8 posts tagged “eli”
2.5 yrs
Ocean City 3 yrs - first mini golf!
Ocean City 4 yrs old
Elias 4.5 and Eva 3 days
First day of Kindergarten!
Elias 5 yrs and Eva 11 months
Elias 6 yrs old
Elias 7 yrs old
Elias 8 yrs old
we're back! we
had a great time! a few bumps along the way... my camera LCD got
smashed. I am SO careful with it. no really... VERY careful with it. I
bought a really nice case and all. but when Sean looked it up it's
known for that lcd smashing ridiculously easy. that doesn't make me
feel much better though. it's money I don't have ot fix it. it's such a nice camera too! I love it - never has blurry pics like that old one I used to have.
I am so sad. not just b/c it's my camera but b/c it was a gift from a friend. I cried. I really did. I held it in infront of the kids and then they went to bed and I cried. it hurt my feelings so much! it was really special to me as stupid as it sounds. I didn't get but like 5 pictures of the whole trip.
oh well, what can you do? eventually i'm sure we will fix it... but everytime I see it hanging on it's little hook by the computer I get all weepy. (I'm not usually a big crier... but I really wanted that camera)
a tleast I had a
wonderful time with my husband... ALONE for 2.5 days. ahhh. the longest
we've ever been alone in 8 long years. it was wonderful. 
really... it was!! I think it should mandotory that every 6 months parents are required to take a vacation alone for 3 days (only nurslings allowed along if they must heh)
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did I mention that someone hit my car? yep. last week before we left. i had a GI appt I've waited for 6 weeks for... and on the way this old guy ran into me! nobody was hurt at all, but my car was. weird thing is he didn't even notice AT ALL until I made him get out and look at my hanging out light and dent on my car and the huge white streak on his. he pushed us up on a curb and didn't even notice it! so I missed my GI appt (that is the thing that makes me the most upset!) and now I have to wait another 7 whole weeks for an appt!!! I know it was a sincere accident, the old guy was so gentlemanly and nice (from North Carolina) but he was old and apparently deaf and blind too. it was a rental car so I expect to get a bunch of fight from them over it... but really it was me AND my mom so we both know what happened.
so my car isn't totalled... but it's not a great car anyhow (though right now I'm thankful for any working car) but i can't drive it until it gets fixed. the wheel is messed up. I'm back to borrowing and car from my mom which means sharing... I either drive her to work or my dad does. it's almost like driving public transportation but with the HUG SUV gas prices hahaha. I wish our area was walkable... i'd much prefer to walk to town.
in good news, Eva's undies stayed dru ALL day today. if you're the mother of a 3.5 yr old with SPD you'd know how exciting that is!!! I'm about thrilled over the whole thing! she's outgrown all the clooth versions of diapers and trainers so now i'm left buying those nasty disposable overnight bulky things and she gets a rash rom them so yuck! good riddance to them! I can't wait to have all kids in undies. trust me, diapering a 3 month old is way more funthan a 3 yr old! =)
we're back! we
had a great time! a few bumps along the way... my camera LCD got
smashed. I am SO careful with it. no really... VERY careful with it. I
bought a really nice case and all. but when Sean looked it up it's
known for that lcd smashing ridiculously easy. that doesn't make me
feel much better though. it's money I don't have ot fix it. it's such a nice camera too! I love it - never has blurry pics like that old one I used to have.
I am so sad. not just b/c it's my camera but b/c it was a gift from a friend. I cried. I really did. I held it in infront of the kids and then they went to bed and I cried. it hurt my feelings so much! it was really special to me as stupid as it sounds. I didn't get but like 5 pictures of the whole trip.
oh well, what can you do? eventually i'm sure we will fix it... but everytime I see it hanging on it's little hook by the computer I get all weepy. (I'm not usually a big crier... but I really wanted that camera)
a tleast I had a
wonderful time with my husband... ALONE for 2.5 days. ahhh. the longest
we've ever been alone in 8 long years. it was wonderful. really... it was!! I think it should mandotory that every 6 months parents are required to take a vacation alone for 3 days (only nurslings allowed along if they must heh)
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did I mention that someone hit my car? yep. last week before we left. i had a GI appt I've waited for 6 weeks for... and on the way this old guy ran into me! nobody was hurt at all, but my car was. weird thing is he didn't even notice AT ALL until I made him get out and look at my hanging out light and dent on my car and the huge white streak on his. he pushed us up on a curb and didn't even notice it! so I missed my GI appt (that is the thing that makes me the most upset!) and now I have to wait another 7 whole weeks for an appt!!! I know it was a sincere accident, the old guy was so gentlemanly and nice (from North Carolina) but he was old and apparently deaf and blind too. it was a rental car so I expect to get a bunch of fight from them over it... but really it was me AND my mom so we both know what happened.
so my car isn't totalled... but it's not a great car anyhow (though right now I'm thankful for any working car) but i can't drive it until it gets fixed. the wheel is messed up. I'm back to borrowing and car from my mom which means sharing... I either drive her to work or my dad does. it's almost like driving public transportation but with the HUG SUV gas prices hahaha. I wish our area was walkable... i'd much prefer to walk to town.
in good news, Eva's undies stayed dru ALL day today. if you're the mother of a 3.5 yr old with SPD you'd know how exciting that is!!! I'm about thrilled over the whole thing! she's outgrown all the clooth versions of diapers and trainers so now i'm left buying those nasty disposable overnight bulky things and she gets a rash rom them so yuck! good riddance to them! I can't wait to have all kids in undies. trust me, diapering a 3 month old is way more funthan a 3 yr old! =)
ack how does morning come so soon? I do think the earlier I aim to get to sleep the later I do. I went to bed before 11pm (early for me) and I ended up sleeping by 12:30 and then Ei woke me at 1:30 crying with a terrible headache and feeling terrible all over. ugh! I was so tired at that point i could not make a coherent sentence. so our conversation goes something like this:
E: "mom? :::sniff sniff::: I feel horrible all over and my head hurts"
M: "what? what? ummmm what? oh man! me tired! head hurts why? why?? what you need?"
E: I don't know! i just feel bad!!!! :::crying begins:::
M: [trying to pull it together] why? why?.... um why? I'll get you come motrin. kitchen!
and then I try to make it to the kitchen without falling over b/c my eyes wont seem to open all the way. eventually he slept on the floor beside my bed on some cushions so I could keep an eye in him. every 40- 60 mins I was awake checking on him... convinced he was dying, or ill. convinced b/c i was so tired I overlooked some terrible thing he must have. that's not restful sleep!! then right before I wake up with Sean at 6:40 as he had to leave for a shoot in DC, I dream I have to take over the shoot for him b/c he's sick... and it occurs to me I don't know where it is, or what it is of... or HOW TO USE THE CAMERA!! and I start freaking out! and then I wake up for good at 6:30.
ugggggg
can't wait til tonight. if anyone gets between me and some decent sleep - then off with their head!
(Let me know if this shows up...)
Eli
wanted to be in charge and makes us take funny pictures. He mad dozens
of these but this was my favorite (and conveniently the one Sean
already had uploaded!)
we all look rather distorted. I look like
my nose is about as wide as my face (it's long, and large but it aint
that wide!) and Eva looks like some kinda menacing monster, Sean looks
completely bald, and Elias looks sickly... but I
still love it!
so we declared today "supoer family fun day" as it hit 71 degrees. and well in february when ti's anything over 60 degrees it's a family holiday.
well apparently nobody broke this news to the rest of the nation who was so rude as to schedule President's Day on the very same day!! arg. how rude.
so with much naivity we decide to forgo the metro this time and take the car so Eva could take a nap on the way hoe if she needed." how busy can it be on a Monday in Feb?" we argue. somehow we both decide the car is a good idea. (hindsight is everything)
well 5 hrs later and we are back home having seen... nothing. nada. zilch. zip. we could not get a parking space with in a mile of ANY of the MANY attractions on DC.
normally i make a plan... set up lunches, times to leave and arrive, schedule to stick roughly to. etc but we decided to make it a whim. sometime they work out beautifully, sometimes not. this time... not.
the kids were starving, I was starving... we drove in circles for every trying to find something... anything to do. even a park to stop out so we could eat the sad little lunch I did pack for us. well after more than one GPS mistake (not ours!!!) we ended up at a sad little park nearby our house... and it started to blow and rain!!!
oh my goodness. ok so we'll just go to the grocery store and run some errands instead. we determine not to loose patience or moral. this IS family fun day... right? so I suggest goign to pick up our raw milk from the coop drop off a bout 30 mins from where we are. we drive there I get out and I am hit with the realization that... I did NOT order milk this week. I forgot to. we have no milk.
this is when Sean says "ok... time to go home. we'll start over again later"
so we are all goign to Chevy's mexican restaurant for dinner this evening. what will come of it? who knows. Eva is doing summer saults instead of napping b/c she's wired for some reason. and I have a serious sinus head ache and the house is a wreck b/c we gave up all chores in order to have "super family fun day".
I have a feeling I will be very happy to crawl into bed today and put todat to rest in the past.
(I will say however, for a girl who gets very carsick, Eva stayed pretty composed for the majority of our 3-3.5 hrs in the car driving in circles)
it's about time right? I never post anything... so I will. This is a picture a friend took of us at a restaurant yesterday. it's so rare we get a real family picture with us all together and everyone is looking at the camera, so I have to post that
(he is an older mennonite gentlemen and refers to his younger friends as "son" and "daughter" or of course brother and sister if they are older. he's such a kind person and it was quite an honor!)
Those are the two main reasons I never get around to bloggin. they're worth it =)
ok well to be honest it's not just them... life is just busy around here! Our photo business is still shaping up. but with business comes work. and work takes time... and that is something parents don't seem to have enough of. it baffles me honestly how people survive parenting! for us, parenting takes up most of our time, effort and money (not that I don't love it, b/c I do!) but it seems once the parenting portion is taken from the day it leaves little for else. work (as in the kind that brings in money), doula-ing (which of course is work too), bookkeeping (also work... is this a pattern?), time to ourselves, reading, showering... and well sleeping when possible. it seems that is the one to be on the bottom of our list. and everything else is shoved inbetween. I must admit the parenting part, though most exaughsting is by far the most important to me. I take it very serious and i wonder how the modern work week does not allow for this the way it should. The bonus is working for home is Sean is here so much more, even if he's working upstairs he can come down for lunch or hang his head out the window to talk to kids for a few mins while they play outside. they love it!
I adore my children and being allowed to be their mom is the biggest honor God ever gave me. I would not change that for the world! and i know God has his reasons and plan for everything. but i do have to wonder why He made the parenting hours so gosh darn long. far be it from to second guess Him, but isn't that a little harsh? ;) If He were to ask my opinion (not that he would) I would suggest perhaps when you become a parent you would be able to go without sleep for a few years. just thru the baby and toddler eras. Just think how much I cold get done! and I could even have "me time' without feeling guilty or falling behind. wow... then again maybe the need for sleep keeps us humble.... or something... I guess...
