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Forgotten the REAL reason for Halloween??


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One year ago today...

Many of us learned our Dear friend, Evie, lost her long, hard fought battle with cancer.

There's not a day that goes by that we don't miss her. She meant so much to so many of us.

For us today is also day of joy and celebration, as 7 years ago, after 4 years of trying we finally had the baby we longed for for so long. Evie was so happy for us, and happier still when Ava came along.

Today not only will we be celebrating a birthday, but we will also be celebrating Evie's life, for I know she'd not want us to mourn her passing, but remember what a joyous life she led. Even through her hardest times, her strong will shone through.

We miss you Evie, and I know you are up there somewhere, looking down on all of us today and reminding us to celebrate! :) Love ya!

My Baby

In 7 short years we've gone from this:




To this:








Happy 7th Birthday Miss J!

I've been Tagged!

Heidi Tagged me several days ago, but between Ava being sick and it being the weekend and having to run errands yesterday, I'm just getting around to it now. I know, I know, I'm a slacker. :)


Here are the rules of the Tag:


1.Post the rules on your blog.
2.Write six random things about yourself.
3.Tag six people at the end of your post.
4. If you are tagged, JUST DO IT, and pass the tag along.


Well I'm not sure I HAVE 6 people to Tag, but I'll answer the questions, at least! :)


1.) I own and use a PedEgg and I LIKE it. There's nothing like being able to grate your old, tough feet like a block of cheddar. :)

2.) Since Heidi loves boobs, I'll talk about mine. They are HUGE HUUUUGE... they were always big, after two kids and almost non-stop nursing (there was about a 6 month break there when I was PG) for 7 years now, they are HUUUUUUUUUUGE! I am so not their biggest fan! They certainly have served thier purpose well, but when that's done they can go away. they can go all the way away for all I care, and I mean that. Being able to sit up straight will be an amazing experience for me. There are times I've wanted to just take an axe and whack them right off.

3.) I say "Bah" a lot. ;) Well I probably type it a lot more than I say it, but it's just a good word!

4.) I love Facebook. I love chatting with my friends there, I love finding all my friends I haven't seen or heard from in YEARS... even people from HS, who maybe weren't so friendly... we've all grown up and gotten over ourselves, and it's really fun to see what people look like now, and see pics of their adorable kids and just catch up with one another. There were only about 106 of us in my Senior class and half of them I wen to elem school with. In a way it's rather kool that there are people even 4 years older and younger than me, that I know from the other classes too. Not many people can say that. The hubster's class alone in his HS was over 700 kids. I just can't imagine that...

5.) I don't shower every day. well sometimes I do, but if I'm just hanging around the house, cleaning stuff and being domestic, why bother. LOL

6.) I drink soy milk, because I can. One day I just decided to try it. WHY am I drinking cows milk. I am NOT a baby cow, I don't need to put on weight. It took a little getting used to, but I like it. Now i'm going to work on replacing all my normal dairy items, with soy ones.

Real Ant Farms Have Dirt...

So the other night, after a Geo-Caching adventure, The Hubster and J noticed tons of Queen Ants flying around.

For a while now they've been blabbing about an Ant Farm, but I guess when you send away for the ants, you don't get a Queen.

So they collected one or two and are keeping them in some Temp housing outside.

SO despite the fact that I had 8 million errands to run today (I was basically gone from the house from 10am-3pm!) I made a point to run to TRU to find an Ant farm from them. I got the LAST and ONLY one they had.


My ever grateful 6 y/o showed it to her Dad, and then started BAWLING. "It's GROSS!" "Look at the BACK?!" "It looks FAKE!"

I'm apparently an idiot, cause i'm failing to see the problem here.... I said, It's gel, all the Ant farms are gel now!

In between sobs, she tells me "REAL (sob) Ant farms (sob) have DIRT! (sob)"

OY VEY!

I informed her fine, I will just take it back then. Fortunately for both of us, her Dad was then ready to take her and her Sister on another adventure, so hopefully he's talked some sense into her by the time they get home.

Yeah I'm SOOOO looking forward to the teen years! :-P

Sacred & Profane

Personally, I think Heidi's just trying to pimp her blog, but I'll play! (runs)


Sacred:










Profane:

Some things are just timeless...

I've always LOVED this routine, but after having kids, I love it even more! :)

Ok...

here's a story for you...

Ava's never been one for change. Things change, and it's like a National Catastrophe. A far contrast from J, who was all "go with the floooooow".

Sunday, I sorted through the girls' closet. I got rid of a lot of summer stuff, and drug out the fall stuff, incl. some longs sleeved things! ACK!

Anyway... since I was able to thin out the drawer that contained Ava's swimsuits, I was able to put her unders in that drawer, as opposed to the basket where her socks are. The poor basket was overflowing and it was just a PITA to try and find socks, since they were buried under the undies (not that we needed the socks during the summer, really).

So, Miss "Change is Evil" for the past few days, has taken to taking her unders OUT of the drawer, and putting them back in the basket, and then getting REALLY mad when I put them back in the drawer. :-P

It will be interesting to see how long of a battle I have on my hands.... :)

I have nothing to say....

Really, I don't... LOL

Drives me nuts when I can't think of something to talk about here. Generally it will hit me at like 2am, and then I'd really rather go back to sleep than blog. Naturally, come morning, I've forgotten all about what I was going to say.

Yesterday was good, but busy in the afternoon, between scheduled delivery appointment, and unscheduled workers just showing up. :-P

J had a soccer game in the evening. Ava was an utter mess all day long, not having taken any sort of nap. She passed out just after 5pm last night.

Today I've been TRYING to get some stuff done, but we had a few errands to run and before that, Ava DID have a nap. We got home, unloaded, I picked up the yard and then sat here for a bit, and notw it's about time to pick J up from the bus.

... and just as I was about to type that she has dance tonite, I realize I need to fix her an early supper so I should go heat up the oven for her now, so I can pop the pot-pie in before I go get her...

Are you KIDDING me?

So a few weeks back I was selling some stuff on ebay. After auction end, I get a message from a buyer, TELLING me she will pay me that next Friday, which was 8 days later. I generally require payment w/in 7 days... but figured, fine w/e. I wasn't too fond of her attitude, but just let it slide.

That Friday came and s he paid and I shipped and she left me feedback and I got busy... which was a good thing, because a week later I had a hold on my PP account. I generally drain my $ out of my account after I get paid, it's just a good idea when you are dealing with PP, IMO.

So since I had like .19 cents in there I was in the negative. For some reason either she or the bank reversed the charges and PP was investigating. It wrapped up sooner than I thought, and in my favor, thanks to all the emails i had from her, and the + feedback she left, etc.

Since then she's been sending me email through ebay about my leaving her feedback. This last one was threatening.

The funny part tho, is she is threatening to never buy from me again.

Uhhhhh

yeah, I kind of would PREFER that, thanks! :-P

So yeah, she's blocked now! 0:-)