Bored

It is 7, Gwen just fell asleep in my lap. It has been kinda a crazy day and I need to wake her and not wake her. I am also stuck here because if I decide to move I will wake her. I need to move, but I will go crazy if I have to wake up a cranky Gwen. So I am bored and putting off my decision. So if you are bored, what do you do? Blog. These are some random pictures Natalie took.

I so love this one. Gwen playing with her butt:) That is a night diaper by the way. She usually doesn't go around in it during the day. Lately, night time has been interesting. That is what happens when you put three kids to bed by yourself, eh?

Oh Ms. Heather...

Do I even know 6 people who read this blog that aren't already on your list? Hmm....probably not. If you are a hidden person who reads this blog, and has a blog to blog this bloggy thing....
Anyway, I feel bad. the closest book to me is my aromatherapy book.
1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open it to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence/ phrase.
4. Blog the next four sentences/ phrases together with these instructions.
5. Don’t you dare dig your shelves for that very special or intellectual book.
6. Pass it forward to six friends.
Seborrhea
clary-sage, thyme, juniper, grapefruit
use 2 drops on a bowl of steaming water
acne
chamomile, clary-sage, thyme linalol, lavender
use 2 drop on a bowl of steaming water

and the problem is that these aren't really sentences, but it us as close as I can get. Sorry. The other closest books to me are kids books, and none of them go up to 123 pages. And all current books I am reading are on the pda.
By the way, I think I know what books you are talking about. I stopped reading those, she pissed me off with them. The choices between the two loves. I am still reading the Merry Gentry though.
And hey are you going to come back from the dead? Are you? Are you?

Happy Valentines Day!

The girls made up Valentines. I bet you can't tell who did each one:) I am missing one because I was putting them in envolopes when I realized I should take a picture. But the girls had lots of fun. I admit to turning it into a slight lesson of practice writing. I am hoping the the people who get them will be able to read them:) Natalie decided that she really didn't care to write nicely because she just wanted to get to glueing on hearts.

Co sleeping

Otherwise known as, baby taking up more than half of a king sized bed. Because really she is. You can kind of tell in this picture that she is covering most of the area that my pillow takes up. Which is why when Jack comes to bed I am usually laying on his pillow. I tell him that I am warming up his spot. Which so isn't true since my body temperture is about twenty degrees lower than his. But you must not come within a foot of a cosleeping baby. If you do they will smell nurses and immediatly want to nurse. And when she is sleeping so sweetly, you don't want to wake them up right? So we have a king sized bed, but Jack and I end up sleeping squished together. We take up less room than the baby.

Random

Two pictures that Natalie took. Layla working oh so hard. And a very close up of Gwen.

And last night we became a one car family with three cars. Jack's volvo died and we had to go pick him up at 8:30. The girls were already in bed, in pjs. Gwen was already aseep. I piled them all in the car so we could go get him. After, by the way Jack is horribly sick now, since he was feeling bad, he brought Gwen in. I carried Layla in, she had fallen asleep. So he stuffed Gwen into his jacket. Looks comfy cozy in there, doesn't it? And now I know to not procrastinate my grocery shopping. I am having Safeway deliver today. We are totally out of food. So we are now accepting any and all types of prayers that Jack can get off somewhat early so he can get his car fixed. He is most likely going to have to work all weekend and really I don't want to be a one car family.

It hasn't been quite, but almost, six months since going gluten free. I have lost ten pounds. And to be honest, I didn't think I needed to lose ten pounds. I am slightly upset that I lost eight of them. I am not going to mourn the loss of my back padding, but I kinda wish it had relocated to my ass. Never thought I would ever say this, considering that as a teen of a whopping 100 pounds I thought myself fat, I am too skinny. But other than that, I feel better than I ever have.
Natalie is doing a lot better also. She is definitely getting sick less. She has also gained about four pounds, sleeps better and for the most part a little less cranky. But boy is she cranky. No one ever tells you that a six year old can get pissy. I think I am paying for all those years that we never had any problems. Now however she is a handful. It is kinda funny because in some ways she is my biggest help. She holds Gwen, she can help with dishes, doing laundry, making snacks, but ask her to do something she doesn't want to. Wow she has been taking stink eye lessons from Layla.
There have been a few times that we have cheated. Only one of them emotional. Considering my absolute love of food this amazes me. My grandma is the most wonderful person in the world. Every holiday she would make chex mix. I am not overly fond of chex mix. I mean saying that isn't like saying cheesecake. I don't immediately want it. But she sent us a baggie this year at Christmas. No one else got any of it. Okay, Jack ate the pretzels, I don't like them. But seeing the bag of chex mix from my grandma was too much for me. I tried really hard not to think of the bht and all the other nasty stuff in it. Because really I was eating love. yeah, when I say stuff like that, and after I eat like a whole cheesecake,Jack wonders how I don't weigh 200 pounds. It will catch up to me I am sure, it has to everyone else in my family. I mean, even with dreams of donuts and biscuits, I have done pretty well. Jack, the devil, actually handed me a piece of toast loaded with butter and jelly. I held it in my hand. I gave it back to him. Besides for a few small things, biscuits, I have adjusted and it hasn't been that hard. Of course, it makes it easy when you get a horrible stomach ache, right?:)
And I wanted to share another home moment. We have been sick lately. This past weekend was bad for me. Jack actually took care of me. This doesn't happen often. I usually complain about feeling like crap. He thinks that I am exaggerating until he gets it. And then I end up taking care of him. This time, I am not sure why, but he believed me. Maybe it was the chills and fever? Anyway, he made me hot tea with honey, lemon and ginger brandy. My grandma used to make this for me when I was little. I would go to her house when I had to stay home from school. We even have irish coffee mugs, which is what she used to put it in. Somehow he made it just right. Funny, isn't it? How things are so much better when someone else makes it?

And sorry for babbling, and that there is still no pictures. Soon, but I am not going to promise. It has been hard to get moving the past few weeks. Gwen is a nursing maniac and she keeps falling asleep in my lap, she is right now. Oh and she fell off the bed last night. I knew this would happen eventually. I still don't think Jack will take the box springs out. I am going to try though. For the most part she stops when she gets to the edge. But I guess last night she was sick and just wanted to get to me. Jack always asks me why the girls sleep in our room when he has duty. That is why. I was reading to the girls in their room because again Jack wasn't home for dinner or bedtime. If they had been in our room, I would have seen Gwen wake up. But no, I didn't know anything was going on until I heard her crying.
I could ramble about more but I will stop for now, cuz all I am doing is getting sad over how little we see Jack, how much winter sucks and how we shouldn't have stayed here.

Mama

Yep, she is babbling it now. I told Jack that it doesn't really matter to me. She is going to be yelling mom! mama! or whatever for many years, I can wait until I hear it for the first time. But she is saying it now:) Though already I think she loves her daddy more than anything. He came home late last night, is there really anything new there? But Gwen was already asleep this time. She must have heard him talking though cuz she woke right up and was totally happy, until 11 being with him. This is the third night that she has been up that late. If it wasn't for her being so happy we would probably be insane. It is hard for me to believe sometimes how old she is. Remembering that this time last year she was just a bump in my belly.

Sorry no pictures this time. We have been slightly slacking there. Just had to share my sadness and happiness of my littlest girl growing up.