tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57835012012-02-16T00:31:19.013-06:00my adventures... or lack of themNorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16383854427922787130noreply@blogger.comBlogger3711100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5783501.post-57132966853024343892008-02-15T21:16:00.002-06:002008-02-15T21:23:28.162-06:00

we talk to clay's nanny and granddad on the computer with the webcam, since they are in the u.k. and we are in the states. so now he thinks they are "on" the computer, and thinks they'll be there whenever he wants to talk to them. we have a gate separating the office area from the living room, but he's just figured out how to get past it. so today, i'm washing dishes and thinking he's in the

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last night was fun. clay went to bed at his usual time, 8:30, but was upstairs jabbering away for a very long time. finally, at 10:30, i went up to check on him and he was ready to get up. "up, up!" he said, cheerfully, then, "potty!". so we went potty. then he wanted to eat. um, no. he cried. so i told him it was bedtime, but he could have ONE more story. so we did that. then he

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i haven't posted in a while -- its been busy over here. i managed to get sucked in to working extra hours this week, and while the paycheck will be nice, it hasn't given me a whole lot of time! but i did manage to get my baking done. i found some pretty simple recipes and stuck to those. i didn't labor hours in the kitchen over sugar cookies this year. although clay and i did make a

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today i've done a rare thing indeed and called in sick. in fact, i am going to make my way back to bed soon. i caught this fantastic cold, and am trying to recuperate. its not your every day common cold... i don't know what it is, but it is of the "nasty" variety. yesterday, i went in to work. i had absolutely no voice and had to wear a mask when i took care of my patients. but then they

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(... but i'll keep it, thank you.)so here's the deal. while in england, i couldn't use my straitening iron, because they have different circuits than we do, and i wasn't going to buy a converter just to do my hair. so i reasoned then.but then i had this unbelievably puffy hair most of the time i was there!!!! i mean... think... 1970 hair. okay. so that was bad. but then i did something

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in all the novels about british people, all the characters seem stuffy and unbearably polite, balancing their tea cups whilst entering into polite conversation.no one here that i've met however is stuffy at all, although they are polite. well... most of the time. the other day, we were having dinner, and i was helping clay eat. he got a bit of something he decided he didn't like and spat it

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we went to the zoo the other day with clay and his cousins. anyway, we walked into the exhibit called monkey tails, where you walk though the enclosure and this tiny monkeys swing overhead. fascinating, until you realize that monkeys aren't potty trained. here i was, standing there, oohing and ahhing over the cute little monkeys to clay and nick says, "watch out!" and he's laughing.

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well, we are here in the u.k., and clay had a great 2nd birthday. he got a remote control care and a battery powered train set and track from his nan and grandad. he got some england team pyjamas and builder bob books from his auntie, and tomorrow is his party, so he'll maybe even get a few more things. he's having alot of fun. he loves seeing everyone and playing with his cousins. he's

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they got the water line put in today! they did manage to get the digger out of the trench they had dug, and also managed to run over a tree. we have piles of dirt in the yard, but the line is done. so what if our yard looks like a war zone. at any rate, we are going to the u.k. tomorrow and i can't wait! wooot!

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so the other day i was at the store, getting checked out by a disgruntled clerk who thought she had the worst job in the world and that her co-workers were all dunderheads. in honor of her (and people who have those really crappy days at work) i have a little story about my day at work today. it was fun. really. i was having a great day, until a person showed up who wasn't supposed to be

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... i should be the world's most virtuous woman.right. so, like 2 1/2 weeks ago, we contracted this company to dig a water line for us so we could have water for the animals in the winter. simple enough, right? in fact, we told them we needed it done by the 21st of october, because we were going on vacation. no problem, they told us. well, the fact that he told me to call the digger's hotline

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so i haven't been sleeping well for awhile. i can't blame it on clay anymore because he's been sleeping thru the night for ages. so... the doctor ordered a sleep study. they suggested that you bring your pillow, b/c it would help you sleep better. since the sleep study is obviously at night, you have to go in through the emergency room and check in there. so here i am, waltzing in to the e.r

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you start having dreams about the people you work with...so i've been having this insomnia for the past couple of weeks. and the other night, after finally falling to sleep at about 5 am, i had the weirdest dream. i got hit by a car, while crossing the street, but the cops arrested me because it was my car that had hit me. apparently i hadn't put the parking break on and it had rolled. how

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yeah so... you know how it goes... if anything can go wrong... it will. so we decide to have a water line put in and i call the digger's hotline to find out where the utility lines are. they come out and mark it and there is a big, fat, underground phone line cutting right across the path where the water line was supposed to go. no doubt the electric line runs along the same path. i don't

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... and i am their leader.yes, me. today, we were in st. paul for something. since wal-mart was just across the street from where we were parked, we decided to go there for a few things. to make a long story short, we thought we'd take the cart to our car (which was in a parking lot across the street). this worked fine... until we got halfway across the road, whereupon the wheels to the

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so today it was gorgeous out, and i thought i would take clay for a walk and visit the neighbors. so we set off down the road and clay talked about the cows and the tractors and pointed out the birds. he was quite cheerful, and so was i. so, thrilled that my child was so well-behaved, i stopped at the neighbors house for a little visit. clay immediately went towards the most delicate object

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as you can see, clay was really enjoying himself. nick... not so much. cleanup was a bit of a job.i like the look on his face in the second picture. it says, "busted!"this... is how clay eats a chocolate pudding snack cup by himself.

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we went shopping today, and afterwards stopped at A&W, so i thought i would be saved the trouble of cooking when i got home. but, when we got home, clay climbed into his high chair and said, "et, et, et..." and did the sign for "eat". "et," is clay's word for eat. so i said,"you're still hungry?" in amazement, and clay said, "hawgwee," and grinned at me. so i said, "what do you want? a

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so today, clay says, "POOOOOOOOOOO!" and we run to the potty. nothing. we sit. nothing. i give him a book. still nothing. he decides its more fun to play with the drawers by the side of the toilet (which hold nick's razors -- not good). i tell him no, and he keeps opening them. he thinks its a game. at any rate, he's lost interest in the potty thing, and i can't re-interest him. he

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so the other night i got home from work late, and stumbled into the bathroom to brush my teeth and go to bed. i blearily picked up the tube of toothpaste and schlopped some on my toothbrush and started brushing. and then i realize that something isn't quite right. the toothpaste has a really strange taste and doesn't feel right either; so i look more closely at the tube sitting on the

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POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! that is his new word. his has been using the potty for some time now, but he's finally got to the point where he says, "poooo!" and pulls on his trousers, and then runs to the gate to let us know he has to go potty. he is ever so pleased with himself when he is dry and does his business on the potty. so he is in the next phase! yay!!! except, of course, being a boy, he

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i was bandaging someone's arm last night, and the guy doesn't talk much. in fact, he usually speaks in monosyllables. so i was very surprised when he said to me, "you've got good hands for that sort of thing," and then the told me he thought i was doing a very nice job. it felt good to hear; when you are new at something you always wonder if you are doing a good enough job. last night was a

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...is such that if everything in your life is going honky dory (i probably spelled this wrong), that something will jump up and bite you in the butt. one of those rules would be that once you pay off your vehicle, something will go wrong. our something, in this case happened to be a $6oo job. *sigh*so our car is junk; it is beyond repair, so i thought i would take my trusty truck to school.

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so... the other day, i come home from work and nick informs me that frisky, one of our horses, somehow got himself tangled in our fence. thankfully, it was electric and wasn't working anyway. why it wasn't working, we never quite discovered, but there's no point in checking the fence-line now as he snapped the wire trying to free himself and nick removed quite a large section. at any rate, he

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i've been working on manners with clay, and we've taught him to say, "thank you", when he gets something from someone; unfortunately, clay's "thank-you's" sounds like something else, for he says, "ak you". it could be mistaken for something very rude indeed.

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... and then realize, hmmmm... maybe not so smart.i taught clay to blow raspberries. now when he goes potty, he sits and blows raspberries and thinks its very entertaining. funny at the time, but maybe a bit embarrassing if we're out in public and he does this.

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I'm posting the following article to raise awareness and also to encourage you to respond. Please read this: Dear friend, I just learned about a case of segregation-era oppression happening today in Jena, Louisiana. I signed onto ColorOfChange.org's campaign for justice in Jena, and wanted to invite you to do the same. http://www.colorofchange.org/jena/?id=2395-235564 Last fall in Jena, the

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the link to the videos on myspace is for the same videos i posted on here; i found out that the link wouldn't work unless you were a member. i know some of you are not, hence the redundancy. enjoy! :)

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this is clay at the hospital when he was born...undefined hospitalAdd to My Profile | More Videos

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this is clay at 6 months! look how chubby he is compared to now! undefined clay at 6 mosAdd to My Profile | More Videos

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on the diving board the first time...undefined on the diving board for the first timeAdd to My Profile | More Videos

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here's clay riding cars with his cousins. he's having a blast! undefined clay driving car at the fairAdd to My Profile | More Videos

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here's clay on the slide at the fair. i went down with him. don't look at me too closely; the sun was in my eyes and i'm squinting. however, i look like i'm drunk or deranged or something. undefined clay on the slideAdd to My Profile | More Videos

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hey, i finally uploaded some videos of clay on myspace! you can check them out at this link:http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.myvideos

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...we need a new washing machine. i put a load in the washer and started it up and got busy doing other things. about half an hour later, clay was getting fussy so i went to go put him down for a nap, and saw a lake in our dining room/kitchen. what, what, what???!!!!i wade through the lake that was once our dining room and head towards the laundry room, from which the source is flowing rapidly

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well, the new job is great, but i keep very busy! i've gotten home late the past few nights, b/c there is so much to do, and then of course paperwork. since i'm new, everything is going slower because its still unfamiliar. nick said to me this morning, "your shift goes from 3-11. so that's when you should be done." yeah, that works. "i haven't charted yet, but my shift is up, so i'm going

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ughhh! i left my toothbrush on the counter in the bathroom. that was a mistake. i took clay potty, and left him sitting for a few seconds while i ran to get a clean nappy. when i came back, he was grinning, toothbrush in hand and it was dripping wet, from where he'd dunked it in the toilet. nice. good thing i had another toothbrush on hand. well, at least i caught it. not knowing would

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i thought i was making a fool-proof lunch today. it was in a packet; all i had to add was tuna, some vegetables, milk and some pasta. after it was cooked, i was supposed to sprinkle cheese and crackers on top and "place under grill until golden brown". i assumed this meant "broil" and placed it in the broiler for 4 mins. after two minutes, something smelled funky. i looked in the oven and

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i start my new job today! i'm officially an LPN now!!! i'm so excited... but nervous too. send me some positive vibes. :) my last day at my other job was yesterday and it was kinda sad! i'll miss alot of the clients, and most of the staff. however, there are some i will not miss. at all. that i will admit. but many of the clients touched my heart and i will not forget them. they were

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clay has accomplished the art of throwing tantrums. the throwing himself on the floor drama that instantly raises blood pressure. i don't know how he has the energy, or why he bothers in this heat. but he does. he wants another snack now, even though he finished about half an hour ago with his regular snack. he has just started this new and apparently fascinating phase, so hopefully it

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i hate fruit fliesthey loved my compost bintwas what drew them ininvading kitchenstiny flies who look like gnatsbreeding like rabbitsalas! bug spray failsalthough the stuff makes me chokeit affects them noti hate them so muchlike a telemarketerthey live to annoyso i took it out, that binof kitchen scraps so temptingthey moved to the garbage canif i could stab themwith tiny fruit fly sized

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so last night i had this dream that there was this HUGE snake in the house. i mean huge, like boa constrictor huge. it was white, with black and red markings on top. no clue. it was a strange looking snake. at any rate, in my dream i wasn't concerned with that aspect particularly, as it was coming straight for me. it was just about to go for my head, and i was paralyzed with fear; nick

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so... today i hear that nike has dropped their endorsement of micheal vick, because of his indictment of dog fighting, even though he hasn't been convicted yet. they don't want to be associated with his illegal and immoral behavior (in their own words). which is all well and good, BUT... nike did NOT drop kobe bryant when he was accused of rape. in fact, they said they stood behind him unless

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my friend echoe is home!! yay! she is doing alot better and glad to be with her family. i'll check with her to see if its okay to post the link to her site on here.

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...you start talking to your animals like they're kids.so the other day, i'm watering the animals, and decide that while the tanks are filling up, i'll cut down some of those burdocks. the steer, who likes to meet me when i do the water so i can scratch his ears, sees the thingamabob to cut the burdocks and doesn't like it. so he lowers his head down and head-butts me. in surprise, i yell, "

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is that weeds grow much faster than the things you want to grow. for instance, burdocks. those proliferate and an alarming rate, and our back pasture is filled with them. and of course, the horses only want to graze around the burdocks. there's plenty of grass about, but apparently there is more flavor to the grass by the burdocks. thus, their beautiful manes are full of burdocks. i have

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echoe is still in the hospital, although she is getting much better. please keep praying for her. she has a goal of getting out in two weeks, and had a day pass for Saturday and Sunday and those both went well. so that's great. she's able to walk a little bit, too, so that's alot of improvement from when she first went in! so thanks for your prayers -- there were SO many people praying for

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I passed the NCLEX Practical Nursing Exam!!!! Yeah!!!! i'm so jazzed. now i can work as a nurse. wooot!

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we had the mother of all thunderstorms last night, and i am almost positive our chimney was struck by lightning. after a very close and very LOUD thunderclap, i went into the kitchen and noticed that it smelled sooty. like a chimney. so i went outside and didn't see anything. well, nothing besides sheets of rain coming down with hurricane like force. but... nothing was burning, so i went

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we went there with some friends. my friend, jilly is taking the picture, and her kids are in the pic with us. :) we had tons of fun. clay is trying to consume my smoothie. he was at about his limit for social interaction that day. within 10 minutes of leaving the mall, he had fallen asleep. i love the mall of america! we (a group of friends in chat) had our first IRL "chat" meet up

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so cody is getting old and i think she is deaf. well, last night, nick called her to come in and she didn't come... didn't come and he couldn't see/find her anywhere. so because his shoes are already off, he reasons that i should go out and look for her. i take the flashlight, only to realize that the battery is dead because of forgot to recharge it. well.. almost dead. the light would work

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yeah, so my attempt at the round pen didn't go any better. flicka went in, decided she wanted to get out, leaned on the fence until it collapsed and calmly walked through. and i was watching. training them is going to be a blast.

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took clay to the mall of america the other day and went to the park and went on some of the rides. he loved it. so you can't see him in the last one, but i swear, he's there. he's trying to honk the horn. nick says it looks like i'm on it by myself. :P

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so today, clay is playing in the living room while i'm on the computer. all of the sudden, it gets quiet. too quiet. so i check. clay has taken his little blue chair, put it next to the gate, and is standing on the chair, getting ready to climb over the gate. when he realizes i have caught him, he looks at me in total surprise like, "how did i get up here?"so now he's learned another great

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so nick put up a temporary round pen for the horses, and i told him how big i thought it should be. as usual, i was pathetically off on my calculations, and it was not big enough. but, i thought it might be a good idea to leave it up so the horses could get used to it.again, apparently i was wrong, because they knocked it over in the middle of the night. so last night, i go out to fix the

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someone decided to wake up before 6am. no chance of him going back to sleep either. wide awake, chattering away, and very excited about getting up and starting his day. so we're up. i'm having a coffee... maybe two, but we're up.

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so we've been having clay use the potty for awhile, and he's been doing really well, but still obviously can't tell us when he has to go. so its us catching him. but lately, he's been pulling at his nappy when he has to have a poo. which is cool. except when nick says to me, as he's lying on the couch, watching the game:"clay's been pulling at his nappy. i think that might mean he had to

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i made fresh banana bread the other day. its lovely smell permeated the kitchen. it was heavenly. the next morning, i cut a piece for clay for breakfast, and put peanut butter on it. then i went into the living room to have my morning cup of coffee. when i went back into the kitchen to make myself a piece, i couldn't find it. "that's odd," i thought. i was sure i had left it out. then i

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so clay had a bit of a diaper rash, mostly from all this heat and humidity. so, like a good mom, i did what the books said -- i took of his diaper and let him air out for a while. so he's running around, sans diaper, and as happy as can be.then he walks up to nick, stands there, poops, and hands a piece of poo to nick. nick of course does what every great dad would do -- he panicked and

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krista is doing better; doing a little bit better each day. last i talked to the family, she will not have to have dialysis. so that is good. she and her husband are both in the air force, and their commander gave her husband 60 days off to be with her and the baby. so that is good. echoe, my friend who just got diagnosed with guillian barre, is also doing better. alot better, considering

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i swear, clay is going to be a vegetarian if he keeps up with his current eating habits. he is getting to the point where he refuses almost all meat, but he loves his veg. the other day, we tried hummus, and he totally devoured it. and he likes tofu. he loves guacamole. he even likes raw potatoes. he steals them out of the potato bin and takes little bites out of them. so i cut up some

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so last week, clay cried for the full 20 minutes of his lesson and i was thinking it was going to be a waste of time and money. but this week he's done much better and he's even progressed to kicking! he lets his teacher hold him on his stomach now, too, so that's progress. after the lesson, he says "thank you" in sign language to his teacher and waves bye bye. so yeah... he's still not to

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nick was mowing the lawn the other day and the wheel came off! he was not very happy. he said, "good thing i wasn't going down a hill!" this was not the thing to say, because i got a mental picture of him tumbling down the hill, bouncing like a rubber ball on the grass. which made me want to laugh, even though nick didn't think it was funny. so. we had to get the stupid thing up the hill (

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my friend echoe is also in the hospital with guillian barre syndrome. it happened so fast. last weekend, she was mowing the lawn and afterwards, noticed that her toes were tingling. but she is also 35 weeks pregnant, so at first, they assumed that it was just the baby pressing on a nerve. that's what the doctor initially thought, as well, but when she couldn't walk and was in severe pain,

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my neighbor's daughter, krista, just had her first baby this week, and she is not doing well at all. although the baby is okay, krista is not. she developed pre-eclampsia and it did not get better; when she had the baby, she hemorrhaged quite badly and her platelet count dipped into double digits instead of the normal 400 range of a healthy person. she hasn't been getting better; in fact,

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so my son is on a shuttle -- we were in rochester today to see a friend in the hospital -- and as we were getting off, he sees a green froggie keychain hanging from above the door. immediately, he reaches for it, and i say no, and we continue on our way. clay starts screaming and throws a mini-tantrum. i ignore him and he stops, only to throw another tantrum when i put him in his stroller. the

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so i was trying to change clay the other day and realized i had his diaper on all lopsided. so, under my breath, i said, "oh crap..."and this small voice says, "aww cwap!"i couldn't help it. i laughed. so for the rest of the night, he ran around the house saying, "aw cwap," and then he'd look at us and giggle. he is such a turkey.

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so nick coached his soccer team today; they had a game. and he comes home and tells me:"i made a few kids cry and three of them quit. so they told me not to bother coming back.""what, what what??!!""yeah," he tells me, "they aren't serious enough players. so i yelled at them""they're KIDS," i say, horrified, raising my voice. "i can't believe you yelled at kids. it's just a game..." i

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so i had a lia sophia party last night, and only three people showed up out of the thirty some people i invited. and one of them was my mom. actually, alot of people had stuff going on, but it was just my bad luck that i picked a date that everyone was busy.but i still got like $74 in free stuff, just from three people ordering, so like, order some stuff from the link i posted (where it says

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i signed clay up for swimming lessons and yesterday was his first day. he was okay with it, and i thought he had fun. today... today was a totally different story. he screamed as soon as he hit the water and wouldn't calm down until i held him. *sigh* so yeah, the lessons are twenty minutes, and he screamed and cried for the whole lesson -- until i finally held him. but then when he

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in a sauna. yes. its that hot. and about as pleasant... at the moment, i'm attempting to stay cool, but there's not much you can do, short of immersing yourself in a pool of icy cold water. which we don't have. clay's wading pool has water in it, but its warm from the sun, and full of bugs. so anyway, the pool's out. maybe when clay goes to bed, i can take a cool shower. at any rate,

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clay was with me in the store, and i cooed, "i love you," and he said, "i uv oo" back to me. it melted my heart. its so neat when you hear that for the first time. i just had to post and share. :)

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the heat here is terrible. i actually sat in clay's wading pool today. the neighbor lady gave us an old wading pool, and it has a slide in it, so clay thinks that's fun. i signed him up for infant swimming lessons, so that should be fun. i'll have to get some pictures. my little baby is growing up! when i get the pic resized, i'll post a pic of him in the water. he's a fish -- totally

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so yeah, i've accomplished something today that i didn't even thing was possible. while working on a sewing project today, i accidentally sewed through my finger. yes, i learned; it is possible, because i have done it. i may be the only person on the planet who has done it, but i have done it.i was doing something rather tricky, and the fabric kept wanting to move, so i was trying to hold

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i'm going to try something this summer. no t.v. i'm not going to watch any t.v. shows all summer and do other things. it should be a busy, fun and interesting experiment. t.v. is such a waste of time. i'll write all about my new (and blogworthy) adventures.

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i've given in. i've bought a bathing suit. that's not the ironic part. one month before realizing i was preggers with clay, i splurged with my birthday money and bought this great two-piece bathing suit... which, i didn't really get to wear! by the time summer rolled around, i was hugely pregnant, and looked ridiculous in a two-piece. after having clay, i looked ridiculous in a two-piece

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clay has discovered how to take his nappy off. he is ever so proud of himself. so i put rubber pants on over the nappy, and they puff out. it reminds me of a ballerina's tutu. i call him mr. puffy pants. but, it keeps the nappy on. as you might have guessed, he doesn't like clothes and likes to take them off. he sees you coming with clothes and runs in the other direction. when you catch

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and it wasn't in the job description. so. i work at a mental health facility, and alot of interesting things happen in a day, and you take it all in stride. most things. but today, someone had shoved a huge wad of paper towels down the toilet and flushed, resulting in an overflowing toilet and a flooded room. they were the heavy brown kind, that you find in most public restrooms. guess

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...or nick's back rather.so the other day when i go to water the horses i notice the flies are horrible and thick, so i picked up some fly spray. so, after i bought the fly spray, i waited until clay was down for a nap and went down to spray the horses and steer. however, on my way down, i noticed something strange about the steer. either he was not where he should be, or the fenceline had

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clay has started saying the word "stuck". he says, "uck". for everything he wants us to get him out of. he is "uck" in the high chair when he's ready to get down, and he's "uck" behind the gate when he wants to be on the other side. he just started saying "ah keen" for "all clean" now. i had to give him a bath because he had cottage cheese for lunch and it is difficult, if not impossible

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no, i didn't get collagen injections. this was much cheaper, albeit slightly more painful. we were at a family reunion this weekend, and so at the hotel, i was trying to get clay calmed down and to sleep, so thought we could cuddle on the bed while nick was brushing his teeth. well, clay threw his head back and caught me right in the mouth, and i cut my lip with my tooth. yeah that felt great.

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i'm thinking of getting bumper sticker i saw. it says, "i love animals... they're delicious"now why would i be so heartless, you ask? i'll tell you why:so i finally got my garden planted. i love gardening, and it takes me a lot of time to figure out my garden plot, select the plants and seeds and plant them all. then i cover every thing with mulch and baby everything along, waiting for

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my email isn't working! in fact, i can't get into any of my yahoo accounts, because i was having trouble with my instant messenger, so went to change the password. brilliant idea, considering what happened next.the fact that i had registered with an alternate email (so they can send the new password to the alternate email) didn't seem significant to me until i realized that my alternate email

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nick insists that the horse i call flicka is really "three-socks". he says its not fair that i get to name them all the names. he also thinks "mcguyver" is a better name for shaggy cow, not chewy (chewbacca the wookie from star wars), like i thought. a vote, my faithful readers? which sounds better? mcguyver or chewie? nick's reasoning is that "chewie" doesnt' sound scottish enough. but of

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i was shopping at target with clay the other day, and i ran into someone i hadn't seen since in almost 16 years. we'd been friends a kids, so it was nice to see her again. she was wearing a sling to carry her baby in, and so we got to talking about slings, and i found out she makes them! she even has her own website! ( http://www.gashibaby.com ) ("gashi" means "mother" in Ojibwe)so anyway,

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"some day i'll be a farmer, workin the land... some day i'll be a farmer, work with my hands..." or something like that. wasn't it john denver that sang that? i think so. my mom used to sing that to me. anyway, he made farm life sound romantic.while we don't live on a farm we do have farm animals, and the things they do are not always romantic. i wonder if john denver ever had a muscle

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well, after two weeks of searching and driving through woods and fields (and catching nothing more than wood ticks), we finally caught our steer... with a lot of help along the way. it was a week before anyone even saw the stupid thing, and then he was like this evasive ghost, appearing for a minute and then disappearing again. I called a few people, and really didn't get very far in finding

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the fun never ends around here. the other day, i was horrified to see a mouse sitting on the chair in the bathroom, as if he owned the place. he just looked at me and didn't even flinch. just stared at me, challenging me to make him move.so, i got my trusty mice killing machine -- the cat (the one that actually kills the mice), and let him into the room, and shut the door. immediately a wild

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my friends were happy with me for posting because they finally had something to read. well... now i have something to post about. and i'm not making this up either. for some reason that i can't quite grasp right now, we decided to buy a steer. i think our flawed logic was that he could help keep the brush down in the field. at any rate, we brought him home friday night and he was not happy.

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we've been super busy here. clay is getting huge, and walking and getting into lots of stuff. he likes to climb on the furniture now and jump up and down.here he is sitting on the neighbor's cow in the milking barn. we stopped in to see her when we went out for a walk. i think he likes cows. don't look at me -- i am grinning like a dork, and look either mentally subnormal or slightly

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“People who get tagged need to write a blog post of 6 weird things about them as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave a comment that says ‘you are tagged’ in their comments and tell them to read your blog.”i've been tagged by molly! so now i have to write 6 weird things about myself. okay, so i have a

Norahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16383854427922787130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5783501.post-1170390442629919392007-02-01T22:17:00.000-06:002007-02-01T22:27:22.683-06:00

we had a great time in england for christmas. :) i got to meet all of nick's family members, so i finally know who everyone is. clay started walking while we were there! he's a big boy now. oh, i went shopping with christmas and birthday money at shopko when they had the clearance stuff on, and found a snowsuit for clay for $10!!!! So i bought 2 -- one for this year and one for next year.

Norahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16383854427922787130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5783501.post-1170193794265144202007-01-30T15:48:00.000-06:002007-01-30T15:49:54.280-06:00

Did you know that 2.5 million people have been driven from their homes in Darfur, Sudan? Each day, they face threats that are hard for us to even imagine including rape, disease, and starvation.These people need our help to put an end to the genocide and they need it NOW.Please join me in taking the first step to stopping the violence.Click the link below to sign the Save Darfur Coalition's

Norahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16383854427922787130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5783501.post-1165106034035203602006-12-02T18:31:00.000-06:002007-01-30T14:31:49.420-06:00

well, i got the new job! i start out part-time, but she said it should be pretty easy to get in full-time once i'm hired. :) so i'm looking forward to starting. it sounds like a good job. :) they have good benefits, it sounds like, and do tuition reimbursement, so that's really cool. :) that will make a difference. :)

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well, had a job interview today, and it looks promising. she didn't really ask me anything about me -- spent most of the time explaining the job and policies, so i think that's a pretty good sign. will see in a few days! clay is doing goood on the potty -- peed as soon as put him on this time, so that was cool. :) i think he's getting it. :)

Norahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16383854427922787130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5783501.post-1164850918961111682006-11-29T19:38:00.000-06:002006-12-05T13:50:50.683-06:00

since your hot mail doesn't work, i thought i would mention that pepto contains aspirin (i didn't know this til my teacher told us) so kids aren't supposed to have it either, b/c aspirin can cause reye's syndrome in children (and babies of course). for the rest of you who are wondering, 'what the heck?", please disregard. lol

Norahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16383854427922787130noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5783501.post-1164850636395179292006-11-29T19:28:00.000-06:002006-12-05T13:52:32.793-06:00

we have had an unbelievably crazy week here. nick is still sick, and i am as well, though i hope its not what he has. i just can't seem to stop coughing, and my ribs hurt from all the work. however, i was glad to be home monday to watch "heroes"; i missed the last two episodes. no doubt it will become a cult classic and the dvd set will be on sale at wal-mart next christmas. clay has woken up

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nick is still sick, but getting better (finally). ironically, now i'm coming down with some wicked virus, tho not as serious as nick's. i've got a major head/chest cold, and feel like someone has plugged my sinuses with cement. i'm sure you're all thanking me for that vivid mental picture. not much else is going on. clay used the potty for the first time yesterday, so that was cool. :) he

Norahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16383854427922787130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5783501.post-1163899580585573872006-11-18T18:46:00.000-06:002006-11-18T19:26:20.656-06:00

Quote: "Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.' "i always thought courage was being fearless, but strength doesn't have to mean that you're not afraid. sometimes strength means that you are afraid, but you face it anyway. i've learned alot about courage this week. and strength. nick has been in the

Norahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16383854427922787130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5783501.post-1163137064672122672006-11-09T23:27:00.000-06:002006-11-09T23:37:44.673-06:00

nick is still sick... i've been nursing him all day. i told him to do it himself once and he said i was a bad nurse. lol. i retorted that if i was working as a nurse, i'd be getting paid for it, and that would be my job; i would be trying to do 100 other different things as well. :P at any rate, i'm exhausted. i made some little wool pants for clay from an old sweater and they are adorable.

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