Re-post from blogger

Yep, I’m getting "lazy."  I don’t WANT to type this all out again, so I’m just copying and pasting.  It’s too much to ask to retype it.  I don’t have anything much to add to it anyway, except that we had Papa Murphy’s for dinner, and mmmm, was it good.  It was nice not to have to think about dinner, really, after running around all afternoon.  AND, I forgot about Bec’s appointment last week (it was buried, so I didn’t know there was one, and they don’t call me anymore!), so I had to give the doctor’s office 39 dollars for the two missed appointments!  GAH.  I think one more and they’re going to make us find another doctor.  I wonder if they’ll really do that… they haven’t said.  I’ve written the rest of the appointments on the calendar in an effort to remember them.  This is kind of making me miserable.  I am not used to having so many doggoned appointments!  Plus I have to go to WIC on the 23rd.  I have to admit, I didn’t want to put all this in the "family" blog, because I didn’t want them all thinking I’ve been such a screwup… isn’t that a little pathetic?  THIS… this is where I pour my heart and soul out.  This is where I can be me.  This is MY diary, for me, and my OD friends.  Oh well, the purpose of the family blog is really supposed to be about posting what’s going on with the family anyway… they don’t want to know about my internal goings-on anyway… and it’s for the best.  I don’t need "therapy" there, lol…

With no further ado (and I swear, I’m going to work on a page for those people who have asked for one, so I have SOMETHING to show you guys!  But I have GOT to get to bed kind of soon)

Here you go:

Today, I pulled all of Alex’s 3-6 month clothing and bagged it to give away. She’s 8 months and finally growing out of them. She’s been 75th percentile for height, but only 25th for weight, which is fine, but she’s not keeping up with her clothes. The girl can eat though. She’s on stage 2 foods, which I use just cause they’re easy, and with 5 kids, I need all the easy I can get, lol ;). I am hoping this next check up, she’ll be a little more than 25th percentile. I guess she SHOULD be leaner for being a breast fed baby, but the doggone doctors always make me nervous about her weight, which was lagging behind for so long. Actually, this last doctor, she’s a PA (physician’s assistant) I like her a lot. She thinks Alex is fine. We figured out that Alex wouldn’t turn when you called her name, because we NEVER called her name. It was always, baby girl, sweetheart, your little sister, the baby, etc. So I’ve begun to call her by her name. I’m also forcing myself to put her down and let her cry while she sits there or has tummy time. She does not like tummy time. Not one bit. So while her sisters were sitting up and crawling way before now, she’s been spoiled and is lagging behind a bit as a result. She’ll catch up. I burned a DVD today of all the pictures from Sept up til today, need to put that somewhere safe. I need to burn some CDs for various family members, and get those sent out, though I am running out of CDs, and probably won’t be able to buy any this month. I have maybe 8 or 10. I’ll do what I can. I don’t even know who has what at this point, so I can only sort of play a guessing game with what to send out. I’ve got ALL my pictures backed up to DVD as of today. I have been desperately trying to clean my computer off, because it’s running so slow, and that’s partially due to having no room left on it. I SHOULD have room, I have over 300? GB of space on it between two hard drives. I found a bunch of duplicate things on it today between photos and music, and cleared off nearly 5 GB that way…wow, that’s a lot. Anyway, this isn’t really "family stuff" it’s just stuff I’ve been working on little by little for awhile now.

Becca stayed home from school today with a sore throat. We were able to get her into the doctor, and she has a virus, nothing serious. Bec thought it might be strep throat, but her throat didn’t really hurt enough for it to be that, plus she had a cough, and today I learned that you don’t see a cough with strep throat, so yay for not having strep throat. She’ll have to go to school tomorrow for sure though, and she hopefully will get her homework done from today, because her grades are still suffering pretty hard, and we’re still not sure she’s going to graduate to the 8th grade, making her like 20 when she finally graduates high school… gah. No way is that happening. So she cannot afford any more time off. No way, no how. She spent today pretty much reading and playing on the computer, which she should have been laying down and resting. And she was of course told this time and time again… but she doesn’t really think she has to listen. I think really what it is, is that the computer has a power over her, and she simply forgets she’s not supposed to be on it, and it takes awhile for us to notice. Her butt is planted in front of the computer for many hours a day, it seems like. Maybe she just becomes like the stuff you walk over, it’s been there so long. You forget she’s not supposed to be there, because she just is there. Just kidding, though I don’t know how untrue that is. I mean, I will look at her, and it takes awhile to realize, Hey Bec, what are you doing on the computer after I JUST told you to get off it? Argh. So she plans to go back tomorrow. The other two go back on track on Tuesday… gees, they got quite the extended vacation! I’m SO ready for them to go back, except that they will take care of Sammi in the morning, so that’s nice.
The pictures I took today were mostly of Alex, but Sydni got in there to give her a kiss, and how could I resist?  Then Syd took the camera and took some pictures of Alex and I.  I love that the kids are willing to take pictures, though Sammi gets demanding about getting the camera from me, and so I’m trying to take pictures of her, and she’s trying to take the camera, and screaming because I won’t give it to her!  I get some interesting pictures out of that!  I went to the scrapbook store tonight, so I am definitely going to have to scrap the Thanksgiving pictures I have, though it occurs to me I did NOT get enough paper, darn it.  Hm… will have to see what I can do to make it stretch some.  I’m sure I can come up with something.  That ought to be fun, lol.

Well, I guess I’d better get this posted.  I should REALLY go to bed earlier tonight than I managed to last night, I am really tired.  I wasn’t able to get on my computer til a little while ago, because Alex was up til 11, and then Jerry was trying to scan some documents into this computer, and there were too many programs open, so it was really sloooooow.  It took forever, and frustrated the heck out of him.  I will have to restart before I go to bed, but since I quit out of everything, it’s working fine for me.  But it needs a restart anyway after everything I did to it today.  There’s too much on it, but I don’t know what to get rid of.  I need ink for my 13 inch printer so I can print background pages on it.  I haven’t had ink for it in the longest time, and there’s been so much I wished I could do with it, and just couldn’t with no ink.&nbs

p; I guess I could print off some elements for my pages on my smaller printer though, and make shaker boxes or something out of them.  That’s always fun.  I just want to be able to print a background paper here and there, or some 12" journaling…  soon enough.  Perhaps next month!  Maybe one ink cartridge this month and one next month.  I’m out of two.  I forget which colors though.  I love this printer, it’s so nice.  I have to get the ink online though.  ALTHOUGH, I may be able to order it and have it sent to my nearest Staples… that’s a thought.  I have a huge list of the stuff I want for my scraproom.  LOL… that never changes though. 

Anyway, it was a busy but uneventful day for the most part.  I had better get off the computer.