Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

oopsie poopsie

D'oh! I totally just burned fabric I was ironing for the first time.

teething sucks

Teething sucks, sometimes in the best possible way!  I'm not a big fan of getting chomped on by the Moose, so it's good that it rarely happens.  The great thing about teething though is that she definitely prefers the b00b when feeling the yuck & yay! for increased production!  It's still not where it used to be pre-solid foods (10-12oz pumped at work); but it's lot better (4-6oz pumped at work) than the horrible 1-3oz pumped at work!   

Shhh... but I've actually been debating whether or not to try that Mother's Milk tea to see if it makes any difference for me...

Christmas Crazies

OMG! Why did Christmas, once again, not remind me it was coming?  What?!  All of those decorations in Fred Meyer back in October were reminders?!?  What?!?  Crap.

Adina's first Christmas.  I'm so freakin' stoked, but totally unprepared.  Hopefully I will be better prepared for her birthday.  We got a new camera though!  And it's awesome!  Instead of getting presents for each other, Yobo & I just bought a new digital camera and it got here in the nick of time (yesterday)! 

I'm working on some projects & will post pictures soon.  Yobo's pillow is complete, now working on one for Big Little Sister #1.  And we've got mad cookies to get out.  We're sending dickerdoodles to Yobo's not-in-state brother & his boyfriend LOL stoked about this, too! 

Wind, wind, go away, let my baby sleep just one more day!  Stupid wind is keeping the Moose up and, well, that means me, too.  I've been waking up in cranky pants  :(

What day is it again?

Keep moving forward!  Long day.  Long week.  The Moose's top teeth, the front 6, all came in at the same time.  We had a week of "maybe it's not that bad" and we have since learned our lesson.  It IS that bad.  


She fed herself a whole banana today!  She loved it so much, she even tried to share with Monkey.  Thankfully, Monkey wasn't interested  :) 

I've been sucked in to the crazy world of k-drama.  I started out watching Young Love Jae In - a baseball player, Young, is in love with a girl named Jae In, with the twist being that, through a nutty bit of drama, almost everyone believes she is his long lost and previously unknown sister.  Yeah, just as awesome as it sounds  :)  It's become my crafting background noise.  Am also trying to watch one called Vampire Prosecutor, but it's already kind of sucking after only 1 episode, so we'll see.

the Moose means serious bidness

A Night of Comedic (?) Errors

My sister wanted me to pick her up a pack of ciggies on my way home from work (her ID's expired).  I try to be the nice sister, stop & get them, head over to her place... and she's not even home.  I call, no answer.  I leave a message & proceed home.  While I'm driving, she calls back, but I don't answer, of course, because I'm still driving home.  I get home & call her back... no answer.

Yobo's mom is out of town, so we've been asked to stop by & check-in on dad & make sure the dogs have clean water.  I tried to feed the moose, but she's not having it; she's ready for adventures she didn't even know were coming up.  We get all ready to go, the moose is buckled in, car's started & I think "oh, maybe I need to grab something from in the house" when I realize that the thing I needed to get were the HOUSE KEYS.  Yay!  Nothing can be done now that can't be done when we return home, so onward we venture to Eagle River.

On the road, baby girl realizes "oh yeah!  I really AM hungry!"  She proceeds to cry most of the drive.  The driveway out there is a pretty steep 3/4 s-shaped one.  In 5 years, I have had no issues getting up it, come rain or snow or sunshine... and then there was today.  I got stuck halfway up.  So I got out, grabbed the baby, and the hubby takes over.  His dad  & 2 of the dogs go out to assist. 

A few months ago his dad found an old stash of power-paws in their shed.  "Have some!" he said, so we put a set in the car & mostly forgot about them.  They were in storage for over 10 years, who knew if they were actually even still good.  THANK GOODNESS FOR POWER-PAWS.  They were able to get up the driveway with them  :) 

Phew!  After that, we were all inside & warm, the dogs' water was mostly OK, moose didn't sleep but was having a good time, and it was lovely.  We get home, the first window tried popped right open so we got in the house, my sister showed up to pick up her cancer sticks, the baby ate well & passed right out, and now, now I'm going to sit in a hot tub with my long-awaited, highly anticipated new book.  I'd say it's all about right.

And this is the short version. 

To top off the night, not only is my new book awesome (more to come on that at a later time), one of yobo's friends just totally dropped off bags of goodies from Nuts Online (LOVE!).  Found at our doorstep this late evening: sweetened cranberries (not that Craisins crap, real PLUMP ones that aren't straight saccharine), habanero pistachios , Hot Nuts (and they are), and wasabi peanuts.  BC has a thing for the spicy  :)

Pillow #2 complete!

Yay!  Yobo wanted a pillow for his knees to rest on while sitting on the floor at the kotatsu (table).  I just started this evening & would have been done, too, except that I ran out of poly-fill...  It's not quite stuffed enough to just let it ride.  I'm super stoked though - I've never gotten this far on a sewing project in a single day and MOST of it was even sewn on the line :)  w00t! for progress! 

The winds, they are a-blowin'

Holy high winds, Batman!  Thank goodness the moose is sleeping right through all of it - all last night & this morning's nap  :)

up to 188mph winds

It's raining, it's pouring...

I love rain, just not in the winter!  Yucky conditions out tonight, folks.  And yes, yucky is the technical term.  Attempt at the sewing machine, part 3 coming up - my first hat sewing project is about to commence... will be back soon with an update  :)

Update: 12:10am - this is going to take longer than expected.  Oi vei.  Off to bed now, will try, try again tomorrow  :)  

Update: 11:25am - starting again!  I love the fact that I have to move the banana in order to use the sewing machine  :)  

Update: 5:07pm - done!  mistakes were made, patterns were not closely followed, but it fits, it works, & she didn't tear it off her head! w00t!  success!

Baby's 1st Nightmare & Low Milk Production Days

Last night the baby went to bed at 8pm, as usual, and I hung out in the living room for some computer time.  About 9:30pm, baby yells out somewhere between the "I'm awake & lonely but will fall right back asleep" and, closer to but not quite, the "I just jammed my leg through the rungs of the crib & got stuck HELP!" screams.  She was freaked out about something - definitely not stuck or hurt.  It took about 20 minutes to calm down her shivers & heavy breathing; but then she was right as rain & went back to sleep for the next 10 hours with no further incident.

I am rather sad about the fact that my milk production has been atrociously low as of late.  I'm only getting about 2oz in a pump session!  What happened to the 4oz to which I'd grown so accustomed & reliant upon?!  The moose needs milk & these bad girls are not being very helpful.  Woe are my low production blues.

Muppets & Mothers in Law

My mother in law is awesome  :)  She's always around when I need her, even when others weren't; she's always good for a laugh and/or hug; she has ALWAYS treated me like part of the family; she's creative & crazy but level-headed; she is our rock.  Plus, she's babysitting tonight so we can have date night - we're going to see the new Muppets movie!  w00t!!!

Remember this - letter to teenagers

I suspect this will ring even more true in about 12 years, 4 months.  I can't... wait?  LOL

 You're Getting Socks for Christmas

Back to School

Back to School was a fairly entertaining movie; however, this post is actually about ME going back to school.  I have officially registered for my first college class!  Trying to keep things simple, I will be taking ONE class and it's a math class at that  :(  :)  ???  We'll see how it goes...

I haven't gone to school in over 10 years, so this will be interesting.  Luckily, I was able to find a Saturday once weekly class so it won't mess with my work schedule & doesn't eat into my evening baby time.  Plus, the class is in Eagle River, which means I don't have to buy a parking permit!  w00t!  And it means that I can take the hubby & baby with me and drop them off at the in-laws for some quality baby+grandparent time :)

A little nervous, but mostly excited.  Once Christmas is done, I can't wait for January!

Be awesome & make a difference

You only need to affect ONE single person.

http://www.daysforgirls.org/

When it snows, it snows.

Alaska's newest Thanksgiving tradition - SNOW!  And LOADS of it!  w00t!  I'm not even a true a snow bunny, but boy do I love the snow  :)  This morning's drive into work was SNOW-tastic!  I drive a little car, but it ploughs through road snow like a champ.  Work today is pretty... lax.  We're running a skeleton crew, having leftovers for lunch, AND I get to leave early.  Awesome.

I drove by Best Buy last night about 10pm & the parking lot was packed.  There was a line of crazies along the outside of the mall waiting for the doors to open for midnight madness.  I hope everyone braving the weather last night got whatever it was they were looking for because it pretty snowy & cold out. 

Happy black Friday!  I'll be braving the interweb for shopping under the warmth of our kotatsu  :)

Happy Thanksgiving!

We had a lovely dinner at the in-laws.  The baby was so sweet & very interested in adult conversation - she wanted to know what was going on!  The puppies were well-behaved, mostly because they were hoping for scraps ;)

 

I ::heart:: Cake Wrecks

When I need to laugh, Cake Wrecks has always got my back.  Today's post is all about the Return of the Poo-Wang.  Classic.

Poo-wang turkeys! 

Oh HAPPY Day!

After 3 1/2 looooooong years, I am finally free of braces!  Not suspenders, but those horrid metal brackets that were bonded to my teeth for far too long.  It is pure magic!  OK, not really, but pretty darned close - it feels LOVELY to run my tongue along my teeth & not get it stuck in or pinched by a sharp end of errant metal wire. 

Sadly, I'm not able to jump into eating caramel apples quite yet (teeth are still rather tender from having the those brackets pried off).  I can't wait to be eat an apple that doesn't have to be cut up first!

Oh HAPPY day!

The Kindle Fire kinda kicks butt.  I'm not normally a big fan of tablets because of their inherent & major downfall - FINGERPRINTS - but this one is pretty groovy despite that one little thing  :)

Working on a curtain for the plant rack today - finishing seams, then will hang it & no longer be blinded by the light.  After that, it's off to get some new fabric to make the baby's new sling.  She's a moose & no longer fits in the Snug-li :(   Oh how I'll miss that Snug-li...

The first project was a simple pillow.  Her reaction was all I could hope for - a giant smile followed by an immediate attempt at swallowing it whole.

yay! pillow!

I'll even share... well, mebbe

one post & already forgotten

I already forgot that I'd set this (blog) up to help me remember things!  Maybe it just takes a bit to get used to posting on here.  Anyhoo, something to remember: teach the baby, when she's older, that , when shaving legs, shaving down is less irritating though it also removes less hair.  Another thing: if someone's actually in to you, they totally won't care.  And if they do, you should leave them & move to Vegas  ;)  

super cute Turkey cupcakes

turkey cupcakes

In the Beginning...

So here goes my next venture... blogging.  I never thought this is something I would do, and I still don't.  Not really, anyway.  For now anyway, this is mostly personal - a place for me to write things don't so I don't forget  :)  This also gives me something to do while pumping at work LOL  I am still, seven months later, reeling in the fact that I am someone's mama.  I've never exactly been a "baby person," so this has surely been one heck of an experience.  My amazing husband stays at home with our awesome daughter while I check into the rest of the world during business hours.  D'oh!  My 10 minutes is up, so here concludes the first POST.