Back From the Baby Making

    Well, I feel like I'm ready to get back to work, but since someone likes to scream from midnight to five in the morning I don't really know how things are going to go.  I will have to make time I guess.   How do you take care of yourself and do the things that you want to do?  Not that I don't want to take care of my new little bear of course.  It just seems so time consuming right now.

This pregnancy was a lot harder on me than the last one too.  As well as the labor and birth.  That stubborn kid had to come out face up.  Now I know it could have been worse and all, but I didn't enjoy having to stop pushing so that I could throw up.  That was no fun.  I don't think it was bad enough for PTSD or anything, but it was traumatic enough for me to accept that I'm definitely too old to do it again.  :0) Two is plenty anyway.  As I used to say when I didn't want to have children at all:  There are 7 billion people on the planet, why do I need to make more?

On a completely different subject, I have to say that I am so glad that Qadafi is not in a position to do anymore harm.  And I do understand that his last moments of life were probably much better lived than those of a lot of his victims.  I really don't want to judge anyone their celebratory moment on this issue, because, frankly, any sense of mercy that guy might have received from me went away when I read about the attacks on the hospitals.  So, I'm hardly one to be on my high horse this time.  I understand the videos and the pictures and the displaying of his body.  I really do.  What I hate is my five-year-old daughter seeing those very same images on television and having to explain to her why it's kind of okay to be glad someone is dead.  (I know, I know, turn the channel.)  I don't understand why I have to keep looking at a gruesomely dead body.  Why is it so important to show those graphic images on the news repeatedly?  

Maybe it's because I recently gave birth, but isn't the belief in the sacredness of human life what separates us from people like Qadafi?  His victims can have their moment, but should we perpetuate this love of gore and violence, even when it seems justified?      

What do you think?

Linus Virgil

Well, here he is, in all of his perfection. :0)

 

All Right, Fine

While I've been a bit more productive the past week or so, I still have so much left to do.  I also have a custom order to do for etsy!  I'm so excited.  I will be working on that this week, and putting my to do list off.  I have things to clean and organize!  So anyway, I think I may take a blogging break, since I have been anyway and I'm feeling a bit uninspired. Blah.  If I post anything up on etsy, I may share a picture or two.  But I think the next time I blog will be a picture of my brand new boy.  :0)

So have fun everyone and I will be taking my blog maternity leave about three weeks early.  Yay!

Gift Sets on Etsy

I am posting up a few gift sets on etsy this week. 

$5.99 each, plus shipping.  Check them out! 

September!

Oh, how I love September.  And this year 80 degree weather with a cool chill in the air is especially luxurious.  Yesterday we actually went to an arts festival at OCCC and walked around and I didn't even feel like puking!  Yay for no heat!  

Of course, Molly wanted her face painted and we couldn't really afford to get a funnel cake to share and get her face painted.  So, when we got home...

Mike did her up real good! And she went around the rest of the day telling us that her face was painted.  :D

Some Pictures For Fun :0)

We'll start with a picture of my belly.  It's not the best picture of me, 
but you can see how big my boy is getting. 

Molly was driving me crazy on Sunday, so I set her to work on painting a couple onesies.  The first one is a butterfly.  The next one is an S for Linus.  

 Mike put in a cat door so that cats could go in the garage and do their business instead of doing it in the closet of the baby's room.  We often walk by and see this.  For some reason, it just seems so funny.  I wonder if this is why the electric bill is so high? 

 

Well, I've got about a month left to go.  Let's see what I can do with my month of quiet time. :0)

Baby Pants

I have also finished the pants that I knitted for my boy.  :0)

We've got our first parent teacher conference tomorrow.  Molly's teacher seems super nice. I'm so glad, what with her security issues and all.  I think she's made a lot of progress since school started because she's spent so much time away from me.   I would like to assure the world, that Molly being scared to leave my side serves me no purpose whatsoever. None.  I love her.  I don't want her to be afraid to leave me.  I want her to be free to live her life her way.  I want that for Linus too.  Hmmm.  Linus Michael?  Linus Anthrax?  Linus Aristotle?  ( You know, of course, that Aristotle was a misogynist, an imperialist and a slave owner.)  Linus Franklin?  Franklin is from Peanuts too though isn't it?  

Well, I have a five year old's room to clean.  Yay!
Despite the obvious suffering, life is still grand, isn't it?
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