Broken wrists and baby drool…

So 2 weeks ago, I went to turn on a ceiling fan, lost my balance, tumbled on a box and landed on 1 right wrist on the other side. The harrowing results: a broken wrist that couldn’t be set in the ER due to pregnancy, a surgery under general anesthesia a week later after great pains for 6 and 3/4 days prior, and a multi-thousand dollar bill. Also in the aftermath, a mother living with us to deal with a child who has newly evolved into a race-crawler that gets into everything. Even things about 4 feet above her head.

Yeah, life has been interesting these past few weeks! Add to it that I can’t work for 2 months, so our bare bones budget has become bare without any bones. I feel like Mother Hubbard, only – hopefully – not as old. haha

But it’s still fun times with the family. Things could always be worse. I could be 8 months pregnant, having heartburn, have three 9 month old children and have all of this occur. HAH!

Baby #2

Long Time No See…

I’ve been swampedly busy. Yes, swampedly IS an adjective, though a rarely used one. (In Lizim anyway.)

Reese watched Anne of Green Gables all the way through for the first time, said daaaadaaay the other day (Southern baby for you) and is going to get her picture taken with a lamb in 2 weeks for a small but ridiculously high fee for having a picture taken with a lamb. The price of having a baby and no farm.

She has also taken to loving goaty milk. I have to call it goaty milk or I remember that it comes from goats, the animal I really detest the most of all.

I have had the easiest first few months of a pregnancy as anyone could have, miraculously and wonderfully. Time goes by really fast. I intend to have a homebirth and am glad to save that giant chunk of money. With the new insurance we would have to pay $5,800 vs. the midwife’s $1,800.

A turkey sandwich with my name on it and a Coke await me, so farewell.

Stolen Questionnaire

Wrapping paper or gift bags? I generally prefer gift bags. Because I am a horrible (worse than a 4 year old) wrapper with paper unless and even if the item is completely square. Part of the problem is I tend to end up with cheap paper that tears easily.

Real tree or artificial? If I could justify paying the same amount every year for a real tree that I pay once for an artificial tree, I would be completely au naturale. But alas, no smell of pine, instead a fake tree with a stick for a middle. Why can’t they figure out how to make the middle look STUMP-ish??

When do you put up the tree? The day after Thanksgiving.

When do you take the tree down? I think we did it the first week of January. This year it definitely will be since we’ll be having the OS over right around New Years for a Christmas party.

Do you like eggnog? I love the idea of rum in a drink but not raw egg. So no.

Favorite gift received as a child? Legos. In particular, Fort Legoredo.

Hardest person to buy for? Simeon. My brother in law. He doesn’t like to read. He likes video games but I will not cater to that lone interest.

Easiest person to buy for? Myself. Does that count? (Stealing Joan’s answer because it was funny.)

My Daughter

My daughter Reese is growing up so fast. She gobbles up her rice cereal, tries to stand up, “talks” all the time, and has the rare ability of having two people completely wrapped around her wee little fingers. Today I bought her first pairs of shoes and a pair of ruffly-butt tights.