I will be back...

dk when. dk with what. but i will be posting to the blog regularly again sometime hopefully in the near future. just wanted to let my readers know. :P things have been chaotic at my house lately between food allergies, bloody diapers, travels, etc. they are starting to smooth out and im beginning to recoup, but it's still gonna be a bit yet. phew.

Yeah, you could say I'm outspoken....

Just because I share my research & experience based opinions with you doesn't mean I expect you to follow through with what I'd do in your situation . . . but I do hope that more folks out there would start making informed decisions about their birth and the caring of their children. I mean, really, how many moms out there can tell you what their kids are even vaccinated against? much less, what's in those vaccines?

I hear so many people saying things like.... "well my doctor said....." - I cringe over how much trust people put in their doctors to give them all the information needed to make a decision or to even make the decision for them . . . like . . . inducing at 39 weeks. Or... .how about the scare tactics of . . . going past your due date puts your baby at risk?! At risk of what? Proper brain & lung development?

So I'm a lil heated tonight.... after congregating with some of my fellow Doulas in the area, boy do we have fun; Between sharing birth stories about moms worrying themselves sick over the possibilty of pooping themselves in front of someone during labor and then when it really happens not giving a hoot who saw it... or how about..practically moaning our client's baby out ourselves - We are a riot. THANK YOU M.H. for sharing such awesome birth stories! Laughing with friends is sooooooo wonderful!

Now, if only I hadn't had to come home to an empty house . . . It's just me and my Brooke Lou til Satuday. Reese travelled back to the hometown with her Daddy to catch up on some corn planting after getting rained out two weekends in a row. Brooke and I are venturing over Saturday to pitch in (if you consider bringing ice cold Mtn. Dews down to the field for the boys "pitching in".). We'd head over tomorrow if I didn't have 3 weeks worth of recycling spilling out of the bins in the kitchen, but... its all saved... oh... 3 bags of trash from going in the landfill?! Getting crunchier by the day . . .

Adding another book to my wish list.... I've heard nothing but good things so far from friends . . . I don't think we quite need it, but it couldn't hurt, right? Or maybe I need the Toddler version? Yeah, that could be it.... I really do think Brooke sleeps better than Reese. Of course, last night we ended up with both of em in bed with us... crammed between us in our queen size...

I'm really looking forward to getting some sewing done tomorrow.... I really need to get things going again on the shop, I seem to go in spurts there, too. Things just come up, get me off schedule, and it's really difficult to get back on with 2 lil ones and all our travelling. I also need to get some reading and charts and things done for some clients..... There's always plenty of questions that can be asked and lots to learn when trying to answer them.

Well, it's been a bit since I last posted.... I'm struggling to maintain this blog thing, I go in spurts...and I'm pretty randon, still haven't decided what direction I wanna go in with this. much like I do in the rest of my life.... I can clean half the house top to bottom in one day and then another day, barely feel like walking through half of it... bah-humbug.....I've gotta get my exercise on.... 30 day shred, I want you back! lol. 30 extra pounds, I want you gone!

I have some terrible eating habits... love soda, chocolate, vanilla iced zingers, pop-tarts, sugary cereals, etc... but I'm trying to slowly better them, I know if I go too hard to fast at trying to change my eating habits, I'll fail and fall right back to all of them. I want to give up pop... but... before I even cut back, I've switched to caffeine free.... once I get thru my week without caffeinated soda... I will cut back to one a day..... one every other day..... etc... hopefully my plan will work, pop isn't cheap ya know. I think I spend 10% of our grocery budget on it. Sick.

I'm not just trying to eat healthier in the sense of low fat, etc., but in the sense of natural and organic. I want to avoid processed foods, etc. I bought some bread last week, whole grain - the heaviest bread on the shelf, and really enjoyed it, much better than that fake white bread. Of course, when I went to the store yesterday to buy more, I couldn't remember what brand I had bought before.... after reading ingredient labels, I realized what I bought last week had high fructose corn syrup in it!? holy crap. and oats, which Reese is allergic to. So... this week I bought Pepperidge (sp?) Farms Wheat Whole Grain bread, still just as tasty, but without the oats and without the high fructose corn syrup.

Crap. Just realized I forgot to get stuff to make salsa at the store. :( I'm craving it soooooo bad.

Anyhoo.... our a/c has been working on and off, we're assuming it's low on refrigerant.... so a guy is suppose to come check it out this afternoon.... My goals for the day now...... clean the living room enough that he has a clean path from the front door to the thermostat. LOL.  AND TAKE A NAP!

I am exhausted. The girls and I appear to be walking boogers. Peak allergy season for us. :(

Typical Morning

I need a new small camera. Yep.... my lil HP camera has had the lick, thanks to Reese. And it's just too hard to take frequent candids of the girl with that big honkin Canon Rebel XS... i think that's what it is anyways.... I think pics would make this blog alot more fun...... gotta get on that... maybe use the Amazon gift cards I earned from swagbucks to get one? Since the tandem stroller I was saving up for is no longer available...

So the night wasn't too bad, got some quality time with DH in, Brooke woke up at 4 a.m. and wouldn't go back to sleep unless I let her nurse lying down in our bed. After this morning though, it sounds like I need to reschool DH on NFP.....Of course, my brain is saying, not ready for #3, but my body is screaming YES YES YES. . . . what can I say? Pregnancy agrees with me, at least physically.

In the mean time, my girls are learning and doing more by the day. Reese is continually shouting "Let's Do This!". I'm not sure where she picked that one up from. Brooke can't keep from making fart noises on my boob everytime she nurses, yep, she's definetly her daddy's baby.

I suppose I'm in for a day of cleaning, unpacking, and perhaps, grocery shopping. I subscribed to this new thing, E-Mealz, it's pretty neat, but this will be my first week trying to use it.... I hope it helps us out budget wise and health wise, we seem to be eating nothing but fast food or junk lately.

Welp, wish me luck, I'm off to finish my 1st can of soda for the day and change Reese into a fresh diaper, I think her Bed Bug is at full capacity. phew.

Rained Home & Shoeless

Finally made it back to our home in Glasgow, after a weekend visiting the hometown, and a long trip down the parkway in a downpour. We enjoyed visiting both sides of the family, especially the girls' great grandparents, my mother's parents, who blessed us with a big bucket of strawberries fresh from their garden. YUM! Now... maybe wash them up and make a pie to snack on?

Of course, we did have to tackle quite the rainstorm to get to their home one evening. The girls and I were in our van, traveling down the scenic highway through Woodbine and into Rockholds, battling fierce rain with Flash Flood Warnings out for the area. Fortunately, we made it there safely, after lots of prayer and caution. My new Clark sandals were not so lucky. After running back and forth carrying both girls into the warmth (& DRY) of my grandparent's home, they were soggy. I always though that leather, when it got wet, shrank. However, when I told my Mamaw Sugar about the shoes, well... she said... "oh no, that leather will stretch." At first, I thought it would be okay, they were rubbing my instep a bit anyways...... but now.... ugh...... can't walk in em without my foot flopping off the heel and into the air in an attempt to sprain my ankle. NOT COOL. Mom suggested getting them wet again and drying them in the sun to shrink them..... told her I'd have to google (or better yet, swagbucks search) that one, haven't done it yet, but hope I can find a cure.

I've only had these (once) ooberly comfortable shoes for 2 weeks AND let me tell ya how I got em. My husband was planning on treating me to our new Olive Garden one day for lunch, but . .. .  got there to find it closed until 4, it was 12. So.... we went to my next choice... Logan's Roadhouse. Where..... we sat for too long, with both kids, waiting on my steak, which came rare, after I ordered medium. Sent it back to the kitchen, only to have it returned medium rare after asking them to just go ahead and go medium well to well with it.... ugh... After that, there was no more patience left in my children, the manager took my meal off the bill, and we went on our merry with, with just a few rolls and some sweet potato in my belly.

Well.... after that I had promised Reese a ride on the horses aka the carousel @ the Greenwood Mall. I was getting the girls out of the van, tying Brooke onto my back in our favorite mei tai from Mother Moon Pads, formerly Keep Your Baby Close, and as I took a step the whole top of my ol' favorite white cheap-o $5 Wal-mart sandals came off...... I think I stood there for a good 2 minutes just staring at the disaster.... debating what to do.... Yes, I, technically, only had 1 shoe. However, I also had a 2 year old who for hours had been looking forward to a carousel ride.....a 2 year old that would throw a fit of all fits, especially when she could see the horses a mere 50 feet away....

Well... thank goodness we got a GOOD parking spot that day, because I somehow managed to hobble into the mall with 1.5 shoes wearing one baby and pushing my toddler in the stroller. Reese was able to get her carousel ride. THEN I was able to scoot my way over to JcPenney's for my first pair of Clark's... a brand my mother and grandmother tended to rave over.... almost as much as I do over Merrel's. And boy... they were worth the scoot..... and the loot.... although I did get em on sale & with a coupon, for $40. Of course, $40 is ALOT of money for a pair of sandals for me, when they aren't Merrel's, but I took a chance, and it worked out... UNTIL the rain came.... :(

But everytime it rains.... I can't help but think of my husband coming through our front door singing.... the words to a song I hadn't heard just yet.... but I've heard several times since, including once during that rainstorm on the way to my grandparent's home.... "Rain makes corn. Corn makes whiskey. Whiskey makes my baby..... Get a little frisky." *Blissful Sigh*


Now.... off to put the babies to bed and battle the ants that took over our home while we were away.