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It's September already?

Hey folks! There's been a lot to write about lately, but very very little time to actually sit down and write. Let me catch you up in as little words as possible.

1) I accepted a full time position at my place of work three weeks ago. It is AWESOME! And I LOVE being back. Had no idea that I wasn't fully my happy self until I saw what happened to me when I returned to work. Apparently I thrive in an uber-busy, semi-stressful, constant state of dissaray that keeps my mind engaged. I'm just so stinkin happy now. It rocks.

2) Andrew and I became officially old when we went shopping for our 2nd car. We figured it would be our cool, somewhat-hip, just-to-get-around-town car. We hoped for a five speed of some sort. Maybe an extended cab little truck. Maybe a cool little mid size car. Well... that was a big fat NOPE. We ended up with yet another Ford Taurus. What makes it cool? It's not a wagon. Sheesh.

3) And last, but certainly not least, we put an offer on a house yesterday!!!! If the deal goes through, we will be living in a super duper awesome house with all the stuff we wanted in a house, and be REALLY close to my job and our Church (like I'm talking walking distance). FAB. YOU. LOUS.

4) Also... my kids are cute.














And that's all I've got to say about that.

Update

I sat down to actually blog... but I STILL cannot think of anything to blog about. So I guess I'll just give you all a life update.

A) Time is passing at an incomprehensible rate lately. Mia is 2 and a half today, and Vince is 4 days away from being 9 months old. She's fully potty-trained, and is developing a very funny little personality. He crawls and cruises all over the apartment and still refuses to eat solid foods, leaving his mommy to be a milk-o-matic ALOT of the time.

B) Since Andrew's job search hasn't been super lucrative, we've decided to just bide our time in our same old pattern for awhile... which means no house for us at least for a little while. I'm a little dissappointed that I've got to stay put in our apartment for longer than I thought, but I'm super glad that I don't yet have to quit my job which is still the coolest most wonderful job EVER. And, A&I switched our hours up so that, except for 1 night a week, we're always all home by 6p and no one ever has to leave earlier than 7:15a to go to work. Consistency is nice.

C) I went in to get my cholesterol re-checked on Friday. I find out if the 30 pounds I've lost since January has had any effect on my cholesterol. I will be SUPER PISSED if it hasn't... but the doc was pretty sure it would make at least some difference.

D) Speaking of losing 30 pounds, I am now at the smallest weight that Andrew has ever known me at, I can fit into pants that I bought 4 years ago and most of them are TOO big, AND I wonder why I EVER thought I was fat in high school because I was only about 5 pounds less then, than I am now, and I'm feeling pretty cute these days. I guess that's what having 2 babies in 3 years does to you... it gives you some definite body-image perspective.

E) We got to see Sister Sophia Grace this summer. It's still vaguely ironic to me that she's the one who became a nun, and I'm the one who ended up getting married and popping out kiddos like crazy. I'm not sure anyone would have guessed that when Kim and I became roommates just after college. God is a funny guy. Nevertheless, it was wonderful seeing her and experiencing the pure joy that her vocation brings to her. Her eyes just glow with the love of Christ and it gives me peace to be around her.

F) When she was home, we had a small get together of some of the original Daisy House group. The funny thing about it was that there were sooooo many babies and toddlers there. The spawn of the Daisy House is beginning to overtake the originals. Again... SO MUCH HAS CHANGED IN FOUR YEARS. I'll post a pic at the bottom of this blog.

G) I hate that my blog is uber-boring as of late, and when I've tried to figure out why, I sort of come to two conclusions. Firstly, FACEBOOK takes way less effort and is about as effective. Secondly, my blog used to be about things that bugged me... but these days I'm too afraid (or lazy) to stir up the drama and then have to deal with it, so I tend to just skip the blogging. My husband does enough pot-stirring for the both of us I guess.

H) After 4 or 5 years, I finally have reconnected with my best friend from high school. It's been really neat hanging out with Kay again and has at least made the daunting task of attending my 10 year high school reunion seem at least a bit less daunting. (Though I'm still not sure I want to speak to all those kids who were mega-jerks in high school... do you suppose they've changed by now??)

I) I am LOVING this July weather. Andrew and I haven't had to turn our A/C on in like a week. It's been fabulous!

That's all I've got for now folks. If any of you are still out there reading, I appreciate your deligence in checking for new updates as I am admittedly getting much worse about it. Toodles!

My very awesome Dad!

The Mommy Club

I'm not sure if I've written about this topic in the past, but it has been something I've observed over the past three years, and I think it's a very cool phenomenon. What is this phenom, you ask? It's the Mommy Club!!

It seems to be that once a woman becomes pregnant-and, therefore, a mommy-she is from that point forward enrolled in the Mommy Club. This club is most probably a figment of my imagination, but it's also about the coolest membership I've ever held in anything.

You see, the mommy club is an organization where all mommies share a commonality... that of their motherhood. And for that reason, we are suddenly given full reign to talk about poop, puke, breastfeeding, periods, labor, gynecological anomalies, and pretty much anything else we want as long as it has something to do with being a mommy *which, once you're a mommy, you can pretty much tie ALL aspects of life to motherhood in some way.* Perhaps most women share this stuff anyways with friends... but it's different once you're a mommy, because now you can talk about these matters (many of them very private) to just about any Pam, Liv or Mary you see on the street as long as she's a mommy as well. Meet a woman with a nursing child at Baby's R Us... why not strike up a conversation about latch methods?? See a woman in the bathroom waiting for the changing station... why not comment that there are FAR TOO FEW changing stations in men's rooms??

Of course I have personal examples of the Mommy Club as well. I met a woman for the first time at the New Years Eve party Andrew and I went to this past year. Within about 30 minutes of meeting her (she was a mother of 6 - her youngest born the same month as Vince) I'd already learned about most of her labor stories and how it's okay to tell your Doctor who wants to artifically "speed up your labor" that it is NOT okay with you.

Or just this morning, as we left Church, one of my friends and I were discussing NFP and types of mucus like we were talking about the weather. But really... fertility vs. the weather... I'd pick fertility any day!

This blog really has no point other than to point out this observation and let all of my mommy friends (and really all mommies out there) know that I love being the Mommy Club with you, and I really appreciate that we can share all this stuff.

It's always nice to have someone to discuss my child's b.m.'s (or lack thereof) with. :)

Love to all the mommies out there!
K

Shock

Both shock and sadness filled my heart yesterday upon hearing of the murder of Dr. George Tiller. Did he see Jesus yesterday? Did he get to meet all of the babies whose lives he ended? Did he have time to say he was sorry?

As deplorable as it is that thousands of innocent lives were lost because of his practice, how incredibly sad it is that this one life, which perhaps wasn't so innocent, was lost yesterday.

Of course pro-lifers want abortion to end, but NOT by means of adding another death to the total lives lost. And it is extremely anti-life to kill someone for any reason, so I'm very confused by and angry at Dr. Tiller's shooter.

May God have mercy on his soul. And I pray his family has the support they need to make it through this difficult time.

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