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Yay, we knew this day was coming soon! For a year or so, Avery’s been able to write the “A” for his name. Since school started, he has been taking an interest in the other letters. Often he will sign “AV” and ask you to finish the rest. But yesterday he brought home a project from school that had his whole name on the back!!!

Also, have I mentioned it’s Harmony week with her soccer trophy? Her team won 1st place in this summer’s league for the 10-year-old girls group!

P.S. She has been growing out her bangs and it’s driving me nuts. Should I let her keep going or cut them off again??? I told her she could keep growing them out if she wore headbands and clips and she’s just not keeping up her end of the bargain!

Can you tell someone recently introduced me to the Fail blog?

These also made it into my “Funny” folder of pics…

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Paul has finally caught up to me after 6 months so for 6 months now we will get to be the same age - 28. Not much left to our twenties, eh? Maybe we’ll just stop at 29.

It’s been a fun weekend! I was crossing my fingers I’d be in OK enough shape to give Paul the kind of birthday I wanted him to have and it went pretty well. We had a great party last night with his friends (most of whom are also my friends, which is handy ;)), and today we went out for a birthday lunch and has his family over for dinner.

Since I’m totally wiped (owwwww), I’ll just toss out a few pics for now and call it a night I think!! Not as a “lazy blogger” thing but pasting in pic codes requires less brain power (which I’m currently in short supply of) and typing (which hurts)… I have to say that’s one think I like about having a “non-professional” blog (I don’t run ads and don’t make a single cent off it) - I don’t feel obligated to post regularly or be especially entertaining! If I happen to, that’s great! LOL But I don’t feel I *have* to.

Oh, also today we went out to see our new house, and we have walls and most of a roof!!! Wow a lot has changed in just a few weeks! It was very nice to have a reminder that future parties and dinners will not be soooooo darn crowded. It was really a challenge to fit 8 people around the table tonight but next year for all the Nov/Dec birthdays and parties (of which there are a lot because everyone except me has a birthday and there’s also the holidays!!!) will be much more comfortable.

OK, Paul’s bday pics and house pics…

To start, oh look, it’s Kat with her new 3 month old baby Eve…
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Random Vent: OK, I’ve been wanting to blog about this for a while but keep forgetting… Is it just me, or does the chick on that Special K - Satisfaction commercial make you want to punch her lights out? Not the actress, but the character, OMG she’s so condescending!!! “No thanks! I’m satisfied!” I’m sorry but if you’re at a conference/meeting, enjoy some of the free food. At least TRY a muffin, please. Don’t act all I’m-better-than-you to your co-workers. If I were there, I would not be like “You’re so strong!!!” (like her donut-eating friend exclaims in wonder and amazement), I would be like “You’re so self-depriving! And what the hell is with the red dress anyways? Are you going dancing later?”. I would not be like “They should call it… Satisfaction!” (like her stereotypically-gay muffin-toter friend jokes in admiration), I would be like “What on earth kind of mutant cereal makes you feel that full for real? And seriously, you are 98 pounds, have a bite of this!!”.

OK vent over… And now I bring you… new cards! I know, I’m on a huge Christmas card kick this week, it’s nuts. I hosted our Tuesday scrapbooking night and made another few cards and then did another 7 tonight. Here’s a peek:

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OK so I missed my original blog theme. So it’s back. Probably will stick with it but tweak it a bit. There’s a new site about blogging you might want to check out : Momversation.com.

I’ve been thinking a lot about where the internet has gone and will go, especially for moms, and so it’s coming at a neat time of reflection for me. I also realized that while I’ve been designing websites for oh, about 13 years??, I’ve only been “mommy-blogging” for just over 5, so I’m still a bit of a newbie in that realm.

On another note…

I’ve started on this year’s Christmas cards. I have 3 designs planned so far, based on the new Christmas stamp set I have this year. And in the past year, I’ve accumulated so much Stampin’ Up stuff, it’s absolutely insane, so I’m really going to try my best to put it all to good use!

Design #1 is my fave but needs a few pieces to finish up (need to borrow the scallop circle punch that I didn’t buy because almost everyone in my Stamp club already has it). And I might not post it on my blog so that I have a design to give to my friends who actually read my blog (you know, all 5 of you :P).

Design #2 is built around a snowman stamp and #3 is built around a Christmas tree stamp. Click “more” for pics & instructions…

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My EMG technician this week asked if there was a target on my back when I told her about my 2nd accident (I’d seen her already after the 1st one, see, when just my arms & hands were numb & tingly, not my legs too!). That was before I reminded her about the 3 miscarriages and we didn’t even get into the post-partum mental health issues!

No, no target, I’m just a bad-luck magnet at times?

’cause you know, I apparently thought to myself “Hmm, what do I need to cope with in addition to the spinal injuries crap?” and realized the freakin’ FLU would be ideal. That, plus being in pain from the EMG tests, has been my life for the past few days - I’ve been in bed, throwing up or lying there in pain.

I’ve actually literally stopped believing in karma.

But you know what? Screw it, it’s just one more thing that I’m not going to let bring me down.

Yes, I missed the “Crop for the Cure” scrapbooking day, but I’ll still get my Christmas cards done. And you know what? In addition to the 2lbs I’d already lost, I lost 5 more just from not eating for a few days. So there.

And of course now my hubby has enough brownie points to last him a lifetime. Funny how different points of our history involve us taking care of each other while throwing up (from wild parties to morning sickness! lol).

Speaking of parties (oh, the queen of seguees strikes again!), doing lots of planning for upcoming events. Paul’s bday party, the kids’ parties, Christmas party, and of course our usual NYE bash! Stay tuned for e-mails & Facebook invites.

In the vein of getting organized and adjusted to this new daily routine I seem to find myself in, I’ve finally set up my laptop as my primary e-mail destination for some of my accounts! Now I can reach my home accounts as well as my graphic design business account from bed or the couch.

I’ll also be getting my YM e-mails routed up here soon too so I can keep up a little better. I’ve been getting lots of link requests but haven’t had time to add any of them. Oh, I got my very first Google Ads cheque though!! Pretty cool. It covers hosting for this year for my websites plus a few of the domain registrations, but not all. So I’m still “in the red”, which I always have been, but then again YM has always been volunteer work and I’ve paid for it all these years as a charitable donation of sorts. That will stay non-profit but if my BlinkieMommies ads keep getting a few clicks here and there, well it might be nice to have a little something given back for all those hours of tinkering over pixels.

Yes people, I am making freakin’ boatloads of lemonade over here!!!

Started writing this earlier but our router has been having issues. So sorry if I’ve been a little more “MIA” than usual. I also think I’m crashing from last week’s creativity whirlwind. My contributions this week have been much more mundane. Started a new cycle yesterday, looks like I’m on a 32day pattern these days.

I have lost a couple pounds though at least (and that was Monday morning even before my period started!). And I’ve been very good this year with Halloween treats. I bought this wafer-thin chocolate flakes and since Halloween have limited myself to one a day (so NO little chocolate bars!) and any other treats are usually candy (fat free). Other than that, still doing what I can to keep my portions small. So I’m now holding at the -10lb mark (reminder: in 2006 I made it to the -65lb mark and hope to get back there).

And of course I wanted to mention that I’m thrilled about the result of the US election yesterday! I have felt such a heavy feeling of *dread* the past 2 US and 2 Canadian elections waking up to right-wing governments and am relieved there’s been a change! I hope Canada follows suit when the next election comes along (which everyone jokes should be in about 6 months). If so I already have blinkies planned: “Lefter is better“.

Speaking of blinkies… the combination of my recent flurry of nursing blinkies and Paul’s cute picture of him and his “padawan learner” has inspired a bizarre but funny set…

And since you already know how weird we are:

ME: “I just love that the baby has a light saber”
DH: “Or he’s not wearing a diaper…”
ME: ((confuzzled))
DH: “…and is peeing!”
ME: “Green pee? Neon green pee?”
DH: …
ME: “Ok you know I’m blogging this now, right?”

So we’re posted our “home helper” job position on Kijiji and had some response there, but it just seems weird having someone we don’t know come in to help. And I’m doing a wee bit better than I was a week ago, so we might just keep the regular cleaning service that comes in and top it up with some laundry help or something.

I am really awful with asking people directly because I hate putting anyone on the spot, so I’ll just circulate this modified version of the posting in case anyone is interested or knows anyone who might be:

5 hours/week of home assistance for mom w/ spinal injuries

meal prep & bedtime routine assistance Thursday evening (4:45- 7:15pm)
laundry help
“mother’s helper” interaction with children

Not much, just enough to give us a little boost in some areas that I’m not able to get back to yet (those laundry hampers seem freakin’ heavy right now!!). And it might only be a month or two, so perfect for earning a little Christmas shopping money.

I don’t know why but I’m feeling all sentimental and stuff, but I am. I suspect it has something to do with the fact that my period is due like any minute. But also just might be the holidays and a busy/full weekend and changing of the seasons and time change and new stuff going on with everyone and alllll that stuff.

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I made some new Breastfeeding blinkies this week, they are for month-by-month milestones during baby’s 4th year (I’ve already done years 1-3). One of my YM friends requested them as her son just turned 3!! I think it’s amazing and inspiring she is still nursing.

Here is one of the blinkies, and you can find the rest of them on a new “Page 3″ of my Breastfeeding Blinkies section of BlinkieMommies.

I was thinking of doing some Extended Nursing blinkies next, or maybe some Toddler Nursing blinkies. Oh and my cousin has suggested I do the Nursing Award Ribbons in my “cutesy” style so that’s a challenge I might take on as well!

ETA: and of course it was a challenge I couldn’t refuse.

Here’s one of the blinkies, the rest are up on BlinkieMommies.

ETA: but of course coming up with my own concept was even more fun