Happy Valentine’s Day to my best friend, Dave. This is Valentine’s Day #15 for us. I hope we have 50+ more! Thanks for loving me and our girls so much. I love you.
Archive - February, 2010
Are You Boring or Interesting?
For Christmas, NY Grandma gave me a book called The Moms’ Book: For The Mom Who’s Best At Everything. The Heck With Housework chapter has the following wise advice, “If you have friends with immaculate houses, tell yourself that they must have too much time on their hands and lead a really boring life. You are far too interesting to spend all that time washing the windows, polishing the furniture, vacuuming the curtains, and scrubbing the kitchen floor.”
Or folding laundry.
Here are two of my interesting reasons for not doing housework.
The other two reasons were at a birthday party this afternoon.
(I recognize that in the time it took for me to take these pictures, upload them, play around with them, and export them, I could have folded up all that laundry. But, what fun is that?!)
Based on the state of my house, I must be VERY interesting! So, are you boring or are you interesting?
Two Weeks
Dave commented this morning that the past two weeks have been the longest and the shortest we have experienced in a long time. Funny how that works!
Hope is now 7 lbs. 9 oz. and 20.5 inches long. She is “waking up” from the newborn stage and starting to show her personality. She much prefers being held or snuggling next to Carmen.
Dave and I are t-i-r-e-d but I guess it would be weird if we weren’t, right?!
Having a newborn in our house again has made it even clearer to me how much Tay Sachs has taken from Carmen. Carmen no longer has the abilities of a newborn. Hope can cry, lift up her head, smile (maybe it’s gas but she is still smiling!), react, etc. Tay Sachs has taken almost everything from Carmen.
Lauren, always the nurturer, is loving her role as big sister again. A few days ago, I was cleaning up the bathroom and Lauren was in the bedroom with Hope. Hope was crying and Lauren kept calling for me to come get Hope. I told her I was hurrying and would be just a moment. I heard her say, “Hope, I tried. Your mother is just not paying attention to me!”
Beth from Sugar Rush Photography braved the snow this week and drove to our house to take pictures of Hope and our family. Click here for a sneak peek.
Speaking of snow, we are supposed to get MORE snow on Monday and Tuesday. When they predicted a record snow amount for us this winter, they weren’t kidding! We have already broken a 100 year snow record.
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The MOPS moms are blessing us with meals again. Thank you Angie, Karen, Jacy and Annie for your wonderful meals!
Pineapple, Grapes and Chocolate Covered Strawberries!
I have ALWAYS wanted one of those edible fruit arrangements. I start drooling when I see the advertisements on the side of delivery vans and in magazines. Yesterday, one arrived at our door. Lauren spotted the chocolate covered strawberries right away. She impatiently waited for me to take a picture. It was worth the wait!
Thanks Megan and Adam! Your gift was extremely thoughtful and kind.
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Thank you to our church for the balloon arrangement and to Cristina and Del for the beautiful flower arrangement. I apologize for not taking pictures. I got a little behind the first few days after Hope was born! 
So far we still have power despite all this snow. Thank you God!
The Tooth Fairy’s Gifts
The Tooth Fairy didn’t bring a Red Ryder BB Gun or a Mercedes (nice ideas though). As soon as Lauren woke up, she checked her tooth fairy pillow and found 4 quarters for her princess bank and a kitty cat for her doll house. She wanted me to tell all of you that she named her cat “Mrs. Kitty Cats”. She was thrilled!
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Carmen update: Carmen is once again having problems with swelling. She also had some blood in her feeding tube yesterday. Carmen’s Hospice nurse suggested we start Carafate again to reduce stomach irritation.
We are expecting another 10-20 inches of snow today. This is on top of the 30 inches of snow we just got. Please, please pray that we don’t lose power. We need to keep Carmen warm! And we need to be able to run her machines: feeding pump, pulse oximeter, suction machine, nebulizer, Vest, etc.
