A Word to the Wise

Never ever, and I mean NEVER EVER let your children share hats, helmets, brushes, bows, or anything else that might mean that you get a case of head lice! YE GADS! We discovered our "friends" about a week ago. It has been a week of endless lice searching. We have washed the sheets, pillowcases, blankets, comforters and towels EVERYDAY! We have vacuumed the car, the house and the mattresses. We have shampooed with every thing that there is to shampoo with and we comb our hair every night with the tiny little comb that gets out lice eggs. There will be at least 9 more days of this. I am not sure I EVER realized the complexity of head lice. I truly live in fear of seeing crawling little creatures in my own or my children's hair. Himself shaved the heads of the boys and I cut off about 5 inches of MG's hair.
Traumatizing is a good word for the last week.

a new post

I haven't actually written anything in a while. We are busy, but Himself would say that is what I always use as an excuse. I am just not feeling very "writey". There are so many things out there to write about....politics....religion....I generally feel inadequate when I write about either. How about this? There was a mother at our class today. She was nursing her daughter (6 months old). I am thrilled whenever I see anyone nursing out in the open. Here is my question. The mother had on a shirt with an elasticized neckline. Instead of nursing the baby "under" her shirt...not hiding...just at her waist, she had the neckline pulled down and had her entire breast exposed to nurse the baby. Ok...the question....would you not be bothered by all the 12 yr. old big brothers that were standing around waiting for their little sisters to be finished with ballet? I don't want to sound hypocritical. I am SO pr0-breastfeeding. I want everyone to do it. I, myself, am certainly not a "hider" when it comes to nursing. HOWEVER, it seems awfully odd to just pull out an entire breast from your shirt to nurse a baby. This was not a small woman.....understand?

In Honour of Labour Day!

How long were your labours?

Baby #1 - 32 hours and then a c-section!
Baby # 2 - no labour at all
Baby#3 - well, I spent about 24 hours in preterm labour and then a month later, about 2 hours and then a c-section
Baby #4 - no labour at all

How did you know you were in labor?

Baby #1 - I knew because I had every birth induction known to man
Baby #2 - I didn't have any labour
Baby #3 - um, well, I started having contractions with the pre-term labour, and then the morning of his fast delivery...contractions started and he was born about 2 hours later.
Baby #4 - no labour

Where did you deliver?

Three in Tennessee, one in Washington - at hospitals, although I would have preferred home

Drugs?

Well, if you call Delaudid, morphine, duramorph, etc. drugs, then yes.

C-section?

All four were c-sections. I still would like to have an unmedicated home birth, but.........

Who delivered?

Well, my absolutely wonderful midwife took me all the way through the first pregnancy and stayed with us even as her partner did my c-section.


Baby #2 - we had a midwife until two weeks before the birth when I decided I didn't like her, so we switched to a wonderful ob/gyn. She delivered and we were thrilled.


Babies 3 and 4 were delivered by our family practice guy here in town. We really liked him and I got a tummy tuck (smile) as a result of that last section!!!

One word meme

1. Where is your cell phone? bathroom
2. Your significant other? working
3. Your hair? tired
4. Your mother? busy
5. Your father? questionable
6. Your favorite thing? knowing
7. Your dream last night? weird
8. Your favorite drink? tea
9. Your dream/goal? one
10. The room you’re in? bedroom
11. Your church? none
12. Your fear? alone
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? home
14. Where were you last night? party
15. What you’re not? patient
16. Muffins? cranberry orange
17. One of your wish list items? books
18. Where you grew up? here
19. The last thing you did? wash
20. What are you wearing? red
21. Your TV? off
22. Your pets? jumping
23. Your computer? old
24. Your life? full
25. Your mood? sad
26. Missing someone? much
27. Your car? dirty
28. Something you’re not wearing? shoes
29. Favorite store? archivers
30. Your summer? hot
31. Like(love) someone? forever
32. Your favorite color? blue
33. Last time you laughed? Melissa
34. Last time you cried? hormones
35. Who will re post this? me

A Rainy Tuesday

I like rain. Granted, enough of it and I start to get stir-crazy, but I like rain. Living in Seattle for two years was SO different from the South. But the GREEN was amazing. Everywhere that you would look, it was GREEN. And when you didn't see GREEN, you saw BLUE..as in water. There were lakes all around and also, the Puget Sound. Today, it is gray and cloudy and wet. The lights in the house are bright and a cup of tea sounds good. This ultimately is part of my Scots/Irish ancestry (I think)....this love of rain and tea and galoshes. I should go make a pan of shortbread and then I'll be happy! Well, until the shortbread burns and the children start fussing. :)
I am thankful for the rain. I am thankful for that smell in the air when the rain is coming or going. Ahhhh, rain.

Sometimes...

Sometimes I wish that it was quieter. Sometimes I wish that I had all the answers. Sometimes I wish that I knew. Sometimes I wish that my eyes saw differently. Sometimes I wish that it was changed. God knows. He knows that I like it quiet. He does have all the answers. He KNOWS. He sees. He will change everything in His time.
I offer Him my thanks.

A List for Tuesday

Two names I go by:

1. Teresa

2. Mama

Two things I’m wearing right now:

1. My 3 yr. old black croc flip-flops

2. a white t-shirt (what's new?)

Two of my favorite things today:

1. sleepy daughter

2. cold drinks/air conditioning

Two things I want at the moment:

1. a Starbucks coffee frapacino

2. a new pattern to sew

Two favorite pets I have had:

1. Chiquito, an orange and white tabby cat with a pink nose

2. Nina, a black, long haired cat with green eyes

Two things I did last night:

1. Went to sewing class and helped Laurabeth

2. Went to bed with Muireann

Two things I ate last night:

1. Chicken Tostados

2. Cake

Two people I last talked to:

1. Mark

2. Elisabeth

Two things I will do tomorrow:

1. go to the grocery

2. take care of children

Farthest trips I have taken in the last 5 years:

1. Michigan

2. Dallas

Two favorite holidays:

1. My birthday.

2. Christmas.

Two favorite beverages:

1. Anything fizzy

2. Back Street Burgers Frozen Lemonade