been able to dust off some of my cookbooks and try some new recipes. Some have been great (spicy peanut noodles, coriander chicken), some not so great (corn casserole, vegetable strudel)
I have also been drinking coffee only seldom any more. I used to have it every morning...now I just stick to mostly water and the occational soda. But with the new job which requires walking and using stairs as well as eating more balanced meals I have dropped 3 pounds and I hope to keep it up.
Elijah is doing well...he has a cough and a bit of a runny nose. I'll hear him cough occationaly in the middle of the night and I wish that I could make it go away. But, it seems to be improving. David and I are convinced of his brilliantness and by no means are we biased. ;) He's just very bright and over all happy and cheerful. He only fusses when he has reason, i.e. the big three - diaper change, hungry, sleepy. Sometimes he crys and we can't locate the source, but those times are few and far between. We adore him!
David is doing well. He's a cleaner, unpacker, diaper changer, electrician, lawn boy...extraordinar! He is worthy of a million kisses...I best get started...after work that is. :) Opps lunch is over, back to work...
10月6日 A Tale of Two MirrorsFor just over two months this house had no mirrors in the bathrooms. I had let my eyebrows completely go because it's hard to know that you need to pluck when you never see them. Well, in all honesty, we did have a small mirror that we would prop everywhere, but the light was never good, the angle never right, and the size was just too small for it to really make much difference. We had looked for cool mirrors in junk and antique stores, Old Time Pottery, discount department stores, etc. but with no real luck (we had bought one that turned out to be much to large, we are thinking of re purposing it in the living room) ...so the days ticked by and David and I became somewhat used to only having a vague idea of knowing what we looked like when we walked out the door everyday. There was freedom in that, we were completely free of vanity, but it was driving me a bit nuts too. And now the wonderful, dangerous, enormous savior I had been looking for came to the rescue...IKEA. I found the perfect mirrors...take a look here if you wish. They look absolutely perfect. The new job is lovely. Need I say anymore? We are busy getting sucked into new TV shows around here...we DVR those that appeal and watch after Little Man goes to bed or naps. My new favorite to add to The Office, My Name is Earl, 'Til Death, Numbers, and Criminal Minds is the show Life. We watched two episodes today and I must say I was very quickly sucked in. It stars Damian Lewis from Band of Brothers, and The Forsyte Saga. He has the knack for playing good guys and bad guys, quirky guys and psycho guys ...good actor. Sweet Elijah is teething...just in general out of sorts. He keeps wanting to nurse for comfort and sleep. He has been taking longer and deeper naps as of late. We had gotten used to his kitty-cat naps of ten or fifteen minutes and now he goes for an hour or more. We do our best to keep him comfortable. I am wondering where fall is...today was nearly 90 degrees!?!?! And supposed to be about the same tomorrow. I have been wanting to get in the kitchen and bake more, but how can I even be remotely motivated when I could possibly bake on a rock outside as it is so very hot? Will those crisp autumn days ever come or will we skip straight into winter? I would like to sit and have a cup of tea with fall for awhile. Fall is most welcome...I will put out pumpkins, colorful corn, and bake something lovely if it will only come and stay for awhile. Until then I will pull out my flip flops and try to get excited about wearing another tank top. 10月2日 And I heave a sigh of relief...Well there is wonderful news to be had!!! I had an interview for a job this morning and they have offered and I have excepted it! It is with a University and it will be a perfect position for me. At this point it is only temporary with the chance of me getting to stay on permanently...God is the one that knows if that will happen, but for now I am finally employed for at the least the next two months or so. Elijah is well and cutting his first two teeth and I have actually been in the mood to work on some crafty projects I hope to post the final results here soon...Any who, I will try to post more soon and new pics as well. I have many new stories to share so check back. Hugs all around! |
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