tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113160752011-09-04T05:23:24.850-05:00The active appreciation of lifeLorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06322778291206842093noreply@blogger.comBlogger3641100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11316075.post-17677232357986157812010-02-02T11:26:00.004-06:002010-02-02T12:24:53.601-06:00

Yes, the baby has been born. Yes, I had a wonderful busy December. Yes, Christmas happened (that's about all I can say about that) Yes, we had some bad stuff happen too, but I just don't want to write about that at the moment. But most importantly, I have a few minutes alone and hands free, hooray! My husband stayed home from work yesterday and on Friday, framing the weekend when I usually get no

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This past week has been incredibly busy, with lots of blogable moments that I'm not quite sure I'll ever get the time to write about.What's on my mind at the moment is how delighted I am that I've made it to 35 weeks. This is a landmark because this is the point in pregnancy that I lost my first son, Ian. This loss still haunts me and I vividly remember just how anxious I was at his point in my

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Today, Liam had one of those moments that was so darn sweet and loving that it made me feel like the best mom in the world, and the luckiest.Between working late last night and waking up in the middle of the night with a headache, I didn't get as much sleep as I needed. So I took advantage of Lyn being home due to the weekend and took a much needed nap.About fifteen minutes after I laid down,

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We had a very quiet Thanksgiving this year. Originally, I signed up to work, since I expect to be on maternity leave for both Christmas and New Years. However, they ended up being over staffed and gave me the opportunity to have the day off to spend with the family. My mother in law was cooking a small feast for Lyn and Liam, so I joined them, bringing our gathering to a boisterous 5 in

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Ah, the joy of a quiet house. That's a rare treat these days. I took a brief nap this afternoon after Lyn returned from the flying field and woke to a sleeping husband and preschooler. They both normally take much longer naps then I, so I'm going to truly enjoy the moment and postpone preparing dinner to have some time for myself.This past week, I have begun to shift my mode into holiday

Lorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06322778291206842093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11316075.post-57512990324412690722009-11-19T23:42:00.001-06:002009-11-20T01:01:04.096-06:00

I received an email yesterday informing me that today is the Great American Smokeout, which encouraged me to stop by Quitnet and look up my stats.I quit smoking 5/31/2003 at 2:00:00 AM. I've been smoke-free for 2364 days, 21 hours, 42 minutes and 46 seconds, basically 6 and a half years. I've saved $6,208.12 and added 9 months, 23 hours to my life by not smoking 35474 cigarettes.It seems like

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Please forgive the asterisks, I'm hoping to avoid getting picked up by undesirable searches.Today, we had a comic moment that I don't think I'll ever be able to forget. We went to get some holiday pictures taken at Portrait Innovations and Liam was very comfortable and talkative with the photographer. Shortly into the session he made attempts at conversation in a way that only a three year old

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This morning was highlighted by a mildly Thanksgiving themed playdate at my neighbor Jenny's house. So Liam and I made pumpkin muffins. The recipe is uber simple and inexpensive with quickly disappearing results. Liam always gets excited and wants to help when I bring out my mixer. He missed out on helping with measuring and mixing because, much to my aggravation, it took him over an hour to eat

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I've missed blogging. Really missed it. Sure facebook is fun and a nice way to keep in touch with friends and acquaintances on a superficial level, but I miss writing and pondering and the open possibilities of blogging. I've actually been missing it for a while now. Tonight's post really turned into me trying to get my template back to some semblance of what I find attractive and readable (It

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I hate those days when I spend so much time setting limits that I'm just not sure if I'm being unreasonably or if my wards are. At least my coworkers seemed to think I know what I'm doing. I guess I'll just have to trust their judgement that I actually do.On another note... I found this as I was cleaning up the desk that I share at work and thought that we could all use a little reminder of this

Lorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06322778291206842093noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11316075.post-42289504615340455242008-06-30T22:25:00.004-05:002008-06-30T22:48:52.813-05:00

In order to take advantage of Blogger's New Blog List feature, I was forced to upgrade my blog. Which means I need to actually take some time to fiddle around to make it pretty and my own again. I'm sure I'll have fun with it, but it will not be happening tonight. So for now my blog is just like each and every other minima blog out there. Blah!I need sleep. I was a on edge all day and I'm sure a

Lorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06322778291206842093noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11316075.post-19549443031560868352008-06-30T08:55:00.002-05:002008-06-30T09:40:30.264-05:00

After what feels like months, although I'm sure it's only been weeks, it has finally rained. It seems ironic with the flooding that has been happening elsewhere, we've settled in for a long hot summer in Central Texas this year. I mean longer than usual.I survived another work weekend and this is my lazy Monday. Well, it's not actually that lazy considering I was awoken my a little monster

Lorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06322778291206842093noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11316075.post-30161047290603289052008-06-25T09:53:00.002-05:002008-06-25T10:42:31.843-05:00

Before me, I have two whole hours of absolute me time. Ahhhh! There are so many things I'd love to do with it that I feel overwhelded and have no idea where to start. I'm sure in the end I'll end up just puttering it away on odds and ends, but that is fine by me. After all it's my time to putter.Liam is at, my friend, Jenny's house playing with his buddy, Will. We have an arrangement that every

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It's hard to be a good mommy when you have a headache. Actually, it pretty hard to be a good person in general when all you want to do is crawl under a rock.I woke up with a lovely migraine this morning that took it's sweet ole time going away despite the ice, Excedrin and caffeine I fed it. I can't say it was horribly bad, but boy was it stubborn. It didn't go away until more than an hour after

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More specifically, I love online shopping. While online shopping has been well and good for many years now, in recently it has taken off to a whole new level which, oh, so, improves my quality of life.Have you ever tried swimsuit shopping with a 2 year old? Just the thought of it sends me screaming in the other direction. Now I'm not talking the perfect cute swimsuit to beach comb in, not really

Lorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06322778291206842093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11316075.post-18838305135674272402008-04-14T15:35:00.006-05:002008-07-01T13:32:29.317-05:00

I am feeling totally, utterly happy and content.The weather is beyond beautiful. I have the house open despite all the pollen exposure. I have dinner already made and nothing else that I feel must be done today. And I must say the past few weeks have been very emotionally satisfying.I spent a glorious 10 whole days at my mom's house. It was the best and most relaxed trip home I've ever had.

Lorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06322778291206842093noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11316075.post-89915409022753477592007-12-15T20:14:00.000-06:002007-12-15T20:27:47.420-06:00

These words were utter to me today by one of my teenage wards with her mouth agape. Honestly, teenage girls have such funny ideas about things.When I assured them that yes indeed I do, although he's really more of a toddler now, she was equally astonished. When I asked her why, she stuttered, "I...I...just thought you were too old to have a baby. Aren't you in your 40's or something?"Thanks kid.

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It was a success!I sort of followed the menu and cooking schedule in the Nov 2007 issue of Fine Cooking, with a few adaptations and simplifications. It spread the cooking and shopping out so that everything was produced without sweat or heartache and with enough room in the fridge. Plus, the results were terrific.What was missing, could have been better?I need my own carving knives. I borrowed

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Earlier this week a friend confided in me that she had had yet another miscarriage. She’s a bit of a stoic type and not one to get overly emotional, but four lost babies are too much to ask any woman to handle. I think that this lost is made all the more potent because she was actually able to carry one to term. She has experienced the love and joy of he has brought into their lives and wants one

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It’s been a busy week and I found that while I have been sitting down to write, I haven’t managed to post any of it, time and interruptions have prevented me from completing my train of thought. Since my brain tends to wander and meander all over the place the train can get pretty long before I wrangle them into readable form. One of my favorite quotes that seems applicable to me is:I have made

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What a week!!! It seems that I’ve been busy, busy, busy. It’s been full of appointments and babysitting and getting the kinks out of our new schedule. I who was once a complete night own have for the first time in my life fallen into a really nice daytime schedule that has me naturally falling asleep at 10 o’clock or so. This is of course because I’m trying to support a regular schedule in Liam.

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Last night, while at work I received a phone call from Lyn. He normally doesn't call me at work. So I was immediately alarmed when I saw it was him on the caller id.The first words out his mouth were, "There has been a minor catastrophe."I just about had a heartache on the spot. I was told later by a co-worker that every bit of color immediately drained from my face. I managed to ask if Liam was

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It does seem that I'm back to regular blogging again. I really missed it, and missed my blogging buddies. I still have a lot of catch up and blog maintance to do, but it's good to be back. Thanks to everybody for their welcomes and for not giving up on me.On Sunday I worked. That's been my only regular shift or a while now, but this week I started working Monday evenings too. Lyn and I committed

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It’s Saturday. Lyn is home and getting ready to go to a model airplane swap meet. He isn’t really looking for anything and is going with limited funds, but I’m sure he’s going to find some huge wonderful thing that he simply must have. In some ways I hope he does and in some ways I hope he doesn't. It’s good to have hobbies, but he seems to be attracted to hobbies that are bottomless money pits,

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Naptime is a little early today. Liam just seemed a little more tired then usual. I hope he’s not coming down with something.We really had a great time at Mia’s birthday party. We didn’t stay long because it was in the afternoon and Liam needed to get down for his second nap. There were a bunch of very cool mamas and their babes.At 9 months old Liam was actually the youngest one there and I think

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It’s another day and I’m taking advantage of naptime. It’s nice that Liam has gotten into a nice routine with a good morning nap that I can depend upon.Until recently I was using naptime to try to take care of stuff or frittering away on time fillers. It seems that a huge pile of stuff always seems to need to be done. However, I recently reached my breaking point and said enough is enough. I

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I have my house back. Hooray! After a week of house painting and now half a week of being housebound by ice and snow (Yes, in Texas) Lyn went to work this morning, as scheduled. A sense of normality has once again returned. Not that I don’t enjoy having his company and also the extra hand he’s given me, but be has literal been pacing the house and I have sorely missed my alone time.As we do every

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Values it all seems to be a matter of values. How much of my time do I want to spend pumping and worrying about my milk supply so that I can use breast milk in Liam’s cereal? What efforts am I willing to go through to replenish my freezer stock? How long is long enough? How much is enough and at cost to what other things?How long before my supply takes another blow and I need to have that stock

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I’m going to let just a little bit of my oddness really slip through here. I am one of those people who holds very strong feelings about yogurt. I love yogurt. Always have, and I’m quite sure I always will. Although I go in phases with it, I like to have one a day and admit that I often eat more.I’m also very picky about my yogurt. In the past I have driven miles and miles out of the way for a

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Last we had a horrible occurrence happen in this household. My 2 and a half-year-old camera stopped working. Completely quit. No power. Zip. After several changes of battery, I finally accepted this and informed my uncaring husband, who had the audacity to remind me, as I often remind him, that I was welcome to buy anything I want, once I had the cash saved up from my allowance. (Yes, we give

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No. No,no,no,no! NO!!!No, thank you. No! Thank you, but no.Nein. Non. No. Nyet. Nee. Oya. Nej. Naheen. Aniyo. Nah. Nope. Uh-uh. Naw. No way!I SAID NO!.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Just practicing.

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I saw this clip earier in the day and just can't get the tune out of my head. I don't think I'll ever look at a treadmill the same old way again.

Lorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06322778291206842093noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11316075.post-1154321023121480362006-07-30T23:39:00.000-05:002006-07-30T23:57:50.336-05:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } This photo if from the 22nd. He's pushing himself up much higher by now.If you click on the above photo it will bring you to my current photo set of Liam. I also placed in my sidebar a flash album of the photos I have of Liam

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I’ve been in the South for two long, stuck in the world of central air. Not that I don’t love and truly appreciate my air conditioning. However, I had forgotten how nice it is sleep with all the windows open, with just a bit of a cool breeze coming in, stirring the humid air and tickling my body. And I had forgotten about all the sounds and the smells of morning: the sweet smell of the air, the

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I just caught myself writing this email to a friend of mine and found it comical enough to share.Sorry that I got off the phone so abruptly and then never called you back. It was my lactation consultant, who I needed to talk to about the lipase problem that we discovered I have. Then when that was winding up, Lyn arrived home from work and I caught up with him for about five minutes. Then Liam

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Today, we were going to meet some friends at the library and Liam extended his morning nap making us leave the house after we were already supposed to be there. I also had some errands to run so I got everything organized so that when he woke up we could run out the door, meet up at least briefly with our friends and run a few errands before Liam’s next nap and feeding cycle began.Yes, very nice

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I just got a sweet little comment from Anonymous, asking if everything is okay.Yes, everything is okay. Actually I should rephase myself, I got the comment on Wednesday, but I hadn't even checked that account, because I've been so busy, but everything is still okay. I knew I had been ignoring my blog (and missed it and felt bad about it), but now almost a month has gone by. Ooops!I have to say

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This afternoon, about halfway to work, I momentarily went into a full and complete utter panic. It seems I’ve gotten so use to having Liam with me at all times that spazzed as I realized he wasn’t there. Then the logical part of my brain kicked in and I remembered that I am on my way to work. He doesn’t go to work with me. I had kissed him goodbye just ten minutes earlier, as I left him in the

Lorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06322778291206842093noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11316075.post-1150170696881450612006-06-12T22:47:00.000-05:002006-06-12T22:51:36.940-05:00

You Are Cookie MonsterMisunderstood as a primal monster, you're a true hedonist with a huge sweet tooth.You are usually feeling: Hungry. Cookies are preferred, but you'll eat anything if cookies aren't around.You are famous for: Your slightly crazy eyes and usual way of speakingHow you life your life: In the moment. "Me want COOKIE!"The Sesame Street Personality QuizActually, my recent sweet of

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Tuesday night I actually had the chance to do something that I haven’t done since Liam was born: try a new recipe. I use to try new recipes all the time. In fact, I’d say about half the meals I made were something new, but then, as my husband would tell you, you’d never know if it was a new recipe or not because I am completely incapable of making a recipe the same way twice. (I consider this

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I made my child cry with real tears today. I was being horrible to him and put him in his car seat because we were going out. He normally loves his car seat, but he was tired and just wanted me to hold him for a nice long snooze. I on the other hand had to get out of the house and take care of some errands. He worked him self up a bit and I looked at him and he had his bottom lip out a mile and a

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Sorry that I’ve been away so long, once again. Time has just been flying by and every minute seems to be filled these days. Here it is in writing: I’m going to attempt to start posting more regularly again. I officially call my blogging maternity leave to an end and will post something, even if it’s trivial or brief, at least every other day from now on, pinky swear. I’ve missed it and now I just

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You Are Fossil Fuel Ice Cream What does liking "fudge dinosaurs" say about someone? What Flavor Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream Are You?I'm glad they told me what my favorite flavor is, because I love them all so much that I would never have been able to decide.

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I can’t believe that it’s been 3 whole years now since I quit smoking. While time has flown by, it now seems hard to believe that I ever smoked. But I did. I’m so glad that I am now free of the nicodemon.I must give thanks to Quitnet for helping me with it. I still receive the occasional email from them cheering me on and it’s hard not to feel good about yourself when you are reminded of your

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Well, my mom left this morning. We had a really nice visit. In fact it was probably the best time we've had together since I reached puberty. I’m glad that she got to spend some extended time getting to know Liam at this

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Two nights in a row my little darling has actually granted me a full nights sleep. I’m in shock and could get use to this way to easily.After his usual ordeal of eating every two hours for most of the night on Thursday, Friday night seemed like a dream. He only woke up three times and kept me up for no more than forty minutes at any of his meals. Last night, after tucking in at nine he woke up

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Did I say that Liam was closing in on 9 lbs? Well, I was wrong. Yesterday morning, just as I was getting ready to go pick my mother up from the airport, we made an “emergency” trip into the doctors. At his 6 am feeding, Liam’s eye had looked a little red. At his 9 am feeding, it was red and crusty. Of course, he was screaming for his next meal and I had the audacity to be trying to call the

Lorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06322778291206842093noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11316075.post-1147959613476955102006-05-18T08:40:00.000-05:002006-05-18T08:56:35.780-05:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } The biggest thing I’m having problems adjusting to in my new role is my total lack of time to putz around. I’ve always been a putter of sorts, but I guess it was a luxury that I just took for granted. However, now it seems that

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Had this morning at 6:15 in reference to the conversation we had this morning at 1:30.Me, rather loudly, “IF YOU HAVE A SLEEPING CHILD AND A SLEEPING WIFE DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT WAKE UP THE SLEEPING WIFE TO ASK HER HOW THE SLEEPING CHILD IS DOING. BECAUSE THAT’S THE LAST TIME I WAS ASLEEP.UNLESS THERE IS A FIRE, DO NOT WAKE UP THE WIFE.”Goodnight.

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I didn’t think I’d ever have anything good to say about Walmart. However, I just saw that they are pushing to offer more organic foods (see NYT article), for business reasons, of course, not ethical. The impact that it will have on the organic food industry will be far reaching, but all in all I think it will be a very good move for the planet.I would comment more, but I’ve got baby on my

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I would just like to share with everybody that my cashier at the grocery store tonight was 82 years old. 82. Plus his line was going faster then any of the others and he did it all with a joke and a smile. Amazing.

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The adrenaline officially ran out on Monday. I don’t think I quite realized that was what I was running on for the first two and a half weeks, but it was.I also have lots of posts for you and tons to tell you about, but they are all either in my head or half written and now lost somewhere in my documents folder. I’m afraid at this point none of them will ever see cyberspace. Although it will be

Lorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06322778291206842093noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11316075.post-1146087491706617842006-04-26T16:38:00.000-05:002006-04-26T19:15:47.590-05:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Snoozing on Mommy's shoulder, originally uploaded by loralia. I was given orders by the hospital not to lift anything heavier than the baby. When I looked at my nurse deadpan and said, “That’s a bag of sugar.” She qualified,

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I'm not sure if photo credits should go to Lisa or LostinTX on this one. Theywere passing the camera back and forth.Today is Liam’s tenth day breathing air and each day has been an adventure for him, me and for my husband. I’ve so wanted to write about each new discovery, but alas I have five half written posts that I have gotten called away from finishing for one reason or another. It looks like

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Each day over the past week, I’ve been finding signs of me returning to my former self.Sunday, I noticed that my legs and arms felt slimmer, a very nice feeling.Monday, I felt a surge in my energy level.Tuesday, I found that I no longer had to go sit down with my feet up after just a little while standing because my ankles were much less achy and puffy.Wednesday, I noticed that my complexion

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I called an old friend today to let him know that Liam had been born and the first words out of his mouth were something about throwing a party. Baby = Party ??? I guess it's not a connection I would have made.Later in the conversation, he asked how I'm doing and I told him that I'm doing great, but that it's taking a while to adjust to being somebody's foodsource. He then asked, "So, do you feed

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I know. I really should be sleeping. Sleep when the baby sleeps and all that. However, I needed to at least stop in for a minute and acknowledge all the love I’ve been feeling from you. Thanks, everybody. The last few days have been a complete whirlwind and I have total mommy brain. I can’t tell you how much sleep I’ve logged in over the last four days, but I can tell you it hasn’t been much. I

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Liam, originally uploaded by loralia.

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Liam Barnes Travis was born at 6:31 pm on April 12, 2006, weighting in at a hefty 5 lbs and 11oz. Both mother and child are doing wonderfully. Mom and Dad are wondering how we created something so tiny and perfect.I'll post photos sometime tonight.

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They got the results back from my urine collect back a little sooner then I expected. My doctor’s assistant called this afternoon to let me know that in fact that they I am discharging protein and that the protein levels are high. Not good. This means that I have, in fact, gone pre-eclampsic, which can get quite serious.Since I’m not having any more extreme symptoms, they aren’t pulling me into

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I’m now at 37 weeks, which is considered full term by the medical community. A baby born at 37 weeks gestation should be within a normal size range and should be developed enough to not have complications outside of the womb due to immaturity. 40 weeks is considered a “normal” pregnancy, but after this point the placenta slowly readies the baby to enter the real world and becomes less and less

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Well, I seem to have taken a bit of a blogging vacation. It really hasn’t been intentional. You’d think that with not working that I’d have all this extra time to spend in front of the computer, but that really hasn’t been the case. I guess that now that life is a little less hectic, I’m having less need to express myself to reduce stress. Also, I’m really trying to be good and not do any

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I’d just like to say that after eight months of pregnancy the concept of fitting into normal clothes again is a bit daunting. As I went to pack my bag for the hospital trip, I discovered that I own absolutely no lounge wear that unbuttons so that I can breastfeed somewhat discretely. So, tonight I went to Target and found some lovely traditional button-down cotton PJ’s that would work

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Yesterday, I had another doctor’s appointment and an ultrasound. They took a bunch of measurements and looked in at his various organs to make sure that everything is still going okay. They confirmed that he is still, in fact, a he and that he’s swimming around in a healthy amount of amniotic fluid. They even have a way of measuring the blood pressure through the umbilical cord to make sure the

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It's been ages since I've done a proper Friday Feast.AppetizerHow would you describe your personal comfort zone?CapriciousSoupWhat is your favorite tree?I'm not sure what it is, but I know that it definitely is not Oak. I once thought they were magnificent, but since I moved to Austin I have developed an allergy to them. They surround Austin and pollinate from February to May. I may feel

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Right now I’m reeling from a phone call I just got from the auto shop that is made all the more painful because we are currently a one car family.Last fall, the air conditioning in our car stopped working. It hasn’t been a big deal as we haven’t really needed it, but we are certainly going to need it this summer, especially with a newborn. So we finally got it into the shop and they just called

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I'm slowly dipping my toes back in the water. I ended up working more shifts before my offical rest began yesterday. I now have no more scheduled shifts until after my maternity leave is over with, although I do intend to pick up the occassional shift here and there over the next month. It's a very strange feeling. I completely indulged in doing nothing yesterday. I lied on the couch and put a

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Bdogg, Lisa, LostinTx and I are getting together for lunch tomorrow today. Bdogg posted this fun little quiz. All four of us came up as progressive girls. Wow, I'm so use to being a bit of an outsider that I'm not sure I can handle this much likemindedness.I am Progressive GirlClick on the picture below to read more:Take the 'What Kind of Girl Are You?' quiz at CookingToHookup.comI never though I

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No, I have not forgotten about the blogging world. I had a wonderful weekend with my niece, nephew and sister-in-law. I haven’t gotten a chance to even look at the pictures I took, yet, but as they are adorable kids I’m sure I’ll use a couple of them to brag with.My workweek then kicked into high gear and I spent Monday and Tuesday trying to adapt back onto an overnights schedule and just

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Of course, as fate would have it, the weather is breaking records for it being unseasonably hot. It reached 86 on Wenesday and 87 on Thursday. We have northern visitors and the blower on our air-conditioning quit working. Ah, the joys of homeownership. The only difference is living in an apartment it wouldn’t get fixed until the middle of next week, while we have somebody coming out to fix it

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Bearette and Bdogg both did this meme and I thought it was incredibly fun. However, I wasn't exactly the goody two shoes in high school that they were. Perhaps that's why I've come so far in life. Not!Year: Graduated from high school in 1990.1. Who was your best friend?Carol, who I'm still incredibly close with.2. What sports did you play?I was on Swim Team, but I didn't even approach lettering.3

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I’ve let it happen again. Often when I go a while without blogging, I get so much stuff that I want to mention that it seems like an overwhelming mass and I don’t know what to edit out. So, I guess I’ll just start typing away and see where it takes me.I’ll start with things having to do with other bloggers. On Sunday, Lisa, LostinTX and I all got together again. We went to see Transamerica and

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Lyn wanted to show off his "sympathy belly." Although, he's really not being very sympathetic having lost 5 pounds, as I've gained 30..flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame {

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I just got the most terrific news. My sister-in-law is coming stay with us next weekend and is bringing with her my wonderful niece and nephew. I last saw them in July and while I had a great, although limited, time with my niece, I didn’t really get to spend a lot of time with my nephew because at 16 months he was really in the whole stranger anxiety stage. Now at 23 months, I can spend a little

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One of the most amazing things about impending parenthood is what it does to your brain and your priorities. All these things that I have never given much thought to before sudden have become urgent to take care of; things like life insurance, finding the best pedatrician, and learning how to follow a budget.Of course, some people were born knowing how to live within their means while most of us

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I mentioned that I really liked my new range, but now that I've gotten a chance to do an oven test, I absolutely love it!The oven dimensions on the Lacanche are little smaller then American ovens tend to run, but it will still in your regular roasting pan and I’m not going to bake anything larger then that. The small size helps it kept an even temperature throughout. My husband tested the

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I went against my natural tendancy to stay in my own cave had a nice full social calender yesterday. It was surprisingly relaxing and I had a lot of fun.I started out the day by going to suport a friend that was running in the Freescale Marathon. The weather was much colder than we in Austin have been experiencing lately, so I bundled up and with some cell phone coordination managed to cheer her

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Time is ticking away. I’ve finally decided to add one of those pregnancy timelines to my blog. I’m just about 30 weeks along and three quarters of the way through. The baby will be full term in a mere seven weeks, although I’m not due until May 2nd.As my belly expands my life is becoming much more focused on getting prepared for life with baby and his entrance into the world. Saturday afternoon

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You know how some people just piss you off? Yeah, I knew you did.*This post has been severely edited from it's original form. While writing the original made me feel better at the time, it just wasn't in line with "The active appreciation of life" thing.

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Never before have I paid all that much attention to speed skating, but I have to say that one particular gold medalist has really caught my eye and my heart. In case you didn’t catch it in the news, Joey Cheek made use of his 3 seconds of fame by trying to raise both money and awareness for the genocide happening in Darfur.He donated his gold medal winnings of $25,000 to Right to Play, earmarked

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This silliness found at Nearest Distant Shore and created at Snapshirts. I have what I call a roaming mind today. I’m thinking about this, and about that, and about this, and that some more, but once I try to actually focus and try to draw all these roaming thoughts into something coherent they all see to fall back into each other again and refuse to stand up on their own.Plus, my sleep patterns

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Now that we own our own home we can take advantage of one of the lovely perks of my husbands occupation. He fixes high-end appliances for a living. So obviously I never have to worry about having my washing machine out of commission.Last month my husband received a phone call from a new homeowner who bought a house with a Lacanche range in it. A Lacanche is a French range that has a limited

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The dreaded day has arrived. I knew it would happen eventually, but I was not prepared for it to happen so soon. They are completely reorganizing my grocery store!The problem is, you see, I had a system and they ruined my system. I’ve already had to completely redo my system once this year because I reluctantly switched grocery stores due to our move. You’d think that that would earn me a

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I’m back working during daylight hours again, at least temporarily as the census goes up with my favorite group of kids to work with. I know it isn’t supposed to stay that way for long, so I plan to enjoy it while I can. There is nothing like working a couple weeks of overnights, doing paperwork, and having minimal residential contact to make me truly appreciate the satisfaction I get from the

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The toilet in our master bathroom has been slow to fill since the day we moved in, but it wasn’t until we had to replace the flushing mechanism on our main bathroom toilet that we figured out why. It has a quiet feature on it. So, instead of doing a nice loud flush and filling up the bowl within a minute, we now have two low capacity toilets that flush at about half the regular volume and then

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I'm a Mazda RX-8! You're sporty, yet practical, and you have a style of your own. You like to have fun, and you like to bring friends along for the ride, but when it comes time for everyday chores, you're willing to do your part. Take the Which Sports Car Are You? quiz. ht to Deb Can I get a different color besides red?

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I had a really fabulous time last night getting together with my fellow bloggers. We went to Mother’s Café & Garden, which was a fabulous new find for me. I took their recommendation for 1st timers and had their Spinach Lasagna. It was delicious; it had a red sauce and a nice full flavor, without being overpowering. Some of my fellow dinners were tempted by it but choose something else when they

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I did it. 5 days of walking. No, not ambitious goal, but I always find a good deal of satisfaction in getting things done. I admit, I am one of those oddballs that will write something down on my to-do list that I’ve already done, just so that I can have the satisfaction of crossing it off. I didn’t really get on the program with daily stretching this week, so I guess that will be my focus for

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I have a confession to make. I haven’t been exercising through my pregnancy. I know, I know, I really should have been. It’s much better for me. It’s much better for the baby. It makes delivery easier. It makes weight management easier. It helps deal with stress and hormones, but I still haven’t been doing it. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been meaning too exercise. I have a million reasons why I

Lorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06322778291206842093noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11316075.post-1137644838152486252006-01-18T22:27:00.000-06:002006-01-18T23:02:15.656-06:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } This is a horribly unflattering picture, but it's the first belly shot photo I've had taken. This was actually taken almost a month ago on Christmas Day, I was just slow in posting it.Anybody else having problems with Hello?

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It seems that I may be, at least, partly back to my old sleepless nights again. I have to work early in the morning, but my head is spinning and I’m tossing and turning. It doesn’t help that I’ve been bouncing from one shift to another lately.In an attempt to do my jobs in low risk areas last week I gave the overnight shift a try. I know that working overnights are considerably difficult for some

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I’ve been rejected. For the first time in the life of my marriage my dear husband slept on the couch. It seems that I was snoring. And as he put it, it wasn’t even nice regular snoring. It was loud breathing with the occasional terrifying honk that would erase any hope he had of sleeping.That was a couple nights ago. I slept propped up with pillows the following night, but he said he could still

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I don’t make New Years Resolutions. I like to spend the first few days of the New Year in a little more contemplative space then I normally have the opportunity to do. This year was no exception. I know I’ve been quiet on my blog, but I’ve been giving my paper journal a good work out.One thing I tend to do is create a list of things I’d like to make happen over the next year. Normally when I look

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My husband started a new job yesterday. He fixes appliances in a town where appliance repairmen are in short supply. Last month be was recruited by a different company and at this point in time we are seeing nothing but advantages. He’s earning a little more money, working a much more reasonable number of hours, he genuinely likes the small group of people that he’s working with and they seem to

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Merry Christmas! This photo was taken last Christmas at my mother in laws house. This year I get to host them at our house for Christmas Dinner and I'm having lots of fun trying to make things special. For once, I actually seem to be ahead of schedule on things. I hope that all those that mange to sneak in a little computer time in admist the holidays are enjoying them in their own special way.

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This whole pregnancy has at times made me seriously wonder if I am bipolar. According to one of the books I read my current hormonal level is about ten times its normal level, plus I’ve always been somebody that’s been a little more moody then most. So that may explain some of it.Well, today I am in utterly unexplainable bliss. I have no idea why. Perhaps I’m getting in the holiday spirit or

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I have to say that I haven’t actually caught the holiday bug this year. I, who normally bakes at least 20 batches of cookies throughout the month of December, have not even baked a single batch of cookies yet this year. Not one.It just hasn’t felt that much like Christmas. Since this is (hopefully) my last holiday where I don’t have a little one to play Santa for, I figured I’d not worry about it

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Since the most important thing going on in my life now is my pregnancy, I figured I’d jump back in with a bit of an update of where my pregnancy is now. Things seem to be progressing along nice and normally. I first felt the baby moving around almost two months ago, but I wasn’t positive if it was the baby or just gas until just before Thanksgiving. Now there is no mistaking the baby’s movements

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Over the past week I’ve gotten several little notes and even a phone call from my blogging friends wondering what I’ve been up to and where I am. I’m sorry for dropping off the face of the planet. It’s been very sweet of everybody to still keep dropping by despite my prolonged absence. I must admit I haven’t even been lurking that much and my computer is starting to forget who I am.It’s been

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I know; it’s been ages since I posted. Life has been good, and also busy, but I just haven’t had much of a hankering to write lately. So now, I’m face with a rare evening alone and a week and a half build up of posts in my head. I may break to take care of some things on my to do list or just veg out for a while, but I'm thinking I've got multiple postings in me tonight. I’ll just leave this

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