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Ha! I’ve been thinking about posting all day, but here it is nearing dinner time (which I haven’t even started on yet!) and I’m just getting to it. However, lest you think I’ve been lazy it is NOT so! I have done 3 loads of laundry with one more to go, swept the floors, fed the kids (and hubby) and worked tirelessly (well not quite) on our Christmas letter. *sigh* Next year I’m just going to do a “regular” letter. It’s neat the way this one turned out, but it was a heap of a lot of work and my neck is killing me from sitting at the computer for so long! However, it’s finished, at least as far as I’m concerned. Stu might make some adjustments, but I think he’ll be pretty pleased with the over all outcome. If you want one please leave a comment with your address, because if you didn’t get a card last year it means I DON’T have it.
Anyway, the boys are doing well. Qade is having a “rest” right now. He hasn’t been to sleep yet, but that’s okay. Some time talking to his cow in his bed is good for him. I was going to tell you all about how his imagination is really taking off. The other day he had his empty snack cup and an ornament hook that he found. He would stick the hook in the cup then oh-so-carefully pull it out and hold it high in the air while he blew at it. Anyone know what he was “doing?” Bubbles of course!! Then yesterday we ate at Applebee’s and he got the little basket that his chicken came in and pretended to be feeding me and Stuart things. The basket was empty at this point, but he’d reach in, find something and hold it out to us. So cute!!
Myles is doing well too! He had to have shots yesterday and I’m always so sad when that happens. He seems to be dealing with it well though. He was extra fussy yesterday afternoon (which still isn’t much considering that he hardly fusses) but today he’s been his normal, sleepy, happy self. His newest trick is what I call “stealth squirts.” Oh it’s as amazing as it sounds. Probably 3 times now in the past couple of days when I’ve changed his diaper, he somehow manages to ‘squirt’ without me knowing!! I only figure it out when I’ve picked him up or am dressing him again and everything is wet! Now I’m glad that I don’t get squirted myself, but I have no idea how he is performing this little stunt. It’s not like I take my eyes off of him for extended periods while he’s being changed…. just amazes me what munchkins can do.
Okay, I’m off to create supper! It shall be potato soup. This is my FIRST attempt so lets hope it’s a good one, because it’s a VERY chilly day and Stu’s been outside chopping and stacking wood all day! He’s gonna need something warm and nummy! Enjoy the rest of your weekend!!

Yesterday I was thinking about what a hard life it would be to be my pants. They started out fine. Totally clean freshly laundered light kakki pants that fit good. However somehow throughout the day they got black stuff from a “buggy” wheel at Wal-Mart above my knee!! I have no idea how this happened!(when I was telling this to Stu he wanted to know what “era” I was from calling it a buggy) Then as I was turning onto the interstate ramp my “sweet tea” from Wendy’s fell over and shloshed all over my leg. Later as I was playing on the floor with my 2 bubs Qade drooled red skittle drool on my pants and then proceeded to wipe his face/nose on me as well. Poor pants. By the end of the day you’d never have recognized them for the same pair I put on that morning, but ya know, even if I’m clumsy and even if my kids ‘deposit’ not so nice things on my clothes, it’s worth a whole wardrobe to be with them and have our fun adventures together!
On another note, yesterday Qade (always the big helper) decided to move the wood from the place where it REALLY goes by the wood stove into the baby swing. I was walking through the room and did a double take at the swing full of wood. Later, after I had righted the situation, Myles was in the swing and I happened to look up in time to see Qade attempting to place the SECOND piece of wood on top of him! I informed Qade that the wood does NOT go on top of baby, and then told Myles that it would be okay to holler if his brother is trying to bury him in wood.
Qade is getting too cute for his own good these days. He’s quite a mimic with his dad, trying to say everything that Stuart says. If you know Stu very well, you know that he likes to use “made up” words, so it makes for some interesting times listening to Qade repeat them- ha ha! However one thing I LOVE to hear him repeat is “love you.” He just recently started doing this one. It usually follows “see ya!”
Today my goal is to get our Christmas letter done. We’ll see if it happens. I’ve got the text pretty well finished, but now comes the “design” and Stu has told me that I will be able to do it, we’ll see what happens. If you get a letter that is set up like a letter then the design didn’t work, and hopefully I didn’t throw the computer out the window either. Take care all and enjoy your perspective Lime Green Thursdays!

I just had to laugh!

I couldn’t think of anything profound to write about today. I did have something that I wanted to write about, but I have forgotten all the profundity of it before I could write it down, isn’t that awful?! Oh well. Lately we’ve been going through some old pictures, and looking at some old video clips, and it just reminded me once again how fast the time flies with these little ones. I know I whine and fuss about not getting sleep and my house being a wreck and laundry not getting done when I want it to, but it’s mostly just fluff. I’m terribly thankful for each day I have to spend with my munchkins. Even the rough days, while not enjoyable, are chances for me to learn things about my kids, and opportunities for me to teach them how to respond and grow as well. When I get up at 2 or 3am, (or both) it’s a great time for just me and my baby. Myles is getting to be a giant already! I can’t believe how big he is! Two months old tomorrow, and he just seems so huge! Qade was our skinny baby, and I think Myles will be our little chunker!
Stuart has been working on cutting wood to keep our little family all snug and warm through the winter. I’m so blessed to have such a caring man!! We were talking last night about how as kids we didn’t want to grow up and such. Now that we’re grown up (sometimes- hee hee) it’s not as “bad” or “boring” as we thought it would be as kids. Sure we don’t get to play all day, but like Stuart said, now he actually enjoys work, because of the satisfaction he gets out of knowing that he’s taking care of his family. And he does take such good care of us. I’m totally spoiled rotten, but I LOVE it!
Well, I’m off to find something to do (there’s plenty to choose from) or just sit on the couch with a hot drink snuggling my sweet smelling (most of the time) little baby! The time is too fast, and I want to catch those fleeting moments. Ta ta!

Not for me, but for my mom actually. It’s funny, she’ll call me on the phone to ask if I’ve updated my blog. Ha! Love you Mom!!
No it’s not that I haven’t wanted to blog, but Stu is working hard on getting things working for the online camper registration for Camp on Wheels, and that takes a lot of computer time. Then I’ve been wiped out lately too! I told Stuart that I wasn’t sure we could have another child because I never get to sleep anymore. Hee hee… I’m sure that feeling will go away just as soon as Myles is sleeping through the night. Today I was extra tired. I had a hard time getting back to sleep last night after I got up with the wee man. So today I tried very hard to get a nap. At least twice I flopped on the couch with a comfy pillow and a blanket, but alas, it was not to be. Qade too a very GOOD afternoon nap today, probably because I deprived him of a morning siesta. Once he was down though, Myles decided he was hungry, then he had bubbles that made him fuss, then he needed a diaper change, and on it went, so no nap for mommy. Oh well. Maybe we’ll go to bed early tonight.
I did wrap some Christmas gifts, and that got me in the Christmasy spirit somewhat. When I’m extra tired I always have this flashback to my time at camp when Tom Farrell would have us all stand and quote a verse. He would say, “You have to give energy to get energy, so take a big gulp of air and lets say our verse.” Ha ha ha! Little did I know how it would stick with me. You just can’t disobey Tom Farrell!! So after my second failed nap attempt I scrubbed the kitchen counters and swept the dining room. I don’t feel that much more energized, but I did get something done so that’s good!
We watched Prince Caspian last night. It was really good! Having read those books since I was little it’s hard for me sometimes to reconcile the differences in the movie, but if I take the movie by itself and try to forget about the book then it’s really good! Stu and I enjoyed it anyway, it was a relaxing way to end a Thursday evening.
Tonight we’re having waffles for dinner. I do breakfast for dinner a couple times a month usually. It works out well because I NEVER am up early enough to make breakfast for breakfast. I usually have oatmeal anyway. We’ll enjoy it tonight with REAL maple syrup on them, yummmmmm!
Hope you all have a great weekend! I’m planning to! Toodles.